L-Acoustics announced that it has forged a partnership with Soundforms to offer immersive audio technology to open-air performance spaces by combining its technology into the acoustic and aesthetic properties of Soundforms Performance Shells.
The two companies first worked together at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, home of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, where Soundforms designed the shell enclosure joined by a main system utilizing L-Acoustics technology.
“This partnership with Soundforms is an exciting opportunity to bring our L-ISA immersive technology and Ambiance Acoustics system to innovative venues around the world,” says Tim Boot, business development director, Acoustics Solutions at L-Acoustics. “The combination of our audio solutions and Soundforms’ beautiful looking and beautiful sounding outdoor performance shells will offer audiences inspiring new live experiences.”
The acoustics within the Soundforms shell is designed to allow musicians to hear themselves and each other more clearly as well as project the enhanced sound produced from the performers to the audience to generate a clearer, louder and more reverberant acoustic.
Mark Stephenson, executive chairman of Sound Forms Ltd says, “As an orchestra conductor, I am all too familiar with the challenges musicians face when performing outdoors. I am thrilled that the Soundforms technical design team is collaborating with the brilliant sound technology experts at L-Acoustics. This promises to be a groundbreaking partnership.”
L-Acoustics will work closely with Soundforms and its partners, which include ARUP Acoustics, ES Global, Flanagan Lawrence, and Expedition, as part of a consortium capable of offering all technology required to create open-air concert venues around the world.
