Once home to the Rank Hovis company, the Baltic Flour Mill was reborn as the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Baltic) in 2002. Located on the south bank of the River Tyne alongside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Gateshead, England, it is presently the largest gallery of its kind in the world with no permanent collection – providing instead a calendar of exhibitions and events that ‘give a unique and compelling insight into contemporary artistic practice’.
Baltic’s River Terrace is a unique function room with an outdoor balcony that stretches along the bank of the river. It was recently visited by Newcastle’s Rock Warehouse to update its audio system. This was achieved with six HK Audio IL 8.1 loudspeakers, custom painted to discretely blend with the industrial décor of the venue mounted on HK Audio MB 4 brackets and powered by three Lab.gruppen E 8:2 amplifiers.
The system provides high speech intelligibility at all volume levels, and consistently covers the entire space. For higher energy duties – featuring a band or DJ – Rock Warehouse provided an independent HK Audio system comprising two Premium PR:O 10X mid/high enclosures and two PR:O 210 Subs. This configuration delivers high performance from a system that can be readily carried in and set up at either end of the room using custom patch panels that provide signal feed and system control courtesy of a Lab.gruppen IPD 2400 controller amplifier.
Having recently hosted The Curves of the Needle, an installation inspired by vinly albums and singles, the main gallery is currently displaying work by Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad and Ireleand’s Tony Swain.
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