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Ukraine’s Vyrii Festival opts for L-Acoustics

Ukraine’s inaugural Vyrii Festival took place in August 2025, fusing Ukrainian culture and mythology with modern electronic and traditional music, theatre and visual art. Hailed as “Ukraine’s Burning Man”, the event used ethnofuturism as its guiding theme and encouraged total freedom of expression.

Audiences of every age enjoyed a wide-ranging line-up that featured artists like Mercury Prize-winner Benjamin Clementine and Ukrainian icons Jamala and DakhaBrakha. For those in attendance, the festival offered a welcome reprieve from the challenges imposed by the ongoing war.

Ukrainian technical production company Franz Audio was responsible for the festival’s audio infrastructure. Because the event featured two stages that operated simultaneously, Franz Audio needed to avoid interference, allowing audience members to move from one stage to the other without any bleed.

The final configuration they opted to use was dependent on the availability of equipment. L-Acoustics’ K3 and Kara systems were chosen for the electronic stage design, while a legacy V-Dosc system was sourced for the main stage. Much of Ukraine’s audio inventory has been destroyed in the war, or moved abroad for protection. Adapting to what was available ensured that Vyrii was able to proceed without a hitch. Franz Audio used Soundvision to model each stage, predict coverage patterns, and optimise speaker placement before transferring to LA Network Manager for final tuning.

The electronic stage featured three hangs: two clusters of six K3 over three Kara each, plus an out-fill hang of four further Kara. Six Kiva provided front-fill. Paired with SB18 and KS28 subwoofers, this configuration delivered the imaging and low-end electronic music requires. The main stage deployed two hangs of eleven V-Dosc hangs by LA8 amplified controllers.

The K3 system was already familiar territory for Franz Audio; it had been part of the inventory for about a year and the team had deployed it on numerous projects, while V-Dosc was new to the team. “Our familiarity with L-Acoustics products, our team’s extensive L-Acoustics training, and the preparatory work we were able to undertake in Soundvision ultimately made the transition to V-Dosc as smooth as it could possibly have been”, says Yurii Danyliuk, Director of Franz Audio.

The K3/Kara systems used AES67 network audio protocol to provide signal transmission, system configuration and synchronization via the PTPv2 protocol. The audio, video and lighting elements were integrated into a unified control system - critical for the electronic stage, where music synchronized tightly with visuals.

The team was able to set up everything on schedule despite the challenges imposed by poor weather and air raid alerts.

(Photos: Andrew Kharlamov/Yaroslava Mazur/Liza Shykiriava/Vyrii Festival)

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