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    Highlights Computer Music and Sound Technology

    Auffรผhrung von Alain Roches ยซSolstice to Solstice, Piano Verticalยป in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ICST am Festival Equinoxe in Genf.
    Auffรผhrung von Alain Roches ยซSolstice to Solstice, Piano Verticalยป in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ICST am Festival Equinoxe in Genf.
    • Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact
    • Promotion of Talents and Careersโ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹
    • Cooperation and Internationality
    • External Funding
    • Event Highlight
    • Milestone
    • Reading Tip
    • Worth Visiting

      ยซDialogue with the artistic community is an essential prerequisite for ICST research. Our artist-in-residency and pre-PhD programmes provide a framework for such engagement. ZHdK students benefit from this exchange, as well as from being actively involved in ongoing research projects.ยป

      Prof. Germรกn Toro Pรฉrez, Head of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST)

        Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

        ICST was represented at international conferences such as TENOR Boston, SMC Stockholm, ACM ICMI Paris, and, with a keynote by Dr Hanna Jรคrvelรคinen, at the DAFx conference in Copenhagen. Projects such as Ambisonics Plugins, Moving Loundspeakers and Polytempo radiate into the artistic scene and are nurtured by the vibrant exchange of ideas and experiences with the residents of the AiR programme.

        โ†’ Overview ยซScientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impactยป

          Promotion of Talents and Careersโ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

          EARS (Emerging Artists-Researchers in Sound and Technology), the ICSTs pre-PhD programme, has completed its first cycle. Two out of four participants successfully applied for PhD programmes at KUG Graz and Malmรถ Academy of Music. Launched in March 2023, the second cycle aims to promote outstanding projects potentially leading to doctoral research.

          โ†’ Overview ยซPromotion of Talents and Careersยป

            Cooperation and Internationality

            Prof Federico Fontana (Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine) has been an associate researcher at ICST since 2023. We will be intensifying our cooperation in the field of audio haptics in the coming years. Jens Badura (Vienna University of Applied Arts), also an associate researcher at ICST since 2023, has helped establish the EARS programme.

            โ†’ Overview ยซCooperation and Internationalityยป

              External Funding

              As part of Horizon Europe, ICST is participating in ยซCuriosoil โ€“ Awakening Soil Curiosity to catalyse Soil Literacyยป, an educational project aiming to strengthen knowledge about soil at schools.

              Pursued in collaboration with the University of Zurich/DIZH, our new project ยซSpeech in Noise in a virtual 3D Audio-Environmentยป investigates difficulties in understanding speech in adverse listening situations.

              โ†’ Overview ยซResearch Projectsยป

                Event Highlight

                Rama Gottfried, Professor of Contemporary Computer Music Practice at ZHdK since August 2022, provided insights into his richly faceted artistic work in a portrait concert performed with the Berlin-based ยซensemble mosaikยป. His works are scenographic worlds โ€“ physical and virtual environments created using acoustic and electronic music, as well as elements of puppet, object and material theatre, live cinema and performance art.

                Concert Rama Grottfried

                  Milestone

                  The article ยซSound stewardship for a noisy planetยป was published as a letter in Science on 22 June 2023. Contributors included Dr Marcus Maeder (ICST), Mรฉlia Roger (ICST EARS programme), Matthias C. Rillig, Michael S. Bank and Stefanie MaaรŸ.

                    Reading Tip

                    The article ยซEffects of vibration direction and pressing force on finger vibrotactile perception and force controlยป, co-authored by Dr Stefano Papetti, Dr Hanna Jรคrvelรคinen, Yuri de Pra (PhD candidate) and Prof Federico Fontana, discusses the effects of vibration direction and finger pressing force on vibration tactile perception. The aim is to improve the effectiveness of haptic feedback on interactive surfaces.

                      Worth Visiting

                      In the coming months, pianist and composer Alain Roche will be performing ยซWinter Solsticeยป on the site of  Munichโ€™s future Concert Hall. During the performance, Roche will be attached to a suspended instrument. Nature sounds from seven locations in Bavaria and Switzerland will be captured live using production software specially developed by the ICST. The performances of ยซSunstillยป will continue until 20 June 2024.

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