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06/08/2026

Immersive sound Design & Mix by Q Department. Doug Aitken’s landmark installation work “Lightscape” opens at on June 25, 2026. ⁠
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Presented at The Shed as an immersive 7-screen installation, “Lightscape” creates a vulnerable and humanistic portrait chronicling the search for individuality in a world of continuous transformation. Propelled by music, film, and architecture, the work follows multiple characters on a journey through deserts, mountainscapes, robotics factories, and the digital realm.⁠
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The film features musical collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, with original recordings by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Beck & LA LOM, Dražen Bošnjak and Aitken.

05/21/2026

The Association of Music Producers (AMP Awards) is a major industry awards program that celebrates the power of music and sound in advertising and emerging media. Following up from Q Department notably winning the award for Best Use of Immersive Sound for our work on UFC 306 at The Sphere Las Vegas in 2025. Q Department just snagged the AMP Award for Best Sound Design 2026 for Google DeepMind ANCESTRA the AI x live-action hybrid directed by Eliza McNitt and produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup in collaboration with Google DeepMind and Google Creative Lab. Inspired by the story of Eliza’s own birth, ANCESTRA brings together live action, generative AI, VFX, sound and machine learning with over 200 artists, filmmakers, engineers, musicians, technologists and performers behind it. The promise of AI is not less human craft. It is more freedom: from budget, from time, from the limits of what we could previously imagine. Technology should expand the joy of making things, not erase it and it’s projects like ANCESTRA where artists and masters of the craft get to collaborate with marvels like DeepMind to ensure the technology we build supports that human endeavor.

03/28/2026

Q Department latest Original Music Sound Design Voice Augmentation and Mix for the good people at and , directed by . Agency: Ogilvy
Chief Production Officer, NA: Tim LeGallo
Executive Producer: Dre Libreros
Production Company: Furlined Productions

Directors: Speck Gordon
Director of Photography: Lasse Frank

Editorial: Cabin
Colorist: Daniel De Vue
Music Sound Design Voice Augmentation and Mix by: Q Department
ARC Creative
Managing Director: Angela Lupo Executive Producer: Nick Fraser

03/26/2026

🇫🇷Q Department Paris collaboration: A documentary of ‘Soulwax Presents: Abbey Road After Hours’ premiered on YouTube 18th March - go watch it now! Sound Design & Mix Q Department Paris tv

02/19/2026

Repost from from way back in the archives one of our favorite collaborations!
I was looking through old animations for a part of pitching presentation, and I found this old animation I made for FUSE TV station ID in 2004.

I originally wanted to do the idea of Graphic Gr***de exploding and all the graphic coming out of it, with its station name “fuse” and all, but this was a few years after 9/11 and the station understandably asked if I don’t do the gr***de. So I made that into a robot. You still see the initial idea of the gr***de with pins as ears, etc. And the sound was done by the magnificent Dražen Bošnjak and honestly the sound design is the best part of this spot. If I remember correctly, he recorded the clicking sound of pumping the shotgun for mechanical clicks and pins.

I only could find 720 x 480 resolution file and I also had to re-render it in After Effects because QuickTime Player didn’t recognize it. (1) Did we used to deliver the finals in such a small resolution for TV broadcasting purposes in 2004? I had been in the broadcasting business since the time of delivering them in Beta Tapes and can’t remember it anymore but I guess it was that low res back then? (2) Did they change the format of QuickTime in past decades, and you can’t read old movie files?

02/14/2026

proud to be the sound partner for Google’s Olympics campaign: music, sound design & mix. Here’s Chloe Kim!

02/08/2026

Times Square is running a real-time, choreographed, location-based story: a chrome “Countdown Box” staged like a live set, with controlled sightlines through frosted glass, fleeting silhouettes of the F1 car, and a timed sequence of light, texture, and partial reveals that keep the object just out of reach. The score sound design and mix evolve across the full run shifting tension, pacing, and scale: so the build feels embodied, not merely observed. Inside is a full-scale replica wearing Cadillac’s inaugural 2026 Formula 1 livery, held for the final beat synchronized with the Super Bowl spot so the broadcast drop and the street-level reveal land as one. New York City becomes the medium.

01/10/2026

In 2012, Dražen Bošnjak and Q Department collaborated on the sound for Marco Brambilla’s Evolution (Megaplex) as part of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier program - at a moment when Sundance was quietly ushering in the immersive, interactive revolution.

As Sundance takes its final bow in Park City this year, that New Frontier moment reads like a first chapter: it set Q Department on a lasting trajectory as a definitive force in immersive sound - a straight line to the present with a SNL50 360 (Emmy Award, 2025), Meta’s Red Rocks VR series (Emmy-nominated), and UFC 306 at Sphere Las Vegas (6 Sports Emmys) and a new production in the works for 2026.

It began at Sundance.

12/17/2025

Q Department latest collaboration Original Music, Sound Design & Mix for Moncler Grenoble Fall/Winter 2025 directed by edit by Ft Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, Emma Hall, Richard Permin, and
Nic von Rupp.

12/13/2025

Repost from Original Music Sound Design & Mix Q Department IN OUR ELEMENT
Moncler Grenoble Fall/Winter 2025.
Winter-sport enthusiasts Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, Emma Hall, Richard Permin, and Nic von Rupp channel the adrenalin and atmosphere of modern mountain lifestyles for the new season. Discover more on moncler.com

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