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 […]
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, […]
TIBSLC • Elisa Batti
TIBSLC • Elisa batti 3D Audio Concert of the Drive In’21 Series / September 4, 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 Elisa Batti “To talk about this composition, […]
Elisa Batti
Elisa Batti “To talk about this composition, I first have to talk about the way I usually conceive a piece. When I compose, I always think of the music as a landscape, a scenographic set where I develop a story. The content is always very evocative and pictorial, following a path along which I unravel […]
TIBSLC
TIBSLC The spatial audio live performance Light Rain And Distant Dogs blends subtle ambient recordings with digital noise and feedback. The resulting atmosphere resembles a waking dream. On the threshold of perception, spatial parameters alternate, mixing dizziness with a heavy, impenetrable feeling tinged by an almost unidentifiable sadness. TIBSLC (The International Billionaire’s Secret Love Child) […]
EXO|ENDO – Victor Mazon
EXO|ENDO Víctor Mazon Gardoqui 42min audio composition / 32 channel, ultrasound speaker and light installation / Audiovisual diptych 19min. Loop / VR Experience / 2021 A journey from a silver mine exploited for more than 500 years to the largest -almost intact- lithium deposit in the world. Spatial installation that addresses the human footprint left […]
Eis im Bauch – Helga Hagen
Eis im Bauch Three-channel video installation / 3D audio / August 20, 2021 Die Temperatur auf der Welt steigt an, die Gletscher schmelzen- der Mensch isst genüsslich sein Eis. Mit „Eis im Bauch“ wird ein künstlerisches Zeichen zur Klimaveränderung gesetzt. Mit ihrer Arbeit möchten die Künstler:innen zum kritischen Hinterfragen von Konsum anregen. Dafür komponieren sie […]
Licht – Werkbühne
Licht Interactive concert performance for soprano, piano, electronic music, lighting, and tracked audience / August 12–14, 2021 (World Premiere) LICHT invites the audience to a performance that balances musical intensity and digital transgression:Visitors are individually tracked and can move freely through the space with the performers, exploring their own light fields. In this way, they […]
Ectoplastic • Cucina povera
Ectoplastic • Cucina povera 3D Audio Concert of the Drive In’21 Series / July 31, 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 Cucina Povera Impressed by Tod Dockstader’s Water […]
Cucina Povera
Cucina povera Impressed by Tod Dockstader’s Water Music, a technique that uses “everything and the kitchen sink,” Cucina povera is particularly interested in exploring field recordings of water in all its forms, combined with long vocal chants. Always starting from folk singing, she is drawn to the connection between singing and water—the oldest of all […]
Ectoplastic
Ectoplastic Stephan Kloss and Jakob Gruhl met in 1999 through hip-hop projects. Since then, they have shared an interest in electronic music.In connection with the Mazetools project, they have been conducting practical research since 2013 at the intersection of music, art, and technology. Their latest musical works are closely linked to the development process. The […]
Sebastién Branche • Robertina Šebjanič
Sebastién Branche • Robertina Šebjanič 3D Audio Concert of the Drive In’21 Series / July 25, 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 Sebastién Branche Sebastién Branche presents his […]
Robertina Šebjanič
Robertina Šebjaničs Robertina Šebjanič’s immersive audio installation “Stories about the Atlantic” tells the tale of the wandering basking shark Cetorhinus Maximus and the flame scallop Limaria Hians, both marine inhabitants of the North Atlantic.The story weaves together mythologies and sciences, humans and non-humans, and explores the ability to speak and confront challenges in the […]
Sébastien Branche
Sebastién Branche Sebastién Branche presents his new solo project Lignes de niveaux (English: Level Sets).It is an extension of his tenor saxophone solo work, which this time is transformed into an electroacoustic and immersive experience through the use of the programming language SuperCollider and Ambisonics 3D sound technology. Branche employs his characteristic design elements: long […]
Jasmina Rezig • Denim Szram
Jasmina Rezig • Denim Szram 3D Audio Concert of the Drive In’21 Series / April 24, 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 Jasmina Rezig Jasmina Rezig’s performance explores […]
Denim Szram
Denim Szram For Denim Szram, experimenting with synthesizers and sound recordings marks the beginning of every compositional process.Intriguing textures and moods are extracted and expanded into an intense dramaturgy—ranging from deep subfrequencies to high, noise-like sounds, from long pads to short signals. Denim Szram is a sound and media artist currently living and working in […]
Jasmina Rezig
JASMINA REZIG Jasmina Rezig’s performance explores and engages with identity-forming terms.For this experiment, zie* asked numerous people to speak gender labels and terms for sexual orientations, weaving these recordings together with orgasmic sounds into a sonic landscape—a transformative ritual. In 3D sound, zie finds an unconventional space to grapple with resonating power structures. Jasmina Rezig’s […]
Immersive Sound – Forum for 3D Audio
Immersive Sound — Forum for 3D Audio Festival / April 14–17, 2021 Immersive Sound is a 5-day festival in Leipzig that aims to bring together artists and researchers in the field of immersive art. During the event, which takes place from November 25 to 29, exceptional immersive sound performances by both international and emerging artists […]
How dare they try to end this beauty? – Julia Kiehlmann & Felix Deufel
How dare they try to end this bauty? Julia Kiehlmann & Felix deufel Multichannel Sound Sculpture / Burnt-out Fireworks, 8 min Sound Loop / April 27 – May 04, 2021 Towers of burnt-out fireworks stand as witnesses to exuberant celebration. From the charred batteries, human voices emerge through built-in speakers, mimicking the sounds of sparklers, […]