swim 2025

swim (spatial works and immersive music) is an invitation to throw musical habits overboard. With this year’s series, ZiMMT is once again presenting international and local artists who use sound in space for artistic research in very different ways.

Concerts and two sound installations build a bridge between distant sound worlds of (electronic) genres: radical approaches to music production and performance clash questioningly with habits. A broad spectrum of musical forms of expression is integrated into immersive, expansive experiences – from multi-layered composed electro-acoustic works to experimental approaches rooted in the aesthetics of club music. New instruments enter the stage, familiar ones find themselves in unfamiliar settings. The role of the audience also changes as they immerse themselves in three-dimensional sound environments.

In three-day micro-residencies, the musicians can develop their work on site using 3D audio technology and try out new approaches. All concerts will be streamed live in high quality with spatial, binaural audio.

3D Audio Concert – 7 pm (Door) / 8 pm (Start) – Admission: 10€ (red.) / 15€ (reg.) / 18€ (soli)

Foto: Yaara Yaniv 

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 changes inevitably leading to the collapse of the world

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 Jan Evangelista Purkyně University. Polina co-founded phonon~, curating events in quadraphonic, octophonic, and ambisonic formats. Her projects engage NGOs, networks, and self-organized offspaces, addressing existential themes through experimental sound art.

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3D Audio Concert – 7 pm (Door) / 8 pm (Start) – Admission: 10€ (red.) / 15€ (reg.) / 18€ (soli)
+ Bonus exhibition on July 26 and 27

Foto: Yaara Yaniv 

UN-Sync Ensemble

The UN-Sync Ensemble consists of three sound artists, Seina, Yaaray and Klyl. Seina is a sound artist and educator whose practice revolves around computer music. She is currently exploring ways to make live performances with coding languages more accessible and engaging for both performers and audiences. In addition to her solo practice, she creates sound design for film. In August 2024 she released her debut EP on the Lucerne-based label Präsens Editions. Yaaray is a composer, sound artist and vocalist who seeks to explore and expose the hidden elements within familiar sounds, striving to blur the boundaries between levels of expression with personal interpretation. Focusing primarily on acoustic sound material, she searches for the human quality in music and ways to convey fragility and intimacy through sonic atmospheres.  Klyl Shifroni is a sound artist, composer and bassist who works primarily with a self-modified electric bass to explore harmonics in object/site-specific resonances and to draw a line of communication between materials. Her practice involves a constant search for relationships between space and material. In previous works the use of resonance through metal plates has been a key element. Through the use of transducers and unconventional multi-channel set-ups, she brings questions of place and memory to the surface.

Gerriet K. Sharma

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.

Foto: Gerriet K. Sharma

3D Audio Concert – 7 pm (Door) / 8 pm (Start) – Admission: 10€ (red.) / 15€ (reg.) / 18€ (soli)

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Louis Dufort

Louis Dufort is a Canadian composer of electroacoustic music based in Montreal. His work spans fixed media compositions, mixed music with processing, and visual music. Dufort is a professor of composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and the artistic director of the festival Akousma. Dufort’s visual music is influenced by Henri Bergson and his collaboration with Marie Chouinard. Works like Épochè (2008) explore real-time interactions between sound and visuals, creating a kinetic listening experience. His music is characterized as “maximalist,” employing digital tools to manipulate sound at a microscopic level. Influences include Horacio Vaggione and his mentor Francis Dhomont. With a career spanning over three decades, Louis Dufort continues to innovate, shaping the future of electroacoustic and immersive music.

Immersive sound installation
Opening hours: DI – FR: 5 – 8 p.m. / SA + SO: 2 – 8 p.m.
Guided tours: SA + SO 4 pm
Admission: 5-10 € (MI admission free)

Foto: Nicolás Rupcich 

Nicolás Rupcich

Nicolás Rupcich is a Berlin-based artist working in a variety of media, with an emphasis on experimenting with photography, video and animation. Thematically, his work explores the functions, effects and behaviours associated with the digital image, where what we see on a daily basis as screen conventions actually alter and influence our understanding of reality. Raised on the island of Chiloé, he studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Finis Terrae and earned a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad de Chile. In 2012 he moved to Germany with a DAAD scholarship and completed a Meisterschüler in Media Arts at the HGB Leipzig. Rupcich has exhibited internationally at major media art festivals and institutions. He has received numerous awards and grants and his works can be found in several private and museum collections.

3D Audio Concert – 7 pm (Door) / 8 pm (Start) – Admission: 10€ (red.) / 15€ (reg.) / 18€ (soli)

Foto: Libor Galia

Sofıa Zaiceva

Sofi (Sofia Zaiceva) is a Latvian sound artist and performer currently based in Helsinki, Finland. With a background that ranges from classical piano training and electroacoustic composition to creative coding, she has developed a distinctive approach to experimental electronic music that prioritises open-source practice and immersive sonic experiences.

Sofi’s practice focuses on creative coding, embodiment, human-machine communication, spatial sound and improvisation. Her work investigates sound as a malleable medium capable of evoking associations and altering perception, while exploring narratives of triggers, noise and randomness within complex algorithmic musical systems. Her latest solo album “aze” (2024) was released on the Italian label “Riforma”. She has performed in various European countries and is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art. interdisciplinary art in 2024/2025.

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Immersive sound installation
Opening hours: DI – FR: 5 – 8 p.m. / SA + SO: 2 – 8 p.m.
Guided tours: SA + SO 4 pm
Admission: 5-10 € (MI admission free)

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Curation: Martin Recker
Design: Klara Spunk
Web: Nina Buttendorf
Text: Marie Kollek

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Aii Wijayanti Anik
Aliya Sayfart
Amoenus
Andreas Nordheim
Andreas Ullrich
Andreas Wannerstedt
Anna Schimkat
Antje Meichsner
Artes Mobiles
Birk Schmithüsen
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
Enrique Tomás
Ensemble 23
Ensemble Polli Morph
Fabian Raith
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
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
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