Audio studio Sonic Union has brought on board composer/experiential sound designer/mixer Rob Ballingall. Working out of both its Bryant Park and Union Square locations, Ballingall offers his talents in music and audio post, with an emphasis on the creation of compelling audio wizardry for emerging technology projects including experiential and VR.

Ballingall recently created an audio-forward, experiential in-theater commercial for Mercedes-Benz Canada, utilizing Dolby Atmos, D-Box and 4DX technologies. In addition, for National Geographic’s One Strange Rock VR experience directed by Darren Aronofsky, Ballingall crafted audio for custom VR headsets designed in the style of astronaut helmets, which contained a pinhole projector to display visuals on the inside of the helmet’s visor. 

Formerly at Nylon Studios, Ballingall also composed music on large brand campaigns for clients including Ford, Kellogg’s and Walmart, and provided sound design/engineering on projects for Ad Council and Resistance Radio for Amazon Studios and The Man in the High Castle, which collectively won multiple Cannes Lion, CLIO and One Show awards, as well as garnering two Emmy nominations.

Born in London, Ballingall immigrated to the US eight years ago to seek a foothold in the music industry as a mixer, assisting numerous Grammy Award-winning engineers at the legendary Magic Shop recording studio in New York City. Having studied music composition and engineering from high school to college in England, he soon found his niche offering compositional and arranging counterpoints to sound design, mix and audio post for the commercial world.