(Above: Trey Anastasio plays at the Beacon Theatre in NYC and notes the immersive sound.)
In mid-August, singer-songwriter and Phish guitarist, Trey Anastasio, performed two concerts at The Beacon Theatre on Manhattan's Upper West Side where the audience got a preview of a new sound system. Dubbed Sphere Immersive Sound, the sysyem was developed jointly between MSG and Germany-based HOLOPLOT, known for directional speakers, for the new, $1.8b, Sphere at The Venetian in Las Vegas.
Click on the video to hear Stuart Elby, SVP Advanced Engineering MSG Entertainment, Rich Claffy, EVP Chief Operations Officer, MSG Sphere, Trey Anastasio's Tour Director, Rich Glasgow, and Garry Brown, his Front of House Engineer, comment on the system at The Beacon preview.
Stuart Elby "We are turning the venue into a speaker"
The system is designed to adjust the soundfield into zones where wavefield synthesis technology can be used to recreate audio objects and move them in real-time, all from the same loudspeaker array. This should allow anyone moving through a venue to hear different things at different points with greater accuracy, creating an immersive audio experience
Billed as a “multisensory” venue, the MSG Sphere will use Holoplot’s 3D beamforming technology when it opens in 2023. To hear the system before then,