MONOM is an artist-run cultural centre and sound laboratory. The space is powered by 4DSOUND technology, an instrument and sound system that immerses listeners inside 48 omnidirectional speakers suspended throughout the venue and extending to 9 powerful subs submerged beneath an acoustically transparent floor. MONOM is an experimental performance venue and state of the art spatial sound studio that explores how spatial sound technologies and practices can contribute to increased opportunities for artistic experimentation and collaboration across disciplines. At MONOM the audience is enveloped completely within the artwork, enticed as active listeners to explore a shifting sonic landscape made up of dynamic sound arrangements that play with the laws of perception, and entirely subvert them.

THE 4DSOUND SYSTEM.

The 4DSOUND system is a spatial instrument. It provides a flexible, intuitive control platform for artists from different performative disciplines to experiment and express their ideas with a new dimensionality. An integrated hardware and software system, 4DSOUND creates a fully omni-directional sound environment in which you do not hear sound coming from speakers: instead, sounds appear in the space as independent physical entities. The 4DSOUND system cultivates a social listening space in which the listener and performer can interact, moving freely to explore a new physical environment of sound.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONED PERFORMANCES.

MONOM hosts artist residencies and public performances that explore the possibilities of spatial sound as an expressive medium.

Beyond unprecedented real time control over sounds parameters, 4DSOUND pioneers the harmonious integration with any and all interfaces – movement, light, virtual augmented reality, bio-feedback, metric or brainwave - providing an opportunity for artists to collaborate and combine sensory dimensions - in effect to compose, and perform a live ecosystem.

MONOM utilises this powerful integration as a summons to bring together not only sonic artists and musicians across genre and styles but also artists and technologists across disciplines –- solidifying MONOM as one of the world's premier immersive experience laboratories.

Endeavouring to work outside of the limiting frameworks of genre and style and to set no limits on the conceptual ambition of any artist, our growing family is sketching the outline of genres emerging, illuminating the richness of the Berlin art scene and contributing to its present and future development.

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