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Art Center students envision a fresh approach to the symphony “Our department really deals with spatial experiences, how guests use space, and we design it from their point of view ... from the inside out,” Ball said. Since there are limits to what can be done with the symphony’s longtime home, the historic Pasadena Civic Auditorium, “the way we design seemed a good fit,” Ball said. “The students took a look at the entire attending experience from the minute you get out of car,” said Elizabeth Fieux, the symphony’s director of marketing. “It was amazing to see the range of creative solutions — stage setting, lighting — knowing we were very price-conscious.” First, she said, the students asked “typical questions” about banners and posters to go in the window slots. “We thought they were going to design special banners or posters,” she said. “Instead they came up with all sorts of ways
Epoxi was in between missions, and thus a convenient platform to try out the new networking protocols, Burleigh says. The experiment, which lasted about a month, was the first in a series of demonstrations to test the new technology for real-world use on upcoming space missions. Another experiment will be conducted next month, again with Epoxi — “We were successful enough in not breaking the spacecraft,” jokes Burleigh — this time incorporating security measures and possible new network connections to partners at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, the University of Colorado and the International Space Station. “Ideally we would be able to pass traffic from JPL, through the Epoxi spacecraft, then back down and over to the University of Colorado and up to the space station,” Burleigh says. If that second demonstration works, the Epoxi team may be able to use deep-space Internet for the first time as part of a NASA mission — Epoxi’s planned encounter to analyze the comet Hartley 2 in late 2010. And that would be more than good enough for Burleigh, who says the interplanetary Internet developed unusually fast — and, so far, successfully. “It’d be lightning speed,” he says, “for space technology.” R
to do signage and announce stage effects — having onthe ‘big vision’” and use the stage scrims react to the kind ON THE WEB new plaza space outside the of music being played — and See a photo gallery of the Civic Auditorium. finding different ways to set “a Art Center students’ work insidesocal.com/rose They presented their initial stronger mood” by encouragideas to symphony officials in ing people to linger at small, August, Fieux said. One favormore visual events on the new ite, she said, is the idea of advertising on old, plaza or at Paseo Colorado. silk-screened tuxedos placed around town. “From the students’ perspective, it’s a “I loved that, it’s just brilliant,” said way to build up to the experience of really Fieux, who said students independently listening to this great music,” he said. “For also came up with an idea the symphony them it’s a multi-sensory thing.” staff had: having music ensembles playFieux, who has worked at The Greek Theing around town in alleys or unexpected atre, said the way rock concerts overcome corners where potential audiences could stage limitations is through lighting. “stumble upon” them and be intrigued. “We don’t really have that opportunity Having students observe the space with the way the stage is set up” at the and the setting — they attended the last auditorium,” she said. “But whether or Symphony concert of the 2008-2009 season not we’re technically able to carry (the — helped with the concept, Ball said. students’ ideas) out, boy! Just seeing the The students came up with ideas for renderings ...” R
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