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.
12. April mʊdʌki · LOUFR
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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26. July UN-Sync Ensemble · Gerriet K. Sharma
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
6. September Louis Dufort
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.
18.– 28. September Nicolás Rupcich
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 collection.
11. October Sofıa Zaiceva · eNμ
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”.
eNμ
eNμ – part alchemist, part dreamer – drifts through the matter of sound, assembling invisible architectures from vibrating particles. Neither fixed nor fleeting, always somewhere between the frequencies, eNμ channels a quest through the worlds of tiny sounds, voices and noises found in dreams, memories, affinities, places, fantasies, and imagination.
30. October –
9. November Ioana Vreme Moser · Mineral Veins. Fluid Computers
9. November Ioana Vreme Moser · Mineral Veins. Fluid Computers
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: Frida Gregersen
Mineral Veins. Fluid Computers
Transistors become tinier, computers become supercomputers, the exhibition sets up a mirror that reflects the origins of computational hardware revealing two parallel trajectories. From the first accidental mine fire to the first electronically generated sound, the installation opens the fascinating history of radiosensitive minerals, the predecessors of electronic transistors entangled with human error, toxicity and environmental disruptions. Zincite, Galenas and Pyrites scream’ at the attentive, yet unstable touch of a needle to voice the moment where it all began. Electricity and crystalline formations create a soundscape of evolving noises. ”Fluid Memory” swirls and pulses almost in defiance to these archaic transistors. Here water becomes the computational medium and forms inspired from fluidic hydro-pneumatic control guide it through their insides following natural rhythms. Fluidics is a technology lost in history. Much like its mineral counterpart, electronics, fluidics builds circuits for computing. Fluid Memory discloses an anachronistic array of fluidic transistors placed in a feedback loop, writing, storing and re-writing bits of information, generating patterns of fluidic movement and sound in each cycle.
Iona Vreme Moser
Ioana Vreme Moser (b. 1994) is a Romanian sound artist working with hardware electronics, speculative research and tactile experimentation. In her practice she uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places electronic components and control voltages in various situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found objects and environmental stimuli. From these collisions synthesized sounds emerge that carry personal narratives and observations on the history of electronics, their production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world. She has performed and exhibited at ZKM (DE), National Gallery of Denmark (DK), Ars Electronica (AT) and more.
Sponsored by
ZiMMT Production
Curation: Martin Recker
Design: Klara Spunk
Web: Nina Buttendorf
Text: Marie Kollek