software

From 2011 to the present Gerriet K. Sharma has been using the “Kronlachner-Plugins” provided and maintained by Matthias Kronlachner. Back then, the plugins were summary of years of IEM research on spatial audio. In the OSIL project, the plugins were integrated into the research and compositional process working with the IKO and utilised in combination with the REAPER DAW. From the beginning, the idea was to make the IKO available to different fields, e.g. architecture, music, sound art, performance, theatre, and sound scenography. For this reason, the software for producing and steering sound beams is freeware and easy to learn for practitioners from all kinds of disciplines. Of course, the plugins can be easily used within MAX/MSP, PD or SuperCollider.

In 2021 IRCAM’s Spat integrated several IKO applications.

Since 2022 Eric Raynaud (aka fraction) and Gerriet K. Sharma have been working on a “bridge” between XPforLive and IKO. They started to draft initial ideas during Eric’s residency at spæs Lab Berlin and have continued their collaboration since then. Based on Gerriet’s experiences of the past 12 years with IKO compositions and performances and Eric’s rare programming skills, in January 2023, they settled on the first prototype at a joined residency at Callie’s Berlin. This application is now in beta-testing phase and will be released in late 2023. This is a direct and non-institutional collaboration with the intention to open up the possibilities of IKO to as many spatial sound practitioners and theorists as possible.