I was invited for Sonic Experiments, an artist-in-residence program at ZKM in Karlsruhe. This gave me the opportunity to dive into spatial sound and spatial composition strategies. During the residency I created a new piece “Patterns of Place” that was part of a concert in the Kubus of ZKM at December 5th 2024. In this Kubus you find a speaker dome with 43 speakers which creates an immersive experience of the sound.

The composition “Patterns of Place” is about feeling a place by the sounds that are around in combination with a more tactile experience or tangible reaction whilst listening to a sounding environment. To achieve this listening experience on the intersection of listening around and within I started with a recording of the architectural structure of ZKM. Using a Géofon by LOM Label, I recorded the people and the resonances of the foyer through the metal construction of the building. I combined this recording with sounds I recorded in the Willem Twee Studios earlier. With a combination of the site specific sounds and the synthesised sounds I started sculpting and recreating place. A sonic architecture that shifts, crawls, pulses and soothes.

A binaural recording of this piece will be published later.

CREDITS

Dominik Kautz (Curator & project manager)
Götz Dipper (Guest artist mentor)
Laura Benetschik (Project management assistant)
Ben Miller (Sound director)
Manuel Urrutia (Stage manager)
Bernd Lintermann (LiDAR motion detection technology)
Hans Gass & Alexander Hauk (Light- & stage technician)

Special thanks to Dr. Lea Luka Sikau for her feedback and inspiring thoughts. Thanks to Ludger Brümmer and Götz Dipper for the listening sessions in the speaker dome and for sharing their thoughts and experiences on spatial listening and composition.

Artists of the Sonic Experiments 2024:
Lam Lai, Marieke van de Ven, Beatriz Vaca “Narcoleptica”, Ben Fawkes, M LORE, Maximilian Pellizzari.

This year, »Culture Moves Europe« awarded five grant receivers with scholarships. Funded by the EU’s »Creative Europe«-program, »Culture Moves Europe« is implemented by the Goethe-Institute.

Ben Fawke’s scholarship is fully funded by ZKM | Karlsruhe with no additional funding from the European Union and is not part of »Culture Moves Europe«.

Maximilian Pellizzari’s project is co-funded by Autonome Provinz Bozen – Südtirol, Deutsche Kultur.