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SPATIAL Festival returns this September, expanding across the rooms of the iconic Funkhaus to present over 60 pioneering artists through listening sessions, live performances, and art installations.

 

Originally conceived as the most sophisticated radio broadcasting center of its time, Funkhaus houses some of the world’s most acoustically refined spaces—from vast resonance chambers to massive recording studios.

 

For SPATIAL, MONOM reimagines these architectural landmarks for a new era, merging their acoustic design with advanced spatial sound technologies to create the optimum experience for communal listening.

 

The listening sessions and live performances are created bespoke using 4DSOUND, a holographic sound instrument developed over a decade of artistic and technical research.

Friday 12.09 - from 13:00 to 23:00

Saturday 13.09 - from 13:00 to 21:00

Saturday 13.09 - Richie Culver's Late Night Sessions (special ticket required)

Sunday 14.09 - from 13:00 to 23:00

Friday 12.09, Saturday 13.09, Sunday 14.09

12, 13, 14
September
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Sunday 14.09 - 20:05
Live - Saal 2
3Ω is a sonic liberation project by Paloma Angulo, Isabella Hauck, and Storm Hartley, fusing gongs and psychoacoustic electronic music to create immersive somatic experiences. Their mission is to transform resistance (Ω) into resonance, inviting audiences into the infinite essence of universal sound. Drawing from backgrounds in sound therapy, trauma-informed health care, audio engineering, breath work, hypnosis, and gong building, they offer a multidimensional approach to sound. 3Ω bridges the ancient art of the gong—rooted in metallurgy, tuning, and transcendence—with anti-structural noise practices, using sustained vibration and layered harmonics to restructure inner vibrational patterns and disrupt sensory conventions.

For the first time at Spatial Festival, 3Ω premieres a carefully attuned live experience centred on physioactive listening "TERRAHYMN (Breathwork Session)"—merging the vibrational potency of gongs, hypnosis, and Conscious Connected Breathwork to restructure internal rhythms and expand spatial awareness through 4DSOUND. Breath is a vital force that animates all life—expressed as tonality through complex human biorhythms and geologic movement. From the vast interiors of the Earth, breath is tectonic—exhaling into the abyssal oceanic trenches of the Hadal Zone, which maps the sonorous terrain of the composition. Developed in residency at MONOM, the session invites nervous system regulation, embodied coherence, and neurological entrainment to reveal hidden dimensions of the subconscious and access altered states.

Note on Contraindications: This session is not suitable for individuals with cardiovascular conditions, severe medical conditions, epilepsy, recent surgery, or heightened sensitivities—it should be approached with informed consent and self-awareness.

Produced by MONOM | Composition: 3Ω (Storm Hartley, Paloma Angulo, Isabella Hauck) | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | Curated by: Alessandra Denegri (MONOM LIMINAL)
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Abyss X
Abyss X
Saturday 13.09 - 17:25
Listening Session - Monom Studio
Evangelia VS aka Abyss X is an artist, composer, director, choreographer, and DJ from Crete with a background in computer science, performing arts, and an MA in Performance Design from Central St Martins. She has released music on AD 93, Halcyon Veil, Danse Noire, and Infinite Machine, with her work featured in fashion by Mugler, Luis de Javier, and others. Her collaborators include Rabit, SOPHIE, and Andrew Thomas Huang. She has contributed choreography and video design to productions by the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece, and the Mediterranean Biennale. Her cross-disciplinary work explores themes like the feminine body, eco-grief, surveillance, and eroticism. Evangelia has performed globally at venues including La MaMa, ICA Miami, Southbank Centre, HAU2, and MONOM. She is also the founder, curator, and resident DJ of Nature Loves Courage Festival in Crete, held annually since 2019.
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Aïsha Devi
Aïsha Devi
Saturday 13.09 - 19:15
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Aïsha Devi is a singular voice in electronic music, blending thumping beats, rave stabs, seraphic and guttural singing, mystical linguistics, and corporeal sonics. Born in Switzerland with Nepali Indigenous heritage, her transnational identity deeply informs her work. In 2013, she co-founded Danse Noire, releasing breakthrough EPs and the first album from her band with Slikback, AKA HEX. Her acclaimed albums include "Of Matter And Spirit" (2015), "DNA Feelings" (2018), and "Death Is Home" (2023). Devi’s practice is interdisciplinary—she studied graphic design and works with visual and performance artists, including Tianzhuo Chen and the Asian Dope Boys. She’s composed for and performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra and premiered “Les Immortelles” with Emmanuel Biard at CTM, later presented at Sonar, Mutek, and ICA. Equally magnetic solo, Devi has performed at CTM, Primavera, MoMA PS1, Roskilde, and hundreds of festivals worldwide.

"Aethernal Score", Aïsha Devi’s commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra, is a 20-minute "mixtape" that fuses elements from her back catalogue with new compositions, merging classical instrumentation and radical sonic theory. Drawing on her Himalayan heritage and deep exploration of monastic vocal practices and psychoacoustics, Devi approached the orchestra as a vibrational tool—each instrument treated as a frequency rather than a cultural object. The result evokes the energy of a club within a concert hall, transforming orchestral music into a metaphysical rave. Two versions of the score were released: an orchestral version performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2021, conducted by André de Ridder and arranged with Robert Ames, and a purely electronic version. Together, they reveal the transformative power of instrumentation, dissolving artistic hierarchy and colonial residue to create a transcendent fusion of classical, electronic, and sacred sound.
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ALAKARI
ALAKARI
Saturday 13.09 - 15:00
Listening Session - Saal 2
ALAKARI in collaboration with River Anninkoski streamed live by Jakob Kukula. VEDEN VIRE is a long-form, site-responsive composition that engages with damaged North Karelian ecologies: drained peatlands, deforested zones, mined ground, and darkened waters. At the core of the project is a re-interpretation of loitsut—ancient Karelian incantations where language, rhythm, and breath function as active, embodied tools for working with the environment. Bridging this ritual-poetic system with contemporary sonic practices, VEDEN VIRE combines live voice, electronic composition, and 4DSOUND spatial diffusion. Real-time water recordings from the Annikoski river—a site marked by industrial impact—serve as a guiding parameter for the composition, making the river itself a co-composer in the piece. The work unfolds as a durational listening ritual: a call for attunement within post-extractive landscapes.
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Ale Hop
Ale Hop
Saturday 13.09 - 18:20
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Ale Hop (Alejandra Cárdenas) is a Peruvian-born artist based in Berlin whose work spans live performance, albums, multimedia art, and research. Emerging from Lima’s underground scene in the 2000s, she is known for immersive, affective shows using electric guitar techniques and collaborations. In 2023, she launched "Agua Dulce" with percussionist Laura Robles, reimagining Afro-Peruvian rhythms (named global album of the month by The Guardian), and a project with Tatiana Heuman using self-built clay instruments and storytelling. She co-founded the Radical Sounds Latin America festival (co-curator 2019–2021) and recently started the editorial platform Contingent Sounds to support critical discourse and artistic research. Her work has been presented at UNSOUND, CTM, Sonic Acts, REWIRE, Taiwan C-LAB, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and more.

"Apophenia" (2019), spatialized in 4DSOUND with Raul Alvarez, is a work by Ale Hop that explores imaginary territories through layered guitar, synthesis, and field recordings. Inspired by speculative geographies of her Peruvian homeland, the piece blends mountains, oceans, grey skies, and cityscapes with droning guitars and fragmented voices, using an intricate array of guitar techniques and synthesis processing to create a music of deep physical intensity. It also forms the basis of her second studio album, recorded at MONOM and released by Buh Records, inviting listeners to forge new connections between sound and space.

Composition Ale Hop | 4DSOUND Spatialization: Shehryar Ahmad, Alejandra Rios | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
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Ale Rios
Ale Rios
Sunday 14.09 - 13:00
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Alejandra is a Mexican sound designer, multimedia artist, and researcher. Her primary focus centers on the voice as an expanded technology, exploring sonic memory, historical silences, and the voice as a vessel for cultural and political expression. Her practice also fuses textiles and sound, where sonic elements overflow into fabric, texture, and tactility. She uses sound to explore and reshape perception, blending the boundaries of the imaginary and the poetic. Her works are a mosaic of fragments—sounds that emerge from everywhere and nowhere—creating soundscapes that dissolve into dreamlike worlds. She invites listeners into sensory experiences that defy the limits of reality. She embraces in-betweenness and ambiguity, allowing these elements to flow through her compositions and expand the boundaries of sonic storytelling.

"No se va a caer, lo vamos a tirar."

"It won’t fall, we’re going to bring it down."

A metal wall stands to suppress a rising, restless tide — bodies pressed together, voices demanding justice. Built to silence, it instead becomes an instrument of resistance: the metal, a technology embodied and expanded, struck, sounded, subverted. The barrier falters as our voices become amplified within its resonance. From friction emerges a chorus — grief and rage suspended in air, weaving a collective rhythm. Originally built to suppress protests in Mexico City’s Zócalo on March 8th — International Women’s Day — this metal barrier becomes the central subject of the piece. Composed using field recordings of hands and bodies striking its surface during the demonstration, the work recontextualizes a moment of collective defiance, presenting it as a poetic and raw soundscape of resistance. This work reclaims containment as amplification. In sound, we persist.

Composition: Alejandra Rios | Curation: Kika Echeverría | 4DSOUND Spatialization: Alejandra Rios | Field Recordings: MX Marea Verde, Kika Echeverría, Gabriel Reyna, Radio Paisajes, Colectivo Mujeres Pájaro | Singer: Cecilia Sordo | Special thanks to: Alessandra Denegri, William Russell, Alejandra Cárdenas
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Aleksi Perälä
Aleksi Perälä
Friday 12.09 - 15:35
Listening Session - Monom Studio
Aleksi Perälä is a Finnish electronic music visionary known for his genre-defying work rooted in the esoteric Colundi Sequence—a tuning system of 128 resonant frequencies designed for their effect on the human body and mind. Co-created with Rephlex co-founder Grant Wilson-Claridge, this unique scale led Perälä to develop a distinct sonic language using sine waves and additive synthesis. Launching his career in the 1990s under the aliases Ovuca and Astrobotnia on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label, he quickly gained recognition for his forward-thinking sound. With over 160 albums to date, Perälä's prolific output spans ambient, techno, and drum and bass, consistently channeling spiritual and otherworldly energy into a deeply transformative listening experience.

World peace – Infinite love for humankind "Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world." Mahatma Gandhi "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Peace begins with a smile." Mother Teresa
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Alex Groves
Alex Groves
Sunday 14.09 - 18:45
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Alex Groves is an Ivor Novello-nominated composer and curator working at the intersection of contemporary classical and electronic music. His work blends instrumental performance with live processing to create uncanny soundworlds that blur the acoustic-electronic divide. Recent projects include "hottt" for the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, "DANCE SUITE" for pianist Zubin Kanga at the New Music Biennial 2025, and two new works developed during a Britten Sinfonia residency.

"Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer", is a concert-length 4DSOUND installation inspired by land artist Richard Long. His music has been performed at the Southbank Centre, Barbican, Elbphilharmonie, and MASS MoCA, and released on Nonclassical, Cantaloupe, and Bedroom Community. Through sonic mapping and immersive sound design, Groves invites listeners into landscapes both real and imagined.
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Andrea Belfi
Andrea Belfi
Sunday 14.09 - 16:35
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Italian-born Andrea Belfi is a drummer, composer, and experimental musician based in Berlin. Over the years Belfi has built a sound world blending the complex timbres of the acoustic with the endless possibilities of the electronic. Belfi has a strong live reputation internationally and his performances are known to be energetic and hypnotic, featuring long-arching immersive soundscapes. He was invited by Thom Yorke to open for his solo show on an international tour in 2019. His last releases Ore and Strata gained Belfi many new fans including tastemakers Mary Anne Hobbs, Gilles Peterson, and Sasha Frere-Jones among others. Over the last few years, he’s been collaborating and touring with artists such as Nils Frahm, Mouse on Mars, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mike Watt, Circuit des Yeux, David Grubbs. He has been on stage at Philharmonie de Paris, Montreux Jazz Festival, The Greek Theater (Los Angeles), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Barbican Center (London), Issue Project Room (New York), and CTM Festival (Berlin).



"Above My Door, There Is Knocking" by drummer and composer Andrea Belfi centres on two acoustic percussive instruments: a bass drum and a cymbal. These elements merge into a broader electronic composition, forming a sonic body that expands into orchestral dynamics. The 28-minute piece explores the acoustic potential of the instruments within the room, where shifting moments of vulnerability and force shape an abstract narrative. Percussion moves through space—at times like a gentle knock, at others like a sudden collision—merging with electronics to register as breath or pressure. Developed during a November 2022 residency at MONOM in Berlin, the piece was composed for their original 4DSOUND system and premiered at SPATIAL festival in Berlin, followed by a presentation at Lobe Studio in Vancouver. Disclaimer: This composition bears no relation to or inspiration from Bob Dylan’s "Knocking on Heaven’s Door".

Composition: Andrea Belfi | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell, Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
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Ange Halliwell
Ange Halliwell
Sunday 14.09 - 18:00
Live - Saal 2
Ange Halliwell began playing the harp at the age of 12. From the lush countryside of southwest France, he composes music that combines hypnotic arpeggios, layered soundscapes, and voices that are sung, spoken, or screamed. His creations are deeply connected to nature, drawing from a wide range of influences: traditional music, lyricism, and horror. In a holistic project, Ange Halliwell crafts a musical and visual universe that is both luminous and melancholic.

Produced by MONOM | Composition: Ange Halliwell | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | Live Engineer: Sean O’Connor
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Bobby Beethoven
Bobby Beethoven
Saturday 13.09 - 19:10
Live - Saal 2
Bobby Bethoven is a multidisciplinary artist, DJ and producer based in Miami. As Total Freedom, he was founding member of Fade to Mind, a resident at GHE20GOTH1K, and the creator of Los Angeles club nights Wildness and Grown. He has collaborated with artists including Arca, Kelela, Wu Tsang, Amaarae, and Boychild, and worked with fashion houses Telfar and Hood by Air. Beyond DJing, he has presented exhibitons at the New Museum and Getty Museum, directed projects for the Berlin Biennale, and recently perfdormed at Gropius Bau and Ghost2561.

Composition: Bobby Beethoven | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | Live Engineer: Sean O’Connor | 4DSOUND
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Bonamasa
Bonamasa
Saturday 13.09 - 13:00
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Sitting at his piano, accompanied by analogue synths and drum machines, BONAMASA unveils the doorway to his intimate ambient universe. The artist primarily lives and composes in Berlin, Osaka, and Madrid. Like a modern nomad, he travels with his piano and analogue synthesizers across countries, channeling the unique energy of each place to transform it into sound.

BONAMASA has brought the first piece of his Womb Music concept to life exclusively in 4DSound, developing part of the project and showcasing it in collaboration with the studio team at MONOM.

Composition: BONAMASA | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer | Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Assistants Michael Barnett, Alejandra Rios
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Casimir Geelhoed
Casimir Geelhoed
Friday 12.09 - 16:10
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Casimir Geelhoed is an electronic musician, composer and software developer who explores expressive relations between software and sound. Recurring themes in his musical work are overstimulation, introspection and fragility. Often making use of self-developed software, he is interested in the poetic potential of sound material transformed through digital means. Since 2015, he is one of the core developers of 4DSOUND, an Amsterdam-based studio exploring spatial sound as a medium. He has performed at festivals including CTM Festival, Rewire Festival, Sonic Acts, SPATIAL, FIBER Festival and Aural Spaces.

In "Scatter, Swarm, Sublimate", Geelhoed connects methodologies of noise music, counterpoint and spatial sound, making expressive usage o the perceptual tipping point at which individually perceivable sound sources melt into indefinable overarching sound masses. His performance aims to convey beauty and hope through dazzling environments of overstimulation, interspersed by moments of fleeting clarity, a sublime surrender. With support of Creative Industries Fund NL, Gebrandy Cultuurfonds and the Richard Thomas Foundation.

Composition: Casimir Geelhoed | 4DSOUND Spatialization: Casimir Geelhoed | 4DSOUND Engineer: Casimir Geelhoed
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Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett
Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett
Sunday 14.09 - 18:55
Live - Saal 2
Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett are longtime collaborators whose work takes shape in albums, performances and immersive installations in various visual and spatial settings. They work playfully with aural dynamics, textures, field recordings and fragmented melodies to produce structures of an intense psycho-physicality. With John Also Bennett on various flutes and Christina’s spoken voice, the couple compose atmospheric musical auras of an extensive sound genealogy which reconfigure the tri dimensionality that surrounds us, creating comfort to connect us emotionally. Together they have released three albums as CV & JAB, collaborated on each other's solo works, and with a wide array of artists in various configurations.
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Croatian Amor
Croatian Amor
Friday 12.09 - 18:05
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Croatian Amor iis the solo alias of Loke Rahbek. He realizes a distinct and brilliant intimacy about the bracing pace and chronicles of the contemporary world. Hailing from Copenhagen, Rahbek operates the label Posh Isolation, a place of incubation for many artists from across Scandinavian experimental music, including many of his own collaborators. As Croatian Amor, Rahbek’s most crucial and imaginative account is laid bare. Often using a mesh of real events and places as a platform for a largely dreamlike play, Croatian Amor composes with pop artefacts of the circuits that interlace our lives. Sometimes speaking in loneliness, though often telling of trysts, Croatian Amor presents a longing for indeterminate sensation. Employing a medley of diffuse electronic music traditions, fantastical synthetic worlds are evoked to make this world just a little more habitable.

"I was invited to create the piece for the opening of Monom at Funkhaus, in Berlin. I remember it was very cold in the space, the heating had not been installed yet. Casimir Geelhoed and William Russell helped me and we wore all our clothes and worked long days and nights getting ready for the opening. Sometimes we had wine. It was a thrilling experience to work with sound in this way, life-like. The piece was inspired by reading Michel Serres "Angels: A Modern Myth" and by the city of Berlin, where I had found myself for an extended period the year before. It takes shape as a repeated conversation and explore how words change character according to their surroundings."
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DJ DEATHDEFY
DJ DEATHDEFY
Saturday 13.09 - 21:30
Live - MONOM Studio
Saturday evening, co-curated by Richie Culver and PASSAGE, features a guest performance by DJ DEATHDEFY, known for his raw, zero-compromise sound tracing a Northern English lineage through Hull, Manchester, and Liverpool. With DEATHDEFY’s John Doe sound, MONOM becomes a site where UK regional identities outside of London come together for one night in Berlin.

Produced in 4DSOUND by MONOM | Composition: DJ DeathDefy | 4DSOUND Live Spatialization: William Russel | 4DSOUND Sound Engineer: Alejandra Rios 4DSOUND Assistant: Carmel Riboch
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EMS Synthi 100
EMS Synthi 100
Saturday 13.09 - 19:05
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Written, recorded, produced and mixed at DEEWEE by David & Stephen Dewaele | This album was made with the kind assistance of and in collaboration with IPEM, Gent | Photography by Younes Klouche | Art direction by III-Studio | Spatialized & produced by Monom Studios, commissioned by STUK - House for Dance, Image & Sound for Ocean Of Sound 2023 | In the context of: New Horizons | Dieric Bouts Festival, an initiative of KU[N]ST Leuven: www.diericboutsfestival.be | Special thanks to: Pim Gombeer
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Evita Manji
Evita Manji
Saturday 13.09 - 17:30
Live - Saal 2
Evita Manji is an Athens-based musician and vocalist whose work connects the human experience with climate change, quantum physics, and death, aiming to uncover deeper existential truths. Through intricate sound design and choir-inspired vocals, they craft expansive sonic worlds of shapeless, living textures. In 2021, they launched the platform myxoxym, releasing the singles “OIL/TOO MUCH” and “EYES/NOT ENOUGH,” and curating "PLASMODIUM I", a fundraising compilation supporting wildlife affected by Greek forest fires. Since debuting at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center alongside Eartheater and Soho Rezanejad, they’ve performed across Europe at festivals like Unsound, Lunchmeat, Rhizom, and Borderline. Their sound pieces have been exhibited at Kunsthalle Basel (with Young Boy Dancing Group) and Saigon Athens. Recent appearances include Mutek, Elektra BIAN, Draaimolen, and Mucho Flow. A vinyl release of "Spandrel?" is forthcoming, and they are currently developing a new album and live show, while collaborating with research duo Dmstfctn.

Echo(location) Chamber is a spatial composition that delves into internal landscapes, where echoes sketch the contours of space in darkness and music speaks what words cannot. This haunting soundtrack meditates on the resonance of space and the rhythmic pulse of sound, binding the ephemeral to the profound. In this piece, the echo chamber evolves beyond a loop of repetition—becoming a dynamic environment where soundwaves rebound and return, gradually revealing the emotional terrain hidden within the void.

Composition: Evita Manji, 4DSOUND Spatialization: Evita Manji, Shehryar Ahmad, 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
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Gaika
Gaika
Saturday 13.09 - 20:00
Live - Saal 2
GAIKA is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, industrial installation, performance, sculpture, film and text. Emerging from London’s electronic underground and shaped by his Afro-Caribbean heritage, his practice explores the politics of urbanisation, diaspora, surveillance, and memory. Often blending experimental music, spatial installation, and audiovisual storytelling, GAIKA constructs immersive environments he calls underworld architecture — multisensory systems that engage with Western aesthetics of control, technology, and cultural inheritance. His work considers psychogeography, postcolonial identity, and emotional states not through explanation, but through atmosphere, structure, and sound. A deep-listening spatial sound piece performed within MONOM’s 4DSOUND system. “Queens and Hooliganz” transposes cinematic London narratives of profit and ruin into a sonic environment where the boundaries between perfection, destruction, and creation dissolve in the void of space and the psychogeography of urban perception. Through bass-heavy laments, dub poetics, lush instrumental sound design, and synth-led sonic textures, this act stages a funeral for Gaika’s sound clash enemies — both internal and external — as much as it is a siren call for breaking ground and building new worlds.
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Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
Saturday 13.09 - 21:00
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020) was a transdisciplinary artist and provocateur known for co-founding Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. Through music, performance, and body modification, they challenged norms around gender and identity. Their influence spans five decades of avant-garde practice.

"Genesis P-Orridge Electric Newspaper Vol. 5" Produced in 4DSOUND by MONOM Original Composition: Genesis P-Orridge & Larry Thrasher, 1998
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Grand River
Grand River
Sunday 14.09 - 17:05
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Aimée Portioli is a Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and sound designer who performs as Grand River. She creates experimental electronic music blending minimalism and ambient influences with complex rhythms and contemporary production techniques. The name Grand River reflects nature, scale, and movement central to her work. Her first release, "Crescente" (2017), was named one of the best of the year by XLR8R. She followed with albums "Pineapple" (2018), praised by "The Quietus", and "Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes" (2020), acclaimed by "Resident Advisor" and "The Verge". Her 2023 album "All Above" and 2024 collaborative "In uno spazio immenso" with Abul Mogard further established her reputation. Portioli also produces sound art installations and has worked extensively with 4D spatial sound, including the 2025 album "Tuning the Wind". She has performed worldwide at venues like Barbican Hall, CTM, MUTEK, and Berghain, and runs the label One Instrument, inviting artists to create music using only one instrument.

Created in 2022 and released in 2025 on Umor Rex, Tuning the Wind transforms recorded wind sounds into a musical piece by layering and pitch-shifting them. The work blends natural wind and synthesized instruments, sometimes tuning wind to 440 Hz and other times tuning instruments to the wind. It dissolves the boundary between nature and music, merging human artistry with the sounds of wind in a seamless sonic experience.
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HEMS
HEMS
Friday 12.09 - 17:25
Listening Session - Saal 2
Henrique Matias (Hems) is a London-based artist whose work blends experimental electronics and contemporary sound art, focusing on the physical relationship between performer, instrument, and space. He co-founded Titrate, a label for experimental electronic and drone music. Hems uses friction mallets on gongs to create sustained harmonic environments, combined with electronic sound manipulation. His work explores texture, space, and the visceral impact of sound, engaging the listener’s body as well as ears.

His piece "Primeiro Movimento" (“First Movement”) is a spatial composition for SPATIAL Festival’s 72-speaker system, using site-specific techniques that can’t be replicated elsewhere. Drawing on his Brazilian heritage, it initiates a series focused on immersive audio environments, exploring sound’s presence and absence in space.

4DSOUND Spatialization: Henrique Matias | 4DSOUND Engineers: Shehryar Ahmad, Alejandra Rios | 4DSOUND Assistants: Akshat Nagar, Lorenzo Setti
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Hesaitix
Hesaitix
Saturday 13.09 - 18:20
Live - Saal 2
James Whipple returns from a long period of musical dormancy with his first full length LP for PAN since 2017. As M.E.S.H., he honed a singular and unpredictable sonic identity on his debut album Piteous Gate and helped define the sound of experimental club music in the 2010s. Re-emerging now as Hesaitix, the now-familiar motifs have become streamlined, the sound palette both more refined and more elaborate. Even at its most abstract, there is an uncanny presence permeating the record, a convincing emotional reality with its own narrative and spatial logic. Moving beyond the fragmented sound of his previous work, Noctian Airgap finds the artist embracing the hypnotic effects of rhythm. After suffering a stroke in 2020, James stepped back from music for a number of years, turning his attention to fiction writing. His first novel will be published by Deluge Books in 2026. In 2024, he composed the score for choreographer Hea Min Jung’s Code of Engagement.

Composition: Hesaitix | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | Live Engineer: Sean O’Connor | 4DSOUND Assistants: tbc
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Ilhem
Ilhem
Sunday 14.09 - 14:55
Listening Session - Saal 2
Ilhem—whose name means "inspiration" in Arabic—is a vocalist, composer, and sound artist with a multicultural background, known for emotionally charged, vocal-driven compositions that explore memory, identity, and transformation through jazz-rooted improvisation, field recordings, and spatial sound; her globally acclaimed performances include the Berlin Philharmonic, Mutek Mexico, and Waking Life.

For SPATIAL, Ilhem presents NASILU meaning “Exile” in Akkadian, created during her residency at MONOM Studios in Berlin. As a vocal-only composition, NASILU utilizes the 4DSOUND system to create a sonic narrative that blends intimate whispers with expansive, multi-layered harmonies and raw melodies, resulting in a deeply immersive auditory experience. Through this, the piece reflects the journey of the wanderer and the silenced ones, offering a profound reflection on displacement, loss, and the enduring connection to home and its ancestral roots.
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IOANN
IOANN
Friday 12.09 - 16:50
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
IOANN was the artist project of Ivan Sapozhkov. Since 2006, he experimented with forms of electronic sound and virtual instruments, working in the field of experimental sound, film and theatre. In 2014, Sapozhkov founded his experimental sound studio and label Negativespace. On 2016 he was Artist-in-Residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest.
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James Allister Sprang
James Allister Sprang
Sunday 14.09 - 17:55
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
James Allister Sprang creates a spatial sound experience that takes a dive into deep water, and creates a coherence between the physical, spiritual and historical meanings that are connected to it. Sprang is a true pioneer in America in the field of 4DSound technology. He makes intriguing audiovisual installations and compositions, in which means such as photography, cyanotype and spatial audio technology move in harmony. His work is often inspired by Caribbean heritage and immigration, and explores themes of rest, joy and survival.

An unprecedented combination of poetry, experimental jazz, orchestral music and advanced audio technology. Rest Within the Wake is a listening session that stimulates all your senses, specially composed 60 feet below the surface of the Caribbean Sea. This piece ia a warm invitation to, in Sprang's own words, 'listen deeply as we welcome our bodies, our ancestors, our traumas, our pain, our desires, our visions and our dreams'.
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Jan Jelinek
Jan Jelinek
Saturday 13.09 - 16:30
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Jan Jelinek’s works translate popular music sources into abstract textures. Rather than using traditional instruments, he constructs collages out of tiny sound particles. Since 2000, he has released material under both his own name and various pseudonyms (incl. Ursula Bogner). His many collaborations include projects with Sven-Åke Johansson, Sarah Morris and Masayoshi Fujita. In 2007, together with Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler, he founded the improvisation trio Groupshow, and in 2008 he established the Faitiche label as a publishing platform for his own experiments, for collaborations, and for works by musician friends. Since 2012, he has been writing and producing experimental radio pieces for public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) that explore fictional identities and soundscapes.

"Beweisstücke für das Bombardement" conceived, composed, and produced by Jan Jelinek, originally for SWR and first broadcast on July 7, 2015 (31:05 min). This spatial sound composition was performed on 47 loudspeakers at ZKM Karlsruhe during ARD Hörspieltage 2015 and competed at the 2016 dokka documentary festival. A shortened version exists for MONOM since 2022. Seventy-one years after the atomic bomb, Jelinek acoustically captured Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and museum, creating a subjective sonic map. Inspired by Krzysztof Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, the work organizes field recordings into orchestral “instrument” groups representing different locations, replacing pitch changes with shifts in time across 88 units, analogous to piano keys. The 20-minute audio collage weaves up to 52 layered sound textures, focusing on sound mass and texture modulation rather than harmonic approximation, preserving the authenticity of the original recordings.

Composition Jan Jelinek; 4DSOUND Spatialization: Shehryar Ahmad, 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
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Loraine James
Loraine James
Friday 12.09 - 18:10
Listening Session - Saal 2
Loraine James (not Lorraine or Loraine Jones) grew up on Enfield’s Alma Estate in North London, immersed in diverse musical influences thanks to her mother’s love for heavy metal, calypso, and more. She learned piano as a teen and later taught herself electronic music production, developing a distinctive sound blending R&B, drill, pop, and IDM. Her signature style emerged with 2017’s "Detail" and grew through acclaimed releases including "For You & I" and "Reflection" on Hyperdub, which explored her reality as an independent queer Black British artist. Her third Hyperdub album, "Gentle Confrontation", reflects a deeper look into her past and present, inspired by the music her teenage self would have loved. Under the alias Whatever The Weather, she explores ambient music, debuting on Ghostly International in 2022 with "Whatever The Weather" and its follow-up. Constantly evolving, Loraine James combines experimental sounds with vulnerability, curiosity, and hope.

Loraine James - ‘Untitled 1’ - A spatial audio work commissioned by FIBER Festival, in collaboration with Concertvrienden, MONOM and 4DSOUND, as part of Aural Spaces 2024.

Composition: Loraine James, 4DSOUND Spatialization: Loraine James | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Assistants: Michael Barnett, Carmel Riboch
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Marijn Cinjee & Julia Sinclair
Marijn Cinjee & Julia Sinclair
Sunday 14.09 - 14:30
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Wind Takes Flight is a focused listening experience that explores the human, existential core of listening. The piece begins with a spellbinding chant, inspired by the poems of early medieval polymath Hildegard von Bingen. It builds on this focused, divine momentum with a rich electronic sound world that gradually draws the listener deeper into the experience. It brings together the ancient core of human music with modern electronic synthesis and spatial sound architecture, resulting in a deeply transformational experience.

Marijn Cinjee creates electronic ambient and classical electroacoustic music focused on immersive, transportive experiences. Using real-world sounds that gradually transform into abstract elements, he guides listeners from familiar reality into inner mental landscapes, inviting personal emotional journeys. London-based soprano Julia Sinclair is known for her expressive vocal artistry. Her upcoming album "Wind Takes Flight"—a collaboration with Marijn Cinjee—will release in July 2025 on Nimbus Records after debuting at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in December 2024. Julia has performed major classical works like Handel’s "Messiah" and Brahms’ "Requiem", made her Classic FM solo debut, and sings regularly with professional church choirs in London.

Composition: Marijn Cinjee | Soprano singer: Julia Sinclair | 4DSOUND Spatialization: Marijn Cinjee | 4DSOUND Engineer: Marijn Cinjee
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Mastery presents Quantum Sound
Mastery presents Quantum Sound
Sunday 14.09 - 15:45
Listening Session - Saal 2
"Quantum Sound" plays with the boundaries of sound as meditation, and ambient electronic music. This bespoke piece for Spatial Festival features an instrumental sound journey by masters of high frequency, Cherub Sanson and Tim Wheater, with ambient electronics and sound design by Rommek. Blending into an ambient transcendental soundscape by Wata Igarashi. We invite you to experience sound induced altered states of consciousness.

Composition: Wata Igarashi, Cherub Sanson, Tim Wheater, Rommek | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | Live Engineer: Sean O’Connor
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MONOM + Eve Matin
MONOM + Eve Matin
Sunday 14.09 - 13:55
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Harpist and composer born in Peru with Persian ancestry. Eve experiments with new ways of using the instrument, composes, improvises and paints with new techniques that make up the originality of her music. Eve Matin looses the usual rules of music to transform the harp into an extension of the natural word. Matins performances - marked by percussive strokes, microtonal sensibilities, and a dance-like interaction with the strings - reflects a long journey of research into the technical diversity and devotional music of world traditions.

"Weaving Rain" Composition: Eve Matin | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell, Spatial Sound Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad, Creative Direction: Alessandra Denegri
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MONOM LIMINAL
MONOM LIMINAL
Friday 12.09 - 20:30
Hybrid - MONOM Studio
HEXEN - Sonic Ritual & Performance ft Alessandra Denegri, Marie Polo and more

Hexen sprouts from the cracks—part sound, part spell, part molted skin of memory. Its shape, sounds and frequencies were conjured, stitched together with spider silk and ash, each vibration a whisper from the marrow, each instrument an artifact retrieved from the dreaming bone of the world. A language without teeth, a door without hinges— an invitation to awaken the memory still encoded in our DNA, from a time when magical thinking was welcomed. Hexen rises as an act of resistance: a ritual of sound and vibration, calling forth the memory.

We understand magic here as an ancient interface—a living, immaterial technology and system that once guided ritual and transformation. Today, we invoke it through a new architecture of perception: 4DSOUND, a cutting-edge spatial sound system capable of conjuring sonic holograms—frequencies that move through space like spirits freed from gravity, shifting how we sense and how we feel. Thus emerges the first project of LIMINAL: a space dedicated to investigating the crossroads of ritual, ceremonial practices, body technologies, and mind-enhancing tools designed to expand the edges of our perception.

Produced by MONOM | Concept & direction: Alessandra Denegri | Composition: William Russell, Alejandra Ríos, Alessandra Denegri | 4DSOUND | Production: William Russell, Alejandra Ríos | 4DSOUND Engineer: Alejandra Ríos
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MONOM
MONOM
Friday 12.09 - 21:00
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
NikNak
NikNak
Friday 12.09 - 17:00
Listening Session - Saal 2
A trailblazing musical polymath, NikNak has carved a niche for herself in the music industry with her distinctive turntablism, immersive compositions, and captivating improvised performances. Heralded by the likes of DJ Mag, Clash, The Wire and Resident Advisor, her debut album Bashi garnered critical acclaim, positioning her as one to watch in the experimental electronic music scene. Her fourth studio album Ireti was released on Matthew Herbert's label Accidental Records in 2024 and was named one of the year's best albums by Mixmag and Bandcamp.

“Eternities” was a live, improvised piece first performed at the 4DSOUND Residency at Stone Nest in May 2023. Featuring improvised manipulations on turntables, NikNak escorts listeners on a journey that distorts time and space in a strange, encompassing way. "The piece starts out with the familiarity of a vinyl crackle, but soon evolves into cyclical repetitions that mirror some of the patterns in life, whether we recognise them or not.”
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Origin Te Yon’ton x MONOM
Origin Te Yon’ton x MONOM
Saturday 13.09 - 15:00
Live (Opening Ceremony) - Saal 2
Rubén Yon’ton Vucubcame is a Ritual Mesoamerican Mexica Anahuaca artist who develops a project called “Origin Te Yon’ton – Origin of the Heart,” focused on using channeled art for personal well-being. Understanding that everything is frequency and vibration, sound and its resonance can be used to transmute the polarities of the self. In this way, "Origin Te Yon’ton" is an immersive, atmospheric ritual sound environment using ritual wind instruments from Teotihuacan (central Mexico), guided by the heartbeat of the drum and enriched with voice and Om’pak (Mayan trumpet). Origin Te Yon’ton invites awareness that we are all part of a whole, each of us a thread weaving the Cosmic Web, pulsing as one Heart, remembering the origin of the shared heartbeat. "El Camino a Través del Espejo Humeante - Yohualli Ehecatl / Viento Nocturno"

Composition: Ruben Yonton, 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell, 4DSOUND Engineer: Alejandra Rios, 4DSOUND Assistant: Carmel Riboch, Avenar Banfoldi, Lara Hertweck Curated by: Alessandra Denegri (MONOM LIMINAL)
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Perfect Pitch: Nika Kim, Clarissa Lucattini & Alexey Orlov
Perfect Pitch: Nika Kim, Clarissa Lucattini & Alexey Orlov
Friday 12.09 - 21:10
Live - Saal 2
“Sehnsucht” is a collaborative performance featuring Butoh artist Nika Kim, who dives into shadowed depths to reach beyond the fragile boundaries of body and logic. The sonic environment is created by Alexey Orlov and Clarissa Lucattini, representing Perfect Pitch, a multidisciplinary studio. Together, they craft mystic, bushy melodies, acoustic textures, and psychedelic sonic collages into a seamless, interactive musical landscape. In collaboration with MONOM, the artists explore new sonic directions, bringing their vision to life through the immersive possibilities of 4D sound”

Produced by: MONOM & Perfect Pitch studio | Composition: Alexey Orlov & Clarissa Lucattini | Butoh performer: Nika Kim | Concept: Perfect Pitch studio | 4DSOUND Spatialization: Shehryar Ahmad, William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
Richie Culver
Richie Culver
Saturday 13.09 - 22:05
Live - MONOM Studio
Richie Culver first understood art at a rave afterparty near Hull, where he grew up by the North Sea. Leaving school early to work in a caravan factory, he immersed himself in Hull’s underground party scene. One night, through dense smoke and chaotic sounds, he encountered Nan Goldin’s photography, recognizing a reflection of his own world. Learning that Throbbing Gristle had formed in Hull sparked a profound shift in his creative outlook. Culver’s art and DIY music approach treat the afterparty as both a chaotic production site and a space for raw, honest reflection. Influenced by local legends and the electronic scene, he spent time DJing in the ‘90s and later moved to Berlin, frequenting Berghain. However, struggles with self-hatred and addiction forced him into isolation. Now sober and settled with family, Culver’s work has come full circle. His emotionally charged machine music serves as a sonic extension of his text-based paintings, blending bleak seaside poetry with raw loops, ambient drones, and industrial noise. Echoes of the dance music that shaped him drift through his sound, creating a melancholic haze. Drawing inspiration from jazz greats and experimental icons, while connecting to grime and drill narratives, Culver speaks from the fringes—channeling pain without glamorizing it, sharing struggle without shame.

Produced in 4DSOUND by MONOM | Composition: Richie Culvier | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russel | 4DSOUND Sound Engineer: Alejandra Rios 4DSOUND Assistant: Carmel Riboch
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Robert Curgenven
Robert Curgenven
Sunday 14.09 - 16:00
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Robert Curgenven produces albums, performances and installations that emphasize physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture. His recorded output spans pipe organ works "Tailte Cré-Umha (Bronze Lands)" and "SIRÈNE", through to "Climata", recorded in fifteen Turrell Skyspaces across nine countries. Curgenven’s work with pipe organs has included commissions by New Music Dublin (Ireland), UQ Art Museum (AU) and Richard Thomas Foundation (UK) with presentations for Sydney Festival (Sydney Town Hall), Stavanger Konserthus Norway), Cork Midsummer Festival, Brisbane Festival and Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen). Curgenven has produced a diversity of sound and spatial works for National Gallery of Australia, Musée du Quai Branly (Paris), National Museum of Poland (Krakow), Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Modern Art Museum of Medellin (Columbia), National Sculpture Factory (Ireland) and festival performances including Maerzmusik (Kraftwerk Berlin), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Ultrahang (Budapest) and Insomnia Festival (Tromsø/Norway).

"Unstable Steady States" Composition: Robert Curgenven | 4DSOUND Spatialization: Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Engineer: Tilo Von Ketelhodt
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Romain Azzaro & Jeanne Briand
Romain Azzaro & Jeanne Briand
Friday 12.09 - 16:45
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Friends for over 20 years, French artist Jeanne Briand and French-Italian composer Romain Azzaro collaborated to turn Briand’s glass sculptures into sound for their 2016 debut album "A Gamete Glass Tale". Azzaro, a multi-instrumentalist and producer, works across jazz, ambient, classical, and experimental music, with experience in film scoring and installations. His 2021 album "Colours of Now" showcases his diverse style. Briand, trained at Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts and CalArts, uses glass and mechanical parts in her art, exhibited worldwide and awarded the Palais de Beaux-Arts New Technology Prize in 2016. The album grew from Briand’s desire to make her glass sculptures produce sound, with Azzaro shaping a unique musical language by routing vocals and instruments through the glass forms.

Gear(s) & Glass was crafted from the echoes of shattered glass. "Throw a glass onto the floor, and it breaks," Azzaro explains. "The sound lasts forever." This spatial sound experience, created in collaboration with MONOM, not only complements the album but deepens the exploration into an intriguing question that has often sparked debate between the two artists: What might machine music sound like if crafted from glass? Attendees will be enveloped by the glassy sounds, reimagined through instruments and processes that transform their distinctive sonic characteristics. Emphasizing its brittleness and fragility, the artists break the glass's calm, turning the shards into a composition of poetic, psychedelic electronic music. The glass may shatter, but it is reborn as glistening granules of sound.

Composition: Roman Azzaro & Jeanne Briand | 4DSOUND Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
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Rrose
Rrose
Saturday 19:30h - 17:15
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Rrose is the latest incarnation of Seth Horvitz, an inter-disciplinary artist from California whose 20+ year history weaves in and out of academic circles and electronic music culture. Their work is informed by ongoing interests in microtonality, the limits of perception, and the idiosyncrasies of machines. This approach serves to create a distinctly detailed, sensual and hallucinogenic form of techno that challenges the mind and body in equal measure. The project extends into specific pockets of the avant-garde, leading to collaborations with luminaries such as Bob Ostertag and Charlemagne Palestine and reinventions of works by 20th century composers such as James Tenney. On stage, Rrose often stands in the shadows, going by he and she interchangeably (Rrose’s name and image allude to Duchamp’s female alter-ego) – an implied interrogation of gender norms and artistry in techno circles, albeit with a hint of black humour (Rrose’s biography states “Born 1969. Died 1909”). Rrose’s first release in 2011 on Sandwell District came cloaked in mystery as to its creator, as did the following collaboration featuring Bob Ostertag’s Buchla 200E synth and a string of vinyl releases on her own Eaux label starting in 2012. In the sync domain Rrose is equally blowing fuses having recently provided music for Martin Scorcese’s “The Current War” along with producing music for Alexander McQueen’s Black Show and Harmony Korine’s collaboration with Gucci.
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Ruby Singh
Ruby Singh
Saturday 13.09 - 14:10
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Ruby Singh is a multi-award-winning performer, composer, producer, and educator based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Nations (Vancouver, BC). Their creativity spans music, poetry, photography, and film, engaging with mythos, ecology, justice, and fantasy. Singh’s sound design draws from the natural world and cosmos, using both traditional and emergent sonic practices. They have been nominated for Jessie and Leo awards and received the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in Art and Music in 2022. In 2023, Singh earned a Juno nomination and won the WCMA Global Music Artist of the Year and BC Touring Council Artist of the Year. In 2024, they were awarded the WCMA Electronic/Dance Artist of the Year. Their work includes "Polyphonic Garden", "Jhalaak", "Vox.infold", "RupLoops", "The Future Ancestors", and "kraKIN". Singh believes in art’s power to reimagine futures and promote justice.

Ruby Singh’s "Vox.Infold II" explores life’s gateways with songs that welcome souls, mark earthly time, and honor outgoing spirits. The album reflects cyclical time, mirroring transitions between spirit, birth, life, death, and return to spirit. It opens with “Solar,” inviting spirits to return, and closes with “Mojuba,” a Vox.Infold version of a traditional Yoruban hymn sung by ancestors as we cross into the next world. The ensemble includes PIQSIQ’s Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay, Dawn Pemberton, Russell Wallace, Shamik Bilgi, Tiffany Moses, Hussein Janmohamed, and Singh. Together, they create a rich, resonant, and sensory expression of spiritual journeys through polyrhythm, polymeter, lush harmonies, and polyphonic poetry.

Composition: Ruby Singh, Vocalists: Dawn Pemberton, Inuksuk MacKay, Ruby Singh, Russell Wallace, Shamik Bilgi, Tiffany Ayalik, Tiffany Moses, Produced and Arranged by: Ruby Singh, Moon of Open Hands by Russell Wallace, Recorded & Mixed at AfterLife Studios by John Raham Mastered at CPS Mastering by Brock Macfarlane 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad 4DSOUND Spatialization: Shehryar Ahmad
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Suricata
Suricata
Saturday 13.09 - 13:30
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Federico González (Suricata), born in 1993, is a multidisciplinary musician and sound artist whose work bridges indigenous auditory traditions and avant-garde electronic music. This Mexican composer's art explores sound's role in shaping cultural identity and social change. González's diverse musical background includes the Tort Method at Artene Institute, classical training at CIEM, jazz studies at Berklee College of Music, and a Bachelor's in Sound Communication and Media Studies. His approach to Sound Communication over traditional conservatory training reflects a shift towards a more holistic understanding of music as a social and cultural phenomenon. González's work incorporates field recordings, DIY instruments, and custom-built circuits, blending classical piano training with an Afro/Indo/Latin electronic identity. His exploration of cultural identity through music offers insights into the complexities of Mexican heritage, embracing the space between European and Native American influences. His pseudonym "Suricata" reflects an interest in eusociality and collective consciousness.

Zatun Zat, referring to a Mayan labyrinth, is meant to be a sonic labyrinth. When we enter a labyrinth, we make choices—left, right, center, right. Each turn seems deliberate, but suddenly, we arrive at a point where we know that in the next step we will be completely lost. From that moment on, the only way to get out of the labyrinth is forward, the only way out is in. The only way forward is transformation. I started composing this piece in 2016, and I have been working on it since then. Identity is not something we inherit—it is something we have to actively construct. I am white in Mexico. I am a stigmatized Mexican in Europe. The way I am perceived shifts depending on where I stand, just like sound does in this room. Zatun Zat is made up of many fragments—field recordings, voices, echoes of places I have been, things I’ve listened to that have changed me. Each sound is a memory, an artifact of movement and transformation.

Composition: Suricata | 4DSOUND Spatialization Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Assistants: Michael Barnett
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Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani
Saturday 13.09 - 15:55
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Suzanne is a five-time Grammy award-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist who has released over 20 solo albums including *Seven Waves* and *The Velocity of Love*. Her work has been featured in films, games, and countless commercials. She was inducted into Keyboard Magazine's Hall of Fame alongside Bob Moog, Don Buchla, and Dave Smith and received the Moog Innovation Award. Suzanne is the recipient of the Independent Icon Award from A2IM. She provided the voice and sounds for Bally’s "Xenon" pinball machine, created Coca-Cola’s pop-and-pour sound, and designed logos for Fortune 500 companies. A *Life in Waves*, a documentary about her life and work, debuted at SXSW in 2017. Suzanne holds a degree from Wellesley College and a Master’s in Music Composition from UC Berkeley.

In Suzanne Ciani’s “Improvisation On Four Sequences,” the rich, vibrant legacy of electronic music comes alive. From the groundbreaking energy of the American avant-garde in the late 1960s, which would eventually lead to the pulse of club scenes in L.A. and New York, Ciani encapsulates it all in a breathtaking performance. Her improvisations echo every key moment in the evolution of electronic sound since 1970, but most powerfully, they highlight the intimate, ever-evolving dialogue between artist and machine—a conversation that feels both timeless and immediate, ending only when the final note fades. Ciani’s unparalleled precision, deep sonic sensitivity, and foundational role in shaping the genre converge into a performance that’s not just technically masterful, but emotionally electrifying. This iteration of the work was spatialized using the 4DSOUND system at MONOM Studios in Berlin.
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Tati au Miel
Tati au Miel
Saturday 13.09 - 15:35
Listening Session - Saal 2
Tati au Miel is an alias of Montreal-born and raised multi-disciplinary artist Tania Daniel. Their practice encompasses sound, performance, sculpture, textile, and XR, blending experimentation, abstraction, storytelling, and rituals to forge intimate and personal experiences in their work. Their recent release, the 'Carousel' EP on the label Halcyon Veil, follows six independent musical releases. Tati au Miel's work has been showcased at festivals such as Mutek, Sonic Arts, and Dweller. They have also recently scored Bhenji Ra’s film "Biraddali, Dancing on the Horizon", which was co-commissioned by Auto Italia (UK) and Western Front (CA).

“Devotional oscillations” contemplates the cyclical nature of one’s spiritual path. Devotion speaks to the commitment and discipline that lay the groundwork for self-liberation and awakening. Oscillation evokes the movement of the journey itself—the surges of fervent dedication and the lulls when faith feels distant. These shifts may be shaped by the rhythms of daily life, the turning of the seasons, or other external forces that impact our capacity for sustaining a practice. The piece reflects on the tension that emerges within this climactic unfolding—tension bound to the depth of awareness and to the act of listening deeply to the intensities and quiet pauses that define the spiritual journey.

Composition: Tati au Miel, 4DSOUND Spatialization: Tati au Miel | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Assistants: Michael Barnett
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The Rainbow Machine
The Rainbow Machine
Sunday 14.09 - 13:20
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
The Rainbow Machine is the moniker of Paul Behnam, a French composer, guitarist and sound designer who developed his practice around the relationship between time and space. After an initial period getting interested by electro-acoustic and learning acousmatic music composition in Paris, he continued his research at Berlin’s Monom’s Studio in the Funkhaus complex, embracing the possibilities for spatialisation offered by 4DSOUND technology. His works have been performed in international venues, festivals and art galleries in Berlin, Venice, Mexico City. His collaborations include Fanny Ardant, William Russel, Louis McGuire, Renato Gatto, Romain Azzaro, Jan Luis Gottwald, Marie Polo and Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio among others. After living in Germany, Belgium, Italy & Spain, he is now back in Paris to build in collaboration with the great team of Berlin a Parisian version of Monom.

"3 short pieces about Water"The first piece is an extract (more precisely the introduction) from the immersive audiovisual ballet « Tuneko » directed by the artist and performed Marie Polo. Through this short electro-acoustic piece about the element water we can hear its creation from the molecular H2O form, to its gas, solid and liquid shapes. The second track « Crystal Water » is the opening track of « Water & Dreams », the first full-length album of The Rainbow Machine released on the Italian label Cosmogram. This project was recorded and produced entirely in Venezia (Italy) during Covid in the church Santi Cosma e Damiano (also known as the art space Cosmovenezia).
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Walter Sallinen with NEKO3 and Marta Soggetti
Walter Sallinen with NEKO3 and Marta Soggetti
Friday 12.09 - 19:30
Live - Saal 2
Matrix of Modernity (2024) is spatial sound installation composed for the 4DSOUND 48.9 system.This work explores human agency in the age of algorithmic control. The work's sonic and spatial foundation is built on a matrix formed by the sound system and the audience, allowing listeners to experience it by moving through the grid of speakers or positioning themselves at key intersections. Its rhythmic texture continuously evolves, using Steve Reich's 'phasing' technique to create a progressively shifting rhythmic network. Syllables and text fragments emerge and fade, representing modernity as a field of conflicting historical forces.

The piece explores the human body as infinite potential, able to discern meaning even in noise. Drawing on ideas from the xenofeminist manifesto by Laboria Cuboniks, the work celebrates impurity and alienation as sources of new ethics. Matrix of Modernity offers a sensory journey into the heart of hypermodernity, where language deconstructs and reshapes meaning, portraying the present as a construct of our actions and a force that shapes us. This work continues Walter Sallinen and Klaus Maunuksela's exploration of large-scale sound compositions, following projects like "UXO" (2019, Helsinki Festival) and the binaural audiobook adaptation of Maunuksela’s essay novel Prosessi (2024).

Composition: Walter Sallinen | 4DSOUND Spatialization: Shehryar Ahmad | 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
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Wilding AI
Wilding AI
Friday 12.09 - 16:10
Listening Session - Saal 2
Wilding AI presents "FERAL FREQUENCIES", a collective composition developed during a two-week residency at Laboratoire formes · ondes at Université de Montréal. The work is the culmination of a year of research into AI-driven sound spatialization, exploring themes such as Emotional Sovereignty, Data That Matters, The Algorithmic Shape of Stories, and Breaking Machines / Making Kin. Wilding AI is a nomadic, polymorphic research-creation lab that resists the commodification of AI, instead engaging with it poetically and experimentally. The collective includes Pía Baltazar, Beth Coleman, Sahar Homami, Daniela Huerta, Maurice Jones, Tegan Maharaj, Heu Hsu, Alexandre Saunier, Gadi Sassoon, Debashis Sinha, Nao Tokui, and Portrait XO. Their work has been presented at MUTEK, SAT, MONOM Studios, CTM Festival, and 4DSOUND.

"FERAL FREQUENCIES" is supported by Université de Montréal, MONOM Studios, Goethe-Institut, Concordia University, Neutone Inc., and funded by the Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie.
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William Russell
William Russell
Sunday 14.09 - 17:30
Sound Installation - Saal 2
William Russell is an Australian-born spatial sound artist, composer, and the co-founder and creative director of Monom Studios. With a background in spatial sound design and classical percussion, William has collaborated with over 150 artists since the opening of Monom Studios in December 2017 to produce and present more than 100 spatial sound works across a diverse range of genres and disciplines, including music, dance, opera, theatre, and virtual and augmented reality. As an artist, William is particularly focused on creating and recreating the sonic and spatial dynamics of climate phenomena. His works incorporate music to inspire empathetic awareness of the environment and highlight the inseparable connection between humans and nature.

For Human / Nature / Machine Interactive the audience will be invited to become the performer and composer of the space, interacting with a piano and various material objects as instruments to control the sonic dynamics of natural phenomena - wind, water, air, and fire. A trio between human, nature and machine exploring human nature, this symphonic and kaleidoscopic exploration, places the listener in an augmented sonic reality, of music and environment mixed together as one through the machine that is the 4DSOUND system. An environment that the audience controls. Additionally, throughout the composition, the sounds of extinct species will be ever present, serving as a haunting reminder of the impact of human activity on the natural world. This serves as a powerful commentary on the complex and often destructive relationship between humans and the environment, and highlights the urgent need for us to reconsider our actions and their consequences. As the installation progresses, the interplay between the piano, the environment, the material objects, and the extinct species creates a rich and immersive sonic landscape that blurs the boundaries between music and sound art. Through this unique and thought-provoking performance, William Russell invites the audience to reflect on their own relationship with nature and the role of technology in shaping our perceptions of the world around us.
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Yen Chun Lin and Gediminas Žygus
Yen Chun Lin and Gediminas Žygus
Saturday 13.09 - 15:05
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Yen Chun Lin is a Berlin-based Taiwanese artist whose practice dwells in the state of falling—falling into sleep, into wakefulness, into the unknown. In her Syn-sleep Listening Experiment, she encountered a dragonfly. Guided by this delicate companion, she explores various nuanced states of being and becoming within their shared environments. These encounters become portals through which she attunes to the subtle vibrations of existence and the shifting edges of perception.Gediminas Žygus is a Lithuanian artist working within the fields of sound, film, and performance. Their practice explores the experience of selfhood in the post-Anthropocene, focusing on the sculptural and architectural dimensions of sound and the metaphysical and ecological intimacies of art making. Through performance, albums, and short films, Žygus investigates alternative genealogies and the politics of narrative, devising sonic worlds that are at once visceral and conceptually layered. Žygus has presented works and collaborations at Barbican Centre, Berghain, La Biennale di Venezia, Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst (Munich), HKW (Berlin), ICA (London), The Kitchen (New York), and others.

"Tunnel" blends dreams, sound, and stories to explore spectral intimacies and states of in-between. Beginning as research into tunnels as phenomena that connect regions, beings, and realities, the project engages with themes of absence, darkness, transformation, and love. Characters shift forms—becoming other bodies and species—while traversing realms of light, dark, memory, and time. The work has been presented as a 30-minute sound walk for Creamcake’s “Is Cold in the Water?” festival in Berlin, inside a spiral-shaped tunnel with 16 speakers, and as a 45-minute spatial sound installation at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. "Tunnel" is a poetic exploration of tunnels as narrative devices, spiritual geographies, and architectural phenomena. It listens to fluid, dreamlike states—spaces where knowledge systems dissolve, memories flow like water, and tunnels act as portals between histories and futures, fiction and feeling, self and the unknown.

Composition: Yen Chun Lin & Gediminas Žygu, 4DSOUND Spatialization: Gediminas Žygu & Yen Chun Lin, 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
TICKETS
Yu Lin Humm
Yu Lin Humm
Sunday 14.09 - 15:25
Listening Session - MONOM Studio
Yu Lin Humm is a composer, musician, artist, and director born in Milan with Swiss, French, and Chinese roots. Her multidisciplinary work merges music, science, and visual art to deepen our connection with nature and raise environmental awareness. She holds a BA in Performing and Visual Arts from Lisbon University and has lived in New York, Berlin and Lisbon. Since 2019, she has toured internationally with her debut cello album "ISLAS RESONATES" and directed a 30-minute underwater film of the same name—shown at venues like Triennale and Marsèll Paradise, Milan. Her visual work has been exhibited in Portugal and Switzerland, including "Ocean 2050" and "Prix Cantonale Jura Berne". She collaborates with NGOs and institutions such as One Ocean Foundation, BLOOM, and Patagonia, creating immersive installations that explore the intersection of art and science and invite reflection on ecological issues.

ISLAS RESONATES is Yu Lin Humm's debut solo cello album. It was composed during a travel on the Orinoco River, the natural border between Colombia and Venezuela, and recorded in an underground metal tank with 28 seconds reverb. Yu Lin performed ISLAS RESONATES live in Monom 4DSound, this is the recording of it with the spatial sound mix by William Russell.

Composition: Yu Lin Humm | 4DSOUND Live Spatialization: William Russell | 4DSOUND Engineers: Shehryar Ahmad
TICKETS
4DSOUND
4DSOUND
Join the core 4DSOUND team for special demonstrations of the groundbreaking 4DSOUND Engine. These sessions reveal how the engine works, its unique characteristics, and the innovations that make it one of the most advanced platforms for spatial audio. You’ll experience firsthand how music and sound can move, expand, and transform in space, and discover why artists and technologists worldwide see 4DSOUND as a transformative tool. The demos also offer an exclusive opportunity to join the waiting list for the official release of the 4DSOUND Engine in 2026.
Arch by Urbiks Music
Arch by Urbiks Music
Urbiks Music Spatial Compositions, presented by ARCH. Within the framework of SPATIAL’s Research & Listening Room program, Urbiks Music and ARCH bring their approach to spatial composition into dialogue with artists, shaping works directly with them in space. The process extends the musical composition into the dimensional realm, where sound, structure, and presence are articulated together. Joel Shearer (Los Angeles) and Shapednoise (Berlin) explore new dimensions of sound and space, inviting audiences into concentrated listening and exchange. These sessions invite concentrated listening and open exchange with the artists.
Catalyst
Catalyst
Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology opens a portal into an hour of spatial sound, where voices of its staff resonate through shifting currents of vibration and tone. Felicity Mangan, Flo Wilson, Renée T. Coulombe, Eliad Wagner, Benjamin K. Bacon, and Sidhartta Talukdar guide listeners through a landscape of immersive textures — a listening space that expands, dissolves, and re-forms in real time.
Omni Soundlab
Omni Soundlab
Omni Soundlab is a studio dedicated to immersive audio research and practices, employing technologies such as Dolby Atmos, 4DSOUND, Spacemap Go, L-ISA, and Ambisonics. Its work encompasses the curation of listening sessions that broaden access to enhanced audio experiences and the development of immersive installations within cultural contexts, positioning spatial sound as a medium for artistic and perceptual experimentation. Christopher Manhey, the studio’s founder, will present listening sessions that explore spatial composition and production methods, situating them within contemporary creative practice.
spæs Lab
spæs Lab
spæs Lab is a Berlin-based collective investigating sound as space—treating sound not just as a medium, but as a fluid architecture that shapes perception, movement, and experience. Over the past 20 years, spæs has collaborated with artists, designers, researchers, and engineers from across disciplines to explore how sonic environments can be built, inhabited, and transformed.

SPATIAL Festival presents

VIDEO BARNUM

Paulin, Paulin, Paulin

with MONOM in 4DSOUND

Design heritage meets experimental sound practice in this collaboration between Paulin, Paulin, Paulin and MONOM. Together, they will reimagine Saal 1—the largest recording studio in the world—as an instrument for embodied spatial listening.

 

Saal 1, built in the 1950s as the crown jewel of the GDR’s Funkhaus broadcasting complex, was designed for the recording of full symphony orchestras. Its architecture—vast, resonant, and acoustically perfected—has hosted the sonic experiments of generations. a fully spatialised environment that connects tactile vibration to an omnidirectional holographic sound field through 4DSOUND.

At the heart of the installation is Video Barnum — conceived by Pierre Paulin in 1985 for the Grand Palais and brought to life in recent years by Paulin, Paulin, Paulin. Originally envisioned as an immersive environment integrating architecture, object, and image, it has never before been experienced as a work of pure sound. For this first sonic transformation, MONOM replaces the visual focus of the original with a spatial audio architecture, allowing the work’s iconic form to become an instrument in itself.

 

The piece will integrate Video Barnum’s internal sound system with 4DSOUND’s spatial audio software and a layered loudspeaker array, replacing the original video imagery with holographic sound fields to create a virtual sonic reality. Experienced without external visual stimulus, the work invites the audience to generate their own inner “films,” unfolding entirely within the mind’s eye—creating an environment where sound moves as freely as light does, above, below, and around the listener, dissolving the boundaries between audience and artwork.

›Polyphonic Views‹

curated by PASSAGE

›Polyphonic Views‹, explores 
the intersections of sound, technology, and visual art.

In line with PASSAGE’s curatorial identity, each of the over 30 artists is presented through a stand-alone installation, creating a parcours of immersive encounters across the Funkhaus complex.

Polyphonic Views embraces multiplicity, giving form to a layered, resonant experience that reflects the many voices of contemporary practice. The exhibition runs for three weeks, with a series of events and activations held in collaboration with SPATIAL Festival.

From paintings and sculptures to performances 
and sound works, the exhibition unfolds within the Shedhalle of Funkhaus. Today, this space serves as 
a site where echoes of the past meet the pulse 
of the future.

Alexei Cerrone
Alexei Cerrone
Alexei Cerrone’s sculptural practice explores architecture, surveillance, and control. His minimalist structures evoke the sterile aesthetics of institutional spaces while confronting viewers with themes of isolation and power. Each work feels like a charged site of confrontation.
Allen Golder Carpenter
Allen Golder Carpenter
Allen Golder Carpenter (b. 1999, Washington D.C.) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose practice addresses identity, queerness, and the body through performance, sculpture, and text. Their work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions in Vienna, New York, and Leeds.
Tickets
Amrita Dhillon
Amrita Dhillon
Anastasia Shivrina
Anastasia Shivrina
Anastasia Shivrina (b. 1991, Italy) is a Russian movement artist and painter based in Berlin. A former contemporary dancer with over two decades of international theatre performance, her work translates the fleeting nature of movement with the permanence of visual art. Exploring the body as living architecture, she creates compositions that merge the rhythm and structure of choreography with the geometric rigor of Suprematism, offering a spatial and structural tribute to the art of motion.
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Anide
Anide
Anide (b. France) is a self-taught painter whose emotionally charged work navigates the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. Influenced by surrealism, punk, and alternative subcultures. Each painting becomes a portal, inviting the viewer into a shared space of memory, perception, and the unconscious.
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Anna Uddenberg
Anna Uddenberg
Anna Uddenberg (b. 1982, Stockholm) makes sculptural installations that blur furniture, prosthetics, and body politics. Her work explores consumer design, submission, and digital self-performance, often through absurd, performative forms. She lives and works in Berlin.
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Anne de Vries
Anne de Vries
Anne de Vries (b. 1977, The Hague) develops intricate narrative systems through video, sculpture, and installation. His layered work draws on pop culture, technology, and speculative storytelling to interrogate the shifting boundaries between fiction and reality.
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Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski (b. 1968, Göttingen) creates conceptual artworks that stage collaborations between himself and non-art professionals. His performances, videos, and installations blur the lines between media, entertainment, and art. He is based in Berlin and teaches in Stuttgart.
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Cornel Brudascu
Cornel Brudascu
Cornel Brudascu (b. 1937, Tusa, Romania) is a pioneering Romanian painter associated with pop art and a mentor to the Cluj School. Educated at the Institute of Arts Ion Andreescu in Cluj, he became known in the 1970s for vibrant, experimental portraits that merged pop art’s color sensibility with blurred, photographic effects. Drawing on images from Western magazines during Romania’s brief period of cultural openness, his work subtly challenged the constraints of Communist-era art while capturing the spirit of his artistic community.
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Emmanuel Massillon
Emmanuel Massillon
Emmanuel Massillon (b. 1998, Washington D.C.) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses race, identity, and cultural history through sculpture, painting, and sound. Drawing on Haitian heritage and Black musical traditions, he creates raw, process-driven narratives. He exhibits internationally.
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Felix Kiessling
Felix Kiessling
Felix Kiessling (b. 1980, Hamburg) explores space, time, and scale through minimalist interventions, often created during site-specific travels. A student of Olafur Eliasson, his work questions dimensional perception and physical boundaries. He lives in Berlin.
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Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020) was a transdisciplinary artist and provocateur known for co-founding Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. Through music, performance, and body modification, they challenged norms around gender and identity. Their influence spans five decades of avant-garde practice.
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Gozié Ojini
Gozié Ojini
Gozié Ojini (b. 1995, Los Angeles) transforms salvaged instruments and furniture into tactile, introspective sculptures. His work addresses memory, inheritance, and silence through acts of deconstruction and reconstruction. He is based in New Haven.
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Hannah Rose Stewart
Hannah Rose Stewart
Hannah Rose Stewart (b. 1994, Newcastle) makes installations rooted in hauntology and social theory. Her practice interrogates memory, nightlife, and urban rituals, often through layered spatial environments. She lives and works in Berlin.
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Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch (1938–2022) was a co-founder of Viennese Actionism and creator of the Orgien Mysterien Theater. His visceral performances combined ritual, blood, and music to explore catharsis, death, and ecstasy. His legacy is held in major collections and museums.
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Irving Ramó
Irving Ramó
Irving Ramó (b. 1989, Quito) paints mythic tableaux where figures enact cycles of violence, sacrifice, and desire. With embedded sculptural elements, his canvases evoke physical struggle and symbolic rupture. He is based in Berlin.
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Ivan Seal
Ivan Seal
Ivan Seal (b. 1973, UK) is known for abstract still lifes that depict imagined objects shaped by the fluidity of memory. His paintings evoke partial recollection, illusion, and psychological decay. He collaborates closely with musician The Caretaker.
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James Leyland Kirby
James Leyland Kirby
James Leyland Kirby (b. 1974, UK) is best known for his sonic project The Caretaker, which manipulates archival music to evoke dementia, memory loss, and nostalgia. His work includes An Empty Bliss Beyond This World and the six-part Everywhere at the End of Time.
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Jean-Baptiste Durand
Jean-Baptiste Durand
Jean-Baptiste Durand is a French artist and designer working with ceramics, scenography, and design objects. His process draws from motorsports, wabi-sabi, and industrial craft. He co-founded Atelier Super in Le Havre and works across Europe.
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Johannes Seluga
Johannes Seluga
Johannes Seluga (b. 1998, Germany) paints intuitively, balancing abstraction and figuration in works shaped by process, gesture, and instinct. His compositions open imaginative spaces between mark and image. He lives and works in Berlin.
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Joshua Tarelle Reid
Joshua Tarelle Reid
Ju Young Kim
Ju Young Kim
Ju Young Kim (b. 1991, Seoul) creates sculptures and installations merging industrial transport elements with craft materials to explore mobility, identity, and cultural collision. A Meisterschülerin of Olaf Nicolai at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, she received the 2024 Debutant Grant and will present work at Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Singapore Biennale in 2025.
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Julian Charrière
Julian Charrière
Julius von Bismarck
Julius von Bismarck
Julius von Bismarck (b. 1983, Germany) creates works that fuse science, perception, and public space. Using installation, sculpture, and intervention, he probes how we represent and reconstruct reality. He studied under Olafur Eliasson.
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Kieran Leach
Kieran Leach
Kieran Leach (b. 1994, UK) crafts sculptures and readymades that satirize online culture, art systems, and everyday absurdities. His practice merges sharp humor with material precision. He lives and works in Manchester.
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Léa Bouton
Léa Bouton
Léa Bouton (b. 1997, France) is an artist based in Montreuil whose work draws on funerary architecture, rites, and artifacts to create dreamlike worlds tinged with science fiction. Exploring shifts in scale—from microscopic to macroscopic—her practice spans ceramics, video, crochet, 3D, and installation, with drawing at its core. Her images capture suspended moments, poised between past and future.
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Liang Fu
Liang Fu
Liang Fu (b. 1993, Sichuan) works in painting and sculpture to explore temporality, spirituality, and transformation. His use of water, wax, and ceramics reflects on impermanence and material resonance. He lives in Paris.
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Lukas Heerich
Lukas Heerich
Lukas Heerich (b. 1989, Dusseldorf) uses industrial materials, sound, and sculptural installation to examine protection, power, and containment. His process merges material research with emotional and spatial reflection.
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Marcus Nelson
Marcus Nelson
Marcus Nelson (b. 1997, Oxford) paints emotionally charged, skinless figures suspended between intimacy and brutality. Influenced by psychoanalysis and performance, his work navigates identity, repression, and excess. He lives in Berlin.
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Mathis Altmann
Mathis Altmann
Mathis Altmann (b. 1987, Munich) constructs installations that critique consumption, digital labor, and urban excess. His use of waste materials and consumer goods speaks to the overload of information and the contradictions of globalized creative work. He is based in Zurich.
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Mauricio Alejo
Mauricio Alejo
Mauricio Alejo (b. 1969, Mexico City) uses photography, video, and installation to create poetic, surreal compositions from everyday objects. His work navigates the boundary between material fact and visual illusion, often revealing the absurd in the mundane. He lives and works between Mexico City and New York.
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Nik Nowak
Nik Nowak
Nik Nowak (b. 1981, Germany) builds sound-based sculptures and mobile installations interrogating sonic culture, war, and collective identity. His work blends art, technology, and historical research. Based in Berlin.
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Olaf Metzel
Olaf Metzel
Olaf Metzel (b. 1952, Berlin) is known for socially engaged sculptures using everyday materials like barricades and bleachers. His interventions confront nationalism, media, and public memory. He lives in Munich.
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Philip McHugh
Philip McHugh
Rafa Silvares
Rafa Silvares
Rafa Silvares (b. 1984, Santos) creates hyperrealist paintings that transform industrial and domestic objects into surreal characters. His work explores form, desire, and visual play. He is based in Berlin.
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Richie Culver
Richie Culver
Richie Culver (b. 1979, Hull) is a painter and sound artist whose practice addresses masculinity, memory, and digital alienation. His work fuses personal narrative with linguistic fragments and media detritus. He lives and works in London.
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Rob Blake
Rob Blake
Rob Blake is an artist, writer and film-maker from Leeds, UK, based in Berlin for too long. With a practice that includes sculpture, video, writing and sound, his work focuses on the intersection between human experience and technology, particularly in commercial and political power structures. The work is often serious in theme, but it can also be pretty funny. He tries to make work that is conceptually layered, delivering complex ideas without dogma. His practice is often presented in gallery shows and online, or can take the more abstract and practical form of social interventions and experiences, particularly within the humanitarian sector. Rooted in a conceptual approach, he questions conventional notions of purity and motive, encouraging a deeper engagement with the rich complexities and constant contradictions of contemporary life. The notification tones of our devices, or those of others, trigger various auto-emotional reactions, from excitement and joy to dread. On some level, this work seeks to disconnect these pavlovian responses, through shifting the context and rhythm of these sounds into something almost alive, buzzing with an unexpected musicality. The notification tone also seems to have invaded and carved something else out of our daily lives, replacing the background noises of the world with a prescient lack of sound, loudly existing only as anticipation of the notification: the empty absence of a message or update - only calmed by an inevitable chime.
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Roberto Rivadeneira
Roberto Rivadeneira
Roberto Rivadeneira (b. 1991, Quito) works at the intersection of abstraction, digital space, and urban form. His paintings and installations explore perception, architecture, and light. He is based in Berlin and Madrid.
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Ross Alexander Payne
Ross Alexander Payne
Tobias Spichtig
Tobias Spichtig
Tobias Spichtig (b. 1982, Lucerne) produces paintings and installations that evoke the ghostly surfaces of fashion, memory, and spectacle. His flattened figures and everyday objects meditate on presence and disappearance. He lives between Paris and Berlin.
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Funkhaus

Funkhaus, the ex GDR broadcasting centre, now,
a massive recording studio facility, and event hall in Berlin by the river spree. Home to the largest recording studios in the world, these rooms within rooms, offer unparalleled acoustic perfection and total separation from the outside world.

MONOM Studio

Shedhalle

Sound Chamber

Saal 1

Saal 2

Listening Sessions are a playback of a pre-recorded work in 4DSOUND for focused, spatial listening.
MONOM is an artist-run studio working at the intersection of spatial sound, music, art, and technology.
Utilizing 4DSOUND technology, we craft spatial sound experiences across the entire spectrum, from ideation to exhibition—artistic direction, touring, curation, technology and system integration. We believe in sound as a powerful medium for change and transformation. With spatial sound at the center, we aim to create transformative experiences that are accessible and available to everyone.
The way we perceive sound — subtle, refined, and deeply complex — shapes the core of SPATIAL Festival. Sound is how we sense space itself, and listening is central to this experience: to truly listen is to be fully present, to feel with the entire body. As technology evolves, it expands our capacity to explore, record, and reveal hidden patterns in the world — from the subatomic to the cosmic — helping us reflect on our place within it, and on our deep interconnectedness with one another and the universe. Questions of intelligence, consciousness, and emotion are being illuminated through these tools, just as art has always illuminated our shared humanity.

In an era where spatial technologies are advancing — a shift as radical as the evolution of still photography into cinema — the Spatial Arts are emerging as a new artistic movement, treating space itself as a primary medium for composition and experience. SPATIAL, as MONOM’s research and development platform, connects and amplifies this global shift by centering sound as the entry point to spatial experience, creating a platform for artists, technologists, and audiences to explore it together. Most of the works presented have been crafted over extended periods of development in our studio, to create an experience that you cannot replicate or experience fully except for in person and felt with the whole body. SPATIAL mission is to empower artists to expand their own practices into holographic sound, and supports an emerging multidisciplinary artistic and philosophical movement that explores the connection between inner and outer space, internal and external realities.

To bring this vision to life, MONOM will build the largest 4DSOUND installations to date across the iconic halls of Funkhaus. No stage. No best seat. The boundary between audience and artwork dissolves, transforming Funkhaus into an instrument for communal listening. Listeners are invited into a spacious, focused experience rooted in sound and space at their purest.

We recommend arriving 30 minutes before the start of the live performance.

Cell phone use is not permitted during the sessions.

Silence is required during the listening experience, if you need to talk you are welcome to do it in the lounge area.

MONOM has a zero-tolerance policy for any form of abuse, harassment, or discrimination.
Which payment methods are accepted in the lounge?
Card only.

Can I bring my dog?
No, unfortunately dogs are not allowed inside the Funkhaus spaces.

Can minors attend the experience?
This exhibition contains moments of high sound pressure levels and intense sensory elements, including periods of darkness, vibration, and spatialized sound. For health and safety reasons, we kindly ask that visitors under the age of 12 do not attend.
We appreciate your understanding as we aim to create a safe and focused listening environment for all participants.

Will food or drinks be available?
Yes. Funkhaus has two restaurants, Zola and Milchbar, which will be open during the festival. Additionally, the MONOM Bar and the Block B Foyer Bar will be serving during the program.

What is a listening session?
A listening session presents pre-recorded works, played in a darkened room to focus attention on sound. These pieces have often been created or mixed over more than 40 hours of work, and will not include a live artist performance on stage.

Can I take photos or videos?
We ask that you do not use your phone during listening sessions, as the light can disturb others. During live concerts, please take photos or videos discreetly.

What time should I arrive?
We recommend arriving at least 20 minutes before your scheduled session to allow time for check-in.

Can I buy tickets at the door?
Tickets are subject to availability — we recommend booking in advance.

Is there a silence protocol during the sessions?
Yes. Speaking is not allowed during listening sessions. If you speak, you may be asked to leave the room to respect the experience of other visitors. We all need moments of silence, especially right now, and we want to make sure everyone has the chance to receive that.
Human Technology
The body, as an advanced listening instrument, has evolved to perceive sound spatially. To listen is to listen spatially... Through embodied listening, we engage not just the ears but the entire sensory system—creating a deep, multi-dimensional connection to sound. This is the essence of our approach, where the listener becomes an active participant completely as if within alternate virtual reality of sound In our festival, we leverage the body’s innate ability to perceive and process sound in ways that go beyond traditional stereo or surround sound listening environments, enabling a fully embodied and holistic interaction with the sonic landscape.

4DSOUND
4DSOUND is an Amsterdam-based studio and technology company dedicated to spatial sound as a creative medium. For over a decade, it has been at the forefront of developing advanced spatial audio software and omnidirectional sound systems. Through the creation of custom-built technology and close collaboration with pioneering artists, 4DSOUND has cultivated a vibrant international network of creatives, engineers, venues, and institutions spanning music, art, education, and research.
At its core, 4DSOUND is a collaborative engine for artistic and technological innovation. By fostering interdisciplinary partnerships across a global community of artists, researchers, and technologists, the studio bridges cutting-edge spatial audio tools with bold creative vision. Its mission is not only to advance the possibilities of spatial sound but to empower creators to redefine the boundaries of musical expression and sound-based storytelling. Through this evolving ecosystem, 4DSOUND continues to shape the future of immersive performance, interactive environments, and experimental sound art.
Tickets are non-refundable but transferable.

Different tickets provide access to different areas of the festival. Be sure to inform yourself about access: Each ticket type grants entry to specific spaces, so please review the details to ensure you have the correct pass for the areas and events you wish to attend.

Day Pass:
Each day pass grants access to all sessions from start to finish - Saal 1, Saal 2, MONOM Studio, and Shedhalle. Please note that day passes do not include access to the Club Night at MONOM on Saturday, 13th.

Weekend Pass:
The weekend pass provides access to the entire festival, including all installations, from start to finish. However, it does not include entry to the Club Night at MONOM on Saturday, 13th.

Check-in will take place at the entrance of Block B and at the entrance of Shedhalle, where you’ll receive a wristband giving you access to the respective rooms.

Additional ticket types and projects will be announced in July and August.

If you have any issues with your tickets or need assistance, please email us at: info@monomsound.com
Funkhaus Berlin
Nalepastraße 18
12459 Berlin – Germany

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We’re proud to collaborate with our media partners, whose support helps amplify the vision and reach of SPATIAL Festival. Through their platforms and voices, they connect our community worldwide and make it possible to share the experience beyond Funkhaus Berlin. A heartfelt thank you to each of them for standing with us in shaping the future of sound, art, and technology. Media Partners The Node Institute 36 Degrés Minimal Collective Earthed Musically Influencer Ambassadors: Lola Villa CNDSD Microhm.io Chang Rodrigues
Artistic Direction: Alessandra Denegri & William Russell
Sound Direction: William Russell
Festival Production: Alessandra Denegri, William Russell, Alejandra Rios, Savvas Aslanidis, Nicolas Vidal
Live Program Co-Curator: Plural Management
Lead 4DSOUND Producer: William Russell
Senior 4DSOUND Engineer: Shehryar Ahmad
4DSOUND Engineer: Alejandra Ríos
Lighting: Peter Isachenko
Resonant Studies: William Russell, Hillary Cox, Peter Isachenko, Victor Calvi, Zap Bain
Strategic Partnerships: Laura June Clark
Social Media and Communications: Emil Andersen, Alejandra Cabrera
Art Program Production: PASSAGE
Art Program Curation: Victor Auberjonois, Konrad Biedenkopf
Visual Identity: SMLXL

Angaben gemäß § 5 TMG:
MONOM Sound GmbH
Wildenbruch Strasse 6
12045 Berlin



Vertreten durch:
William Russell



Kontakt:
E-Mail: info@monomsound.com



Registereintrag:
Amtsgericht Charlottenburg (Berlin)
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VAT: DE313751848



Verantwortlich für den Inhalt nach § 55 Abs. 2 RStV:
William Russell & Zak Khutoretsky



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Photos by Becca Crawford
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