Tangible Music Lab

14/05/2026

The Postdigital Lutherie program at Kunstuniversität Linz in collaboration with Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität is dedicated to the design and performance of postdigital musical instruments.

https://tamlab.kunstuni-linz.at/master/

Students explore the multidisciplinary aspects of design & technology, composition & performance as well as the artistic & theoretical foundations of New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME) through the design of tangible musical interfaces.

Admission will be open until June 19 and the first round of entrance exams for 2026/27 will take place (also online) on Monday June 29. Please get in touch for any further information regarding the admission process.

Studying in Austria is generally FREE for all EU-citizens, non-EU-citizens currently have to pay a fee of around 750 € per semester.

27/04/2026

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

10/03/2026

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.

02/10/2025

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

02/08/2025

the second round of for our Postdigital Lutherie programme is now open until August 29 … for the few remaining places!

22/06/2025

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.

13/06/2025

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.

29/03/2025

.linda created a fancy tamlab stencil for our coffee ☕️

24/03/2025

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/