Bangkok’s Siam Square has a new theatre on the seventh floor of its newest mall, the Siam Square One Building. The KBank Siam-Pic-Genesha Center of Performing Arts is also complemented by the 200-seat Playhouse and a 40-seat studio theatre.

An L-Acoustics Kiva audio system serves 1,044-seat main venue, following a live demo of five leading brands. A committee of composers, art directors and board members from leading Thai media company, Workpoint Entertainment Public Company – the venue’s owner – evaluated various genres of music, including traditional Thai instrumentals, pop and rock music before making their choice.

The main house hosts theatrical productions, musicals, live music, ballet, corporate events and talks. Bangkok-based Vision One was contracted to design and build the theatre’s technical systems, with Tanapat ‘Tony’ Mongkolkosol, Frank Reuvekamp, Faz Zalleh and Hermann bin Suparman designing, overseeing and commissioning the systems.

The L-Acoustics system was chosen for the house PA, featuring LR hangs of nine Kiva and two flown SB15m subs, a centre hang of eight Kiva and four ground-stacked SB18i subs. Five 8XTi were installed as front fills, five more 8XTi and 12XTi as main under balcony/VIP box delays and a further five 8XTi as secondary under balcony delays.

‘Due to the physical layout of the theatre, which features around 700 seats in the stalls and another 300 on the balcony, we needed to satisfy the requirement of 95dB (±3dB) loudness over the entire seating area,’ Mongkolkosol says. ‘We chose Kiva because it delivers the SPL andexceptional vocal clarity specified by the theatre designers.

‘Because the main proscenium system is flown quite high, we installed the front fills to cover the front four rows and the delays to fill beneath the balcony. This achieved a uniform and seamless 95dB at all seats. This is a very high quality venue and the owners are completely happy with the coverage, levels and audio quality that the L-Acoustics system delivers.’