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Floating Points and DJ Harvey will play extended sets for ::444:: inside the festival’s black room, backed by L-Acoustics spatial sound and Apple Music recording.
Festival programming usually asks selectors to communicate their entire musical identity inside a short slot, while crowded stages and fast changeovers leave little room for longer ideas. III Points is taking another approach with the return of ::444::, its audiophile-focused stage built around four-hour performances, spatial sound, and attentive listening.
::444:: returns to Mana Wynwood when III Points takes place in Miami on October 16 and 17, 2026. The stage brings III Points together with L-Acoustics and Apple Music, with selectors including Floating Points and DJ Harvey booked for extended sets across the weekend.
Why Four-Hour Sets Matter at III Points
Each day will feature three four-hour performances, with Floating Points and DJ Harvey among the selectors booked for the stage. The extended running time allows each artist to cover a broader selection of music and develop transitions at a pace that rarely fits inside a traditional festival slot.
That duration is the biggest and most central idea behind ::444::.
An hour often forces a DJ to establish a set’s direction quickly, while four hours allows more space for slower introductions, longer passages, and changes in pace. The audience also has time to settle into one room instead of continually checking another stage.
III Points first introduced ::444:: in 2024, and recordings from that edition are currently available from Apple Music, which shows a deepening commitment by Apple to their own growing role in DJ performances. The stage returns as part of a larger III Points 2026 program featuring Underworld, Four Tet, Charlotte de Witte, Blood Orange, Flying Lotus, Honey Dijon, Kelela, and a ton of other incredible artists.
L-Acoustics Brings Spatial Sound to the Black Room
::444:: will operate inside the festival’s black room warehouse, a former movie soundstage selected for its acoustic properties. The room also holds a direct connection to III Points because it hosted the festival’s earliest edition 13 years ago.
L-Acoustics will install an 11.1 surround system featuring its L2 line array and L-ISA spatial audio technology. Conventional stereo systems position audio between left and right speaker channels. L-ISA lets you place, scale, and move individual elements across a three-dimensional listening field.
The 2024 launch marked the North American festival stage debut of L-Acoustics spatial audio in this configuration.
Its return gives the technical team another two days of extended performances for testing how the system operates with different selectors, genres, and recording demands.
Apple Music Will Record Every ::444:: Set
Apple Music will archive the ::444:: performances using microphones positioned around the room. Each recording will combine the artist’s set, the room acoustics, and selected audience audio, then be mixed in Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos support.
The completed mixes will be released as part of Apple Music’s DJ Mix program. This gives listeners outside Miami access to performances developed specifically for the stage, while participating artists and rights holders receive compensation when the recordings are streamed.
Previous recordings and photographs from the stage can be found on the official ::444:: experience page.
III Points 2026 Dates and Tickets
III Points takes place October 16 and 17, 2026, at Mana Wynwood, located at 2217 NW 5th Avenue in Miami.
Tickets are available now from the official III Points ticket page.
The return of ::444:: gives III Points a dedicated room where set duration, sound quality, and post-event recording receive the same attention as the artist billing. It offers a specific option for attendees who want to spend several hours with one selector instead of moving between shorter festival performances.