The Visions of Sound Award will be presented for the third time this year. The award honors the best immersive mixes of 2025.
Creative sound engineers and sound engineers are honored in various categories from all releases that have been released as regular Blu-rays. Blu-rays that have only been released in limited, high-priced box sets are not eligible. We want to promote the release of immersive mixes on Blu-ray Disc at affordable prices.
The criteria for evaluation include various aspects such as the spatial arrangement of the mix, creativity, and musical interpretation.
WINNER:
Booka Shade – For Real
Mixing Engineer: Fritz Hilpert
NOMINEES:
Kraftwerk – Autobahn (50th Anniversary)
Mixing Engineer: Fritz Hilpert
Thomas Lemmer – HOPE / One Vision
Mixing Engineer: Eric Horstmann
Yello – Touch Yello
Mixing Engineer: Boris Blank, Leoš Gerteis
WINNER
Anette Askvik – Liberty
Mixing Engineer: Gaute Nistov
NOMINEES:
Phil Collins – No Jacket Required
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
WINNER:
Justin Gray – Immersed
Mixing Engineer: Justin Gray
NOMINEES:
Tetragon Project – Ascension
Mixing Engineer: Stefan Zaradić
Peterson, Oscar / Pedersen, Niels-Henning Orsted / Drew, Martin – Oscar Peterson Easter Suite
Mixing Engineer: Michel Suchent, Leif Ziemann
WINNER:
Steven Wilson – The Overview
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
NOMINEES:
Jethro Tull – Curious Ruminant
Mixing Engineer: Bruce Soord
Bioscope – Gento
Mixing Engineer: Andy Bradfield
WINNER:
XTC – Drums and Wires
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
NOMINEES:
Pearl Jam – Binaural (25th Anniversary Edition)
Mixing Engineer: Josh Evans & Nick Rives
Envy of None – Stygian Waves
Mixing Engineer: Alex Gamble
New Order – Low-Life
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
Mixing Engineer: E.T. Thorngren & Jerry Harrison
WINNER:
The Pineapple Thief – Retracing Our Steps
Mixing Engineer: Bruce Soord
NOMINEES:
Yes – Fly From Here (Return Trip)
Mixing Engineer: Richard Whittaker
RPWL – World Through My Eyes – Revisited
Mixing Engineer: Yogi Lang
WINNER:
Thin Lizzy – Acoustic Sessions
Mixing Engineer: Richard Whittacker
NOMINEES:
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Mixing Engineer: Chris James
Queen – Queen I
Mixing Engineer: Lewis Jones, Justin Shirley-Smith
Prince and the Revolution – Purple Rain
Mixing Engineer: Chris James
The Rolling Stones – Black and Blue
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
Jimi Hendrix – Bold As Love
Mixing Engineer: Eddie Kramer, Chandler Harrod
WINNER:
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (50th Anniv.)
Mixing Engineer: James Guthrie
NOMINEES:
The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot
Mixing Engineer: Alan Parsons
King Crimson – Lizard
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Mixing Engineer: Bob Mackenzie
WINNER:
Bjork – Cornucopia – Live
Mixing Engineer: Bergur Þórisson
NOMINEES:
The Cure – Troxy Live 2024: Show Of A Lost World
Mixing Engineer: Robert Smith
WINNER:
Bychkov, Semyon / Bayreuther Festspielorchester – Wagner: Tristan & Isolde
Mixing Engineer: Harald Gericke, Peter Hecker
NOMINEES:
Hans Zimmer – Hans Zimmer Live – Diamond in the Desert
Mixing Engineer: Stephen Lipson
Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko – Arnold Schönberg
Mixing Engineer:
WINNER
Roger Waters – This Is Not A Drill – Live From Prague
Mixing Engineer: Adam Scrivener
NOMINEES:
Frank Zappa – Cheaper Than Cheep
Mixing Engineer: Erich Gobel & Karma Auger
David Gilmour – Luck And Strange – Live @ Circus Maximus
Mixing Engineer:
Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII
Mixing Engineer: Steven Wilson
WINNER:
Gregorian – 25 LIVE
Mixing Engineer: Marcus Herzog
NOMINEES:
Marius Müller-Westernhagen – LIVE
Mixing Engineer: Dieter Krauthausen
WINNER:
HAEVN – Up Close – Concert Film
Mixing Engineer: Harald Gericke
NOMINEES:
Stryper – To Hell With the Amps
Mixing Engineer: Thiago Lima
WINNER:
Patrick Schappert
GROBI.TV, Kaarst
WINNER:
Jimi Hendrix – Bold As Love
Mixing Engineer: Eddie Kramer, Chandler Harrod
Ralf Kemper
Owner of River Studios Cologne
Als Grammy-Gewinner, Produzent und Engineer betreibt Ralf die River Studios Cologne. Die Darstellung der Musik auf der neu entstandenen „immersiven Bühne“ begleitet sein Schaffen bei der Umsetzung entsprechender musikalischer Konzepte. Wichtig ist ihm, dass ein Mehrwert für den Konsumenten in dem Erleben dieser Mischungen geschaffen wird.
Fritz Fey
Founder and editor-in-chief of "Studio Magazin"
Fritz is editor of the professional journal Studio Magazin. In addition to his other activities as a sound engineer and operator of a mastering studio, he has been involved in the creation of many production masters. Another focus of his work is studio design as a specialist planner for building and room acoustics.
Sam Donalies
Freelance Audio Engineer
Sam is a sound engineer at River Studios Cologne. He specializes in immersive mixes. Over the past three years, Sam has mixed more than 450 titles that have been released in Dolby Atmos format.
Christoph Diekmann
Founder of Visions of Sound
Trained as a classical guitarist, Christoph has gained experience in all areas of music marketing, from record labels to publishing and artist management, and now focuses on marketing immersive mixes on Blu-ray Disc. As an executive producer, he has also been involved in the creation of numerous mixes.
Our newsletter regularly informs you about current screening dates, music releases in Dolby Atmos and AURO 3-D, as well as the latest developments around immersive audio.
Our newsletter regularly informs you about current screening dates, music releases in Dolby Atmos and AURO 3-D, as well as the latest developments around immersive audio.