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
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 […]
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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
Oscar Friisgaard
NOTHING WHERE SOMETHING SHOULD BE BY Listening Session / 10.12.23 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 spaces—those intriguing […]
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 […]