An illustrious review panel including Suzanne Ciani, Laura Escudé, Laraaji, and Craig Leon selected musician Symbion Project’s song “Breathing Space (Inhale)” for the dublab Make Music in Space quadraphonic grant.

Nearly 800 copies of the Quadraphonic Universally Accessible Resource Kit (QUARK) were downloaded by adventurous musicians, many learning for the first time to make music in spacial sound.

As a part of the grant Symbion Project receives a $500 honorarium, a feature by dublab and creative tools from Ableton, The Cargo Cult, FabFilter, Focusrite, iZotope, Output, Pioneer DJ, Spitfire Audio, and Transmute.

Last year, through the support of dublab supporters and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), dublab with a team of artists and engineers developed the Quadraphonic Universally Accessible Resource Kit (QUARK); the free software plugin which encodes and decodes Quadraphonic spatial sound in real time, allowing anyone to easily distribute Quadraphonic music through all existing media including vinyl, radio, streaming video such as YouTube and music services such as iTunes and Spotify.

LISTEN to a conversation between Make Music in Space grantee Symbion Project, QUARK co-creator KamranV and dublab executive director Alejandro Cohen.

ABOUT Symbion Project:
Symbion Project is the brainchild of electronic music composer/producer Kasson Crooker. Over the past 2 decades of creating eclectic electronic music, Kasson has founded numerous bands (Symbion Project, Freezepop, ELYXR, Rocococo, and others) in genres from downtempo, IDM, techno, ambient, synthpop, and classical synthesizer music. Symbion Project has released 3 albums mixed in quadraphonic, performed live surround sound recitals, and created a spatial audio VR experience called (m)ORPH.