CSUF's Performing Arts Center, opened in 2006, boasts 4 new venues with some unusual characteristics to meet the needs of music, theater, and dance. The 800-seat Meng Hall features wrap-around seating and cathedral-like ceilings requiring creativity from the MCH team to find a curvature of the kites, not apparent to the eye, but enough to spread the sound energy exactly. A variable acoustics was imperative to allow Meng Hall to successful host a range of performances. Young Theatre is a 250-seat thrust theater with a balcony to create an intimate feel and features state-of-the-art lighting and audio-visual systems. Designed for smaller plays and experimental works, the 150-seat Hallberg Theatre is a ‘black-box’ theater. Movable seating platforms and risers allow completely flexible configurations. Although relatively small, the room has state-of-the-art lighting and audio-visual systems, a full catwalk system, and absorptive walls, banded in cherry wood, designed to dampen reverberation – excellent for spoken word. The Samuelson Musical Rehearsal Hall, McGarvey Dance Studio along with additional dance studios, recording studio, scene shop, classrooms and faculty offices complete the facility.

MCH provided full-scope acoustical consulting.