When Amol Kitwadkar moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2011 to pursue an M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, he also brought his musical ambitions with him. Originally from Sangli, in western India, he spent five years studying Hindustani Classical Music before moving to the US. In 2013, he started a band—Unified Diversity—inspired by his desire to bring people and sounds from around the world together. During the COVID lockdown, he watched a webinar starring A.R. Rahman, an Indian composer, who won two Oscars for original score and song written for 2009’s breakthrough film Slumdog Millionaire. After hearing Rahman extol the virtues of using spatial sound for music, Kitwadkar realized he wanted to make immersive technology part of his artistic strategy.
Blue Marble Sound was born from that epiphany, and the studio found a home in a former boxing gym in nearby Loveland, Colorado. Kitwadkar researched and implemented his new studio setup in a way...
