Gerriet Krishna Sharma

Gerriet 'SKrishna Sharma is a composer, sound artist, and artistic researcher in sonic spatial practices. Within the past 20 years he was deeply involved in the spatialisation of electroacoustic and instrumental compositions in Ambisonics and Wave-Field Synthesis.

Furthermore, he was extensively concerned with textural transformation processes into 3D-sound sculptures. Gerriet studied Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and composition & computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. In 2016 he completed his doctorate “Composing with Sculptural Sound Phenomena in Computer Music” at the scientific-artistic doctoral school Graz. His works were presented at international festivals, conferences and symposia.

Sculptural works for the icosahedral loudspeaker (IKO) and loudspeaker

hemispheres were presented amongst others at Darmstädter Summer Courses, Music Biennale Zagreb, New York Electronic Music Festival, Kontakte

Festival Berlin, and Wiener Festwochen.

Gerriet received numerous awards and scholarships amongst the German Sound Art Award 2010. Senior artistic researcher within the three-year project “Orchestrating Space by Icosahedral Loudspeaker” (OSIL) funded by the Austrian Science Fund. He was appointed DAAD Edgard Varèse guest-professor at the TU Berlin in 2017/18. Diverse publications in international journals and books on spatial practices, music and sound.

Gerriet's binaural spatial sound model (ssm) firniss redux was published by mille plateaux in 2020 and was part of the lumbung radio project at documenta 15. He is co-founder of the “Lab for Spatial Aesthetics in Sound” (spæs) at Funkhaus Berlin in 2020.