The most recent touring production from Dutch theatre group Het Nationale Toneel, The Revisor, has used the TiMax SoundHub audio spatialisation and TiMax Tracker automation to renders it more intimate for audience members regardless of where they are seated.
The comedy uses greediness and frivolity to study a moral dilemma presented by fraud cases involving government and business officials who use their company credit cards for private purchases. The audience is challenged to consider its own response to temptation, should such opportunities arise.
The sound is managed by four TiMax Tracker sensors positioned above the stage area, picking up the zoned stage locations of the 20 ‘tagged’ actors, using their exact positioning, or ‘source zones’, to localise their vocals via the distributed loudspeaker system. The TiMax SoundHub delay-matrix imaging creates a fully immersive experience that reinforces its realism.
The TiMax Tracker system controls the TiMax Soundhub processor, which automatically morphs between delay-based Image Definition localisation objects for each microphone to make the performers’ audio move smoothly and with unparalleled accuracy in relation to their position on the stage. The Mac and PC control software for the TiMax Soundhub provides sound designers with a straightforward but flexible control platform for the system’s scaleable multichannel DSP and network management resources, integrated with real-time audio showcontrol and spatialisation for live shows, events and A/V installations.
The City of The Hague’s national theatre group, Het Nationale Toneel, is staging The Revisor at the Koninklijke Schouwburg in Amsterdam until March 2016, whereafter it tours the country.
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