Apple has opened Apple Music Hall, a 600-capacity live music venue in London’s Battersea Power Station.
The venue has a 38-foot-wide stage that can be configured for front-facing or in-the-round performances, and a 48-speaker spatial sound system positioned around the audience.
Behind the stage, the hall operates as a full production facility. Two recording and mix studios allow every performance to be captured as a multitrack recording and mixed in Spatial Audio, live or afterwards. The venue is also hardwired for 16 or more cameras feeding a broadcast control room, with support for iPhone video capture alongside traditional broadcast cameras.
Apple says an artist can leave a single show with a finished Spatial Audio recording, a broadcast-ready mix and multicamera video. Performances will also be livestreamed globally.
Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and International Content, said: “Today, with the opening of Apple Music Hall, we are once again taking an unprecedented step further in our commitment to artists and fans by supporting live music in ways only Apple can do.”
Apple also announced that all of Apple Music Radio’s London-based hosts and shows will now broadcast live from new radio studios at Battersea.
