Wednesday 9 p.m. : CONCERT — TIBSLC

TIBSLC (The International Billionaire’s Secret Love Child) is a composer and artist based in Leipzig. His work is established on situation based composition. Embracing the hypersensitivity towards small movements, huge spaces and ambiguous emotions through the exploration of micro-rhythmic dynamics. 

Hypertranslucent:

The spatial audio live performance “Hypertranslucent” is an abstraction of the album “Delusive Tongue Shifts / Situation Based Composition”, which will be released on Sferic in May 2021.

Simple melodic themes that merge into clear spatial movements are torn up and disintegrate into micro-rhythmic structures. Fieldrecordings and analog synthesis form blurred clusters of emotions and lose themselves in the foam of their own shape. Between swelling crescendos and cautious whispers, the spatial image arches, widens and narrows. An attempt to sketch various unknown and imaginative places using the method of situation-based composition.

Thursday 6 p.m. :  TALK — Claudia Schwarz: MusicTech Germany, german.innovation & Music Women Germany

Strategic Tech Advisor & Project Manager with a focus on MusicTech and other Creative Technologies, Co-founder and VP of MusicTech Germany, co-founder of Creative Tech Innovation Catalyst WickedWork, co-founder and Board member of Music Women Germany, Claudia is furthermore dedicated to the promotion of diversity and inclusivity within the Creative Industries, particularly of Women in Music & Technology.

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→Music Women Germany 

Nikhil Nagaraj (°1990, Bangalore) is a sound designer, engineer and musician. His interest

explores the amalgamation between electronic and acoustic music, combining traditional Indian music styles with contemporary classical and electronic concepts i n his compositions and transformations with spatial sound to create immersive experiences through the use of sensors and 3D soundscapes.

3D sound in experimental performances

A short journey about my role as a sound designer in the experimental performance industry using 3D to create hallucinating experiences with sound in various sometimes non traditional spaces.

Donnerstag 19:45 : TALK — Victor Mazon: Absence ⋅ Presence ⋅ Sound

Absence · Presence · Sound ~ Listening with the Universal Unconsciousness addresses an investigation into the vibrational world, exploring the sensory experiences of elements vibrating in material and the æther. The project adapts an approach of expanded listening that refers to the varied ways in which how geogenic and anthropogenic sounds juxtaposes in space.

In the context of this presentation, we will tune into an expanded listening beyond the already audible, to include inaudible vibrational phenomena though self design electronics, custom software and field actions.

Mazon Gardoqui´s work exposes the unheard and unseen, addressing the inaccessible and experiencing vulnerability and awareness on the viewer. Perception and altered states are key concepts on his performances through the use of sound or light. His work materializes in three main fields: actions or site-specific performances through experimental processes, exhibitions as consequences of previous actions and collaborative works through seminars to form a communal dialog.

Fiday 8 p.m. : CONCERT — Elisa Batti (NL)

Elisa about her Performance :

“In order to talk about this composition I have first to talk about the way I usually conceive a piece:

I always think about the music when composing it, as it is a landscape, a scenographic set, where I develop a story. The content is always quite evocative and depictive and follows a path where I unravel my narrative.

In this piece I first created a very poetic and droney soundscape that slowly develops into a more rhythmical journey and ends up reminding a club atmosphere.”

Elisa Batti is a sound designer, producer and DJ based in Amsterdam. 

In her projects she always  likes to push and expand the boundaries of contemporary music to the limits, trying to assemble it into multidisciplinary projects.

Saturday 2-4 p.m. : WORKSHOP — Mazetools Stephan Kloß

The Mazetools project was started in 2013 by Stephan Kloß and his long-time colleague Jakob Gruhl with experiments on audiovisual music applications with innovative forms of interactivity.

With the release of the first app for mobile and desktop devices in 2017, Mazetools became a software core with a dsp-based audio engine, as well as a visual and UI engine compiled in Unity 3D. Nevertheless, Mazetools takes a subjective approach to create a combination of generative design and loop/pattern-based composition in real time.

The workshop gives a behind-the-scenes look at the development and insight of the dialogue of musical practice, AV performance and multimedia installation, and beat sketching on cell phones.

Saturday 5-7 p.m. : WORKSHOP — Practical Introduction to working with 3D Audio by Jason Langheim

The workshop “Practical introduction to 3D Audio” is intended to give the participants an introduction to practical work with 3D audio and especially working with Ambisonics. What you need: Reaper, the IEM plug-in suite and basic knowledge of digital sound processing. After a short theoretical introduction to spatial hearing, we will deal specifically with the use of 3D audio in your productions. Since not everyone has a 3D sound system at home, a special focus is placed on the use of binaural renderings.

· limited number of participants

· Registartion: info@zimmt.net

· Donation 5-15 €

Saturday 8 p.m. : CONCERT — Hauptmeier|Recker

Since 2009 the composers Martin Recker (1991) and Paul Hauptmeier (1993) have been working together as an artist duo in the field of sound- and multimedia art. In addition to works for theater and opera, live electronics and electro-acoustic music, their focus lies on sound installations in public spaces. In these installations, they utilize multi-channel audio systems to create immersive experiential spaces in which social issues are negotiated and made accessible to a broad public.

microtranslations # 3 is the third in a series of pieces in which the duo deals with the transformation processes of field recordings. In this improvisation, developed for online streaming, an ensemble of microphones and loudspeakers becomes the musician's instrument. The performance is similar to a live-fieldrecording, in which the listener slips into the microphones perspective and experiences a spatial microcosm, that can only be experienced through headphones and in the format of an online concert.

Saturday 9 p.m. : Concert — Natasha Barrett

Natasha Barrett (NO/UK) composes and performs acousmatic and live electroacoustic concert works, sound-art, installations and interactive music. Her inspiration comes from the natural and social world around us: the way it sounds and behaves, systems, processes and resulting phenomena. These interests have led her into worlds of cutting-edge audio technologies and some exciting collaborations with soloists, chamber ensembles, visual artists, architects and scientists.

Electro Dream Space #2: a transformation of the world and the way it behaves.

This concert is formed by three compositions. The pieces are acousmatic - there is nothing to see and they can be listened to as musical journeys. But the journeys are neither narrative nor totally abstract. Rather they aim to entice you into their flow for a personal discovery. Although we cannot be present in the concert space of ZiMMT, I can however transport you there by performing the pieces inside a virtual ZiMMT – an emulation of the space with you as the exclusive listener in the perfect seat. The three compositions are:

· The Weathered Piano - quattuor tempora anni (2019)

· Talking Trees (2020)

· Involuntary Expression (2017)