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On January 14th, the newly opened Sound Dome – Hang Dóm was fully operational, and by invitation gathered a unique, immersive cinema experience in the Hungarian Music House – City Park – Budapest. Before the screening, the director: Endre Vazul Mándli introduced the press and invited guests to the secrets behind the scenes. Creators: Panni Néder, Tamás Zányi, Gáspár Batta, András Juhász. The screening of Somló Dávid started at 6 p.m.

As director said this will be the 28th incusive screening and the occasion of the reopening, a large-scale audiovisual program series entitled DOME_RELOAD awaiting the audience between January 14th and 19th. Also highlighted which will be the RE_LIVE premiere screenings. The renewed Sound Dome – Hang Dóm an exclusive cinema experience of works created on the hemispherical canvas providing a real sound and visual experience. Literally the dome that emits sounds, but not only sounds, the dome is also a projection screen. During the screenings, there are only sounds and visual appearances, recommended to locals and for foreigners of any language.

On the spot, anyone who sits in the middle of the space can turn their heads! The sound world comes to life, from the sounds of nature composed to music. In fact, the experience even goes beyond this dimension. This is a laboratory for the production of new sounds, alchemy at its highest level. Will be hosting screenings at several times every day, from nature films to art history works and animated short films to abstract, contemporary experimental films.

The Hungarian Music House sits at the City Park. Within the Dome Reload showing an insight into the exciting history of the Park, in collaboration with Fortepan. In addition to the premiere, previous screenings will return to the Sound Dome – Hang Dóm in a screening combined with an audience meeting together with the film by Dávid Szauder and Dávid Somló, to Platon Karataev’s award-winning film Sunbed – Napkötöző 360 and Tibor Szemző’s Kaleidoscope by Csoma, to Intergalactic Gateway presenting the operation of the Dome and experimental films made to the music of György Ligeti. This performance is also by music editor István Gőz.

The Sound Dome – Hang Dóm was designed by music editor – István Gőz director of Budapest Music center BMC – which was recently completed. The sound dome is located deep in the building -2 floor, next to the large exhibition spaces. It can accommodate around 60 visitors at a time, who can stand, sit or they can lie on bean bags in the middle of the space and admire the 360-degree surround sound, which will create the feeling that the displayed sounds and their sources are in tangible proximity. The sound dome draws attention to the universe of the sound world … in this sense it can be compared to a planetarium (as mention earlier upate). It is suitable for collecting the sounds of nature and, of course, above all, the unique performance of vocal and instrumental music. All this is accompanied by a projection on a surface stretched over the dome of the sound dome, which is suitable for evoking any visual experience related to sounds, from the starry sky to the underground cave world. He added: … Twelve years later, at the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, the experiment was repeated, also in the Philips pavilion, but in the form of a sphere. The artistic concept came from the most influential German composer at the time, Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), who was considered one of the leading figures of new music through his monumental electroacoustic works. The structure of the inner wall of the sphere formed a geometric star structure, behind which 50 loudspeakers were hidden. The audience, seated in the middle of the space, could feel that they were “inside” the swirling music that sound around them, and could therefore experience the music in three dimensions, as a spatial experience. In addition to Stockhausen’s compositions, other contemporary composers also found a place in this repertoire, and even live classical works (Bach, Beethoven) were performed in the special space”

At the end of the Sound Dome – Hang Dóm projection the audience spoke about their experience… one said “The sound dome was able to provide a transcendent experience”.

The Hungarian Music House’s program series DOME_LIVE dedicates one evening each month to the presentation of new audiovisual performances.

The other screenings of the opening festival will feature a “Best of” selection of the most popular films.

Coming up program dates and timing:
Jan.15. 7 p.m. – DOME_LIVE: The city park – Premiere screening and discussion with the creators Jan.16-17. DOME RE_LIVE audience meetings – screening and discussion with the creators
Jan.16. 6 p.m. Sound Dome – Hangdóm: the intergalactic gateway
Jan.16. 7 p.m. Platon Karataev: Sunbed – Napkötöző
The two screenings can also be visited with a discounted day ticket
Jan.17. 6 p.m. Dávid Szauder: The Mastery of Intelligence
Jan.17. 7 p.m. Tibor Szemző: Csoma Kaleidoscope

The two screenings can also be visited with a discounted day ticket:

Jan.16-19. BEST OF DOME – A selection of the most popular films
Jan.16-17 until 4 p.m. (exact program coming soon)
Jan.18-19 all day on the weekend (exact program coming soon)

DOME_LIVE (Jan.15): 3900HUF
RE_LIVE: 3500HUF
Daily ticket (valid for both RE_LIVE audience meetings on a given day): 5900HUF
Jan.14. Tuesday daily ticket
Jan.16. Thursday daily ticket
Jan.17. Friday daily ticket

Opening hours: Closed on Mondays (Closed on the first Tuesday and Wednesday of every month). Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 pm.

Age rating … was recommended viewing the screening from the age of 6.

Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter