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Tod Machover, Professor of Music and Media at MIT and Fellow of Society of Sound has recently been experimenting with a 3D Ambisonic audio system using Bowers & Wilkins speakers. The rig features 21 Bowers & Wilkins speakers, including 19 M-1s and a pair of... Read more

Described as “lightning in a bottle” by none other than Dennis Hopper, legendary songwriter, Eurythmics founder and of course,  B&W Fellow, Dave Stewart performed a one-off Benefit Concert with his Rock Fabulous Orchestra last night in LA. If you were under a misapprehension that Dave... Read more

B&W Fellow and Society of Sound Curator Peter Gabriel has just been awarded the Polar Music Prize which he will share with Venezuelan composer Jose Antonio Abreu. This has been another very successful year for Peter,  he was nominated for an Oscar for Down to... Read more

The eminent sound artist Janet Cardiff is the latest Fellow to join Society of Sound. She works mainly in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller, and – according to Wikipedia – “first gained international notoriety…in 1995.” Her latest installation, The Murder of Crows, uses... Read more

Peter Gabriel has added more dates to his South American and Mexican tour in March – you can see a full list of dates so far here. Narrowly pipped at the post for the Best Song Oscar by Slumdog Millionaire, Peter did win a Grammy... Read more

I’m in Newcastle-on-Tyne right now, in the final stage of rehearsals for my Skellig opera which premieres here at the Sage Gateshead next Monday and runs from November 24-29. Newcastle is a lot smaller than Boston, where I live, but it has a familiar feel... Read more

Tod Machover: cutting edge composer, a Professor of Music and Media at MIT’s renowned Media Lab and a Fellow of B&W’s Society of Sound. Tod is in the UK in November for two exciting events: a lecture in London on the Future of Music and... Read more