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Musicians perform together across three venues
Understand what a multi-venue 5G music demonstration actually proved—and how to pilot connected performance without confusing collaboration funding for ticket revenue.
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Preview
On 3 March 2022, a Digital Catapult–led consortium presented the 5G Festival showcase: 21 artists performed across Brighton Dome, the O2 Blueroom and Metropolis Studios, linked with 5G, synchronized audio, immersive mixes and 360-degree video for in-person and remote audiences. The organizer describes the showcase as the culmination of a two-year, £5 million collaboration. That budget is collaboration funding, not revenue, and the demonstration does not prove repeat-event profitability or universal low latency on ordinary mobile networks. This Immersive Live brief separates documented production architecture from wishful commercial claims and outlines an original limited-scale pilot focused on latency, rehearsal discipline, rights and audience-path measures.
What you will learn
- Multi-venue performance is a chain of network, audio, monitoring, musical direction and fallbacks.
- A completed technology demonstration is not a proof of recurring profit or everyday mobile latency.
- Pilot with two controlled sites, explicit latency budgets and per-device audience metrics before scaling.
Reported outcome. The organizer documents 21 artists performing across three venues on 3 March 2022, following a two-year, £5 million collaboration.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Organization and setting
- The problem
- What was built
- Technology and delivery
- Reported outcomes
- Lessons
- Applying the idea to your project
- Proposed pilot
- Risks and constraints
- Sources and methodology
- Invitation
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Sources
- Digital Catapult · 2022-04-08 · reviewed 2026-10-23
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