SPACE, TUNING & TRANSLATION

QVibe & immersive composition

Justin Scott Dixon / Voyager

Looping visuals, long tones, room to breathe. These pieces later became material for immersive work. Musical intentions; no claims of therapeutic results.

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QVibe 40 Hz Focus — published audiovisual thumbnail.
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QVibe 639 Hz — published audiovisual thumbnail.

HISTORY & CONTEXT

QVibe: pacing and tone

The 2020 brief

The project began with an October 2020 brief for short audiovisual app experiences: a selected frequency, custom music harmonized around it, and a looping fractal video. Each experience was planned around a three-minute format. Working with the app and video teams meant considering how the reference tone, composition and picture would become one finished playback asset.

Tuning experiments and breathing space

My approach was to tune instruments around the target tones and keep a low-level sine-wave reference running through each piece. Long drones and sustaining piano chords gave the music room to develop alongside the image, with time for the opening and the ending.

From session to delivery

The retained Logic production archive includes Alchemy samples, recorded audio, frozen tracks, bounces, RX mastering documents and video exports. The 40Hz Focus masters include both 48 kHz/16-bit and 96 kHz/32-bit versions. Together with the other frequency-labelled masters, these files document composition, production and preparation of multiple delivery formats.

A shared audiovisual workflow

Fractal-source curation and collaboration with the video team were part of the work. The retained Premiere project includes preview renders, captured media and separate Christmas material. The published videos bring that music-and-image approach together.

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Unfolding into Atmos

Anxiety: from the original piece to an immersive version

The original 639Hz Anxiety piece survives in the QVibe master archive and as a published audiovisual version on YouTube. I chose its dark, textural character as a leading example for later immersive work. My archive account describes the Atmos version as mastered and unpublished; the public QVibe video is the original audiovisual reference, not an Atmos release.

An anchored source, a moving environment

In my account of the immersive approach, the source sounds stay anchored while their accompanying effects extend around the listener. The space comes from the relationship between a stable musical foundation and the surrounding reflections and movement, with stereo and binaural translation considered throughout.

Monitoring and translation

Bass management, LFE balance and calibrated monitoring were central to that process. My focus was to preserve the weight and dynamics of the piece while checking how its spatial relationships translated beyond the speaker layout. This describes my working approach; it does not identify a publicly released Atmos master.

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Continuing the production research

A continuous QVibe session

A retained 2022 Logic project and 96 kHz/24-bit continuous render show that the material continued into a longer listening format. A further mix-print copy was preserved in 2023.

Related Logic and immersive experiments

In separate studio research, I documented preparing 48 kHz/32-bit-float stems in RX 11 for a 96 kHz Logic Pro Atmos project. I also explored networks of mono, tempo-synchronized echoes routed to discrete speaker positions, with polarity and fold-down checks. These are broader immersive-workflow experiments.

Making the workflow teachable

A July 2025 Logic Pro and Dolby Atmos guide draft brought together routing, MIDI transformation, room simulation and immersive-workflow ideas. It remains a draft and a record of educational research, not a finished or published book.

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