Grammy Museum visualizes music history with Planar 4K screens and videowall

UltraRes Series 4K and Clarity Matrix solutions create a stunning visual and interactive experience to learn about the roots of Mississippi music and these awards.

The City of Cleveland, in the state of Mississippi (Usa. USA) is the home of the new Grammy Museum, than just like his counterpart in Los Angeles, is dedicated to exploring and showing the past, present and future of the history of recorded music, along with the famous awards that give it its name and the cultural context from which it arises.

Under this concept, the museum combines public events, educational programs, multimedia presentations and permanent and itinerant interactive exhibitions. The design of this new museum includes three digital display platforms of planar, company of Leyard.

These large-format screens show visitors the impact of composers, Mississippi producers and musicians in the traditional and modern music scene, that can also interactively explore this content in ways not currently found in any other museum in the United States..

For this project, the system integrator Mode Systems of Castle Rock, based in Colorado, recommended those responsible for the museum, who indicated their need for the most advanced visualization platform, Planar UltraRes Series 4K LCD displays, the Clarity Matrix videowall system and the LCD display of the Simplicity series.

These large screens display near-life-size video images, with images of great intensity and impact that attract visitors. An example of this are the two screens of the Simplicity series that are located in the lobby and offer general information about the museum., of events, Etc, so that the visitor can explore everything that this installation dedicated to music can offer them.

The museum's first gallery is designed around the Grammy Awards, the prestigious music awards, which is flanked by identical video walls, whose screens are programmed to feature a unique video montage of artists performing short segments of their songs.

These videos appear on UltraRes Series 4K LCD flat panels, 84" (model UR8450), in configuration videowall of 3×2, and are complemented by interspersed fragments of the speeches of the winners.

"The presentation is really effective and impactful., because you see a continuously changing set of presentations and speeches that is very interesting and is shown practically at life size, which makes you feel like you're right there with the artist.", notes Vickie Jackson, responsible for Planar.

In addition to the size of the UltraRes series screens, show very bright and clear images. Each system operates at 500 nits of brilliance, delivers real 4K 60Hz content, with an Ultra HD resolution of 3,840×2.160Q. "They're so big and bright that when people see them., they just say 'wow'. That's the reaction we hoped to get and we do it.", Ensures.

In addition, the slim profile of the UltraRes systems accommodates the exhibition space and gives it a much more current look than the projector-based systems that can be found in many museums today..

"These video walls have less than four inches of total mounted depth.. As a result, work well in this high-traffic environment, with uninterrupted operation and are fully compliant with the U.S. Disability Personnel Act (ADA)", adds Marc Headley, of Mode Systems.

Another advantage is its flexibility, maintenance comfort and low energy consumption, key elements for those responsible for the Grammy Museum in Mississippi. Like this, the models of the Planar UltraRes series have a support foot that tilts the screen away from the wall, to access and/or withdraw the front service, without having to disassemble the entire videowall.

As for the power management system, these displays include a fail-over power supply design, automatic kill signal detection, with a consumption of 460 watts and a fanless design, which also results in quiet operation.

To show in a different and unique way the deep musical roots of Mississippi, the design required an equally unique visualization platform, for which we opted for a videowall installed as a table, and named as is: Mississippi music table.

This unique visual table is configured with six 55" Clarity Matrix MX55HDS LCD screens, installed in portrait orientation, with half accessible from one side of the table and the other from the opposite side. Visitors stand on both sides to see a representation of the Mississippi River, with bubbles floating on the table, each of which contains interactive content about a particular artist.

At the Mississippi Music Board, each screen is covered with Planar ERO extended optical and resistance technology; an optically bonded glass surface that ensures protection against damage.

Both the Planar UltraRes series of screens and the Clarity Matrix video wall were supplied to Mode and the museum as ready-to-install solutions.

"They are well-designed systems.; so much so that they came with all the components we needed to get them up and running in a very short period of time. We didn't have to go and buy parts, what saved us time, and required little to no adjustment to get the image quality we wanted, in addition to always having the Planar team to help us", Headley points out.

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