On air Next call: Thursday, doors at 19:00
We run the room.
Momentum is a live event studio in East Austin. Launches, conferences, festival stages and brand nights, designed and built and called by the same four people, from the first site visit to the last case on the truck.
Who books us
The roster
Brands and festivals that have handed us a room more than once.
Halcyon Bikes
5 shows
Since 2019
Northbeam
4 summits
Since 2018
Foundry Fest
6 seasons
Since 2017
Verity Health
3 forums
Since 2021
Tamarind Coffee
9 stops
Since 2020
Loop & Lever
4 pop-ups
Since 2022
Orionis Games
3 showcases
Since 2022
Cadence Audio
2 launches
Since 2023
Eight of the last twelve shows were for a client who had already booked us once.
Selected shows
Rooms we have filled
Nine shows from the last two seasons, each one advanced, built and called by the four of us.
What we run
Six channels, one desk
Take the whole show or one department. The strip is the same either way.
CH 01
Audio
Systems designed for your room, tuned the morning of the show.
- System design and tuning
- Front of house and monitors
- Wireless plan, coordinated and licensed
- Record and broadcast feeds
In house
CH 02
Lighting
A plot that reads from the back row and on camera at the same time.
- Plot, focus and programming
- Key light and audience wash
- Follow spots and operators
- Power, dimming and distro
In house
CH 03
Video
Screens, cameras and playback held to one clock all night.
- LED walls and projection
- Camera, switching and ISO record
- Playback, redundant machines
- Stream to your channel
In house
CH 04
Staging
Decks, truss and the scenic nobody is supposed to notice.
- Deck, truss and rigging plans
- Scenic build in our shop
- Site, floor and egress plans
- Engineering and load review
With partners
CH 05
Show control
One caller, one timecode, one run sheet everybody is holding.
- Run sheet and cue stack
- Rehearsal and speaker prep
- Comms plan across departments
- Timecode and backup plans
In house
CH 06
Crew and logistics
Trucks, labor calls, permits and the coffee at six in the morning.
- Local crew calls and stewards
- Transport and load-in scheduling
- Permits, power and fire watch
- Catering and green rooms
In house
The rider
What rolls in with us
The short version of the document every venue gets two weeks out.
Audio A
- Line array, per side
- 12 boxes
- Subs, ground stacked
- 8
- Front of house console
- 96 channels
- Monitor console and wedges
- 12 mixes
- Wireless channels, coordinated
- 16
- Comms, wired and wireless
- 12 stations
Lighting L
- Moving heads, spot and wash
- 48
- Static wash and key
- 36
- Follow spots with operators
- 2
- Control surface and tracking backup
- 2
- Haze and low fog
- 3 units
- Dimming and distribution
- 400 A
Video V
- LED wall, 2.6 mm
- 40 x 18 ft
- Side screens and confidence
- 4
- Cameras, manned and locked off
- 5
- Switcher with ISO record
- 2 ISO
- Playback, redundant
- 2 machines
- Stream encoder
- 1080p60
Staging and power S
- Deck, 4 ft high
- 40 x 24 ft
- Truss, hung or ground supported
- 6 bays
- Barricade
- 120 ft
- Generator with sound shield
- 200 kW
- Distribution and cable ramp
- as drawn
- Crew, load in to load out
- 14 to 22
Anything not on this list we cross-hire from three shops we have worked with for a decade, and it arrives labeled, tested and on our truck.
How it runs
Brief in, show out
Five stages, and the same four people through all of them.
01 Week 1
Advance
We read the room before we price it. Site visit, sight lines, power, load-in path and the one thing about a venue nobody mentions until show day.
Reyna + Desmond
02 Weeks 2-4
Design
Plots, floor plans and a budget with every line named. You see the room in elevation before a single truck is booked.
Kit
03 Weeks 4-8
Build
Vendors confirmed, scenic built in our shop, content cut and rehearsed here, so the first time your show runs is not in front of guests.
Whole crew
04 Show day
Call
Load in at seven, focus by three, sound check, doors. One caller on comms, one clock, and a run sheet every vendor has held since Monday.
Marisol + Reyna
05 The week after
Wrap
Struck by morning, reconciled inside ten days, and a debrief with the numbers, the photographs and the two things we would do differently.
Reyna
Levels
Ten seasons, read off the desk
Shows produced
Since 2014, all four of us on every one
Doors on time
Across the last three seasons
Largest room
The Meridian Hall, two nights back to back
Crew on payroll
Plus a call list of sixty we actually know by name
Booked us again
Clients who came back inside the year
From the desk
One night, five looks back
Every frame below was taken from where we stand for the whole show.
21:12
16:05
20:40
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07:20The studio
Four people and a warehouse
Momentum · Case 04 East Austin, TX
We started in a storage unit off Springdale with two amp racks and a truck borrowed on weekends. Ten years on the shop is bigger and the trucks are ours, but the rule has not moved: the four people who quote your show are the four people standing in the room on the night.
That keeps us deliberately small. Twenty-two shows a year, never two on the same weekend, and one of us on comms from the first site visit to the last case rolled out.
Reyna Ortiz, executive producer
The crew
Who is in the room
The same four people from the first site visit to the last case out.
Reyna Ortiz
Executive producer
Comms 1
Desmond Fry
Technical director, audio and show control
Comms 2
Kit Halvorsen
Production design, lighting and video
Comms 3
Marisol Vega
Floor and crew lead
Comms 4
What it did
Clients, with their own numbers
We had a room, a date and a product that was not finished. Momentum built the show around what we could actually promise on the night, and the reveal landed like it had been planned for a year.
Talia Brennan Brand director, Halcyon BikesFour people ran a two-day summit for eleven hundred delegates and I never once had to ask what was happening next. The run sheet went out on the Monday and nothing on it moved.
Owen Delacroix Head of events, NorthbeamThe festival stage was ours for six seasons and they have never handed it back late. Last year they rebuilt the whole rig in a storm window and still opened the gates at four.
Priyanka Raman Festival director, Foundry FestFigures come from our clients' own reporting, quoted with their permission.
Rates
What a show costs
Three ways to work with us, and what actually moves the figure.
One show
A launch, a party or a single conference day, produced end to end.
From$28,000
What moves it
- A room with no power, dock or house rig
- More than one stage or a second room
- Broadcast or a streamed audience
- Scenic built rather than rented
- A date in January or midweek
A run of shows
A tour, a roadshow or a series of nights in three or more cities.
From$19,000
What moves it
- Cities more than a day's drive apart
- A different room shape in every stop
- Local crew we have not worked with
- Repeating one build across every stop
- Booking the whole run at once
Season retainer
Everything you put in front of an audience for a year, on one agreement.
From$9,500
What moves it
- More than a show a month
- Design work between shows
- Storage of your scenic in our shop
- A season planned before it starts
- Two of your own people on the crew
All figures are in US dollars, cover our crew, design and management, and exclude venue hire, catering and talent.
Questions
Asked before every booking
Six to eight weeks for a single show, a season ahead for anything with a build. We keep two weekends a season open for work that arrives late and matters.
Half our shows are on the road. We have run rooms in eleven cities and we travel with our own department heads, hiring the rest of the crew locally.
Yes, and we often do. We will advance them, put them on the run sheet and hold them to the same call times as everyone else.
All four of us. Reyna calls, Desmond takes audio and show control, Kit is on lighting and video, Marisol runs the floor and the crew.
The run sheet carries a hold for it. We rebalance the night, tell you what it costs before we spend it, and the audience does not find out.
A fee for our crew and management, then everything else at cost with the invoices attached. Thirty percent to hold the date, forty at build, the rest inside ten days of load-out.
Book a show
Tell us the room and the night
We take twenty-two shows a year and hold two weekends a season for work that arrives late and matters.
In. One of us writes back inside a working day, usually with questions about the room.