Immersive Concert 2
Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Belfast, BT9 5HN
Friday 17th April 2026
The programming for the Sonic Lab Immersive concerts reflects recent upgrades to the Lab’s spatial system. Pieces programmed include 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.
Programme:
Nick Feldman – The Permanence of Decay
Eric Lyon – BLUE
Cristiana Palandri – Commiato
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.
Programme:
Nick Feldman – The Permanence of Decay
Eric Lyon – BLUE
Cristiana Palandri – Commiato
