With Noise Shaping, Thomas Grill provides an insight into the Rotting Sounds research project, which deals with the transience of digital sound in a social, technological, and temporal context. One central research topic is the representation of sound as a 1-bit data stream, which spans a bridge between digital and analog signals. The term noise shaping stands for the voluminous background noise that is used as a carrier for the sounds concealed in it.

Aloïs Yang and Andreas Trobollowitsch harness mechanically created sounds in a complex digital feedback system, using natural substances and performative measurements of space as well as found objects.

In her piece, the Iran-born artist Rojin Sharafi, who has been living in Austria for some years now, deals with “cultural hegemony, cultural hybridity, and cultural survival” – those voices that are deliberately suppressed in the struggle for cultural dominance.

The fifty-channel ambisonic sound system of Dom im Berg, for which the three works were commissioned, makes for an immersive sonic experience.