timeline-projects

End Client: WDR (West Deutscher Rundfunk)

Conception and realization of the FOH-mix for an open air event with a symphony orchestra and varying instrumental soloists.

Special challenges / difficulties:
A very big and open round arch stage, different instrumental soloists, very wide listener's surface, television production (as little as possible visible audio engineering), a camera railway directly in front of the stage.

After the great success of the EBU´s young talent competition in 2014, again the WDR hosted this classical music event in 2016 for a second time. And again I was chosen by the cologne based company PADCO to be responsible for the conception and the realization of the FOH-mix. At first glance, the framework conditions seemed to be the same as in 2014.

Liquid Penguin Ensemble

Ickelsamers alphabet is a bilingual music performance in German and French. The performance has parts which are simultaneous in both languages.

Special challenges / difficulties:
For both languages I had to make sure to get a very high linguistic intelligibility. The second task was the acoustic realization of the small music ensemble consisting of viola, cello, contrabass, flutes and clarinets. On account of the special structure of the performance and the state of the performance rooms, the loudspeakers were placed behind the actors which complicated the electroacoustic conversion a lot.

End customer: HAYASA Productions LTD

Planning and realization of the sound system and FOH-mix for a tour of an Armenian ensemble to select places in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil.

Special challenges / difficulties:
The wide range in musical style (Armenian music from folk songs up to the pop songs), length of the shows (3 hours), the size of the ensemble (more than 160 participants), the size of the stages (width of 26m) and the infrastructures of the venues.

Liquid Penguin Ensemble

A play that was especially set up for a certain room. Optical as well as acoustic peculiarities of the performance room were to be an essential part of the play from the beginning.

Special challenges / difficulties:
The location the event was to take place was the former canteen of a rail wagon repair shop in Saarbrucken. It was divided in two rooms separated by a folding door. The first section could be entered directly from the main entrance. This part of the building had very strong reverberations. The room which joined directly behind the folding door was the total opposite acoustically. It had a very dry acoustic environment. We wanted to use these two aspects as creative means. One big challenge was the need of extremely high speech intelligibility, because the play was bilingual (German/French) partly with two languages in parallel action.

End Customer: Lycée classique d'Echternach

Planning and Realization of the sound system and Front of House mix of a musical show in the tradition of a mystery play

Special challenges / difficulties:
Bandwidth of the musical spectrum, structure of the venue, number of participants, scenes with high demands on speech intelligibility

End-Customer: ENSEMBLE VOCAL BERDORF
(since 2011 "Ambitus")

A children's musical based on the texts of the Luxembourg children's book author Guy Rewenig. A collaboration of the "Ensemble Vocal Berdorf" and the "TNL"(Théâtre National du Luxembourg) with compositions by Jean Marie Kieffer under the musical direction of Roby Schiltz.

Special challenges / difficulties:
A combination of singing and acting with a scenically performing choir, interaction between school children and musically skilled adult's, played in three acoustically very different venues.

End customer: City of Grevenmacher/Luxembourg

For the of 750 year jubilee of the town charter a musical show was produced at the marketplace in Grevenmacher. The show included a big orchestra, a pop band, a clarinet ensemble, a percussion group, a church organ (not on the stage), three choirs, several vocal soloists and two narrators.

Special challenges / difficulties:
One special difficulty was the place the performance should be given. The housing which surrounded the place, reached very close to the spectators' area. Another challenge was the fact that a lot of performers had to find their place on stage simultaneously. Three choirs were to appear on stage. I had to find a solution that made it possible for choirs to enter the stage during the ongoing show. A quite special task was the fact that time pressure allowed only one single rehearsal on stage to take place.

End - Customer: Saarländischer Rundfunk

Open Air event on the grounds of the "Saarländischer Rundfunk" with recording and partly direct live broadcast on tv and/or radio.

Special challenges / difficulties:
Big Number of artists, program changes due to late arrival of artists, infrastructure, extremely short change over times.

6.3.1982 my first gig for the company

The company "Stamer" was founded in 1981, constructing and manufacturing loudspeakers for instrumental- and reinforcement- systems. Later they opened the first sound system rental in the south/west of Germany. In 1982 I started my work as a live sound engineer for them.

Special challenges / difficulties:
With the big range in event forms I found a great variety in new experiences in the live sound field.

my first gig 29.10.1977

 The first gig with a teenage rock band who out started out played mainly cover songs; later progressed to composing more and more own tiles.

 Special challenges / difficulties:

The time in which the band was founded, meant a very small budget and not a lot available equipment. At this time very little information existed about all the technical – especially sound- topics concerning live music, in German there was nothing at all.