My research into multi-channel audio focuses on eight-channel and Ambisonic compositional techniques. Ambisonics, the three-dimensional representation of sound in space, employs a Soundfield microphone containing a tetrahedron-shaped array of microphone capsules to record source materials. Four channels of recorded audio, representing vectors left-right (X), front-back (Y), up-down (Z), and the point-source distance between the microphone and the sounding object (W), are encoded through an external device and sent to the computer for further processing, mixing, and mastering. My projects Encounter(s) and Listening Beyond... employ first order Ambisonics.