For Your Consideration
Songs Arranged and Performed for a Natural Immersive Experience
Humans in a Room begins with a simple idea: the most compelling immersive experience should begin with the song—not the technology.
Willy Porter’s latest album was conceived as songs and music first- then arranged and performed by musicians together, live in the studio, without overdubs, and captured direct-to-immersive. You can hear the nuances and subtleties of all of musical interactions along with their associated emotions.
The room is not something to be created, removed, corrected, or replaced. The room becomes a part of the music—an active instrument in the recording. Sound travels, reflects, blends, and decays naturally as the musicians listen, react, and respond to one another in real time. Those interactions—the subtle changes in dynamics, timing, tone, timbre, resonance and emotion—become inseparable from the performance itself.
Humans in a Room offers an answer. Start with a great song. Put talented musicians together in a great acoustic space. Let them play. Capture the performance, the room, and the human interaction as one experience.
Humans in a Room is not music placed into an immersive environment. Rather music born within one.
Listen and Experience Humans In A Room
Different formats. Different perspectives. One room.
Put on your headphones—or step into an immersive listening environment—and experience Humans In A Room for yourself.
'A Dog & a Leash'
'Imaginary Wings'
'I Will Reach'
Album available at Immersive Audio Album.
The team at Immersive Audio Album included Willy Porter's Humans In A Room in their Top 10 contenders list for the forthcoming 2027 Grammys
'Humans in a Room' Liner Notes.
The Visual Stories Behind the Sound
Inside Humans In A Room
Featured in MIX Magazine
Inside the Making of Humans In A Room
MIX takes an in-depth look at the production, recording and immersive audio work behind the album.
Podcast Appearances
Go inside the sessions and experience the people, performances and technology behind Humans In A Room.
Immersive Audio Album (IAA) Podcast
Immersive Design Labs microphones, array, and accessories available here
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ADM Files for Willy Porter's 'Human's In A Room'.
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Acclaimed singer-songwriter Willy Porter, known for his expressive fretwork and soulful storytelling, has spent more than two decades captivating audiences across the U.S. and Europe, sharing stage...