Something shifted in corporate staging around 2021. Scenic designers who had spent decades thinking in horizontal orientations—wide screens, lateral scenic elements, audience sightlines optimized for breadth suddenly began stacking pixels…
A single horizontal line of light traces slowly across the back wall, its passage so gradual that audiences don’t consciously track the movement yet something in the room feels alive,…
The Corporate Drama Dilemma Your CEO steps to the podium. The lighting shifts and suddenly she’s bathed in a crimson wash with fog rolling across the stage while moving heads…
The system engineer stood at the FOH position watching clouds build on the horizon, smartphone in one hand displaying weather radar, Smaart analysis running on the laptop in front of…
Walk into any contemporary conference center or corporate headquarters, and you’ll notice the obsession with glass. Floor-to-ceiling windows, glass partition walls, transparent atriums stretching toward the sky. Architects love it….
The cryo jets were supposed to punctuate the guitar solo with six-foot plumes of white vapor—theatrical exclamation points emphasizing the musical moment. Instead, they produced columns of frozen mist so…
When Technical Skills Meet Crisis Response The job description for audio engineer doesn’t typically include “emergency responder,” yet the technical skills, situational awareness, and calm demeanor that define excellent sound…
The 2023 American Southwest summer festival season brought temperatures that challenged every assumption about outdoor production equipment tolerances. When ambient temperatures exceed the operating specifications of nearly every component in…
The delay tower exists to extend coverage supplementary support for the main arrays that serve distant audience positions. When these supporting players develop ambitions beyond their intended role, they can…
Outdoor Sound Reinforcement and the Wrath of Weather Nature’s Ultimate Mixing Note Outdoor sound reinforcement represents the ultimate test of audio engineering skill: maintaining consistent coverage while battling wind, temperature…