Students Szofia Lindsay-MacDougall and Chad Worsley from the BA (Hons) Music and Sound Design course have had their pioneering work with 3D audio performance included in LSi magazine thanks to a collaboration with Sova Audio and Funktion One.

LSi, which stands for Light and Sound International, is a highly regarded monthly technology magazine that covers a broad range of entertainment services. The magazine profiles the professionals that bring theatre, concerts, festivals and presentations to life.

Szofia Lindsay-MacDougall uses multi-layered effects which aim to transport people to a new immersive audio experience. When discussing being able to collaborate and use the new technologies, Szofia says, “Using 3D audio, I can send a floating harp line around the room and it will literally float in the spaces between speakers.” She found that the new systems provided a greater amount of depth, space and movement than the average stereo system which is commonly used. “The clarity can be almost daunting – a track which sounded great on my home monitors in stereo can suddenly have little imperfections that pop up everywhere”. Szofia adds that, “the experience of sitting in the middle of your track and having it move around you is incredible.”

Chad Worsley has been utilising the TiMax system for his project ‘Head Related Transfer’. He has been experimenting with how spatialisation of sound can be an interactive experience and can help music to emotionally connect with the listener. Chad comments, “this will pull the listener’s instinctual responses to sound, with the intention of engaging the listener with the music more than they would through a two dimensional set up.”