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ants designed the performance hall’s interior elements, including lighting, rigging, and seating. Sonitus oversaw sound system design in the hall and exterior park areas. Pro Sound & Video supplied the park’s video and lighting systems and Barbizon Lighting outfitted the hall with a combination of remote controlled, fixed and moving instruments, working from the specifications of Theatre Projects and architectural lighting designer LAM Partners. Acoustic design for the concert hall was directed by Dr. Yasuhisa Toyota from Nagata Acoustics. The Dutch firm West 8 was responsible for overall design of the Miami Beach SoundScape. Key NWS staff involved in the project include Doug Merrilatt - VP Artistic Planning, Clyde Scott - Director of Video Production, and Adam Zeichner - Senior Director of Program Operations.
A UNIQUE PERFORMANCE SPACE WITH INTEGRAL AUDIO PLAYBACK AND VIDEO PROJECTION SURFACES The 30,000 sq ft performance hall is a flexible and immersive space designed to support virtually everything from solo recitals to concerts by the New World Symphony’s full orchestra. A total of 14 distinctive stage and in-the-round seating configurations are avail- able to suit specific productions and classroom arrays; seats retract to offer flat-floor and cabaret style seating opportunities, while mechanical stage lifts can be used to create various performance levels. Four satellite performance platforms both reduce mid-con-
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cert stage resets and enable different relationships between per- formers and audience. The hall’s mechanical system was designed to produce no discernible background noise, creating the acoustic rating of NC15. A total of five curvilinear, acoustically reflective ‘sails’ span the upper half of the performance space, and double as projection surfaces that enhance the concert going experience with theatrical lighting, specially commissioned videos and projected information from a to- tal of 10 Christie HD+30K video projectors. Particular attention was paid to the weight and surface of the acoustic baffles, since they are important elements for reflecting bass frequencies and creating overall acoustic ‘warmth’. The ceiling baffle surfaces are coated with a very thin layer of soft material to temper the tonal quality of high frequencies, while micro-shaping has been applied to the main walls surrounding the inner audience and the stage area in order to provide an even and diffuse sound throughout the entire auditorium. Benton Delinger, a Theatre Projects Director and Project Manager for the New World Center, recalls that the original concept for the performance space called for “an elaborate rehearsal hall that an audience could be invited to. This rehearsal hall would be filled with technology to support their Internet2-based learning program, and to allow [the faculty] to experiment with new ways of using video and audio, which could include amplified music in conjunction with the acoustic music. The concept grew from there.”
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