NEU SH OORN EM EA
LEEUWARDEN / NETHERLANDS
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Neushoorn is a busy music venue that opened in 2015 featuring two performance halls, a cafe, rehearsal rooms and studios, and has strong educational ties with local vocational college, Firda, which focuses on music, drama, theatre and the arts, running both technical and creative courses. When More AV began working with Neushoorn on the next phase of the venue’s audio evolution, the objective was to augment the existing Funktion-One sound system and deliver an even deeper and more engaging audience experience. Driven by the formidable combination of youthful energy and big ideas, the 750-capacity concert hall set out on a mission to explore the creation of an immersive live music environment. The redesigned sound system combines Funktion-One’s latest loudspeaker technologies with HOLOPHONIX’s spatial audio processing to create an enveloping sonic palette that lives and breathes with the music. “We are the first core venue in the Netherlands, and probably even in Benelux, to equip a main stage in this way,” said Michiel Cornelisse, who has been Head of Technical at Neushoorn for twoand-a-half years. During that time, the venue has gone through a significant period of innovation. “That started in 2024,” he explained. “As the completion of that period approached in January 2025,