The programming for the two Sonic Lab Immersive concerts reflects recent upgrades to the Lab’s spatial system. Nine pieces are programmed across two concerts, including multichannel fixed media, live electronics and mixed instrumental and electronic works.
All works are adapted to the Sonic Lab’s spatial system to enable three contrasting and complementary approaches to immersive sound: surround (48 loudspeakers surrounding the audience at four vertical levels, a Wavefield Synthesis frontal array and the IKO loudspeaker. The design of the three systems aims to explore the unique spatial affordances of each, including diffuse immersive image with surround ambisonics, the highly precise frontal localization and distance with Wavefield Synthesis and the object-like ‘inside out’ characteristic sound of the IKO.