Search

Descriptions should be written as one or more proper sentences, starting with a capital letter and ending with a full stop, exclamation mark, or question mark.

SPARC Lab (or SPARCL) for research in immersive sound, image, and movement is based in the Department of Performing Arts at City St George's, University London and its research centre SPARC (Sound Practice and Research at City St George's).

Immersion

What can immersive sound make possible? SPARC Lab empowers artists to create immersive music to reach new audiences. Its mission is to widen access for artistic creators to technologies for immersive audio, which can be defined as sound that situates listeners in the midst of a three-dimensional (3-D) spatial scene. SPARC Lab is supported by an AHRC CResCa (Creative Research Capability) grant. Learn more about SPARC Lab research.

Software

The SPARCL GitHub repository is a forum for users to share software for use with SPARCL including tools for sound spatialisation with Higher-Order Ambisonic (HOA), the IKO 20-channel spherical loudspeaker array, and EM64 Eigenmike.

SPARC Lab Resources

  • EM64 Eigenmike

    EM64 Eigenmike compact spherical microphone array from mh acoustics

  • IKO icosahedral loudspeaker array

    IKO icosahedral loudspeaker array from sonible

  • SPARC Lab Launch

    SPARC Lab Launch at SPARC Symposium 2024: [Im]probable Networks

  • Young woman performing in front of a microphone, instrument in hand.

    Nkisi performing Shapes of Ruins as Energetic Devices at SPARC Symposium 2025: Entangle!

  • Audience sitting in the SPARC lab during a concert.

    Audience at SPARC Symposium 2025: Entangle!

  • Woman performing percussion on the interior of a piano

    Siwan Rhys performing In den Träumen by Claudia Molitor at SPARC Symposium 2025: Entangle!