Gerriet K. Sharma, world expert in sound sculpture, multichannel composition, and site-specific installation, guest-curates a concert around the IKO, a unique 20-sided loudspeaker array that he co-developed. The concert features music and sound art composed specifically for the IKO and Ambisonic dome by Sharma and other international artists.
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As part of the symposium, we will launch SPARCLab, a new environment for immersive sound and movement that is now permanently housed at City’s Department of Performing Arts. SPARCLab includes a 24.4 channel loudspeaker system that surrounds the audience, and the IKO, a unique 20-sided loudspeaker array.
Further events launching SPARCLab take place on Monday 21 May, with a concert of work from City's Sound Studios, and on Thursday 23 May, with a portrait concert of Natasha Barrett.
SPARC is Sound Practice and Research at City, University of London. To read more about the research centre's work, please visit the dedicated SPARC website.
About Gerriet K. Sharma
Gerriet K. Sharma is a composer, sound artist, and artistic researcher in spatial practices. Within the past 20 years he has been deeply involved in the spatialisation of electroacoustic and instrumental compositions in Ambisonics and Wave-Field Synthesis. Furthermore, he was extensively concerned with textural transformation processes into 3D-sound sculptures.
He studied Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and composition & computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG). In October 2016 he completed his doctorate “Composing with Sculptural Sound Phenomena in Comoputer Music” at the scientific-artistic doctoral school Graz.
From 2009 to 2015 he was curator of “signale-graz” concert series for electroacoustic music, algorithmic composition, radio art, and performance at MUMUTH/KUG His works were presented at international festivals, conferences and symposia. Sculptural works for the icosahedral loudspeaker (IKO) and loudspeaker hemispheres were presented amongst others at Darmstädter Summer Courses 2014, Music Biennale Zagreb 2015, New York Electronic Music Festival 2016, Kontakte Festival Berlin 2017, and Wiener Festwochen 2022.
He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the German Sound Art Award 2010. He was senior artistic researcher on the three-year project “Orchestrating Space by Icosahedral Loudspeaker” (OSIL), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). He was appointed DAAD Edgard Varèse guest-professor at the TU Berlin in 2017/18.
Publications in international journals and books on spatial practices, music and sound - “Aural Sculpturality - Spatio-temporal Phenomena within Auditive Media Techniques” was published by ZKM in 2019. His binaural spatial sound model (ssm) firniss redux was published by mille plateaux in 2020 and was part of the lumbung radio project at documenta 15. Initiator of the Special Interest Group “Spatial Aesthetics and Artificial Environments” within the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) and co-founder of the “Lab for Spatial Aesthetics in Sound” (spæs) at Funkhaus Berlin in 2020. From 2022 to 24 he was appointed guest professor at HfG/ZKM Karlsruhe. Gerriet lives in Berlin.
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