STEPLine, Trinnov's distributor in Kazakhstan, equipped one of Almaty's leading cultural venues with a system built to handle whatever comes next.
A Museum That Reinvents Itself
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Almaty is one of the city's key cultural venues, showcasing work from Kazakhstani and international artists. Its temporary exhibition hall turns over every six to twelve months, bringing new voices and new creative approaches with each show. Many of the artists who come through work with digital installations, and a growing number use multichannel audio as a core part of their practice.
That creates a specific infrastructure problem. The museum needed a permanent audio system capable of serving an ever-changing roster of artistic requirements, some familiar, some not yet imaginable.
The Distributor Behind the Project
STEPLine has been an audio-visual equipment distributor in Kazakhstan since 2012 and is the country's official Trinnov distributor. The company operates with its own team of engineers who handle technical support and system commissioning, giving them end-to-end responsibility for projects like this one.
That local expertise mattered here. The museum's own technical team is highly competent, and STEPLine notes that without that level of experience on the client side, fully appreciating the advantages of Trinnov technology would have been difficult. The two teams arrived at the same conclusion through the same reasoning.
Why the Altitude 16
The choice of the Trinnov Altitude16 came down to one word: flexibility.
"Since future exhibitions will involve different artists, we don't know what specific multichannel audio requirements they will have," says the STEPLine team. "By choosing the Trinnov Altitude 16, we ensured that the system can handle any creative idea related to spatial or multichannel sound."
With 16 channels and Trinnov's 3D remapping capabilities, the processor can adapt to a conventional stereo piece, a fully immersive spatial audio installation, or anything in between. The current exhibitions don't push the system to its limits, which is exactly the point: capacity built in today means no compromises tomorrow.
Stability as a Feature
For the museum's day-to-day operations, the system delivers something just as valuable as flexibility: reliability. Staff power it on, and it works. There is no intervention required between exhibitions, no troubleshooting before an opening.
"The system operates stably and effortlessly," says STEPLine. "They simply need to power it on, and everything works reliably."
For a cultural institution running on tight timelines between shows, that kind of operational confidence is not a given. Here, it is.
A Partnership Built on Training
STEPLine's work with Trinnov runs deeper than product supply. In April 2025, Trinnov's Tom Garrett traveled to Kazakhstan to lead a training session with STEPLine's engineers and local partners, sharpening the technical knowledge that underpins deployments like this one.
That investment in the distributor relationship shows up directly in project outcomes. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Almaty now has a system that will remain relevant for years, regardless of what artists bring through its doors next.