MAPPER – A Symposium on Music Acoustics for Performance Preparation and the Engagement with Repertoire in Live-Electronics
Event Dates: July 1st–2nd, 2025
Event Location: Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna
About
Live-electronic instruments are performed in many regions around the world, and there are dedicated music scenes in both academic and independent circles. Recently, live-electronics have been integrated into a growing number of academic curricula internationally, including mdw.
Based on long-term experience in music acoustics and performance science research at the Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil at mdw, as well as the artistic research perspectives gained through the FWF-PEEK project 'Études for Live-Electronics', this symposium is fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue between practitioners, researchers, and teachers in music acoustics, music performance, and composition on the topic of new instruments, new interfaces and repertoire in live-electronic music performance.
This symposium brings together experts from Asia, South America, Europe and Africa to facilitate knowledge exchange through a variety of lecture performances, group discussions and live presentations, addressing questions about what works and what does not in the current performance practice. The aim is to discuss how technology may shape musical thinking and to develop a critical discourse on the power dynamics in this field, which combines knowledge of the arts, engineering and science. Together, they will reflect on acquiring skills for performing with live-electronics, their choice of repertoire and its impact on teaching.
Schedule 
| PROGRAM: |
| MAPPER – A SYMPOSIUM on Music Acoustics for Performance Preparation and the Engagement with Repertoire in Live-Electronics |
| TUESDAY, July 1st |
| 10:30-11:45 Session 1: Southeast Asian Instruments and Live-electronics |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |
| CHAIR: Alex Hofmann |
| 10:30 Alex Hofmann |
| Welcoming words and project overview |
| 10:45 Tim-Tarek Grund, Lương Huệ Trinh and Ngô Trà My |
| Grain Bau: Bridging Gestural Interface Design and Vietnamese Heritage |
| 11:45-13:00 Lunch Break |
| 13:00-16:15 Session 2: Artistic Research in Live-electronics |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |
| CHAIR: Alex Hofmann |
| 13:00 Joseph Kamaru Mwangi (KMRU) |
| FRAUGHT |
| 13:45 Bernt Isak Wærstad and Irene Labdi Ommes |
| Mizizi Ensemble and Kilele Summit: Exploring Cultural Exchange and Ethical Collaboration |
| 14:30-14:45 Coffee Break |
| 14:45 Nyokabi Kariũki and Astrid Bin |
| A Wearable Instrument for "Meditations on the Sounding African Body" |
| 15:30 Hybrid Discussion (Link: https://mdw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/66478162932?pwd=YzBE6sgcsgi6ufjfDeXL7wX0w7aYlb.1) |
| Cross-cultural collaboration in musical instrument design for Live-Electronics |
| 16:15-16:45 Coffee Break |
| 16:45-18:15 Session 3: Live-electronics practise |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |
| CHAIR: Alex Hofmann |
| 16:45 Marko Ciciliani |
| Overcoming proscenium-based performance-practice through an instrument based on multidirectional sound distribution |
| 17:30 Jakob Schneidewind |
| Instrumental Live Electronics |
| 18:15-18:30 GROUP PHOTO |
| 19:00-22:00 Welcome dinner |
| WEDNESDAY, July 2nd |
| 09:00-10:00 Advisory Board Meeting |
| PEEK Project: Études for Live-Electronics |
| Location: AW M0107 |
| 10:00-11:30 Session 4: Practising and Preparation Processes in Live-electronics |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |
| CHAIR: Alex Hofmann |
| 10:00 Dustin Zorn |
| Practice-based mutations of algorithmic computer music as a strategy for live electronic composition |
| 10:45 Marijana Janevska |
| Learning the Piece Through Its Instrument: Rehearsing and Performing Dustin Zorn’s “Metastasia” |
| 11:30-12:30 Lunch Break |
| 12:30-14:45 Session 5: AD/DA Conversion |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |
| CHAIR: Alex Hofmann |
| 12:30 Constanza Piña Pardo |
| Ghost Tones Captured in a Khipu |
| 13:15 Joachim Heintz |
| Performing Live-Electronics with ALMA |
| 14:00 Karlheinz Essl |
| Inventing and Performing Live-Electronics |
| 14:45-15:15 Coffee Break |
| 15:15-17:30 Session 6: Cross-cultural collaboration in Live-electronics |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |
| CHAIR: Hanafi Hussin |
| 15:15 Martin Kaltenbrunner and Enrique Tomás |
| The Instrument Design Patterns of Tian Jinqin |
| 16:00 Cedrik Fermont |
| Disrupted, (re)connected : a transforming Asia |
| 16:45 Marzelan Salleh |
| Composing Across Cultures: Malay Aesthetics and Contemporary Music Practice |
| 17:30-17:45 Coffee Break |
| 17:45-18:30 Session 7: Perspectives on Études |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |
| CHAIR: Alex Hofmann |
| 17:45 Stephanie Probst and Alex Hofmann |
| Perspectives on Études |
| 18:30-18:45 Closing Ceremony |
| Location: Klangtheater – AW VU149 |