‘Everyday is Spatial’ 2024 aligned with the Cheltenham Music Festival to provide two public concerts and a set of research presentations.

Special guests LOSS GAIN returned to EiS to present their 360° spatial audio rendering of Public Service Broadcasting’s This New Noise, recorded at the 2022 Proms to celebrate 100 years of the BBC.

Tim Johnston, featuring Miranda Rutter and Rob Harbron, presented Tonal Atmospheres—a spatial reinterpretation of early 20th-century Gloucestershire folk tunes, dissolving melodies into free-flowing sound clouds and evolving tonal centres mapped across 3D space.

Dan Stern’s Difference Machine blended live instruments and algorithms in a polyphonic improvisation exploring sonic time, space, and transformation through Deleuzian concepts of difference and repetition.

Ben Hamid and Jon Gordon’s Swarm explored improvised performance, composition, and ambient textures using microtonal synthesis, looping, and spatialisation to create an immersive live experience.

Abigail Gardner (SAGE Project), Gary-Martin Rolinson (Expression Orchestra), and Tim Land (Dancefloor Spatialisation) presented their research projects, followed by a playback of selected undergraduate and postgraduate work from 2024.

Convened by Tim Land, technical lead Jon Gordon.

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