Tangible Music Lab

Andreas Trobollowitsch presents his self-built mechanical turntables: rotating, carved wooden discs are played with small branches acting as tonearms. Through friction, texture, and continuously variable speeds, complex rhythmic patterns and flowing soundscapes emerge, layered with subtle, organic samples of wood and forest sounds.
Andreas Trobollowitsch is an Austrian multidisciplinary composer and sound artist. He focuses on relations between structure, materiality, and time, with an emphasis on timbre and spatial perception. He received the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition and the Vienna City Annual Scholarship for Composition, and in 2017 he was selected as a SHAPE artist. His work has been presented internationally, including Konzerthaus Vienna, Musée des beaux-arts Rennes, Serralves Porto, Novas Frequências Rio de Janeiro, and Instituto Moreira Salles São Paulo. He has received commissions from institutions and ensembles such as Ensemble PHACE Vienna, Filmarchiv Austria, Musikprotokoll Graz, Todays Art The Hague, Synaesthesis Vilnius, Sinfonietta Rīga, and The Rhythm Method New York. His releases appear on Schraum (Berlin), Monotype (Warsaw), Crónica and Sonoscopia (Porto), mAtter and ato.archives (Tokyo), and Futura Resistencia (Brussels/Rotterdam).
https://trobollowitsch.hotglue.me/

Karl Ekdahl is a musician, arts organizer and instrument designer. For the last 25 years he has performed both with other performers and solo doing work spanning from improvised black metal, to quadrophonic coffee grinders, to disco. ~2008 he started Knas which designs, builds and sells experimental electronic music instruments.
Karl Ekdahl will do a short improvisational set using his own instruments the Ekdahl FAR and the Ekdahl Moisturizer exploring natural overtones in acoustic strings, beat notes and dissonance interleaved in a slow moving ambient blanket.

Next week from May 5-7 2026 we are hosting a workshop with Miller Puckette on hacking Pure Data for the ESP32 microcontroller. This will allow real-time interactive sound synthesis on this affordable embedded platform.

During the workshop we plan a hackathon for advanced developers with the aim of improving the performance and extend the functionality of the ESPD platform. A second group of participants will develop examples based on a smart speaker, mostly with a focus on untethered musical instruments with built-in interactive sound synthesis.



More information on https://tamlab.kunstuni-linz/espd

We are incredibly happy to announce that the Tangible Music Lab together with a team of amazing colleagues from Kunstuni Linz and TU Vienna is going to participate in the research project “TSxS - Diversabilities in Art and Design” funded by the Emerging Fields excellence program of the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Prof. Martin Kaltenbrunner will lead a research team on the topic of “Cross-Modal Design Transactions” where we will integrate blind researchers with special abilities such as human echolocation, as well as deaf researchers with the aim to develop artistic hacking strategies for cochlear implants.

The OTTOsonics paper by Manu Mitterhuber, Enrique Tomas and Martin Kaltenbrunner has been finally published in Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355771825100563

OTTOsonics: Designing and implementing an open and affordable 3D spatial audio system | Organised Sound | Cambridge Core OTTOsonics: Designing and implementing an open and affordable 3D spatial audio system

We had a great week with our students at the Sonic Arts Summer Academy in Corfu. It was full of workshops, concerts, nature and sounds. Thanks to all participants and to the Ionian University's local team for organising it.

Congratulations to our graduate Kevin Blackistone for his concert at ICMC2025 in Boston. He performed "Hostile Algorithmic Architecture Against Performative Predictability", his master thesis project for our Postdigital Lutherie master study.

.linda created a fancy tamlab stencil for our coffee ☕️

You can NOW apply to our Postdigital Lutherie Master program at Kunstuniversität Linz, dedicated to the design and performance of novel postdigital musical instruments. The first application round is open until June 20th. This international English master program is organized at the Tangible Music Lab in close collaboration with Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität. Postdigital Lutherie explores the multidisciplinary aspects of design & technology and composition & performance as well as the artistic & theoretical foundations of New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME). https://tamlab.kunstuni-linz.at/master/