Dolby Atmos, Spatial Audio, Netflix Spatial (using Sennheiser’s AMBEO); speaker configurations in 2.1.2, 5.1.4, 7.1.4, 9.1.2, 9.1.4, 13.16.6… It’s confusing right?

I’ve been having many conversations around the subject of immersive sound lately and it seems there are vast confusions around the technology involved, and rightly so, it’s fascinatingly complicated. “Spatial Audio” and “Dolby Atmos” are essentially two different technologies which can, and often do work together, but can also function independently of one another….

Well, that is still open for debate, but I think the simple answer is yes, and if not right now, then it has the potential to do so very soon. But let’s delve a little further shall we?

I had a strange Friday night! I did something that at one point in my life was commonplace… And of course, I'm talking about going to gigs. Yes, I managed to get myself out for the first live music performance since the dreaded lockdowns began and as such, I felt the need to blog about it. I had always wanted to blog whenever I went to a gig or a concert, but it kind of never really happened, let's hope we can change that.

I’m writing about these things because at a base level, we media composers are at least in some part observers; even nominally psychologists. It’s our job to see humans, hear stories, to imagine. We must try to understand the human experience if we are to attempt to communicate our findings through music or even sound. I’m also writing this as an antidote to my feelings of insanity on the subject, am I alone here? Is anyone else seeing or feeling this?

Hi, 2021, I’ve not written here for a while, but that may just begin to change! They say start or end with a quote and this one may seem out of place, but bear with me, all will make sense in the end… I’ve got a new iPad which I primarily bought for controlling Pro Tools for my music and audio projects, but it’s also been a welcome catalyst for getting me back into the healthy practice of note-taking, journaling and writing again; something I hope to continue practising diligently. I also want to publish my content somewhere that’s mine and with minimal risk of what is increasingly becoming a concern of mine, and that is censorship... Relentless censorship. Well, where else better than my website, after all, that’s what personal websites used to be for before the centralised world of platforms such as Facebook.