Using surround sound technology and various matrixed or digital music or film modes to create the feel or ambience associated with a space other than the one in which the sounds are being heard. For example, a surround sound receiver may have a stadium mode, which uses surround technology to create the reverberations and apparent size of the stadium in a listener’s living room. The stadium’s ambience is obviously much different from that of the living room, but by studying the stadium’s feel and character that feel can be reproduced in the living room with the proper technology. Ambience synthesis synthesizes or attempts to replicate the ambience or feel of another space in some other location.