During the pandemic of 2020 director Patrick Eakin Young approached me to help transform a number of current and future productions into audio drama / podcast format or…. SONIC THEATRE! Beginning with stems from a live recording of a piece already toured, I was tasked with mixing and mastering for podcast formats.
We decided to mix each piece in ambisonics, a form of mixing often described as 360 audio, when rendered though a binaural encoder, posibilites of audio spatialisation are greatly enhanced compared with traditional stereo mixdowns. This enabled us to be much more creative with the mix process, transporting the listener to different ‘locations’ and creating a much more accurate sense of space.
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