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Installations

Urban Putt San Francisco - Indoor Miniature Golf Course, Game Room and Restaurant

Sound Design, Mix & Installation

A machine room solid-state player runs 18 channels of non-interactive audio to the various rooms, while more than 15 stereo digital audio repeaters with built-in amplifiers are spread locally throughout the course for interactive sounds.

Subwoofers and transducers are used for special effects such as earthquakes and floor movement while an audio-animatronic skeleton gives out instructions for a Día de Muertos hole.

Motorola's M-Lab Attraction - Wannado City, Florida

Sound Design & Mix

The M-Lab is an "edu-tainment" venue that exposes kids to science, technology and innovation. Tweens aged 8-12 play as "M-ventors" in Motorola's Innovation Lab, a virtual submersible in which they solve unique problems using an interactive video game and working in teams.

Sound work includes show mixes in the lab, including sub-sonic transducers to simulate the lab submerging and landing on the bottom of the ocean, ambiences for pre and post-show environments, and assets for the interactive screen activities.

Night Bloom - San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

Sound Design, System Design & Installation

Light and sound infuse the Conservatory of Flowers’ one-of-a-kind plant collection and its iconic facade during a special seasonal show. Over 90 channels of audio and 8 unique soundscapes are mapped via a Dante network throughout the galleries and exterior of this historic San Francisco treasure.

Sounds include a variety of natural sounds from around the world as well as composed music. Each gallery is meant to evoke its own feel and experience.

Lighting design by Austin Shapley of Lightswitch.

In The Moment: Japanese Art From The Larry Ellison Collection, San Francisco Asian Art MuseumSound Design & Audio InstallationChanging light and sound was used in a special viewing room to simulate time passing through the four seasons, lending …

In The Moment: Japanese Art From The Larry Ellison Collection, San Francisco Asian Art Museum

Sound Design & Audio Installation

Changing light and sound was used in a special viewing room to simulate time passing through the four seasons, lending new context to viewing of this incredible artwork.

Two stereo digital audio repeaters were linked to create an affordable quadraphonic program. Four corner speakers were hidden behind side screens which helped diffuse the sound field while maintaining a decent amount of directionality.

All sounds used were gathered in Japan for the album Natural Sounds of Japan.

Boomtown! The Barbary Coast at the Conservatory of Flowers

Sound Design, Location Recording & Installation

This show celebrated the history of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhood and included authentically recreated sound material from the Gold Rush to the 1920s.

Audio included a mine explosion tied to a dynamite barrel (rumbling transducer inside for movement), authentic 19th century catgut strung banjo, an restored 1850s melodeon playing songs of the era and recreated bordello with genuine off-color Victorian jokes.

Discovery Zone, Nemours Dupont Children's Hospital, DelawareSound DesignThis 50-foot wide interactive "Living Garden" offers creative play and invites pediatric hospital patients into a fantasy world.A 10 channel ambience was created for this large …

Discovery Zone, Nemours Dupont Children's Hospital, Delaware

Sound Design

This 50-foot wide interactive "Living Garden" offers creative play and invites pediatric hospital patients into a fantasy world.

A 10 channel ambience was created for this large video installation presented on 45 HD LED screens. Environments change over time, including day/night, frozen and rain sequences.

See it in action here.

Disneyland's Tomorrowland Innoventions Pavilion - Interactive Games & Kiosks - SFX Editor, Earwax Productions

Disneyland's Tomorrowland Innoventions Pavilion - Interactive Games & Kiosks - SFX Editor, Earwax Productions

Filoli House and Gardens - Woodside, CaliforniaSound Design and InstallationA California State Landmark and listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, Filoli wanted to add immersive sound to several rooms in order to help tell the story of …

Filoli House and Gardens - Woodside, California

Sound Design and Installation

A California State Landmark and listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, Filoli wanted to add immersive sound to several rooms in order to help tell the story of the house through the decades.

The kitchen was brought alive with bustling sounds and swing music coming from a vintage 1940s radio. The study represented a period in the 1960s with Ozzie and Harriet on the television and the home’s owners in various parts of the room playing bridge and making drinks. Most complex was the dining room where over a dozen guests, each coming out of individual speakers took visitors back to New Year’s Eve 1933 and the end of Prohibition.

Chomp! They Came from the Swamp - San Francisco Conservatory of FlowersSound Design, Mix & InstallationAn exhibit on the varieties of carnivorous plants found around the world with the design goal of creating the feeling of being shrunk down to …

Chomp! They Came from the Swamp - San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

Sound Design, Mix & Installation

An exhibit on the varieties of carnivorous plants found around the world with the design goal of creating the feeling of being shrunk down to the size of a fly.

A 24 channel ambience radiates from waterproof speakers installed around the room. Push button activated sounds emanate from the super-sized models of Venus flytraps and pitcher plants. A Transducer is used to wiggle a large model insect stuck to a plant as it struggles to escape its fate.

Playland-at-the-Conservatory of Flowers

Sound Design, Location Recording & Installation

Universal Studios Japan - Woody Woodpecker Foley SFX KioskSFX Editor & Mix, Earwax Productions

Universal Studios Japan - Woody Woodpecker Foley SFX Kiosk

SFX Editor & Mix, Earwax Productions

Plantosaurus Rex - San Francisco Conservatory of FlowersSound Design, Mix & Installation

Plantosaurus Rex - San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

Sound Design, Mix & Installation

Red Ivory by artist Henry Jackson at the San Francisco ZooA video and sound installation documenting the plight of African elephants. A 7.1 mix.Hardware Consultation, Sound Design & Mix

Red Ivory by artist Henry Jackson at the San Francisco Zoo

A video and sound installation documenting the plight of African elephants. A 7.1 mix.

Hardware Consultation, Sound Design & Mix

Urban Putt Submarine, San Francisco, CA

The Urban Putt Jules Verne-inspired submarine is a space densely packed with both interactive and non-interactive audio surprises. Smell canisters and lighting effects round out the experience.

Along with a 4 channel ambience are more than 30 triggers embedded in dials, switches and levers. The floor rumbles with high powered transducers, coupled with a subwoofer built in to the floor, tied to the program material.

Roth Audio Design also helped create the video screen which is placed behind the viewing portal with a video repeater playing HD deep ocean fish swimming by.

The Scientific Center Kuwait (TSCK) : Aquarium Interactive Video Kiosks - Kuwait City, KuwaitSFX Editor & Mix, Earwax Productions

The Scientific Center Kuwait (TSCK) : Aquarium Interactive Video Kiosks - Kuwait City, Kuwait

SFX Editor & Mix, Earwax Productions