Sonic Acts and Hartwig Art Foundation present Spatial Sound Concerts on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 February at Paradiso – with thirteen live concerts and diffusions spanning ten hours of immersive sound. Continuing Sonic Acts’ longstanding legacy in spatial audio, the two evenings unfold on the world-famous Acousmonium: an orchestra of around 60 loudspeakers designed to envelop listeners completely, brought to Amsterdam by INA GRM. Beneath Paradiso’s soaring ceilings, sound becomes a full-body experience, where listening is both attention and immersion, carried across the sculptural speaker field.
Friday 27 Feb.
Across this first five-hour night, audiences experience some of the most groundbreaking figures in experimental spatial sound, with seminal works by Bernard Parmegiani and new compositions by legends like Jim O’Rourke and Mark Fell & Rian Treanor. The Friday programme also features Jana Winderen, Sarah Davachi, and Sam Dunscombe who will perform or personally diffuse their new works.
Saturday 28 Feb.
During this second five-hour night, audiences experience newly commissioned spatial sound works by BJ Nilsen and KMRU & Aho Ssan, compositions by Éliane Radigue and Beatriz Ferreyra, and bold performances by avant-gardists Leila Bordreuil & Drew McDowall, Martyna Basta, and Mariam Gviniashvili & Hilde Marie Holsen.