The Keith Humble Centre for Music and the Performing Arts features a 250-seat music auditorium, incorporating an historic Wurlitzer pipe organ, a versatile 'black box' drama theatre, a three-level foyer, a music technology laboratory, recording and editing booths, a bio box, green room, music library, rock studio, multiple classrooms and music practice rooms, drama rehearsal studios, staff, offices and much more.
McGlashan Everist were the architects for the project, with Rob Mitchell of RTM International acting as theatre consultant. Geelong-based Bishop Audio & Lighting was contracted to supply the audio and lighting requirements.
The installation is exclusively controlled by LSC products with the music auditorium housing an LSC iPatch 72 and a LSC maXim M console, whilst the drama space utilises a LSC iPatch 42 and a LSC maXim LP console. "LSC products are always our first choice for projects of this type," said Kevin Bishop, managing director of Bishops Audio & Lighting. "The maXim consoles offer lots of versatility particularly when you include the PaTPad moving light control module. The drama space is also a teaching space and we saw that in the future that there would be requirements for moving lights and that's why the model with the PaTPad was especially chosen.
"We find that the LSC lighting consoles fit in very well in a school environment; people find them straightforward to operate and there are plenty of features if they need to do things such as store shows."
Shared between the performance spaces are four LSC iPAK/A dimmers which Kevin chose because they are simple to install, mount very neatly on the wall and combined with the LSC Patch systems, work very well. "It's very tidy, simple to use for the installer and time efficient which is very important to us," said Kevin. "We find that we never have any problems with our LSC dimmers. I've been installing them for many years and I can't remember ever seeing one returned to me."
House lighting is controlled by an LSC EKO 324 dimmer (12 channels each for the drama space and the music auditorium) with two eight-button wall plates mounted in each performance space.
(Lee Baldock)
