Beatles Cirque du Soleil Sound Room

8 Oct 2009 · 1 min

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Short video segment filmed in the monitor room of a Cirque du Soleil Beatles show where two speakers discuss the show's sound system. They explain that this Cirque show uses no live musicians and instead runs recorded music produced by father-and-son team Sir George Martin and Giles Martin; the monitoring/setup allows the recorded music to remain flexible and interact with live performers and audience actions to produce a consistent experience.

Questions this video answers

Sir George Martin and Giles Martin.

No — it is stated to be the only Cirque show that has no live musicians; the recorded music substitutes for a live band.

Chapters

But this is the. Since this is the only Cirque show that has no live musicians, then this is the equivalent of the band. The system that runs all the recorded music that we use in the show and so allows us to be flexible along with the show, we have live artists and lots of moving parts, mechanical and otherwise. And so this system lets us take the recorded music that the father and son team of Sir George and Giles Martin did and then use that recorded music in a non recorded show and keep the music flexible and interact with the audience and interact with the artists and make a consistent audience experience, depending regardless of what the audience is doing that night.
Wow. And this is the room. This is the room. And this is called the monitor room. This is the monitor room. Okay.
Amount of room. So we called it the top secret Beatles ball.
There's only about 12 people that can really get in here. Really 13, counting me. Exactly right. Exactly. That's what we have. Now, behind this glass here is the recording studio. This was put in so that Sir George and Giles started working on this music at Abbey Road prior to their trip over here. This room was put together with the same equipment that they had at Abbey Road so that they could continue working on the music here in a familiar environment, on familiar equipment. This room is a level one security room. So if you come this way, we actually have the palm scanner to open the doors for that room. This room is linked to the vault via fiber. And that choice was made to. You can electronically surveil data on copper. So they wanted to use fiber because it's harder to eavesdrop. Exactly.