NooK

Dirk Specht and Gerriet K. Sharma are both alumni of the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (postgraduate program for media art). They joined each other for playing and composing music in the electronic ensemble NooK in October 2004.

NooK constantly re-uses and rearranges sonic material in concert situations. In addition to that, the ensemble generates and explores its own audio-archive as well as modified interconnections and new track compositions in experimental laboratory situations.

Furthermore, NooK also produces audio for installations, radio, theatre and film.

The work of the ensemble mainly deals with subject areas like sound-music, music-space, sound-image as well as with the analysis of sound characteristics and sound perception. NooK are also experimenting with multi-channel systems, surround-technology, wave-field-synthesis and other spatialization-concepts that are increasingly included in the productions of the ensemble.