The Sinus for the Information category was awarded to Erwin Schenk, the technical manager of The Zentrum Paul Klee centre in Bern, Switzerland, and to Christian Simmen the project manager of John Lay Electronics. The Zentrum Paul Klee was designed by the famous architect Renzo Piano and is one of his most striking buildings. It distinguishes itself from traditional museums in being not just the home of some 4,000 paintings by Paul Klee but is also a platform for different forms of artistic expression, namely images, speech and music. It is a conference centre, concert hall, theatre and training centre for art and culture.
The main auditorium seats approximately three hundred people and uses a 12:2 surround sound system of d&b Ci-Series cabinets and E12 subwoofers all driven by d&b D12 amplifiers using their ROPE C remote control software. Daniel Meyer of 2M Audio supplied and installed the entire system and commented, "The intention was always to make the Klee not just a museum, but a living centre for music and art."
The Sinus in the Venue category went to Rüdiger Aue, project manager of service providers Amptown Sound & Communication, for planning and installing the new PA System of the Main Hall of the Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH). The aim in renewing the PA installation was to provide a more versatile system that could be used under different operating conditions ranging from congresses, concerts and external productions. The subsequent installation is a multifunctional audio system offering excellent sound quality for both speech and music events in the three thousand seat hall.
d&b audiotechnik C4 loudspeakers with C3 line array modules were arrayed to left and right of the stage, with d&b Q7s as fills and Q1s arrayed in a centre cluster. C7 subwoofer arrays were hung left and right with a further two arrays for the stalls and circle. The entire system is driven by d&b D12 amplifiers, which are controlled by the d&b Remote network and BSS Soundweb. The electro-acoustic system had to be integrated technically and visually in the existing media system for the stage, lighting and projection whereby the system design had to take account of the hall geometry and architecture.
(Lee Baldock)
