Gadgetory

for Aladdin we had a concept in mind that we wanted the audience to connect with the actors which is why we decided to really push technology so that when an actor spoke it wasn't wall of sound it was big but you're like oh it's coming from him and what somebody was on the other side of the stage your ear would go that ways and follow the visual we have to measure to all those zones on you see they're from every seat that has a speaker pointing at so we sit in the seat measure to the speaker measure to all 14 zones measure to the other speaker measure and so because we're trying to work all this trigonometry is happening forever every section of the house and so basically if there's a speaker pointed at you we've measured from that speaker to a specific seat to 14 zones onstage so the stage is decided divided up into 14 different zones that we think the audience will perceive sound moving from each actors wearing a tracker that emits a it's like in a 6 to 8 could get heard bandwidth it sends out this chirp and then we have radars all around the theatre there's three across the front of the stage across the balcony 2 behind them and they're looking for this chirp they're constantly searching for it each radar has three little receivers in there and it says okay that I received a signal and it's coming from down here and this one over there says oh I saw it as well but it's coming from here for me because this tracker is lower and so it's triangulating you know doing trig amongst seven different radars and then that's being all happening in real time it sends the information back to a computer which then decides how much information needs to come out of one of 200 speakers so they're all receiving the same information and it were just constantly shifting time and volume to trick your ear constantly to follow the actor