{"id":600,"date":"2016-06-02T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sabineschaefer.de\/?page_id=600"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:45:34","slug":"topophonien-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabineschaefer.de\/?p=600&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"TopoPhonien. Spatial Sound Art, since 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist Studio Sabine Sch\u00e4fer, 1992, Picture: Christian Zecha<\/span><\/p>\n

In the context of the series of works „TopoPhonien“, spatial sound installations are created, which are designed and produced on the aesthetic and technical basis of the artistic development project of the same name. The artworks are based on the idea of moving sound, quasi „real“, through a multi-layered loudspeaker body established in the room – by means of a computer-controlled spatial sound distribution system. Thus, spaces individualized by sound are created with walk-in spatial sound bodies, sound sculptures and concert-like spatial sound installations. Sabine Sch\u00e4fer: artistic idea, composition, production Sukandar Kartadinata: spatial sound control technology (system design), from 1990 Jannis Lehnert: spatial sound control technology, from 2013<\/p>\n

Sabine Sch\u00e4fer\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 artistic concept, composition, production<\/p>\n

Sukandar Kartadinata\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1990\u20131992, historical spatial sound controlling technology (system design, construction)<\/p>\n

Jannis Lehnert\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0spatial sound controlling technology, since 2013<\/p>\n

\"\"Artist Studio Sabine Sch\u00e4fer, Studio TopoPhonien 1992<\/span>
\nPicture: Christian Zecha<\/span><\/p>\n

Project development data<\/p>\n

\u273c 1988\/89 Development of the artistic concept \/ DAAD residency at CCRMA Stanford, USA Cal. and other computer music centers.
\n\u273c 1990-92 Development and construction of the first spatial sound control prototypes at the Institute for Music and Acoustics ( IMA) of the ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, in cooperation with the University of Karlsruhe (TH, now: KIT).
\n\u273c 1992 Construction of the 24-channel spatial sound control system Topoph24.
\n\u273c 1991 „TopoPhonien II“, first 16-channel concertante surround sound installation.
\n\u273c 1992 „TopoPhonicZones“ first 16- and 23-channel, walk-in spatial sound installation.
\n\u273c 1994\/95 Development of a keyboard-controlled MIDI interface for room sound control. 1999 Construction of a 32-channel fully digitized spatial sound control system.
\n\u273c Since 2007 the space-sound compositions, which were created in the context of the „TopoPhonien“, are archived in the ZKM Karlsruhe archive \u2018Documents of 20th and 21st Century Art\u2019.
\n\u273c 2021 Development of the spatial sound art series \u201cBats\u2019n\u2019Insects\u201d featuring sound-glass objects (Rosemarie Vollmer, glass art) and 8- to 24-channel spatial sound compositions. 2022, Acquisition of the 16-channel sound installation \u201cBats\u2019n\u2019Insects Version ZKM \u01c0 Karlsruhe<\/a>\u201d for the ZKM collection.<\/p>\n

Video documentaries
\nConversations with the artist<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
INTERVIEW by U.Becker, 1993<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1993<\/a><\/p>\n

A brief profile of Sabine Sch\u00e4fer on the occasion of the 1993 Siemens Media Art Prize ceremony<\/p>\n

Interview by Ulrike Becker, Landesschau Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg<\/p>\n

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INTERVIEW at ZKM, 2011 \u2013 Teil 1<\/p>\n

\"2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Sabine Sch\u00e4fer in conversation with Claudia R\u00f6ck, HKB Bern University of the Arts, 2011<\/p>\n

On the spatial sound art project TopoPhonien and the spatial sound object \u201cH\u00f6rbild\u201d, documented by the conservator<\/td>\n

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INTERVIEW at ZKM, 2011 \u2013 Teil 2<\/p>\n

\"2011_Hoerbild_part2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Continuation of the interview: Sabine Sch\u00e4fer in conversation with Claudia R\u00f6ck at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.<\/p>\n

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