Sound Dome
Sound Dome
What is a sound dome?
This question can be answered quite literally: a dome-cupola, which emits sounds. But it is more than just that. Our sound dome is also a projection screen with a sound system behind it. Anyone sitting in the middle will hear sounds coming from all directions. The world of sounds is evoked here starting with those of nature to composed music but the experience visitors have here expands beyond this dimension. This dome is also a laboratory producing new sounds: alchemy at the highest level. It is a unique creation with unforeseeable potential.
It is worth returning here from time to time and making new discoveries. The first show conveys the sounds and images of the Carpathian Basin from unique audio and visual perspectives.
The 360-degree dome is also a projection screen, and the 27.4-channel ambisonic sound system is located behind it. Here, those who sit in the middle of the square can turn their heads! The sound world comes to life, from the sounds of nature to composed music. This is a laboratory for the production of new sounds, alchemy at its highest level. A unique creation, its possibilities are unimaginable. You have to come here from time to time to learn about the latest discoveries.
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
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.
Age limit classification
We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 14.
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.
Age limit classification
We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 14.
DOME 007 – MÁKÓ ROZI & MÁKÓ BORI: SOURCE
The works of the composer Rozi Mákó and the media artist Bori Mákó reflect upon each other, inviting us into an (imagined) metaverse.
"This was the first memory,
the thundering spring
from which, like Eden's rivers,
the hours and the years flowed,
so that the counting could begin
of the dreams and the delusions."
SOURCE reveals an imaginary landscape of intertwining sounds and digitally created motifs through musical and visual dynamics created in real time, the details of which unfold as time progresses. The fragments can be combined with almost infinite variety, so that the slow visual changes, animated by Melinda Kádár, transform into a kind of kaleidoscopic space experience, and her sounds into a musical canon of noise melodies.
The audio-visual journey was inspired by Mónika Ferencz's book Hátam mögött dél (First Find the North Star), whose sky poems, text layers and creation story motifs "orchestrate the Universe" taking us on an adventure in a private mythological world. From darkness to light, treading the paths of no man's land, babbling out towards the sea, and soaring up to the heavens.
Music composition by Rozi MÁKÓ
Visual composition by Bori MÁKÓ
Animation by Melinda KÁDÁR
Text by Mónika FERENCZ
Co-production partner: PesText Festival, Hungarian Literary Copyright Association (MISZJE)
Creative Management: Let it Be! art agency
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
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.
Age limit classification
We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 14.
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.
Age limit classification
We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 14.
DOME 007 – MÁKÓ ROZI & MÁKÓ BORI: SOURCE
The works of the composer Rozi Mákó and the media artist Bori Mákó reflect upon each other, inviting us into an (imagined) metaverse.
"This was the first memory,
the thundering spring
from which, like Eden's rivers,
the hours and the years flowed,
so that the counting could begin
of the dreams and the delusions."
SOURCE reveals an imaginary landscape of intertwining sounds and digitally created motifs through musical and visual dynamics created in real time, the details of which unfold as time progresses. The fragments can be combined with almost infinite variety, so that the slow visual changes, animated by Melinda Kádár, transform into a kind of kaleidoscopic space experience, and her sounds into a musical canon of noise melodies.
The audio-visual journey was inspired by Mónika Ferencz's book Hátam mögött dél (First Find the North Star), whose sky poems, text layers and creation story motifs "orchestrate the Universe" taking us on an adventure in a private mythological world. From darkness to light, treading the paths of no man's land, babbling out towards the sea, and soaring up to the heavens.
Music composition by Rozi MÁKÓ
Visual composition by Bori MÁKÓ
Animation by Melinda KÁDÁR
Text by Mónika FERENCZ
Co-production partner: PesText Festival, Hungarian Literary Copyright Association (MISZJE)
Creative Management: Let it Be! art agency
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.
DOME 005 – Nagy Zétény: Would There Be A Void?
Would There Be a Void? is an experimental electro-acoustic spatial composition that leads the listener into cold, hostile, uncertain, unstable, and unexplored spaces where things that would be better left unknown are found. At first, sustained, smooth surface pitches fill the space, and then their initially ominous, static restlessness is replaced by tense variations.
The depth of the space steadily grows until it becomes too large to be filled by these sounds, and in their place appear continually jittering, moving, crackling, buzzing, snaking and straining sound objects. The direction of the reverberations begins to change, the reverberations darken and lengthen, the tension increases bringing the receiver to the realisation that they will not find peace in this space.
György Ligeti: Chamber concert excerpt + EJTECH: Formalized Music for 4 Winds
Next year, in 2023, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti's birth, the Hungarian Music House will adapt the composer's Chamber Concert for Thirteen Instruments to the cathedral's unique sound system. We are now starting this presentation with the first part of the work consisting of four movements.
The Chamber Concert, conducted by Marcell Dénes-Worowski and thirteen excellent musicians, was recorded at the Pannonia Film Studio, and this recording was adapted by electronic music producer and sound artist Esteban de la Torre for the cathedral's 31 speakers. The work is complemented by visual content in the space at 360 degrees, for which visual artist and media designer András Juhász used light as the main visual element in an abstract way. Several of Ligeti's works are defined by playing with timbres, which are supported by groups of instruments, so-called set patterns. The twenty-minute Chamber Concert presents one of the main essences of Ligeti's work on the multi-channel system of the cathedral, partly in a pedagogical way, by breaking down these sets and moving the sounds in space.
After the first part that previews next year's presentation, Esteban de la Torre's audiovisual production, Formalized Music for 4 Winds, created under the name EJTECH, can also be seen and heard at the DOME_LIVE 004 presentation. Inspired by Iannis Xenakis, EJTECH's work using sound as a physical building block, Formalized Music for 4 Winds, presents a composition based on the fluidity of noise and the interweaving of dynamic systems, where the spatial, quasi-stochastic distribution of sound sources aims to provide each listener with a unique acoustic experience. part of. The work goes around the fact that the phenomenology of sound is essential in creating the reality we experience. The curators of DOME_004 are Hedvig Somogyi and Endre Vazul Mándli.
Lighthouse
Sound Dome - DOME 003 Lighthouse
In Debrecen, scientific research has a centuries-old tradition, today it is an important international center of nuclear physics, and on the outskirts of the city, in Hortobágy, there is a unique area on the continent with the least light pollution, where the lights of the Universe can be observed unobstructed.
The city's relationship with light art dates back decades, including the erection of the country's first luminokinetic sculpture by Béla Tilles in 1975. The Lighthouse Association was founded in Debrecen in 2021 with the undisguised intention of becoming one of the international centers of light culture - taking care of the heritage of Hungarian science and art, giving way to the present aspirations and actively shaping the future - where science, technology, innovation, education and art meet and work together; where the natural environment, scientific, educational and cultural institutions and actors form an inspiring ecosystem for the most diverse aspects of thinking about light, dealing with light.
This time, the creative team of Lighthouse will present a selection of dome films in the Sound Dome of the Hungarian House of Music. The 360-degree canvas brings to life 6 different creations that surround the viewer. Where they travel, where they make you think, and where they create a meditative audiovisual experience for audiovisual transcendence.
Creators
1. Eclipse (2:29 minutes) - picture and sound: Cloudhitects (Dániel Besnyő, Patrik Kiss) - laser scan: Totalscan (Gábor Tóth)
2. Space cut (5:25 minutes) - picture and sound: Viktor Vicsek
3. Klara and the Sun (3:32 minutes) - picture: Ivó Kovács - sound: József Iszlai
4. Ratio (4:07 minutes) - picture: XYZ (László András Nagy) - sound: Siblicity (Gábor Halász, Péter Halász)
5. Resonautica (5:00 minutes) - picture: Burning Bulbs - sound: Csilla Domonkos
6. Escape (5:00 minutes) - concept and 3D animation: László Zsolt Bordos - music: Jóhann Jóhannson
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.
DOME 005 – Nagy Zétény: Would There Be A Void?
Would There Be a Void? is an experimental electro-acoustic spatial composition that leads the listener into cold, hostile, uncertain, unstable, and unexplored spaces where things that would be better left unknown are found. At first, sustained, smooth surface pitches fill the space, and then their initially ominous, static restlessness is replaced by tense variations.
The depth of the space steadily grows until it becomes too large to be filled by these sounds, and in their place appear continually jittering, moving, crackling, buzzing, snaking and straining sound objects. The direction of the reverberations begins to change, the reverberations darken and lengthen, the tension increases bringing the receiver to the realisation that they will not find peace in this space.
György Ligeti: Chamber concert excerpt + EJTECH: Formalized Music for 4 Winds
Next year, in 2023, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti's birth, the Hungarian Music House will adapt the composer's Chamber Concert for Thirteen Instruments to the cathedral's unique sound system. We are now starting this presentation with the first part of the work consisting of four movements.
The Chamber Concert, conducted by Marcell Dénes-Worowski and thirteen excellent musicians, was recorded at the Pannonia Film Studio, and this recording was adapted by electronic music producer and sound artist Esteban de la Torre for the cathedral's 31 speakers. The work is complemented by visual content in the space at 360 degrees, for which visual artist and media designer András Juhász used light as the main visual element in an abstract way. Several of Ligeti's works are defined by playing with timbres, which are supported by groups of instruments, so-called set patterns. The twenty-minute Chamber Concert presents one of the main essences of Ligeti's work on the multi-channel system of the cathedral, partly in a pedagogical way, by breaking down these sets and moving the sounds in space.
After the first part that previews next year's presentation, Esteban de la Torre's audiovisual production, Formalized Music for 4 Winds, created under the name EJTECH, can also be seen and heard at the DOME_LIVE 004 presentation. Inspired by Iannis Xenakis, EJTECH's work using sound as a physical building block, Formalized Music for 4 Winds, presents a composition based on the fluidity of noise and the interweaving of dynamic systems, where the spatial, quasi-stochastic distribution of sound sources aims to provide each listener with a unique acoustic experience. part of. The work goes around the fact that the phenomenology of sound is essential in creating the reality we experience. The curators of DOME_004 are Hedvig Somogyi and Endre Vazul Mándli.
Lighthouse
Sound Dome - DOME 003 Lighthouse
In Debrecen, scientific research has a centuries-old tradition, today it is an important international center of nuclear physics, and on the outskirts of the city, in Hortobágy, there is a unique area on the continent with the least light pollution, where the lights of the Universe can be observed unobstructed.
The city's relationship with light art dates back decades, including the erection of the country's first luminokinetic sculpture by Béla Tilles in 1975. The Lighthouse Association was founded in Debrecen in 2021 with the undisguised intention of becoming one of the international centers of light culture - taking care of the heritage of Hungarian science and art, giving way to the present aspirations and actively shaping the future - where science, technology, innovation, education and art meet and work together; where the natural environment, scientific, educational and cultural institutions and actors form an inspiring ecosystem for the most diverse aspects of thinking about light, dealing with light.
This time, the creative team of Lighthouse will present a selection of dome films in the Sound Dome of the Hungarian House of Music. The 360-degree canvas brings to life 6 different creations that surround the viewer. Where they travel, where they make you think, and where they create a meditative audiovisual experience for audiovisual transcendence.
Creators
1. Eclipse (2:29 minutes) - picture and sound: Cloudhitects (Dániel Besnyő, Patrik Kiss) - laser scan: Totalscan (Gábor Tóth)
2. Space cut (5:25 minutes) - picture and sound: Viktor Vicsek
3. Klara and the Sun (3:32 minutes) - picture: Ivó Kovács - sound: József Iszlai
4. Ratio (4:07 minutes) - picture: XYZ (László András Nagy) - sound: Siblicity (Gábor Halász, Péter Halász)
5. Resonautica (5:00 minutes) - picture: Burning Bulbs - sound: Csilla Domonkos
6. Escape (5:00 minutes) - concept and 3D animation: László Zsolt Bordos - music: Jóhann Jóhannson
Sound Dome - DOME 002 - Moment's Notice
Moment's Notice (György Kurtág Jr., Miklós Lukács and László Gőz) was inspired by John Cage's idea that contemporary music can only be talked about in the presence of the audience, in the fleeting reality of the moment, in the context of 21st century jazz, European classical and electronic music.
The musical experience is coupled with an interactive projection, in which the sounding compositions are transformed from the visual world of László Moholy-Nagy into visual signs and a kind of notes on the screen. The animated visual material was created by the BINAURA art collective, which Szabolcs Keresztes connects live with the voices. The guest performer of the production is Kornél Fekete-Kovács, a composer and trumpet player, one of the most significant figures in 21st century Hungarian jazz and contemporary music.
DOME 001 - Siblicity
Siblicity – created by the brothers Péter and Gábor Halász – invites you on a journey of self-discovery, a kind of hypnosis, with visual content provided by Makró VJ and András Nagy.
The ever-evolving layers of visual and audio worlds that mix analogue and digital techniques merge into three-dimensional audio-visual content. Using a microscope, Macro VJ creates his own universe and visual gestures from materials collected in nature. For this work, bird feathers and leaves were collected and placed under the microscope, which András Nagy has set into dialogue with animated visual content that projects onto the sound dome screen. In a strange vision of colours and geometric patterns, everyone can actually visualise whatever they wish, and to the extent their imagination allows. They are feathers and plant vines, yet they can be compared to the blood vessels of the human body. Free association is permitted, but the experience is hypnotic.
Creators: Siblicity (Péter and Gábor Halász), András Nagy, Makro VJ (Dávid Kara, Aniko Skribek)
Age rating
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 12.
Warning to those at risk of photosensitivity attacks
A small percentage of people may suffer seizures when exposed to certain visual images, including the flashing lights and patterns that form part of the show.
Photo credit: Orsolya Varga
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.
Sound Dome - DOME 002 - Moment's Notice
Moment's Notice (György Kurtág Jr., Miklós Lukács and László Gőz) was inspired by John Cage's idea that contemporary music can only be talked about in the presence of the audience, in the fleeting reality of the moment, in the context of 21st century jazz, European classical and electronic music.
The musical experience is coupled with an interactive projection, in which the sounding compositions are transformed from the visual world of László Moholy-Nagy into visual signs and a kind of notes on the screen. The animated visual material was created by the BINAURA art collective, which Szabolcs Keresztes connects live with the voices. The guest performer of the production is Kornél Fekete-Kovács, a composer and trumpet player, one of the most significant figures in 21st century Hungarian jazz and contemporary music.
DOME 001 - Siblicity
Siblicity – created by the brothers Péter and Gábor Halász – invites you on a journey of self-discovery, a kind of hypnosis, with visual content provided by Makró VJ and András Nagy.
The ever-evolving layers of visual and audio worlds that mix analogue and digital techniques merge into three-dimensional audio-visual content. Using a microscope, Macro VJ creates his own universe and visual gestures from materials collected in nature. For this work, bird feathers and leaves were collected and placed under the microscope, which András Nagy has set into dialogue with animated visual content that projects onto the sound dome screen. In a strange vision of colours and geometric patterns, everyone can actually visualise whatever they wish, and to the extent their imagination allows. They are feathers and plant vines, yet they can be compared to the blood vessels of the human body. Free association is permitted, but the experience is hypnotic.
Creators: Siblicity (Péter and Gábor Halász), András Nagy, Makro VJ (Dávid Kara, Aniko Skribek)
Age rating
This performance is not recommended for children under the age of 12.
Warning to those at risk of photosensitivity attacks
A small percentage of people may suffer seizures when exposed to certain visual images, including the flashing lights and patterns that form part of the show.
Photo credit: Orsolya Varga
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.
DOME_LIVE
The DOME_LIVE series of programs of the Hungarian House of Music dedicates an evening every month to present new audiovisual performances. During the evenings, the audience can see live instrumental or electroacoustic concerts, usually supplemented with visual material, or a premiere screening of the content produced here.
SOUND DOME OPENING HOURS
Monday closed (and closed on the first Tuesday and Wednesday of each month)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10 AM to 6 PM
Closing of the ticket office and last screening: 5.30 PM
Friday 10 AM to 8 PM
Closing of the ticket office and last screening: 7.30 PM
ARRIVAL
We can't deviate from the Hangman screening order, so if the group is 10-15 minutes late, unfortunately we can't let it in. Please take this into account and thank you for your understanding.
WARDROBE
The use of the cloakroom is free of charge and is obligatory for visiting exhibitions and events. Luggage, backpacks of any size, umbrella and bag are mandatory in the locker room. The exhibition and screening room will close at 6pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, with ticketing and admission closed at 5:30 p.m. Please leave the area when the closing colleagues show up and visit the cloakroom by 18:00 at the latest if necessary.
During the summer, the cloakroom is not open, you can use the lockers on level -1 for your luggage.
PARKING
With the ticket redeemed online, the first two hours of parking in the Museum Underground Garage are free on the day of the visit. Please validate your parking tickets at the information desk of the House of Music Hungary.
Warning of the risk of photosensitivity attacks
A small percentage of people may experience seizures due to certain visual images, including flashing lights and patterns that appear as part of the show.
