Panel Discussion: Audio architectures, transposed environments and multi-dimensional musics

TBA21 Sound Space. Spatial Music | Symposium


12/2/2012 at the ZKM_Lecture Hall
Panel of experts with presentations and concluding panel
discussion.
Participants: Prof. Tony Myatt (Chairman), Dr. Peter Zinovieff,
Dr. Cevdet Erek, Dr. Paul Modler


The TB-A21 Spatial Music Symposium will focus on new spatial
audio composition and technologies, based around the “TBA21 Sound
Space” installation.


The event will bring together researchers in surround sound
technologies, composers and sound artists, to present and discuss
the new potentials of contemporary spatial sound and music.


The Spatial Music Symposium will culminate in a concert programme
featuring a new work by Jana Winderen, winner of the 2011 ARS
Electronica Golden Nica for Digital Musics, live performances and
two world premieres of new spatial sound works commissioned for
the unique TBA21 Sound Space by pioneer of electronic music Peter
Zinovieff, and Istanbul based conceptual artist and musician
Cevdet Erek.


TBA21 Sound Space


The TBA21 Sound Space is a project commissioned by
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary to bring to a larger audience
the unique series of spatial compositions that were produced for
The Morning Line. Saturated with over fifty speakers, The TBA21
SoundSpace uses a unique interactive multi-spatial sound system,
conceived by Tony Myatt, Professor of Sound at the University of
Surrey, UK.


The novel spatialization software, which suggested a new form of
music written especially for The Morning Line, has now been
extended to be reproduced in the TBA21 Sound Space, the first of
which has been developed in the context of Peter Weibel’s
landmark exhibition Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art at ZKM
Karlsruhe.


To celebrate the evolution of the medium, TBA21 has put on loan
its sound archive of nearly 30 experimental sound compositions,
which were commissioned over the last 4 years from an
international group of composers, whose work lies beyond the
boundaries and the programming of traditional concert halls. The
existing archive of music and soundscapes have been reconfigured
through a specially written software by Tony Myatt and his team
to recreate the Sound Space multispatial audio installation. This
has multiple surround sound fields, some adjacent to each other
and some nested inside each other in layers and provides an
experiential three-dimensional sound reproduction system, within
a larger scale spatial sound environment.