Since 2017, MONOM has collaborated with over 200 artists, building a groundbreaking archive of spatial sound works. These creations explore the expressive potential of the 4DSOUND system, challenging the conventional limits of listening and uncovering new dimensions of sonic storytelling.
Presented over two dates at our Berlin studio, located at the iconic Funkhaus, MONOM ARCHIVE offers two separate communal listening sessions on CTM Festival’s first and second weekend respectively. Each session features a selection of works created during artist residencies at MONOM, plus compositions by MONOM Studio that showcase the studio’s own concepts and lines of study.
On January 26, the first sessions follow directly after an Open Studio from the Wilding AI Lab, where fellows present ideas-in-progress and spatialization exercises under the guidance of the Wilding AI team and MONOM.
On February 1, a free panel discussion titled «Spatial Sound as an Artistic Medium» precedes the second listening session, inviting dialogue among artists, producers, and studios exploring the creative possibilities of spatial sound. This program highlights over five years of collaboration with CTM Festival and reinforces Berlin’s growing reputation as a hub for spatial sound research and creativity. Experience Berlin and world premieres of works created during MONOM residencies, featuring pioneering artists and MONOM’s own creations.
About MONOM
MONOM is a studio exploring spatial sound as an artistic medium. From sound art and music to theater, opera, dance, and the immersive realms of virtual and augmented realities, MONOM’s mission is to provide space and time for artists to expand the dimensions of their creative practice and to enrich communal and individual experiences of sound and art.
Founded in 2017, MONOM’s studio is home to the original 4DSOUND system. This technology is an intuitive instrument for composing virtual sonic realities. These new worlds of sound are designed not only to be heard but also to be felt with the whole body.
MONOM aims to foster a multicultural and cross-disciplinary movement centered around spatial sound and listening-based practices and experiences. MONOM believes in the potential of this emerging art form to transcend cultural divides through a common language of sound and space.
About CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music & Art
CTM connects multi-perspective experiences, critical reflection, hedonism, and collaborative learning via a yearly festival and continuous collaborative projects, publications, commissions, concerts, club nights, and more. The festival’s 26th edition will take place 24 January – 2 February 2025, presenting a myriad of experimental, personal, and emotional artistic practices that mirror a world in distress and uncertainty. Spatial sound is one of the ongoing threads within the festival programme, explored through commissioned works, labs, and collaborations. Concerts, club nights, workshops, artistic labs, and talks run across Berlin venues silent green, radialsystem, Volksbühne, MONOM, Berghain, Oxi, RSO.Berlin, Morphine Raum, and more.
Program:
Sunday, January 26
13:00 – 17:00: Wilding AI Open Studio (Free entry)
18:00 (Session 1):
The Elements: “Water” x MONOM (Berlin Premiere)
“Lo! The Dim Shadows of the Night” by Maria W. Horn (Berlin Premiere)
20:00 (Session 2):
The Elements: “Earth” x MONOM (Berlin Premiere)
Thomas Ankersmit
Saturday, February 1
16:30: Panel Discussion — “Spatial Sound as an Artistic Medium” (Free entry)
18:00 (Session 1):
The Elements: “Fire” x MONOM (Berlin Premiere)
“Matrix of Modernity” by Walter Sallinen (World Premiere)
20:00 (Session 2):
The Elements: “Air” & “Aether” x MONOM (Berlin Premiere)
“Marshlands” by Venus Ex Machina (World Premiere)
