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AC Lighting’s Major Installation for
York St. John College
This article sourced from PLASA
ONLINE NEWS
Adjacent to the City Walls and near the famous Minster in the historic
city of York, York St John College offers a range of opportunities
for post-graduate and post-experience study, alongside an extensive
programme of MA and PhD research degrees. The main 9.87 acre site
with a history dating back to 1841 is located on Lord Mayor’s
Walk, just a few minutes from city centre shops, restaurants, theatres,
galleries and museums.
The College has recently embarked on a major programme of investment
in infrastructure facilities to develop a state-of-the-art learning
centre including a new library and IT facilities. The programme
has also included a significant installation of lighting and audio
equipment to enhance the college’s Communication Arts Studies
in Media and Performance (CASMAP) facilities.
This part of the installation has been carried out by AC Lighting
Ltd, creating two drama studios, a dance studio, a recording studio
and facilities for music production and pre-production work. The
drama and dance studios have been fitted with a high density of
ceiling-mounted internally wired lighting bars and an extensive
range of Selecon and Vision lanterns. A number of Strand lanterns
from a former college location have also been integrated into the
facilities. Control is provided by a mixture of Strand and Zero
88 dimmers in conjunction with ETC and Zero 88 consoles. Extensive
patching facilities have been incorporated as part of the dimmer
installations. Each studio has also been extensively equipped with
tracking and drapes to enable simple and rapid reconfiguration of
the space on a day-to-day basis. This necessitated the provision
of multiple DMX access points within each studio for the connection
of trolley-mounted lighting consoles.
The audio facilities fully reflect the installation philosophy of
the lighting and were designed to permit a high level of connectivity
between equipment. Audio mixing is provided on Soundcraft desks,
with recording possible on three types of media, reel-to-reel tape,
mini-disk and CD, using equipment from Revox, Tascam and Denon.
A variety of external effects units can be patched in as appropriate.
Audio reproduction is provided for critical monitoring and general
front-of-house public address. Studio 2, the largest of the performance
areas, has been fitted with Tannoy loudspeakers. The whole project
was handled by AC Lighting’s northern region office based in
Leeds.
(Ruth Rossington)
www.aclighting.co.uk
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