Consultants to the Arts and Culture
PROJECTS
Scroll down to see a selection of project case studies.
PERFORMANCE VENUES
ABBA ARENA - LONDON
May 2022
A case study of our work on the ABBA Arena, the pupose-built venue for the ABBA Voyage show.
AL WASL PLAZA
December 2020
A case study on the 27.6 immersive audio system and show control system we designed for the main venue at Expo 2020 Dubai.
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
February 2018
A case study of our work on various projects for the SOH including the renewal of the Joan Sutherland Theatre, Drama Theatre, Studio and a venue-wide RF systems upgrade.
MOAD - KINGS HALL
March 2019
A case study of our work on the refurbishment of the acoustically complex King's Hall, and the Chambers at the Museum of Australian Democracy in Canberra, acknowledged with the ACT National Trust Heritage Award.
ULUMBURRA THEATRE
2015
An adaptive reuse project giving a new life to the old Bendigo Jail, a new 1,100 seat theatre with rehearsal spaces and classrooms represents a significant investment in education and the arts in regional Victoria.
COMING SOON
Early 2023
An exciting new immersive performance space which we are commissioning in early 2023.
SPORTING VENUES
MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND
Completed December 2019
A case study of our work on the upgrade of the audio system for the 100,000 seat cathederal of sport.
BANKWEST STADIUM
Completed February 2019
A case study of our work on the new Western Sydney Stadium construction project.
ANZ STADIUM
July 2013
A case study of our work on the upgrade of the audio system for the 83,500 seat Sydney 2000 Olympic Stadium.
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
ABBA VOYAGE
Opened May 2022
ABBA Voyage is one of the most highly celebrated concert events in the world and is playing now in London. Our designs uses hundreds of loudspeakers on the L-ISA platform and the first commercial implementaiton of L-Acoustics Ambience.
POEM OF THE ETERNAL CITY
July 2022
This show was created by Andrei Boltenko with music by Sami Yusuf to celebrate the opening of the Eternal City in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The show consisted of over a dozen live vocalists, a live 48-piece orchestra and live 28-piece folk orchestra.
51ST UAE NATIONAL DAY
December 2022
The ceremony was a celebration of the past and future of the UAE and was staged at the ADNEC parade ground in Abu Dhabi. The ceremony featured the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performing live with local Emirati musicians and thousands of cast.
JOY AWARDS EXPERIENCE - RIYADH
Opened October 2022
Using over 120 loudspeakers over 64-channels of audio playback the Joy Awards Experience is an immersive journey into the life of a celebrity.
50TH UAE NATIONAL DAY
December 2021
The ceremony was staged at Hatta Dam in central UAE, a spectacular setting for a remarkable show. Our design used over 950 loudspeakers distributed around the site to provide a sonic depth of field with near, mid and far field loudspeakers.
49TH UAE NATIONAL DAY
December 2020
The 49th UAE National Day was staged on a natural body of water in a mangrove national park. The immersive experience featured a 36.1 loudspeaker arrangement using 300 loudspeakers.
ENNIO MORRICONE EUROPEAN TOUR
2018 to 2019
This feature discusses the introduction of the L-ISA platform into the touring system for Morricone and how it enhanced the performance.
THE FOUNDER'S MEMORIAL
February 2018
The Founder's Memorial is a beautiful monument in Abu Dhabi built as a tribute to Sheikh Zayed. The unveiling of the Memorial was a complex event requiring multiple loudspeaker systems.
DINOSAURS IN THE WILD
2018
Using over 150 individual playback channels to around 200 loudspeakers, Dinosaurs in the Wild aimed to deliver a realistic and believable experience to the guests.
MAJOR EVENTS
FIFA 2022 - AL BAYT STADIUM
November 2022
We were enaged only a few weeks prior to the start of the tournament to design an overlay loudspeaker system for Al Bayt Stadium, the venue for the Opening Ceremony and first match of FIFA 2022.
BIRMINGHAM 2022 COMMONWELTH GAMES
July & August 2022
We were engaged by B2022 Ceremonies as the sound designer for the Ceremonies and to design the audio system for the Sports Presentation. Our design consisted of a ground stacked L-Acoustics K2 system and flown Kara II and Kiva II.
EXPO 2020 DUBAI
2021 - 2022
Our scope on this project was broad including audio design and engineering, communications systems design, show control systems design and creation of bespoke workflows for content creation and management.
MDL BEAST FESTIVAL
December 2019
With an audience of over 100,000 people, the MDL Beast music festival in Riyadh was a massive project and delivered in an impossibly short time frame. Our design for main stage used over 400 loudspeakers to deliver concert sound to the 80,000 capacity venue.
UAE 48TH NATIONAL DAY
December 2019
The 48th UAE National Day was a hugely ambitious and technically challenging project. The comparatively simple audio system consisted of a distributed stereo arrangement of over 300 loudspeakers throughout the stadium.
ANTHEM DAY
September 2019
This event in St Petersburg set a new world record for the largest orchestra ever at 8,097 musicians. We were engaged by the CSA of Moscow to help develop a plan to coordinate and rehearse such a large group of musicians and work out strategies to keep the players in time.
BAKU 2015 EUROPEAN GAMES
2015
A case study on our work on the inaugural European Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Baku, for which we won an Emmy.
SOCHI 2014 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES
2014
A case study on our work on the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies, one of the most ambitious events ever staged.
LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES
2012
A case study on our work on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies featuring some of the greatest music acts in the world.
SHOW CONTROL
Opened May 2022
As part of our role as sound designer for ABBA Voyage we also designed and implemented the show control systems including Ovation replay, time code sync, foyer systems and control of the immersive systems deployed in the entry tunnels.
EXPO 2020 DUBAI
2021 - 2022
Expo 2020 show control was one of a kind in that part of our work was to determine workflows to deliver 14 hours per day of immersive content for the 27.6 audio system including managing triggering and sync between sound, video and lighting.
NINJAGO - REALM OF SHADOWS
2017
The Realm of Shadows is a permanent puppet show commissioned by LegoLand Malaysia. This case study looks at the show control system we designed and implemented for the show that allows the whole show to be run by a single technician.
PINK FLOYD - THEIR MORTAL REMAINS
2017
Their Mortal Remains was one of the most successful exhibitions ever at the V&A in London. The exhibition has since been to Germany and Italy and continues to receive excellent reviews. This case study focuses on our show control system design.
COMING SOON
Early 2023
Another exicting project completing in early 2023.
PERFORMANCE ACOUSTICS
ABBA ARENA
Opened May 2022
Our acoustic designs for ABBA Arena specified the installation of a huge quantity of acoustic treatment to control the low frequency reverberation. We then implemented active acoustics using L-Acoustics Ambience to enhance the mid and high frequency reverberation.
DP WORLD PAVILION
Expo 2020 Dubai
The DP World Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai included a large atrum space with a water feature. Our scope was to provide acoustic design to control the reverberation of the space and provide a room that could host performances and events.
MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY
2019
The King's Hall at MOAD is one of the most significant spaces in the history of Australian politics and is regularly used to host important events. We implemented new acoustical finishes to improve inteligibility whilst protecting the original architecture.
MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND
December 2019
Our recent upgrade of the audio systems at the MCG allowed us the opportunity to improve the acoustics in two specific areas in the stadium.
NINJAGO - THE REALM OF SHADOWS
2016
A new puppet show for Lego Land Malaysia that was built into an existing space that was not intended for performance. The space required significant acoustical treatment to support the 28-channel immersive audio system.
COMING SOON
Early 2023
An exciting project due for completion in early 2023.
SOUND MANAGEMENT PLANNING
SYDNEY ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS
A case study on our work with the Royal Botanic Gardens in renewing their sound management strategies for all their venues.
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE FORECOURT
A case study on our work with the Sydney Opera House and local authorities in renewing the sound management strategy for events staged on the Forecourt.
DEFQON.1 MUSIC FESTIVAL
A look at our work with Q-Dance and the local council in developing sound management strategies for the annual event to balance the audience experience with impact on the resident boundary.
CORPORATE AND EDUCATION AV
MACALLAN SPECIAL EVENT
November 2022
We were engaged by LGME to design and operate audio for the special event hosted in the new Macallan Estate distillery building in Scotland. Our design included the creation of an acoustic simulation of the distillery running and a theatrical shutdown sequence.
PEARL MAJLIS
August 2021
The Pearl Majlis is a VIP space within Al Wasl Plaza that is an airconditioned room with an excellent view of the dome projection but isolated from the sound. Our design for the space takes the rendered audio and reproduces a scalled down configuration of 15.1.
AUSTRIA PAVILION
Expo 2020 Dubai
The Austrian Pavilion featured an interactive sound design that tracked the movement of guests and augmented the content based on their movement. Our scope was to desgin and configure the audio system into the space and commission the sound with the composer.
MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY
February 2019
Part of our project for MOAD was the design of AV systems to enable AV presentations as part of guided tours and for educational events in the Chambers.
NORTHERN BEACHES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2016
A project that began as a vision of a more active and inclusive learning environment, based around the architecture of an airport terminal, Project Barcelona is a glimpse into the future of education for Northern Beaches Christian School.
SCCVC VOCATIONAL TRAINING FACILITY
2013
This is a case study of our work on the Southern Cross Catholic Vocational Training Centre in Sydney. The facility consists of a training theatre, a recording studio, a green screen room and an edit training suite.