LSI: Primordial Soup (November 1999)
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From Lighting & Sound International

Sound (from LSI January 2000)

The sound consultant for the project was Peter Key. The Millenium-commissioned project - the first to be completed, with the aid of a £15m Lottery Grant - had been talked about as long ago as 1992, but Key's team was only brought in as the final concept was taking shape two years ago. It was his task to detail all the playback equipment. Whilst Electrosonic was appointed as the hardware supplier, the main element in Key's contract was to produce the soundtracks, which he achieved with the aid of a Soundscape Workstation. The audio is stored on Electronic ESTA units and the video sources on MPEG servers are synchronised to the related audio using SMPTE or MIDI time-code. 
Among the array of speakers used, Key opted for Martin's EM Series, supplied by Electrosonic. He specified batches of EM15s, EM26s, EM56s, EM76s and all three sub enclosures in the series. The speaker equalisation was carried out within the Soundscape software and recorded direct onto the audio tracks. Show presets are stored and routed via an Allen & Heath DSP management system.