At the heart of Kani, a city located in the south-central Gifu Prefecture of Japan, lies the Kani City Cultural Creation Center. The main theater of the Kani City Cultural Creation Center is designed primarily for live theatrical performances with an acoustic reflection pattern that has a short reverberation time of about 1.6 seconds. The acoustic and audio engineers recently elevated the audio experience with a Yamaha Active Field Control (AFC) Immersive Audio System that would transfer audio over a Dante network.
Built to serve as the city’s civic focal point, the Kani City Cultural Creation Center doesn’t think of itself as an arts center but as a "human home" filled with people's memories and promotes socially inclusive theater management that fosters connections. The venue was built to present civic activities, including large-scale performances that involve local talent, community-building workshops, and nurturing performing artists and community arts workers. In early 2024, the venue hosted an event in which contemporary dance was performed to an orchestral accompaniment. The performance involved dancers on stage while the orchestra was seated in an orchestra pit at the front of the stage that was raised from the pit floor to stage level at different times in the performance.
