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Ravenscroft Hall Raises the Bar for Performing Arts Venues with Panasonic KAIROS
Featuring a state-of-the-art 200-seat concert hall and an intimate jazz lounge, Ravenscroft Hall is Scottsdale, Arizona’s newest premier performance venue. The 30,000 square-foot music venue and multi-use space showcases some of the finest jazz performances in the Salt River Valley and hosts music from popular and up-and-coming local musicians.Key to designing Ravenscroft Hall was building a performance venue that would also incorporate a recording studio and be best-in-class in terms of performance. Centered on the idea of jazz and improvisational music, Ravenscroft Hall required audio and video technology that could produce musical performances of the highest quality.
Ravenscroft Hall offers an unparalleled musical experience with superb acoustics featuring the renowned Meyer Constellation sound system. The new complex consists of the concert hall, the Jazz Café, a first-class jazz lounge; a recording studio equipped with the “best of the best” equipment including Ravenscroft pianos, and a video production control center featuring a Panasonic KAIROS IT/IP live video switching and processing system, professional displays including 65” and 55” units, and a 17” Panasonic production monitor.
“Ravenscroft at its core is really about creativity, jazz and improvisation. And like art, it’s centered on the idea of being creative,” said Glenn Peacock, managing principle, dBa Design Group. “Because of KAIROS’s versatile architecture, we have a lot of flexibility. We can dial KAIROS in to meet the vision and the understanding of the creative team for each performance. Whereas with traditional systems, you have a final, static architecture and only limited changes are possible with existing hardware.”
Panasonic’s KAIROS platform offers an open architecture system for live video switching with complete input and output flexibility, resolution and format independence, maximum CPU/GPU processor utilization and virtually unlimited ME scalability. As a native IP, ST 2110 system, KAIROS supports transitions to live IP workflows and can eliminate dedicated hardware constraints.
The Ravenscroft team’s first experiences with KAIROS has provided a great deal of vision for what it’s capable of when it comes to creating an immersive visual environment for performances. “The agility to reconfigure the production environment seamlessly and not be limited by static architecture allows us the creative freedom to suit the appetite of whatever the production,” added Peacock.
For future performances at Ravenscroft Hall, KAIROS will assist in video projection via projection mapping and environmental projection to create a multisensory experience. Visuals will be projected onto the hall’s walls and stage during concerts, adding another immersive element into the overall musical performance.
“Immersive technology creates memorable inspiration with people’s time and that’s an important thing, because we’re competing for people’s time. We want a person to walk into this performing arts venue and be entertained and inspired and walk out saying, ‘I’m going to do that again. That’s memorable, that’s amazing. And I’m going to tell all my friends.’ That’s the sweet spot we’re working for at Ravenscroft. Many creative aspects can be propelled with technology like KAIROS and the system can do it quickly and efficiently.”
For more information on Ravenscroft Hall, visit theravenscroft.com. The Ravenscroft performance space is an outreach of MSW Ministries, a nonprofit private foundation the Ravenscrofts started in 2006. To learn more about dBa Design Group, visit dbadesigngroup.com.
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