The Hot Shop at Tacoma’s Museum of Glass is a cacaphonous, fast-paced environment. A single Community ENTASYS system has replaced four conventional speakers to meet the museum’s audio needs.
New Jersey’s Columbus Baptist Church celebrates moving up without moving too far.
For the elders, staff and congregants of Columbus Baptist Church in the Columbus, N.J., suburb of Mansfield Township, their new sanctuary is most certainly something of a divine miracle. The mixed contemporary church, whose mission of “being a lighthouse for our region” underscores
their deep involvement in the local community, had long ago outgrown their original 18th century, 100-seat sanctuary.
Princeton, NJ – Philadelphia-based Clear Sound Inc. has completed a number of high-profile audio system projects on the storied campus of Princeton University, all featuring Community Professional R-Series loudspeakers.
The season kicked off with new audio for Princeton’s Hoby Baker ice rink, home to the Tigers men’s hockey team. The rink was fitted with a scoreboard-mounted center cluster of four R1 full-range, two-way systems. Two R1-66 and two R1-94 systems handle the different coverage areas.
The newly-built Roberts Stadium, home to the school’s soccer teams, was next. Clear Sound put together a system comprised of two R1 and thirteen R.5 medium throw systems, with BSS London DSP and QSC amplification.
Rivers Falls, Wisconsin – The Robert P. Knowles Center at the University of Wisconsin River Falls is a busy place, home to the University’s Indoor Track and Field, tennis and multiple intramural sporting teams, as well as a wide and growing range of community activities and events. The massive arena houses a 200-meter indoor running track, a rock climbing wall, basketball, tennis and volleyball courts, exercise center and more. It’s a versatile, cavernous and acoustically challenging venue.
For several years, Saatchi & Saatchi have sponsored World Changing Ideas, an awards ceremony celebrating innovations with the potential to impact our world. The panel of judges, which includes Edward de Bono, author of Lateral Thinking, musician and activist Peter Gabriel, Jordan’s Prince Hassan and Malcolm McLaren, evaluates ideas from contributors ranging from scientists to schoolchildren; this year’s finalists included a collapsible wheel, a brain-computer interface, $100 laptops for impoverished children and the winner, a portable water purification device called LifeStraw.
