Apple’s Spatial Audio experience comes together with head tracking, even for stereo music

Apple is filling in a key piece in the Spatial Audio puzzle – tracking the position of your head through the company’s headphones for more realistic immersion. Spatial Audio is already popular just weeks after launch on Apple Music, backed by a full-court press from Apple themselves on their own platforms and in the media. […]

Spatial sound, Suzanne Ciani, a free workshop online, and the joy of quad, with KamranV

With the likes of Apple pushing the concept, spatial audio is fresh again. KamranV connects past, present, and future and talks to us about how we can get quadraphonic when we work, in advance of a free workshop online this Friday.

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2021

All the new stuff from Apple you might have missed, for advanced creative types

Apple’s WWDC keynote kicked off yesterday with an event mostly focused on consumer features for WatchOS, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and home. That means you might have missed a lot of the advanced creative features, graphics, and developer tools buried in the fine print.

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2021

Apple Music goes Lossless, Spatial, Dolby Atmos

Peter Kirn - May 17, 2021

Hear Jan Wagner’s intimate piano electronics, before they enter a planetarium dome

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2020

Ambient music you can time to a sunset, from Christopher Willits

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2019

An exploration of silence, in a new exhibition in Switzerland

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2018

SPIRALALALA transforms a spiral staircase into a vocal vortex

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018

Mics that record in “3D” and ambisonics are the next big thing

Peter Kirn - September 19, 2018

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