First UK permanent installation for PM1D
When the Cadogan Hall in London’s Chelsea recently underwent a £24 million extensive and extremely elegant refit, Wakefield based Futurist Projects were invited to design and install a complete technical infrastructure in the Grade 1 listed building.
“We couldn’t turn down such an exciting project,” said Michael Lister, Managing Director of Futurist, a company with a reputation for excelling in undertaking out of the ordinary installations and providing innovative solutions to challenging technical problems.
“One of the reasons we took on the project was because the client was willing to invest in the latest and best technology which allowed our consultant associate, Richard Northwood, to approach the installation in an imaginative way,” said Lister who co-ordinated and managed the project overall. The client’s approach to quality allowed Lister to chose the highest quality equipment for sound, lighting and AV.
To ensure the smooth running of the project Futurist liaised closely with the main building contractors Walter Lily & Co., architects Paul Davis & Partners, and the Hall’s owners The Cadogan Estate, for whom the development was being carried out.
Little surprise then that Lister chose a Yamaha PM1D digital mixing desk for Front of House. This is the first time in the UK that a PM1D has been installed as a fixed installation. “We chose the PM1D because we know it’s one of the best digital mixing desks in its class and would be ideal for existing and future audio needs,” said Lister. Integrated into the PM1D layout design was an Optocore fibre optic digital link system to provide fibre optic links to on-stage socket boxes and to back-of-house enabling the PM1D to hook up with monitors or recording desks.
The 900-seat hall, which has been carefully designed to be multi-functional - it will be used for concerts, recording sessions, rehearsals and community work – and will also be the new home to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, its first permanent home for 60 years. A mere 100 years old this year, the Cadogan Hall is a former Christian Scientist Church.
Yamaha is certainly in prestigious company.
DJPR acknowledges the assistance provided by Louise Stickland (louise@loosplat.com) and Futurist Projects (www.futurist.co.uk) in the preparation of this press release.
