UN-Sync Ensemble

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 […]

Gerriet K. Sharma

UN-Sync Ensemble 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 […]

LOUFR · mʊdʌki

LOUFR · mʊdʌki 3D Audio Concert of the SWIM series / April 12, 2025 →  SWIM 2025

swim 2025

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

mʊdʌki

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 […]

LOUFR

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 […]

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 […]

Jules Reidy

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 structures. The aesthetic fluctuates between electronic drones and found sounds, sometimes reminiscent of Hope Sandoval or […]

X. Lee

X. Lee X. LEE is a DJ/producer, experimental sound artist, and composer with roots in scratch turntablism, jungle, techno, noise, and electroacoustic contemporary composition. His work draws from his experiences in electronic underground subcultures. By combining interactive technologies and multimedia elements, he seeks to explore design in both physical and auditory spaces. His works have […]

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 […]

Natasha Barrett

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 music as well as her use of 3D audio in composition: her works […]

Jessica Ekomane • 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 […]

Jana Irmert

Jana Irmert Jana Irmert is a Berlin-based sound artist and composer working across spatial composition, film soundtracks, and live performance, often exploring the boundary between musical sound and noise through extensive experiments with field recordings. In times of ecological crisis, she investigates temporality and impermanence, creating atmospheric audiovisual and sonic spaces that work with (dis)harmony […]

Jessica Ekomane

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 their physical impact, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic […]

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

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 […]

Damián Gorandi

Damián Gorandi 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 in Stefano Gervasoni’s class and at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (Strasbourg), electroacoustic music at the Hochschule für Musik […]

Hauptmeier|Recker

Hauptmeier|Recker Since 2009, composers Martin Recker (*1991) and Paul Hauptmeier (*1993) have worked together as an artist duo in the field of sound and multimedia art. They studied composition together with Robin Minard and Maximilian Marcoll at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music Weimar, as well as at the University of California San Diego with […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sébastien Branche

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 collective and non-hierarchical experiments, he has been a member of several collectives and is currently part […]

Passepartout Duo

Passepartout Duo Since 2015, Passepartout Duo have been developing their own polyphonic instruments, which control sound generation in novel ways — often through gestures. During their residency ahead of their concert as part of swim 2024, they connected their inventions with 3D audio for the first time, exploring ways to use space itself as a […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

dotserosix

dotserosix dotserosix are Tania Cortés and Oscar Bahamonde (Paris, France / Quito, Ecuador). Cortés is an interdisciplinary musician and composer, Bahamonde is a musician, multimedia artist, and lecturer. Since 2020, they have been jointly creating audiovisual experiential spaces in a minimalist, glitchy language of form, combining music, environmental sounds, and visual arts. They are constantly […]

Jacopo Cenni

Jacopo Cenn Jacopo Cenni (*1995) is a new media artist and composer from Siena, Italy. He often combines theatrical expression with sound art, focusing on exploring diverse forms of systemic interaction and interplay between elements. His works span sound theatre, electroacoustic composition, and data sonification, and have been presented at prestigious venues such as La […]

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 […]

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 […]

Quast

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 usually blends digital and analog techniques, such as 3D animation, drawings, sand, and digital collages. […]

Robert Normandeau

Robert Normandeau With Robert Normandeau, a true pioneer of immersive music is visiting ZiMMT:Normandeau (*1955 in Quebec, Canada) is an internationally renowned acousmatic composer and has been a professor of electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal for over twenty years. In 2009, together with his research group GRIS (Research Group in Spatial Immersion), he […]

Perila

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 our bodies. One of her main research questions is how music can evoke emotions throughout […]

Rashad Becker

Rashad Becker Rashad Becker’s music has been described as “a tear in the fabric of reality.” A significant part of his work consists of electronic narratives of fictional worlds, where no dominant aesthetic ideas exist, but instead endless sonic diversity—such as the cycle Traditional Music of Notional Species. Other works, like the sound staging of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Portrait XO

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 Portrait XO (she/they) is a project by producer, singer, and songwriter Rania Kim, exploring collaboration between […]

Mariam Gviniashvili

Mariam Gviniashvili In the first half of the concert, Mariam Gviniashvili presents her electroacoustic compositions from the past two years in a seamless, flowing multichannel performance. The second half features the German premiere of the audiovisual work RUINS, where multichannel composition and visuals merge. Gviniashvili found inspiration for the piece in the ruins of Soviet […]

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 […]

Michael Akstaller

Michael Akstaller Michael Akstaller (b. 1992) studied Fine Arts, Media Theory, and Engineering. In 2017, together with Jan St. Werner, he initiated the Class for Dynamic Acoustic Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, which has operated as an independent collective since 2021. He has collaborated with artists such as Alexandra Pirici (Terraform, 2020), […]

Viola Yip

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 physicality into electronic music. Her recent performances have taken place at venues including the Hong Kong […]