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crabbing in 40,000 years of music into one live concert is not easy this is timeline a collaboration between the presets and the Australian Chamber Orchestra we go behind the scenes and take a look at some of the audio tech making it happen we've got music from you know the Big Bang right through to the present day and try to translate all of that different style into the concert hall is quite a challenging job and just in terms of the style the way that audio is presented through from changing the music you know big churches and an end ends up in mobile phone music later music in today's that presented down the mobile phone it's the delivery format also it seems so to translate that to the concert halls just dynamics Alone's complicated the show uses a bunch of different speakers to recreate sounds from past and present we put in quite a large PA in the room we have a little little gramophone horn down the front which is cute introduction for a bit of jazz in 1920s here we've got a very modern console which makes it possible every every item almost every item every piece has a completely different balance requirement so the process has been I listened to the rehearsal set at an appropriate balance and store it in the computer and then so during the show I recall those settings for each item and then I sit on the Masters and just I basically got the high strings low strings woodwinds choir and so during that actual show I just recall the scene and balance those components the biggest technical challenges just the sheer difference and variety in the program so every item has got different soloists different focuses and you know vastly different balances go from jazz classical punk to you know robbery and chant and it's all got a sound it's got to be true to itself and requires entirely different mix setup it's not just classical music though there's plenty of contemporary stuff from artists like Beyonce James Blake and Daft Punk presets have put together to get the mega mix which is this piece this little slab at the very end where we just basically lose your costura all together and it goes to this modern of up to present time and yeah it's just I've done an amazing job of mashing all the stuff together very quickly we're very seamlessly it's like a new piece of music and itself and that's actually the easiest part of the show for me because I just sit back which the faders up and sit back and enjoy that you