To push the boundaries of what's possible in this field, an international group of people meet at Notam's spatial audio meetups once a month to explore techniques, workflows, aesthetics, ideas and sounds.
Notam's Spatial Audio meetup is a meeting place for working with surround sound for artistic purposes. Here, some of the world's leading experts and technologists meet curious artists and beginners. Together, they explore new ways of expressing themselves in broadcast formats.
Presentations 08 April:
Victoria Keddie - «The Lab as a Living Environment» & Lee Gilboa - «Boston Spatial Sound Community»
Victoria Keddie
The Lab as a Living Environment
I am an interdisciplinary artist working across sound, video, installation, performance, and research. My practice investigates the architectures of communication, acoustic, spatial, and technological, and explores how gesture, noise, and interference shape human experience. I teach at the University of Pennsylvania, leading the course Listening Beyond Hearing alongside a spatial sound studio I designed for the programme, and direct the Spatial Sound Consortium in collaboration with Harvestworks (NYC).
The Consortium connects sound labs, studios, and organisations working internationally with multichannel and spatial sound, academic, independent, and institutional alike. It arose from a need to create dialogue across the many models of spatial sound practice today and a conviction that those conversations aren't happening enough. What holds the network together is a shared sense that the lab is a living environment, shaped by the people, histories, and forms of attention that move through it. Members include the Columbia University Computer Music Centre, SARC Belfast, BEAST Birmingham, CLEAT Chicago, MONOM Berlin, Sounding Future Graz, University of Bologna Department of Architecture, and New Ear Inc in New York City.
I bring these questions to the forum: What would it take to make exchange between academic and independent spatial sound practice genuinely reciprocal rather than occasional? Are we fully using what these environments make possible, or are we underselling their capacity to dissolve boundaries, disorient, and transform? And where are we defaulting to familiar spatial gestures, and what would it mean to resist them?
Website: https://www.victoriakeddie.com/
Spatial Sound Consortium: https://www.spatialsoundlab.org/
Photo credit: Lauryn Siegel, 2025.
Lee Gilboa
Boston Spatial Sound Community
Lee Gilboa's work uses speech, audio spatialization, and vocal processing, and engages with identity, representation, and self-expression. Lee's music is released on Contour Editions and was featured in ICMC, Cube Fest, NYCEMF, and Experimental Intermedia, and others. Her writing was published in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. Lee was an artist in residence in places such as EMS and Spaes Lab Berlin. She completed her Ph.D. at Brown University teaches at Berklee College of Music, and is the curator of the concert series New Ear ::Spatial.
Boston Spatial Sound Community is a new group dedicated to learning, teaching, and thinking spatial sound. Our goal is to create a communal space for Boston-based artists, teachers, and students who are interested in all forms of spatial audio (technology and innovation, composition, performance, pedagogy, and installation work, among others). This interinstitutional community includes members from MIT, Emerson College, Harvard University, and Berklee College of Music. We hope to create a platform for conversation, critical thinking, and the exchange of ideas between peers.
These meetups are led by American artist Monica Bolles and composer Mariam Gviniashvili.
Mariam Gviniashvili is a sound artist and composer who combines electronics, electroacoustics and 3D sound with visual material, dance and performance to penetrate the physical and emotional essence of sound and space.
Monica Bolles is an artist, audio engineer and composer who utilises emerging technologies, science and design to create spaces for the exploration of human experience in an ever-evolving and transforming world. Through the juxtaposition of the organic and the digital, art and science, technology and humanity, hub continually investigates what it means to be human in today's society.
Meeting ID: 926 0674 7841
Link: https://zoom.us/j/92606747841
