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. 

The host: 
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

Programme 26.03.2025

Eric Lyon - The 2025 Spatial Audio Tidepool
Eric Lyon will present the 2025 Spatial Audio Tidepool. The Spatial Audio Tidepool is a new workshop for immersive sound and music, providing an introduction to the spaces for this type of work at Virginia Tech. 

Eric Lyon is a composer and researcher focusing on digital interventions, post-hierarchies, and the inspiration for performer-based creativity. His signal processing software includes "FFTease" and "LyonPotpourri." He is also the author of "Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd," and of "Automated Sound Design." 

https://icat.vt.edu/projects/strategic-initiatives/spaat.html
https://icat.vt.edu/studios/mac/the-cube.html
https://disis.music.vt.edu/eric/main/

Ágnes Máthé - Creating distant and approaching movements in audio-spaces
We perceive the movement of sound in space in a complex way. When we regularly hear certain sounds, we learn to associate them with specific objects, and our past experiences guide us to connect these to a way of perceiving space. In electroacoustic music, creating this perception of space is considerably more complicated, as it usually uses sounds that are not so familiar to the listener. In my work, I try to explore these possibilities, focussing on creating distant and close movements in space.

Ágnes Máthé holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Electronic Music Media Art, at the Department of Composition of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, in the class of Dr Andrea Szigetvári. She has composed music for documentary films, dance performances, exhibitions, and in 2023 she won a competition for music for the travelling exhibition Glassification. In 2024 she won silver, with her piece "Interspace", in the Student 3D Audio Production Competition in the composition/computer music category.

Avenar Banföldi: My connection to the world of spatial sound and live improvisation
In his presentation, Banföldi will address issues related to the notation and visualisation of spatial compositions, the relationship between improvisation and immersive sound, as well as the differences between "analogue" spatialisation and Ambisonics.

Avenar holds a bachelor's degree from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in the Electronic Music Media Art department, under the supervision of Dr Andrea Szigetvári. He is currently completing his master's degree in the class of Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. His main fields of interest are Spatial Audio and live improvisation. In his work he combines Hungarian folk instruments with self-developed electronic instruments.

https://www.facebook.com/avenar.banfoldi
https://www.instagram.com/avenarb

Youngjae Cho - Approaching spatialization methods according to artistic goals
Each spatialisation technique has its own unique characteristics. By understanding the sonic and spatial characteristics of the work to be expressed, and choosing appropriate techniques accordingly, it becomes possible to realise the work more effectively. For this meetup, Cho would like to discuss this topic through examples of his own work, and share some thoughts that have arisen during the composition process. 

Cho's works have been presented at various festivals including DEGEM, ZKM, ICMC, SICMF, NYCEMF, SMC across Germany, France, China, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, USA and Korea. He studied composition in South Korea and with Prof Peter Gahn at the University of Music in Nuremberg. Since 2021, he has been studying electroacoustic composition with Prof Kilian Schwoon at the University of the Arts Bremen. 

www.youngjaecho.com