Gerriet K. Sharma is a Berlin-based composer, media artist and researcher in spatial sound practices. For 20 years he has been deeply involved in the spatialisation of electroacoustic and instrumental compositions in Ambisonics and Wave-Field Synthesis. He has also worked extensively on the transformation of textural processes into 3D sound sculptures. He studied at the KHM Cologne and KUG Graz and completed his PhD in 2016 with a thesis on “Composing with Sculptural Sound Phenomena in Computer Music”. He curated “signale-graz” (2009-2015) and presented his work at major international festivals, conferences and symposia, including the Darmstädter Sommerkurse and the Wiener Festwochen. From 2022-24 he was appointed guest professor at the HfG/ZKM Karlsruhe. In October 2024 his AI-assisted composition for chamber orchestra, electronics, spatialisation with two IKOs and reactive piano “This is Water” was premiered in the Beethovensaal of the Liederhalle Stuttgart.

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