Residency showing – Lenka Adamcová & Martin Ožvold
Global Listening Day x Artist in Residency showing Lenka Adamcová & Martin Ožvold Live-Soundperformance & Filmscreening / 07.03.2026 Together with the Czech project SanSon – Sanatorium of Sound, ZiMMT welcomes sound artists Lenka Adamcová and Martin Ožvold to a residency in Leipzig. On the occasion of Global Listening Day, the two artists will present their […]
Listening Sessions
These sessions focus on a shared, intensive listening experience on ZiMMT’s high-quality audio systems
AV-Labor 2026
Das AV-Labor ist eine offene und kostenlose Workshopreihe für alle, die neue audiovisuelle Techniken kennenlernen oder eigene Projekte weiterentwickeln möchten.
Martin Ožvold
Martin Ožvold Together with the Czech project SanSon – Sanatorium of Sound, ZiMMT welcomes sound artists Lenka Adamcová and Martin Ožvold to a residency in Leipzig. Foto:
Lenka Adamcová
Lenka Adamcová Together with the Czech project SanSon – Sanatorium of Sound, ZiMMT welcomes sound artists Lenka Adamcová and Martin Ožvold to a residency in Leipzig. Foto:
Non-ego · Forte e.V.
Non-ego Performance / 14.—18.12.25 Non-ego is a movement performance and social experiment that invites participants to become part of the interactive process, taking an active role within the experience through their own choices. In this moment, we share questions about our emotions, and the performance unfolds differently depending on the participants’ interaction, making each presentation a […]
PARADOKS
Paradoks DEVOTION (Renata Daguerre) & TENDER TECHNOLOGIES … SOFT CREATURES … (shasti) Dokumentarfilm Fest/ 6.12.25 PARADOKS versammelt in der vierten Ausgabe – zum ersten Mal mit Schwerpunkt auf Performance – zahlreiche künstlerische Positionen, die die herkömmliche Kinoerfahrung erweitern und überschreiten. DEVOTION ist eine räumliche Film-Performance, eine Ode an die Freude. Als Live Film-Performance, einschließlich der Projektion […]
SANE Concert Night
SANE Concert Night 3D audio Concert / 5.12.25 An evening for the ears – and the space in between.With Bianca Loffreda, Mariam Gviniashvili and Ferdinand Kavall. Over a year ago, as part of the Europe-wide call by Spatial Audio Network Europe (SANE), we selected artists who embarked on a special mission. In residencies at partner institutions, they experimented with innovative […]
sens move – Festival für multisensorische Wahrnehmung
sens move Festival für multisensorische Wahrnehmung 26.11.-3.12.2025 →> go to Festival!
Schnarchathon – ambient sleepover
Schnarchathon ambient sleepover / 15.-16.11.25 Summer is almost over, the days are getting shorter, and the evenings are becoming cosier. What could be better than an ambient sleepover event full of experimental live sets played on ZIMMT’s impressive 3D sound system? From 10 pm to 8 am, you will be accompanied by ten hours of […]
Bluezone
BLUE ZONE an Interactive AI & Human experiment / 13.+ 14.11. BLUE ZONE is a performance-and-installation program centred on clear, real-time interaction between bodies and machines. Two dancers engage a sensing system that tracks movement and maps it to sound, forming a transparent feedback loop—motion triggers audio; audio shapes the next move. The rules are […]
Mineral Veins. Fluid Computers · Ioana Vreme Moser
Ioana Vreme Moser · Mineral Veins. Fluid Computers Immersive sound installation from the SWIM series / October 30 – November 9, 2025 → SWIM 2025
HÖRKOMA – Lange//Berweck//Lorenz
HÖRKOMA – Lange //Berweck //Lorenz Silke Lange, SynthesizerSebastian Berweck, SynthesizerMartin Lorenz, Synthesizer Lange//Berweck//Lorenz präsentieren in ihrem Programm „HÖRKOMA“ zwei neue Kompositionen für Synthesizertrio von Marta Śniady und Lula Romero. Hinzu kommt das energetische Stück „Artefacts“ von Pierre Jodlowski sowie Rekompositionen des Synthesizer-Avantgardisten Asmus Tietchens.„Hörkoma“ ist ein Programm voller Kontraste – von klanggewaltig bis subtil, von kraftvoller Elektronik bis […]
Sofıa Zaiceva · eNμ
Sofıa Zaiceva · eNμ 3D audio concert from the SWIM series / 11.10.2025 → SWIM 2025
Sofia Zaiceva
Sofia Zaiceva Sofi (Sofia Zaiceva) is a Latvian sound artist and performer currently based in Helsinki, Finland. With a background that ranges from classical piano training and electroacoustic composition to creative coding, she has developed a distinctive approach to experimental electronic music that prioritises open-source practice and immersive sonic experiences. Sofi’s practice focuses on creative coding, […]
eNμ
eNμ eNμ – part alchemist, part dreamer – drifts through the matter of sound, assembling invisible architectures from vibrating particles. Neither fixed nor fleeting, always somewhere between the frequencies, eNμ channels a quest through the worlds of tiny sounds, voices and noises found in dreams, memories, affinities, places, fantasies, and imagination. https://zimmt.net/swim-2025 Foto: Nina Buttendorf
TRL · Nicolás Rupcich
TRL · Nicolás Rupcich AV installation from the SWIM series / September 18–28, 2025 → SWIM 2025
Louis Dufort
Louis Dufort 3D Audio Konzert der Reihe SWIM / 06.9.2025 → SWIM 2025
Louis Dufort
Lousi Dufort Louis Dufort is a Canadian composer of electroacoustic music based in Montreal. His work spans fixed media compositions, mixed music with processing, and visual music. Dufort is a professor of composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and the artistic director of the festival Akousma. Dufort’s visual music is influenced by Henri Bergson […]
UN-Sync Ensemble · Gerriet K. Sharma
UN-Sync Ensemble · Gerriet K. Sharma 3D audio concert from the series SWIM / 26.7.2025 → SWIM 2025
UN-Sync Ensemble
UN-Sync Ensemble The UN-Sync Ensemble consists of three sound artists, Seina, Yaaray and Klyl. Seina is a sound artist and educator whose practice revolves around computer music. She is currently exploring ways to make live performances with coding languages more accessible and engaging for both performers and audiences. In addition to her solo practice, she […]
Gerriet K. Sharma
Gerriet K. Sharma Gerriet K. Sharma is a Berlin-based composer, media artist and researcher in spatial sound practices. For 20 years he has been deeply involved in the spatialisation of electroacoustic and instrumental compositions in Ambisonics and Wave-Field Synthesis. He has also worked extensively on the transformation of textural processes into 3D sound sculptures. He […]
Apariciones – Paula Ábalos
Apariciones Paula Ábalos immersive multimedia installation / July 3-20, 2025 Paula Ábalos presented an immersive multimedia installation that explores transitional states of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, and the phenomena that emerge within them, such as lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The project is rooted in studies at a dream laboratory, where scientists […]
Raum und Klang – Spatial Audio Network Conference
Das ZiMMT lädt ein zur RAUM+KLANG Konferenz. Treffe führende Expert:innen, Pioniere und Visionäre, um die Zukunft immersiver Audiotechnologien neu zu denken und wegweisende Impulse zu setzen.
Bertolt Meyer – Techno(logie), Körper und Inklusivität
Techno(logie), Körper und Inklusivität Bertolt Meyer & Nastassja von der Weiden QUEER MUSIC FESTIVAL / April 26, 2025 The Queer Music Festival (April 24–27, 2025) shines a spotlight explicitly on queer music and artists who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or non-binary. Under the motto “Identity is Reality!”, the four-day program spans concerts, club […]
LOUFR · mʊdʌki
LOUFR · mʊdʌki 3D Audio Concert of the SWIM series / April 12, 2025 → SWIM 2025
swim 2025
swim (spatial works and immersive music) is an invitation to throw musical habits overboard.
mʊdʌki
mʊdʌki Polina Khatsenka is an audiovisual artist, sound designer, and curator from Minsk, Belarus, based in Ústí nad Labem. She explores sound through performances, site-specific installations, and compositions, focusing on collaboration and spatial perception. Since 2018, she has specialized in spatial sound, studying at HSDüsseldorf and Kunstuniversität Linz. She is now pursuing a PhD at […]
LOUFR
LOUFR LOUFR is a solo project by the Polish composer Piotr Bednarczyk. His work focuses on intermedial chamber and electronic music. In his sonic endeavors, he explores the spaces of sound design, seeking sounds and structures characterized by a subjective, strong physical, and emotional impact. The non-musical content woven into his compositions revolves around global […]
Emika Live Haze Night
Live Haze Night Emika Immersive Performance / April 2, 2025 Emika has shown an immersive performance of her album Haze released in 2024. After several sold-out planetarium shows, she continues her immersive journey first time in Leipzig, playing her songs adapted to the 32.2 3D audio speaker system of the ZiMMT. Emika’s ‘Haze’ sounds like […]
YAAND & urbau showing
YAAND & urbau showing 3D Audio Concert / March 22, 2025 The two artists Anda Kryeziu (YAAND) and Justin Robinson (urbau) are completing a one-week residency at ZiMMT as part of the Spatial Audio Network Europe (SANE). On this evening, the progress of their work will be presented. The Berlin-based artists have been working together […]
Leipzig Scholarship Program
The Class of 2024 Introduces Itself Leipzig Scholarship Program Exchange of Scholarship Holders / March 18, 2025 On March 18, 2025, starting at 7:00 PM, the scholarship holders of the first cohort of the Leipzig Scholarship Program will introduce themselves and share insights into their work from the past few months.A total of 25 projects […]
AV-Lab 2025
The AV Lab is an open and free series of workshops for anyone who wants to learn about new audiovisual techniques or develop their own projects.
Open House Day
Open House Day 5th Anniversary of ZiMMT Exhibition / Listings Session / Spatial Clubbing / March 14, 2025 On March 14, we invited you to visit our spaces!From 3 PM to 7 PM, there was a free program featuring a Listening Session, Spatial Clubbing, a behind-the-scenes tour of ZiMMT, coffee & cake, and a concert […]
arc (attract/repel /connect)
arc (attract/repel /connect) Paul Hauptmeier Interactive Sound Installation / February 13–23, 2025 arc creates a complex, immersive, and interactive musical space in which questions of individual and collective perception can be explored. arc enables individual contemplation and musical listening as well as communication and playful exploration of sound worlds. In this way, the space becomes […]
Ein Trauergesang für das Auto – Frederike Moormann
Ein Trauergesang für das Auto Frederike Moormann Sound Installation / February 1-3, 2025 An ensemble of human voices sings what can be heard inside a car. The engine rumbles and hums. The electronics buzz. The turn signal clicks. Perhaps a drive through the neighborhood. Are we in a memory? Then the car speeds up, the […]
I would be… if I could get out of my head
I would be… if I could get out of my head Patrícia Pinheiro & Chiara Stuto Immersive Performance / January 25, 2025 Patrícia Pinheiro – Oboe & ElectronicsChiara Stuto – Stage & Video We find ourselves increasingly distant from our own emotions,turning away from the voices that scream within us, choosing instead to look outward, […]
Zwischen Böen und Stille – Kilian Ernst
Zwischen Böen und Stille Kilian Ernst Multisensory Sound Installation / January 13 – 15, 2025 The sound installation Between Gusts and Silence creates an immersive experience that highlights the power of the wind and the subtle beauties of nature. Based on the sounds of the Teltschik Tower, which emerge through the gaps in the railing […]
Dinofreunde
Dinofreunde Ensemble 23 Inclusive Music Theater / December 22, 2024 Together with puppet and figure players Liesbeth Nenoff and Gerda Knoche, the actors of Ensemble 23 are working this year on figures based on the theme of prehistory. Through a meticulous, months-long process, all participants brought dinosaur figures to life that any museum of prehistoric […]
Jules Reidy • X. LEE
Jules Reidy • X. LEE 3D Audio Concert of the swim series / December 14, 2024 Jules Reidy Jules Reidy composes music for prepared and acoustic instruments (mostly guitars). Their work can be described as a series of non-traditional song forms that combine unstable harmonic territories, rhythmic elasticity, and abstract narratives with stretched and episodic […]
Jules Reidy
Jules Reidy Jules Reidy composes music for prepared and acoustic instruments (mostly guitars). Their work can be described as a series of non-traditional song forms that combine unstable harmonic territories, rhythmic elasticity, and abstract narratives with stretched and episodic structures. The aesthetic fluctuates between electronic drones and found sounds, sometimes reminiscent of Hope Sandoval or […]
X. Lee
X. Lee X. LEE is a DJ/producer, experimental sound artist, and composer with roots in scratch turntablism, jungle, techno, noise, and electroacoustic contemporary composition. His work draws from his experiences in electronic underground subcultures. By combining interactive technologies and multimedia elements, he seeks to explore design in both physical and auditory spaces. His works have […]
k3:6k presents Kollektiv Koeln & Krachim
k3:6k presents Kollektiv💞:💞Koeln & Krachim Concert / December 7, 2024 6k presents Kollektiv💞:💞Koeln Flying dolphins, soap bubbles, purple skyscrapers reaching into the azure sky, and the distant sound of horse hooves on hot asphalt. From this planet 💞rde – a place that is so similar, yet so different from our Earth – comes Kollektiv💞:💞Koeln (a.k.a. […]
sens taktil – Festival für multisensorische Wahrnehmung
sens taktil Festival for Multisensory Perception / November 27 – December 4, 2024 →> On to the festival!
spurlos…? – Ensemble Polli Morph
Bild: Antje Kröger spurlos…? Ensemble Polli Morph An interdisciplinary improvisation performance / November 21, 2024 The ensemble Polli Morph moves between music, language, movement, and performance, creating real-time compositions through soundpainting gestures that lead down unpredictable paths to the abyss, to pleasant moments, and to madness. Scenes and atmospheres of various styles emerge, transform, or […]
ich bin mir selber fremd geworden
ich bin mir selber fremd geworden Stimmen aus dem Frauenzuchthaus Hoheneck Performative concert and commemoration / November 15–16, 2024 The Women’s Prison Hoheneck (near Stollberg/Saxony) has become a symbol of political persecution in the GDR: with draconian, human rights-violating punitive measures, degrading detention conditions, and forced labor in the textile industry, the GDR’s apparatus of […]
Narr//Steidle feat. Saou TV
Narr//Steidle feat. Saou TV Oliver Steidle und Steffi Narr Concert / November 8, 2024 Oliver Steidle and Steffi Narr create an energetic space through free interaction, where the music oscillates between brutal and fragile. Guitarist Steffi Narr’s acoustic and electronic effects are contrasted and complemented by the powerful playing of drummer Oliver Steidle and his […]
LiLe – Gerard Lebik & Burkhard Beins / Nadelør
Lile Burkhardt Beins, Nadelør und Gerard Lebik Concert / November 2, 2024 The final concert of the LiLe series is dedicated to percussion and electronics. Burkhardt Beins and Gerard Lebik present works from their latest album An Alphabet of Fluctuations featuring cymbals and oscillators. Nadelør, on the other hand, works with organic rhythms that are […]
IM FLUSS
im FLUSS GERÄUSCHKULISSE 4 electroacoustic concerts in stereo and surround / October 26, 2024 What is the essence of the river? What does it connect? What connects humans to it? And how can we make the often invisible relationships between humans and nature acoustically tangible? In a musical soirée, five artists present their personal, artistic, […]
Take Off Time – exploring sound by motion
Take Off Time – exploring sound by motion Tomoko Nakasato & Jakob Gruhl Live Performance / October 19, 2024 The performer Tomoko Nakasato is situated in an acoustic white cube: a 4m × 4m surface is her instrument, and her body is her mixing console. Together with Stephan Kloß and Jakob Gruhl (sound design & […]