Since 2011, the SEM-lab researches in theory and practice this perspective`s consequences for composition, media design, everyday life aesthetic and cultures of visual and auditory perception. Debates about new digital technologies are as important as investigating terms like ecology value systems and cultural concepts. These discussions result in compositions, installations, radiogenic productions, performances and movies plus scholarly and scientific research on sound design, cultures of perception and media production aesthetics.

On 05. – 10. June 2019 Students and lecturers will participate again at the Next Generation 8.0”-Festival at the renowned Center for Art and Media Technologie ZKM in Karlsruhe to present their new 3D audio compositions and give lectures related to Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
In addition, in the frame of the Master´s program International Media Cultural Work the SEM-Lab will organize for the second time a lecture where students produce their own 3D audio pieces by collaborating with professional voice actors. The presentation will take place at Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt.

Studio director: Prof. Sabine Breitsameter
Technical director: Dipl.-Ing. Michael Greiner

Field of Activities:

– Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (installations, spatial simulations, multichannel compositions as well as 3D-Audio & acoustic holography)
– compositions for 360° movies/Fulldome Cinema
– soundscape compositions and performances
– radiogenic artforms (earplay, documentary, Ars Acoustica, Experimental Radio)
– auditory space and the public (performances, happenings, soundscape design, auditory cultural work)
– scholarly and scientific discourses on auditory cultures, immersion, Environmental Media, as well as sound and ecology

Hörweg

The project Hörweg (in english “Listening Path”) started in December 2018 and has the goal to implement an augmented reality listening path in the forest around Dieburg.
This listening path will be open to the general public. Hikers will experience eight different listening stations by using an application on their mobile phones, which brings to them intense and diverse soundscape of the biotope by which they are surrounded.

The Hörweg enhances the auditory perception of the forest by merging the natural environment with the media environment.
The black woodpecker, tree frog, bats and many others are the essential “protagonists“.
The Hörweg facilitates the rebalancing in our sensual perception from viewing towards listening and opens up our ears to often ignored sounds in our surroundings.

The Hörweg´s vernissage for the general public is planned by the end of September 2019.

Project director: Prof. Sabine Breitsameter

Project team: Aleksandar Vejnovic M.A. (production manager), Dr. Robert Löw, Dr. Oliver Schneider

In cooperation with the Gesellschaft zur Förderung des technischen Nachwuchses (GFTN), the Odenwaldklub and the Hessen-Forst Forstamt Dieburg, the Unteren Naturschutzbehörde, the city of Dieburg, the Sparkasse Dieburg, Fraport-AG and HMWK.

Further questions? Contact: Prof. Sabine Breitsameter or her research team