d&b Soundscape in action

Singapore’s Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay offers a mid-size, flexible space that can be used for a wide range of productions. Hailed as a “black box theatre on steroids,” it is filled with high-end technology,...

Kings Place, the thriving arts venue in London’s Kings Cross, is officially partnering with d&b - and d&b Soundscape - for its Sound Unwrapped season of performances throughout 2023. The performances will include a number of innovative and pioneering...

Disney’s musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame arrived at Vienna’s Ronacher Theatre recently. Sound designer Gareth Owen, another award-winner, returned for his sixth production of Hunchback – and this time he used Soundscape by d&b audiotechnik to...

d&b Soundscape thrilled audiences with a more visceral, immersive experience at the 2022 Defense of the Ancients 2 (DOTA 2) live world championship held recently at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Hanoi’s Friendship Theatre became the first performing arts venue in Vietnam to install a d&b Soundscape system, in late 2022. The theatre, housed inside the brutalist-style Cultural Friendship Palace in central Hanoi, is one of the city’s cherished...

When Hong Kong City Hall’s Concert Hall hosted screened two performances by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, renowned sound designer Candog Ha used a d&b Soundscape system perfectly map each musician and place them in a 360° environment for the...

The Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, LA seats up to 3,000 members depending on the seat arrangement on the floor. Worship is led by a full contemporary band consisting of 6-9 front line vocalists, drums, percussion, bass, electric guitars,...

d&b Soundscape technology and d&b T10 loudspeakers comprised the core sound system for an inspired, immersive audio performance at Kyoto’s Rohm Theatre in December, fundamentally informing the creation of a piece by the Naquyo sound artist...

To create an engaging and powerful audio experience, two-time Tony nominee for sound design and three-time Olivier Award winner Gareth Owen, once again relied on d&b’s immersive sound technology Soundscape, powered by the DS100 digital audio...

With Covid restrictions limiting the use of indoor venues, the festival looked to d&b Soundscape – and its acoustic shell – to unite the disparate worlds of classical music and sound reinforcement.

Birmingham Rep’s new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm opened to rave reviews, with an epic d&b Soundscape-powered sound design by Tom Gibbons.

Aurora - an orchestra playing from memory -  present a uniquely immersive experience of Beethoven’s Symphony No 7 in the vast industrial space at Printworks London; all enabled by the virtual acoustic shell, a feature of d&b Soundscape. 

Live music venue Sala Apolo in Barcelone has installed a d&b KSL sound system with Soundscape-ready infrastructure, utilising the d&b Subscription-Series. The scheme made a big decision easy for the venue – forced to close during the pandemic. Now...

After a run of large scale residencies in the US, Mexico and Europe in 2019, Björk is back, bringing her critically-acclaimed Cornucopia tour to the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium and San Francisco’s Chase Center. As with the previous tour dates, d&b...

DiGiCo Quantum 338s, with the new dedicated Soundscape User Interface fully integrated into the surface, took up the FOH mix positions at Brighton Dome and The Blueroom at The O2, to deliver immersive audio via d&b Soundscape systems to the venues.

A 360-degree d&b Soundscape system was deployed at the iconic Odeon of Herodes Atticus amphitheatre in Greece for the first-ever, joint live performance of producer and artist, Brian Eno and his brother, pianist and composer Roger Eno.

A revolving auditorium posed a significant challenge for the audio design for Cinderella. Sound designer Gareth Owen looked to Soundscape to create localized sound for this highly agile musical.

In collaboration with the Paris Opera and RATP (the Parisian company for public transport) PASE created a sonic representation of the city’s famous performing arts venue. Using the d&b Soundscape PASE was able to layer and spatially arrange...

d&b’s immersive sound technology enables Grammy Award winning producer and artist Fraser T Smith to perform his debut album 12 Questions lLive without losing the layers of musical influences and myriad contributions from other musicians and creatives...

Robert Henke, the Berlin-based artist, researcher, and Ableton-co-founder, worked with d&b Soundscape for the world premiere of his new album, Dust, at Palazzo Grassi.

d&b Soundscape worked to bring transparent, distraction-free communication with an intuitive, graphical interface to Pinelake Church.

Kaohsiung Music Center alongside supplier TopSound audio combined d&b Soundscape immersive technology, and KSL loudspeakers to create a one-of-a-kind installation.

For her Cornucopia tour, Icelandic music icon and performance artist Björk, chose a d&b Soundscape sound system. After US and Mexico tour dates, with audiences of 1200 and 5000 respectively, Björk made a stop at the O2 Arena in London, where d&b...

In keeping with the theater's goal of being a truly unique performance center, Sweden’s Historic Malmö Opera theater turned to d&b Soundscape for accurate audio: quality, exceptional coverage and control.

This year, the Almería City Orchestra’s annual Christmas concert had to move to a larger, safer venue to abide by COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. Thanks to d&b Soundscape, the show was able to go on as usual by recreating the same, intimate...

Innovation through d&b Soundscape allows the Irish National Opera’s production of Least Like the Other to go on, despite the pandemic.

d&b Soundscape has been installed to supply high-end sound for live events in its first ever movie theatre location at HUMAX CINEMA in Japan.

The d&b Soundscape delivered precisely located sound for The Lehman Trilogy, enabling a powerful, seamless connection between the actors and the audience.

The Jam Capsule is a 360-degree projection chamber on a grand scale. It presents a unique new format for artists and authors wishing to present their digital works. The d&b Soundscape provided the crucial technological element in creating an...

Twenty years after its initial release Nitin Sawhney performed his debut album Beyond Skin at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The installed d&b loudspeaker system was supplemented with five hangs of V-Series to create a 180 degree Soundscape system...

For the First Assembly, Calgary pastoral team Soundscape offered an affordable solution to a seemingly intractable issue between acoustics, worship and sound reinforcement.

When Bat Out of Hell The Musical revved into the Metronom Theater in Oberhausen, Germany, it was the fourth production of the musical with sound design by the multi-award winning Gareth Owen Sound (GOS) team. This time, however, their decision to use...

Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church (known locally as the Church at The Mill) recently outgrew its 800-seat home worship center and moved into a new, state-of-the-art multi-venue facility.

Paul Gatehouse uses d&b Soundscape to take audiences on a magical journey through sound for the new West End production of Mary Poppins the Musical.

Sony Hall wanted to create a new music venue experience for its audience, opting for d&b Soundscape to provide a more interactive and immersive environment…

The 13th edition of the St Gallen Festival in Switzerland in 2018 saw the d&b Soundscape recreate the sound of a concert hall inside a cloister courtyard enabling creative mixing of performances such as Giacomo Puccini’s opera ‘Edgar’.

After a £15.8 million refurbishment the award-winning Leeds Playhouse has had a d&b Soundscape system installed in their main performance space, enabling them to create immersive experiences that sound the same for all seats in the audience.

When Summit Church unveiled its brand new Capital Hills Campus building, they selected d&b Soundscape to provide top-notch balance and control.

The 31st Ravenna Festival used the d&b Soundscape immersive sound system to ensure the highest quality sound for the musicians and audience. When looking for an audio solution, BH Audio knew they needed the right system to power this year’s...

Scottish Opera is renowned for delivering the best possible show and getting a sound designer involved was a key to the success of Cold War opera ‘Nixon in China’. Cameron Crosby utilized the d&b Soundscape to create natural sound, taking opera back...

When Stanford University looked to upgrade the audio in their 710-seat performance hall, they turned to d&b Soundscape to provide clear and natural sound all year long.

The Adrenalin-fuelled ELĒKRŎN stunt show in Macau, China, was billed as ‘the most electrifying stunt show in the world.’ The team used a d&b Soundscape solution to provide flexible, powerful audio that works for everybody in the building.

Continuing its ground-breaking development in theatre, d&b’s Soundscape brings Death of a Salesman to life in London’s West End.

BH Audio creates a world-first ‘virtual’ acoustic shell for Italy’s prestigious Ravenna Festival using d&b Soundscape.

The Spanish LEV Festival has been at the forefront of promoting electronic music and its relationship with the visual arts for the past thirteen years. In 2019 they took the experimental nature of the festival a step further, deploying a d&b...

Returning for its fifth edition in 2019, the day-long celebration of electronic music and live AV performance took place in London, where d&b Soundscape took performances of ground-breaking electronic artists to new heights…

The Broadway sensation Come From Away landed in London’s Phoenix Theatre in 2019. The production also marked the first d&b Soundscape show in London’s West End. An auspicious debut, the sound design provided by Gareth Owen, and production sound...

Scandinavia’s first Soundscape system has been installed into a truly ‘bijou’ performance space. The Bytearten county theatre in southern Sweden decided to integrate Soundscape as part of a comprehensive renovation. The results are stunning, proving...

Alternative ‘post rock’ band Naked and Lay and instrumental progressive groups more reverb and tfvsjs required a system that could provide clear sound to the entire audience and bring them closer to the audience. d&b Soundscape was used to deliver...

For its second year, the d&b Soundscape Stage featured at WOMAD Festival 2019. The stage delivered an enhanced live sound experience for the musically inquisitive audience, and offered a diverse lineup including Saving Grace feat. Robert Plant, drum...

In its third year, and after the most recent event in Thailand, ALTN8 – pronounced “Alternate” – returned to Hong Kong to get local fans of EDM raving to the beats of Electro, House, Techno and other styles of the genre. Around a thousand revellers...

It may be a simple tale steeped in childhood fantasies of animated toys and dancing sweets, yet this delightful story has proven to be hugely popular for ballet companies and audiences alike. Like all great fairy tales, this one, derived from E.T.A....

Electronic band Kraftwerk offered their audience in Tokyo a unique immersive experience, combining the KSL and d&b Soundscape, a world premiere, to complement the visual 3D experience. The use of En-Scene and En-Space alongside the KSL enhanced the...

Popular Japanese band Sakanaction wanted to enhance their four night run at Tokyo’s EX Theatre Roppongi, and became the first to use the d&b Soundscape in concert in the country. With help from the d&b EAS team the band gave their fans a completely...

Archifest, a two week series of events held by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), wanted to create an immersive experience for its audience at the 2018 exhibition. The organizers chose d&b Soundscape to help replicate singaporean ‘void...

Honoring the intentions of composer Leonard Bernstein, the Artistic Director of the Brevard Music Center Summer Music Festival, Keith Lockhart, set himself a task: to capture the pioneering spirit of a classic performance in a contemporary...

Kraftwerk have worked with d&b Soundscape throughout its development, with many opportunities to test Soundscape in a variety of often difficult venues. During this time the band and crew put d&b Soundscape through its paces on various tours,...

Sound Designer Chris Ekers needed a system that would envelop the audience in sound while they became enveloped in sleep during Max Richter’s eight hour lullaby Sleep in Los Angeles’ Grand Park.

With a 20-strong orchestra, the Stabat Mater Room at the Archiginnasio, Italy, wasn’t big enough to accommodate both the artists and the audience, so the concert was projected live on a cinema screen at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale, with audio playback...

Harvest Production used d&b Soundscape to provide an audio system for Hill’s Annual Symposium, emotionally connecting the audience to a 360 video and bringing the presenters voices to life with En-Space and En-Scene…

d&b partners with WOMAD festival to create a dedicated Soundscape stage which featured an eclectic mix of world music. Sound engineer Ben Findlay quickly learned how to use the d&b Soundscape, and talks about how much he enjoys being able to pull...

For the rejuvenated production of Starlight Express in Bochum, Germany, sound designer Gareth Owen embraced the possibilities of d&b Soundscape technology to create the world’s largest Soundscape installation to date.

Sebastian Frost was inspired to use d&b Soundscape after hearing a demo at the d&b headquarters in Backnang. Frost was able to create his creative vision of how Sting’s musical The Last Ship should be perceived, applying En-Scene and En-Space to...

After testing d&b Soundscape at her barn in front of an audience of friends and musicians, recording artist Imogen Heap decided to take d&b Soundscape on the road for her Mycelia tour, commenting “It’s a bit like going to see technicolour for the...

Tony David Cray, and Kraftwerk 3D Tour Sound Designer, Serge Gräfe discuss the creative power of the d&b Soundscape in their disparate worlds.

350 voices, a full orchestra, a reverberant concert hall and d&b Soundscape’s En-Scene software module enables one voice to shine through hundreds.

Mouse on Mars use d&b Soundscape to create a ‘spatial mix’ for their album, showcasing the release during the Dissolve Music conference at MIT.

Darron L West, Sound Designer for Broadway show Lobby Hero, wanted to ensure the audience fully experienced every nuance of sound. This lead him to try d&b Soundscape for the first time, and subtly brought the sounds of New York City to life.

d&b Soundscape had a secret field test on the Glastonbury Acoustic stage in 2017. Tom De Brabant, FoH sound engineer, comments that he could focus on the creative side of mixing, noting the definition and space that Soundscape added to the mix.

The prestigious Ravenna Festival of symphony, opera and ballet is a typically demanding brief. Ideal for Italian rental company BH Audio to 'Beta' test the d&b Soundscape. For the past three years BH Audio has used the festival for critical trials.