Jon Hopkins, Arooj Aftab, Tinariwen to kick off new spatial audio festival Polygon Live LDN

Polygon Live LDN will feature the world premiere of Polygon’s dual-dome stage design. Each hemispherical structure will be rigged with 12 L-Acoustics speaker arrays surrounding the audience, a festival-grade sub-wall, and four overhead arrays from above. With almost 100 speakers across each dome, the total count features five times the number of speakers typically used for a stage of this size. The structure also features a vast lattice of LED lighting that will enhance the space, enveloping audiences in a cocoon of spatialized sound and synchronised lighting.

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Polygon will welcome Arooj Aftab, producer and composer Gold Panda, Halina Rice, Jon Hopkins – fresh from collaborating with NASA and the release of his seventh album, Ritual – British producer and composer Nitin Sawhney, Polygon veteran Photay, and Tinariwen who closes off the first release of artists with an interplay of traditional Tuareg music and electronic sounds that lends itself so naturally to spatialisation.

“Originally, our deployment of spatial audio emerged from the live sets of electronic music,” explains Polygon CEO Nico Elliott. “Live DJs use a number of sounds, textures, frequencies and rhythms, which helped to push our understanding of what’s possible in spatial audio.” “At Polygon Live LDN, our programming has evolved. Working in partnership with renowned curators OpenLab, we’ve brought together an incredible line-up of visionary artists spanning electronic, world, jazz and experimental music to showcase their work in our 360° environment.”