The ZKM Klangdom
Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Joachim Goßmann, Ludger Brümmer · New Interfaces for Musical Expression · 2006
The Klangdom is an audio spatialization instrument developed at the Institut fur Musik und Akustik at the ZKM. It is made up of 39 Meyer Sound loudspeakers hung on four sliding tracks, allowing for easy re-configuration of the speaker setup. The audience sits inside the Klangdom, which can be controlled either directly via a mixer, by externally developed software, or by a sequencer for sound movement, Zirkonium, developed at the ZKM. Zirkonium can accept and spatialize audio generated by other applications (even on remote machines) and can simulate the Klangdom over alternate speaker setups to aid composition and dissemination (e.g., in stereo or 5.1).