Overview

The IEM Computer Music Ensemble (ICE) is a group of electronic musicians specialized in playing with computer music instruments such as computers, DIY instruments, extended hyper instruments or simulations of real instruments. The goal is to perform contemporary music adapted or written for computer music ensembles, but also to interpret historical ensemble music with virtual instruments. They play with a spatial audio system, especially Ambisonics systems, where they perform in small or large concert halls or open environments.

Kollektiv Instrumental - KI

ICE as KI for CM concerts

Mission Statement

We are a group of Instrument Makers and play distributed and networked in area and call ourselves: Kollektiv Instrumental and play the work series: “...” using individualized DIY Kollektiv intruments.

Kollektiv Instrumental stands for a Kollektiv with similiar Computermusic Intruments playing in spatial environments.

Innovative computerized musical instruments play together, distributed in performance spaces and spanning a shared sound space. Each Kollektiv Instrumental instrument is autonomous and networked with each other via WLAN. Kollektiv Instrumental thus forms a network of instruments which, together with a loudspeaker network, encompasses a sound space.

Concert "…”

A concert for Kollektiv Instrumental, computer musicians with computers, sensors and loudspeakers. The event series “...” lasts about ??? minutes and is played in "Freiräumen", performance spaces and others.

Setup: 1h including soundcheck

Venues:

Freiräume, performance spaces, also soundproof rooms, ...

author: winfried ritsch, IEM, 2025