Sound Dome
DOME 008 – BOSCH The Garden of Earthly Delights
Although the Bosch exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts has ended, from December the House of Music is bringing the Garden of Earthly Delights to life. In the domed room a 360-degree projection of Miss Virgács’ (Nikolett Németh) collage animation technique sets the Dutch painter’s altar triptych in motion to the accompaniment of contemporary polyphonic choral works by Cantemus, subtly distorted and modulated by MA'AM (Anna Makay), and complemented by diabolical sound sequences.
Running time: 35 minutes
Age limit classification
We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 16.
The screening is in Hungarian, but this should not affect your experience.
Dome 016 - Csontváry: Levante
Audio-visual adaptation of Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka's paintings in the spirit of the solar journey, from Naples to Jerusalem.
View or vision? Many people have asked this question after seeing Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka’s paintings. The paintings of this artist, considered a unique and eccentric figure in the history of Hungarian art, leave no one indifferent. Dreams awakened by landscapes he had never seen before, and the depiction of reality directed towards the sky, of living nature tending towards surrealism, are one of the keys to his art. He was looking for the journey of the sun, the great motif and the mystic, and he believed that he could only find it in the East, in the lands of the Levant. At the turn of the 20th century, he made several trips to the provinces east of Italy, following the line of the increasingly popular Asian tourist routes.
Our musical journey takes us on an itinerary based on four scenes and twelve paintings, from the city of Castellammare in the Bay of Naples, through Athens and then Jerusalem, to the 6,000-year-old cedar of Baalbek. The artist's well-known and lesser-known paintings are brilliantly illustrated with compositions written and performed by renowned Hungarian and foreign performers, linked to each location. A canzone by the Italian Faraualla and Fratelli Mancuso, followed by a popular rebetiko by Veronika Varga and the Esperia band, then Jordi Savall and the Faran Ensemble evoke Jerusalem, and finally the ethereal music of Dhafer Youssef and Ádám Kalamár closes the round.
Csontváry's monumental paintings, his masterly brushwork, his colours glowing with the power of the soul from an unmarkable, unlocatable source of light, now enchant the visitor in the Sound Dome of the Hungarian House of Music, who, following the traveller who has been on an adventure for 100 years, can board a plane, a boat or a train to answer the question: is the master's oeuvre a vision or a spectacle?
Running time: 25 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 3.
The screening is in Hungarian, which may affect your experience.
DOME 009 – Cloudhitects: Point Cloud Budapest
The next show at the Sound Dome is a point cloud journey that exhibits the sights of Budapest in a naturalistic point cloud environment. All these images begin to behave in an abstract way at a certain point in the audio-visual projection, with spaces merging into each other during the journey. The abstractions reinterpret the scanned spaces and they come to life on the surface of the Dome. The Parliament building, Chain Bridge, Várkert Bazaar, Hold Street, Heroes' Square, the Academy of Sciences, the National Gallery and the Eastern Railway Station all appear in the production.
Running time: 24 minutes
Age limit classification
We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 10.
The screening has no dialogue, recommended for guests of any language.
DOME 010 – 'Tales from the Lakeside'-day
The Lengemesék, characterized by Judit Berg, are a big crowd favorite in domestic waters, from which a TV series and two full-length cartoons were made. Now they are reviving in a new dimension not only for older kindergarten and elementary school children.
Language: hungarian
Running time: 20 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 3.
The screening is in Hungarian, which may affect your experience.
Sound Dome - DOME 000 Moods
It is a unique creation, its possibilities are unpredictable. You have to come here from time to time to get to know the latest discoveries. The first message conveys the sounds and images of the Carpathian Basin from a special auditory and visual perspective.
Running time: 21 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 4.
The screening has no dialogue, recommended for guests of any language.
DOME 006 - The Intergalactic Gateway
What can the Sound Dome do? What is ’surround sound’? What is 360-degree projection? How are works produced for a unique audio-visual system like this? On this occasion, the Sound Dome itself will answer – using the voice of the actor Barbara Hegyi – more questions than you can shake a stick at, using a projection to lead the audience on a fabulous journey, illustrated with excerpts from the content currently being shown at the Dome. This short film aims partly to show the variety of ways in which the creators are able to use the technology built into the space, and partly to introduce viewers to the diversity of genres that can be explored within it. They can experience, for example, what happens when sound and image are in synch, and what it is like to have visual content responding instantly to sound and music at any given moment.
The virtual tour, which sets off from Liszt Ferenc Airport, offers visitors a playful way of exploring the complex system of the Sound Dome and its hidden potential.
Vazul Endre Mándli is the artistic curator of the new content woven together for the Sound Dome, Panni Néder is the story writer and director, while the sound engineer for the compilation is Tamás Zányi, the sound engineer for the Oscar-winning film Son of Saul, who has won multiple awards and international acclaim. The visual content was created by Gáspár Batta and András Juhász.
The screening of "Sound Dome: The Intergalactic Gateway" will be presented by the House of Music Hungary in cooperation with Budapest Airport as part of BrainBar 2022 and will then be included in the content available daily.
Running time: 29 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 6.
The screening is in Hungarian, which may affect your experience.
DOME 019 - RENOIR
Running time: 29 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 6.
Having already given us new ways of looking at Bosch and Csontváry, this Sound Dome programme will feature a great painter being exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts for the third time. This latest audiovisual work features the paintings of Renoir set in motion using both manual and digital (so-called generative) imaging techniques. The animated imagery is also enhanced by music that moves in every dimension. What makes these unique installations created from the painters’ works so special is the way they allow visitors to examine the pictures from much closer up than they would be able to view the original paintings with the naked eye, incorporating them too into these stories painted centuries ago.
Visual composition: Dániel Németh
Musical concept & sound design: Ákos Lovász, Ádám Kalmár
The screening has no dialogue, recommended for guests of any language.
DOME_020 SOMLÓ DÁVID: A TEREK BESZÉLNEK – HALLOD?
Running time: 22 minutes
Flowing imperceptibly into each other in Dávid Somló’s contemplative work for the Sound Dome are sustained resonant musical sounds and imagined soundscapes, accompanied by a projection based on the dreamlike animation of the artist’s own analogue photos, providing visitors with space to immerse themselves in the sounds and their own memories.
Creators: Dávid Somló - Composition,
Photos András Szombathy - Visuals
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 7.
The screening is in Hungarian, which may affect your experience.
DOME_021 PLATON KARATAEV - NAPKÖTÖZŐ
The spring of 2024 saw the release of Platon Karataev’s fourth album, Napkötöző (Sunbound). The central symbol of the new album this time is the Sun, which first rose in the space of the Sound Dome and was projected onto every point of the hemispherical canvas. This is an exciting experiment, as this time it is a continuous bouquet of short three-dimensional film-like videos – an unusually exciting visual presentation of several songs from the new album – that will be presented in the unusual space. Platon Karataev are continuing along the path they started down previously: drawing from guitar band traditions, they blend mystical overtones into their music. Ákos Székely conceived the visual world for the songs that form the backbone of the band’s new album. This Sound Dome screening of Sunbound was recognised with Music Hungary’s visual award in the autumn of 2024.
Duration: 22 minutes
Age limit: This screening is recommended for visitors aged 7 and above
Although the songs heard in the screening are performed in Hungarian, this does NOT impact the ability of non-speakers of the language to enjoy the experience.
DOME_022 ZSOLNAY FÉNYFESZTIVÁL SHOWCASE
It’s Pécs’ turn move in and fill the House of Music with events linked closely to the city as part of our City in the House series. A selection of audio-visual events will also be set up in the SoundDome, evoking the world of the Zsolnay Festival of Lights, one of Hungary’s most spectacular events.
Running time: 16 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 7.
The songs in the screening are in Hungarian, but this does NOT affect the experience.
DOME 024 – Red-footed Falcon
The Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society's Red Footed Falcon Conservation Working Group has produced a unique three-dimensional film for the 20th anniversary of its creation, which can be most effectively presented on this three-dimensional hemispherical screen in the SoundDome at the House of Music. MMTE was commissioned by National Geographic to film in Angola, the world's largest nocturnal roosting site for birds of prey, where the world population of red footed falcons congregates before beginning their migration to Europe. The three-dimensional short film is complemented by a short educational documentary on the project on the screen of the hemispherical dome, and the African pulse is rounded off by a selection of nature photos taken during the expedition. During the DOME_LIVE premiere, there will be an opportunity to ask questions to the creators and the expedition participants.
Running time: 20 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 4.
The screening is in Hungarian, which may affect your experience.
DOME 023 – Szauder Dávid: Mestersége az intelligencia
Though artificial intelligence has existed for almost four decades, its development has accelerated at nearly incomprehensible speed over the past 18 months to 2 years. It’s hard to know whom and what to believe. Both the arts and artists themselves can expect to be impacted by this marvellous new digital age. So it’s time to take a deep breath, fasten our seat belts and spend the next 20 minutes letting artificial intelligence reinterpret the art of the past 2000 years. Imagine the Greek temples of antiquity being built by robots, dancing Roman statues, Byzantine mosaics populated by fighting Star Wars characters instead of martyrs, Botticelli’s Venus emerging from an ice cream cone, and what Bosch’s altar would look like in a zero gravity world. Quite a bit different, right? While intended partly as entertainment, the video montage also helps visitors understand what artificial intelligence can be used for, if we have the courage not to fear it.
Running time: 20 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 7.
The screening has no dialogue, recommended for guests of any language.
DOME_014: Csoma Kaleidoscope
Language: Hungarian
Both the visual and musical worlds of the Csoma Kaleidoscope reach back to Tibor Szemző's Arboretum Suite (2002) and his film The Guest of Life (2006). In the kaleidoscope – and on this occasion the Sound Dome kaleidoscope acts in magical way – his music and the soundspace open up together uniquely to evoke the indescribable Himalayan environment in which the pilgrim-scientist Sandor Csoma lived out his days among the mountains.
"To the scholars of his generation, Csoma was an obscure figure from Transylvania, abandoned and stateless among the Himalayan mountains, but from their peaks he cast the shadow of a giant across Central Asia."
W.W. Hunter
In this work, we hear the voice of Sándor Kőrösi Csoma delivering his personal account, originally written for a certain Captain Kennedy. In it he relates his travels and his aims after his detention by the British authorities on suspicion of espionage. Doctor Gerard, the British doctor who visits Csoma in his cell, also contributes as fragments of the Hindu world filter in through the kaleidoscope of Francis Bain's enchanting narrative. The source of the texts is the Csoma biography Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös / Kőrösi Csoma Sándor dolgozatai (1885) by Tivadar Duka. The intimate, personal narration, spoken from an eyewitness perspective, is embedded in and accompanied by instrumental and vocal music that is orchestrated for the unique tonal qualities of the kaleidoscope, meanwhile the images multiply in a kaleidoscopic fashion fully in harmony with the music. During the nineteen movements of the performance, the approach to Csoma is assembled and we the audience come closer to understanding what this ’adventure' must have been like from the inside, and to experiencing the incomparable experience of spaciousness.
staff
Tibor Szemző – director, music and text
Dániel Németh – visuals
Ákos Lovász – sound design
Vazul Mandli – curator
the film crew
István “Taikyo” Szaladják – photography
Gábor Roskó – paintings
Kása Papp, Bálint Kolozsváry - animations
Teri Losonci – editor
György Durst, Attila Bognár – producers
the musicians
The Gordian Knot Creative Music Lab
Zsombor Dudás – drums and percussions
Ildikó Fodor – soprano voice
Tamás Geröly – gardon
László Gőz – basstrumpet, sea shells, tillinkó
István Grencsó – tenor saxophone
Ernst Hirschberg – keyboards
Mihály Huszár – electric double bass, bass guitar
Szabolcs Keresteš – piano, celesta
László Kéringer – tenor voice
Zsigmond Lázár – violin
Éva Posvanecz – viola
Alois Samson – wind controller
Tibor Szemző – narrator, bassflute, 8mm-phone
T. Bali – electric guitar
Voces Aequales Ensemble
Zoltán Gavodi – countertenor voice
Csaba Gyulai – tenor voice
Zoltán Mizsei – baritone voice
Tomasini String Quartet
László Paulik, Erzsébet Rácz – violin
Éva Posvanecz – viola
Balázs Máté – cello
Lobsang Dhamchoe – chanting voice
Lama Lobsang Gedun – recitation
recording and sound design
Alois Samson – Fodderbasis
István Horváth – HEAR Studio
László Hortobágyi – Tharnox Studio
Zoltán Regenye Regi – HSB Mobile Studio (India)
Károly Liszkai – Studio RH
Tamás Zányi – Saint Audio
Károly Göllner – CPT Mures Mobile Studio (Romania)
Viktor Szabó – Budapest Music Center
literary sources
Theodore Duka: Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös Francis William Bain: An Incarnation of the Snow, The Substance of a Dream
consultants
Eszter Molnár, Caroline Bodóczky, Gábor Ferenczi
© & ℗ Tibor Szemző 2002-2023 all right seserved
The original English and Hungarian versions of the CSOMA KALEIDOSCOPE are both available.
Running time: 51 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 6.
The screening is in Hungarian, which may affect your experience.
DOME_028: Budapest 150 - The Mysterious City Park
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Budapest's founding, an image film titled The Mysterious City Park was created for the House of Music's Sound Dome in collaboration with Animatiqua, using photos from Fortepan to tell the visual story of the capital's central park—based on photographs from the Fortepan collection.
The distant past of the park and its surroundings comes to life through animated photos, allowing us to experience everyday moments and almost walk alongside famous composers (Franz Liszt, Ferenc Erkel, Béla Bartók), scientists (Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Nikola Tesla), and the residents of that time. In the first and largest part of the 360° archaic-style film, the history of City Park up until 1945 is brought to life, with a special focus on the 1896 World Exhibition held here—primarily through photographs by György Klösz—and the surrounding events, including now-vanished buildings from the Industrial Hall to the Regnum Marianum Church, as well as the historical appearances of the Circus and the Zoo. As we explore the park of that era and move forward in time, we can follow smaller stories, such as how Zoltán Kodály, who lived nearby at today's Kodály Circus, would stroll into the neighboring park. From the second half of the century, the atmosphere of the park’s May Day celebrations is revived, and in the closing section leading into the present, we are ultimately confronted with the realization that the city is constantly in motion and transformation.
Running time: 24 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 4.
The screening is in Hungarian, which may affect your experience.
DOME_026 ANIMÁCIÓS RÖVID VIZSGAFILMEK
Running time: 32 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 12.
The songs in the screening are in Hungarian, but this does NOT affect the experience.
Műfajkategória:
kultúrtörténeti ismeretterjesztő film
Palotai Zsolt a modern elektronikus zenei műfajok első számú megismertetője volt Magyarországon, a Tilos az Á zenei felelőse, a Tilos Rádió egykori alapítója és sok éven át zenei főszerkesztője. A 2023. november 18-án elhunyt legendás DJ előtti tisztelgésként a Kiégő Izzók vizuális alkotócsoport tematikus vetítést készített a Hangdóm egyedülálló audiovizuális kupolájába, amely a róla készült fotók, videók, egyedülálló zenei gyűjteményéről és személyes tárgyairól készült felvételek művészi összefűzésével állít emléket a trendformáló, nagyvárosi DJ- és party-kultúra origójának tekintett Palotai Zsoltnak.
A 360 fokos film zenéjét DJ Palotai egyik utolsó rögzített mixe adja, amely 2023. nyarán hangzott el a Tilos Rádió adománygyűjtő fesztiválja, a Tilos Maraton Cökxpon Chillegal nevű helyszínén.
A film bemutatója március 9-én, a DJ-k világnapján, a Tilos Rádióval társzervezésben megrendezett nagyszabású Palotai Zsolt emlékkiállítás keretében valósul meg a Zene Házában, ahol a vetítések mellett átfogó audiovizuális kiállítás, személyes tárgyakból készült installációk, DJ-fellépések és további kísérőprogramok is várják a közönséget – Palotai Zsolt rendkívül színes zenei ízléséhez méltó eklektikában, a teljesség igénye nélkül.
A március 9-i vetítésekre kedvezményes árú regisztrációs jeggyel látogathatók, amely megvásárlásával egyúttal Palotai Zsolt családját is támogatod.
A filmben felhasznált anyagokért köszönet Palotai Zsolt családjának és sok-sok közeli barátnak, akik az alkotók rendelkezésére bocsátották őket.
Időtartam: 30 perc
Korhatár besorolás:
A vetítés megtekintését 4 éves kortól ajánljuk.
A vetítés magyar nyelven zajlik.
DOME_029 – INTERCONTINENTAL
As part of their ongoing mission to explore and celebrate the power of immersive art in dome environments, 36 Degrés and Jérémy Oury are excited to present a curated selection of audiovisual content that highlights the transformative synergy of music and visuals. This program is designed to captivate audiences with a rich diversity of styles, cultures, and artistic visions, offering a truly worldwide perspective to highlight musical diversity and cultural richness of each continent while emphasizing the universality of music as a bridge between people.
Running time: 30 minutes
Age rating:
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 4.
The songs in the screening are in Hungarian, but this does NOT affect the experience.
