How to access the content from our Immersive Audio Podcast Masterclass series? Head out to our page on Patreon www.patreon.com/c/immersiveaudiopodcast. The sessions are designed to enhance your practical learning experience and are delivered by world-class experts. The livestream contains video demonstrations and spatial audio playback with live Q&A. 

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In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel and Monica Bolles are joined by the philosopher, oral historian, experiential journalist and the host of the Voices of VR podcast - Kent Bye from Oregon, US.

Kent shares his unique perspective on the current evolution and future possibilities of XR technologies and we dive into the significance of spatial audio in immersive storytelling, arts and communication. 

This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Emma Rees and included music by Rhythm Scott.

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Episode 109 Kent Bye (Voices of VR)

In this two-part series of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel travels to Oslo and Trondheim to meet the Nonomo team behind the Norwegian start-up whose innovation in hardware and cloud-processing aimed to enhance spatial sound recording and post production workflow. In part one, we break down the core tech behind the Nomono system, using a step-by-step process. You’ll hear the speech enhancement demo we’ve recorded outdoors in the city.

Nomono Website – https://nomono.co/
Nomono Sound Capsule – https://nomono.co/sound-capsule
Nomono Cloud – https://nomono.co/nomono-cloud
Nomono Spatial Audio – https://nomono.co/spatial-audio-with-nomono
Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/c/nomonosound
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/nomonosound/posts/?feedView=all

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Keep up to date with our upcoming events, announcements and industry news by subscribing to our newsletter immersiveaudiopodcast.com/.

This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Emma Rees and included music by Rhythm Scott.

For extended show notes and more information on this episode go to www.immersiveaudiopodcast.com

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to show your support, please consider becoming a Patreon. Not only are you supporting us, but you will also get special access to bonus content and much more. Find out more on our official Patreon page - www.patreon.com/immersiveaudiopodcast

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Episode 113 Nomono (Part 1)

In this two-part series of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel travels to Oslo and Trondheim to meet the Nonomo team behind the Norwegian start-up whose innovation in hardware and cloud-processing aimed to enhance spatial sound recording and post production workflow. In this second episode, we are going to discuss the importance of machine learning for audio, behind the cloud-processing and speech enhancement, talk about the unique Nomono spatial sound recorder design and sustainability policies for hardware manufacturing, and we’ll look into the company’s future roadmap and vision aimed at simplifying spatial audio production.

Nomono Website – https://nomono.co/
Nomono Sound Capsule – nomono.co/sound-capsule
Nomono Cloud – nomono.co/nomono-cloud
Nomono Spatial Audio – nomono.co/spatial-audio-with-nomono
Youtube – www.youtube.com/c/nomonosound
LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/company/nomonoso…ts/?feedView=all

How to access the content from our Immersive Audio Podcast Masterclass series? Head out to our page on Patreon www.patreon.com/c/immersiveaudiopodcast. The sessions are designed to enhance your practical learning experience and are delivered by world-class experts. The livestream contains video demonstrations and spatial audio playback with live Q&A.

Keep up to date with our upcoming events, announcements and industry news by subscribing to our newsletter immersiveaudiopodcast.com/.

This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Emma Rees and included music by Rhythm Scott.

For extended show notes and more information on this episode go to www.immersiveaudiopodcast.com

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to show your support, please consider becoming a Patreon. Not only are you supporting us, but you will also get special access to bonus content and much more. Find out more on our official Patreon page - www.patreon.com/immersiveaudiopodcast

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Episode 114 Nomono (Part 2)

A spatial soundtrack I made for my professor's butoh dance performance, mixed to binaural audio format. 

soundtrack for body without organ

Come and get it!  New music to look out for, big news in tech, and what's next at the intersection of tech and audio/music.  Only on "Beats & Bytes" your podcast choice for staying up on the edge of emerging tech and pop culture.

Beats & Bytes Podcast - Season 7, Ep.8 - Is this wave of tech & audio the next big thing?

We’re excited to announce the third instalment of the Immersive Audio Podcast Masterclass series.

As always, the sessions are designed to enhance your practical learning experience and are delivered by world-class experts. We’ll be providing video demonstrations, spatial audio playback and an exclusive opportunity to interact with our expert guests.

We proudly present our guests from Amadeus, the Co-Founder and CEO - Fabio Kaiser, and the Co-Founder and CTO - Volker Werner. Amadeus developed solutions for acoustic enhancement for live music and speech in multi-purpose venues, concert halls or theatres. Amadeus Immersive Audio provides 3D sound source spatialisation and rendering with accurate localisation and envelopment for indoor and outdoor venues. https://amadeus-acoustics.com/

In this session, we’ll do a deep dive into the science of active acoustics and cover tools and workflows featuring the newly released ART platform.

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In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel and Monica Bolles are joined by the University of Greenwich Professor of Music and Sound Arts - Andrew Knight-Hill and the Acousmatic Composer and Sound Artist - Dr Emma Margetson from London, UK. We dive into the meaning and functions of creativity in spatial audio across genres and disciplines, and you’ll hear a virtual tour of the University of Greenwich sound and music department facilities.

This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Emma Rees and included music by Rhythm Scott.

For extended show notes and more information on this episode go to www.immersiveaudiopodcast.com

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to show your support, please consider becoming a Patreon. Not only are you supporting us, but you will also get special access to bonus content and much more.

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Episode 115 Andrew Knight-Hill & Emma Margetson (University of Greenwich)

LACIS

SIGNAL / BIRD

Commissioned by Magnetic Events and Redcar & Cleveland Council
Created for the Odin’s Glow art event.
It has also exhibited at the Illuminating York Festival and the ‘Languages, Myths and Finds’ conference at the University of Nottingham.

This large scale sound installation was a deeply evocative celebration of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon culture, heritage and landscape of the North East of England.
Created as a surround sound work to be experienced after dark, it was situated in an open field in the rural landscape of Cleveland, from a vantage point where the peak of Roseberry Topping would be visible. 
Drawing on a blend of Viking and Anglo-Saxon poetry, riddles and purpose built instruments such as a 10th century reproduction lyre and handmade bone flutes, it sought to give voice to the memories of the land and the people that once lived there. All voices were members of the public who volunteered to be recorded. Built to form an evocative tapestry of seven different languages, (modern Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, alongside the original medieval languages) it sought to reflect linguistic heritage as well as the rich culture of the past and the scale of the autumn landscape.

“The village was filled for several nights with runes, battle-ready warriors, the sounds of hearth-fires and ravens and Old Norse poetry. Karen Monid’s sound piece, Contours, sought particularly to unite the Old Norse with Old and Modern English, and to lead people into a more nuanced understanding of the culture of Norse settlers – by first enticing them in with the romantic strangeness of the stereotype.” - Jo Shortt Butler, 'The Vikings In Cleveland'

Contours

Contours (The Seer - excerpt)

Contours ("The Land Is Holy" - excerpt)

Demos of the SSA Plugins aXBundle ambisonic plugins

Janky Piano + aXDelay A/B/A/B

Full Mix demo

Comparison of stereo vs binaural rendering of a mix using aXMonitor plugin to decode the Ambisonics track

Mix Stereo+Binaural A/B/A/B/A/B

Drums with aXDelay spatial delay plugin applied to the snare in the second hald

Drums + aXDelay A/B (delay on snare)

A guitar being rotated around the horizontal going front-left-back-right

Guitar + aXRotate (front-left-back-right)

Updating Punk Classics: Ed Stasium Talks mixing the Ramones, Talking Heads Using Eventide Plugins

Whispers - Interlude: 
by Camila Agosto 

Fixed electronic work split across an 8.1 surround array. Featuring pre-recorded alto and tenor saxophone, voice, and signal processing. 

Voice, Alto, and tenor saxophone performed by Justin Massey.

Whispers - Interlude

WDIM?

Spatial Cruelty is a meticulously constructed binaural work that immerses the listener in a disorienting, ritualised soundscape shaped by the principles of Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty. The piece unfolds as an unbroken sequence of sonic confrontations, where industrial machinery groans and grinds against layers of distorted vocal fragments, metallic resonance, and low‑frequency pulses that seem to press physically against the body. Every element is positioned with surgical precision in three‑dimensional space, creating the sensation of being surrounded, pursued, and at times engulfed by the sound.  

The composition alternates between moments of suffocating proximity, where whispers and breath scrape directly against the ear, and vast, reverberant expanses that evoke abandoned factories or cavernous ritual chambers. Percussive impacts arrive without warning, cutting through the texture like sudden flashes of light in darkness, while drones and harmonic overtones build an atmosphere of sustained tension. The pacing is deliberate and unrelenting, designed to bypass intellectual interpretation and provoke an instinctive, visceral response.  

Drawing on Artaud’s vision of theatre as a total sensory assault, Spatial Cruelty rejects passive listening in favour of an embodied experience. It demands attention, manipulates perception of space and time, and transforms sound into a physical force that unsettles, overwhelms, and ultimately leaves the listener altered.

This piece is intended for immersive listening on headphones, and those wishing to experience the full Dolby Atmos mix can email beatscloudy@gmail.com to request the ADM BWF master files.

Spatial Cruelty

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Camila Agosto is a composer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator whose electroacoustic music examines how
we perceive sound and vibration, exploring their physiological, mental, and emotional impacts. In her work, Camila collaborates with
musicians, visual artists, choreographers, and instrument builders, seeking to uncover intersections across artistic fields. Her work
includes both fully notated and improvisational compositions emphasizing timbral and textural exploration. She aims to reveal the
sonic potentialities of acoustic instruments while highlighting the human element in live performance. Her projects encompass
acoustic and electroacoustic concert works, interdisciplinary collaborations with visual media and dance, installations, and fixed media
creations.

Camila was honored to be the youngest fellow to be accepted to the American Academy in Berlin and is a recipient of the Fall 2023 Berlin Prize and Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition from the Academy. Her music has been commissioned and performed by leading artists and featured by venues throughout the United States and abroad. Camila is currently an ABD doctoral candidate at Columbia University in Music Composition.

The Gear Club Podcast features an informative, yet irreverent, look at the art of recording with stories told by the pros in the industry. It's hosted by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth) and Stewart Lerman (St. Vincent, Patti Smith, Boardwalk Empire). Every episode features an interview with a legendary engineer, artist, inventor, or producer. They also deconstruct a recording that inspired them, discuss their favorite piece of audio gear, and offer recording tips and techniques.

Website: John-Fireman.com

Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

Join our host Oliver Kadel and guest presenters, in conversation with industry thought leaders, practitioners, artists, academics and entrepreneurs discussing all aspects of this rapidly evolving industry from art, science and business to practical insights and project case studies. We aim to inform, educate, explore and unite the community. Immersive Audio Podcast is produced by 1.618 Digital Ltd.

Karen Monid is a UK sound artist and projection specialist who has created award-winning sound art pieces and son et lumière works worldwide. Her work is regularly presented at arts festivals and large scale public events.

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