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Autograph mounts up for Dragon Slayer spectacular
Autograph’s Special Events team recently provided the sound design and audio infrastructure for another Pixel Artworks production at one of England’s greatest castles.
A series of summer evening shows debuted a completely new format, turning Warwick Castle courtyard into a 360° immersive theatre seating audiences upwards of 2,000 each night. The Dragon Slayer tale was told by a first half of live action with actors and the horses of The Knights of Middle England, followed by a projection-mapped Act II, when Pixel Artworks’ brought the story and its fantastic beasts to life, projected onto the ancient castle walls while dragon fire and fireworks lit the night.
TiMax and Amadeus keep track of Oper Im Steinbruch
The annual Oper Im Steinbruch event staged in the Roman Quarry amphitheatre of St Margarethen in Vienna, has made itself a summer staple with production values as large as the stage itself – and at At 80m wide and 30m deep, it Europe’s largest outdoor stage.
Sound designer Volker Werner relies upon object-based spatialisation from TiMax SoundHub to ensure the classical opera narratives, such as this year’s by Verdi, are simple to follow for the venue’s 4,700-capacity audiences.
Musical Theatre Karlín installs DiGiCo Quantum 7T
Prague’s Hudební divadlo Karlín (Musical Theatre Karlín) hosts operettas and musical productions. To meet these needs, Czech distributor Pro Music recently installed a DiGiCo Quantum 7T with EX-007 fader expansion.
Among the oldest and most beautiful theatres in the Czech Republic, the theatre is the city’s largest after the Prague State Opera. As part of a major update to the technical infrastructure of its main stage, the venue has replaced a large-format analogue desk, which had served it well for many years, with the new Quantum 7T. The venue also has a smaller stage that is already equipped with a DiGiCo SD9 supplied by Pro Music.
A&H on the Ball in Tulsa
Looking to replace audio consoles at the historic Cain’s Ballroom music venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sound engineer Jeremy Grodhaus sought a platform that would serve both prevailing and future needs. With a variety of corporate and non-music, as well as live music to consider, the new console had to be flexible. ‘We get a lot of guest engineers of various different experience levels, so the console has to be easy to walk up to and start mixing.’
Grodhaus compared Allen & Heath’s platform to those of other manufacturers but found nothing to match dLive’s value and workflow. ‘I hadn’t heard a bad thing about dLive, and I appreciated that the company was continuously updating firmware with new features,’ he says.
DDM navigates Unique Henan: Land of Drama
Occupying more than 100 acres in Zhengzhou and welcoming almost 10,000 visitors each day, Unique Henan: Land of Drama is described as a self-guided maze comprising 56 courtyards, 21 theatres and the largest immersive theatre complex in the world. It tells the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilisation around the Henan region using multi-media and immersive live theatre involving more than 800 performers.
Many elements of the main and the many stand-alone sound systems are built on Audinate Dante audio networks managed and monitored using Dante Domain Manager.