Spatial Audio Gathering 2026 Conference: March 31st - April 1st 2026

The Conference

Launched in 2024, SAG was established as a central hub for scholars, artists, enthusiasts, and practitioners in the field of spatial audio.

The conference aims to foster communication and exchange between a wide-ranging audience, featuring contributions from both renowned academics and early-career researchers. As spatial audio gains momentum, SAG seeks to create a thriving environment for the circulation of ideas encompassing technical perspectives, artistic applications, aesthetic studies, and philosophical research.

By bringing together a diverse community, SAG strives to bridge the gaps within the scope of spatial audio and its international community, gathering - as the name suggests-makers, artists, and scholars, and creating an open and welcoming forum for discussion and collaboration.

registration

SAG 2026 attendees will be required to register to the event and pay a £20 conference fee. This will grant access to all the sessions (presentations, keynotes, concerts) and refreshments.

The fee applies to both the general public attending the conference (non-presenting) and to selected authors. For each selected submission, at least one author must register by the deadline..

For selected authors, the fee is one-time, meaning that multiple submissions will be covered by one registration. A link to the registration page will be provided in due course.

More information can be found on the Spatial Audio Gathering website.

submissions

Full submission information is available on the Spatial Audio Gathering website.

Proposals are welcome for the artistic and scientific tracks of the conference. Potential areas include, but are not limited to:

• Philosophical takes on spatialisation and space as a metaphor
• Practice as research methodologies in the field of spatial audio
• Ethnographic and autoethnographic studies in spatial audio
• Speculations and future ideas on spatial audio and spatialisation techniques or technologies
• From technique to technology in audio spatialisation
• Sustainability in immersive audio tech
• Methods for spatial analysi
• Acousmatic composition
• Live coding
• Spatial audio in performances and sound art
• Spatial audio in the audiovisual context
• Case studies of spatial music
• Applied spatial audio
• Spatial sound in VR/AR/XR
• Gaming and spatial audio
• Installations and spatial audio
• (Spatial) sound and environment
• Personal experiences with spatialisation techniques and technologies

We invite authors to submit proposals that explore the spatiality of sound, in line with the core focus of the conference. For this edition, we are especially interested in contributions that offer personal reflections and investigate real-world use-cases. We welcome submissions from a variety of perspectives, including technical, artistic, and philosophical. In addition to traditional theoretical research, we highly encourage artistic submissions showcasing the use of spatial audio.

The special theme of SAG 2026 will be making spatial audio. Therefore we especially encourage submissions dealing with the following themes:

• DIY approaches to spatial audio
• New instruments for spatial audio control and recording
• New systems for the diffusion of spatialised sound
• Innovative spatial audio software (control, generation, transformation, acoustics)
• Novel compositional techniques for spatialisation

organising committee

SAG 2026 will be hosted at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds (UK), and organised by:

• Cameron Naylor - University of Manchester
• Enrico Dorigatti - University of Portsmouth
• Nikos Stavropoulos - Leeds Beckett University
• Stefano Catena - De Montfort University

For any enquiry you can reach the organsing committee at sag.conf@gmail.com.

for more infomation

Please visit the Spatial Audio Gathering website for full information on the event.