AI-powered workflows
2025-04-23 15:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Copenhagen)
Event hosted by ITU NextGen focusing on using generative AI tools to automate boring tasks. We focused on talking about the importance of only using AI for tasks, that you don’t enjoy yourself. We used tools like Gamma AI, lovable, ChatGPT and more and students exchanged their experiences and recommendations with various AI tools with each other. This event was a collaboration between ITU NextGen and KU health innovators, so the participants were both ITU and KU students.

EVENT ORGANIZERS
ITU NextGen (Kinga & Christian)

Listen Up! Session #1: Thor Madsen + Thormulator
2025-10-03 15:30 - 17:30
AIR Lab invites you to a series of autumn events with a special focus on sound as affective material. Through performances and/or talks, invited guests will facilitate deep listening experiences – experiences that highlight the role and phenomenology of sound in relation to affective interactions and relations.
In the first iteration of Listen Up! – AIR Lab Listening Sessions, we are joined by jazz guitarist Thor Madsen, who, through years of interest in HCI within musical contexts, has developed the algorithm Thormulator – introducing the computer as a musically responsive and co-creative agent.
ORGANIZER
AIR Lab
EVENT DATE
Friday, 3 October 2025 at 15:30 in AIR Lab.

Listen Up! Session #2: The Periodic Table is a Beat
2025-11-14 15:30 - 17:30
In this second instalment of the AIR Lab Listen Up! Sessions, Junior Researcher and KDDIT student Tao Højgaard invites you to an exclusive pre-premiere of The Periodic Table is a BEAT! – a live musification of the periodic table of the elements, which will be performed at the Web Audio Conference 2025 at IRCAM in Paris next week.
The work translates the 118 elements into sound and rhythm through musification – a method that uses the phenomenology of music as a research instrument. Drawing on functional harmony, rhythm theory and compositional structure, musification employs the internal logic of music to illuminate and recontextualise patterns in other systems. Rather than sonifying data, it transforms scientific order into a musical and affective experience, inviting reflection on how knowledge can be felt as well as understood.
EVENT ORGANIZER
AIR Lab
DATE AND TIME
Friday, November 14th 2025 at 15:30

AIR Lab Listen Up! Session #3: The Avenue of Sound
2025-12-05 15:00 - 18:00
In the third instalment of AIR Lab’s Listen Up! Sessions, sound artist, electronic musician, and producer Steen Lund Holbek presents The Avenue of Sound — an immersive installation composed specifically for the AIR Lab space.
The installation consists of two parallel sound walls — each 7 meters long and 2 meters high — built from 32 mismatched loudspeakers powered by 16 equally idiosyncratic hi-fi amplifiers. Positioned four meters apart, the speaker walls form a corridor through which visitors are invited to walk, linger, and listen.
EVENT ORGANIZER
AIR Lab
DATE AND TIME
Friday December 5th 2025 at 15:00 – 18:00

AIR Lab Listen Up! Session #4: In This Room
2026-03-27 15:30 - 17:00
In the fourth instalment of AIR Lab’s Listen Up! Sessions, composer, producer, and songwriter Hannah Schneider joins AIR Lab to share the artistic process behind her new album In This Room.
Written and recorded during a two-month residency at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, the album was shaped by a process in which the museum’s historical spaces became both context and catalyst for the music. Here, composition and recording were approached as a spatial and intuitive practice, asking what happens when acoustic instruments become the point of departure for contemporary electronic music. For AIR Lab, this offers a rich artistic entry point into questions of affect, embodiment, atmosphere, and relational listening: how spaces co-produce experience, how sound mediates felt encounter, and how creative practice can function as a mode of inquiry into human-technology-environment relations.
EVENT ORGANIZER
AIR Lab
DATE AND TIME
Friday March 27th at 15:30 – 17:00

AIR Lab Listen Up! Session #5: The Emotional Life of a Painting
2026-04-10 15:30 - 17:00
In the fifth instalment of AIR Lab’s Listen Up! Sessions, AIR Lab welcomes visual artist Julien Deiss and sound artist Tao Højgaard for an afternoon of deep listening, artist talks, and live performance. The session centres on inspiration, creativity, artistic method, and the generative potential of collaboration across art forms.
Julien Deiss reflects on artistic process from the perspective of painting, focusing on intuition, material engagement, and the role of other art forms in the development of visual practice. Tao Højgaard continues from the perspective of sound, considering how music can enter cross-aesthetic work not as accompaniment, but as an active and structuring presence. Together, their presentations open onto the question of what becomes possible when artistic media do not merely coexist, but begin to transform one another through shared methods and technological integration.
EVENT ORGANIZER
AIR Lab
DATE AND TIME
Friday April 10th at 15:30 – 17:00

Protein Synthesis as Musical Structure – Thesis Concert
2026-05-13 15:30 - 17:00
AIR Lab presents Protein Synthesis as Musical Structure, a thesis concert exploring how biology can shape live electronic music. The concert is centered on BioScape, a design research artefact and biology audio workstation developed in the intersection of HCI, artistic research, musification, and molecular biology. While earlier empirical work around the project has examined how biological actors may use music as a sensory and affective lens on their own field, this concert turns the perspective around and explores the usefulness of biology as compositional logic for musicians.
In the performance, biological structure is treated not as metaphor, but as an organizing principle for live electronic music. Sequence-based relations shape rhythm, harmonic movement, and larger musical form, producing patterns that remain coherent while resisting familiar periodic stability. The concert asks what it means to compose and perform through an external biological logic, and how improvising musicians respond to a structure that is internally consistent yet unfamiliar in its temporal and harmonic behavior.
The performance features Thor Madsen (guitar), Malthe Beck (tenor saxophone), Steen Rock (electronics), and Tao Højgaard, designer of BioScape.
EVENT ORGANIZER
Tao Højgaard
