Southbank Centre launches unique experimental sound system Concrete Voids with new artist commissions

The Southbank Centre has today announced the first names as part of its bespoke large-scale experimental audio project, Concrete Voids. Concrete Voids will have its public debut with a series of concerts featuring new Southbank Centre commissioned works by rapper and producer Lex Amor, electronic music producer and visual artist Jack Warne – GAUNT, viola da gamba player Liam Byrne and fiddle-player Cleek Schrey, and cellist Peter Gregson.

Conceived and designed by Southbank Centre Sound Technician Tony Birch, Concrete Voids is a totally custom-built system of loudspeakers that turns the auditorium itself into an epic three-dimensional instrument. Made up of over 80 speakers which are concealed within the chambers, tunnels and vents surrounding the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium, Concrete Voids provides artists with enormous creative opportunities to create rich and complex sound-worlds for their performances. Using spatial audio solution TiMax panLab, sound sources can be moved and manipulated within the space, even by the artist as they perform.