The Academy houses the 344-capacity Athenaeum Theatre, which boasts Glasgow's largest proscenium arch and a stage the size of the London Palladium. With an opera school and courses ranging from acting through musical theatre, digital film and TV, a production arts course, the performance space is in almost constant use throughout the year. Ripley continues: "The TiMax will probably feature here first in just the drama shows to begin with, but we do have an electro-acoustic composition course that will also benefit greatly from the technology.
"Our philosophy has always been that where we've identified equipment we feel the students need, we introduce it, but hand it over to them to demonstrate to us how it can be used. We don't want to be restrictive and, as we've found in the past, it will start turning up in unexpected places."
Out Board will also be exhibiting and delivering a seminar at PerformTech (28 -29 May 2008), the supporting trade exhibition with seminar programme, held in conjunction with the Royal Scottish Academy's technical production arts graduation show since 2004. This year the show, held at the Academy, has grown dramatically through partnership with entertainment technology companies, Northern Light and Black Light. The Seminar is entitled TiMax and Source-Oriented Reinforcementand OutBoard's new TiMax Talent Tracker will be available for demonstration on stand.
(Jim Evans)
