Musical “Me & My Lei Feng” Premieres in Beijing
From June 7 to 9, 2024, the musical “Me & My Lei Feng” successfully premiered at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center
Directed by Jia Ding and Wei Sijia, and supported by the Beijing Culture and Arts Fund, this production features over 30 original Chinese songs.
The musical promotes the spirit of Lei Feng and pays tribute to an era of love from the perspective of contemporary youth. The story traces Lei Feng’s growth across three important stages of his life, as told from the perspective of recent graduate Wang Xiaoyang. Through music, the audience is transported 62 years into the past to experience Lei Feng’s journey.
EZPro provided a full set of immersive sound reinforcement system solutions, working closely with the sound design team. The main PA system featured 16 ezacoustics VHL1010N line array loudspeakers, alongside a combination of SLV30N and SLV15N loudspeakers for mid-channels, and IMC-6 coaxial loudspeakers for fill.
Tracking precision
The Astro Spatial Audio immersive sound system worked perfectly with the tracking system to meet the specific needs of the musical’s sound design, which required the sound to follow the movement of the main characters as they moved around the stage.
The system captured the coordinate information of the actors with extremely high accuracy, and rendered and adjusted the sound position in real time. This process ensured that the audience had a highly unified visual and auditory experience, making the musical’s sound effects more colorful and realistic.
“This is the third time I have used an immersive sound system in a musical. For live sound reinforcement in musicals, immersive sound combined with a tracking system is a powerful tool for sound engineers. Especially when there are many microphones on the stage speaking at the same time, this combination can improve the clarity of the lines, and when the actors enter the stage from the wings and speak their lines, the audience can be immediately drawn in by the positioning of the sound,”
MR. MA Wenzhao, Immersive Sounddesigner
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