40.4

“Inhospitable Planet” by Force Majeure wins the 2026 40.4 Festival’s Call for Contributions!! The audience at the LIVE event on Weds did the voting (the finalist’s pieces were played anonymously). Big thanks again to Sound Particles for helping sponsor this year’s festival. Looking forward to hearing more pieces from Force Majeure in the future, hopefully the Space Controller license will help you make more art happen! Big thanks to everyone that submitted works to the festival. annnnd that's a wrap for this year's fest!

Big thanks to for designing the poster for this year’s fest!
Deadline for the Call for Contributions is a week away; Mon March 16th (read the call → www.40p4.org)
Thanks again to Sound Particles for being a sponsor!
L’Astra Cosmo’s set "Lightphorms" is going to be serious buiz down in that space, not to be missed if you’re going to be around Colorado on April 1st.

The 5th Annual “40.4 Festival” will be happening March 30th - April 3rd, 2026..!
Call for Contributions is happening again this year!
Big thanks to Sound Particles for helping us sponsor this year’s festival!
The best submission (Higher Order Ambisonics or Atmos ADM) will be awarded a Space Controller Standard license.

If this is your first time hearing about the 40.4 Fest, check out the website: www.40p4.org
(new website coming soon!)

40.4 Fest 2025 is wrapped..!

From the 40.4 Fest in 2024: Enrique Mendoza "Hybrid Audio Diffusion Systems" - Lecture
Big thanks to Enrique Mendoza!

40.4: Enrique Mendoza "Hybrid Audio Diffusion Systems" - Lecture The HADS is a monitoring system design that combines open headphones and speaker arrays to create augmented immersive sound fields. With recently developed d...

From the 40.4 Fest in 2024: David Zicarelli "Stick Your Head Inside a Piano"
Big thanks to David & Cycling74!

40.4: David Zicarelli "Stick Your Head Inside a Piano" A piano has a few hundred strings and a big resonant soundboard. When you sit in front of a piano to play it, you have an experience of sound in the room tha...