WCA #601 with Gert Keunen – Immersive Audio, "Stereo Was a Nice Try," a Dozen Careers, and Brewing His Own Beer

WCA #601 with Gert Keunen – Immersive Audio, "Stereo Was a Nice Try," a Dozen Careers, and Brewing His Own Beer

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June 21, 2026 · 1h 19m · Episode 601

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Gert Keunen discusses his diverse career in music, academia, and brewing, emphasizing the future of immersive audio and his unique learning experiences shaped by ADHD and dyslexia.

For episode 601, Matt sits down with Belgian musician, mastering engineer, and sociologist of music Gert Keunen — recommended to the show by past guest John Greenham. Gert has spent 35 years saying yes to nearly everything music: seven albums of his own, the nu-jazz project Briskey, a PhD in the sociology of music, four books on pop history, stints as a record-label staffer and newspaper critic, teaching at conservatories in Ghent, and most recently a deep dive into immersive audio that produced his book STEREO – Was a Nice Try . He joins from the Flemish countryside — where he also runs a 200-liter brewery and grows his own hops — to talk about how he manages time across all of it, why he learns best by teaching, how ADHD and dyslexia shaped an offline, notebook-driven discipline, and why he believes the future of immersive music is composing in 3D from the very first note rather than up mixing stereo. In This Episode, We Discuss: Living a Passion-Driven Life Across Music, Academia, and Beer Managing Time When You Do a Dozen Things (and Cycling to Clear the Mind) Growing Up in Flanders: Flute, Pink Floyd, and a Cracked Cubase on an Atari Why He'd Rather Create Music Than Perform…

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