spæs - lab for spatial aesthetics in sound Berlin

14/05/2024

For, Before, And After Silence: new website https://www.gksh.net/.

Over the past three years, I have dedicated myself to establishing spæs Lab Berlin (www.spaes.org) as a community and opportunity for you and others to engage in artistic spatial utopia at Funkhaus Berlin. This initiative stemmed from discussions and exchanges, particularly during the lockdown, prompting questions about the essence of future media art, sound art, and music in light of the conditions of our communities and economies.

As a result of this introspective process, I have decided to reassess my own work and contemplate how I can contribute to the current state of affairs with the knowledge I possess. I am deeply moved by the developments at spæs Lab Berlin, and if you are receiving this email, you likely have been involved in the ideas, planning, organization, or mindsets that supported this endeavour during these challenging times, without relying on institutional backing.
The lab is now established and has formed a community so that I can concentrate more on my own artistic work again.

During this period of reflection, introspection, and contemplative silence, I have thoroughly revisited my personal archive of compositions, installations, and publications spanning the past 20 years.
You can explore this collection here: www.gksh.net (old and new address, featuring a reconfigured website).
If you are in Berlin, please feel free to reach out to spæs Lab if you wish to visit, develop your utopian visions, seek exchange, or simply peruse a book from our library.

I extend my heartfelt gratitude for all your contributions, friendship, and support.
The continued possibility of our work is owed to the atmosphere we have cultivated and will endeavour to sustain for as long as possible.

Gerriet Krishna Sharma

architecture music

16/08/2023

LAB CO-FOUNDER GERRIET K. SHARMA APPOINTED AS GUEST PROFESSOR FOR EXPERIMENTAL SOUND AND SPACE

spæs lab co-founder Gerriet K. Sharma was appointed for the second time as guest professor for experimental sound and space at HfG Karlsruhe in the summer term of 2023. The research field was "Sound as a Mediatized Representation of Space — Studies, Research, and Strategies in X-Realities."

The students explored forms, architectures, conditions, modes, and transfers of acoustic perception in medial spaces by focusing on the recent developments in the production of space(s) and perceptual worlds through innovation in art, design, and VR technologies. Following up on the last semester's questions and experiences with virtual sound environments, this semester's artistic research was focused on sound installations and acoustic interventions in public spaces.

The course was completed at the HfG "Rundgang" with a concert at ZKM/KUBUS. The sound installations will be shown in several solo exhibitions in the spring of 2024.

09/08/2023

INTRODUCING: GAIA HEICHAL CURRENTLY INTERNING @ spæs LAB FOR SPATIAL AESTHETICS IN SOUND BERLIN

Gaïa Heichal is an NL-based sound artist and an experienced sound engineer. Their focus is mainly on electronic instrument and interface design alongside site-specific sound installations using multichannel sound systems. They perform under the alias ‘birthed’—maximalist ambiance laced with black metal influences and shrouded texts. Unveiling fragility within the confines of the harsher edges of electronic music.

02/08/2023

INTRODUCING: MIKO SZATKO CURRENTLY INTERNING @ spæs LAB FOR SPATIAL AESTHETICS IN SOUND BERLIN

Miko Szatko is a Glasgow-based electronic musician, artist, and DJ, also known as . He got his MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and has worked extensively within the club scenes of New York, Krakow, and Glasgow. In his performances and compositions, he creates environments that defragment language and speech of disembodied sampled, artificial, and cloned voices, critically employing modular processing and various DJ tropes. He performed internationally in the US, the UK, Denmark, Poland, and Germany, and he composed for film and theatre.

27/07/2023

INTRODUCING: MÁRI MÁKÓ CURRENTLY INTERNING @ spæs LAB FOR SPATIAL AESTHETICS IN SOUND BERLIN

Throughout this summer, the interns at spæs have been engaging in inspiring experiments. Mári Mákó is a sound artist and composer based in Rotterdam-Berlin. She creates her own instruments to produce unique and unconventional sounds in her compositions. Her work has been described as avant-garde electronic and post-club, characterized by a controlled yet abstract complexity in her music. These practices are informed by her research interests, which include the ecology of listening, experimental notations, interactive designs, and conducting processes. Currently, she is doing her Doctor of Liberal Arts program at MOME, Budapest, and doing residencies between Rotterdam-Berlin.

XP

15/07/2023

FINAL CALL TODAY: FREE SPATIAL AUDIO COACHING / MENTORING / WORKSHOP

Apply today for free spatial audio coaching and mentoring provided by spæs lab in Berlin, ZiMMT in Leipzig, or MediaApes in Neustadt.

Apply now; the open call is closing today:

https://spatialaudionetwork.de/open-call/

Good luck!

Zimmt
MediaApes
spæs - lab for spatial aesthetics in sound

21/06/2023

OPEN CALL: SPATIAL AUDIO MENTORING & WORKSHOP PROGRAM

We are pleased to announce the commencement of the 2nd round of the Spatial Audio Mentoring & Workshop Program.

This opportunity is open to both individuals and organizations, musicians, venues, labels, and booking agencies, and with concrete projects in the fields of jazz and pop.

Initiated through the Spatial Audio Network Germany in collaboration with .i.m.m.t , , and , the program offers individual mentoring and workshop sessions to propel the spatial audio dimension in your project.

We are looking forward to receiving your application until July 15th, 2023!

02/05/2023

spæs lab Berlin is cooperating with XP from Paris

spæs lab is constantly trying to bridge the practical affordances of 3D technology and the discourse around the consequences of utilizing these tools.

Therefore, we decided to cooperate with one of the most interesting and maybe soon most influential software developers in the 3D audio field: Eric Fraction Raynaud from XP Paris has changed the game by developing and publishing XP for Live.

Since 2011 Gerriet K. Sharma, while composing for IKO, has been using the “Kronlachner-Plugins” provided and maintained by Matthias Kronlachner until today. Back then, the plugins were summarising years of IEM knowledge on spatial audio. Within the OSIL project, the plugins were integrated into the research and compositional process working with IKO and utilized with the REAPER DAW. The idea was, from the beginning, to make IKO available for different backgrounds, e.g., architecture, music, sound art, performance, theatre, and sound scenography. Thus, the software for producing and steering the beams shall be free of charge and easy to learn for practitioners from all kinds of disciplines. Of course, one can easily use the plugins within MAX/MSP, PD, or SuperCollider. In 2021 IRCAM’s Spat integrated several IKO applications.

Since 2022 Eric Raynaud (aka fraction) and Gerriet K. Sharma have been working on a “bridge” between XPforLive and IKO. They started to draft their first ideas during Eric’s residency at spæs Lab Berlin, continuing their collaboration since then. Based on Gerriet’s experiences from the past 12 years with IKO compositions and performances and Eric’s rare programming skills, in January 2023, they agreed on the prototype at a joint residency at Callie’s Berlin. This application is in the beta-testing phase and is to be released in late 2023. This is a straight off-institutional collaboration to open up the possibilities of IKO to as many spatial sound practitioners and theorists as possible.

20/04/2023

APPLY NOW: TWO SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FUNDED MICRO RESIDENCY

We have two funded spots available for our spæs micro residency in Berlin. The program is designed to propel artistic research, experimentation, and the creation of ideas and methods that revolve around the spatial aesthetics of sound. The residency is open to artists, designers, practitioners, engineers, scholars, and researchers from all disciplines whose work intersects with sound and space, including but not limited to , , , , , , , and .

Contributing to the diverse emerging body of shared knowledge is at the heart of the spæs residency program. Emphasizing the creative process and experience over any final outcome, we encourage residents to reflect, document, and share their discoveries or newly arisen questions in some way.

Don't miss this opportunity to explore the topic of spatial aesthetics in sound with us in Berlin. Submit your application by May 1st, 2023, to be considered for the 2023-24 season. For more information and to apply, visit https://spaes.org/residency.

This residency program is made possible in collaboration with TAUCHER Sound Scenography, MNTN, and IKO weave.

13/04/2023

LAUNCHING TODAY: WWW.IKOWEAVE.COM

Are you interested in the latest innovations in spatial audio technology? At spæs lab Berlin, we're exploring the potential of the IKO, a powerful spatial sound instrument with a rich history and development. We've created a new forum called IKO weave to share our knowledge and insights.

This platform is open to artists, designers, architects, and scientists working with the IKO or planning to do so. We invite everyone to contribute their ideas, projects, and experiences to this community.

Visit www.IKOweave.com, and you'll find a growing wealth of information about this unique spatial sound projector and its related products and processes. Our goal is to advance theoretical and artistic approaches for the composition of sound as space. We believe this forum will be invaluable for anyone interested in sound projection.

Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting, we welcome you to join our community and explore the possibilities of spatial audio. Visit www.IKOweave.com and subscribe to the newsletter to keep tuned!

20/03/2023

OPEN CALL: SPAES RESIDENCY

The spæs residency propels the artistic research, experimentation, and creation of ideas and methods that revolve around the spatial aesthetics of sound.

Artists, designers, practitioners, engineers, scholars, and researchers from all disciplines, including (but not limited to) , , , , , , , and , whose work intersects with sound and space, are invited to apply for the spæs residency in Berlin.

Contributing to the diverse emerging body of shared knowledge is at the heart of the spæs residency program; we encourage residents to emphasize the creative process and experience over any final outcome. We also welcome residents to reflect, document, and share their discoveries or newly arisen questions in some way.

topic: spatial aesthetics in sound
type: standard or micro residency (paid)
funding: we are providing scholarships for two micro residencies
location: Berlin, Germany
submission deadline: May 1st, 2023

Submit your application by the 1st of May to be considered for the 2023-24 season.

More information & application via:
https://spaes.org/residency

In collaboration with TAUCHER, MNTN, and IKO weave.
TAUCHER Sound Scenography

Link also in our bio 🔗

22/02/2023

LISTENING SESSION: FEBRUARY 27

Join us for our next listening session at the spatial audio loft Berlin! This time, we've again prepared a delicious program featuring a selection of spatial audio compositions from different styles and epochs.

Details:
Date: Monday, 27 FEB 2023
Time: 06:00 PM
Location:
https://spatialaudioloft.com/
https://goo.gl/maps/UpZPAjaPt49rtgyY9

Only 6 seats are available this time, so be quick and send us an email for a binding reservation via: https://spaes.org/contact

15/02/2023

TODAY: FINAL CALL FOR FREE SPATIAL AUDIO WORKSHOP & MENTORING

Today is the last day to submit your application for the SANG spatial audio mentoring & workshop program. It's free of charge for you and includes individual coaching and training online or at one of the program partners' 3D audio studios in Berlin, Leipzig, and Neustadt an der Weinstraße.

The application is a very quick and simple process, so no worries about last-minute submissions:

https://spatialaudionetwork.de/

Good luck!

03/02/2023

OPEN CALL: SANG MENTORING & WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Together with our partners from .i.m.m.t and we are launching the first OPEN CALL for our Spatial Audio Mentoring & Workshop Program. Musicians from the jazz and pop scene, venues, labels, and booking agencies can apply now with their project proposals. We are looking forward to your applications!

Gemeinsam mit unseren Partnern von .i.m.m.t und den launchen wir heute den ersten OPEN CALL für unser Spatial Audio Mentoring & Workshop Programm. Bewerben können sich ab sofort Musiker:innen aus dem Jazz und Pop Bereich, Venues, Labels und Booking Agenturen mit konkreten Vorhaben. Wir freuen uns auf eure Bewerbungen!

The call is open until 15 FEB 2023.

https://spatialaudionetwork.de/

31/01/2023

What is spatial audio? Immersive, realistic, virtual, authentic, reproduction, recreation, creation, simulation, ... With all the different concepts surrounding the term, understanding the nature of spatial audio can be confusing. Lab founding partner Johannes Scherzer interviewed one of the most recognized experts in the field today. Read the full conversation about spatial audio, what it means, and how we can think about it:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-spatial-audio-in-depth-conversation-ann-one-most-scherzer

Immersive, realistic, virtual, authentic, reproduction, recreation, creation, simulation, ..

19/01/2023

OPEN CALL: SONIC SPACES 2023

As part of its artist-in-residence program, the ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe | Hertz-Labor awards five grants to composers with a focus on electronic music and sound art. Applications are open for the three topics Live Coding, Artificial Intelligence, and Akusmatik and Spatialization for multi-channel acoustic or audiovisual fixed-media works that use spatialization as a design tool and are conceived for performance in the ZKM_Klangdom.

Application deadline: 29.01.2023

All information here:
https://zkm.de/en/open-call-sonic-spaces-2023

Research, production, exhibition: The ZKM dedicates itself to contemporary developments within art and society in all media formats and systems.

17/01/2023

EXPERIENCING SPATIALITY IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Doing a piece "in spatial" means exploring a new field for many artists. New spatial audio tools, instruments, and possibilities require going beyond the stereo way of thinking, creating, and listening. Johannes Scherzer, sound scenographer and founding partner of spæs - lab for spatial aesthetics in sound Berlin and TAUCHER Sound Scenography, has published a text that deals with the experience of spatiality in electronic music. He spent a weekend in late November at MONOM analyzing the spatial phenomena within the installations and performances presented on a 4DSOUND system. The SPATIAL festival featured about 40 pieces, and almost every single one revealed interesting aspects of the use of spatiality.

Read the article here:
https://lnkd.in/ej5-ajwf

Earth. Berlin.

16/01/2023

OPEN CALL: Spatial Audio Network Germany (SANG)

Together with our partners from Zimmt and MediaApes we are launching the first OPEN CALL for our Spatial Audio Mentoring & Workshop Program today. Musicians from the jazz and pop scene, venues, labels, and booking agencies can apply now with their project proposals. We are looking forward to your applications!

http://spatialaudionetwork.de/en/english/

Gemeinsam mit unseren Partnern von Zimmt und den MediaApes launchen wir heute den ersten OPEN CALL für unser Spatial Audio Mentoring & Workshop Programm. Bewerben können sich ab sofort Musiker:innen aus dem Jazz und Pop Bereich, Venues, Labels und Booking Agenturen mit konkreten Vorhaben. Wir freuen uns auf eure Bewerbungen!

http://spatialaudionetwork.de/

13/01/2023

CALL FOR SPATIAL AUDIO WORKSHOP & CONCERT

There is an open call for artists who wish to develop their sound practice through spatialization and immersive audio techniques, such as ambisonics in the unique setting of the 40+ loudspeaker sound system of the Sonic Lab at SARC.

ISSTA is partnering with the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast to present a two-day spatial audio workshop and concert program in March 2023 for composers, sound artists, and performers.

Artists will then have the opportunity to present their work at a public concert in the Sonic Lab (9 March) as part of the SARC’s weekly lunchtime concert series.

The deadline for submissions is on 17th January 2023.

You can apply here:

http://issta.ie/spatial2023/?fbclid=IwAR2GRivRA1NGAzB4yDYSVQ41iR_WEU9mFnfZ-8EvtnQJMqz1ZoBONbh-x3U

Irish Sound, Science & Technology Association Sonic Arts Research Centre

Call for Spatial Audio Workshop & Concert in 2023 OPEN CALL for Artists to participate in Spatial Audio Workshop and Concert at SARC 8 & 9 March 2023 ISSTA is delighted to partner with the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast to present a two-day spatial audio workshop a...

01/01/2023

AR SOUNDSCAPES "LIQUID ARCHITECTURE I. - X." NEW YEAR'S RELEASE ON ODIO APP

The new soundscape "supravoid" is concluding an intense research period at spaes lab and the final environment of the series.

"liquid architectures I. - X." is the result of our collaboration with since 2021. The binaural and head-tracked soundscapes were created by the spæs members Niklas Kluegel, Benjamin Mueller, and Gerriet K. Sharma.

With "liquid architectures I. - X." we explore malleable poetic sound models to study the experience and different aspects of artificial spaces as part of everyday life. The series comprises ten different but interlinked approaches.

I. agora
II. caryatid
III. arcade

IV. lore
V. shelter
VI. beacon

VII. argo
VIII. soma
IX. array

X. supravoid

"liquid architectures I. - X." is available exclusively on the soundscape app, which you can get here:

https://odio.app/



Volst: https://volst.studio/
spæs: www.spaes.org

10/12/2022

NEW BOOK: KINETICS IN SOUND & SPACE

In the 2022 publication "Kinetics in Sound & Space", lab co-founder Gerriet K. Sharma contributed a chapter on the relevance of artistic research in spatial audio. He describes various approaches to interdisciplinary research on spatial aesthetics in sound while emphasizing the artistic and phenomenological perspectives as both essential and complementary to the scientific and engineering perspectives in spatial audio. Rather than just re-arranging existing concepts ("flying snares, circling sirens"), Gerriet K. Sharma argues for exploring new aesthetic territories unique to specific media. And he highlights the importance of making accessible spatial audio technologies, spaces, and research facilities to artists and designers of any discipline concerned with sonic space.

The book results from the research project KiSS – Kinetics in Sound & Space: This acronym stands for the colloquium established in 2019 by the partner universities HfMT Hamburg and HAW Hamburg. The authors illuminate the broadly conceived complex of topics from different disciplines in the sense of transdisciplinarity. Artistic and scientific disciplines enter into critical discourse with and among each other around ‹Kinetics in Sound & Space› and thus lay the foundation for this broadly based volume.

KiSS — Kinetics in Sound & Space, Thomas Görne, Georg Hajdu, Benjamin Helmer, Jacob Richter (eds.), 2022, wolke verlag

Langauge: Deutsch and English
224 S., pb., € 26.–, 978-3-95593-132-2

Foreword, contents & online order:
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/thomas-goerne-kiss-kinetics-in-sound/

Free download available: August 2023

05/12/2022

WATCH THE KEYNOTE: "Surrounded by Immersion: Spatial Audio - from the 17th century beyond the age of Metaverse"

// Lab founder Gerriet K. Sharma gave a keynote about immersion in the context of spatial audio. You can now watch the keynote here:

https://youtu.be/UEXgW1sdQgA

At the end of the video, also the IKO performance is documented: https://youtu.be/UEXgW1sdQgA?t=1727

28/11/2022

OPENING: "SONIC ARCHITECTURE" @ ATMOKY's 3D AUDIO DOME ONLINE // A series of four studies that explore artistically various ideas of 'sound as space'.

Since January 2022, spaes Lab Berlin was working with their friends and partners from on the concept of exploring 's Hyper-Realistic Spatial Audio artistically.

atmoky was short-listed this year as one of the most promising companies working on the future of the Metaverse. 3D Audio will play an important role in "virtual" environments and Atmoky with years of experience in the field is holding a key with their approach.

lab Berlin has developed four musical environment studies for the dome to challenge the status quo and create spaces that can be individually explored and experienced.

Klick here and enter:
https://experience.atmoky.com/artist/gksh




https://atmoky.com/
https://experience.atmoky.com/
https://spaes.org/

25/11/2022

STARTING TODAY: FESTIVAL FOR SPATIAL SOUND, ART, MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY

Our friends from Monom have put together a very interesting program with sound installations and live performances that will be presented at Monom studios this weekend, starting today.

You can find the complete program here:
https://www.monomsound.com/program-1

In case you want to meet spæs, lab founder Johannes is joining the festival.

MONOM

24/11/2022

SOUND AS MEDIUM FOR STAGING SPACE: LAB FOUNDER GERRIET K. SHARMA AS GUEST PROFESSOR @ HFG KARLSRUHE

Last week, lab founder Gerriet K. Sharma has started his on as for at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. The seminar explores forms, architectures, conditions, modes, and transfers of acoustic in media spaces.

Particular attention will be paid to changes in the production of spaces and perceptual worlds through innovation in and , as well as technological developments in virtual reality , to challenge common assumptions about "natural," "augmented," and "virtual" realities, and to consider what, for example, a "supernatural" reality (SNR) might be if we acknowledge that different forms of world-making interpenetrate as "combined universes" (Cristofol).

This leads to the following research questions: What can we learn from the in-between spaces and tensions between the different modes of reality production and their inherent technical logics? How can we perceive these spaces of different realities together, and how can we communicate these experiences to each other? What approaches do sound art and artistic and design-based provide for these endeavors?

The seminar will involve practice-oriented on sound works and the development of artistic concepts. The students will present the results in a final public at the end of the semester.

HfG Karlsruhe Gerriet K. Sharma

07/11/2022

KEYNOTE & CONCERT: GERRIET K. SHARMA AT HYBRID LAB AT Most Wanted: Music 2022 IN BERLIN

Lab founder Gerriet K. Sharma will perform a concert with the IKO sound projector at the Most Wanted: Music convention in Berlin. He will also give a keynote about immersion in the context of spatial audio:

"Surrounded by Immersion: Spatial Audio - from the 17th century beyond the age of Metaverse"

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM · 45 min. (Europe/Berlin)
Kesselhaus, Kulturbrauerei

https://mostwantedmusic.app.swapcard.com/widget/event/mwm22/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfMTA0NTIzNg==

04/11/2022

Judy Dunaway at Errant Sound Berlin -

Tonight the multi-channel installation "Chamber Ensemble (for Balloons)" by Judy Dunaway will be opened at Errant Sound Berlin. spaes Lab's Gerriet K. Sharma
was honoured to support the setup during this week and will interview Judy in the artist's talk.

Opening: Fr 4/11/2022 18h30

Artist Talk: Fr 4/11/2022 19h30 (Judy Dunaway interviewed by Gerriet K. Sharma)

Errant Sound, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin

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Exhibition times:

Sa 5/11/ and So 6/11/

15h00-20h00

Fr 11/11 – So 13/11

15h00-20h00


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