DOWNTOWN — NYU STEINHARDT has reopened and renamed its Brooklyn Audio Lab as the Sony Audio Institute Studio, part of a $7.5 million NYU-Sony partnership launched last March, the university announced in a press release. The revamped space is intended to be a working, student-accessible immersive audio lab, with Sony tools such as 360 Reality Audio and 360 virtual mixing environments that simulate spatial sound through speakers and headphones.
NYU President Linda Mills and Steinhardt Dean Jack Knott highlighted the institute’s mix of training, programming, and scholarships; the partnership has already awarded more than 10 scholarships to students in music business and music technology.
NYU’s music and audio research laboratory will collaborate with Sony engineers on machine listening, immersive audio and music psychology and neuroscience, while internships, workshops, and an artist-in-residence program expand career pathways.
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