The production was staged by lawine torrèn, a network of dancers, actors, media artists and technicians under the artistic direction of Hubert Lepka that was founded in 1992 in Salzburg.
The technical services for the project were provided by You Sound from Augsburg with Klaus Mayer as the technical director. "The production Mars:2068 is in itself quite demanding. Especially with the climatic conditions on top of a glacier at this time of year, it becomes a real challenge," commented Mayer.
"The project required not only equipment that was able to take a lot of strain, but also collaborators with mountaineering experience and at times unusual means of transport such as a helicopter, to get material and personnel to one of the three mountain summits."
Frank Lischka designed huge colourful light spaces for this production that simultaneously functioned as performance areas and backdrops. You Sound supplied and installed the reinforcement system comprising a flown mono cluster of d&b audiotechnik's new J-Series loudspeakers providing sound that emanated from the back area of the audience.
The full-range J8 and J12 loudspeakers were controlled together with the J-SUB cardioid subwoofers by d&b's D12 amplifiers. All these were connected via the ROPE C remote control software using a notebook platform. The mixing desk was a Yamaha DM 1000 and the microphones used were from Shure's R-Series.
(Jim Evans)
