Episode 116 Fränk Zimmer (Sounding Future)
17 Apr 2025

Episode 116 Fränk Zimmer (Sounding Future)

17 Apr 2025

Announcement

We’re excited to announce the third instalment of the Immersive Audio Podcast Masterclass series. As always, the sessions are designed to enhance your practical learning experience and are delivered by world-class experts. We’ll be providing video demonstrations, spatial audio playback and an exclusive opportunity to interact with our expert guests.

We proudly present our guests from Amadeus, the Co-Founder and CEO – Fabio Kaiser, and the Co-Founder and CTO – Volker Werner. Amadeus developed solutions for acoustic enhancement for live music and speech in multi-purpose venues, concert halls or theatres. Amadeus Immersive Audio provides 3D sound source spatialisation and rendering with accurate localisation and envelopment for indoor and outdoor venues. https://amadeus-acoustics.com/

In this session, we’ll do a deep dive into the science of active acoustics and cover tools and workflows featuring the newly released ART platform.

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How to access the content from our Immersive Audio Podcast Masterclass series? Head out to our page on Patreon www.patreon.com/c/immersiveaudiopodcast. The sessions are designed to enhance your practical learning experience and are delivered by world-class experts. The livestream contains video demonstrations and spatial audio playback with live Q&A.

Summary

In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel and Monica Bolles are joined by the media artist, curator, and founder of Sounding Future – Fränk Zimmer from Graz, Austria.

Fränk Zimmer is a media artist, curator, and festival organiser. Originally trained as a communications engineer in Luxembourg, he later studied musicology in Graz and Vienna. His work combines open-source software and hardware in sound and media installations, both in public spaces and artistic contexts. Zimmer also works as a producer and co-curator of ORF musikprotokoll, a festival for contemporary and experimental music. In recent years, his focus has shifted to 3D audio and the development of interactive, web-based listening environments. In 2024, he launched Sounding Future, an online platform dedicated to exploring current technical and artistic innovations in music and audio art.

In this episode, we bring the spotlight on Sounding Future 3D music streaming service, along with an online platform aimed at providing educational resources for composers and spatial sound community. 

Fränk Zimmer LinkedIn 

Sounding Future Official Website 

3D AudioSpace for Streaming 

3D AudioSpace Press release 

Innovative streaming with the 3D AudioSpace from Sounding Future 

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Credits

This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Emma Rees and included music by Rhythm Scott.