Spatial Sound: Working in Four Dimensions

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by Bennett Eiferman & Wilson Brown

Antfood is often tasked with tackling problems that don’t have off-the-shelf solutions. In composing for a myriad of different physical spaces — we needed a custom, malleable workflow to bring our creative ideas to life.

Innovation

Built around Ircam’s Spat software, we constructed an engine and custom toolkit to conceive, prototype and render rich, dimensional audio for any space and speaker layout — constructing lush, immersive soundfields, animate audio sources in multiple dimensions and create psychoacoustic effects that move molecules, hearts and minds.

Watch how Antfood can move sound around in musical and intuitive ways

Application

Our composers, sound designers, & creative technologists utilize this tool to perfect our spatial audio production, processing, and rendering for each acoustic space and speaker layout.

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Use Cases

The applications are immense — events, build environments, offices and institutions, community spaces and beyond.

"The Brain": Antfood's Spatial prototyping and mixing engine