Eurosonic Noorderslag (2016–2026)
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Resonsibilities: Lead Audio Systems Engineer — Eurosonic Noorderslag (2016–2026)
Designed, specified and deployed audio systems across nine stages for Eurosonic Noorderslag, one of the Netherlands’ largest showcase festivals, welcoming 40,000–44,000 visitors across the event. Responsible for system design, deployment strategy, technical coordination and management of the audio crew across a highly diverse multi-venue festival footprint.
The festival presents a unique systems challenge, with productions spanning theatres, nightclubs, concert halls, open-air stages, basements, restaurants, hallways and unconventional performance spaces. Adapted system design and deployment to suit radically different acoustic environments, architectural constraints and audience configurations — including venues where conventional stage and audience orientations were effectively reversed.
Worked extensively with d&b audiotechnik systems ranging from Y/Q Series through KSL, alongside L-Acoustics systems, maintaining consistent coverage, tonal balance and system performance across vastly different venues and deployment formats.
Operated within demanding festival turnaround schedules, including overnight system de-rigging and redeployment, removing complete PA systems immediately after performances and redeploying them in different venues ready for the following day’s programme. This required precise logistics, rapid system deployment and optimisation, and close coordination between audio crews, production and venue teams to maintain performance standards under significant time constraints.
