Public Listening Series
ascolta is the public listening series of the ICST Composition Studio: acousmatic and electroacoustic music presented in an intimate, immersive setting.
Sessions connect studio practice, residency projects, and international repertoire through higher-order Ambisonics listening at ZHdK.
Next session: #19 ascolta presents three new Ambisonics works from the ICST Studio Residencies 2025 by Nandele Maguni, Youngjae Cho, and Ana González Gamboa.
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Listening Guide
Questions, categories, and exercises for active spatial listening.
Residency projects
Artists and projects connected to many ascolta programmes.
All Sessions
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2024
2023
#09
Hans Tutschku — Remembering Japan
05 Dec 2023
#08
La Canción de la Tierra — Mesias Maiguashca
24 Oct 2023
#07
ICST Artists in Residence — concert with works by former residents
06 Jun 2023
#06
Zbigniew Karkowski — noise and experimental electronic music
04 Apr 2023
#05
Field-Recordings & Soundscapes — Philip Samartzis
14 Mar 2023
2022
Listening
→ Ascolta Listening Guide — Smalley’s spatial categories, five analytical questions, three exercises for active spatial listening.
A selection of online resources for listening to Ambisonics and spatial audio:
- Sounding Future — Tracks — spatial audio archive
- Sounding Future — Artists — composer and artist profiles
- HOAST Library (IEM) — Higher-Order Ambisonics recordings
- Nimbus UHJ — classic Ambisonics UHJ recordings
ICST B-Format Archive
The ICST maintains an archive of works recorded and encoded in ambiX B-format.