Our Mission is to provide the best possible consulting within our client's needs and budget. Making technical systems function within the desired Architectural and Acoustic concept is a part of our challenge. To that end, we work from a full palette of design concepts so as not to limit the options and creativity of other members of the team. New techniques and tools are developed, studied, and utilized as a means of enhancing that flexibility, rather than as an end unto themselves.
Our strength derives from the broad background we bring to the consulting process. A solid base in music, physics, and engineering, extensive hands-on experience in nearly every phase of audio and video systems, and deep appreciation of artistic values combine to give us a strong understanding of client needs.
Realizing that acoustics, audio, audio-visual, and video systems are support functions for the total enterprise, we determine their scope and scale from an understanding of the needs of the project. This perspective is obtained through meetings with the client's representatives, users of the systems, and other members of the design team.
While our designs are often at the leading edge of technical and artistic developments, they are not tied to fashionable trends. A few projects demand, and can support, "state of the art" systems. Others require an approach that is simply well designed, functional, and reliable. Most lie in a middle ground where innovative designs and recent developments are integrated in a creative way with more established engineering principles. Regardless of the project's scale, it benefits from a serious and thoughtful design effort. Our willingness to "think outside the box" allows greater freedom for the design team, with acoustics tailored to program needs, not those of technical systems.
We understand that timely communication between all participants is fundamental to a project's success. From our first involvement, we work to establish and maintain that communication through meetings and written documents with all members of the team. Early on, we generate drawings and other documents to express our design concepts, suggesting how those audio and video systems might interact with other design elements. Throughout the course of the project, we attend coordination meetings to continue that communication.
We believe in communication and cooperation within the industry to meet the needs of the client, and work to build a long term, positive relationship between the client and the technical systems contractor/vendor that well be to the mutual benefit of both. Hence, the contractor knows we understand that being fair and reasonable to the contractor is truly in the client's best interests -- the details of the system specification must be lived up to, but neither we nor the specification are there to make life difficult for him. The contract price will be lower because the contractor knows our relationship will be cooperative rather than adversarial.
We actively participate in professional societies, research, seminars, and workshops, and regularly present technical papers and invited lectures. We frequently consult with manufacturers and their representatives on new products and design concepts. Frequent attendance at musical and theatrical events keeps us aware of changes in the way technical systems are being used. All of these activities keep us in touch with the industry, its people, and changes within it.