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Mascletá Sinfónica Valencia
D.A.S. Audio Aero Series 2 systems participate in the first Mascletá Sinfónica in Valencia
D.A.S. Audio recently played a key role in Valencia?s first
Mascletá Sinfónica, a unique musical performance that
uses musical instruments to simulate the sounds of a
traditional mascletá (a symphony of explosions that
comes from a coordinated firing of fireworks) that takes
place every day at 14:00 hours during the city?s traditional
Fallas celebration. The event took place in the days
leading up to Fallas week as over 80 musicians, mainly
drummers, came together at the city?s Estación del Norte,
fitted out with D.A.S. Aero Series 2 systems, to reproduce
the mascletá?s barrage of sound with music.
This unique project was developed with the help of
Valencian pyrotechnics expert and veteran Vicente
Caballer. Caballer, a fourth-generation member of the
over 130-year old pyrotechnic company that bears his
family name, was the driving force behind the event, so
much so that it was named the ?9ª Sinfónica de Vicente
Caballer (Vicente Caballer?s 9th Symphony)?. The
mascletá was also made possible with the collaboration of
sound engineer and music producer Vicente Sabater, who
has worked with famed artists like Seguridad Social and
Soledad Giménez over the course of his 20-year career in
the music industry.
A musical project of this scale could not have been
accomplished without the expertise of award-winning
composer and director Joan Cerveró, who was recognized
in 2005 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture with the
National Music Award. Cerveró composed the score for
this singular one-movement in additional to directing the
rehearsals and the final performance of over 80 musicians
hailing from all corners of Valencia.
D.A.S. not only participated in the final event by providing
the sound systems that brought to symphony to life at
Valencia?s Estación del Norte but also allowed the 80
musicians and event organizers to use the company?s
magnificent Auditorium, located at the D.A.S. Audio
headquarters in Valencia, for rehearsals. Over 80 kettle
drums, cymbals, drums and flutes filled the D.A.S.
Auditorium with the sounds of this one-of-a-kind
symphony, a prelude to the explosion of noise that for the
first time recreated the mascletá?s structure and
development with musical instruments.
On the day of the performance maestro Cerveró
exchanged his fuse for a baton, which he used to ?light up?
the army of drummers and flautists who recreated the
sounds of a massive fireworks display with only their
instruments. The Mascletá Sinfónica, a celebration of the
symphony of sound that is Fallas week, was a perfect
display of how music and fireworks go hand in hand at
traditional Valencian festivals.