Spatial Media Lab

This course is designed for those interested in working with . You will become familiar with the terms and tools common in spatial audio. It is an introductory course to get you started with a simple and free workflow that is easy to adopt. It deals with technical and artistic concepts that differentiate spatial audio from traditional and concepts. To round things off, we will have a look at how to exchange data between the audio world and realtime 3D visual tools like or , leveraging the OSC protocol. This can be useful to e.g. share the location of sound objects.

🔗 More information about the online course can be found on the website of The NODE Institute. You can also buy your ticket there: https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/ws24-tk-spatial-audio-an-open-source-workflow/

Throwback to 2022: From September 2021 through May 2022 the Spatial Media Lab worked with world-renowned thereminist Carolina Eyck mix her ambient crossover classical album Thetis 2086 for Dolby Atmos and to run the live sound for her debut album concerts in the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin. Through the process of mixing her album, we had already prepared each track in full 3rd order Ambisonics, making preparation for the full 3D planetarium show quite easy.

It was a lot of fun working on this project and we learned so much along the way. This project proved to us that we can create an entire work in ambisonics and then only at the very last step render it to Dolby Atmos for release on Apple Music. Many thanks to for her trust and creative collaboration, which led to this fantastic result.

🔗 Read more about how the cooperation came about, how we proceeded technically and what our learnings were on our website. You can also find a few videos there: https://spatialmedialab.org/2022-carolina-eyck/

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Zeiss-Großplanetarium

Welcome to the Lab!

The Spatial Media Lab is hosting our next ! The goal for this meetup is to bring people in the field of spatial media together to connect and discuss, to improve the quality of the work and expand the tools that are created.

▫️The theme of this online meetup is Experiences & Expectations. After the recent news of the immersive “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” failure, we want to hear from you about immersive experiences you have visited or worked on. What were your expectations? Did the event live up to them? What are some of your favorite immersive experiences and why? What were some failures and what made them a failure in your eyes?

With this discussion we hope to share what makes for a good, and a bad, immersive experience so that all of us working in this field can raise the bar for quality, together.

🗓️When? Thursday, 09.05.2024 at 7pm (19:00) Berlin time (GMT+2)

📍Where? Online at Gather.Town

🔗Check the blog post for more Info: https://spatialmedialab.org/meetup-14/

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