MNTN
Selected projects
Clout-Count is the central piece of Alicja Kwade’s exhibition “In Absence” at the Berlinische Galerie. Presented on a giant loudspeaker ring that almost reaches the ceiling of the museum, the artist's heartbeat is transmitted into the exhibition space in a series of alternating spatial figures. THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN was responsible for the technical planning, programming, and implementation on-site. MNTN was used for the production of the piece and its playback at the Berlinische Galerie.
Stein Studios is the largest studio complex in the south Asian region, and a prime venue for major international shows, concerts, and corporate events. In 2021, Stein Studios decided to upgrade the stereo sound reinforcement system to an immersive spatial audio system, starting a research journey with MNTN to design a multi-channel immersive spatial audio system.
Creative Technology Middle East was commissioned by Thinkwell Group to integrate an immersive AV installation throughout the star-studded USA pavilion at Expo 2020. We are very proud that the MNTN Spatial Sound System became part of the pavilion-wide immersive audio experience.
"Tonight in the Xixi River" is a major cultural and tourism project of Zhejiang Province for sharing its intangible cultural heritage. The MNTN Spatial Sound System is being used for the performances to become more natural and immersive and to enhance auditory intelligibility.
Under the celestial dome, the images, beats, and sounds of immersive concerts, videos, and performances – all inspired by the universe – have been presented with 360° video projection and in spatial audio with the MNTN Spatial Sound System.
The Humboldt Forum in Berlin opened to the public in 2021. The inaugural edition of the immersive listening space at the Ethnological Museum included Marc Sinan’s spatial audio piece OKSUS. MNTN provided the flexibility to easily translate the spatial mix onto the hybrid 3D audio system of the listening space, which is equipped with two spatial audio technologies, ambisonics and wave field synthesis.
The second edition of “The New Infinity” organized by Berliner Festspiele in co-production with the Planetarium Hamburg presented new fulldome artworks by Agnieszka Polska, Metahaven, and Robert Lippok & Lucas Gutierrez in the Hamburg Planetarium as well as in the Mobile Dome at Mariannenplatz in Berlin. The MNTN Production Suite was used for the spatial sound mixing. All works, including the audiovisual live performances by Dasha Rush and Robert Lippok & Lucas Gutierrez, were presented on the MNTN Spatial Sound System.
As part of the IMMERSION series by the Berliner Festspiele in co-production with the Hamburg Planetarium, The New Infinity presented new artworks for planetariums by David OReilly, Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst, Fatima Al Qadiri & Transforma, William Basinski, and Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand. The artists used the MNTN Production Suite for the pre-mixing in their studios and for the 3D sound mixing on location. All works have been presented on the MNTN Spatial Sound System in the Mobile Dome in Berlin.
For his artwork The Cosmic Dust Spider Web Orchestra, Tomás Saraceno commissioned THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN to spatially augment and translate optically detected dust particles into sound sources projected onto 32 loudspeakers. The sound waves thus produced set a living spider's web into vibrations, contributing to the sonic landscape. The interactive real-time rendering projected 128 sound sources onto 32 loudspeakers using the MNTN Spatial Sound System. The positioning of each of the sound sources was derived from a 3D camera detecting dust particles floating in a light beam. The spatial detection of individual dust particles was then used to translate positions into locations and movements of sound sources in the three-dimensional exhibition space.
The "opening act "for the German Ivory Museum is the Blackbox, a 60 sq m immersive media room where visitors experience an 8-minute audiovisual installation. The visitor is invited to explore the piece's structure by wandering through the installation and re-contextualizing its meaning. Spatial sound design, voice-over, and music complement the visual content as a further associative layer. THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN executed the technical planning of the 16.2 channel sound system and its installation, and MNTN was used for mixing the spatial audio content.
The Brandenburg Gate is an immersive film that takes the visitors through more than 300 years of Berlin history centered around the Brandenburg Gate. An interwoven mosaic consisting of documentary film footage, photographs, animations, and a spatial sound composition is presented on a 30 meters screen covering three walls and a 3D sound system with 38 loudspeakers positioned around, above, and below the audience. MNTN was used to produce the immersive soundtrack as well as for the mix on location.
During the 2015 World Economic Forum in Dalian, China, three geodesic domes were installed in the main lobby of the congress building and hosted a range of activities and discussions during the accompanying congress program. The project „Pure Land: The Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang“ by the Australian artists Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw was presented in the “Cave Dome.” THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN was commissioned with planning and operating the spatial audio system inside the dome. By using MNTN and virtual acoustics simulation, the audience had the impression of being fully immersed in authentic cave acoustics.
Romanticum is a permanent exhibition about the German Romanticism Period in the city center of Koblenz. The visitors experience a three-dimensional sound trip to the legendary Rhine Valley covering the entire exhibition space, where they acoustically cruise on a 19th-century steamboat. Boarding at dawn at the awakening harbor, steering along the river banks, and into the magical night hours spellbound by Lorelei, a famous local female water spirit, the sonic journey provides a humorous backdrop to the exhibits and informative text presented in the exhibition. THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN developed the technical concept for the spatial loudspeaker array; the MNTN Production Suite was used to produce all audio content.
The Sound Space “Night” was part of the temporary “Life in the Darkness” exhibition at the LWL-Museum of Natural History in Münster, Germany. Inside the darkened space, visitors become a part of the wild concert of the Amazonas Rainforest, surrounded by conversations and songs of the indigenous animals. Another soundscape lets the nighttime inhabitants of the Sonora Desert on the border of the USA and Mexico speak. THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN designed the spatial audio system. For the production of the 3D audio content, the MNTN Production Suite was used.