Pandoras Box Compact Player covers Abu Dhabi art installation

UAE: Internationally acclaimed artist and composer, Bill Fontana, recently revealed site specific sound sculptures as part of the Abu Dhabi Music Festival. The visual installations and sound sculptures were presented using the latest audio visual technology, including the new Coolux Pandoras Box Compact Player, which were provided by TechnoPro llc, the official Coolux distributor in the Middle East.

Having been commissioned to create two sound sculptures that would reflect the local surroundings, in addition to exhibiting additional work of his, Bill Fontana chose the Sheikh Zayed bridge and the Abu Dhabi desert itself as the main focus of his work. Mr Fontana explained this choice by referring to the nature of the undiscovered sounds which these polar opposites have in common. Working together with some of the UAE capital's young artistic talents for up to six months, he mentored and helped the young artists to create unique soundscapes that reflected powerful symbols and different sides of Abu Dhabi.

The Festival also commissioned local artist Mohammed Kazem to present his latest conceptual work, in addition to allowing the winner of the first Gulf Capital Abu Dhabi Festival Visual Arts award, Moza Obaid Al Suwaidi, to show creations that focussed on the symbol of the palm tree.

A total of nine DVI Outputs had to be taken care of for the realisation of the demanding project. The Compact Players had to play out media to six Barco RLM-W8 projectors and three 50-inch LCD monitors. Each of the compact players was running independently and was able to provided playback for looping QuickTime MOV files, with file sizes ranging from 70GB to 90GB each. The audio tracks were taken from each Compact Player and were then used for further sound processing. A laptop running VNC Remote was used to remotely monitor the status of the nine Compact Players off-site.

In addition to the Compact Players, projectors and monitors, TechnoPro supplied the event with a Meyer Sound audio system. This consisted of 20 MM4 XP, six UP Junior, 12 UPM-1P, six UMS- 1P and three M1D speakers.

The client was reportedly very satisfied with the over-all performance of the technical setup and the new Compact Players in particular, which delivered smooth playback   24/7, for a duration of 30 days.

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