First ever Constellation digital reinforcement...

[manuel_pablo]

Philip K Geiger Performing Arts Center:

 

I just wanted to give the staff and community an idea of what the Philip K. Geiger Performing Arts Center is now capable of doing for our performing arts groups and our community. Meyer Sound in a merger with LCS has installed the first ever Constellation digital reinforcement system in the world. This system takes the acoustics of a hall and through a myriad of 23 microphones, 83 mounted speakers along the sides of the PAC, approximately 100 speakers strategically placed through the kites and 8 subwoofers changes the decay time (or ring time) of the sounds that you here in the audience. There is a short setting of about a 1.2 second decay for speakers, a medium setting (a typical band setting) of approximately 1.7 seconds, and a long setting of approximately 2.2 seconds for a choral type setting.

 

We were awarded this system through an acoustical flaw in the original design of the PAC. The district has worked very hard with several people to see that the problem was rectified not at the expense of our tax payers.

 

The Westfield Band and Choir has made history by performing for some of the world

[euro_euph06]

1) I think that this state-of-the-art PAC will be the beginning of a new frontier in sound performance technology for high schools and beyond.

 

2) Its about time that Geiger is memoralized/recognized. He is one of the great minds in the marching and concert arts. He had numorous great ensembles that were invited to perform at such venues at TMEA, Midwest, and other great events. Plus he is one of the premiere clinicians in the nation and is a consultant to the famed Santa Clara Vanguard.

[manuel_pablo]

Yea, the PAC was renamed the Philip K Geiger PAC about 2 years after it was built. That thing that sucked was that after Mr. Geiger retired the during the winter break of the year it was in full use. Although he was there often for the remainder of the school year(he was the guest conducter for one of the cooncert peices), he never got to be a "teacher" during concert season in what he worked for 20 years to get.