A boundary-pushing contemporary performance combining voice, breath, sheng, and interactive technology. Swiss sound artist Franziska Baumann and Chinese musician Zhang Meng create an immersive sonic environment where sound becomes a physical, emotional presence.

About the Performance

Hollow Forms – Living Inside the Voice is a cross-disciplinary work blending vocal experimentation, electronic music, and traditional Chinese instrumentation. The performance invites audiences into a constantly evolving soundscape where sound is not only heard but physically experienced.

Beginning in darkness, the audience is guided first through listening, before gradually witnessing the relationship between gesture, body, and sound. The performance unfolds as a sensory journey between silence and intensity.

Artistic Concept

Franziska Baumann explores primal vocal expression—breath, resonance, and raw sound—detached from language yet rich in emotion. Through collaboration with Zhang Meng, the work incorporates Chinese aesthetic ideas such as stillness, “negative space,” and natural rhythm.

Using the SensorGlove (developed with STEIM), Baumann shapes sound in real time through gesture, allowing audiences to see and feel sound as a spatial, living material.

Artists

• Franziska Baumann – Voice, electronics, SensorGlove
• Zhang Meng – Sheng

Sound Design: José del Avellanal Carreño

Why Go

This is not a traditional concert but a deeply immersive sonic experience. Ideal for audiences interested in experimental music, sound art, and cross-cultural collaboration, it offers a rare opportunity to “step inside” sound itself.