15 April 2009
On April 15, 2009, the Colorado Section met in Colorado Springs for a tour of the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center of the Colorado College. Turnout was excellent; about 22 people attended the presentation. We'd like to thank Ed Logsdon (Vice President of D.L. Adams Associates), Dave Armstrong (Director of ITS Media, User and Telecom Services at Colorado College) and Stephanie Adams-Ball (Senior Project Consultant) for this incredible tour.
The facility houses multipurpose spaces for arts education: film, dance, and music. Smart classrooms, a scene shop, a soundstage, film editing rooms, a screening room and a large performance hall are featured, all of which are interconnected.
The screening room features 7.1 sound (JBL loudspeakers) and a high resolution projector, and can accommodate over 100 people.
The highlight of the tour was the main theater, which seats 452 people. The acoustics of the room can be varied using Meyer Sound's Constellation and Matrix 3 technologies to create a "Variable Room Acoustics System" (VRAS). Ed first demonstrated a "dead" space, clapping his hands to let us hear the rapid decay. Then, with the touch of a few buttons, he transformed the hall into a "large" space, with almost 3 seconds of decay time. The "secret" was the strategic placement of 24 mics and 53 small speakers on the walls. The sound was incredibly natural. The microphone and monitoring system also allows performers to hear the audience, if desired. The system is also used by large performing acts such as Cirque du Soleil and some Broadway venues.
If you¹d like to learn more, visit http://www.coloradocollege.edu/news_events/Cornerstone/.
And as always, by keeping in touch with your Colorado AES Section you will hear about tours and other events like this. Join the AES today!
Leslie Gaston
Chair, AES Colorado
Original announcement
Wednesday, 15 April, 7p
Tour of Cornerstone
Art Center, Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Hosted by Ed Logsdon,
Stephanie Adams-Ball and Dave Armstrong
The Cornerstone Arts Center is an exploration in new technologies used to create a new interdisciplinary, collaborative fine and performing arts center. Cornerstone’s key users in the departments of music, theatre, dance, film/video and fine art share a variety of both single-purpose and multi-use venues as well as a public concourse and various “rogue spaces” for installations and displays. A flexible studio theatre features a fixed, enveloping seating bowl and adjustable vomitories and a fully-motorized overhead rigging scheme. A Meyer Constellation variable room acoustics system (VRAS) allows reverberation time in the auditorium to be varied between just under 1 second for theatre performance and presentation uses, to 2.5 seconds for concert performances.
As Vice President of D.L. Adams Associates, Edward L. Logsdon is responsible for all areas of audio-visual, multimedia and presentation systems design. He has provided design services for DirecTV Broadcast Center, Starz Encore and AT&T Broadband Headquarters and National Digital TV Center to name a few.
In her position as a Senior Project Consultant, Stephanie A. Adams-Ball is responsible for management of all aspect of projects. Her responsibilities include theatre design, sound and AV system design, and acoustical analysis. Ms. Adams-Ball has provided design services for the Colorado Convention Center Wells Fargo Theatre, Snow College South Sevier Valley Multi-Events Center and many more.
Dave Armstrong is Director of ITS Media, User and Telecom Services at Colorado College
Where: Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center 825
N. Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs
Online map:
http://tinyurl.com/dcskm2
When:
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Time:
Meet in the main lobby promptly at 7p