REPORT 023
CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM Company: Renkus Heinz Location: Denver, USA
Clyfford Still, one of the giants in post World War II American painting, dropped out of the commercial art world in 1951. When he died in 1980, he willed his entire collection to an American city willing to create a permanent home for it. More than three decades later, the Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors in downtown Denver. The 28,000 sq ft steel and con- crete building houses more than 2,400 pieces of Still’s works, as well as a collection of the artist’s journals, sketchbooks and archives. Visitors enter the museum through a massive glass-lined lobby, the windows extend from its tiled floors to its concrete ceiling. The strikingly beautiful architecture, while visually stunning, cre- ates a highly reverberant acoustical environment that is anything but conducive to the large-screen video presentation that runs in the museum’s entry. Denver-based Empowercom was retained by the museum’s plan- ning commission to address the lobby’s challenging acoustics. As Empowercom’s Vice President Terri Jackson explained, the selection of Renkus-Heinz’s Iconyx steerable array loudspeakers was a logical choice.
“The content management committee on the project had sug- gested the Iconyx system, and everyone involved unanimously agreed they were the only speakers that would meet the needs of the space,” said Jackson. “Being able to steer the sound away from the abundance of reflective surfaces was key. Using the Iconyx, we were able to focus the sound to a concentrated area directly in front of the screen, rather than create a cacophony across the entire lobby.”
Jackson added: “The program material contains both narration and music, and the Iconyx delivers on both spoken word intel- ligibility and musical performance. “The Iconyx’s low profile design also helped to make it an ideal fit, said Jackson. “It’s a very high-end space, and the Iconyx really fits in with the décor,” she noted. “It’s an elegant, low-profile design that actually blends with the surroundings.”
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