PhD candidate Jake Parry has recently returned from Paris, where he gave a paper at the prestigious IRCAM Forum, with the support of the M4C Doctoral Training Partnership.
Parry's PhD project on spatial audio is interrogating the ideological and conceptual foundations of immersion. Against a backdrop of rapid technological development in spatial audio, Parry's paper addressed convergences between art and product, examining how immersive strategies circulate between experimental practice and commercial design.
Using gambling media as a case study, it highlighted problematic features of the immersive paradigm—illustrating how sound in this context is carefully engineered to regulate attention, sustain engagement and elicit compulsive behaviours, while simultaneously obscuring the extractive mechanics that drive commercial profit.
Prior to heading to the IRCAM Forum, Parry gave a paper at the School of Music, University of Birmingham.
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| Jake Parry at the IRCAM Forum 2026 |
