Mamma Mia! The Party has landed at the Tyrol restaurant in Stockholm’s Gröna Lund island theme park, which Björn Ulvaeus and his team have transformed into a Greek taverna in homage to the movie.
With traditional Greek fare served during a three-act performance, the project calls on a TiMax SoundHub–S32 processor to create surround audio effects spatialisation and mic localisation throughout the buzzing Abba Musical-esque production. The opening night saw all four members of Abba briefly reunited, making a very rare appearance together for the press and the launch.
The restaurant’s immersive sound design was created by Sweden’s Oskar Johansson, who specified the TiMax SoundHub, which was supplied by Brollan Soderstorm of Electrosound via integrator Mediatech.
Multiple Shure radio mic, instrument and playback feeds run via Yamaha CL5 and CL1 mixing desks to the TiMax SoundHub-S32 audio showcontrol processor, which serves a PA system comprised of 90+ L-Acoustics Kiva, Kara, 12XT, 8XT, 5XT, SB28 and SB18 loudspeakers distributed around the tavern space.
A principal task for TiMax is the spatialisation of layered surround effects such as the sea, crickets and other sounds to bring alive the Grecian backdrop of Abba’s Mamma Mia! Movie. Also vital to the show’s success, TiMax provides variable localisation of vocal and instrument mics as the artists moved to different performance stages around the dining audience, by applying different delay-matrix Image Definitions so that the performers’ mics are delayed differently to the multichannel distributed speaker system.
‘People seem to love the show, and I’m happy with the result and the way it worked out,’ says Oscar Johansson.
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