Installations

LDS Temple Complex

Oakland, CA

Completed nearly 50 years ago, the 1,800-seat Interstake Auditorium at the LDS (Mormon) Temple complex in Oakland, CA, was overdue for a new sound system. To address challenges including strong, focused echoes, somewhat heightened ambient noise levels and a relatively low ceiling, Ken Dickensheets, CTO/principal consultant, Dickensheets Design Associates, Austin, TX, specified a new RoomMatch array module system from Bose Professional Systems. Marshall Industries of Salt Lake City handled the installation.

SIA Acoustics Helps Shape the Sound in eTown’s New Performing Arts Facility

It starts with a phone call… or an email. “I want to build a studio or a sound stage or even a concert hall.” Usually, it’s the owner, just starting out and wondering how to move forward. Sometimes, it’s an architect or even a construction manager, hired on and wondering how to turn a mostly amorphous vision for a facility into drawings and either a new building or a renovation of an existing space. Some discussion of the project’s program, what the facility’s intended to do, and its space requirements, budget and goals — both operational and initial capital needs, as well as potential cash flow — will quickly reveal how realistic (or unrealistic) the concept is. These calls come often. Sometimes there is a second or even third call. Some of these turn into real projects. It’s all part of the life of an acoustical consulting firm.

Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI

The home of the 2011 NFL Champion Green Bay Packers, Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI, is famous, not only for Cheesehead fervor (the average wait time for the 81,000 on the waiting list for season tickets within the 73,000-seat venue is 30 years) but also for brutal winter weather conditions.

Built a century ago, Washington DC’s historic Howard Theatre is back to life. Located near the corner of 7th and T Streets in an area known as “Black Broadway,” the historic arts landmark that launched the careers of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye and The Supremes, reopened in April after a $29 million renovation.

A World-Class Performing Arts Venue in Las Vegas

The mere mention of the words “Las Vegas show” usually conjures up a few images. Yet what probably doesn’t come to mind is a stand-alone, performing arts center serving as a home to the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Ballet Theatre, a Broadway touring house, classical music venue, jazz speakeasy and rock or country roadhouse. The new Smith Center for the Performing Arts aims to change all that, and to place Las Vegas alongside Vienna, Paris and New York as a city with a world-class performing arts center built for the ages.

Hi-Tech Electronics Enhances the Sound at World Overcomers Christian Church

Be more than you have ever been before. Stop being a victim, be a victor. Be an Overcomer!”

That’s the message at Durham, NC-based World Overcomers Christian Church, and it is striking a chord with a growing number of congregants.

The University of Louisville’s Papa John’s stadium, home of the Cardinals football team, had a problem with uneven coverage, and it had nothing to do with defensive cornerbacks leaving the opposing team’s wide receivers open for a “Hail Mary” touchdown pass.

AV Pro Inc. Upgrades Sound along with Lighting and Rigging at TSU/San Marcos' Mainstage Theatre

When Texas State University/San Marcos first opened the doors to its castle-like "Old Main" building in 1903, the 300 new students didn't have to spend much time located the structure on the university's campus. It was the only building on campus.

DSAs are Improving Intelligibility at Europe's Landmark Churches

They were built centuries ago for a higher purpose, and their beauty has endured. The challenge for today's audio system designers and installers is to preserve the aesthetics of the past while helping speech and song to be heard and understood better than ever before in these venerable spaces. Digital tools – including digitally steerable arrays (DSAs) from RCF and Renkus-Heinz – are succeeding in raising intelligibility to new heights. 

In case you hadn't heard, there was a big, fancy wedding at centuries-old Westminster Abbey on April 29. But the Royal Nuptials were actually just the latest in a succession of high-profile events that have taken place in the Abbey, formally known as the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster, within the last year or so.

Dreams and divas, music and madmen, cirque and sensuality – this is Teatro ZinZanni. Originating in Seattle by Pacific Northwest nonprofit arts and events producer One Reel in 1998, Teatro ZinZanni is now also set along San Francisco's historic waterfront on Pier 29 at the Embarcadero.