Sigur Rós turn ÁRA into a deep-listening laboratory at Oxford

Sigur Rós announcing ÁRA on 16 June feels less like a normal tour item and more like the band quietly building a cathedral inside a university. The Icelandic post-rock group will launch the multi-sensory experience at Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre from 26 June to 19 July, working with spatial audio specialists Loss><Gain and Oxford researchers studying the effects of deep listening on thought and wellbeing. The project uses live recordings from the band’s orchestral world tour in a custom spatial-audio environment, with lighting by Matt Daw and ambient scents from Jónsi’s Fischersund. That sounds very Sigur Rós, in the best way. Their music has always treated sound as weather, architecture and emotional suspension. ÁRA simply makes that idea literal, turning listening into a space you enter rather than a file you press play on.

Source: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/sigur-ros-to-launch-immersive-listening-experience-at-oxford-university