Immersive Audio Network Festival

The Immersive Audio Network (IAN) is pleased to announce a Call for Works for its upcoming spatial audio Festival — curated listening events celebrating excellence, experimentation, and innovation in immersive sound.

We welcome submissions from spatial audio practitioners, sound artists, composers, and producers working across immersive formats such as Ambisonics and Dolby Atmos.

Two Submission Categories:

Emerging Talent

For early-career creators, students, or first-time submitters working in immersive audio who wish to showcase their spatial sound pieces in a supportive and exploratory environment.

Established Talent

For more advanced practitioners, professional sound/music artists, and spatial audio creators with a demonstrated body of work. This category celebrates refined, ambitious, and mature immersive audio compositions — works that push the boundaries of spatial sound.

What We Are Looking For

We invite immersive audio works that explore spatiality, depth, movement, and narrative in sound. Submissions might range from experimental ambisonic soundscapes to cinematic Dolby Atmos compositions, from environmental recordings to abstract sonic journeys. Works may be deeply conceptual, textural, musical, or narrative — what matters most is how you use spatial audio to engage and transport the listener.

Why Participate?

Selected works will be featured in live playback at our Spatial Audio Festival, experienced over the IAN immersive audio playback system — a 25-speaker and 3-subwoofer Genelec array specifically designed for both 4th order Ambisonics and Dolby Atmos 9.1.6 playback. This high-resolution system allows works to be heard with exceptional spatial precision, depth, and clarity.

You will gain exposure within the Immersive Audio Network’s community of artists, producers, engineers, and spatial audio enthusiasts.

This is an opportunity to test new spatial audio ideas in a curated, supportive festival environment.

About the Immersive Audio Network

The Immersive Audio Network (IAN) is a vibrant community of creators, technologists, and listeners dedicated to advancing spatial audio practice and culture. Through workshops, labs, networking events, and collaborative production, IAN fosters artistic growth, technical innovation, and shared listening experiences. Recent events, such as our Immersive Audio Lab at Bath Digital Festival, have showcased works on our mobile 25-speaker immersive rig and continue to build momentum for immersive sound as a creative medium.