Sound Space Lab: Sonic Revolutions

With the Heaven's Carousel, composer and conceptual artist Tim Otto Roth has developed an expansive instrument: 36 spherical, luminous loudspeakers rotate like celestial bodies in three wide circles above the audience. Following presentations in Rome, Baltimore and Karlsruhe, among other places, Roth has expanded his microtonal combination repertoire for the "Sonic Revolutions" at the Kunstareal with specially developed overtone compositions: sounds, including instrumental music, are broken down into their partial tones and recomposed by reproducing the individual overtones on the 36 loudspeakers.

Heaven's Carousel

Heaven's Carousel spins every evening from sunset from June 27 to July 13, 2025. We invite you to move freely under the Klangufo and explore the accelerated play with tones and scales. The compositions will vary during the runtime: for the Kunstareal festival from 27 to 29 June , Roth has developed a program under the motto "The scales are free" that takes up moments of freedom in music. At the end of the presentation, a late string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven will be confronted with the new recomposition technique: "Beethoven meets Fourier" promises an unprecedented sound experience.

International symposium

Even 180 years after the acoustic-experimental confirmation of the Doppler effect with trumpeters on a steam locomotive, the interplay of space, time and the composition of sound continues to occupy the arts and research. Parallel to the presentation of "Sonic Revolutions", Prof. Bernhard Seeber and Dr. Tim Otto Roth invite you to a transdisciplinary symposium on July 4 and 5 , at which international experts from the field of acoustics will explore the phenomenon of moving sound together with cultural scientists and artists. The symposium will be held in Language and will also be broadcast on Zoom. A public evening discussion in German on July 4 at 8 p.m. will explore the significance of space and movement for sound art.

Sonic Revolutions" is a cooperation project between Tim Otto Roth, the Chair of Audio Signal Processing, Prof. Bernhard Seeber, and the TUM Center for Culture and Arts. The project is funded by the TUM University Foundation, the DFG, the Aventis Foundation and the Sparkassenstiftung . The symposium is additionally funded by the Chair of Audio Signal Processing.