Hear music like you’ve never heard it before. Polygon Portal, London’s first and only dedicated 360° spatial audio listening room, has announced its second season, returning to Dean Street, Soho from the 1st of October. Enter the Portal and step inside the music, where you’ll feel it move all around you. It’s deeper, more physical, and unlike anything you’ve felt before. Following a hugely successful first season, Season Two brings landmark albums, exclusive premieres, artist Q&A’s, live performances, and pioneering sound-led wellbeing sessions.
Prince – Timeless
Ten previously unreleased recordings from Prince’s Vault, spanning 1977-2016, heard in spatial audio in partnership with Legacy Recordings. Released in the year marking the 10th anniversary of Prince’s passing, this is a rare chance to experience unheard official material from one of music’s most iconic catalogues.
UNKLE – Beyond The Road | 15 October sold out / 30 October added
The acclaimed Saatchi Gallery immersive “walkthrough album” rebuilt into a single room at Polygon Portal, with a live Q&A featuring James Lavelle and Punchdrunk creative team members Colin Nightingale and Stephen Dobbie. Supported by L-Acoustics.
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A Britpop landmark mixed for spatial audio for the first time by Steven Wilson, with an in-person Q&A from Suede’s Neil Codling and Mat Osman.
De La Soul – Stakes Is High, 30th Anniversary | 23 October
The definitive 30th anniversary edition of De La Soul’s seminal 1996 album, played in full on release day.
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here / The Dark Side of the Moon | Selected October dates
Landmark spatial audio sessions celebrating one of music’s most visionary catalogues, including the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here.
A three-month programme of immersive wellbeing experiences exploring the intersection of breath, music and connection, including Jamie Clements x Vraell, Tom Middleton: ATTEND > Water, Sounds of the Ocean, Urmi Sound, Tensuhi, Maude Hirst, Jasmin Harsono and more.
Also appearing across the season with further exclusive sessions from New Order, Suzanne Ciani and Ed O’Brien (Radiohead), alongside landmark album playbacks including Jeff Buckley, Hawkwind, Henry Mancini, Grateful Dead, Pixies, King Crimson, Kiasmos, Kelsey Lu, Snarky Puppy and more.
October sessions are on sale now, with further November and December programming to be announced.
Nico Elliott, co-founder of Polygon Productions, said:
“Season One showed us that once people step inside Polygon Portal, they immediately understand what makes it different. This is not background listening. It is music with your full attention.
Season Two is about building on that, with a stronger programme, more exclusive moments and more reasons for people to experience familiar artists and records in a completely new way. Whether you are coming for an unreleased Prince recording, a landmark album, an artist Q&A or a wellbeing session, the purpose is the same: to give people the best possible way to listen, reset and reconnect through sound.”
Polygon Portal is powered by one of the world’s most advanced spatial audio systems, allowing sound to move around, above and through the audience. The result is an intimate, immersive listening experience that sits somewhere between a gig, cinema, album playback and sound journey, while feeling unlike any of them.
Tickets start from £19 and are available here: polygon-productions.live/portal
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