Der Club der Zukunft: Körper im Klangraum

Der Club der Zukunft celebrates sustainability, togetherness, and participation: it first opens as a freely accessible installation with fascinating environmental and nature sounds (soundscapes) that visitors can listen to contemplatively. The movement of those present gradually transforms the presented sounds into a danceable sonic environment and ultimately into a rave.

The initial soundscapes are increasingly abstracted: natural and environmental sounds merge into traditional instrumental as well as electronic soundscapes, and vice versa. They are visually embedded in 360° (e.g., through projection mapping). The auditory starting motifs remain tangible. Drawing on the concept of acoustic ecology, they provide the thematic framework for both audio and visuals. Sensors capture the moves of the clubbers and control the transformation of the soundscapes into an audiovisual dance environment.

Generative compositional strategies translate the movements in terms of rhythm, dynamics, sonic density, and acoustic content. The specific design in/for 3D audio, with its great spatial transparency, ensures that the interactions do not merge indistinguishably, but can be perceived as individual inputs. In this immersive, danceable soundscape, each person can experience and comprehend their own agency, and how the acoustic environment can be consciously or intuitively co-created.