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

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 […]

swim 2025

swim (spatial works and immersive music) is an invitation to throw musical habits overboard.

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

HauptmeierRecker

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 / October 3, 2023 Join us at ZiMMT for a work-in-progress performance by our Indonesian artists in residence, Ikbal Lubys and Aii Wijaya. The performance will feature live video, silent film, experimental guitar explorations, and spatial sound, delving into musical tensions connected to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Andreas Wannerstedt
Anna Schimkat
Antje Meichsner
Artes Mobiles
Birk Schmithüsen
Bertolt Meyer
Brigitta Muntendorf
burgund t brandt
Ca$$andra
Chiara Stuto
Christof Schlager
Claudia Schwarz
Cleo Doelling
Crys Cole
Cucina Povera
Damián Gorandi
Daniel Wilmers
Dasniya Sommer
David Simmons
Denim Szram
Diana Syrse Valdes
dotzerosix
Ectoplastic
Elisa Batti
EMIKA
Enrique Tomás
Ensemble 23
Ensemble Polli Morph
Fabian Raith
Felice & The Frameworker
Felix Deufel
Felix Leffranks
Frederike Moormann
Geräuschkulisse
Grace Boyle + Antoine Bertin
Hanno Leichtmann
Hauptmeier | Recker
Helga Hagen
Henrik Rohde
hitness.club
HMT Leipzig
Ikbal Lybus
Iulja Smeu
Jacopo Cenni
Jakob Gruhl
Jana Irmert
Jasmina Rezig
Jasha Hagen
Jason Langheim
Jeffrey Döring
Jessica Ekomane
Jiyoung Chloe Yoon
Johannes Schütz
John Burnett
Julia Kiehlmann
Julian Charrière
Juliane Kowalke
Jules Reidy
Judith Crasser
Katharina Bévand
Kerstin Ergenzinger
Kilian Ernst
Klara Ravat
Klara Spunk
Kollektiv WERT
Kollektiv:Koeln
Konstantin Fontaine
Krachim
La Pesch
Leaf Audio
Leon Goltermann
Leonie Strecker
LiLe
Lina Orlando
Loewe Immerlieb
LOUFR
Lucas Gutierrez
Ludwig Berger
Luise Wonneberger
Louise Rossiter
mʊdʌki
Manu Mitterhuber
Marcus Schmickler
Marja Ahti
Maria Wildeis
Mariam Gviniashvili
Marie Luise Möller
Martí Guillem
Martin Recker
Maxim M. Chubarov
Maxi Pongratz
Michael Akstaller
Michael v. zur Mühlen
Michaela Pňačeková
Mia Gara
Mortiz Simon Geist
Natasha Barrett
Nani Cooper
Nina Buttendorf
Nikhil Nagaraj
Oliver Steidle
Oscar Friisgaard
Panayiotis Kokoras
Patrícia Pinheiro
Patrick Franke
Patrick Loos
Passion Asanu & Cosmo Schüppel
Paul Hauptmeier
Passepartout Duo
Perila
Philipp Rumsch
Portrait XO
Prof. Charles Spence
Prof. Ercan Altinsoy
Prof. Thomas Hummel
Quast
Rashad Becker
Rian Treanor
Riddle
Robert Lippok
Robert Normandeau
Robertina Šebjanič
Robin Minard
Sabine Lippold
Saou TV
Sara Persico
Scriabin Code Ensemble
Sébastien Branche
Simon Schäfer
Solaris
Sofie Neu
Sophia Amelia Eickhoff
Sphere Radio
Stephanie Felber
Stephan Kloß
Steffi Narr
Studio Aabove&Below
Studio Tutti und Twinkx e.V.
Sub_Bar
Tasneem Lohani
Theresa Rothe
Thomas Ankersmit
TIBSLC
Tomoko Nakasato
Viti-Ko Lilja Schell
Victor Mazon Gardoqui
Valerio Tricoli
Viola Yip
Werkbühne
Whispers Red
Wiete Sommer mit Cryptoheroes
Wolfgang Georgsdorf
X. LEE
YAAND & urbau
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