Introducing Polygon Live LDN, the UK's Largest Outdoor Spatial Audio Festival Coming to Crystal Palace Park in May 2025

10 December 2024 - Press release

The largest outdoor spatial audio festival ever to hit the UK is coming to Crystal Palace Park from 2 to 4 May 2025. Presented by spatial audio pioneers Polygon Live, in partnership with Full Fat 360 and OpenLab, Polygon Live LDN will see groundbreaking performances by Arooj Aftab, Gold Panda, Halina Rice, Jon Hopkins, Nitin Sawhney, Photay, Tinariwen, and more. Step inside this immersive world and redefine your perception of live music.

Polygon Live LDN will feature the world premiere of Polygon’s dual-dome stage design. Each hemispherical structure will be rigged with an impressive 12.1.4 system: 12 L-Acoustics speaker arrays surrounding the audience, a festival-grade sub-wall delivering earth-shaking bass, and four overhead arrays raining crystal-clear sound from above. With almost 100 speakers across each dome, the total count features five times the number of speakers typically used for a stage of this size. The structure also features a vast lattice of LED lighting that will enhance the space, enveloping audiences in a cocoon of spatialised sound and synchronised lighting.

Polygon will welcome the effortlessly cool Pakistani-American singer, Arooj Aftab, who will showcase her extraordinary vocal range, producer and composer Gold Panda, celebrated for his intricate, sample-driven soundscapes and genre-blurring artistry. Halina Rice will showcase her ambient textures and complex synthesiser work, while Jon Hopkins, fresh from collaborating with NASA and the release of his seventh album Ritual, will demonstrate how ideally suited he is for a Polygon performance. British producer and composer Nitin Sawhney, renowned for his contributions across various creative platforms is also on the bill, as will Polygon veteran Photay, who will bring his intricate fusion of organic percussion, warm synthesisers and field recordings to the stage. Tinariwen closes off the first release of artists with an interplay of traditional Tuareg music and electronic sounds that lends itself so naturally to spatialisation.

“Originally, our deployment of spatial audio emerged from the live sets of electronic music,” explains Polygon CEO Nico Elliott. “Live DJs use a number of sounds, textures, frequencies and rhythms, which helped to push our understanding of what’s possible in spatial audio.” “At Polygon Live LDN, our programming has evolved. Working in partnership with renowned curators OpenLab, we’ve brought together an incredible line-up of visionary artists spanning electronic, world, jazz and experimental music to showcase their work in our 360° environment.”

The artists performing at the festival will collaborate with Polygon’s spatial sound engineers to tease out the individual components of every track using L-Acoustics’ L-ISA processor. This allows every element to move around, above and through the audience as the artists perform, completely immersing the audience in sound. Talking about the technology, DJ and producer Be Svendsen said it was “hands down one of the best sound systems I have ever heard and played on”.

Though critical, the sound is not the only part of the experience. Polygon is intent on creating a truly immersive and multisensory environment. This involves synchronising the music with an enormous web of lighting across both domes, creating a unifying experience that feels nothing short of transcendent.

After highly successful events this year at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, the ADE in Amsterdam, and Wonderfruit Festival in Thailand, Polygon is set to amaze audiences in London in 2025.

If ever there was an event not to be missed, this is it. Early bird tickets are on sale now via the Polygon Live website.

A-Z line-up so far:

Arooj Aftab

Gold Panda

Halina Rice

Jon Hopkins

Nitin Sawhney

Photay

Tinariwen

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