Spatial Composition - The New Frontier

Schedule

Thu Oct 09 2025 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

1275 Market St | San Francisco, CA

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Join us as we explore SPACE as compositional element and its effects on audio production at the Dolby Cinema in SF. Register w/ your AES#.
About this Event

The AES and Recording Academy® invite you to this music creation discovery program presented by composer Julius Dobos and producer BZ Lewis.

Songwriters, composers, producers, and music creators of all disciplines are invited to explore SPACE as a new element of music composition, and experience the Dolby Atmos ecosystem through demonstrations of new, spatially-composed music and immersive mixes in the Dolby Cinema.

Composers have been using melody, rhythm, and harmony for thousands of years. Musique concrète expanded the use of timbre 75 years ago. Are we at the verge of another musical disruption? What if, using space as a compositional tool, songwriters, composers, and producers not only mixed but composed in immersive systems? Can SPACE become a new element of music?


The Audio Engineering Society’s San Francisco Section and The Recording Academy®’s San Francisco Chapter invite you to a member-exclusive event: a research presentation about the use of space in music composition, by composer Julius Dobos and music producer BZ Lewis.


We will explore:

  • if spatial decisions made during composition have an effect on musical content
  • if listeners respond differently to spatially-composed music vs the spatial mixes of traditionally composed music
  • how to approach writing in an immersive environment that can yield conceptually solid musical content
  • how music created in Dolby Atmos (vs music mixed in Dolby Atmos) can affect the roles and responsibilities of artists and audio engineers

Guests will hear Dolby’s latest updates to the Dolby Atmos music ecosystem, experience Dolby Atmos enabled car demos, and experience new, spatially-composed music & immersive mixes in the Dolby Cinema.

This ticket is for AESSF members only. Space is limited, so please plan to attend if you RSVP. (Your AES member number is your exclusive access code.) event registration purposes

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When: October 9th, 2025

Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm We'll have light refreshments, car demos, and mixer from 5:00pm-6:00pm

Where: 1275 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Space is limited: tickets will be required. Ticket information is being sent directly to our AES SF email list members.


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