Alex Hofmann performing at Rhiz, Vienna in 2017. (Photo by M.G.).

Alex Hofmann is a Senior Scientist at the Department of Music Acoustics (IWK) at mdw, sound artist and saxophone/live-electronics performer. He investigates tools and methods to enhance expressiveness in music performance by advancing creative music technologies.

News

May 11, 2022
Announcement | Workshop at HMTM-Hannover (May 2022)
Mar 21, 2022
Bernd Rode Award 2022 for ASEA-Uninet Project
Mar 17, 2022
New FWF-PEEK Project "Études for Live-Electronics" (2022–25)
Dec 13, 2021
Article in Special EMR Issue "Open Science in Musicology"
Sep 30, 2021
European Voices VI Symposium - Session with Computational Methods in Ethnomusicology
Mar 23, 2021
Interactive VR-Sound installation "Study for virtual keyboard instrument and hand tracking in a VR environment" at NIME conference in June 2021 (Shanghai/China)
Sep 4, 2020
Announcement | "Study for Saxophonist Avatar and two Loudspeakers in a VR environment" @ Sound Campus Metaverse -> Ars Electronica Festival 2020
Jul 24, 2020
Half-Physler performance at Marijana Janevska's Graduate Concert
Jun 20, 2020
Announcement | Forces digitales dans le jeu de la clarinette (paper reprint)
Apr 24, 2020
Announcement | Hackathon - EUvsVirus
Apr 8, 2020
Announcement | Berklee Workshop postponed
Oct 1, 2019
Music Performances with Half-Physler and Paper Presentation at ICSC19
Jun 3, 2019
Presentation of the Half-Physler at NIME 2019
Jun 3, 2019
Announcement | Workshop on Csound on Stage at NIME conference 2019
May 3, 2019
Tutorial | Csound on Bela
Apr 15, 2019
Pubic Outreach | 'Tight-Interlocked Oscillators' played in Acoustic Frontiers
Apr 8, 2019
Announcement | Upcoming second Workshop on ethno-musicology data sets (14th July 2019)
Mar 8, 2019
Announcement | Roundtable at (ICTM) World Conference 2019 (15th July 2019)
Jan 18, 2019
Announcement | Upcoming Workshop on Building Live-Electronic Instruments with Bela@Hmtm-Hannover (Jan. 2019)
Dec 6, 2018
Release | 'Standardmaßnahmen' on Wirr Records
Nov 4, 2018
Release | 'Tight-Interlocked Oscillators' on DEGEM CD 16 (2018) - „drop the beat“
Oct 29, 2018
Release | Full Video - Tenor-Sax with integrated live-electronics (LAC18, June 2018)
Aug 27, 2018
Announcement | Upcoming Workshop on musicology data-sets (Jan. 2019)
Jul 9, 2018
Csound on Bela Workshop@Hmtm-Hannover (July 2018)
Jun 10, 2018
Public Outreach | Article about the Intonation on the Eb-Clarinet ('rohrblatt 2018)
Jun 9, 2018
Live-Performance@LAC-Berlin 2018 (June 2018)