House of Music’s Sound Dome reopens with festival and enhanced immersive experience

The House of Music is hosting a festival this week on the occasion of the reopening of its completely upgraded “immersive” cinematic room, the Sound Dome, the organisers have said.

The festival dubbed DOME_RELOAD offers an audiovisual programme series between 14-19 January, they told a press conference. “Since the opening of the House of Music three years ago, the 30-minute immersive films have attracted more than 170,000 viewers. The repertoire included 27 such titles,” director Márton Horn said.

Among the films shown again are Hungarian composer Tibor Szemző’s Csoma Kaleidoscope evoking the journey of explorer Sándor Kőrösi-Csoma to the Himalayas, Poeme Symphonique For 100 Metronomes paying tribute to world-renowned composer György Ligeti and several art films on Renoir, Bosch and Tivadar Csontváry.

Following tradition, the Dome will screen a new production every month, exhibition department head Endre Vazul Mandli said. He said the programme schedule will be formulated in cooperation with students of Budapest’s Liszt Academy of Music and MOME University of Art and Design and several foreign partner institutions of the Dome.