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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.
Real-Time Spatial Audio Design in Speech Therapy
For decades, the acoustic environment in speech and language therapy has largely been treated as a neutral condition — a passive background surrounding communication. My work emerged from a fundamentally different question: What happens when the acoustic field itself becomes intentionally designed?
“sound AS space” — Interview with Gerriet K. Sharma from spæs lab Berlin
Gerriet K. Sharma works where sound stops coming from speakers — and starts shaping space itself. In this interview, the composer and co-founder of spæs Lab Berlin talks about the IKO loudspeaker system as a genuine instrument, the persistent gap between technical progress and artistic practice, and why 3D Audio means far more than a marketing promise. A conversation about the sculpturality of sound, the future of spatial aesthetics — and the questions nobody in the spatial audio scene is asking out loud yet.
Reflections on The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space
The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space is a comprehensive collection of essays and accompanying sonic material written by practitioners and researchers across a wide range of disciplinary fields, addressing both the current state and future trajectories of works where sonic and spatial practices intersect. The volume was edited by myself, an architect, composer and academic, alongside Prof. Jane Burry (University of Adelaide) and Prof. Mark Burry (University of Melbourne), both architects whose work similarly operates across disciplinary boundaries.
From Semantics to Trajectories: Reimagining the Spatial Audio Workflow with Generative SPATAI
What if you could speak to your panner? SpatAI turns "make a chaotic spiral" into real-time control data, effectively replacing manual labor with algorithmic performance. We analyze how this tool uses AI to bridge the gap between language and spatial object management.
Spatial Audio – A Free Practical Guide for Audio Creators
For anyone with basic audio production knowledge, this free course opens the door to spatial audio. Learn principles, psychoacoustics, and creative applications through interactive lessons and real-world case studies, exploring Ambisonics, Dolby Atmos, and beyond.
Immersive Audio in Latin America: Talent Isn’t the Problem
A data-driven diagnosis of the LATAM immersive scene. This article maps technical frictions, the reality of borrowed hearing, and the survival workflows professionals use to navigate a system not designed for their context.
ECHO Project: A New Chapter in Immersive Orchestral Recording
Step inside the orchestra. The ECHO Project offers a rare open-access look at immersive recording at AIR Studios. Featuring the London Contemporary Orchestra, Volker Bertelmann and top audio engineers, explore the story behind this massive resource for sound professionals.
Grassroots Ambisonics
Contemplation on the role and potential contribution of DIY grassroots initiatives to the development of contemporary spatial audio field. The article unfolds through reflection on Ambisonic summer lab — an initiative made by artists for artists, built through collaboration, mutual help, and open exchange. By creating conditions and connecting people across countries, we aim to contribute to the emergence of a new scene for spatial music — one that values openness over competition, and curiosity over perfection.
A Song For Two Mothers / OCCAM IX
In A Song for Two Mothers and Occam IX, Laetitia Sonami and Éliane Radigue explore the transition from analog resonance to digital imagination. Paul DeMarinis reflects on sound, space, and time — connecting Radigue’s flowing Occam series with Sonami’s Spring Spyre instrument, where resonance, drift, and transformation become one continuous current of sound.
Concept-based Explanations for Music Emotion Recognition
Concept-based explanations have emerged as an approach to make models explainable in a human-understandable way. In this article, we investigate extracted concepts for a music emotion recognition model. In a listening experiment, we explore properties of found concepts and show how to present them to users. The article is based on our paper and introduces only parts of our research. More information is provided in the paper.
IAMF – An open 3D audio format on the horizon
Amidst the multitude of 3D audio formats like MPEG-H, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and others, there is a new, open format emerging, IAMF. Let’s have a look at what it's all about and what it means for the future of immersive audio.
