ABGESAGT ! ! ! Tangibel Music Lab Guest Lecture: Federico Visi
2025-12-17 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Tabakfabrik Linz, Tangible Music Lab und Online, Peter-Behrens-Platz 8-9, Linz, 4020, Österreich
KRANKHEITSBEDINGT ABGESAGT ! ! !
Guest Lecture: Federico Visi
online
Federico Visi (he/they) is a musician and researcher based in Berlin. His work explores the interplay between human and non-human agencies in music, embodiment in networked music performance, and interactive machine learning. He is interested in the broader artistic and societal implications of curating personal datasets for training models. He currently works as a researcher at Luleå University of Technology and he is a member of the TCP/Indeterminate Place networked hyperorgan quartet.
The Sophtar is a tabletop string instrument with an embedded system for digital signal processing, networking, and machine learning. It features an array of actuators and controlled electroacoustic feedback capabilities that can be activated algorithmically by the models running on the embedded computer. These respond to the actions of the player, making the instrument a platform for electroacoustic human-machine improvisation.
Other features of the Sophtar include a pressure-sensitive fretted neck, two sound boxes, and bespoke interface elements. It combines conventional tactile musical affordances with recent machine learning models and digital signal processing algorithms, which are deeply integrated in the design of the instrument and have a strong influence on how it is played and the way it sounds. During this lecture Federico Visi will presents the instrument and its distinctive techniques, and improvise with different algorithms and models.
www.federicovisi.com
Federico Visi (he/they) is a musician and researcher based in Berlin. His work explores the interplay between human and non-human agencies in music, embodiment in networked music performance, and interactive machine learning. He is interested in the broader artistic and societal implications of curating personal datasets for training models. He currently works as a researcher at Luleå University of Technology and he is a member of the TCP/Indeterminate Place networked hyperorgan quartet.
The Sophtar is a tabletop string instrument with an embedded system for digital signal processing, networking, and machine learning. It features an array of actuators and controlled electroacoustic feedback capabilities that can be activated algorithmically by the models running on the embedded computer. These respond to the actions of the player, making the instrument a platform for electroacoustic human-machine improvisation.
Other features of the Sophtar include a pressure-sensitive fretted neck, two sound boxes, and bespoke interface elements. It combines conventional tactile musical affordances with recent machine learning models and digital signal processing algorithms, which are deeply integrated in the design of the instrument and have a strong influence on how it is played and the way it sounds. During this lecture Federico Visi will presents the instrument and its distinctive techniques, and improvise with different algorithms and models.
www.federicovisi.com

Tangible Music Club #9: Yuri Landman + Obi Blanche
2025-12-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Stadtwerkstatt Linz, Kirchengasse 4, Linz, 4040
Yuri Landman is a musician and renowned inventor of musical instruments. He rose to international attention in the early 2000s by designing radical instruments for Sonic Youth, Liars, Half Japanese, Einstürzende Neubauten, Micachu, and many other pioneering experimental musicians. Since 2009, Landman has expanded into teaching, serving as a guest lecturer at numerous European academies, where he focuses on instrument building, sound design, microtonality, and the history of modern musical instruments.
As a performer, Landman combines his handcrafted string instruments with kalimbas, found objects, phone mics, amplified coke bottles, and noise synthesizers. The result is rhythmic, droning noise music—somewhere between the raw, textural force of Sonic Youth and the experimental spirit of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Obi Blanche (FI) is an experimental guitarist, instrument builder, and music producer known for blending brutalist béton brut aesthetics, somatic performance practices, and forward-thinking sonic explorations. Working with prepared, modified, and augmented guitars, he bridges DIY-inspired building methods and technological innovation under the concept of #postdigitalpunk, in collaboration with researcher Kristina Tica.
His extensive artistic path includes over 500 performances at venues and festivals such as All Tomorrow’s Parties London, Berghain, Boiler Room Berlin, Istanbul Jazz Festival, and Lowlands, alongside collaborations with Thomas Azier, Anika, Isabelle Wenzel, and Yuri Landman. Currently pursuing an MA at the Tangible Music Lab (Kunstuniversität Linz), his research project From Prepared Guitar to Post-Digital Guitar explores gesture-controlled instruments, movement sensors, and innovative sound manipulation.
For this performance, Blanche appears with RAKE, a self-built guitar that resists traditional technique. The instrument responds to bodily shifts—torso tilt, shoulder arcs, weight transfer—creating sound from posture, acceleration, and resistance. At the intersection of guitar signal and latent space, a continuous somatic feedback loop emerges, moving through dissonance, resonance, and the unstable zones in between.
