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 & […]
Natasha Barrett
Natasha Barrett 3D Audio Concert from the swim series / October 12, 2024 Natasha Barrett Natasha Barrett (NO/UK) composes and presents concert works, sound art installations in public spaces, and multimedia interactive music, using a wide range of sounds, new technologies, and experimental techniques. She is widely known for her electronic, acousmatic, and electroacoustic live […]
Natasha Barrett
Natasha Barrett Natasha Barrett (NO/UK) composes and presents concert works, sound art installations in public spaces, and multimedia interactive music, using a wide range of sounds, new technologies, and experimental techniques. She is widely known for her electronic, acousmatic, and electroacoustic live music as well as her use of 3D audio in composition: her works […]
ZiXP
ZiXP Festival for the Experimental Music Scene in Leipzig / October 3–4th, 2024 ZiXP, the festival for the experimental music scene in Leipzig, returns in September and October! This year, ZiXP appears in a somewhat different but equally exciting form. In September, nearly 30 of our musicians will perform in small groups from solo to […]
Blaubarts Burg – Klänge der Einsamkeit
Blaubarts Burg – Klänge der Einsamkeit Jeffrey Döring An immersive documentary opera / September 27–29, 2024 Loneliness is like a slowly seeping poison. It kills quietly. Even Bluebeard is lonely in his pitch-black castle. Then Judith enters his life. Like a star, she drives away the darkness and opens seven locked doors, revealing glimpses into […]
I don’t eat u & u don’t eat me – Felix Leffranks
I don’t eat u & u don’t eat me Felix Leffranks Live Animation / September 22, 2024 In rapid thematic leaps and rhymed verses, the three characters of this digital puppet theater discuss whether a souvenir can also function as a utopian bearer of hope, the symbolism of the seasons after climate change, and a […]
Jessica Ekomane • Jana Irmert
Jessica Ekomane • Jana Irmert 3D Audio concert of the series swim / September 14, 2024 Jessica Ekomane Jessica Ekomane is an electronic musician and sound artist born in France and based in Berlin. She creates situations where sound acts as a transformative element for the space and the audience. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by […]
Jana Irmert
Jana Irmert Jana Irmert is a Berlin-based sound artist and composer working across spatial composition, film soundtracks, and live performance, often exploring the boundary between musical sound and noise through extensive experiments with field recordings. In times of ecological crisis, she investigates temporality and impermanence, creating atmospheric audiovisual and sonic spaces that work with (dis)harmony […]
Jessica Ekomane
Jessica Ekomane Jessica Ekomane is an electronic musician and sound artist born in France and based in Berlin. She creates situations where sound acts as a transformative element for the space and the audience. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical impact, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic […]
Meditative Cohabitation – by Studio Aabove&Below
Meditative Cohabitation by Studio Above&Below Immersive Sound Installation / August 28 – September 8, 2024 Meditative Cohabitation is an audio-visual experience investigating multi-species communication in future cities through advanced technologies. Based on bioacoustic recordings and 3D scans of the Marais Wiels biotope, located in the heart of Brussels’ urban landscape, the immersive installation invites the […]
Foldings – Konstantin Fontaine & Johannes Schütz
Foldings Konstantin Fontaine & Johannes Schütz Immersive Sound Installation / August 28 – September 8, 2024 Our identity is essentially shaped by memories, which influence not only self-perception but also cultural and social perspectives. They secure our understanding of the present within a continuum of time and weave past experiences into a coherent narrative structure. […]
Of Gust and Moist – Kerstin Ergenzinger
Of Gust and Moist Kerstin Ergenzinger Immersive sound installation / July 11–21, 2024 In the exhibition, two installations engage in a dialogue, exploring the measurement and perception of natural phenomena as well as the self-positioning and place of humans within this relational framework. Whiskers in Space (2010) Whiskers in Space ist eine künstlerische Studie über […]
Damián Gorandi • Hauptmeier|Recker
Damián Gorandi • Hauptmeier | Recker 3D Audio Concert of the series swim / July 6, 2024 Damián Gorandi & Diana Syrse Valdes Damián Gorandi is a contemporary composer and professor of composition. He was born in Argentina in 1991. He studied composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris […]
Damián Gorandi
Damián Gorandi Damián Gorandi is a contemporary composer and professor of composition. He was born in Argentina in 1991. He studied composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Stefano Gervasoni’s class and at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (Strasbourg), electroacoustic music at the Hochschule für Musik […]
Hauptmeier|Recker
Hauptmeier|Recker Since 2009, composers Martin Recker (*1991) and Paul Hauptmeier (*1993) have worked together as an artist duo in the field of sound and multimedia art. They studied composition together with Robin Minard and Maximilian Marcoll at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music Weimar, as well as at the University of California San Diego with […]
Phantasmagoria – Stephanie Felber
Phantasmagoria Stephanie Felber Dance & Sound Performance / 3D Audio / June 22, 2024 PHANTASMAGORIA explores the realm of phantoms, hallucinatory apparitions, and auditory and visual illusions that convey a phantasmatic presence and play with perception. Deceptive occurrences open the space for personal imagination. The movements of the performers generate a 360° soundscape that leads […]
Ferne Räume – Robin Minard
Ferne Räume Robin Minard Immersive Sound Installation / May 30 – June 16, 2024 Chundua is a mountainous region in the Colombian Sierra Nevada. For the indigenous Arhuaco people, it is the heart of the world, from which all life, wisdom, and laws originate, and which all humans need. At the same time, Chundua requires […]
LiLe – Andreas Nordheim & Sabine Lippold
LiLe Andreas Nordheim & Sabine Lippold Concert series for experimental music by LeipziXP e.V. / Mai 3, 2024 On May 3rd, it’s all about brass and more. Schallschatten (Petr Vrba and Birgit Ulher) extend their trumpets with various objects, radios, or electronics. Andreas Nordheim and Sabine Lippold mix brass and movement in their improvisational duet. […]
Sébastien Branche • Passepartout Duo
Passepartout Duo • Sébastien Branche 3D audio concert of the swim series / April 27, 2024 Sébastien Branche The French saxophonist Sébastien Branche, based in Leipzig, focuses on sound as a material and typically performs at the intersection of drone, noise, and bruitism, incorporating long tones, extended techniques, or objects into his improvisations. Interested in […]
Sébastien Branche
Sébastien Branche The French saxophonist Sébastien Branche, based in Leipzig, focuses on sound as a material and typically performs at the intersection of drone, noise, and bruitism, incorporating long tones, extended techniques, or objects into his improvisations. Interested in collective and non-hierarchical experiments, he has been a member of several collectives and is currently part […]
Passepartout Duo
Passepartout Duo Since 2015, Passepartout Duo have been developing their own polyphonic instruments, which control sound generation in novel ways — often through gestures. During their residency ahead of their concert as part of swim 2024, they connected their inventions with 3D audio for the first time, exploring ways to use space itself as a […]
swim 2024 EN
https://zimmt.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/swim_Teaser_quer.mp4 swim With the swim series (spatial works and immersive music), ZiMMT 2024 invites you to throw musical habits overboard. Nine spatial concerts and three sound installations that build a bridge between several (electronic) genres bring up new questions. A broad spectrum of musical forms of expression from different genres will be integrated into immersive, […]
AV Lab 2024
AV – Labor free workshop series at ZiMMT Open workshop for anyone who wants to learn new audiovisual techniques or develop their own projects. Previous knowledge is not necessary. In addition to 3D audio techniques, one topic from the four main themes will be presented per session: XR environments Video Mapping Spatial Audio und Musikproduktion […]
Think Tank – Spatial Audio Network Germany
SANG – Spatial Audio Network Germany Think Tank / Dezember 14, 2023 With the collaborative project SANG, three institutions for immersive arts have committed themselves to supporting artists in getting started with spatial audio and working on technical standards for realizing 3D audio concerts: ZiMMT, the interdisciplinary lab spaes in Berlin, and the immersive sound […]
sens – Festival für multisensorische Wahrnehmung
Sens Festival Festival for Multisensory PerceptionDecember 11–20, 2023 →> Continue to the festival page
Ein Käfer, der Erinnerungen frisst
Ein Käfer, der Erinnerungen frisst Fabian Raith und Sofie Neu Science Fiction / 3D Audio Radio Play / Dezember 12, 2023 How long can you remember the sound of a voice after the person has died?A bug has chewed its way through the cables of the server farm—Mika’s mother’s voice messages and photos are irretrievably […]
Oscar Friisgaard
NOTHING WHERE SOMETHING SHOULD BE BY Listening Session / Dezember 12, 2023 Join us for an exclusive musical experience brought to you by Oscar Friisgaard in collaboration with ZiMMT. Immerse yourself in the captivatingsoundscape of ‚Nothing Where Something Should Be’ ‘Nothing Where Something Should Be’ is the culmination of a 3-month artistic exploration into liminal […]
Ro-Dron, Motorhorn und Knackdosen – Christof Schläger
Ro-Dron, Motorhorn und Knackdosen Christof Schläger Immersive Sound Installation / Installative Concerts of the swim Series / November 9–19, 2023 A futuristic background noise of sound machines! Instrument maker and sound artist Christof Schläger brings three of his devices to life at ZiMMT: The “Ro-Dron” – a spiral tube with 52 strings that are activated […]
Riddle – DJ YumYum, Solaris Rian Treanor
Riddle DJ YumYum, Solaris Rian Treanor 3D DJ / Hybrid / Live Set / November 4, 2023 Riddle is confusion, Riddle is astonishment, Riddle is enigma, challenge and yet reason. The new series of events for electronic music and sound art aims to provide a platform for innovative and experimental electronic music and performances on […]
3D Audio Showcase — Monom / Phonon
3D Audio Showcase Monom / Phonon Listening Session / October 28, 2023
DIY Synth Meet Up — Leaf Audio
DIY Synth Meet Up Leaf Audio Meetup / October 28, 2024 Our DIY & Synth Meetup is a community event for all synth and DIY enthusiasts of any skill level. We have put together a mega interesting day (10:30-22h) with workshops about DIY, Modular Synths and 3D Audio plus enough time for networking and drinks at the bar. […]
Jacopo Cenni • dotzerosix
Jacopo Cenni • dotzerosix 3D Audio Concert from the swim series / October 21, 2023 dotzerosix boatnoa What is a “modern city”? What does it mean to inhabit it while simultaneously being part of placeless, digital spheres? Within this realm of questions positions the audiovisual composition boatnoa by the multimedia duo dotserosix. Real images, videos, […]
dotserosix
dotserosix dotserosix are Tania Cortés and Oscar Bahamonde (Paris, France / Quito, Ecuador). Cortés is an interdisciplinary musician and composer, Bahamonde is a musician, multimedia artist, and lecturer. Since 2020, they have been jointly creating audiovisual experiential spaces in a minimalist, glitchy language of form, combining music, environmental sounds, and visual arts. They are constantly […]
Jacopo Cenni
Jacopo Cenn Jacopo Cenni (*1995) is a new media artist and composer from Siena, Italy. He often combines theatrical expression with sound art, focusing on exploring diverse forms of systemic interaction and interplay between elements. His works span sound theatre, electroacoustic composition, and data sonification, and have been presented at prestigious venues such as La […]
if we vanish – Felix Deufel & Nikhil Nagaraj
if we vanish – in search of natural silence Felix Deufel & Nikhil Nagaraj Video installation: 15-minute loop / Listening room soundscape / Composition: 76-minute endless loop / Series swim / October 5–15, 2023 The installation “if we vanish” by sound artists Nikhil Nagaraj (Bangalore, India) and Felix Deufel (Leipzig, Germany) is an immersive journey […]
Ikbal Lybus & Aii Wijayanti Anik
Ikbal Lybus & Aii Wijayanti Anik live spatial Video & Sound Performance / 03.10.23 Join us at ZIMMT for a work-in-progress performance by our Indonesian artists in residence, Ikbal Lubys and Aii Wijaya. The performance will include live video, silent film, experimental guitar exploration and spatial sound, investigating musical tension related to the colonial sonic […]
An Abyss – Philipp Rumsch
An Abyss Philipp Rumsch Immersive sound and dance performance / January 1, 2023 „An abyss“ is a new collaborative work by dancers and choreographers Sophie Vergères (CH), David Lagerqvist (SWE), and myself. This full-length immersive piece blends elements of concert, dance, performance, and sound installation — premiering in a unique 3D audio setup at ZiMMT […]
Philipp Rumsch
Philipp Rumsch Philipp Rumsch – composer, sound designer, and producer based in Leipzig – is exploring ways at ZiMMT to translate his studio’s Dolby Atmos productions into a 3D audio live context. He aims to develop technical concepts that will enable concerts and tours for a wide range of projects: from a twelve-piece ensemble to […]
Iulja Smeu
Iulja-Andreea Smeu (Kite) Listening session / September 28, 2023 Do you remember the sound of my voice? The classic theme of terraforming Mars is one that has recently unsettled me, underscored by the obvious conflict between the current climate catastrophe and the space journeys of the super-rich. Beyond our innate drive as explorers, colonizers, and […]
Robert Normandeau • Quast
Robert Normandeau • Quast 3D Audio Concert of the swim series / September 9, 2023 Quast Bruno Quast was born in Germany and raised in Italy. He studied classical piano, contemporary art, and animation, and today teaches sound design at universities alongside his artistic work. His animated short films depict surreal worlds and soundscapes. Quast […]
Quast
Quast Bruno Quast was born in Germany and raised in Italy. He studied classical piano, contemporary art, and animation, and today teaches sound design at universities alongside his artistic work. His animated short films depict surreal worlds and soundscapes. Quast usually blends digital and analog techniques, such as 3D animation, drawings, sand, and digital collages. […]
Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau With Robert Normandeau, a true pioneer of immersive music is visiting ZiMMT:Normandeau (*1955 in Quebec, Canada) is an internationally renowned acousmatic composer and has been a professor of electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal for over twenty years. In 2009, together with his research group GRIS (Research Group in Spatial Immersion), he […]
Stephanie Felber
Stefanie Felber Phantasmagoria
Rashad Becker • Perila
Rashad Becker • Perila 3D Audio Concert of the swim series / September 9, 2023 Perila Perila is a transdisciplinary sound and media artist, performer, and DJ. At ZiMMT, she focuses on the breath of sounds, using exclusively sounds derived from living nature. In immersive improvisations, she explores how the vibrations of her interplay affect […]
Perila
Perila Perila is a transdisciplinary sound and media artist, performer, and DJ. At ZiMMT, she focuses on the breath of sounds, using exclusively sounds derived from living nature. In immersive improvisations, she explores how the vibrations of her interplay affect our bodies. One of her main research questions is how music can evoke emotions throughout […]
Rashad Becker
Rashad Becker Rashad Becker’s music has been described as “a tear in the fabric of reality.” A significant part of his work consists of electronic narratives of fictional worlds, where no dominant aesthetic ideas exist, but instead endless sonic diversity—such as the cycle Traditional Music of Notional Species. Other works, like the sound staging of […]
Mars ist eine Frau – Helga Hagen
Mars ist eine Frau Helga Hagen Immersive AV sound installation / July 13–16, 2023 “Mars is a woman” from Helga Hagen
Antje Meichsner
Antje Meichsner Antje Meichsner is a Dresden-based audiovisual artist and a guest at ZiMMT for the mentoring program. She is translating her noise-based ambient sound design and compositional work into the three-dimensional listening space. In doing so, she questions the tools of 3D audio and its immersive effect on what is being conveyed. spatialaudionetwork.de
Schlagersahne – Ensemble 23
Schlagersahne Ensemble 23 Inclusive music theater / July 6–8, 2023 The Schlager family has never been to New York and hasn’t brought a bit of peace to the world yet. Still, the Schlagers have been active in the music industry for three generations, delivering hit after hit to their audience. But after a tragic event, […]
X. Lee
X. Lee X. Lee is developing an intuitive controller tool for 3D audio as part of the mentoring program, specifically designed for electronic live performances. The goal is to make audio spatialization adaptable to a wide range of concert setups and collaborative contexts. spatialaudionetwork.de