In The Blood*
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Tasia Jones
Sound design & incidental music by Delaney Shay
Purdue University Spring 2021
Role: Production Sound Engineer
*COVID-19 affected - originally slated for Fall 2020, moved to Spring 2021*
In The Blood tells the story about a mother, Hester, and her five children in which the father is not around. She is trying to help someone to make her children's lives better while living in poverty. She has a reputation in the town as a "slut" on her, which is affecting her chance at making a better life for her kids. Hester seizes the opportunity to receive help from her children's fathers, with hopes that one may help them. Adam collaborated with the sound designer to pull, test, and install the sound system for this production. His other responsibilities included calibrating the sound system and configuring the repertory system to the designer's specifications.
Production Photos
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Grid speakers hung and calibrated by Adam.
Amplifier patch bay used to route speaker level signal from amplifier to speaker patch points
Analog patch bay used to route analog audio to the live stream.
Auxiliary amplifiers used to power the front fill speakers.
Cable covers backstage to hide and secure our speaker cables.
Mallett Theatre stage with full set dressings.
Yamaha DM1000 Studio Manager routing for input and output configurations.
QSC Q-SYS digital signal processor software. This photo depicts the full system overview.
Yamaha DM1000 inputs used to transmit QLab input channels to speaker outputs.
Speaker Placement Photos
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This milk crate housed a JBL portable bluetooth speaker connected to a Sennheiser EK300IEM which transmits to a Sennheiser SKP300.
The inside of the milk crate depicting the JBL speaker with the wireless receiver zip-tied to the inside.
Main Right speaker behind the stairs leading up to the bridge. This speaker shoots through duvetyne.
Main Left speaker depicted from backstage. This speaker shoots through duvetyne.
Main Left speaker viewed from the front and hidden behind duvetyne.
Front Fill East Left speaker placed on top of a cinder block and covered with acoustically transparent fabric. Cardboard scrap placed around the speaker.
Front Fill East Right speaker placed on top of a cinder block and covered with old newspaper. Newspaper scrap placed around the speaker.
Front Fill South speaker placed on top of a cinder block and covered with old newspaper. Newspaper scrap placed around the speaker.
Front Fill West Left speaker placed on top of a cinder block and covered with acoustically transparent fabric. trash bag scrap placed around the speaker.