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ROMANCING HORROR:FOUR STORIES OF H.P. LOVECRAFT

PRESENTED BY RENATA PUTZIG

3 RD-YEAR AUDIO PRODUCTION/ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DOUBLE MAJOR

USITT 2013

DESIGNED BY RENATA PUTZIG, PAUL KIRBY, AND TOM CONRAN

SYSTEM DESIGN

MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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Director: Roger Held

Setting: A sitting room in amansion, 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

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SYNOPSISEdith and Rodney have invited the audience toa dramatic reading of a selection of classic HP

Lovecraft horror stories in their home.

Edith and Rodney take turns recounting thestories, while providing interesting historicalinformation about Lovecraft in betweenreadings.

The four stories are:-The Statement of Randolph Carter Carterstates what he can remember of a late nighttomb exploration with his research partner,Warren.

-The Music of Erich Zann A college studentstumbles upon a strange neighborhood andmeets an old, strange musician.

-The White Ship A dream-like journey of alighthouse keeper to mystical, far away lands.

-The Picture in the House A researchertakes shelter from a storm in an old, abandonedhouse, only to discover it is not abandoned.

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SYSTEM DESIGN CONCEPT

- We wanted to give the designers the ability to place soundsanywhere in the room. The small size of the stage and intimatesetting made localization an important aspect.

-Sounds interacting with the actors.

-We also wanted to try out creating a reverb system that couldeasily integrate with other future shows. Rather that adding reverbto a given clip itself, this system allows for a dry clip to havereverb added to it live. This reverb is played through 7 speakersspread around the room and aimed at the walls to excite thenatural reverberant field of the room.

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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 eitherside (~15 seats each)

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THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

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SPECIAL SPEAKERS

Hitchhiker

-Small 2-way ported speaker with lots ofrigging points

-Named after the show the were built forHitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

AES Sub

-2 woofer ported sub-cabinet built by our student AESchapter

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MORE SPECIAL SPEAKERS

Phone

Clock

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EVEN MORE SPECIAL SPEAKERS

Fireplace

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NETWORK PLOT

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DIGITAL AUDIO PLOT

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DANTE ROUTING

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INPUT CHARTS

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DSP TO SPEAKERS

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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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