Follow Me II – La Pesch
Follow Me II La Pesch Immersive sound installation of the swim series / June 22 – July 2, 2023 Die Installation “Follow Me II” der Leipziger Klangkünstlerin La Pesch ist Teil eines Werkzyklus, der die Frage stellt: Was sehen wir in anderen Menschen? Suchende Stimmen zirkeln um sich selbst und schweben in einem Klangmeer aus […]
Henrik Rohde
Henrik Rohde Henrik Rohde is a musician and sound artist based in Leipzig and Berlin. His work includes electroacoustic compositions, band performances, and performative live sets. He creates multilayered soundscapes using field recordings, digital synthesizers, and other electronic instruments. For his debut album nowadays, he explored the possibilities of mobile production in depth — including […]
Kooperationskonzert – HMT Leipzig
Kooperationskonzert HMT Leipzig 3D Audio Concerts / June 1–27, 2023
opera – a future game – Michael v. zur Mühlen
opera – a future game Michael v. zur Mühlen ost(operative)-apocalyptic video game essay with music by Eloain Lovis Hübner and texts by Thomas Köck / June 1–11, 2023 Based on the opera opera opera opera! revenants & revolutions Premiere November 25, 2022, Next Level Festival Essen Game design, direction, and animation: Michael v. zur MühlenSpace […]
Mariam Gviniashvili • Portrait XO
Mariam Gviniashvili • Portrait XO 3D Audio Concert of the swim series / May 20, 2023 Portrait XO “I wondered whether AI-generated music can be emotional and coherent. In the end, I found it deeply emotional, because hearing a machine sing like me was at the same time eerie, fascinating, and inspiring.” — Portrait XO […]
Portrait XO
Portrait XO “I wondered whether AI-generated music can be emotional and coherent. In the end, I found it deeply emotional, because hearing a machine sing like me was at the same time eerie, fascinating, and inspiring.” — Portrait XO Portrait XO (she/they) is a project by producer, singer, and songwriter Rania Kim, exploring collaboration between […]
Mariam Gviniashvili
Mariam Gviniashvili In the first half of the concert, Mariam Gviniashvili presents her electroacoustic compositions from the past two years in a seamless, flowing multichannel performance. The second half features the German premiere of the audiovisual work RUINS, where multichannel composition and visuals merge. Gviniashvili found inspiration for the piece in the ruins of Soviet […]
Seven Trumpets – Maria Wildeis
Seven Trumpets Maria Wildeis Immersive sound installation of the swim series / April 13–22, 2023 For thousands of years, seven trumpets have symbolized the impending collapse. In the biblical Book of Revelation, their titular sound heralds the end of the world: seven angels blow seven trumpets, and with each new sound, a new calamity of […]
Viola Yip • Michael Akstaller
Viola Yip • Michael Akstaller 3D Audio Concert of the swim Series / March 11, 2023 Viola Yip Viola Yip is a composer, performer, sound artist, and instrument builder. She invents new instruments that explore the complex and dynamic relationships between media, materiality, musical bodies, and space through electricity and electronics, thereby introducing a new […]
Nils Baumbach
Nils Baumbach Nils Baumbach/Jens Baumann works as a musician, composer, and DJ. The music he creates ranges from jazz to more dancefloor-oriented styles such as disco and techno. Through the mentoring, he is exploring ways to integrate electronic elements and 3D sound into his current live project, which focuses on live minimal music. spatialaudionetwork.de
swim 2023
https://zimmt.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/swim-Banner-Video.mp4 swim – Spatial Works and Immersive Music Mit der Reihe swim lädt das ZiMMT 2023 ein, die eigene Umgebung durch Zuhören (neu) zu begreifen. Zehn Konzerte und vier Klanginstallationen ermöglichen durch akustische Erfahrungen, individuell oder gemeinsam die Aufmerksamkeit für unsere Umgebung zu schärfen. 16 lokale und internationale Künstler:innen sind Teil von swim. Thematisch passend […]
Michael Akstaller
Michael Akstaller Michael Akstaller (b. 1992) studied Fine Arts, Media Theory, and Engineering. In 2017, together with Jan St. Werner, he initiated the Class for Dynamic Acoustic Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, which has operated as an independent collective since 2021. He has collaborated with artists such as Alexandra Pirici (Terraform, 2020), […]
Viola Yip
Viola Yip Viola Yip is a composer, performer, sound artist, and instrument builder. She invents new instruments that explore the complex and dynamic relationships between media, materiality, musical bodies, and space through electricity and electronics, thereby introducing a new physicality into electronic music. Her recent performances have taken place at venues including the Hong Kong […]
Open Thursdays
OPEN THURSDAYS – OPEN SOUND LABORATORY With the Sound Lab, ZiMMT opens its doors every second Thursday from March to December 2023, from 5 to 9 pm, to share its technical resources and expertise. Not only the large event space with the 3D sound dome made up of 32 speakers can be used, but also […]
Modyssey Awakened – Ectoplastic
Modyssey Awakened Ectoplastic Multisensory / motion tracking–based dance theater piece / Feburary 4–5, 2023 The audiovisual performance is based on the VR experience Modyssey. At its center is the artist Mia Gara, who interacts both musically and visually within the space. She tells the story of gaining consciousness, the play between different states. In her […]
Tasneem-Lohani
Rest Now, Sleep Later Open Studio & Listening Session / November 30, 2022 Tasneem (Bangalore, India) explores sound, connection, and healing as a way to cope with the dusty work culture of the post-pandemic techno-capitalist era. Inspired by ancient Indian wisdom through mantras and chants, she aims to create a spatial sound work as a […]
Sub_Bar – Eufonia
Sub_Bar Eufonia Sound & Science / November 26–27. 2022 Sub_Bar comes back to Leipzig, this time taking over @ubleipzig on 24th and 25th of November with workshops, and @z.i.m.m.t on 26th and 27th of November for live performances and listening sessions. Peter Kirn, Stefanie Egedy, Atelier Francesco, Ana Bogner and Tinkah will lead the concerts, and we added more […]
Ca$$andra
Ca$$andra 3D Audio Concert of the All:y:ears Series / November 11, 2022 Ca$$andra The trio Ca$$andra (vibraphone/percussion, bass, voice) performs a freely improvised set that occasionally settles into more structured forms. The improvisation engages in a dialogue with the live electronics of Paul Hauptmeier, who processes the instrumental sounds and spatializes them on the ZiMMT’s […]
Ca$$andra
Ca$$andra The trio Ca$$andra (vibraphone/percussion, bass, voice) performs a freely improvised set that occasionally settles into more structured forms. The improvisation engages in a dialogue with the live electronics of Paul Hauptmeier, who processes the instrumental sounds and spatializes them on the ZiMMT’s 3D sound system. zimmt.net/allyears/
Interferenzen • Decay – Katharina Bévand • Hauptmeier|Recker
Interferenzen A composition made up of electromagnetic waves / November 4–13, 202 Electromagnetic drones and noisy crackling intertwine and buzz through the space. They need no medium to propagate, no physical body: they travel through the vacuum at the speed of light, regardless of their frequency. Weightlessness. They journey through the universe. Electromagnetic waves are […]
Interspecies Fusion Frequency – Ludwig Berger
Interspecies Fusion Frequency Ludwig Berger Immersive Sound Installation / December 2–12, 2022 We animals live not only in different spatial scales but also in different temporal scales. The sound installation attempts to bring these closer to each other through flowing movements. With subtle changes in speed, recordings of birds and insects are transposed into human […]
SystemFailed – Artes Mobiles
SystemFailed_ Artes Mobiles Performative AI Experiment / Oct 28th, 29th & 30th, 2022 SystemFailed_ A Performative AI Experiment“Does digitalization lead to more freedom, or does it endanger our humanity?” This question is at the heart of a social experiment. The audience forms a temporary micro-society, observed and studied by three researchers. An artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Leon Goltermann – Sound in a System
Sound in a System Leon Goltermann Sound Installation / 20–22 October 2022 With the installation “sound in a system”, the layers of meaning in sounds and words and their connections can be playfully explored. It is an interactive game with context and association. Based on interviews, associations to onomatopoeic terms and sounds have been collected.These […]
Synchronisation – Sphere Radio
Synchronisation Think Tank / October 7, 2022 Imagine you receive a message: In some offspace, on a Monday in October 2019, musicians, artists, and performance creators are gathering to let their creativity run wild. You follow the call and arrive at an abandoned hall, empty for years. At first, it feels overwhelming — there’s something […]
Dark Matter- the only good system – Andreas Ullrich, Nani Cooper, Patrick Loos
Dark Matter – the only good system Andreas Ullrich, Nani Cooper, Patrick Loos Immersive sound installation / Sept 3–10, 2022 The installation was first presented in 2020 at Ars Electronica in Linz at the Stadtwerkstatt as part of the More vs Less program. In 2022, this installation is set to be further developed in the […]
Marja Ahti • Anna Schimkat
Marja Ahti • Anna Schimkat 3D audio concert of the series All:y:ears / August 19, 2022 Anna Schimkat After completing an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor at the Technical School for Wood and Ivory Craftsmanship in Michelstadt i. Odw., she studied Fine Arts at the Bauhaus University in Weimar until 2004. In 2011, she completed […]
Marja Ahti
Marja Ahti (born 1981) is a Swedish-Finnish composer and sound artist from Turku, Finland. Ahti works with field recordings and other acoustic sound materials combined with synthesizers and electronic feedback to find the space where these sounds begin to communicate. She creates music that rides waves of slowly morphing harmonies and mutating textures—raw, edgy, yet […]
Anna Schimkat
Anna Schimkat After completing an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor at the Technical School for Wood and Ivory Craftsmanship in Michelstadt i. Odw., she studied Fine Arts at the Bauhaus University in Weimar until 2004. In 2011, she completed her masterclass at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden in the Sculpture and Architecture-Related Media department. […]
Patrick Franke • Crys Cole
Crys Cole • Patrick Franke 3D Audio concert of the All:y:ears series / August 5, 2022 Crys Cole Crys Cole is a Canadian sound artist currently living in Berlin, working in composition, performance, and sound installation. With a conceptual approach that emphasizes focused listening, she creates subtle sound pieces through tactile gestures and seemingly everyday […]
Patrick Franke
Patrick Franke He is an award-winning sound and recording artist specializing in wildlife and environmental sounds. Scientific expertise is an integral part of his work as a recording artist. His library includes over 16,000 recordings. Between 2004 and 2008, he ran the sound art platform and record label ‘Alula Ton Serien’ and was part of […]
Crys Cole
Crys Cole Crys Cole is a Canadian sound artist currently living in Berlin, working in composition, performance, and sound installation. With a conceptual approach that emphasizes focused listening, she creates subtle sound pieces through tactile gestures and seemingly everyday sources, crafting structurally nuanced works that continually retune the ear. Cole has performed and exhibited worldwide […]
||:Forest of Breath:|| – Brigitta Muntendorf
||:Forest of Breath:|| Brigitta Muntendorf Immersive sound installation / July 15–24, 2022 A breath in a relaxed state lasts 5 seconds. The singers of the up to 42-voice choir in ||:Forest of Breath:|| breathe ten times faster. They thereby provoke a state of trance, as well as alertness and “trouble,” that condition which awakens the […]
Jasha Hagen • Sara Persico
Jasha Hagen • Sara Persico 3D Audio Concert of the All:y:ears series / 24.06.2022 Jasha Hagen Jascha Hagen is a musician, record collector, and producer. Since 2008, he has been continuously developing and refining his signature style in music creation and production. His work spans various genres, ranging from dance music to experimental electroacoustic live […]
Sara Persico
Sara Persico Sara Persico (Naples, 1993) is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and performer. In her practice, she explores forms of storytelling through the expressive possibilities of the human voice and electronic sounds. Her compulsive sonic dimension is characterized by an unusual, impulsive vocal style, combined with pulsations and a wide range of frequencies. Sara […]
Jascha Hagen
Jascha Hagen Jascha Hagen is a musician, record collector, and producer. Since 2008, he has been continuously developing and refining his signature style in music creation and production. His work spans various genres, ranging from dance music to experimental electroacoustic live performances. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in electroacoustic composition at the Hochschule […]
Thomas Ankersmit • Jiyoung Chloe Yoon
Thomas Ankersmit • Jiyoung Chloe Yoon 3D audio concert of the All:y:Ears series / June 3, 2022 Jiyoung Chloe Yoon Jiyoung Chloe Yoon, also known as klof, is a composer and media artist working at the intersections of electroacoustic composition, experimental music, installations, production, and audiovisual live sets. She studied computer music at the Korea […]
Thomas Ankersmit
Thomas Ankersmit Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and sound artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. He plays the Serge Modular Synthesizer both live and in the studio and collaborates with artists such as Phill Niblock and Valerio Tricoli. His music is released on labels like Shelter Press, PAN, and Touch, blending intricate sonic details with […]
Jiyoung Chloe Yoon
Jiyoung Chloe Yoon Jiyoung Chloe Yoon, also known as klof, is a composer and media artist working at the intersections of electroacoustic composition, experimental music, installations, production, and audiovisual live sets. She studied computer music at the Korea National University of Arts (MA) and electroacoustic composition at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music, as well […]
Torgauer 80 – Jason Langheim
Torgauer 80 Jason Langheim Immersive sound installation / 61 channels / May 13–22, 2022 Torgauer 80 is a participatory artistic archival project about the history of this site from 1939 to 1945. Visitors are invited to embark on an individual research journey and approach the multilayered past. Using radios tuned to various frequencies, they can […]
Gl0tchbl0k – Simon Schäfer
Gl0tchbl0K – GlitchSpielHalle Simon Schäfer Installation-style Glitch Arcade / April 1, 2022 It is an installation-style Glitch Arcade that allows experiencing video games from a different perspective. Last year’s gaming device transformed into glitch machines. Through a sensor field with 64 individual pads, the graphics and sounds of a modified PlayStation 2 can be aesthetically […]
All:y:ears
All:y:Ears 2022 All:y:Ears ist die zweite Edition der Konzert- und Klanginstallationsreihe Drive In, mit dem Fokus auf 3D Audio Formaten. Bei All:Ears wird der Fokus rein auf das (zu)Hören, die auditive, räumliche Erfahrung gelegt und so der Wahrnehmung von Musik und Klängen eine neue, immersive Dimension verliehen, welche Zuhörende in virtuell-akustische Sphären und Umgebungen eintauchen […]
State, Structure & Future of Streaming
State, Structure & Future of Streaming Think Tank / February 28 – March 4, 2022 From February 28 to March 4, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, we (Sphere Radio), together with Hitness Club e.V., are organizing the Think Tank State, Structure & Future of Streaming at the ZiMMT premises. Over the course […]
237 – Hauptmeier / Recker
237 Hauptmeier | Recker Immersive sound installation / 61 channels / November 19–28, 2021 In the installation by Hauptmeier | Recker, various generative acoustic processes sound through 61 speakers, some of which extend far beyond the exhibition period. 237 is an acoustic timeline — a 30-meter-long sound sculpture — surrounded by a dome of speakers […]
If we Vanish
If we Vanish Immersive audiovisual performance / 3D audio / November 13–14, 2021 If we Vanish is an immersive audiovisual and contemporary dance performance that serves as an artistic study of some of the quietest and most remote places on Earth. The project was initiated by Nikhil and Felix after they made a series of […]
Judith Crasser & Viti-Ko Schell • Marti Guillem
Judith Crasser & Viti-Ko Schell • Marti Guillem 3D Audio Concert of the Drive In´21 Series / October 22, 2021 With DRIVE In’21, the Center for Immersive Media Art, Music and Technology (ZiMMT) in Leipzig presents its first concert and sound installation series, establishing a clear focus on 3D audio. → zimmt.net/drive-in21 Judith Crasser and […]
Martí Guillem
Martí Guillem With “DAS IST NICHT ASMR” (This is not ASMR) Martí Guillem has developed a site-specific performance especially for ZiMMT that explores the immersive potential of sound moving through space. Self-built electroacoustic devices are manipulated and moved around the setup, creating dynamic movements within the tree-like sound structure and unfamiliar listening experiences. As an […]
Judith Crasser & Viti-Ko Lilja Schell
Judith Crasser & Viti-Ko Lilja Schell For their first joint collaboration, Leipzig-based artists Judith Crasser and Viti-Ko Lilja Schell composed a multi-instrumental piece for the 3D audio system at ZiMMT, exploring the potentials of acoustic spatiality and spatial perception. Crasser’s sound syntheses, vocal experiments, and electro-acoustic elements meet Schell’s fragments of pop and punk music. […]
An Invitation to Disappear – Julian Charrière
An Invitation to Disappear Julian Charrière Immersive video installation, 76 min 44 sec, loop / 4K color film, Ambisonics 3D sound / October 1–10, 2021 The immersive video installation Invitation to Disappear stages a psychosocial, transcendental techno rave amid the fields of a monocultural palm oil plantation in Southeast Asia, using fog, flashing lights, and […]
Scriabin Code Ensemble & Felix Deufel
#TAKEOFF Scriabin Code Ensemble & Felix Deufel AV Concert / 3D Audio / September 25, 2021 #TAKEOFF is a collaboration between the multimedia performance ensemble Scriabin Code, led by clarinetist Martin Albrecht from Worms, and Felix Deufel from ZiMMT e.V. With the ensemble’s performance concerts, different arts and music genres come together to explore immersive […]
Long Range Tracking – Deep in the Drake Passage — Victor Mazon
https://zimmt.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/trailer.mp4 Long Range Tracking – Deep in the Drake Passage Víctor Mazón Gardoquis Immersive audiovisual installation / composition, 80-minute loop / September 10–19, 2021 The immersive multichannel composition Long Range Tracking – Into the Depths of the Drake Passage explores the acoustics of underwater worlds in the southern regions of the Earth. Sounds from marine, […]