A La Carte â a musical miscellany of Gilbert and Sullivans' Greatest hits
On the 24th of June 2023, Sonosphere was honoured to partner with D'Oyly Carte Island in an historical event; its first musical event in over 100 years.
The Islandâs Eyot House was built by Richard DâOyly Carte back in 1890 as a party and music house and was used on many occasions by Gilbert and Sullivan to write and rehearse their comic operas.
It had lain empty and on the verge of dereliction for years until it was bought by the enterprising Andy Hill in August 2021, who is currently sensitively restoring it, bringing it back to its original magnificence. His plans aim to present lavish music events on the island â exactly as Richard DâOyly Carte had done more than a century before.
The first of these took place in the ballroom this summer. DâOyly Carte Island, powered by Sonosphere, produced A La Carte â a musical miscellany of Gilbert and Sullivans' Greatest hits, performed by five members of the DâOyly Carte Opera company and accompanied by Timothy End on Sir Arthur Sullivan's original Broadwood and Sons grand piano, which was donated to the island after being part of Gilbert and Sullivan collection for many years.
Sonosphere, with the help of SFL, a d&b solutions company, hauled a ton of audio and video equipment to the island for the event, which was live streamed, by Sonosphere, in Dolby Atmos.
The full performance is now available as an on-demand video in full Dolby Atmos. To watch this historic performance, please visit:
https://www.doylycarteisland.com/a-la-carte
#gilbertandsullivan #opera #doylecarteisland
AN ISLAND FOR TRAINEE PIRATESâŚAND NOW, PIRATES OF PENZANCE
When I was in my very early teens, me and my mates used to ride our bikes along the towpath of the River Thames from Walton towards Weybridge. Just before you got to a place where the river darted off in all different directions near Shepperton Lock, there was an island with a big old boarded up and fairly derelict house standing on it. The island, called DâOyly Carte Island, was accessed by an arched metal bridge from the towpath which was, like the house, all boarded up and the gate to the bridge covered in barbed wireâŚto keep people, people like me, out!
But what is a bit of boarding and barbed wire to a bunch of Trainee Pirates? The island looked so exciting and such a grand place for an adventure and bit of skulduggery. So, on many occasions, me and my mates would slide our way round the boarding, being careful not to cut ourselves on the barbed wire (didnât always manage that and I still have battle scars to prove it) and sidestep our way across the bridge. We would, frequently, loose our footing and fall in the river - but hey, pirates!
Me and my crew had lots and lots of amazing adventures on that island and made many memories â lighting campfires, cooking sausages and generally being pirates. I still consider myself to be a pirate â I earned my pirate stripes on that island.
Fast forward 50 years and Sarah and I are lying in bed, both with Covid. Sarah goes downstairs to make a cup of tea while I stay in bed. While she was making tea, a magazine came through the door. It was one of those free local magazines that only get used for lighting fires and putting under cat litter trays but, on this occasion, Sarah decided to bring it back to bed and read it while I lay there being ill.
After a while, Sarah chucked the magazine over to me and said, âyou should read this.â The mag was opened at an article telling the story of a man called Andy Hill, who was, apparently, the first pers
Phil in the Studio with Jolyon Klean and mixing Orca Sound's Touch Me, Featuring Clem De La Clem into Dolby Atmos.
What a fun day that was.
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Sonsophere at MWC Sept '22
Jamie was invited to speak about Sonosphereâs involvement in the 5G Festival at the Transforming the Future of Music session at Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas last week.
The session included talks from Verizon and AWS, Epidemic Sound and Stingray, and covered how technology is building virtual worlds for consumers to immerse themselves in and how consumer habits are changing as a result. It looked at how music has become as much about the experience as it is about convenience, how music companies can adapt and, more interestingly, what the future of music looks like.
Thank you Geraldina Iraheta, Digital Catapultâs Chief Commercial Officer, for moderating so skilfully.
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#mobileworldcongress #technology #virtualworld #consumerhabits #avtweeps #avtweepsoninstagram #sound #immersiveexperience #5g #5gfestival #futureofmusic #audioexperience #dolby #dolbyatmos
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