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The ZKM Klangdom

Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Joachim Goß man, and Ludger Brümmer

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The Klangdom is an audio spatialization instrument developed at the Institut für Musik und Akustik at the ZKM. It is made up of 39 Meyer Sound loudspeakers hung on four sliding tracks, allowing for easy re-configuration of the speaker setup. The audience sits inside the Klangdom, which can be controlled either directly via a mixer, by externally developed software, or by a sequencer for sound movement, Zirkonium, developed at the ZKM. Zirkonium can accept and spatialize audio generated by other applications (even on remote machines) and can simulate the Klangdom over alternate speaker setups to aid composition and dissemination (e.g., in stereo or 5.1).

Citation

Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Joachim Goß man, and Ludger Brümmer. 2006. The ZKM Klangdom. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176991 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2006_Ramakrishnan,
author = {Ramakrishnan, Chandrasekhar and Goß man, Joachim and Brümmer, Ludger},
title = {The ZKM Klangdom},
pages = {140--143},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2006},
address = {Paris, France},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176991},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2006/nime2006_140.pdf},
keywords = {Sound Spatialization, Ambisonics, Vector Based Additive Panning (VBAP), Wave Field Synthesis, Acousmatic Music },
abstract = {The Klangdom is an audio spatialization instrument developed at the Institut für Musik und Akustik at the ZKM. It is made up of 39 Meyer Sound loudspeakers hung on four sliding tracks, allowing for easy re-configuration of the speaker setup. The audience sits inside the Klangdom, which can be controlled either directly via a mixer, by externally developed software, or by a sequencer for sound movement, Zirkonium, developed at the ZKM. Zirkonium can accept and spatialize audio generated by other applications (even on remote machines) and can simulate the Klangdom over alternate speaker setups to aid composition and dissemination (e.g., in stereo or 5.1).}
}