ROMANCING HORROR:

FOUR STORIES OF H.P. LOVECRAFT

MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

SYSTEM DESIGN
PRESENTED BY RENATA PUTZIG
3 RD -YEAR AUDIO PRODUCTION/ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DOUBLE MAJOR

USITT 2013 DESIGNED BY RENATA PUTZIG, PAUL KIRBY, AND TOM CONRAN

Director: Roger Held

Setting: A sitting room in a mansion, present day Characters: Rodney Professor of Literature Edith Rodneys Wife John Butler/grad student

Composition/Sound Design: Audio Creative Lab 1 Class

Joe Augustine Comp - RC Chris Smock SD RC Collin Doerr-Newton Comp EZ Ben Jaszczak SD - EZ Nathan Hunter SD and Comp WS Grant Prusi Comp PH Peter Falk SD PH Nathan Prouty Comp Trans

SYNOPSIS
Edith and Rodney have invited the audience to a dramatic reading of a selection of classic HP Lovecraft horror stories in their home. Edith and Rodney take turns recounting the stories, while providing interesting historical information about Lovecraft in between readings. The four stories are: -The Statement of Randolph Carter Carter states what he can remember of a late night tomb exploration with his research partner, Warren. -The Music of Erich Zann A college student stumbles upon a strange neighborhood and meets an old, strange musician. -The White Ship A dream-like journey of a lighthouse keeper to mystical, far away lands. -The Picture in the House A researcher takes shelter from a storm in an old, abandoned house, only to discover it is not abandoned.

SYSTEM DESIGN CONCEPT

- We wanted to give the designers the ability to place sounds anywhere in the room. The small size of the stage and intimate setting made localization an important aspect. -Sounds interacting with the actors. -We also wanted to try out creating a reverb system that could easily integrate with other future shows. Rather that adding reverb to a given clip itself, this system allows for a dry clip to have reverb added to it live. This reverb is played through 7 speakers spread around the room and aimed at the walls to excite the natural reverberant field of the room.

MCARDLE THEATRE
- 4646 sq. ft. black box theatre

-Thrust stage setup

- 1 large seating unit (~100 seats) in front - 2 sections of chairs set up on either side (~15 seats each)

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLF CARTER

THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

SPEAKER PLOT
Amp 2

FOH/QLab

SPECIAL SPEAKERS
Hitchhiker -Small 2-way ported speaker with lots of rigging points -Named after the show the were built for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy AES Sub -2 woofer ported sub -cabinet built by our student AES chapter

MORE SPECIAL SPEAKERS

Phone

Clock

EVEN MORE SPECIAL SPEAKERS

Fireplace

NETWORK PLOT

DIGITAL AUDIO PLOT

DANTE ROUTING

INPUT CHARTS

DSP TO SPEAKERS

CHALLENGES
- Clocking issues - Fireplace spot speaker - Qlab file management - Midus internal board routing - Sample rates and lots of latency - Mid/side mixing

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