Entertainment Engineering: Seattle’s EMP Museum recently renovated its Sky Church, a one-of-a-kind grand hall that features elaborate automated multimedia presentations complete with lighting, effects, live performances, and elaborate gala events. Earlier this year, premier systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) upgraded the room’s master control, delivering high definition HD imagery, true 5.1 surround sound, and a new media front end to manage content.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
EMP Museum's Sky Church
Entertainment Engineering: Seattle’s EMP Museum recently renovated its Sky Church, a one-of-a-kind grand hall that features elaborate automated multimedia presentations complete with lighting, effects, live performances, and elaborate gala events. Earlier this year, premier systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) upgraded the room’s master control, delivering high definition HD imagery, true 5.1 surround sound, and a new media front end to manage content.
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The EMP's Skychurch is indeed a beautiful space; I have seen several concerts there and thoroughly enjoyed the background video wall and stunning lighting. Unfortunately, what this article doesn’t mention is the size of the venue. It is approximately the size of the Chosky Theatre stage: remarkably small considering the amount of money that was poured into making it a state-of-the-art venue. I would personally prefer to see low budget but well thought out performance art than high budget but poorly planned shows. There are many cases in which tons of expensive technology, when poorly utilized, simply seems excessive and distracting. This is a problem for the Skychurch, but also for many, many other venues and shows. It seems unfortunate that a small, poorly used space like the Skychurch has such amazing equipment when larger venues that reach a larger number of people and better utilize technology do not.
This is amazing in that they built this cool room and it seems like most of the time it is just sitting there with an idea and replaying things that was for other events. I wonder what the cost of the room is with all of the updates that they did and the things that were already there. I also wonder what the rental rate is for a night or a day if you wanted to have a reception or an event there. If there is a lot of ropes that you have to jump through if you wanted one of you techs or designers to do the show and not the in house ones. This is a great venue and I wonder if there is anything like this in Pittsburgh area.
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