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Everybody in theatre has personal rituals that they follow. Actors, individually and as a group, have warm-up exercises that they follow religiously. I have pre-show routines that help me feel confident that all the speakers are powered up and that all the critical sound cues are operational. And then there […]

Fight Call: Like a beautiful little dance

10 Sep, 2017 in In A Small Room by Bruce

One of the nice things I inherited when I took over the sound design/engineering duties at the black box was a simple, overhead monitoring system for the actors onstage. This makes great sense for a small(-ish) stage – always conserve real estate. Normally this pair of speakers would provide a […]

A new use for on-stage monitors

27 Jan, 2017 in In A Small Room by Bruce

As part of my work with Uncommon Theatre Company‘s Young Adult Company on their production of Heathers: The Musical at the Black Box, I was introduced to VirtualCallboard, a web-based “arts management system”. More specifically it’s meant to help organize, share and communicate theater production information among all the members […]

Working with VirtualCallboard

7 Jul, 2016 in Theatre tagged management tool by Bruce

I’ve been following the development of the MiMu Glove for a long time. Here’s a video by Imogen Heap, one of the key drivers of the project.

MiMu Glove is a cool music tool

6 Jul, 2016 in Music / tech by Bruce

One of the most interesting aspects of doing sound design for a small space is that localizing sounds is not only easier but also perhaps more important than in a larger theater, especially if you want to enhance the overall realism of a set. As an experiment, a while ago […]

Fun With Teeny Weeny Speakers

5 Jul, 2016 in In A Small Room tagged amplifier / localization / speakers by Bruce

Podcasting — Over the last couple of months I’ve re-started my podcast listening and have focused down on just a few. Maybe you’ll find some of these useful/entertaining. They fall into a couple of categories: Music and Sound Design Art + Music + Technology – hosted by Darwin Grosse of Cycling 74. […]

Updating the podcast list

29 Oct, 2014 in Music / Sound / tech tagged podcasts by Bruce

For our production of WIT, I wanted to create something new for several flashback scenes. In the past, I’ve processed an individual actor’s mic with reverb + delay to create this type of effect. But for WIT, the actors were not mic’d. It’s funny how you get stuck in a […]

The Sound of a Flashback

16 Jul, 2014 in In A Small Room by Bruce

I received a wonderful (if unintended) compliment during our run of Avenue Q. It went something like this – “We love seeing shows at the black box. We get to hear the actors without all those crazy microphones and speakers.” The reality of course was that we did use some […]

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