EMPAC Tours

EMPAC building tours take visitors behind the scenes to experience the center’s infrastructure as few do. Each one is hosted by EMPAC staff with a different area of expertise–so whether you attend one or all this season, there’s always something new to learn and discover.

BUILDING TOUR WITH JONAS BRAASCH
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 at 11AM

Join Jonas Braasch, associate director for research, for a tour highlighting the center’s architectural acoustics and learn how the EMPAC panorama screen system led to the development of the Rensselaer CRAIVE-Lab (Collaborative Research Augmented Immersive Virtual Environment).

BUILDING TOUR WITH TODD VOS
SATURDAY, APRIL 27 AT 11AM

Join Todd Vos, lead audio engineer, for this deep dive into EMPAC's acoustic design and production systems. Audiophiles and novices will explore the facility's infrastructure and have their questions answered as the tour moves through the building's production and performance spaces and evolving technologies.

BUILDING TOUR WITH AMADEUS JULIAN REGUCERA
SATURDAY, MAY 11 at 11AM

Each of EMPAC’s performance spaces were designed as a blank canvas, endlessly customizable according to the needs of its diverse productions. In this tour, Music Curator Amadeus Julian Regucera discusses the acoustic and visual potential of each venue for the making of complex artworks, with stories from recent productions with Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and Jessie Marino, Ellen Fullman, M. Lamar, and The Living Earth Show.