Exterior of the new Knight Center for Music Innovation at the University of Miami Frost School of Music in Coral Gables, Florida.
In last Tuesday’s (10/3) Miami Herald, Amanda Rosa writes, “Take a look at the … Knight Center for Music Innovation, Frost School of Music at the University of Miami … Advanced cameras, lights, recording and broadcasting equipment…. A projector shines on the window to broadcast live performances to the outside world…. Virtual reality headsets…. The student performers on stage are real. But the magical forest they’re singing in is not. This is the future of live performance, music and technology the university says it is preparing its students for. Today, UM’s Frost School of Music announces the completion of the new Knight Center for Music Innovation, a $36.5 million, 25,000 square-foot building dedicated to combining performance and technology…. The Frost School of Music hosts 350 performances a year and needed another great recital hall … But the school had greater aspirations…. The end result is a state-of-the art, crisp white building that almost looks like a spaceship on the outside. It includes the 200-seat recital hall, the high-tech Thomas D. Hormel Music Innovation Stage and a feature called the Windowcast … to broadcast live performances for students and community members … The innovation center itself is dedicated to finding new ways to explore, perform, and disseminate music.”
