Projects Archive
All the Gods I Cannot Name | Brandon Wint & Brian Raine
All The Gods I Cannot Name is a rich, ~50-minute lyrical collage by spoken word poet Brandon Wint and multi-instrumentalist producer Brian Raine. Read more…
Bothelbows In Progress | Joe Stratton
With electronics, voice, found sounds, and field recordings, Bothelbows has crafted a spatial soundscape specifically for the 4DSOUND system at Lobe Studio. The piece aims to encourage close contemplation and curiosity about everyday sounds and to dispel cynicism through active listening.
Cry [No More] | ZAMEEN-A
Cry [No More] is the debut album from artist/violinist ZAMEEN-A. Alongside musicians Gregory Coles and Cayne McKenzie, ZAMEEN-A looks to explore the poetic and deeply emotional state of “ecstatic suffering” by… Read More.
Are You Moving? | Alex Penney
A composition that takes motion as its subject, this piece explores place and position by unsettling the listener’s perspective: be it physically or perceptually. Read more…
Crackdown Podcast - Excerpt from Episode 31: Love, Death and Benzodope - James Ash
“In 2008, I recorded Bud reading his poem No Matter How Vicious The System Is. The recording starting to distort from the emotion that Bud read with. Read More…
Deep Channel | Edo Van Breemen
Deep Channel is a continuation of Edo’s work ‘The Mind, Body & Inner Ear’ which he began during his residency at Spatial Sound Institute in 2018. His work combines immersive sound meditation and physical therapy… Read More.
Den | Lorri Clark
Crystalline sounds reverberate through multiple dimensions enveloping listeners in healing vibrations that create a sense of being held by the earth and community… Read More.
Earth Cry
Geoff Dembicki, Edo Van Breemen, Grace Scott, Sam Potter
Earth Cry is a collective of sonic storytellers giving an aural platform to people, communities and cultures who are both facing the brunt of our planet’s environmental wrath… Read More.
Enacting The Circle | Jay Hammond & Quran Karriem
Enacting the Circle is a participatory piece for 4D audio by Jay Hammond and Quran Karriem, with live 4D sculpting by Ian Wyatt. The piece combines a vibro-acoustic attunement exercise… Read More.
Erosion Eksperyans | Sika Valmé
This project explores the deconstruction and reimagination of Sika Valmé’s recent immersive audio-visual body of work titled Erosion Eksperyans. It includes taking the music component from her featured EP… Read More…
Experiments In The Void | Anju Singh
Experiments In the Void is a presentation of research and experiments unfolding from Anju Singh's artist residency at Lobe Studio.
The program includes a series of pieces that were created then spatialized in 4DSOUND throughout the residency period, including experiments, old pieces revisited in spatial sound, and new works that were developed in studio.
Five Easy Hot Dogs | Mac DeMarco
In June 2023, Mac DeMarco came to Lobe as an artist-in-residence to mix a spatial arrangement of his instrumental road trip record, Five Easy Hot Dogs. Mac quickly gained facility conducting the sonic possibilities afforded by 4DSOUND. Using a patch in Ableton Live, he gave every instrument or stem its own specific place and pathway in space. Through this process, all of the sounds that make up each song come to move around listeners in hypnotic orbits. The result is a fully immersive version of Five Easy Hot Dogs.
From Hate to Hope | BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner
This spatial sound experience was developed by BCOHRC as part of a larger exhibit to share its mural project, raise awareness of the inquiry’s findings and recommendations and to facilitate a deep understanding of how people and communities in British Columbia are thinking about change. Read more about this project here.
GAP | Camille Roth
Artist Camille Roth worked with recordings of electromagnetic waves from telephone, radio and Wi-Fi signals, translated into sound. During her residency at Lobe, she explored the materiality and texture of wireless communication processes that allow connection across distances.GAP is a reflection on… Read More.
Geoctions | Barry Despenza
Geoctions is an immersive spatial sound piece depicting the fuzzy boundaries between acoustic and digital audio spaces that spotlights musically: ctitious geographies, spiritual maps and planetary realms that showcase their innate desire for mental and emotional escapades. Despenza utilizes the space’s enherient reverberation and 4DSOUND technology… Read More.
Gnosis Gnetwork | Dave Biddle
Gnosis Gnetwork is a 45 minute sound journey composed by Dave Biddle, with some sonic contributions from Daniel Rincon, visual contributions… Read More.
Heavy Gestures | V.Vecker
Heavy Gestures, presented at Lobe in June 2024, is a project inspired by the writings of Richard D. Kramer that center on the temporal phenomenological experience of early Minimalist music… Read More…
How Do You Here Me? | Gemma Crowe
To hear something is to encounter it physically, but to see something is to be removed from it, at a distance. How Do You Here Me? explores the physical presence of sound and offers a felt sense of proximity where it… Read More.
Inferno | Claine Gorgoth-Lamb
Inferno II, a spatial sound piece created by Claine Gorgoth-Lamb, takes the listener on a macabre journey through the bowels of Hell as depicted by the 700+ year old poem "Inferno" from Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy."… Read More.
INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE | Evan Dysart
INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE is a reflection on and re-interpretation of Evan’s architectural masters thesis on acoustics and spatial perception. The composition explores and exploits the capability of our auditory system to evoke the intangible temporal feelings of… Read More.
Merkayangan | Romila
Merkayangan is a 4DSOUND simulation of the seven kejawen realms using traditional Javanese instruments, sounds in nature and archival recordings. This project uses modern technologies (leveraging LOBE’s dedicated spatial sound studio) and spiritual technologies (kejawen mysticism and Javanese… Read More.
Misophonic Contingency | Whitney Brennan
Brennan’s work with sound and field recordings came out of her experiences with an aurally sensitive anxiety disorder and experiencing misophonia. Fascinated by sound’s influence… Read More.
Orchid Mantis | Stefan Maier & Michelle Mackenzi
Created in collaboration with Michelle Mackenzi - Orchid Mantis is a sonic study of a speculative, post-human habitat described in an essay by Benjamin Bratton. Composer and educator Stefan Maier enlists the novel possibilities afforded by 4DSOUND and the… Read More.
Other Space | Jordan Juras & perila
Other Space is an audio-reactive and immersive album in a smartphone app created in collaboration between Jordan Juras, perila, and Kristen Stokes. Driven by the listener's sound environment, Other Space produces a unique and… Read More.
Phase Change | Future Ecologies
A story of memory, ghosting, and fire: how we can change the place we call home, and how it too can change around us… Episode.
Polyphonic Garden | Ruby Singh
The album was built and shaped using field recordings captured on the beautiful west coast of Turtle Island. Ruby also used plantwave technology to convert electrical data from plants and fungi into midi, Uno, Arutria & Micrologue synths, and analogue delay pedals. It's a 5 part audio/visual series aligned with the solar cycle. It began on last year's winter solstice, and will continue forward until this year's winter solstice.
Queer Healing | Shapeshifter Media Collective
Queer Healing is an immersive sound bath with projected experimental movement films focusing on trans and gender non-conforming body and voice combined with environmental field recordings. A platform where all are welcome to partake in deep listening, breath work, guided somatic practice.
Shapeshifter Media Collective is comprised of Rae Grant Duff and Chantal Gering.
Resurrectio: Act I | Morgan-Paige
Resurrectio: Act I sees Morgan-Paige kindle a new era of empowerment in this forthcoming chapter of her musical anthology. This denouement to the Requiem's End and silenced voices integrates spatial audio design, mixed digital media, and interactive technologies… Read More.
Sounds for a Room | Sean Evans
Having previously experimented with crude speaker set-ups to explore possibilities in spatial panning and surround sound, Sean was eager to use the 4D system to create drifting textures that travel the room… Read More.
Spiders Song | Future Ecologies
Spiders Song is a story about a quest to hear the greatest symphony on Earth: the music of evolution. Along the way, we get to know some of nature’s most surprising musicians — the paradise jumping spiders… Episode.
Sta/g-mos | Kate De Lorme
With the intention of aligning physical and metaphysical bodies, this piece is founded on theories and practices that suggest there is a fundamental connection between specific frequencies and the human body… Read More.
The Seventh Fire | Delinquent Theatre
The Seventh Fire is an immersive audio performance by Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen that sources traditional, oral Anishinaabe stories and societal roles as a way to evoke ceremony in the everyday… Read More.
Touching Unseen Sound | Silas Ng
Silas explores sonic memory and how it is stored in the body. During his residency he undertook a process of soundwalking through familiar urban and natural environments and then exploring manifestations of these spatial sonic memories in the body when recontextualized in a studio environment… Read More.
Tractatus de Umbra manus (1447): The Fifth Hammer | Stefan Maier
From the Venetian polychoral tradition, to the implied divine spatialities in the work of Guillaume DuFay’s Nuper Rosarum Flores, the work implicitly draws on this lineage through the use of musical instruments and temperaments from the late middle-ages. It is a part of a larger ongoing project in speculative medievalism… Read More.
Traversing The Mind | Kaitie Sly
This piece is a hybrid between a musical composition and a sound journey. With Traversing The Mind, Kaitie Sly aimed to bring elements and instrumentation of sound healing and meditation into this piece, to assist in cognitive-behavioral therapies, meditation practices, and somatic therapies… Read More.
Umbel | Loscil
Umbel is third in a series of image/music projects by loscil, presented as a full colour zine of photographs with an accompanying CD and download link of music.
This project follows previous releases Faults, Coasts, Lines and Lux: Refractions, combining photography and long form electronic music. Umbel was presented as an album release in spatial sound, along with the Umbel zine release.
Vox.infold | Ruby Singh
Ruby Singh presents Vox.Infold: a powerhouse vocal ensemble based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlí̓ lwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC). This dynamic squad uses traditional and emergent sonic
practices to create compositions that express… Read More,
What Holds Us Together | Van LeFan
Songs, poems, stories, reflections while in process of coming into a better understanding, of the self, the world, other beings, and ways in which we are connected to each other, a part of something, much bigger than ourselves.