Category: News

CALM Theatre Sounds are pleased to supply XDANTE-1 switch for Colchester’s Mercury Theatre. This is completely unrelated to Dante’s poem Paradiso and the ambitious second sphere created by Mercury, but we are, nonetheless, sure Sleeping Beauty can be reassured.

CALM Theatre Sounds are pleased to announce repeat business with Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Northern Stage for their production of Cinderella: A Fairytale. Once again CALM are supplying EM Acoustics speakers and amplifiers to augment the ‘epic space’ of Stage 1 & 2 combined together.

Ella misses her mother and father. Her step-mother is the worst, a horrible bully determined to make her life a misery.  Her step-brother and sister are no help.  Nature is her escape and the birds seem to be her only friends.

But, when she meets a boy in the woods who loves to bird watch too, her heart begins to flutter! Her mind races and she begins to believe in the magical power of love.

And then: an invitation for all of us to join in the festive cheer at the Queen’s Christmas ball!

Full of music, dance and comedy, Cinderella: A Fairytale is a retelling of this classic tale for anyone who has ever dreamed that good will always win.

CALM Theatre Sounds is once more pleased to be working with Luca Rutherford, this time on their Autumn Tour of You Heard Me. We will be supplying a playback system and main speakers for a physical contemporary show that speaks to a modern audience about current issues. “You Heard Me is a powerful and vital show about refusing to be silent”.

CALM Theatre Sounds is pleased to be associated with Lavender Theatre‘s inaugural production of Irving Berlin’s classic Annie Get Your Gun. Certainly not our biggest hire, but nonetheless very significant.

CALM Theatre Sounds announces the “Sound Designer” online app that allows anyone to freely tailor an audio hire system and receive instant quotations for extended hires. By allowing users to combine multiple units into a single System they reduce the overheads associated with other companies that treat large hires as a number of small hires each associated with its own overhead charges.

The “Sound Designer” app also allows users to Book Systems for different phases of a Production and automatically calculates extended hire discounts.

CALM Theatre Sounds have adopted a free and open software model encouraging users to interact as Co-Developers. The app is now in open beta release and users are asked to feedback ideas for improvement, bugs and feature wishlists.

In partnership with the Association of Sound Designers and Northern Stage, CALM Theatre Sounds is pleased to announce their support for the Newcastle QLab Skills Sharing Workshop. CALM provides:

Yamaha QL1

4x Apple Mac Minis and MacBook Pro running Main desk versions of both Figure 53 Qlab 4.7 and 5.2

iConnectivity USB/DIN/RTP MIDI interfaces: mio; mioXM; mioXL

Live Theatre‘s World Premiere production of Love It If We Beat Them chooses CALM to supply Yamaha QL1 and Lexicon PCM92. Love It If We Beat Them is a new political drama that explores a time of significant change in the identity of the North East communities and perfectly captures a moment in recent history that defines who we are today. It explores the questions: What is power without principle? And what are principles without power?

CALM Theatre Sounds have been asked to supply a Decca Tree for November Club‘s latest project.

Included in the hire are:

• Schoeps Decca Tree
• Neumann TLM 103 Studio Condenser mic
• Neumann KM184 mt Stereo Set
• Neumann KMS105 (black)
• Lexicon PCM92 Reverb Unit

CALM Theatre Sounds are pleased to announce Northern Stage’s return for their Christmas production of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Highlights of CALM’s supply are:

• Yamaha QL1
• Yamaha RIO1608-D2
• Yamaha SWP 1-8
• 16x EM Acoustics EMS-41
• EM Acoustics DQ6D Amplifier
• Focusrite RedNet AM2 Dante Stereo Monitor Unit
• 20x DPA4061 and lav mic concealment kit

The Auckland Project choose CALM Theatre Sounds for their Baroque Nativity.

On the Winter Experience trail is the Faith Museum’s dramatic gallery where visitors will be invited to take in the rare sight of an 18^th-century Baroque créche known in Italian as a Presepe.

The monumental Neapolitan Nativity scene, which measures a remarkable 11ft tall and 15ft wide is one of the most impressive and important examples outside Italy and brings together classical and Christian mythology with the traditional folk culture of everyday Naples.

CALM supplied:

• QLab on a Mac Mini
• Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 Audio Interface (3rd Gen)
• 8x EM Acoustics EMS-61
• 2x EM Acoustics S-12
• 3x Yamaha PX* amplifiers