{"id":212385,"date":"2024-04-29T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/?post_type=press-release&p=212385"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:58:33","slug":"melbournes-st-michaels-grammar-school-installs-l-isa-immersive-technology-in-st-georges-performing-arts-centre","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/fr\/press-releases\/melbournes-st-michaels-grammar-school-installs-l-isa-immersive-technology-in-st-georges-performing-arts-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne\u2019s St Michael\u2019s Grammar School Installs L-ISA Immersive Technology\u00a0in St George\u2019s Performing Arts Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Studio Entertech transforms late-19th<\/sup>century church into 400-seat theatre with L-Acoustics A and X Series to create an immersive audio experience for student productions with immersive audio technology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013 April 2024 <\/strong>–Founded in 1895, St Michael\u2019s Grammar School is an independent co-educational school in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Its modern curriculum covers Australia\u2019s primary, secondary, and pre-tertiary school levels. The School emphasises a holistic approach to education through its signature evidence-based experiential learning programs where development and discovery outside the classroom are encouraged through active participation in sports and the performing arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Michael\u2019s Performing Arts department has a very high level of voluntary student participation and stages many productions, concerts and performances throughout the year. Productions include contemporary dance, music, and choral ensemble performances. Senior and middle-year musicals are highly acclaimed and have won the best production award from the Victorian Musical Theatre Guild four times. Students also enthusiastically participate a House drama festival involving students from across the senior school. Besides participating in music, drama, and dance, the School encourages its students to take on production roles in lighting and sound operations, set construction and design, hair and make-up, and stage management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St George\u2019s Performing Arts Centre was installed with an L-Acoustics L-ISA comprising five hangs of two L-Acoustics A10 Focus and two A10 Wide each.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since 1990 St Michael\u2019s has been using the heritage-listed St George\u2019s Church for music rehearsals and school gatherings, and needed to expand the capabilities of the space to host the raft of musical, dance, and theatrical shows that the School was producing. The transformed building reopened in May 2023 as a performing arts centre and is now the primary venue for staging productions all year round. The space\u2019s original 1877 interior features a vaulted timber ceiling, a heritage listed organ by Lewis and Sons of London, and beautiful late 19th-century stained glass windows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building\u2019s interior was mindfully repurposed to keep original interior elements while creating a theatre with state-of-the-art facilities, including a custom-sprung floor for the safety of rigorous dance movements, a custom choir stand, electronically controlled blackout curtains and drapes that can create various stage configurations. The primary fixed raked seating bank in the church’s nave accommodates an audience of just over 200. Meanwhile, the floor can accommodate 200 chairs, with flexible seating arrangements in its transept section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L-Acoustics A10 Wide are flown in the transept section of St George\u2019s Performing Arts Centre as side-fill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After studying leading theatre spaces throughout the region, St Michael\u2019s management team chose The Alexander Theatre at Monash University\u2019s Clayton campus as inspiration. Leading local theatre design consultants Studio Entertech, who had designed the Alexander Theatre\u2019s sound system, were brought on to the project to ensure the new theatre would receive future-proof technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St George\u2019s Church was built in 1877 and designed for choral music performances without amplification. The Director and Theatre Consultant at Studio Entertech, Kate Kelly, said, \u201cThe redevelopment needed to transform this bright church ambiance into a space capable of hosting a wide range of modern music and drama productions.\u201d A nearby tram line and everyday school activities posed noise management challenges, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 L-Acoustics X8 speakers provide surround to the primary seating bank at St George\u2019s Performing Arts Centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Studio Entertech proposed a 3D spatial audio mixing system using L-Acoustics L-ISA immersive audio technology. \u201cThe reverberant space meant any sound system deployed had to be highly controlled. The L-ISA technology allows us to achieve great control and enhance the space with immersive audio technology. It will also provide an exceptional, future-forward learning experience for student producers and technicians,\u201d says Kate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with Damien Juhasz, L-Acoustics Application Engineer, Studio Entertech settled on an L-ISA configuration consisting of a main frontal Scene system of five hangs of two A10 Focus<\/a> and two A10 Wide<\/a> each, with two KS21<\/a> subwoofers flown behind the centre hang. Eight X8<\/a> coaxial boxes provide spatial in-fill to the first rows. A surround system of ten L-Acoustics X8 speakers serves a fixed audience area. In the transept section, a side-fill system consists of two A10 Wide flown per side. Stage performers receive monitoring from four X12<\/a> speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 L-Acoustics A10 Wide in the transept section provide side-fill for the flexible floor seating arrangement at St George\u2019s Performing Arts Centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Studio Entertech provided the theatre\u2019s technical team with a separate computer screen with the L-ISA Controller<\/a> connected to the mixer console via MADI, allowing it to switch from the mixer console seamlessly. Two students can operate sound anytime via the L-ISA Controller on the console and one on the separate display. A basic left-right output mode is available for less demanding hall events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students at St Michael\u2019s will leave the School familiar with cutting-edge immersive audio technology that is installed in only one other location in Australia \u2013 The Sydney Coliseum, giving them a leg up as they ease into their professional careers. \u201cSt Michael\u2019s eagerness to invest in next-generation technology has allowed the students to get hands-on experience with equipment that is relatively new in Australia and will ultimately prove to be an investment for the future of the performance industry,\u201d says Studio Entertech\u2019s Kate Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St Michael\u2019s Grammar School\u2019s in Melbourne stages musical, dance and theatrical productions in the St George\u2019s Performing Arts Centre with L-ISA immersive audio technology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Studio Entertech at w<\/a>ww.entertech.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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