Open air concert
An open-air concert, and open-air concert (English open-air, outdoors '), is taking place every outdoor concert. As a rule, on an open-air concert, whose visit - depending on the event - admission is free, played modern music like pop or rock music. But also classical music concerts are played outdoors more often. Find more such concerts (usually several days ) at the same location, this outdoor concert also known as a music festival and open -air festival.
- 4.1 Germany
- 4.2 Austria
- 4.3 Switzerland
History
Open -air concerts there in an organized and perceived by a wider public form from the late 19th century. On London's Thames found since 1894 in the so-called summer promenade concerts at the Embankment instead, usually around noon. The audience were, unlike regular concerts in halls or opera houses, mostly men who came out of their offices, or newspaper guys who stood still and listened. A music critic for the Times looked at the Proms a sophisticated contrast to the " Easy Listening " concerts in London's parks, where they listened to only in passing. Even long works such as Franz Schubert's Symphony in C major would intentionally involve the people in the Victoria Embankment Gardens in their spell and be despite significantly poorer acoustics of an effect that you do not know of concert halls.
Lack of electrical amplification chose the conductors for outdoor concerts a different composition of the instruments. In particular, you need less outside strings. This, the critics, dictated as no other instrument, the silence. In addition, you learn the Promenade Concert from experiences of military music, where, for example, clarinets would take over the string parts to play to present to the front.
Technology
The stage or festival stage an open- air concert is usually a composite of trusses construction that is built usually about 1 to 3 days before the concert.
To protect the electronic equipment ( lighting and sound system ) from rain the stage in most cases is provided with a roof. However, there are also smaller open- air stages, which can be transported as a whole on a single truck. Their construction is taking place in the way that the truck - trailer moved into the correct position and then the stage floor " unfolded " and the roof is lifted hydraulically. In this, the framework for the headlights ( " piece") is hung. At rigs mostly the same or similar lighting effects in discotheques like to install. The speakers of the sound system are usually hung in the left and right built next to the stage towers or stacked there, bass boxes can also be located on the floor below the stage front edge or side of it. The mixing consoles for light and sound located in large open-air festival in its own tower in front of the stage ( front of house ) and are associated with the stage equipment ( backline ) via a stage box. Movable follow spots can be located either in the FOH tower or in own trusses.
For large areas for improved acoustics are often built up additional towers with speakers (so-called "Delay Towers " / " line array " ) or with video screens of "Stage Hands" in the audience.
Open - air stages must be approved as other temporary temporary buildings above a certain size. In case of negligence, bad weather or panic there is an increased risk of accidents, such as the Pukkelpop Festival 2011. Due to the high volume of music can open-air concerts that last late into the night, take place as a rule only on areas from the inhabited houses for festival goers.
Certain similarities with open-air concerts are open air disco, which can also be housed in buildings with a folding roof as the "Mega -Drome " in Radebeul. This runs in contrast to an open-air concert usually no live music.
Multi-day open-air events
The inlet controls in commercial open-air concerts and festivals are quite strict; The safety regulatory requirements usually see in front, for example, that no existing objects as weapons or often no sharp objects such as umbrellas ( hazard in the crowd ) may be taken. Rather, for economic reasons may also be taken on the grounds, for example, no own drinks. For this, one finds a variety of stalls, which is often served only beer of the sponsor. In addition, a wide selection of restaurants ( kebab and pizza) is available. There are also increasingly growing non-food areas, where in addition to the sale of merchandising of the artists appearing at the festival is also a promising sales of leisure products ( hookahs, jewelry, etc.) exists. Larger events wait sometimes on a range of leisure activities, such as bungee jumping. Reason for the wide commercial offer besides music is the additional source of income by dispensing or standing charges, which is why, for example, some organizers very rigid action against bootleggers. The revenue from this area that the revenue from the sale of tickets often exceed many times.
After completion of the actual festival performances, which take place until about 1 or 2 clock at night, parties found in many pop and rock events held in large tents that last part up early in the morning.
For the larger commercial festivals (such as Rock am Ring and Hurricane ) is separated id R. the actual festival area of a campsite. Each paying visitor Festival is recognized by a cloth or plastic strap laced when giving its ticket to the wrist and in quantities loses its validity.
Camping
The reason for attending a music festival are not necessarily just the performing bands, but can also be the event itself. This experience is strongly associated with the camping, which is offered on most festivals and sometimes can be availed for several days before the start of the music program. Here, festival-goers differ in many respects from the usual holiday campers. Usually it is at festival goers to young people who want to spend a few days together in larger groups. Often several tents are set up in a circle around a central place to do so. This is designed by the festival goers with flags, music equipment or instruments and awning very individual.
In the early days of open-air festivals proved increasingly spectators who perceived only the camping offer, as a financial problem for the operators. To prevent this, use of the camping site is now only owners of tickets available at commercial festivals. In addition, there was also approaches to regulate the number of brought food and, for example to perform upon entering the camping areas controls to allow only small amounts of alcohol brought along.
Famous festivals and venues for outdoor concerts
Germany
- Bang Your Head ( Balingen )
- Rheinkultur (Bonn)
- Movie Nights on the River Elbe (Dresden)
- Open Flair ( Eschwege )
- Rocco del Schlacko ( Nailsworth - Köllerbach )
- City Park Open Air (Hamburg)
- Pydna (Hunsrück )
- The Feast (Karlsruhe)
- Rock am Ring (Nurburgring )
- Eichenring ( Scheessel )
- Stuttgart Beer Festival (Stuttgart)
- Wacken Open Air ( Wacken )
- Rock Hard Festival ( Gelsenkirchen)
- Metalfest ( Lorelei )
- Southside_ (Festival ) ( Neuhausen_ob_Eck )
Austria
- Picture on festival ( Bildein )
- Bregenz Festival ( Bregenz)
- Clam Concerts ( Burg Clam )
- Grafenegg Music Festival ( Grafenegg )
- New Orleans Festival ( Innsbruck)
- Seewiesenfest ( Kleinreifling )
- Linz Cloud of Sound (Linz)
- Szene Openair ( Lustenau )
- Nova Rock ( nickel village)
- Jazz in the Old Town (Salzburg)
- Steyr Music Festival ( Schloss Lamberg )
- Opera Festival St. Margaret ( Roman quarry of St. Margaret )
- Frequency ( St. Pölten )
- Urban Art Forms Festival ( Unterpremstätten )
- Jazz over Villach ( Villach)
- Austrian Blasmusikfest (Vienna)
- Danube Island Festival (Vienna)
- Popfest ( Karlsplatz ( Vienna) )
- Concert for Europe / Summer Night Concert in the park of Schönbrunn Palace (Vienna)
- Lovely Days ( meadows )
- Two Days a Week ( meadows )
Switzerland
- Gurtenfestival (Bern)
- Openair Frauenfeld ( Frauenfeld )
- Open Air Gampel ( Gampel )
- Greenfield Festival ( Interlaken )
- Montreux Jazz Festival ( Montreux )
- OpenAir St. Gallen ( St. Gallen)