Guest Lecture: Masimba Hwati
2025-12-17 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Tabakfabrik, TamLab, Peter-Behrens-Platz 8-9, Linz, 4020
Das Tangible Music Lab lädt zum Gastvortrag
17. Dezember 2025, 14.00 Uhr
Tangible Music Lab, Tabakfabrik Linz & online
Masimba Hwati is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice weaves sculpture, sound, performance, micro-politics, and indigenous philosophy into experimental frameworks that explore everyday forms of resistance and negotiation. He holds a PhD in Art Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, an MFA from the University of Michigan, and a National Diploma in Fine Arts from Harare Polytechnic. Hwati was a 2025 Fellow at the Clark Art Institute (USA) and is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019, USA) and the Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University (Canada). He is also an honorary research fellow at Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa DSI/NRF South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), Rhodes University, South Africa. His work is represented in major collections, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (USA), Iziko South African National Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), Manchester Contemporary (UK), and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. He has exhibited widely across Africa, Europe, and North America. Hwati’s publications include Der Seeteufel (2022) and Sokunge (As if) (2021). Sound projects include MShika-shika Guerilla poetics and the black market (2021), Deutschlandfunkultur. Lakenights-Tape (2019), Hwati-Collino (2020), and Soil, Root, Leaf (2025). His residencies include Skowhegan (USA), HUB BUB (USA), The Radio Art Residency in Weimar (Germany), and VIAD (South Africa, 2025).

Guest Lecture: Development of expressive electronic percussion instruments / Sebastian Merchel
2026-01-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Tabakfabrik Linz, Tangible Music Lab und Online, Peter-Behrens-Platz 8-9, Linz, 4020, Österreich
Dr. Sebastian Merchel, born in 1980, is a researcher at the Chair of Acoustics and Haptics at TU Dresden. He studied electrical engineering and acoustics at TU Dresden and Aalborg University in Denmark. He wrote his doctoral thesis on “Auditory-Tactile Music Perception.” His main areas of interest are multimodal perception and spatial audio. He also works intensively with analog and digital musical instruments and the transfer of scientific knowledge into practical applications.
Guest Lecture: Development of expressive electronic percussion instruments
Compared to the long history of musical instruments, electronic instruments are still newcomers. Unfortunately, their musical expressiveness is sometimes very limited, as they allow for little sound variation. This lecture provides insights into the development of two expressive electronic percussion instruments: the DRUMBEAM and the SICK KICK. These are MIDI controllers that use touch sensors to detect not only a strike, but also its exact position, as well as multiple simultaneous touches and their force distribution. This creates new, expressive interaction possibilities for sound manipulation.
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