[Off-ICMC] Soundbar: „Sono, ergo sum.“ – Ich klinge, also bin ich.

In the organizer's words:

What does your drink actually sound like?

The Soundbar is a performative mobile bar that combines socializing, drinks and jam sessions. It creates a space for listening, experimenting and being together - and takes you on a multifaceted sound journey.

Come by, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable. Let your glass ring out and elicit previously unheard sounds from the bar. Become part of the action yourself.

A project by the Soundbar Collective (Marta Denker, Vanessa Könemund, Esther Wilka, Thorben Schulz, Leila Alavitabar)

Free coming and going
Without registration

About the Soundbar Collective

The Soundbar can be created anywhere where people look deep into each other's eyes and toast with drinks. I sound, therefore I am.

The Soundbar Collective was founded in 2023 and sees itself as a performative, mobile bar as well as a multivariable music and sound instrument and space that is constantly recreated on site. The Soundbar sees itself as a workshop and experimental space, providing room for sound sensitization, inspiration and encounters. It creates open stages for jamming, communities and networks in which creative exchange can take place. The Soundbar invites you to explore sound together and discover new forms of togetherness.

Marta Denker studied musicology and Hispanic studies (B.A.) in Hamburg and then devoted herself increasingly to working in theaters. She has been active in the musical field for many years and develops projects at the interface of composition, sound design and scenic music. She deepened her work as a sound artist in the Master's program Sound-Vision (M.A.), with a focus on sound-musical and sound-technical processes. She has been involved in numerous interdisciplinary productions, scored the Student Academy Awards semi-finalist film Echoes of Juno and produced music recordings for the quartet Elbtonal Percussion, Gabriele Hasler, as well as the music theater project HEAT by the collective Affekt & Geste. In 2023, she founded the Soundbar together with other artists.

Vanessa Könemund is a Hamburg-based motion designer and video artist whose work bridges the gap between global issues and spatial audiovisual design and combines interdisciplinary disciplines in one project. In 2025 she completed her master's degree in communication design at the HAW Hamburg, Department of Design. In addition to her freelance work as a motion designer, she works as an illustrator for NDR, where she visually accompanies various formats with animated drawings and graphic novels. As early as 2019, she developed the audiovisual installation concept Seidenstraße as part of a design collective, which was realized in cooperation with the Körber Foundation and in the resonanzraum. Since then, she has created various collective projects with an audiovisual-installation focus in addition to independent video works. Since 2023, she has been involved in the collective Affekt & Geste as a video and installation artist together with Mirella Frenzel. In this context, the music theater HEAT was created in 2024. To the showreel

Thorben Schulz is a Hamburg-based videographer and video artist. He is a student in the Master Sound/Vision program at HAW Hamburg. His passion lies in experimental and documentary audiovisual works at the interface of film, art and technology. In his projects, he combines documentary observations with abstract visuals, often using real-time tools such as TouchDesigner. Thematically, he deals with urban spaces, night culture and the emotional states of people in exceptional situations.

Leila Alavitabar is a new media designer and artist born in Tehran and based in Hamburg. She develops interactive and immersive audiovisual installations that integrate the human body into a digitally augmented physical space and take participants on multi-sensory journeys. With a strong focus on the connection between technology and physical experience, she creates spaces where music, visuals and interaction merge. In 2024 she completed her master's degree in Time-Dependent Media at HAW Hamburg. Her works Sound of Shapes (2022) and Invisible Worlds (2021) have been presented at festivals such as the Sound/Image Festival in London and Photopia Hamburg. She is currently working on various projects within the Soundbar Collective. To the portfolio

As a sound artist,Esther Wilka explores the interfaces between art and technology and is always looking for new forms of auditory experience in her work. She brings her flair for spatial and narrative sound to various media projects - such as the Hörweg Dieburg, the interactive media experience Eudaimonia or the animated film Gasping for Life, which was awarded the WHO Health for All Student Prize in 2023. Another passion is the realization of music recordings in a wide variety of formats. This has resulted in concert recordings and trailer productions, including in collaboration with the Hamburg-based ensemble Elbtonal Percussion. She has been part of the Soundbar collective since 2024. After her Bachelor in Sound and Music Production at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (B.A.), she is currently deepening her artistic and technical practice in the Master's program Sound-Vision (M.A.) at the HAW Hamburg and in the Master Digital Media Production (Dipl.-Ing.) at the FH St. Pölten. To the website

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