Where: Funkhaus Saal 1, Saal 2
When: Sunday, October 5th
What: Listening Sessions and Concert
Tickets: €15 - €30
Program
Listening Sessions 13:00 – 19:00
Saal 1
Paulin Paulin Paulin — “Video Barnum”
Melancholia — composed and spatialized in 4DSOUND by 4DSOUND Studio, Poul Hollemann (15 Min)
Spirals — composed and spatialized in 4DSOUND by MONOM Studio, William Russell (15 Min)
Saal 2
Spatially Reimagined Classics (30 Min)
Beethoven — Moonlight Sonata
Vivaldi — Four Seasons: Spring I Allegro
Delibes — Flower Duet from Lakmé
Debussy — Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Recomposed by Louis McGuire, Paul Behnam, & William Russell
Live Concerts 20:30 – 21:30
'Hexen' a MONOM LIMINAL experience (30 min)
'Weather Improvisations' — William Russell (30 min)
This 5th of October, MONOM extends an invitation into two distinct auditory dimensions, housed within Saal 1 and Saal 2 of the legendary Funkhaus. Across composed, spatialized, and reimagined works, the evening moves between radical reinterpretation and quiet technological subversion—offering a meditation on sound as space, and space as composition.
In Saal 1, the evening opens with Video Barnum, a hypnotic audiovisual essay by the Paris-based architectural studio Paulin Paulin Paulin. A study in layered perception and architectural mythology, the piece invokes the legacy of Pierre Paulin through shifting cinematic vignettes, each unfolding like speculative design.
The screening is followed by two immersive sound works built natively in 4DSOUND’s spatial audio environment. Melancholia—a 15-minute piece composed and spatialized by Poul Hollemann and 4DSOUND Studio—explores the gravity wells of introspection. Here, melancholy is not pathos but physics; not drama but drift. Listeners are suspended in a fluid, slow-blooming auditory world where time seems to slip sideways.
In Spirals, composer William Russell and MONOM Studio guide us deeper into the architecture of sound, constructing and dissolving geometric rhythms in space. Like the Fibonacci sequence turned inside out, this 15-minute piece disorients as much as it aligns, offering not resolution but reverberation.
In contrast, Saal 2 becomes a space for reimagination—where canonical Western works are unscored from their historical bindings and rebuilt in full spatial form. In Spatially Reimagined Classics, a 30-minute suite of four well-known compositions is stripped, stretched, and reconstituted with a contemporary ear.
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Vivaldi’s Spring I Allegro from Four Seasons, the Flower Duet from Delibes’ Lakmé, and Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune are recomposed by Louis McGuire, Paul Behnam, and William Russell, forming a luminous circuit between old forms and new technologies. These aren’t remixes or arrangements, but spatial translations—each work rematerialized in air and motion, untethered from the stage and projected in sonic architecture.
From 20:30 to 21:30, the evening moves into live performance, where MONOM’s LIMINAL series takes the stage.
In Hexen, a 30-minute spatial composition, the spectral meets the synthetic. Drawing from folklore and feedback, this MONOM experience delves into the alchemical possibilities of resonance and ritual—sound as summoning, echo as invocation.
Closing the program, Weather Improvisations by William Russell responds to atmospheric data, audience presence, and real-time system interaction. Here, climate becomes conductor, and the room itself an instrument. Russell’s intuitive performance blurs composition and contingency, letting storms build or disperse within the architecture of sound.
This evening is not a concert in the traditional sense—it is a set of listening conditions. Across both rooms, visitors are asked to arrive with openness, to stay without narrative, and to listen not to what sound is, but what it does.