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awardspreview Temporary Installation Project of the Year


OPTOCORE For Kuwait’s 50th Constitution Day Celebrations


This record- breaking and ambitious show required a fibre audio signal distribution ring topology (along with video transport) spanning 5km of beach and five stations, 400m out to sea, facing the inherent problems of harsh sand and water environments. The solution was two Optocore audio-plus-data rings and a BroaMan video ring. “This was our biggest ever project and using the new Optocore 2.21 protocol, with 768 audio tracks on a 2Gb backbone, we could easily reconfigure the system to accommodate any changes. This was highly significant when managing a 5km site,” testified production designer Gilles Bouvard of GB4D.


L-ACOUSTICS For The Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London


The Olivier Theatre upgrade required a sound system that could be reconfigured production after production while offering maximum flexibility to serve the artistic vision and taste of the guest sound designers. The solution is a “toolbox” based on two speaker technologies. A fixed constant curvature central cluster of six ARCS II (completed by a ring of balcony delay speakers) is dedicated to the reproduction of vocals, while a mobile KARA modular line source is deployed in a L-R arrangement to deliver all characteristics necessary to the reproduction of modern music. The Olivier can now run up to four different productions on a weekly basis and up to two different performances daily.


Permanent Installation Project of the Year


L-ACOUSTICS For Hollywood Bowl, LA


Hollywood Bowl is a famous Californian outdoor venue, able to host an audience of 18,000 across a 140m incline. In the process of upgrading the sound reinforcement system in 2012 from its existing V-DOSC rig, the Los Angeles Philharmonic board oversaw an in-depth comparative evaluation of leading manufacturers. An L-Acoustics K1 line array was chosen unanimously by a prestigious panel of listeners. A set of white L-Acoustics speakers now frames the outdoor stage, thrilling the audience, sound technicians and performers alike.


SONIC EMOTION For Aura Club, Zurich


Opened in January 2013, Aura is a prestigious club and event space in Zurich


holding up to 500 guests. The sound system (54 KV2 loudspeakers for surround, seven Outline speakers on the ceiling and some 20 subwoofers) has been enhanced by the installation of Sonic Emotion’s Sonic Wave I 3D sound processor, allowing the venue to freely customise virtual sound sources and adapt the space for a specific need. “For the first time, venue owners and sound designers can provide their customers with a 3D listening experience with ease and control,” says Sonic Emotion.


TILEYARD STUDIOS, LONDON


Tileyard is a 50- room facility housing various bespoke music


studios for the music, TV/film, audio book and gaming industries. Tileyard represents a “new model of what professional recording studios are”, says Paul Brewer of Genius Move Audio: professionally built featuring state-of-the-art technical design, but smaller and less expensive to run than the studios of old. All of the clients, well known or otherwise, are working professionals. The nomination is for Genius Move


Audio (audio install) in conjunction with Chris Walls of Munro Acoustics (acoustic design) and Nick Keynes (studio manager).


FUNKTION-ONE For Toboggan Run for Winter Olympics Sochi 2014


In December 2012,


Funktion-One and Russian partner, Edelweiss Audio, delivered an


audio solution to the Sochi Olympics site. Fourteen newly developed F1 MST


Horns were been deployed across the 2km Olympic downhill toboggan run. The Russian authorities then asked for low frequency to complement the MSTs and placed an order for a ‘Mega Bass Horn’. Andrews and the F1 team designed and built the huge horn – believed to be the world’s biggest – as a flat pack, to be assembled on site, in less than six weeks. Andrews oversaw its installation, at one point working a 17-hour day, in freezing temperatures, 14m above the ground on an open platform.


PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA’S DIGITAL DEPARTMENT For Universe of Sound Birmingham/Canterbury


This touring exhibition puts the visitor right at the heart of a performance of Holst’s The Planets. Audio and video recordings of an orchestra are played in a number of partitioned spaces, known as pods. Music is synchronised as visitors move from pod to pod. In the central room, the visitor is surrounded with images and sound in a planetarium- like environment. Video and audio are fed from Brightsign digital signage players to ensure synchronisation, and are played through Yamaha MSP5 speakers (used throughout the exhibition, along with SW10 subs). In one part of the exhibit, the visitor is given the chance to conduct the virtual orchestra.


SENNHEISER For David Bowie Is, V&A, London


Fittingly for a tribute to an artist that has embraced technology throughout his career, the exhibition uses leading-edge tools to blend sound and vision. Audio guides, powered by Sennheiser’s guidePORT system, automatically provide the music and soundtrack when visitors approach the exhibits and screens, and seamlessly integrate all sound material into the tour. The exhibition uses 550 bodypacks with Sennheiser stereo headphones, offering a simple solution that lets the visitor explore Bowie’s music, art and style with all their senses. At the end of the exhibit, visitors are enveloped within a spatial performance of Bowie’s music created from an upmix algorithm derived by Sennheiser’s Gregor Zielinsky and delivered by hidden Neumann loudspeakers.


MEET THE SPONSORS:LARS-OLOF JANFLOD, director of marketing & PR, Genelec


Why are you sponsoring the first Pro Sound Awards? It’s a nice thing to be able to give some extra attention and appreciation to companies and persons that have done something extra and remarkable, and to do it in a different way.


What has your company done recently that’s been rewarding to your client(s)? The features of our SAM (Smart Active Monitoring) products bring great benefits to our customers. SAM really is


something that needs to be experienced to understand how powerful it is.


And what’s been rewarding to your business? We have just celebrated our 35th anniversary meaning we have been in business all that time researching and making nothing but active monitoring loudspeaker systems. Running a profitable company for 35 years must be considered rewarding, I think.


Do you personally have any awards of which you are proud? It’s a coincidence, I guess, to be asked this question only a few days after I have been awarded with the Finnish Chamber of Commerce’s Lifetime Achievement Award.


ONE award to ONE person for ONE achievement: who and why? Although it may be a bit ‘incestuous’, I must say Ilpo Martikainen. In 1978 he founded Genelec out of a small village in the north of Finland, and he has grown it into the company it is today, 35 years later. www.genelec.com


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