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d&b within the Heart of Korean Culture
Nine years in construction and built at a cost of 2 billion US dollars, the Seoul Arts Centre is at the very heart of Korean cultural activity. Designed by architect Kim Seokcheol, the centre houses five separate arts establishments: Opera House, Music House, Hangaram Arts Museum, Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum and the Library or Design Museum.
The Opera House seats an audience of around 2,300, has a three-level orchestra pit with capacity for 100 musicians and the main stage covers a massive 660 square metres. When it was recently decided to replace their sound system they approached, amongst others, Hak Kwon Kim from d&b audiotechnik Korea with a view to having a demonstration of d&b's equipment.
"This was quite a challenge," said Hak Kwon Kim. "The Opera House building has a traditional top-hat shaped roof while the lower section looks like a man sitting cross-legged." The building has seven stories, and houses not only the Opera House itself but also the Towol Theatre where conventional plays are produced and the Jayu Theatre for more experimental productions. After a number of discussions and demonstrations of various system configurations, the Opera House management decided that d&b audiotechnik equipment fulfilled their requirements for both flexibility and sound quality. d&b Korea consequently specified and installed a system using Ci4-TOP cabinets with Ci7-SUBs providing the bass element, and d&b D12 amplifiers to power them. Several of the smaller E3 loudspeakers driven by E-PAC amplifiers are employed for frontfills.
"We flew Ci4–TOPs within the proscenium arch to target the third and fourth floors," said Hak Kwon Kim "and on the floor to cover the audience in the stalls we built four mobile frames containing one Ci7 subwoofer and two Ci4 cabinets each. These can then be easily moved into position based on the particular production requirements." The whole system is operated using d&b's Remote network using ROPE C software.
20th June 2005
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