I have been working with a number of other technical contractors at The Story Museum to deliver the variety of technical installation work in both the Whispering Woods and the Enchanted Library. This included power distribution, lighting and audio work. Also, my first ever experience of installing and using an ETC Echo Touch system. Included below are photos of both of the spaces in various states of completion.

This project started with a lack of cables and trying to save time. It was also an interesting project due to the budget constrains and trying to create something that would be applicable for long term use and easily repairable if something were to break. It started with a plan to reduce cable mess to make the performance space safer and to be able to have one set of cables to go to each side of the gym that is used as a performance space. This involved a verity of audio sends and returns along with DMX and earth separated power for lighting and sound equipment. The system also needed to have space to expand and change to meet requirements in the future.

The system also grew to be able to house a shelf of radio mic receivers and install an old Sennheiser radio mic and receiver as an announce and rehearsal mic to buy time during setup when performance mics are being setup. The current setup allows for expansion in the future along with building towards making each performance setup time shorter to allow for longer rehearsals and equipment fine tuning.

This also required justifying the expense of completely replacing some of the existing cabling. At the first use and implementation there were some teething issues such as educating the team of how to roll out the cable and put it away properly and ensuring each connector was plugging into the right port, easily solved with some colour coded tape on each connector and each port.