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

The 11th edition of the Abu Dhabi Music Festival has had the participation of 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 the local environment, in which he worked with young artists from the capital.

To show these sound sculptures, an audiovisual installation has been set up with audio technology. 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 the Bill Fontana exhibition.

Specifically, The exhibition has three 50” LCD monitors and six RLM-W8 model projectors from the Belgian firm. Barco, which are managed with nine Coolux Pandoras Box players (whose status was controlled remotely outside the facility). In the audio area, audio systems have been used. Meyer Sound, specifically twenty MM4 XP self-powered speakers, six UP junior rotatable diffuser speakers, twelve ultra-compact UPM-1P enclosures, six UMS subwoofer- 1P and three M1D curvilinear array loudspeakers.

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