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Black Sabbath – The Ballet

In 2020, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s newly appointed Director, Carlos Acosta, embarked on a ‘discovery mission’ to learn about the company’s home city. Amazed by the stories, culture, and diversity from within in Birmingham, he commissioned a series of three new productions including a look at the unique sounds and history of Ozzy Osbourne and metal icons, Black Sabbath.

Comprising the work of three composers led by Christopher Austin and three choreographers, led by Pontus Lidberg, the ballet’s story was written by the award-winning Richard Thomas, lit by Lighting Designer KJ, and heard of over three acts through a Britannia Row Productions PA delivery.

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Dolby opens new test lab

Feeling that its facility in Nuremberg, Germany, was no longer offering the environment or technical capabilities to handle applications such as automotive testing, Dolby has added a mixing lab and a critical listening lab to its new development and testing facility with Genelec the loudspeakers of choice.

The new Nuremberg facility has been built with software development and testing in an Agile scrum environment as its priority. This will see the space used for device testing for head units and loudspeaker set-ups in cars, as well as TVs, soundbars, set-top boxes, AVRs and wireless smart speakers. Additionally, the space will host scrum teams working on prototypes in dedicated project rooms as the company continues to grow its product offering.

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Portugal’s TVI adopts Solid State Logic System T

Portuguese broadcaster Televisão Independente has installed a Solid State Logic System T broadcast platform at its multi-studio facility in Lisbon, comprising an S500 console with redundant TE2 Tempest Engines and various network I/O interfaces.

System T has been integrated into the TVI production facility’s IP architecture, enabling it to operate with any of the plant’s existing studios. Multiple instances of SSL’s Tempest Control App (TCA) provide additional control options for audio operators or TVI’s engineering team.

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Marvel: Earth’s Mightiest Exhibition opens in NZ

With its world premiere taking place in Wellington, New Zealand, Marvel: Earth’s Mightiest Exhibition gives a behind-the-scenes insight into Marvel’s 80-plus year history and the creation of some of popular culture’s most iconic stories and characters, supported by an immersive soundscape from Genelec.

Commissioned to realise the artistic and technical concept of the immersive sound installation, Sebastian M. Purfürst of Berlin-based LEM Studios and acoustic scenographer Markus ‘Hossi’ Hossack developed a soundscape to guide guests into and through the world of Marvel.

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Cage The Elephant transform live experience

One of their generation’s premier rock bands, Cage The Elephant are best known and celebrated for their highly physical live performances. The stage, they say, is their home turf, where they are comfortable and unchained.

That’s clear from their 45-show US Neon Pill tour, which kicked off in Salt Lake City, with shows in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and numerous other cities. What their audiences are able to experience this time sounds as close to the band’s recordings as possible, thanks to the inclusion of one of the first Fourier Audio transform.engine units to hit the road in the US on a major tour.

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