About

Andrew Rahman is a Berlin-based spatial audio engineer with expertise spanning research, live production, mixing, and systems engineering. He holds an Honors B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where his independently funded research on recording ambisonic impulse responses was published in three academic journals.

In 2017, Rahman co-founded the Spatial Media Lab e.V., a studio and community space in Berlin’s Weißensee dedicated to immersive audio and multimedia. Through the Lab, he has produced spatial audio concerts at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium, educated composers and sound designers on working in spatial audio, and collaborated with artists including Carolina Eyck, Jan Wagner, and Discovery Zone — contributing both to their live immersive shows and Dolby Atmos mixes on Apple Music.

In addition to the Spatial Media Lab, Rahman currently works at d&b audiotechnik GmbH as an Applications Engineer for their spatial audio algorithm “Soundscape,” where he creates tutorial videos, writes technical documentation, and creates spatial audio mixes for demonstrating the Soundscape system.

Basel Naouri is a Berlin-based spatial sound artist, media scenographer, architect, and musician working at the intersection of sound, space, and emerging technologies. He is the founder of slowfuture, a transmedia design collective exploring experimental environments where architecture converges with immersive media.

With an MA in Media Spaces and a BSc in Architecture, his practice spans VR, immersive environments, and spatial sonic narratives challenging conventional modes of listening and embodied experience. His work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, Dubai Design Week, and Amman Design Week.

Basel lectures in New Media Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. He is the founder of TimeLab, a Berlin laboratory for transmedial environments, and co-curator of MANIFEST:IO for new media and electronic art. In 2025, he joined the board of Spatial Media Lab.

As a multi-instrumentalist and electronic music producer, he has been a core member of El Morabba3 since 2018, co-leads the sound platform Recordat, and co-founded Arabs with Synthesizers and Zaed Naes.

Timo Bittner is a Berlin-based sound engineer and system designer specializing in live and installed audio systems. Operating under the name fluesterLAUT, he brings over 13 years of freelance experience across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

For the past several years, he has focused on spatial audio, working mainly on non-standardized setups in planetariums, artistic, and industrial settings. A key milestone was designing and installing the spatial audio sound system at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin. He has shared this expertise internationally, including through a Genelec Masterclass on object- and scene-based 3D audio formats, with a particular focus on Ambisonics.

Timo co-founded Spatial Media Lab e.V. in 2017 with Andrew Rahman. He currently serves as the organisation’s president and holds a position as Application Engineer at L-Acoustics.

Beyond audio, Timo is the driving force behind viele.tech, a project exploring cooperative models for the events industry, reflecting his commitment to sustainability, progressive labor practices, and co-creation.