Monday @ the MCA

Lead DJ Erik Friedly
Assistant DJ Emily Hard
Projectionists Tim Musho and Billy Rood

Monday night we did a 4 hour cocktail party for J & J Invision, a textile company. The MCA can be a very difficult area for sound and has a lot of option for projection. With our experience their we knew we could do a great job providing we had a site visit. Tim and I did the site visit and got their vision down, even adding a projector to make it better.
When you first walked in you saw a projection welcoming you the aniversary party for J & J Invision. As you walked down the center of the museum you saw another projection of a slideshow Tim made showing some of the history of J & J.
The next part of the center had Emily and I DJing. If you have ever been to the MCA it is like a big capital "I". When you first walk in it is the bottom part of the "I". Then the center section is the tall center of the letter and the restaurant area is the top. Then you can leave the top to go outside.
This is how I got audio to everyone. I had a 15" and a 10" speaker on one corner where the bottom and middle of the "I" meet. to fill out the bottom and part of the middle. I then had a 15" speaker in the middle of where the DJ decks were and another toward the top to fill out the rest of the middle and add support to the top. Then on the wall between the top ond the outside I had one more 15" to fill out the top area. This takes a lot of XLR and extensions and like Phil Spector, creates a wall of sound.
We also added a 10" outside until 9pm.
4 hour cocktail partied can be tough with no crescendo of a dance floor at the end. However, they seem to pop up anyways. As Emily and I moved into the last half hour, many dance style songs were chosen and we had pockets of dancers until the end.

My highlights were playing Cheap Trick and Urge Overkill and having someone asking who it was and having a pleased client!

Erik Friedly