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 […]
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 […]
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
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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$$andra he trio Ca$$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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
||: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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]