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Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

College Arts Building and Performing Arts Venue

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Facilities

State-of-the-Art Facilities‎

We occupy a majestic, grade ii-listed, 19th-century building, which has been restored & transformed into a well equipped performing arts institute

Dance Studios

Our dance studios are based in our hope street facility. All have specialist sprung floors & mirrors. There is also a pilates studio equipped w/ pilates machines

Music Practice Rooms

There‎ are five large band rehearsal rooms, eight small band rooms, seven rooms set up w/ piano/keyboards & two digital audio workrooms. A variety of professional music equipment can be borrowed including vocal pa, drum kits, bass & guitar amps & over 30 musical instruments. Generous donations from a number of sponsors & manufacturers such as orange amps, fret king guitars, jhs guitars & zildjian ensures numerous state-of-the art instruments & equipment

Stagecraft Workshop

A large theatre workshop, equipped w/ metalwork & woodworking machinery, is located behind the paul mccartney auditorium. It is used to construct & paint the scenery & props used in productions, as well as being a practical teaching area for the theatre & performance design & technology programmes

Recording Studios

There are six professionally equipped recording studios. All of them support music tracking & mixing to a high standard, & some have additional facilities for sound to picture production, surround mixing, mastering & editing

Broadcast Audio

We have a fully flightcased set of equipment capable of being configured for a variety of location broadcast applications. This is based around a soundcraft rm1-d digital broadcast mixer, communications & cue systems & a range of playback sources including a computer based playout & scheduling system

Performance Spaces

We have two main performance spaces used for productions & teaching. The paul mccartney auditorium (pma) is a traditional proscenium arch theatre w/ full counterweight flying facilities. The pma is our largest performance space & can seat over 400 people. The sennheiser studio theatre can hold an audience of up to 96 people. Both spaces are flexible & accessible & promote the right ambience for all types of performance, whether that is a music festival, a visual feast of dance theatre, a broadway-style musical or a sumptuous costume drama. Each year, over 150 performances take place between these spaces, about half of these are to a public audience. Both theatre spaces are fully equipped & we have a large floating stock of additional lighting, sound & video equipment available for external projects. We have also recently invested in equipment that enables us to transform our café area into a venue for music gigs

Rehearsal Rooms

There are a number of spacious rehearsal rooms, which are predominantly used for workshop-style teaching & as rehearsal spaces in the lead up to performances. Some have their own sound & lighting facilities

Lecture Theatre

We have lecture theatres & airy seminar rooms for more traditional style-teaching, w/ a range of presentation equipment

Management Office

If‎ you study management, you have your own dedicated space in which to operate. It includes key communication tools such as computers, a printer, a fax machine, plus a dedicated phone line

Offline Suites

There are 22 offline workstations to complement the hd systems in the studios. The offline workstations are based around mac pros. Each system runs logic studio, pro-tools & a variety of software synthesizers & samplers such as reason & reaktor

Mobile Recording

In addition to the recording studios, we also have a mobile recording system w/ microphone preamplifiers, monitoring & routing based around a pro-tools hd2 system. This is used for recording on location (for example, at liverpool's philharmonic hall) , or for recording in some of the larger performance spaces

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