Paul Oomen

Paul Oomen is a Dutch sound researcher, composer, and inventor born in 1983 in Amsterdam. He holds degrees in music composition from the Amsterdam Conservatory and Universität der Künste Berlin. In 2007 he founded 4DSOUND, a spatial sound technology company that developed an influential full-perimeter speaker system for immersive audio experience, operating until 2020. In 2015 he founded the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, where he is based, producing over 100 spatial sound performances and installations worldwide and writing on the philosophical and technical dimensions of spatial listening.