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SWITZERLAND TiMax tackles World Theatre By Erica Basnicki
EVERY SEVEN years the small Swiss monastery town of Einsiedeln turns itself over to a large-scale open-air production of Pedro Calderón’s Welttheater (‘The World Theatre’). A modern re-work was written for the summer of 2013, and to fully support the scale and complexities of the piece, sound design was again put in the hands of award-winning Tom Strebel of Basel’s audiopool, using the TiMax2 SoundHub audio localisation matrix system from Out Board. This year for the first time
Strebel also used TiMax Tracker performer-tracking which controlled the TiMax SoundHub delay-matrix in real- time to achieve fully automated vocal localisation across the entire 2,700 capacity audience. Strebel comments, “For me, TiMax is now indispensible for theatre production because of the great improvement to the clarity and intelligibility of the speech. You don’t hear it when it is working, but when it’s not there the difference is uncomfortable. “In the theatre, you can work with light to pinpoint people,”
More than 300 residents committed themselves to the (very) modern rework
adds Strebel. “Here, the performances are in June and July and it is not yet dark. Therefore, it is very important that actors’ voices appear to come from the right direction, otherwise it is too difficult to understand what is happening on a big stage.” Performers wore the new Sennheiser digital wireless lavalier mics and loudspeakers were provided by Fohhn. Seven compact line arrays were positioned as anchors for the vocal localisation: one at the monastery door, two left and right at upstage centre, two left and right upstage wide and a further two at the left and right upstage very wide locations. Out Board’s Robin Whittaker,
Certain effects helped create an air of suspense on the minimal stage
who conceived the distributed speaker system design and was on site to assist with alignment and tuning, concluded, “TiMax worked very well. We did this with manually-cued delay- imaging seven years ago and the producers loved it, so it was great to return again with the new TiMax2 SoundHub, and this time with TiMax Tracker automation to make it even better.”
www.outboard.co.uk
ELECTRO-VOICE SOUND reinforcement was used for the 2013 Varsity Trip in Tignes, which saw nearly 2,750 student skiers in attendance. Bristol-based production company Okoru and Bristol-based rental company Production Audio teamed up to provide the sound.
Twelve Electro-Voice XLC DVX line array elements were used for the main system. Six of each
were ground-stacked on either side of the stage. Low frequencies were managed with 12 Electro- Voice Xsubs, stacked in front of the stage.
Okoru project manager, Mark Henninger, said: “The Electro- Voice XLC handles all of our heavy- duty power requirements whilst having a delicate touch to manage the finer elements.”
www.electrovoice.com
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