Contemporary music creation & technology.
Voices from the Field.
In-depth writing on music creation, audiotech, and sound culture — by practitioners and researchers.
Capturing a Place using Ambisonics
Most of us hear. Very few of us listen. Field recordist John Wills traces the practice of ambisonic capture — from the absence of anthropophony in a Scottish woodland to the eight-speaker studio where those recordings become something else entirely.
3D AudioMusic pedagogy6 min readReal-Time Spatial Audio Design in Speech Therapy
Nikos Mitsiou
3D AudioElectronic Music19 min read“sound AS space” — Interview with Gerriet K. Sharma from spæs lab Berlin
Umanesimo Artificiale
Public SpaceElectroacoustic music9 min readReflections on The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space
Emma-Kate Matthews
Audiosoftware3D Audio9 min readFrom Semantics to Trajectories: Reimagining the Spatial Audio Workflow with Generative SPATAI
Sinan Bökesoy
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Sound That Surrounds You.
AudioSpace is Sounding Future's dedicated streaming platform for immersive 3D audio — a space where music is composed and curated specifically for spatial listening. Listen to 3 tracks for free — full access with a free account.
From Zero to Spatial.
Self-paced courses on 3D audio — from binaural basics to full spatial composition. Free to start.
3D Audio Basics
Understand how sound moves in space — from psychoacoustics to binaural rendering and basic Ambisonics workflows.
3D Audio Advanced
Full Ambisonics encoding, decoding, and mixing workflows for immersive music production and post-production.
3D Audio Recording
Recording techniques using Ambisonics microphones and specialized mic arrays for spatial capture.
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