The audio at "India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination" exhibition held at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) was powered by 128 Genelec 4430 Smart IP loudspeakers.
The audio at "India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination" exhibition held at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) was powered by 128 Genelec 4430 Smart IP loudspeakers.
The project was led by Mumbai-based technology and acoustic consultancy firm, Munro.
Kapil Thirwani, audio and acoustic consultant at Munro, noted: "We were called in mid-January 2023 to explore possibilities of adding an immersive sonic experience to a fashion exhibition for the NMACC launch. The concept was the influence of India and its fabrics and handiworks on the world of fashion against a backdrop of world music with subtle Indian influences, with 15 zones playing different tracks to build the soundscape."
Thirwani detailed the partnership choice: "If we are hired to design, we also have to keep up to the same design sense for sonic aesthetics. This led us to the Smart IP loudspeakers by Genelec. They run seamlessly off a PoE+ switch via a single CAT cable and ticked all the boxes.”
For India in Fashion, the exhibition played with multiple immersive and stereo zones stored on two 64 channel TiMAX servers via the Dante network. These outputs were then assigned via Smart IP Manager and Dante Controller.
Thirwani concluded: "This was a team effort, and solutions like these require meticulous planning and execution, drawing expertise from various fronts. From conceptualization to planning and execution, the project faced challenges on site that had to be resolved before completion.”