CONSTELLATION PROVIDES FLEXIBLE ACOUSTICS FOR NOKIA CONCERT HALL AT ESTONIA’S SOLARIS CENTRE
“THE SOUND IN THE NOKIA CONCERT HALL IS VERY NATURAL. THERE
ARE NO ZONES OF POOR ACOUSTIC QUALITY ANYWHERE
IN THE AUDIENCE SEATING AREA. THE ACOUSTICAL CONDITIONS ON STAGE ARE ALSO PERFECT.”
— LINDA MADALIK
ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANT
LOCATED IN TALLINN, Estonia, the Solaris Cultural and Leisure Centre’s 1,829-seat Nokia Concert Hall entices audiences with Constellation acoustic system and sound reinforcement loudspeakers from Meyer Sound.
The Nokia Concert Hall was envisioned from the outset as a multi-use venue for hosting everything from plays, corpo- rate presentations, and rock concerts to opera, chamber music, and symphony orchestras. Since the wide range of events requires different acoustical char- acteristics, the hall relies on the flexible active acoustics of Constellation to pro- vide acoustical environments ideal for each production. Operators may select one of the five pre-programmed Con- stellation presets to create frequency- balanced, natural reverberation with decay times spaced between one second (off) for amplified concerts and two seconds for choral and organ music performances.
The variable acoustics have greatly expanded the hall’s programming and audience. “I think it is fair to say that Constellation is so flexible that it benefits almost every event we’ve had here since
we opened,” states Aivar Sirelpuu, gen- eral manager for the Nokia Concert Hall.
Linda Madalik, the acoustical consultant for the concert hall, concurs: “The sound in the Nokia Concert Hall is very natural. There are no zones of poor acoustic qual- ity anywhere in the audience seating area. The acoustical conditions on stage are also perfect.”
The installed system is comprised of Constellation and VRAS processors, 72 precision-calibrated omnidirectional and cardioid microphones, and 274 discreet loudspeakers, with Meyer Sound models that include Stella-4C, Stella-8C, UP-4XP, UPM-1P, and UPJunior VariO loudspeak- ers, and UMS-1P subwoofers. A Lemur touch-screen controller serves as the control interface for selecting the appro- priate setting from the presets.
For amplified events, the hall is ready with a Meyer Sound reinforcement system based on MICA and M’elodie line array loudspeakers working hand-in-glove with the hall’s acoustics.
“During our first two months of opera- tion, we have hosted plays and ballet,
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