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We spent a lot of time at Opera Holland Park last Summer, partly because of the programme but also because of the intelligently creative approach that the theatre took to distancing restrictions and such, so that the resulting theatre was pleasant to visit with a new thrust stage that brought the action forward. Opera Holland Park has just announced its plans for 2022, and it sounds as if this year is going to be equally rewarding. There are five main stage productions of six operas, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Bizet's Carmen, Mark Adamo's Little Women, Delius' Margot le Rouge, Puccini's Le Villi, and Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. The theatre's capacity will remain at around 700, with some changes but the same footprint and aesthetic as last year. And not only is it constructed from reclaimed and sustainable materials, but food and drink is predominantly sourced from independent companies within a 50 […]
2021-06-05 09:59:47
Trying to make people unreasonable: I chat to composer Tim Benjamin about his opera The Fire of Olympus; or, On Sticking It To The Man
Tim Benjamin: The Fire of Olympus - Sophie Dicks as Prometheus Composer Tim Benjamin's latest opera The Fire of Olympus; or, On Sticking It To The Man debuted in 2019 when Radius Opera, the company of which Tim is co-founder and artistic director, toured the work in a production which combined live singers and the digitally combined voices of over 1000 volunteers, taken from workshops held with choirs in and around the towns where the opera was performed. Tim has now collaborated with East View Film to create a film version of the opera, intended to be a film in its own right rather than a film record of a stage production, and this has now been released on Marquee TV. I caught up with Tim recently to find out more about The Fire of Olympus and how he came to turn an opera into a film. […]
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2021-01-06 21:29:00
The Fifteen-Minute City? Sweden Considers The “One-Minute City”
A plan piloted by Swedish national innovation body Vinnova and design think tank ArkDes focuses attention on what Dan Hill, Vinnova’s director of strategic design, calls the “one-minute city.” It’s a order of magnitude smaller than other recent think-local planning conceits. While Paris works with a 15-minute Radius and Barcelona’s superblocks with nine-block chunks of the city, Sweden’s project […]
2020-05-07 04:49:00
On Other Ways to Woof…
By Bryan Geyer JL Audo E-Sub e-110, 53 lbs. “Hi-fi” is now in its 72nd year, and two channel stereo continues to be the dominant focus of those who enjoy music at home. Since the start, we’ve learned that good sound is best conveyed by utilizing different types of loudspeakers to reproduce select segments of the audible range—e.g., woofers for bass, tweeters for treble, maybe a mid-range driver too. More recently, we’ve also come to acknowledge that really deep bass (20 to 50Hz) might be that “bridge too far” for a traditional woofer. This prevails because the bottom bass is best achieved by using a relatively rigid, conically shaped driver + long, piston-like pumping strokes, whereas the upper bass needs a more compliant and responsive driver to effectively track rapid shifts in the 100 to 600Hz bass band. Big woofers that are tasked to cover both jobs simultaneously tend to sound muddy and […]
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