INSIEME

Together Towards the Common European Energy Data Space

INSIEME is a Digital Europe Programme funded by the European Commission with an overall budget of 16 Million Euro and more than 50 European partners. I initiated, successfully acquired and now coordinate INSIEME as part of my position at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria together with our team at the Department for Smart and Interconnected Living and the industry partner entarc.eu.

Project website

EDDIE

Horizon Europe Innovation Action Project on Energy Data Spaces

EDDIE is a Horizon Europe Innovation Action project funded by the European Commission with 8 Million Euro. I initiated and successfully acquired EDDIE together with entarc.eu. I am coordinating the project and the consortium of 16 European partners at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.

Project website

Short video EDDIE put simple

CAIML / SIG Energy

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

I founded and lead the Special Interest Group Energy at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML) which aims to bundle and strengthen research activities in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning both in their foundations and applications across disciplines and research institutions.

Official SIG Energy website

Tesremin

A Digital Musical Instrument with 10.000 Volts and 30.000 °C

The Tesremin combines the concept of a Theremin with a Tesla Coil as a device to form a new digital musical instrument (DMI).

Scientific publication

Video

BrickMusicTable

A LEGO brick-based tabletop sequencer for musical performances

The BrickMusicTable is a prototype for a tabletop tangible user interface (TUI) for musical purposes that uses LEGO bricks. The resulting musical instrument is a sequencer that produces sound based on visually tracked bricks placed on a LEGO ground plate. This project has been developed in collaboration with Merlin Waldhör.

Scientific publication

NCE

A new STEAM course developed for cross-disciplinary university teaching

I developed this new cross-disciplinary STEAM (STEM + Arts) course that merges different Computer Science topics with digital musical instruments together with my colleage Dr. Albert Rafetseder. We teach this course since 2020 in our Computer Science Faculty at the University of Vienna.

Official course website

Scientific publication

muco

A music computing learning application for everyone and everywhere

Is it possible to learn programming and making electronic music at the same time? Yes, with muco an educational music computing web application that features a gamified digital learning environment. Prior knowledge about programming or making electronic music ist not required! The muco application is intended to be used by everyone and in non-formal learning settings. This project received funding from the Center for Technology & Society.

Project website

Scientific publication

Video

Sparkling Instruments

STEM education for school students using Digital Musical Instruments

Sparkling Instruments was a project that uses Digital Musical Instruments to spark the interest of school students aged 14-18 in STEM fields. The project was funded by the Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) within the Sparkling Science programme.

Project website

Demo video with a tesla coil

opera.guru

The Smart Subtitle Solution to augment opera performances

A smart subtitle solution to augment live opera performances with a web-based backend for content management and live control and mobile clients as Android, iOS and web app. Current and former cooperation partners of the related research project are Wiener Staatsoper (AT), Oper Wuppertal (DE), Oper im Steinbruch St. Margarethen (AT) and Theater Regensburg (DE).

Project website

Scientific publication
(on a music alignment algorithm)

The Playel

The brick-built Lego Grand Piano made playable as a synthesizer

A piano made out of Lego bricks which is playable as MIDI keyboard realised with an Arduino and additional electronic components

Scientific Journal Publication

Newspaper Article in "Der Standard"

Video "Premiere of 'La Carneval de Viennese' at the ceremony hall of the University of Vienna"

Video "Live performance at the University of Vienna Campus"

Video Demo

Drum Set Smileys

Bass drum smiley visualisation for concerts with kids

Two different solutions to visualise a talking smiley on a 22” bass drum for the children’s TV and live show Sandra the Talking Drumkit. One solution is a custom-built display of 738 RGB LEDs and the second solution uses as a built-in LCD. A research project in cooperation with Franz Löchinger - The Austrian Drumpower.

Project website

Brick-built IT systems

Developing fully functioning brick-built interactive systems

A fully playable game console made of Lego bricks and augmented with an integrated display and RaspberryPi

Waves Music Hackday

Annual two-day hackathon for new ideas around music and technology

Established in 2015, an annual two-day hackathon for musicians, artists, technologically interested persons, hackers, developers, thinkers or hobbyists to create new ideas around music. Organised in cooperation with the Waves Vienna Music Festival and Conference

Video of the Waves Music Hackday 2016

For the 5th anniversary in 2020, held as three-day science communication event Music Participation Days at the University of Vienna and SAE Institute Vienna in cooperation with the Waves Vienna Music Festival and Conference, 10–12 September 2020

Music Participation Days 2020 website

Breaking the Wall

Art-based Research / Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Opening Performance

Breaking The Wall was an art-based research project with a live concert event with four interactive sound and art performances and technology-mediated audience participation. The project was funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK).

Concert video summary
(Kuppelsaal, TU Wien, 17 June 2017)

Project website

Breaking The Wall (Ars Electronica 2017 Opening Performance): interactive sound performance with large-scale audience participation using light and laser traps. Music by Didi Bruckmayr and Chris Bruckmayr

Performance video summary
(Ars Electronica Festival 2017, Linz, Austria, 7 September 2017)

TMAP Design Cards

Design of technology-mediated audience participation in live music

A set of 50 design cards based on the TMAP Framework to support idea finding and conceptualisation of interactive live performances. Available to as Print Version and in the Online Web App Design Cards To Go.

Video Demo

Scientific publication

Podcast

cosy:sonics

Educational mobile app for a technology-centred social event

Smartphone app with educational purposes for a social event to raise critical awareness about particular technologies: bitcoin mining and energy consumption, ultrasonic communication for data transfer and artificial intelligence

Scientific publication

Galvanic Sonification

Mixed Reality installation with chemistry, sonification and smartphones

Interactive media installation that combines the electrochemical process of galvanisation and sound art explorable with a wooden cube holding six smartphones. In cooperation with Leon Ploszczanski. Wiener Wunderkammer, TU Wien, Austria, 5-7 November 2015.

Newspaper article in Die Presse

Mappy

Mobile app to augment way-finding pillars for urban mobility

Mobile application which augments and enhances way-finding pillars with an added digital layer to open up opportunities for re-appropriation of, and engagement with, the pillar. A project funded by the Wirtschaftsagentur Wien.

Scientific publication

Lebensnetz

Tablet-based digital health game application for older adults

Design and evaluation of Lebensnetz, a tablet application for older adults based on reminiscence, which helps slow cognitive decline. A research project funded by the FFG Benefit programme in cooperation with ovos media.

Scientific publication
(SouthCHI 2013 conference paper)

Scientific publication
(SouthCHI 2013 workshop paper)

Trombosonic

A new digital music instrument played with gestures and breath

A trombone-inspired new musical instrument with an ultrasonic sensor, an accelerometer and a thermistor for gestural play and using the breath

Scientific publication

Video "Live performance at the University of Vienna Campus"
(At the photo competition opening ceremony, 29.06.2021)

Video "Official Welcome Film of the University of Vienna"
(Featuring the Trombosonic while the Rektor speaks)

The Haptic Bracelets

Tactile, wireless rhythm training devices for music and stroke therapy

A kit of four wirelessly controlled vibrotactiles for arm and leg wrists to be used for rhythm learning in music and therapy for Parkinson’s & stroke). Project lead Dr. Simon Holland, Music Computing Lab, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Scientific publication
(rhythm learning for drummers)

Scientific publication
(stroke rehabiliation)

Video Demo

Ballet Dancer Sensors

Wireless heartbeat sensor kits for a ballet performance

A set of eight robust and wireless sensor kits to visualise heartbeats to enhance the ballet performance concept of "The Shadows We Cast". In cooperation with Carina Bernscherer and Gerhard Kocher

Video Ballet Performance

Project website

iStress Test

Autonomous sound robot performance with audience participation

Interactive sound performance with autonomous hoover robots for technology-mediated audience participation. Music by Prof. Johannes Kretz, performance of the art-based research project Breaking the Wall

Poème Numérique

Interactive sound performance using ultrasound-controlled smartphones

Interactive sound performance with large-scale technology-mediated audience participation that uses an iOS and Android smartphone app and ultrasonic communication to control distributed sound playback among the audience. Music by Electric Indigo

Scientific publication

TASK

The interactive Audience Sensor Kit for participatory media installations

A modular system of wireless sensors to augment artistic performances and media installations, in particular, music events or visual art. In cooperation with Dr. Florian Güldenpfennig

Scientific publication

Video

CoSCoS

Collaborative Stereo Control with Smartphones

A wireless network system and visualisation for concerts to let the audience collaboratively control the sound of musical instruments on stage

Scientific publication
(ICMC 2012)

SecuRescue

User Experience (UX) design of a tablet app for disaster relief forces

User Experience (UX) evaluation and full re-design for the mobile disaster relief application Einsatzassistent. A project funded by FFG KIRAS Security Research.

EatCoin

Gamification approach to raise energy awareness of bitcoin mining

A Smartphone-based app prototype that proposes the gamification approach "EatCoin" to raise citizens' awareness about the global energy consumption of bitcoin mining

Scientific publication

Interactive door

Energy consumption data sonification to raise citizens' awareness

A prototype for a novel interactive entrance door to houses or flats to raise the residents' awareness about "useless" energy consumption during their absence caused by standby electronic devices. The prototype uses the Arduino-based BRIX sensor and sonification to make energy consumption audible.

Scientific publication

PRECIOUS

PREventive Care Infrastructure based On Ubiquitous Sensing

The goal of the project PRECIOUS was to provide a preventive care system to promote healthy lifestyles. The project was funded by the EU FP7 Framework Programme.

Project website

symbIoTe

An interoperability framework for existing and future IoT platforms

symbIoTe stands for "Symbiosis of smart objects across IoT environments", which was a H2020 project from 2016 - 2018 to develop an interoperability framework across existing and future Internet of Things (IoT) platforms.

Project website

University of Vienna project website

UniCoMP

Universal Controller for Musical Performances

A smartphone based Universal Controller for Musical Performances to control guitar effects with sensors as powerful alternative for foot-controlled devices

Scientific publication
(ICMC 2013)

Scientific publication
(E-iED 2014)

The Sparkling Guitar

A capacitive and LED augmented acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar with the 6 capacitive strings to control the colour and brightness of 87 RGB LEDs in the sound hole and strap in real-time

Studio C

Converting a former UX lab to a remote teaching studio during Covid-19

Conceptualisation and technical realisation of a semi-professional streaming studio and adapting UX research lab facilities for remote teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. In cooperation with Kaspar Lebloch and Hannes Weisgrab

Salome Experience

Interactive experiences for opera live streaming

A set of different interactive experiences around a live streaming of Richard Strauss' opera Salome from the Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera). In the picture the interactive installation How Good To See The Moon. The event happened as part of the net:25 event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Internet in Austria, University of Vienna and Vienna State Opera

Video summary

Scientific publication

Experimence

Song and performance for audience participation with a big balloon

Especially composed song Experimence for an interactive music performance with audience participation where spectators use a big balloon that is visually tracked to control the piano sound

Full song live video
(Wiener Musik-Experimente, 6 February 2014)

Scientific publication

Academic Festival Overture

Brahms adapted for Trombosonic and symphonic orchestra

The Academic Festival Overture is a new piece for the digital music instrument Trombosonic and symphonic orchestra written by the composer Dietmar Hellmich who had no prior experience with the instrument. The piece adapts Brahms’ Symphony Nr. 1 and underwent the phases of a composition competition, rehearsals, a music video production, and a public live performance

Scientific publication

Music video

Live performance video 2025

A Shtick of Musik

Immersive and interactive 70-minute music performance

Immersive interactive music performance that combines live music with technology (smartphones for wireless audience collaboration and effect control) and dramaturgy (storyline, visuals and painting) within a 70-minute live concert

Teaser video

Full songs as live video: Computerized and Garden
(B72, Vienna, 19 December 2012)

Scientific publication

Novemberlichter

Film music composition for Novemberlichter

Two compositions for the short film Novemberlichter: The Night, the Stars Fell Asleep and Walter’s Theme. Directed by Jürgen Karasek, produced by Soleil Film, duration 30 minutes, 2012

Trailer

Movie website

Record releases

Album and single releases as composer, singer or musician

Album releases

Wööt Maarja kuld 2017, 13 tracks (30’52”)
Velory Linus 2008, 4 tracks (19’34”)
Youngstars 1997, 12 tracks (25’23”)
Weihnachtslieder 1994, 9 tracks (18’38”)

Single releases

Happy Xmas 2002
Du bist Du 2000