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Spatial Sound
Institute

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SONIC HUMAN SPACE PHYSIOLOGY & SPATIAL

ARCHITECTURE INTERACTION PSYCHOLOGY OF MEMETICS
DESIGN LISTENING

Programme

The programme of
the Spatial Sound
Institute starts with
the idea that the way
we evolve our
listening will be the
way we evolve our
environment. And
the way the
environment evolves,
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will be the way we

evolve as human
beings. This implies
that we can
positively influence
the cycle and bring
about systemic
change in our
environment by
listening more
attentively.

This is the Ecology

of Listening.

Listening means to
bring acuity to our
experience as it is
unfolding, from
moment to moment.
Listening spatially
thus provides us with
an interface between
the deepest levels of
our inner perception
and the physical
phenomena as they
are manifesting in
the outer world. As
such spatial sound
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such, spatial sound
technologies present
us with a Magnified
Ear. With the use of
such technologies,
we can enrich,
augment or
transform our
perception of space
and gain deeper
insight in the process
of perception itself.

The medium of
spatial sound is
defined by the
qualitative
relationship between
sound, the space and
the listener. It follows
that in the practices
with spatial sound,
each of these actors
are regarded equally
important and
indissolubly
connected in the
process of listening

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As we refine and
cultivate our ability
to perceive spatially,
we reach new states
of sensing and
awareness of our
environment. We gain
new insight in the
type of spaces we
want to be
surrounded by, and
how we want to live
within them. As we
develop new
conceptions of sonic
spaces, new forms of
expression with
sound emerge. As we
are able to express
increasingly complex
and qualitative ideas
by means of space
and sound, the more
our ability to work
with listening will
expand.

The practices at the

Spatial Sound
Institute focus on
particular areas of
study that emerge
within this cycle of
interaction: Sonic
Architecture, Human
Space Interaction
Design, Physiology
and Psychology of
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Listening and Spatial
Memetics.

These streams
encompass
interdisciplinary
collaboration and
knowledge exchange
between a variety of
fields. All fields of
research are
welcome to apply to
the programme,
including but not
limited to: acoustics,
physics,
neurophysiology,
audio engineering,
music composition,
media design and
architecture. The
development of
spatial sound as a
medium only evolves
from the interactions
between these fields,
not from any of these
fields in and of
themselves.

The Spatial Sound

Institute facilitates
ongoing research
and development
within these areas of
study and stimulates
cross-fertilisation
and exchange
between
practitioners of
various fields as part
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of our Artist
Residency
Programme.

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