Spatial Audio and Ambisonics
A collection of fixed-media pieces using ambisonics, an open-source sound format for spatialized audio. Some of these works have been performed in venues suitable for spatialized media; however, they have been rendered here in binaural format for headphone listening. I use ambisonics as a compositional tool to help build immersion in my works.
National Anathema
3rd-order ambisonics
2026
Program Notes
National Anathema developed from seeing too many Flock cameras put up in my neighborhood, listening to too many podcasts that platform tech CEOs and right-wing influencers who are hell-bent on bringing about Armageddon in the name of greed and power, and feeling helplessly addicted to doomerist content that social media algorithms push upon me.
Composed with a Eurorack modular synthesizer and interview recordings.
The Silence of the Amps, Bing Concert Hall Studio, Stanford University, January 30th 2026
Performances
Sermon of the Dragon
5th-order ambisonics
2025
Program Notes
Sermon of the Dragon is a fixed-media ambisonics work that provides the sonic backdrop to a sermon on the book of Revelation and the end times. The composition aims to recreate the sense of uncertainty and dread that accompanied the teachings of the pastor the composer was subject to as a child.
As we traverse between the physical world, the mind, limbo, heaven, and hell, the space around us shifts between vast and ethereal, vacant and endless, and closed-off and restrictive. Enveloped by the imagery evoked by the scripture, we are unable to escape the fatalistic landscape shaped by the religious ideology. The guiding voice moves around us, above us, and below us, to remind us that they are omnipresent.
Everything Everywhere All at Bing, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, April 18th 2025
Performances
Motion Sickness
3rd-order Ambisonics
2025
Program Notes
Motion Sickness is my first piece working with ambisonics, taking harsh, FM-driven oscillators and spinning them around the listener’s head, creating a sense of disorientation. The piece rarely lets up, reveling in its chaos.