Pro Sound Web: Billed by the New York Times as “the most important science museum to have opened since the mid-20th century,” San Francisco’s Exploratorium has recently opened its new multidisciplinary theatre, the Kanbar Forum.
To fully support its programming diversity and inspire original works of multimedia art, the Exploratorium has become the first museum facility to install a Constellation acoustic system, supplemented with a palette of other audio tools from Meyer Sound.
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The whole sound system thing that changes the acoustics is really really neat. Rider University has this installed in all their practice rooms. You can set the acoustics to any of the performance venues that they had on campus as well as extra things like cathedrals and such. It's so cool. A little tiny room can give you the experience of a 2000 seat auditorium! Eventually, they will be able to do amazing things with this, but just as they said, they are just skimming the top of the capabilities of the system. The rest is left up to the imagination of the people who use it.
After an article I read on the Green Page I visited the Exploratorium while I was in San Francisco. I loved it there and I went a second time while I was still there. Its a big warehouse on the water filled with tons of what feel like toys that each demonstrate something scientific like a property of physics. This speaker array room sounds like it would fit in perfectly there as it demonstrates different properties of acoustics.
The Exploratorium is possibly the coolest place on earth. My family has a subscription and we can't get enough. It is a shame they moved. The new location while in the heart of a tourist filled area is in a less interesting venue then when it was at the palace of fine arts. The Expolratorium is so cool because it does a great job of teaching while still keeping kids engaged. It is fun and informative, you can learn about everything from how color works to how to dissect a cows eye. I'm glad that Meyer (another Bay Area company) is partnering up with the Exploratorium. It's cool that they can change the way a room feels just with speakers. I also like that the Exploratorium is using this technology to blend art and science to help keep people interested.
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