Sound Designer, 3D Spatial Audio

Hey!

We’re looking for a sound designer to join an R&D phase exploring immersive, spatial sound. The focus of this research is on 3D spatial audio, vocal layering, and movement-based sound behaviours – specifically mapping vocal lines to murmuration-style 3D patterns, creating a sensation of sound that swirls, gathers, disperses, and breathes around the listener.

Following on from a successful projection experience about the migration of swifts, we’re now deepening our exploration into flight-inspired soundscapes. The aim is to create the sensation of being inside a murmuration, except instead of a visual murmuration of starlings, a rich, shifting 3D soundscape of samples.

This R&D will culminate in a hands-on session inside the 3D spatial audio system at MediaCity Hub in Salford in March, where we’ll test how the work behaves in a full spatial environment.

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We’re particularly interested in:

• Choir-like textures made from voices

• Sound that moves around, above, and through audiences

• Translating visual ideas of murmurations into sonic motion and behaviour

You’ll work closely with the creative director to prototype, test, and iterate ideas that can feed into our future immersive installations.

Fee: £1,500 (£300/day for 5 days)

Timeline

• Application deadline: 9AM, Friday 13th February

• Short online interviews: Tuesday 17th February

• R&D period: Flexible, early March

• In-person spatial test session: March, MediaCity Hub

Policy on AI. We’re happy for AI-based techniques to be used as part of a balanced creative practice. We don’t prescribe a single approach -what matters is artistic quality, curiosity, and respect for collaborators’ choices.