In this second instalment of the AIR Lab Listen Up! Sessions, Junior Researcher and KDDIT student Tao Højgaard presents The Periodic Table is a BEAT! — a live musification of the periodic table, premiering at the Web Audio Conference 2025 at IRCAM, Paris. The work transforms the 118 elements into rhythmic and harmonic patterns, using music’s phenomenology as a research instrument. Rather than sonifying data, it creates an affective experience of scientific order. The session also introduces EMMA3000AFX – an embodied musical interface exploring how Human–Computer Interaction can facilitate Human–to–Human relation through shared sound, movement, and affect.

AIR Lab and Junior Researcher 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.

Following the concert, Højgaard will introduce EMMA3000AFX – Embodied Musical Mediation Apparatus, a new interface for musical expression and affective expl