50 l December 2013
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installationnews SWEDEN RedNet in the round in Gothenburg
Composer Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch created a surround sound sensation for the Gothenburg Opera House that relied on Focusrite’s RedNet to realise, writes Erica Basnicki
GÖTEBORGSOPERAN IS a modern opera house with spectacular architecture located right at the Gothenburg riverside. In October, the venue hosted the world premiere of the world to darkness and to me, a new creation by renown American contemporary dance choreographer Richard Siegel in his first visit to Sweden. The music for the piece was composed by Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, electronic music researcher from Centre Pompidou, France, professor of multimedia composition at the University of Franche-Comté and also teacher of electroacoustic composition at the Conservatory of Montbeliard in France. Hoesch used Cycling 74’s Max/MSP for the music, with a spacialisation patch originally developed by the IRCAM technology institute in Paris. The resulting piece required a 27.2 surround sound system, which Göteborgsoperan’s chief sound engineer Andreas Renhorn was tasked with setting up.
UNITED KINGDOM Masonic move for VDC and F1 By Mark Haldon
LONDON’S WEST End welcomes the creation of Mason House, a new and exclusive nightclub with two main rooms set across multiple floors within the vaults of the London Palladium, occupying the space formerly trading as Movida. Run by nightclub aficionados
Marc Merran, Eamonn Mulholland and Jean Philippe Kley, the club has had a
complete refit, including a Funktion-One sound system. The system includes eight
Res 2 horn-loaded compact speakers, three F101 10-inch plus 1-inch two-way speakers, two Resolution 1 two-way speakers and nine subs. The system is also equipped with Funktion-One F60Q and F100- 2 amps and a Formula Sound custom zonal mixer. Van Damme cabling from
VDC Trading has been used to
power the new sound system and electrical installation was carried out by Medway, which offers a wide range of electrical at installation services. Senior contracts manager Gary Pike explains, “The club has been completely refigured, with the walls being bare bricks. It also has the very best of [PA] systems in it.”
Mason House will allow
entry exclusively through membership or an invite-only
Mason House: are you on the list?
guest list and plans to host some of the most respected DJs from around the world.
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facebook.com/masonhouselnd Göteborgsoperan’s chief sound
engineer Andreas Renhorn sits by the heart of the 27.2 system
d&b loudspeakers surround the audience with sound in the opera house auditorium
The amount of time it took to install the entire 27.2 surround system
6 hours
units via Cat-6 cable and a NetGear GS716T switch. “Lorenzo was so impressed
Two RedNet 2 units over a Dante
network met both distribution and digital conversion requirements
“To handle this kind of
highly dynamic music and sounds, there was a claim to find equipment able to achieve the highest possible quality of digital conversion,” he says. After extensive research, he
found that two Focusrite RedNet 2 units over a Dante
network met both his distribution and digital conversion requirements. Renhorn connected a MacBook Pro with QLab software for playback to Audinate’s Dante Virtual Soundcard (DVS), which then connected to the two RedNet 2
how easy it was to situate his laptop at the centre of the auditorium using a 50m Cat-6 cable, since he needed to fine tune the 27.2 sound design from there during the production phase. Also how simple it was to hook-up a second laptop to the same network for recording,” said Renhorn. Four 25-pin D-sub cables connect from the rear of the RedNet units to the amplifiers – a mix of d&b D6 and D12 –
driving the 27.2 surround- sound system comprising 16 d&b E6 and six d&b E8 speakers in the auditorium, with five d&b Q1s at FOH. The low end was reinforced by two d&b J-SUBs. All speakers and subs were supplied and installed by Gothenburg AV specialists AV1. “This was one of the fastest and smoothest installations ever for our company,” says AV1’s Göran Blomgren. “In addition to the opera’s front speakers, we installed 22 speakers at all balconies, and with five of them mounted 25m up in the ceiling. Including speaker cabling and RedNet cabling, all was installed and running in less than six hours! I look forward to doing the next RedNet installation.”
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“I look forward to doing the next RedNet installation ”Göran Blomgren, AV1
All Gothenburg Photos: Cecilia Boström, Design by Cia
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