Bill Fontana shows his sound sculptures with Coolux's AV technology at the Abu Dhabi Festival

The XI edition of the Abu Dhabi Music Festival has had the participation of the composer Bill Fontana, who has chosen the Sheikh Zayed Bridge and the desert to create his sound sculptures that are exhibited with Coolux audiovisual technology at the Emirates Palace Hotel.

The American composer Bill Fontana has created two montages of sound sculptures, called 'Acoustic Visions', during the recent celebration of the Abu Dhabi Music Festival 2014 (Adf), the largest arts and culture event in the United Arab Emirates.

With the aim of "capturing the sounds of the capital of the United Arab Emirates' and with the United States as a guest country in the edition 2014 of the festive, Bill Fontana chose the Sheikh Zayed Bridge and the Abu Dhabi desert as the main focuses of this work, In addition to creating two sound sculptures of local environment, in which he worked with young artists from the capital.

To show these sound sculptures, an audiovisual installation has been mounted with Coolux, specifically with its compact Pandoras Box players, supplied by Technopro LLC, official distributor of this manufacturer in the Middle East, who has also been responsible for the AV hardware and technical support of Bill Fontana's exhibition.

specifically, The exhibition has three 50 "LCD monitors and six projectors of the RLM-W8 model of the Belgian firm ship, which are managed with nine Pandoras Box players from Coolux (whose status was monitored remotely outside the facility). In the audio area, Meyer Sound, specifically twenty powered speakers MM4 XP, six speakers rotable diffusers UP junior, twelve ultra-compact UPM-1P enclosures, six UMS subwoofer- 1P and three M1D curvilinear array speakers.

Nine DVI outputs were required for this project.. Each of the Pandoras Box ran independently to provide smooth reproduction 24×7 of QuickTime MOV files, with sizes from 70 GB to 90 GB each. The audio tracks were taken from the player and used for further sound processing..

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