Traditional Polish Cantos brought to life by DPA
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“I didn’t want the true sound of the instruments to change in any way,” Klimkiewicz says. “For example, the drums had been tuned by the drummer and I wanted the microphones to capture that exact sound. I chose DPA because I knew that their microphones were capable of delivering the clarity I was looking for.”
Entitled For Every Soul, the concerts featured unconventional arrangements of Lenten cantos that, while not as well-known as Christmas carols, are equally rich in beautiful and poignant melodies.
With a project of such emotional intensity, Klimkiewicz was keen to keep the aesthetics as clean as possible by not allowing technology to dominate the stage.
“It is important that the technology doesn’t disturb the contact between the artists and the audience,” he says. “Therefore, I tried to avoid tripods and cables that might obscure the view. DPA’s d:vote Instrument Microphones, which we used for the musical instruments, and d:screet Miniature Microphones, which we used for the vocal quartet, were ideal because they are very small and unobtrusive so we were able to hide our tools and put the emphasis entirely on the artists.”
Klimkiewicz used over 20 DPA microphones so that every single sound source had its own microphone. As well as d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones and d:screet Miniature Microphones, he also used d:dicate 4011 Recording Microphones and d:facto Vocal Microphones.
The concerts took place in three of Poland’s top classical music venues - the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice; the Concert Hall in the CKK (Cultural-Congressional Center) Jordanki in Toruń and the Roma musical theatre in Warsaw.
(Jim Evans)
