Summary
The research field of Innovative Computer-based Music Interfaces (ICMI) deals with a wide variety of topics: from novel musical instruments to audio-video installations and 3D sound to performances. At the ICMI Workshop 2025 on August 31 at the Mensch und Computer in Chemnitz, we would like to consider the entire area of "Musical Interaction" and address the diverse target groups in this exciting field.With the regularity of our workshops, we would like to offer a forum to present and discuss new artistic approaches and research projects on Music Interaction. The primary goal is to bring the different groups of expertise, which usually deal with this topic independently, closer together and to get to know, try out, and exchange ideas, experiments, and developments in a joint event.
The ICMI Workshop has previously been held at the Mensch und Computer in the years 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 and was in high demand there.
Time Table
for Sunday, 31th August 2025:
| before | get your conference badges, arriving in the room W021 in the "Weinhold-Bau" building possibility to setup your demos |
| 09:00 AM | 🙌 Welcome to ICMI 2025 |
| 09:20 AM | Practicing Alone, Playing Together: A Persona-Based Design Approach for Amateur Wind
Musicians Stefan Balke, Peter Meier, Meinard Müller |
| 09:40 AM | A Multi-User Interface for Real-Time Intonation Monitoring in Music Ensembles Peter Meier, Meinard Müller, Stefan Balke |
| 10:00 AM | Spatial Exploration of Melodic Topologies in Indian Classical Music using XR Krishnan Chandran, Lars Engeln, Matthew McGinity |
| 10:30 AM | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM | ASCIImage Rhapsody: a Live Coding Installation-Performance Aristotelis Hadjakos, Damian Dziwis |
| 11:20 AM | Sonic Map Explorer – Ein emergentes Interface zur Live-Interaktion mit
KI-Musiksystemen Sebastian Trump, Alexander Lunt |
| 11:40 AM | 🕹️ Demo Session |
| 12:30 PM | 🍽️ Lunch Break possibility to setup your demos |
| 02:00 AM | KreativInstitut.OWL: An Interdisciplinary Institute for Transfer Between Science, Cultural and
Creative Industries Axel Berndt, Guido Falkemeier, Alexander Kutter, Anna Plaksin, Sascha Etezazi, Damian Dziwis |
| 02:20 AM | The Semantic Expression Space of UX Sounds on the Brand Identity Level of Product
Communication Tom Virkus, Steffen Lepa, Annika Frommholz, Johannes Helberger |
| 02:40 AM | Butterfly Bridge: An Interactive Installation Bridging Technology and Human
Experience Shengkang Ning, Christoph Kirst, Jacob Charles Alford Garcia |
| 03:00 PM | 🕹️ Demo Session |
| 03:30 PM | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 04:00 PM | ThinkTank – is our "Future AI(?)" |
| 04:15 PM | Discussion on "Future AI(?)" |
| 05:15 PM | 🗝️ Closing until 5:30 PM |
| 06:00 PM | Welcome Reception of the MuC-Conference |
Target Audience
International conferences such as NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), ISMIR (International Symposium for Music Information Retrieval), and ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) demonstrate with their attendance numbers the rapid growth and interest in the research branch of physically-based interaction and, in particular, "Sound and Music Computing." The target audience for this workshop include various disciplines who are creative, work, research in the field of interaction with music and sound.The target audience is therefore relatively broad:
- Artists, musicians, composers, music and media producers, as well as DJs and VJs, who are interested in expanding their creative possibilities and exchanging ideas with technology, design, and art.
- (Media) computer scientists and technicians who deal with the software-specific implementation and technical realization of interfaces.
- Human-machine interaction experts and interface designers who operate in the field of user design for computer-based music.
- Music and media scientists who use or want to use new forms of input and output of non-textual content.
- Other participants of Mensch und Computer who are interested in this field of human-machine interaction or simply want to try out new input technologies and experience them audiovisually in practical demonstrations.
Motivation and Invitation
We invite to a full-day workshop where new approaches to interaction with computer-based music interfaces are presented, tried out, and discussed. The primary goal is to bring the different groups of expertise, which usually deal with this topic independently, closer together and to get to know, try out, and exchange ideas, experiments, and developments in a joint event.Focused are contributions to the following topics:
- Tangible computer-based musical instruments
- Interactive and adaptive music/installations
- Interfaces for music/-ology
- Media production and composition
- Artistic development projects and workshop reports
- Application in artistic practice
- Auditory Displays and Sonic Interaction Design
- Auditory Feedback for Accessibility
- Interactive Music Information Retrieval
- Humanities, philosophical perspectives
- Psychological aspects
- Music and sound in immersive media
- Internet of Musical Things
We particularly welcome demos, hands-on sessions, and presentations that promote interdisciplinary exchange between development and artistic practice.
Participation
The registration for participation in the workshop takes place via the registration at the conference Mensch und Computer. The ICMI Workshop can be combined with a visit to the main conference or can be attended with a day ticket. The ticket includes snacks/coffee/lunch as described on the registration website. It is also possible to combine the ICMI Workshop with the nearby EUTOPIA Summer School on Haptics and Cognitive Robotics for Music at the TU Dresden (02.-04.09.2025).Organization and Program Committee
The program committee consists of the organizers and additional members.Organizers on-site at the workshop:
Dr.-Ing. Lars Engeln, Technische Universität Dresden, Chair
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Berndt, Universität Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Miriam Akkermann, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Aristotelis Hadjakos, Center of Music and Film Informatics (cemfi)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Trump, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
Prof. Holger Reckter, Hochschule Mainz
Additional reviewers and members of the program committee:
Matthias Nowakowski, Universität Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Pöpel, Hochschule Ansbach
Prof. Dr. Norbert Schnell, Hochschule Furtwangen
Dr. Egbert Jürgens, Music Technology Consultant
Contact: info@icmi-workshop.org