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From recording, broadcast, postproduction and A/V
Cercle Odyssey story tour
French company Smode Tech has struck a partnership with Cercle Odyssey, the world’s first large-scale 360° immersive concert, to provide its real-time media server technology for a global tour – an ambitious new form of entertainment fusing spatialised sound, video, olfactory experiences and classically-influenced storytelling.
Described as a ‘nomadic’ installation, Cercle Odyssey places audiences at the heart of a technological and artistic odyssey designed to replicate the feeling of Cercle’s famous outdoor electronic music shows in an indoor setting.
Saturday Night Live anniversary
Marking five decades of late-night Saturday Night Live TV show, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert was staged audiences at the Radio City Music Hall theater in New York City.
Joel Singer, co-founder of M3, and his team, were responsible for sound for this historic event: ‘This was a massive production, not only in terms of the artist line-up but also from a technical perspective. We had to accommodate a vast number of sources and deliver an impeccable mix. Lawo consoles were central to making that happen,’ he says.
Toto set to tour with DiGiCo
When it was suggested to Toto FOH Ken Freeman he swap his desk for a DiGiCo he agreed. Starting with an SD 10, then a Quantum 338, he recently upgraded to a Quantum 852 for the Dogz of Oz tour and hasn’t looked back. Monitor engineer Steve Kallos could not have imagined swapping from his SD10, but when it was unavailable, the Quantum 338 was ‘thrust upon’ him – he’s pleased that it was.
‘With my previous console, I always had to run a Waves server for EQ and compression, but when I switched to DiGiCo, I found it was such an open, beautiful sounding desk, I was able to lose the server,’ he says.
Clouseau strike again
Marking their 40th anniversary, legendary Belgian band Clouseau embarked on a year-long tour across the Benelux region, including a 14-show run at the Sportpaleis, the largest indoor venue in the country. For these high-profile shows, the band relied DiGiCo Quantum 338 and Quantum 7 digital mixing consoles alongside Klang immersive monitoring.
The primary A/V supplier for the Clouseau tour, Ampli provided an extensive complement of equipment, including the mixing consoles, amplification, transmitters, intercoms and cabling, with Clouseau’s long-time sound engineers, Marcel Cortleven at FOH on a Quantum 338 and Marc Luyckx on a Quantum 7 for monitors. The choice of the consoles marked a significant step up for the band.
Segerstrom Hall upgrade
The Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, has completed an upgrade of Segerstrom Hall, a 2,994-seat opera house-style theatre and the largest at the venue, as a venue for Broadway musicals, ballet and other large-scale productions.
The 14-acre campus complex also boasts the 1,704-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and the 375-seat Samueli Theater – a multi-purpose facility, for jazz, cabaret, theatre and special events – as well as the 53,000sq-ft Orange County Museum of Art. Among the many organisations call Segerstrom ‘home,’ include the South Coast Repertory and three resident performance companies – the Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, and the Pacific Chorale.