
Radio
City Valencia's
Radio City has gained a reputation over more than 20 years
for offering the public alternative forms of entertainment,
widening the choice beyond the usual selection of bars and
music venues. It
has gradually expanded its scope to incorporate new cultural
and artistic strands, with an extensive spread of events and
activities encompassing festivals, dance and drama
performances, music and poetry recitals, workshops,
recordings and DJ nights. Radio City's most recent
initiative is its Café-Theatre project, which
necessitated the installation of a completely new sound
system, configured to address the venue's multi-disciplinary
requirements. The
resurgence in Valencia of this type of theatre owes much to
the initiative of a group of leisure establishments, which
showcase amateur and semi-professional theatre companies,
and have created the city's Café-Theatre circuit.
Radio City is a prime mover on this circuit, and also hosts
the annual National Festival of Small Theatre.
Café-Theatre presentations are usually staged in
small, intimate settings, close to audience, and involve
short dramas performed by two or three actors. Supplied
by Lexon via a local contractor, Solutions in Image and
Sound S.L (Audiotrack), the new sound system had to be
capable of handling Radio City's wide spread of events and
activities, in addition to the Café-Theatre
performances themselves. A total of eight TCS enclosures
were installed - four TCS-40 and four TCS-59 - with the
TCS-59 being specified for its ability to present music and
vocal material with equal clarity. Lexon also finds the
TCS-40 an ideal choice for theatre applications.


Venue:
Radio City
Location: Valencia, Spain
Venue-type: Multi-purpose
Loudspeaker system:
4 x TCS-40
4 x TCS-59