The 2026 Libera Awards, an annual event honoring independent musicians and the teams around them, took place at Gotham Hall in New York City. Eastern Stage Productions, Gotham Hall’s exclusive audio provider, supplied a CODA Audio main reinforcement system based around ViRAY arrays for performances by Mdou Moctar, Valerie June, Dawn Richard, and Aaron Maine of Porches.
ESP used a ground-stacked approach with five ViRAY units per side and four SCV-F 18-inch sensor-controlled subwoofers per side in a cardioid arrangement. Two CoRAY column line-source units were added as side fills, with four HOPS8 point-source loudspeakers serving as front fills. System power and loudspeaker management came from two CODA Audio LINUS14 amplifiers and one LINUS12C DSP amplifier.
The article identifies Gotham Hall as an extremely reverberant room, making audience focus and control of energy toward reflective surfaces central to the deployment. By separating the main arrays, low-frequency support, side fills, and front fills across CODA Audio components, ESP built a practical system for an awards event that also included live musical performances in that room.