Detroit’s annual Movement Electronic Music Festival is set to repeat its 2011 success when it opens at the Hart Plaza later in May. Capping off its evolution from the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) in 2000, three of its five stages will feature Meyer Sound systems.
‘Our company was unaware of Meyer in a practical sense until we teamed up with Thunder Audio on the Movement Festival a few years ago,’ recalls Sam Fotias, the event’s Operations Manager from Paxahau Event Productions & Management. ‘We had tried other loudspeakers, but nothing really gave us the raw power and, more importantly, clarity at high SPL that we were looking for until we were exposed to Milo.’
Set up as as a free event by Detroit techno artist Carl Craig, the festival has been run by local promotion group Paxahau since 2006, and hosts acts from around the world.
The main stage at the festival – which drew some 100,000 attendees in 2011 – will boast a system comprised of 48 Milo and 16 M’elodie line array loudspeakers; 36 700-HP subwoofers; two UPA-1P and UPA-2P loudspeakers each; and a Galileo loudspeaker management system. The monitoring system includes 12 Meyer Sound MJF-212A stage monitors.
The Beatport Stage will feature 24 Mica, 12 Milo and eight M’elodie line array loudspeakers; 18 700-HP subwoofers; three UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers; and a Galileo loudspeaker management system. The Made in Detroit Stage will feature 24 Milo and eight M1D line array loudspeakers, and Galileo.
‘We got involved in this event six or seven years ago, and there was all manner of different configurations on each stage,’ recalls Thunder Audio’s Paul Owen. ‘We came in and did one stage, and then they saw how good the Meyer product was – the powered line array, without hundreds of amplifier racks everywhere.’
‘Having Tony [Villarreal] and Paul and the team from Thunder so close is amazing,’ Fotias adds. ‘They have been such an instrumental part of allowing this event to grow and being able to facilitate all of the big crowds we get.’
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