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Summary of the
AES Convention 2026 Copenhagen
This AES Was very busy for me! I participated in 6 session, including invited panels and paper presentation.
We’ve opened the Convention with Hyunkook Lee and Morten Lindberg with the ECHO Project session - where participants could learn how to make the best use of our open database and joined critical listening session
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Let’s talk Immersive Audio Formats: Innovation, Fragmentation or Both?
With Stefan Bock , Lars Tirsbæk, Michael Romanowski and Morten Lindberg
From Spec to Studio: Immersive Audio Creation and Delivery using Eclipsa Audio -> moderated by my esteemed colleague Tomasz Rudzki, joined by Toni Hirvonen and Jani Huoponen
Discussing What makes Binaural Audio Truly Immersive?
with Hyunkook Lee, Stefan Bock, Michael Romanowski, Morten Lindberg, Chris Berens /Audeze
I presented the results from Perceptual Evaluation of the Open Binaural Renderer -
collaboration with Tomasz Rudzki, Gavin Kearney (University of York / AudioLab York ) and Jan Skoglund, Felicia Lim and Jani Huoponen (Google)
Finally, had a very interested discussion with the students during Ask Us Anything session with Richard King, Kseniya Kawko, Ian Corbett, Margaret Luthar
Young Talent Award 2026 Recording Session /
Lusławice, Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre of Music
As part of the Kraków Film Music Festival, we run Audiovisual Forum, which includes competition for young composers, workshops and panels around music production and audio technology. It's a magical place and time, where a group of people connected by music - composers, producers, musicians - get to spend a few days a year together. Joyful, inspiring, surrounded by nature, in a beautiful concert hall.
We are recording pieces by Young Talent Award winners, with a small ensemble: strings, winds, guitar, harp, piano, percussion. Each composer gets to hear their work captured in the highest quality by the most experienced audio engineers in the world (previously Nick Wollage, Fiona Cruickshank, Alex Ferguson, this year, this year - Gianluca Massimo & Wil Jones, AIR Studios). Alongside classical stereo and surround techniques we use an immersive microphone array: a take on prof. Hyunkook Lee's ESMA-3D setup with six Schoeps MK 21 capsules forming the horizontal layer and two MK 41s for height.
Beyond the standard sessions, we also set aside time for something more exploratory. We went back into the scores and pulled out specific moments: a texture, a gesture, something that could create an interesting figure spatially, or enhance the sense of envelopment. A passage of string harmonics initially written for two players, we duplicated and distributed around the full circle of the array, played one by one instead of unisono, create "stationary rotation". For the woodwind phrases, we wanted the breath to travel from one side to the other. Small layout changes, subtle arrangement modifications to open up a different way of thinking about the composing process. Every composer leaves with their recordings, stems routed and ready in a session they can open themselves. The idea is not to hand them a finished product but to give them something to experiment with: explore different layouts for the musicians, how a phrase moves, and so on - legacy of the ECHO Project. Back in Kraków, the week continued with studio workshops, live immersive production sessions, and an immersive concert performed by Hauschka on a prepared piano to close it out.
Left - modified ESMA-3D array with 6x Schoeps MK 21 and 2x Schoeps MK 41. Right - Janek Stokłosa with his ensemble during the immersive session in Lusławice, Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre of Music. Photo: Alicja Rzepa / KBF
Lusławice, Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre of Music. Photo: Alicja Rzepa / KBF
There are things impossible to describe and this is one of them. Volker Bertelmann is my hero. His genius, kindness, and open mind form a combination that result creations that move, push the boundaries, explore. His artistic path as Hauschka is the definition of that.
Being able to curate his concert, to have the trust of his incredible team to put the audience in the heart of his compositions, and do it in immersive format, is something that I will be forever grateful for and that has imprinted on me.
Sincere thank you to Hauschka, brilliant Michael Buchholz and beautiful light art by Jörg Bittner
Film Music Festival 2026
Being a curator of the Technology Cycle at the Film Music Festival Audiovisual Forum was such a fulfilling role. I created a special program, FMF: Immersive Sound Lab, which brought together world-leading experts and cutting-edge technology in service of art and creativity. Thank you for all the guest speakers and industry partners for coming together and helping deliver such high-quality lectures, workshops and experiences.
fot: Alicja Rzepa / KBF
YouTube Device Partner Summit
2026 Tokyo
A big thank you to everyone at the YouTube Device Partner Summit for attending my presentation on the growing content creation ecosystem for Eclipsa Audio and for stopping by to get a first look into Eclipsa Studio, an IAMF authoring tool. It was a great event.
ECHO Workshops at Sonic Days in Sonic College, Kolding Denmark - thank you for filling the room, for inspiring discussion over difference that the musicians seating makes in immersive recording!
We had a deep listening session to Volker Bertelmann's Train Journey on 7.1.4 Dynaudio system - sounded incredible as ever! If you are interested in immersive composition, recording and mixing techniques, look for on our socials: ECHO-Project
Surrounded By Sound: How immersive Audio Is Changing The Way we experience music?
- discussion with Katia Sochaczewska, Natalia Mamcarczyk and Myles Clarke
27.09.2025
tickets available in the link
Eclipsa Audio in teaching - Audio Educators Group at Abbey Road Institute
Such a great atmosphere at Abbey Road Institute this past weekend - together with Audio Educators from all over the world we were discussing accessible ways of teaching immersive audio: Eclipsa Audio and ECHO-Project database (with some fantastic insights from Mark S. Willsher)
Thank you for having me, both John Krivit and Abbey Road Institute
Film Music Festival
29-05-2025
OPEN WORKSHOPS!
Pałac Potockich, Kraków, Main Square
10:00 | SECTION: PROFESSIONALS | Eclipsa Audio – Delivering Immersive Audio to Everyone
Host: Jan Skoglund – Alliance for Open Media
In this talk we present Eclipsa Audio, a new open immersive audio format designed for interoperability and extensibility, offering numerous benefits. Creators can have more freedom to create immersive audio experiences, without being constrained by expensive tools. Consumers can have more choice in terms of the immersive audio content and great user experience on any device.
The panel will be in English without translation into Polish.
11:30 | SECTION: PROFESSIONALS | Part I: London Contemporary Orchestra: Realising the Composer’s Vision Through Collaboration | Part II: Immersive Thinking in Composition
Host: Katia Sochaczewska, Hugh Brunt
London Contemporary Orchestra’s co-Artistic Director and co-Principal Conductor, Hugh Brunt, joins Katia Sochaczewska for a conversation exploring the LCO’s creative process and its collaborations with some of the most dynamic and innovative voices in modern film scoring.
In the second part, Hugh and Katia will pose the question: how do Spatial Audio formats affect the compositional process? They will introduce their collaborative ECHO project – a resource featuring Volker Bertelmann’s composition – designed to help explore the full potential of immersive formats.
The panel will be in English without translation into Polish.
15:30 | SECTION: PROFESSIONALS | Productivity Hacks for Composers
Host: Christoph Zirngibl, Florian Sonnleitner
Productivity Hacks for Film Composers is a practical panel led by composer Christoph Zirngibl together with his assistant, music supervisor Florian Sonnleitner. They will share proven strategies for streamlining film music production, including cuesheet administration, file management, teamwork, and delivery processes, empowering participants to enhance both creative output, collaborative efficiency and work-life balance.
The panel will be in English without translation into Polish.
15-05-2025
NOTAM: Spatial audio meetup
(online)
I'll be speaking at and presenting The ECHO Project. It was established with the aim of advancing immersive sound recording techniques for orchestral music and to bridging the gap between academia and the audio industry. In the spirit of the 3D-MARCo project, which championed the open sharing of high-quality immersive recording resources for education and research, we are publishing orchestral recordings made with eight microphone arrays - each designed by one of seven professional recording engineers - for open access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
