As d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape spatial audio system continues its worldwide roll-out, it is finding itself in new creative and inspirational company – as with Berlin-based experimental electronic pop outfit, Mouse on Mars.
The creative duo behind Mouse on Mars – life-long friends Jan St Werner and Andi Toma – saw d&b Soundscape as the perfect tool to demonstrate the complex, layered aural dimensions of their multi-collaborative new album, Dimensional People. The album launch event was presented with the aid of percussion-playing robots during a conference presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called Dissolve Music.
‘The material – from many musicians and collaborators – was so dense, with so many elements, that we didn’t want to reduce it to a stereo mix,’ explains St Werner. ‘So the idea of making a spatial mix came up, and of course we took the opportunity.’
‘We have always tried to mix our music as if it were a spatial experience – with sounds coming and going, as if the music is surrounding you,’ says Toma. ‘Soundscape, as a spatial technology, actually makes that possible, the tool becomes an additional instrument.’
‘With Soundscape, you are not limited to that stereo perspective any more – you can actually walk around in the sound,’ St Werner adds. ‘You have a very different experience, of really being inside it.’
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