staging augmented reality, experiment 2: sound

doublelucky productions
October 18 and 19, 2024, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
Part of “Spy on Me #5”

In an open studio, the Berlin-based group doublelucky productions presents new experiments with augmented reality, focusing on sound in space and the creation of audiovisual topographies. HAU3 Houseclub becomes a hybrid sphere of digital and physical bodies that are brought into play with each other. A bass, a horn, a ventilation pipe; in between voices and wandering virtual objects that buzz, whisper, sound and silently disappear again. The audience explores the environment with tablets, triggers sound and image sequences and thus becomes instrumentalists in a collective spatial sound composition.

Hannes Strobl’s spatial sound composition for an 8-channel sound system and 35 iPads is a cutting-edge exploration of immersive sound and interactive technology. In this innovative piece, the 8-channel system creates a dynamic and enveloping sonic environment, where sounds move through space and shift in real-time. The 35 iPads serve as both control interfaces and participatory devices, allowing users to influence the composition by manipulating audio layers, triggering sounds, or altering the spatial arrangement of sound sources. Through this fusion of sound design, spatialization, and interactivity, Strobl blurs the boundaries between performer, technology, and audience, creating an ever-evolving auditory experience that invites active engagement and experimentation.