Live studio environment

Performance Suite.

A renamed, refined performance concept built inside the studio — part listening room, part live set, part visual world. The booth stays available for featured art. The room stays intimate, polished, and camera-ready.

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Control room

The command center — a warm analog backdrop for conversation, playback, direction, and documentary framing.

Live room

The performance area — intimate, low-lit, and ready for a stripped-back set with soul, rhythm, and presence.

Booth gallery

The visual anchor — a dedicated booth wall where featured artwork can live inside the story of the performance.

Aaniyah — featured performer for the Performance Suite In Session set — Aaniyah in Session · CEO of Sweet Vanilla Records

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Hosted by Aaniyah in Session · CEO of Sweet Vanilla Records

Aaniyah takes the Suite.

Aaniyah performs live inside the Performance Suite — a focused, soulful set captured in the room — and presents her platform, aaniyahinsession.com, from the same stage. As the CEO of Sweet Vanilla Records, she brings the label's ethos into the room: intimate storytelling, artist-first energy, and a set that feels like a conversation. Booth on. Cameras rolling. Website live.

· Live Performance· Website Presentation· Sweet Vanilla Records· Documented in the Suite

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The setup

Not a borrowed format. A studio language of its own.

Performance Suite names the atmosphere more truthfully: intimate live performance, documentary texture, and a room that feels made for careful listening. The cleaned-up visuals turn the studio itself into part of the storytelling.

What the room says

Warm. Grounded. Musical. Quietly cinematic.

What stays flexible

Artwork in the booth, performer arrangement in the live room, and documentary or interview framing in the control room.

Studio gallery

The rooms as assets.

Wide view of the Performance Suite control room with piano, speakers, and mixing desk — The room opens with warmth, wood, and intention.

Drum kit and live-room stage lighting prepared for the Performance Suite — The live-room pocket — small footprint, strong atmosphere.

Studio lounge and keyboard area inside the Performance Suite — A listening corner for reflection, playback, and writing.

Front-facing view of the large console inside the Performance Suite — The console as architecture — technical, calm, and cinematic.

Moody dark control-room image featuring the analog console in the Performance Suite — A low-light frame for titles, cutaways, and atmosphere.

Cleaned booth wall and microphone area prepared for featured artwork — The booth remains available as the art wall moment.

Founding console · Major sponsor

The Neve V Series — a console she signed her name to.

When the studio went looking for its anchor — the one piece of equipment that would define every record passing through these rooms — Dr. Jupiter stepped in as a major sponsor on the acquisition of the Neve V Series console. It is the spine of the Performance Suite, and it carries her name.

Dr. Stephanie Jupiter behind the Neve V Series console in the studio control room — Dr. Jupiter at the Neve V Series — the night the console came home.

Portrait of Dr. Stephanie Jupiter seated at the Neve V Series console in golden lighting — Portrait by the live-room glass — golden hour in the control room.

Detail of Dr. Jupiter's hands on the Neve V Series console faders — The hands that signed the check — and the faders they help move.

What the sponsorship made possible

01A 48-channel analog spine for every Performance Suite session — recording, mixing, and live broadcast on the same desk.
02A teaching console for emerging engineers — every BRPI-sponsored session doubles as a workshop seat.
03A permanent home for the room's sonic identity — warm, musical, and unmistakably analog.

"Buy the console. The records will come."
— Dr. Stephanie Jupiter

Art direction

The booth wall is reserved for the featured art moment.

The performance area does not need excess decoration. The room already has texture. The art belongs in the booth as a deliberate visual statement — framed, lit, and integrated with the sound story rather than competing with it.

If you want, I can next mock the artwork directly onto the booth wall or turn this route into a fuller editorial presentation with performer callouts, floor plan, and production notes.

Cyril Darensbourg in the Big Red NOLA Publishing workshop

Executive Producer · Performance Suite

Cyril Darensbourg.
The hands behind the room.

Cyril Darensbourg — founder of Big Red NOLA Publishing — serves as Executive Producer of the Performance Suite. He shapes the booking, the cultural arc, and the field-to-finished pipeline that turns every session into a record, an archive, and a publishing asset that pays artists back.

Cultural arc
Curates the artists, the lineage, and the New Orleans through-line.
Publishing
Splits back to artists. Master tapes archived. Catalog built session by session.
Production
Field recording, room sound, and broadcast hand-off through the NEVE V Series.

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Step & Repeat · Press Wall

The backdrop. The brands. The picture moment.

Every Performance Suite event ends on the same wall — the official step-and-repeat for press, portraits, and partner co-branding. Logos rotate with each activation; the wall stays.

Dimensions

8' × 8' standard press wall · tension fabric · grommet-mount option for studio install.

Logo lockup

Big Red NOLA Publishing · Voices of Tomorrow · Juno's Works · Soul Butterfly Healthcare — offset tile, 24" repeat.

Big Red NOLA Publishing — founded by Cyril Darensbourg — anchors the wall as the cultural publishing house of record.

Co-brand slot

CSR sponsors at Visionary & Lead tiers receive a dedicated logo column on the wall.

Add your logo to the wall →Press kit & brand assets