Listening Room is an exhibition where soundworks are presented on an octophonic surround soundsystem. Housed in the glass pavilion of Zone2Source in Amstelpark, it invites visitors to listen with their whole bodies – to engage with the immersive, relational, and ecological qualities of spatial sound. Think of the exhibition as cinema for the ears: an inward journey shared with others.

Please note that the works are not performed live, but exhibited in an 8.2-channel setup. A single purchased ticket is valid for any Listening Room programme – the tickets are not marked by date or time!

Timetable

Ji Youn Kang – Vosim Variation I, 2026, 16 min
Ji Youn Kang – Vosim Variation II, 2026, 11 min
Sam Dunscombe – Out from the Spectral Dawn / Into the Spectral Night, 2026, 30 min

Ji Youn Kang’s Vosim Variation I unfolds through an evolving process of analogue patching. Each variation emerges from modifying the circuitry – redirecting signals, altering modulations, and reshaping the system’s internal behaviour. The work’s spatial design draws on early Sonology practices, where spatialisation was achieved not through the panning technologies common today, but through analogue means such as phase relationships, chance-based distributions, and control voltages shaping movement across the loudspeaker field. Reimagining these formative methods within a contemporary listening context, the piece highlights the aesthetic and technological sensibilities embedded in the studio’s history.

Also by Ji Youn Kang, Vosim Variation II is composed entirely from a single four-VOSIM (VOice SIMulation) patch – a synthesis method developed at the Institute of Sonology in the 1970s to simulate the human voice through repeated pulses. Across eight channels, gradual parameter shifts carry the sound from slow, bodily pulsations into dense, shimmering high tones, revealing how one configuration can generate radically different sonic spaces. Minimal editing lets the behaviour of the VOSIM system speak for itself.

Out from the Spectral Dawn / Into the Spectral Night extends Sam Dunscombe’s ongoing work with Romanian spectralism, just intonation, and her technique of mass plasma synthesis. Field recordings are analysed to extract complex pitch sets, which are then transformed into new tuning systems; sine waves and plasma bands follow these structures, at first barely perceptible as shifts in air or pressure. These layers accumulate, iterating and thickening until a dense architecture of resonance emerges – a space that listeners can move through with the ear.