GRAMMY Awards 2025
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For Your Consideration
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Best Immersive Audio Album
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GRAMMY Awards 2025
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For Your Consideration
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Best Orchestral Performance
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GRAMMY Awards 2025
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For Your Consideration
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Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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GRAMMY Awards 2025 / / / For Your Consideration / / / Best Immersive Audio Album / / / GRAMMY Awards 2025 / / / For Your Consideration / / / Best Orchestral Performance / / / GRAMMY Awards 2025 / / / For Your Consideration / / / Best Contemporary Classical Composition / / /
“Ricardo Romaneiro’s eclectic style of composing classical symphonies blended with electronic sounds and new media is a completely new category of its own.”
(Neil Carty, Cosm Studios)
About the Album
Released August 16, 2024 on Cosm Media
Available in Stereo and Spatial Audio
Composer and new media artist Ricardo Romaneiro released LIQUIDVERSE: Microcosm and Macrocosm in collaboration with producers Silas Brown and Andrew Cyr, performed by 118 artists from Metropolis Ensemble (Andrew Cyr, conductor) and The Crossing (Donald Nally, Conductor).
The work was created for Cosm, the leading experiential media and immersive technology company, for their new Los Angeles venue: the world’s first 87-foot diameter 12K LED dome and unique spatial audio system. Part of the Cosm Studios Creator Program, LIQUIDVERSE is an immersive audiovisual symphonic experience that guides audience participants through a multi-sensory journey into, and beyond, the beginning of the universe.
Romaneiro stated: “In LIQUIDVERSE, you can delve into the profound interconnectedness of scale from the microscopic to the cosmic. The visual experience was intricately crafted using liquid oils and chemical reactions captured on a petri dish by Liquid Light Lab and come to life, unveiling the hidden beauty and complexity of the universe and beyond.”
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“Cosm offers a canvas for boundless creativity that requires an outsized imagination backed by a supportive technology team to materialize a dream.”
Ricardo Romaneiro
A long-time Metropolis collaborator, Ricardo Romaneiro’s premieres over the years include The Rite: Remixed, Biophony: SoundGarden, Hallucinations, and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
Project In-Depth
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Ricardo Romaneiro: Liquidverse: Microcosm and Macrocosm (2023) for chamber orchestra, choir, and electronics
I. Expansions
II. Nebulas
III. Sun Birth
IV. Cymatics
V. Microworlds
VI. Iris
VII. Universal Filaments
VIII. Otherworldly Galaxies
IX. Starry Night
X. Black Hole
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Music Produced by Silas Brown, Andrew Cyr, and Ricardo Romaneiro
Immersive Mix at Legacy Sound by Silas Brown, Andrew Cyr, and Ricardo Romaneiro
Mastered at Legacy Sound (Silas Brown)
Metropolis Ensemble was recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York from January 10 through March 17, 2024
Engineered by Silas Brown and Charles Mueller
Additional Engineering: Ryan Streber and Owen Mulholland
The Crossing was recorded at Gradwell House, Haddon Heights, New Jersey on March 13, 2024
Engineered by Paul Vasquez
Special Thanks:
Joshua White, Richie Clark, Nancy Smith, Eli Gilmore-Cyr and Kate Gilmore, Mei-Sang Hsieh, Neil Cardy, Lena Galperina
This project was conceived and produced as part of Cosm X Lab’s program
Special thanks to the Cosm team for the support and knowledge they shared through the collaboration process.
Armistead Booker, album cover layout
Ricardo Romaneiro
Composer
Ricardo Romaneiro was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil and moved to the U.S. at an early age. A graduate of The Juilliard School in composition, Ricardo’s music synthesizes his major musical influences and passions: classical music and electronic music. The New York Times described his work as “a blissful and compelling mix of Minimalist-derived rhythmic ecstasy and nightclub beats.” Ricardo is the co-founder of an audiovisual studio called SUBHAZE, creating immersive concerts, festival installations with an array of artists, brands, ensembles, and venues that transcends the traditional forms of presentation experience. More »
Metropolis Ensemble
The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor
Kevin Vondrak, assistant conductor/artistic associate
Isobel Anthony
Steven Berlanga
Karen Blanchard
Steven Bradshaw
Abigail Chapman
Colin Dill
Micah Dingler
Ryan Fleming
Joanna Gates
Michaël Hudetz
Steven Hyder
Anika Kildegaard
Heidi Kurtz
Kim Leeds
Maren Montalbano
Daniel O'Dea
Olivia Prendergast
Daniel Schwartz
Thann Scoggin
Rebecca Siler
Daniel Spratlan
Elisa Sutherland
Daniel Taylor
Shari Wilson