READER: SONIC BEATS
25.07.2025
Act I: Hauptmeier / Recker
Act II: beatnyk (Sonic Writing & Soundings)
Paul Hauptmeier and Martin Recker are composers working in the fields of composition, sound and multimedia art. For more than fifteen years, they have collaborated as the artist duo Hauptmeier | Recker. Their work spans a variety of domains, including opera, live electronic performance, radio art, electroacoustic music and site-specific installations.
With extensive experience in spatial audio, they have been developing LEMM, a software for audio processing and live diffusion, specialized in spatial audio performances and composition.
They are co-founders and board members of ZiMMT – Center for immersive Media Art, Music, and Technology (Germany). At ZiMMT, they curate events and conduct research in the field of spatial audio. Since 2022, the duo has been teaching sound art at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art (Halle/Germany).
Since 2017 Hauptmeier / Recker are developing their own system for spatializing sounds in live concerts. Their custom software 3D LEM enables them to intuitively incorporate complex spatial gestures into their live performance. The movement of sounds in a 3D space becomes an integral part of the performances and is just as important to the music as the sound, timbre, pitch and gestures. Therefore room itself becomes an instrument that is played by both performers at the same time.
beatnyk is a sound artist based in New Delhi, India, working at the intersection of sound art, design and technology, in conjunction with natural soundscapes and live performances. His musical practice focuses on listening as an act of preservation; he creates works that encourage audiences to listen more attentively to both a natural and a technologized soundscape.
Preamble is an aural conversation – an invitation to listen. Layering ecological sounds, voices, texts, ambient melodies, and ravey rhythms, the piece is shaped live through improvisational coding. At its core are recordings from my work on Palestine, layered with the fading presence of birdsong – a reflection on both political resistance and ecological loss. Near the end, my father‘s voice reciting the constitutional preamble offers a moment of quiet clarity – a call for unity and shared responsibility. Preamble explores the interconnectedness of all things: human and non-human, personal and political, sound and silence. It’s an attempt to create an immersive, ever-shifting soundscape.
beatnyk
