St. John's College Chapel

About Sound has recently completed an installation at St John’s College Chapel, Cambridge for webcasting evensong services. Servoreelers provide the hitherto unavailable ability to remotely deploy and retract hard-wired microphones. Suspended microphones are often the best audio solution for a microphone placement but can become a visual distraction. Servoreelers enable such microphones to be deployed on demand and fully retracted out of sight when not in use.

St John’s is the first British choir to offer weekly broadcasts of its services, following the example of places such as St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, where John Scott, formerly organist of St Paul’s Cathedral, is now director of music. At first, St John’s will make each Friday’s Evensong available as a webcast on the following Tuesday. There are plans for future services to be streamed live.

The Dean, the Rev’d Duncan Dormor summed up the aims of the initiative: “In launching this service, our intention is simple: to provide the very best the Anglican choral tradition can offer, free at the touch of a button to anyone, anywhere in the world. With these new weekly services we will be able to bring the distinctive sound of the choir ‘at home’ in its chapel to new audiences and old friends.”
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