Orbital Sound Ltd

Sadler's Wells Resounds to Flamenco Festival with d&b T-Series

Orbital Sound provides sound equipment and support for 4th year.

Tom Hares elaborates:
"Every year is different with one exception – it's always demanding! On the Friday night before the Flamenco Festival started, we had 120 children on stage
in "Dance United", with no spare time whatsoever before the first performance the following evening. Luke Hyde from Orbital worked with our in-house team
of five technicians, putting in a full concert set-up that included the loudspeaker system, monitor desk, all the microphones, HME wireless comms, on-stage speakers
and most of the cabling.
Our long-standing relationship with Orbital is an essential component – we each know how the other works, and do lots of preparation in advance.
Importantly, we always feel that they will go the extra mile for us and think the whole project through in advance, so that it all comes together when it needs to.
I have always regarded the Q-Series as being a perfect complement to flamenco music, but this year, we decided to try the T-Series – in the event,
they were great to work with, particularly regarding their size and weight, and sounded very good."

Directed by José Antonio, this year's Festival programme featured choreography from three of flamenco's brightest talents; Fernando Romero, Ángel Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez (founders of Nuevo Ballet Español), as well as Antonio Canales.


Photos by Luis Castilla and Antonio Campos

Orbital Sound reports that it supplied a comprehensive sound system for this year's Flamenco Festival, staged at Sadler's Well
in late March and featuring six companies in a non-stop two-week programme.
The system included the new d&b audiotechnik T-Series loudspeakers, with 16 x T10s and T-SUBS configured as a mix of
vertical point-source standalone cabinets and horizontal mini line array groups.
This is the 4th year that Orbital Sound has been involved with Flamenco Festival, working with resident sound technician Tom Hares.

The 2009 Festival kicked off with less than 24 hours to load in and test the system before the first performance, involving two
teams working back-to-back to get everything in place.

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Tom Hares elaborates:
"Every year is different with one exception – it's always demanding! On the Friday night before the Flamenco Festival started, we had 120 children on stage
in "Dance United", with no spare time whatsoever before the first performance the following evening. Luke Hyde from Orbital worked with our in-house team
of five technicians, putting in a full concert set-up that included the loudspeaker system, monitor desk, all the microphones, HME wireless comms, on-stage speakers
and most of the cabling.
Our long-standing relationship with Orbital is an essential component – we each know how the other works, and do lots of preparation in advance.
Importantly, we always feel that they will go the extra mile for us and think the whole project through in advance, so that it all comes together when it needs to.
I have always regarded the Q-Series as being a perfect complement to flamenco music, but this year, we decided to try the T-Series – in the event,
they were great to work with, particularly regarding their size and weight, and sounded very good."

Directed by José Antonio, this year's Festival programme featured choreography from three of flamenco's brightest talents; Fernando Romero, Ángel Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez (founders of Nuevo Ballet Español), as well as Antonio Canales.


Photos by Luis Castilla and Antonio Campos