We are looking for two musicians/sound artists, who enjoy experimenting in a multichannel environment and are familiar with immersive sound system technology. We would like to see different approaches for both residencies, ideally as part of the residency projects:
1. Residency: from MON, 27 October – FRI, 7 November 2025
>> preference will be given to applicants who are willing to work with ambisonics impulse responses and seek to either advance techniques or work on standardizing and archiving issues. We can provide recording equipment (measuring speakers, ambisonics microphones).
2. Residency: from MON, 24 November – FRI, 4 December 2025
>> preference will be given to applicants who will work on a live performance, which can (and should) be presented as part of the OTTOsonics festival 2025 (5-7 of December)
Location
The residency takes place at Alter Bauhof Ottensheim in Upper Austria (www.alterbauhof.at). This space has been used as a cultural space and a concert venue in the past years and will be the playground for your musical ideas. The main space is 10m x 12.6m and is 4.3m high. You will have access to a mixing console (A&H SQ6), microphones (hydrophone, Zylia, Rode NT-SF, multiple standard mics), recording devices (sounddevices MixPre6) and various input interfaces via USB. There is a workshop with basic tools for working with timber, metal and electronics (soldering station, oscilloscope).
Deadlines
Application Deadline: 4th of May 2025, 23:59 (CET)
The chosen artists will be informed by May 12th 2025 by email and we will post the results on out website.
Participant and application information
OTTOsonics provides the chosen candidates with:
-access to a multichannel studio space at Alter Bauhof Ottensheim
-production assistance in the implementation of projects
-1000,oo EUR fee: honoraries and materials included
-travel costs reimbursement (limited, tbd in person)
-accommodation within walking distance to Alter Bauhof (double bedroom, bathroom, kitchen)
For archival purposes, participants are asked to provide written or visual documentation of their process, such as a short paper, article, or photos and videos.
Artists have full copyright privileges over their creation. In agreement with the artist, OTTOsonics will pursue an open access policy and will present the installation continuously. With the consent of the artist, OTTOsonics will include the creations from residency programs for future marketing and fundraising purposes.
Requested information
- bio or CV (max. 2 pages)
- current portfolio and/or other samples of work
- You may also submit supporting documentation (i.e. press reviews, video interviews etc. ).
- project proposal that includes a short description of your intended research and practice for the residency, its connection to your wider discipline, and what you hope to achieve during the residency (practical outcomes). What is important to us is to learn how you will work with immersive sound.
- material list & cost estimation
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Please send all the materials to contact@ottosonics.com with the subject line “Residency 2025.”
Applications will be reviewed by:
Manu Mitterhuber
Rojin Sharafi
Carla Zamora
Bernhard Breuer
Enrique Tomás
Martin Kaltenbrunner
We are already very excited to review your submissions !
About OTTOsonics
OTTOsonics is a collective of sounds-artists, developers, and sound engineers with an initiative to make immersive audio formats accessible to sounds and performance artists, as well as cultural and educational institutions, and to facilitate their use in the arts and culture.
Last year we had the opportunity to curate concerts, residencies and a festival at Alter Bauhof in Ottensheim. Our 2022 Residencies’ aim was to exchange technical and creative methods from production to implementation, and to share artistic and technological know-how across the field of acoustic and electronic music. We invited 9 artists: Mariam Gviniashvili, Ida Hiršenfelder, Robert Schwarz & Jung An Tagen, Amélie Nilles, Boris Shershenkov, Léa Budreau, Ake Parmerud and Lior Pinsky. The participants experimented, produced and mixed their pieces during the residency with OTTOsonics speaker system, which is a modular rig of 4-inch custom-made loudspeakers plus subwoofers which can be fully adapted to diverse spatialization layouts in three dimensions. The system will be removed from the venue due to a renovation of the building during the summer and will be setup again in October. It is not 100% decided what the final layout will be but most likely it will be a 45 channel ambisonics dome with line arrays at elevation 0 + 6x 18″ subs + a stereo PA. We will provide the speaker positions in json format or as simple text file.