Mentoring and Workshop Program
Mentoring and Workshop Program
For musicians, booking agencies, venues and labels, the SANG offers a total of 18 consultations of 3 units each, which are intended to support the entry into Spatial Audio. The coaching sessions are offered by active composers, producers, promoters and technical experts of ZiMMT e.V., Spaes and MediaApes GmbH and can be attended in the production facilities and studios in Berlin, Leipzig and Neustadt as well as remotely via video call. The available expertise from various fields makes it possible to tailor the consultations precisely to the needs of the inquiries and to select suitable consultants.
The consulting program offers technical insights and an introduction to 3D audio technologies, hardware and software. Practice-oriented training phases in professional 3D audio production studios offer first hands-on experience and listening experiences on high-quality multi-channel studio monitor systems with professional support.
Participants in the 2023 Mentoring and Workshop Program
Kristaps Pukitis
Kristaps Pukitis has been involved in the Latvian music and art scene for over 20 years and is well connected in Baltic music culture: he managed the venue Dirty Deal Café in Riga, organized releases and produced music himself in his studio. In mentoring he is working on a mobile Ambisonics setup for touring with 3D Audio.
Henrik Rohde
Henrik Rohde is a musician and sound artist living in Leipzig and Berlin. His work includes electroacoustic compositions, band shows and performative live sets. He creates multi-layered soundscapes from field recordings, digital synthesizers and other electronic instruments. For his debut album “nowadays” he intensively explored the possibilities of mobile production, also during the mentoring at ZiMMT. The result is 7 site-specific compositions consisting of seemingly random sounds and moments of daily life.
Antje Meichsner
Antje Meichsner is a Dresden-based audiovisual artist, visiting ZiMMT for the mentoring program: She transfers her noise-related ambient sound design and composition work into the three-dimensional listening space. Doing so, she questions the means of 3D audio and its immersive effect on what it tells.
Leo Richter
Leo Richter is 26 years old and currently writing his master’s thesis at the Technical University of Deggendorf. He has been producing music privately for 8 years and works at Fraunhofer IIS. His special interests are mixing/mastering engineering, advertising agencies and the creation of sound content from the home studio.
X Lee
In the mentoring program, X Lee is developing an intuitive controller tool for 3D audio, specifically for live electronic performances, to integrate audio spatialization into very different concert setups and collaborations.
Miko Szatko
Miko Szatko, also known as TRSSX, is a Glasgow-based artist, DJ and electronic musician. He received his MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and has worked in the club scenes in New York, Krakow and Glasgow. His performances and compositions deconstruct the language of sampled, artificial and cloned voices and critically engage with modular processing and DJ techniques. Miko has performed internationally in the US, UK, Denmark, Poland and Germany and composed for film and theater.
HASHIA
HASHIA creates places through sound scenography, poetry, music and performance. Shey is inspired by dreamscapes, the occult, mythologies, ancient technologies and ancestors. Shey has participated in EPAS and participated in cross-cultural music residencies such as Nachtkultur / Нічна культура in Kiev and Cashmere Radio in Berlin. Shey lives in Berlin and hosts “d3vination” on Cashmere Radio.
Nils Baumbach
In my project I want to explore possibilities to transport productions in Dolby Atmos – which I create in my studio – into a 3D audio live context. The idea is to develop technical concepts for different projects – ranging from a twelve-piece ensemble to dance productions and AV shows – that can then be transferred to different settings and enable touring with these projects.
Philipp Rumsch
Philipp Rumsch – composer, sound designer and producer from Leipzig – explores ways to implement Dolby Atmos productions of his studio in a 3D audio live context. During mentoring sessions at ZiMMT he wants to develop technical concepts to enable concerts and tours for quite different projects: From a twelve-piece ensemble, to dance productions, to AV shows.
Jasmin Scheuermann
Jasmin Scheuermann is a musician and sound engineer specializing in immersive audio. After her training at the Paris Conservatory of Music (CNSMDP), she worked for 7 years as a sound engineer at the Paris Philharmonic. She has experience in the spatialization of sound and works on various projects in the field of immersive audio, including Ambisonics recordings, Dolby Atmos mixdowns, binaural concerts, sound systems and immersive installations. She is currently exploring the possibilities that immersive technologies offer in the composition of music.
Kristaps Pukitis
I have been working in the Latvian music and art scene for over 20 years. I was the head of Dirty Deal Cafe, organized artist releases and produced music in a small studio. Although I opened a studio in Liepaja in 2019, I had to close it in November 2022 due to rising rents. Now I am working on a mobile Ambisonics setup for touring and have a strong network in the Baltic music scene.
Henrik Rohde
Henrik Rohde is a musician and sound artist living in Leipzig and Berlin. His work includes electroacoustic compositions, band performances and performative live sets. He creates multi-layered soundscapes from field recordings, digital synthesizers and other electronic instruments. For his debut album “nowadays” he intensively explored the possibilities of mobile production. The result is 7 site-specific compositions consisting of seemingly random sounds and moments of everyday life.
Philipp Rumsch
In my project I want to explore possibilities to transport productions in Dolby Atmos – which I create in my studio – into a 3D audio live context. The idea is to develop technical concepts for different projects – ranging from a twelve-piece ensemble to dance productions and AV shows – that can then be transferred to different settings and enable touring with these projects.
Antje Meichsner
Antje Meichsner is an audiovisual artist living in Dresden. She transfers her noisy ambient sound design and composition work into the 3-dimensional listening space. In doing so, she questions the means of 3D audio and its immersive effect on what it tells.
Leo Richter
I’m Leo, 26 and I’m writing my master thesis at the Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences. I’ve been privately producing music in various styles for 8 years and have been working at Fraunhofer IIS for almost 2 years. My future is still open, but I’m interested in mixing/mastering engineering, advertising agencies and creating sound content out of my home studio.
X Lee
During this mentoring I focus on the development of a versatile and intuitive audio spatialization control system
specifically designed for live electronic performances. By placing the control interface at the forefront, I want to
enable performers to integrate audio spatialization in various setups and collaborative contexts.
Miko Szatko
Miko Szatko, also known as TRSSX, is a Glasgow-based artist, DJ and electronic musician. He received his MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and has worked in the club scenes in New York, Krakow and Glasgow. His performances and compositions deconstruct the language of sampled, artificial and cloned voices and critically engage with modular processing and DJ techniques. Miko has performed internationally in the US, UK, Denmark, Poland and Germany and composed for film and theater.
HASHIA
HASHIA creates places through sound scenography, poetry, music and performance. Shey is inspired by dreamscapes, the occult, mythologies, ancient technologies and ancestors. She has participated in EPAS and participated in cross-cultural music residencies such as Nachtkultur / Нічна культура in Kiev and Cashmere Radio in Berlin. Her work has been shown under various pseudonyms and includes performances at Liquid Architecture, Acud Theater, Kampnagel, Objekt Klein A, and Beursschouwburg. Shey lives in Berlin and hosts “d3vination” on Cashmere Radio.
Nils Baumbach
In my project I want to explore possibilities to transport productions in Dolby Atmos – which I create in my studio – into a 3D audio live context. The idea is to develop technical concepts for different projects – ranging from a twelve-piece ensemble to dance productions and AV shows – that can then be transferred to different settings and enable touring with these projects.
Jasmin Scheuermann
I am a musician and sound engineer specializing in immersive audio. After my training at the Paris Conservatory of Music (CNSMDP), I worked for 7 years as a sound engineer at the Paris Philharmonic. There I worked as a sound engineer, front-of-house, monitor and recording engineer. I have experience in spatialization of sounds and was involved in the development of an immersive audiovisual installation. I work on a variety of immersive audio projects including Ambisonics recordings, Dolby Atmos mixdowns, binaural concerts, sound systems, and immersive installations. I play piano, flute, drums, and sing. I am currently exploring the possibilities that immersive technologies offer in the composition of music.
Who are the Mentors
Who are the Mentors
Felix Deufel
Felix Deufel is a sound artist specialized in 3D audio recording, production and system design. In his artistic works and compositions he deals with sound in space, spatial listening and the value of soundscapes for humans and the environment. Deufel is the founder of Not a Number Studio and is currently working on the development of control software for 3D audio. As the initiator of ZiMMT, Felix is involved in coordination, management and curation, and finance.
Paul Hauptmeier
Paul Hauptmeier is a composer and sound artist. He lives in Leipzig and studied electroacoustic composition at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar and at the "University of California San Diego". Since 2009 he works together with Martin Recker as an artist duo in the field of composition, sound and multimedia art. Since October 2022, they have been working and teaching at the Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Art in Halle and the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre. Paul is a founding member of ZiMMT, where he researches spatial sound and organizes workshops, panels, concerts and exhibitions on the subject.
Martin Recker
Martin Recker has been working together with Paul Hauptmeier as an artist duo under the name "Hauptmeier | Recker" in the fields of composition, sound and multimedia art since 2009. He is significantly involved in the programming and curation work at ZiMMT and does important work for the technical support, documentation and conception of events and productions. He studied composition with Robin Minard at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar.
Johannes Scherzer
Johannes Scherzer is a sound scenographer, founding member of spæs, TAUCHER and MNTN. He studied sound at the Film University Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg and founded the Sound Scenography Studio TAUCHER for auditory communication and sound design in the context of exhibitions, brand spaces, immersive film, art and research. He developed the spatial audio technology MNTN The Sound of the Mountain with projects in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In 2021 he co-founded the spæs lab for spatial aesthetics in sound Berlin, gives workshops and teaches at various international universities and institutions.
Gerriet K. Sharma
Gerriet K. Sharma is a sound artist, composer and art researcher. He studied media art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and composition, sound installation & computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Sharma completed his PhD in "Composing with Sculptural Sound Phenomena in Computer Music" and was the lead artistic researcher in the project "Orchestrating Space by Icosahedral Loudspeaker". He has also taught as a DAAD-Edgard Varèse Visiting Professor at TU Berlin and has designed and taught workshops in collaboration with over 20 international organizations and institutions. He is also the founder of the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Spatial Aesthetics and Artificial Environments and the spæs lab for spatial aesthetics in sound Berlin.
Nûjîn Kartal
Nûjîn Kartal specializes in immersive technologies, productions and 3D audio recording. Various projects in fields such as sports, music, film and other industries helped him gain diverse experiences. With a background in Sociology, Philosophy and Sound & Musicproduction, he works as part of MediaApes on immersive installation audio concepts and productions (headphone 3D & 3D speaker systems like Auralite3D). His goal is to provide people with a borderless experience so that the experience itself is the focus, not the technology.
Sebastian Gsuck
Sebastian Gsuck is a company founder, futurist and specialist in the field of 3D audio and immersive experiences. He has experience as a sound engineer from various music studios and different fields and ran his own advertising agency. Co-founder of MediaApes GmbH. He manages and produces different artists and creates 3D audio concepts (headphones 3D & 3D speaker systems like Auralite3D). His passion is to shape new business models and products in different industries. He believes that the combination of different technologies and experts brings ideas to life.