Kernel Expansion contains three interconnected sections and explores the essence of sound in its rich multiplicity. The music exposes the 'kernel' or 'heart' of some specific sound sources; from outdoors, from inside, from realities, dreams and imaginations.
The work is spatialised in a hybrid ambisonics format. Some source materials were recorded with a Sound-Field microphone, other materials were synthesised in higher-order ambisonics.
'Kernel Expansion' was commission by, and realised in the studios of ZKM, funded by ZKM's Giga-Hertz Award for electronic and acousmatic music 2008. The work was premiered over ZKM's 43-loudspeaker Klangdome concert system.