GERRIET KRISHNA SHARMA
is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and artistic researcher.
He completed the First and Second State Examination in Law before studying Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and composition, sound installation and 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 in Graz, graduating summa cum laude.
Since 2004, he has been specialising in sound spatialisation, in media works utilising Ambisonics and Wave Field Synthesis, and in transforming spatial sound into three-dimensional sound sculptures.
His works have been presented, among others, National Sawdust New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, ISEA Barcelona, New York Electronic Music Festival, documenta XV, CTM, Abrons Art Centre New York, transmediale Berlin, Galerie d’Art Contemporain Bourges, Edith-Russ-Haus, SPARK: Festival for Media Art Minneapolis, Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, Kontakte Festival Berlin, Callie’s Berlin, SESC Pompeia
is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and artistic researcher.
He completed the First and Second State Examination in Law before studying Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and composition, sound installation and 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 in Graz, graduating summa cum laude.
Since 2004, he has been specialising in sound spatialisation, in media works utilising Ambisonics and Wave Field Synthesis, and in transforming spatial sound into three-dimensional sound sculptures.
His works have been presented, among others, National Sawdust New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, ISEA Barcelona, New York Electronic Music Festival, documenta XV, CTM, Abrons Art Centre New York, transmediale Berlin, Galerie d’Art Contemporain Bourges, Edith-Russ-Haus, SPARK: Festival for Media Art Minneapolis, Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, Kontakte Festival Berlin, Callie’s Berlin, SESC Pompeia
Sao Paulo Brasil, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Music Biennale Zagreb, Paco das Artes Sao Paulo Brasil, Xenakis-Festival Wiener Festwochen, Mousontrum Frankfurt am Main, Funkhaus Berlin, Uferstudios Berlin, Helmholtz Center Berlin, The Bartlett: School of Architecture London, International Computer Music Conference Ljubljana, PACT Zollverein Essen, steirischer Herbst, HAU Berlin, Kaserne Basel, Rote Fabrik Zurich, signal-graz, regionale XII, City University London, EPARM Festival, NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference Oslo, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, TETEM Enschede, Kunstverein Munich, Künstlerhaus Graz, Tesla Berlin, UCL London, Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall Shanghai, IZLOG Festival Zagreb, Kunstverein Bochum, Stichting Rib Art Space Rotterdam, House of Architecture HDA Graz, art tower Cologne, MKK Dortmund, MUMUTH Graz, Image & Sound Symposium London, BBK Cologne, K21 Düsseldorf, Künstlerhaus Graz, Harbour Cologne, Kunsthaus Graz, EMAF: European Media Art Festival (EMAF)
He has received numerous awards and grants, including scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2007 and 2009, and the German Sound Art Award in 2008.
From 2009, together with Franz Zotter, Gerriet developed the Icosahedral Loudspeaker (IKO), originally built at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) Graz in 2006, into a musical instrument and composition tool, resulting in early works such as grrawe and firniss.
This laid the foundation for the three-year PEEK project ‘OSIL: Orchestrating Space by Icosahedral Loudspeaker’, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), within which he served as senior artistic researcher.
In 2017/18, he was appointed as DAAD Edgard Varèse Guest Professor at the Institute for Audio Communication (AK), where he taught his curriculum 'SPS: Shared Perceptual Space' at the historic Electronic Studio, TU Berlin.
Since 2010, he has been teaching and conceiving workshops and lectures in cooperation with over 20 international organisations and institutions.
In 2019, he initiated the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Spatial Aesthetics and Artificial Environments, with members 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
