OUR CURRENT
PROJECTS & CONTRIBUTIONS

We are delighted to present our diverse projects. Across Digital Media Production, Digital Humanities, Music-Informatics, as well as Composition and Sound Design, we bring forth a wide array of innovative initiatives. Dive in and explore the creative richness of our work.

Project in the spotlight

Sonification

What does a coral reef sound like? Can the sounds even become music? Sonification is the representation of data as sounds. Maria Kallionpää, Axel Berndt and Hans-Peter Gasselseder take this approach further and even create compositions from the data.

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Project in the spotlight

Sonification

Musicological Markup with the mei-friend Editor

As the only music encoding format, MEI natively supports not only various types of notation, but also fine-grained cross-references—both within a docu...

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Center for Sustainable Digital Construction (ZNDB)

Together with the Department of Civil Engineering at TH OWL, a concept was developed to convey the idea of the ZNDB through a media contribution. It ...

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How can we make ecological activity tangible through sound? How can acoustic signals from an ecosystem - for example from the ground - be integrated i...

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DISCOVERING FUTURISTIC MOBILITY TODAY

Is the range of your electric car not sufficient? With the Electric Car Express (ECE), you can take your car on a train to the destination of your cho...

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HaBiBi – Talk to your software documentation

Have you ever tried to google a problem when you don’t even know how to describe it? Or tried to find a manual for a software function when you have n...

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Anna Plaskin demonstrates the use of the Interactive Drunken Sailor

Interactive Drunken Sailor
- the musical construction kit

The Interactive Drunken Sailor is an innovative music construction kit that allows users to create their own version of the sailor's song “Drunken Sai...

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A surreal visual of a human face, formed by numerous green particles. Emerging from the head are multiple drones flying in different directions, symbolizing a futuristic or technological theme. The drones appear to be emanating from the figure's mind, giving a sense of connection between technology and the human intellect.

Gaussian splats are real-time capable and, above all, located in a 3D space so that they can be used directly in game engines or in virtual production...

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Woman testing the Re:Constructors project with a VR headset at the STRABAG booth during IdeenExpo 2024, developed by the Kreativ Institute OWL (KIO).

RE:Constructors

Humanity has plunged into a deep crisis due to poor decisions and failure to achieve environmental goals. But many decades later, the global community...

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Monocab XR - The Experience

Welcome to the fascinating world of the Monocab XR! This or something similar is how our colleagues from Monocab will greet guests after the media pro...

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A person scans a creative image anchor point with their smartphone and the BatchAR application developed at the Kreativ Institute OWL (KIO). The result is the display of a stored image, with the option of navigating through the gallery and discovering further content.

BatchAR - Augmented Reality made easy

Until now, anyone who wanted to add digital content to the real world with the help of augmented reality was forced to rely on commercial offerings or...

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Foto von Prof. Dr. Axel Berndt bei der Übergabe des Förderpreises

The project Interactive digital sheet music in music theatre was successfully pitched by Prof. Dr. Axel Berndt

Project contribution

Prof. Dr. Axel Bernd wins BMBF funding program for innovative app for displaying sheet music

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Axel Berndt demonstrating his “Organ 4.0” project on a laptop and an electric piano. Next to him is a visitor looking at the application.

Organ music and organ building have been listed as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage since 2017. Organ building is still constantly evolving...

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A conductor leads an orchestra during a rehearsal, with a focus on the microphones used to record the “walk-in orchestra” at the Kreativ Institute OWL (KIO)

The walk-in orchestra

As an audience, we are familiar with the sound of an orchestra from the outside - but what if we want to move through the orchestra? In "real" concert...

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A dynamic graphic design showing the playable characters Scissors, Rock and Paper from the “Rock Paper Shoot!” project, which was developed at the Kreativ Institute OWL (KIO) in cooperation with the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. The characters are cheerfully designed and interact with each other to illustrate the interactive gameplay.

Rock Paper Shoot!

Our research team set itself a challenge to gain new knowledge - with huge success! We congratulate the participants on winning first place in the “Be...

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Screenshot from the game Jungle Rush in which a monkey hunts bananas in a 2D jungle

Jungle Rush - The new arcade classic?

Welcome to Jungle Rush, an addictive video game that was developed as part of Fabian's bachelor thesis in May 2023. The project focussed on researchin...

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Screenshot of the Navigation Menu of the project

Immersive Internet – the future of websites

This autumn, we celebrated the move into our institute building. Every day, we research and develop with virtual and augmented reality headset, experi...

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Gaussian Splat: Hermann Monument

Project contribution

In our first productive use of Gaussian Splats for the Lippe regional association, the task was to scan the Hermann landmark and make it tangible on a...

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Day of the Organ in the church on Schubertplatz

Project contribution

On 08.09.2024 Cantor Gregor Schwarz, Maria Kallionpää and Axel Berndt organized the Day of the Organ in the Heilig Kreuz Church in Detmold.

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