GERRIET KRISHNA SHARMA
is a berlin-based sound artist, composer, and artistic researcher.
He studied Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and composition, sound installation & computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. In October 2016, he completed his doctorate “Composing with Sculptural Sound Phenomena In Computer Music” at the scientific-artistic doctoral school Graz “summa cum laude.” He works and lives in Berlin.
Since 2004, he is specializing in sound spatialization, in media utilizing Ambisonics and Wave-Field Synthesis, and in transforming spatial sound into 3D sound sculptures.
His works were presented i.a. at SPARK Festival for Media Art Minneapolis, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Int. Conference for Spatial Audio (ICSA) 2011/15/17, SESC Pompeia Sao Paulo Brasil, Paco des Arts Sao Paulo Brasil, Centre Pomidou Paris, Kunsthaus Graz, House of Architecture HDA
is a berlin-based sound artist, composer, and artistic researcher.
He studied Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and composition, sound installation & computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. In October 2016, he completed his doctorate “Composing with Sculptural Sound Phenomena In Computer Music” at the scientific-artistic doctoral school Graz “summa cum laude.” He works and lives in Berlin.
Since 2004, he is specializing in sound spatialization, in media utilizing Ambisonics and Wave-Field Synthesis, and in transforming spatial sound into 3D sound sculptures.
His works were presented i.a. at SPARK Festival for Media Art Minneapolis, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Int. Conference for Spatial Audio (ICSA) 2011/15/17, SESC Pompeia Sao Paulo Brasil, Paco des Arts Sao Paulo Brasil, Centre Pomidou Paris, Kunsthaus Graz, House of Architecture HDA
Graz, steirischer herbst, K21 Düsseldorf, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), New Musical Interfaces Conference (NIME) Oslo 2011, HAU Berlin, Akademie der Künste (AdK) Berlin, PACT Zollverein Essen, Kaserne Basel, Rote Fabrik Zürich,Tesla Berlin, CTM, transmediale, Ars electronica Linz, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, KONTAKTE Festival Berlin, Image & Sound Symposium London, UCL London, The Bartlett School of Architecture London, Abrons Art Centre and National Sawdust Centre New York.
Sculptural works for the Icosahedral loudspeaker (IKO) and loudspeaker hemisphere where presented i.a. at steirischer herbst 2018, Darmstädter Summer Courses 2014, Music Biennale Zagreb 2015, EPARM Festival 2015, and Fuhrwerkswaage Cologne 2019.
He received numerous awards and grants, including scholarships by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2007 and 2009 and the German Sound Art Award in 2008.
He was senior artistic researcher within the three-year PEEK- project “OSIL: Orchestrating Space by Icosahedral Loudspeaker” funded
by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
He had been appointed as DAAD Edgard Varèse guest professor at the Institute for Audio Communication (AK), teaching at the historic Electronic Studio, TU Berlin in WS 2017/18. Since 2010 he is teaching and conceiving workshops and lectures in cooperation with over 20 different international organizations and institutions.
In 2019 he initiated the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Spatial Aesthetics and Artificial Environments with members from from 10 countries within the framework of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR).
In 2020, he co-founded spæs: Lab for Spatial Aesthetics in Sound Berlin.
KEY ASPECTS OF ACTIVITY
// Sound sculpting in Ambisonics and Wave-Field
// Spatial Audio
// Synthesis and multichannel sound compositions
// Site-specific sound installations
// Composition of radiophonic Hörstücke (ars acoustica)
// Teaching in the field of “spatial aesthetics in sound”
// Artistic research and practice in sound-as-space
www.gksh.net
// Sound sculpting in Ambisonics and Wave-Field
// Spatial Audio
// Synthesis and multichannel sound compositions
// Site-specific sound installations
// Composition of radiophonic Hörstücke (ars acoustica)
// Teaching in the field of “spatial aesthetics in sound”
// Artistic research and practice in sound-as-space
www.gksh.net
