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by Robert Castro

As I walked through a garbage dump, pushing aside some local neighbor’s personal trash, I knew that this could only be endured by having a vision.

At the beginning of 2008, Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks had been given a word from God to film and broadcast a television show and produce theatrical plays from our church’s sanctuary. Also, we have rock and roll style worship weekly. To do this, it would require a remodeling of the stage. That meant that someone had to demolish it. Included in this prophetic vision to remodel is the installation of a state-of-the-art Wave Field Synthesis surround-sound system which would consist of more than 300 speakers; along with the ability to broadcast the audio signal in 2.8 MHz sample rate DSD format to anywhere in the world. What this means in plain English is “It Rocks”.

Now that I had this vision planted in my soul, it was time to start the demolition. After several confirmations from the Lord, I had been commissioned by God and Pastor Gazowsky to lead the demolishing of a 30-year old three- story stage structure within our church. The first step was to sledge hammer sheetrock. This process took weeks to complete and it was a better workout than going to the gym. Then we filled a demolition garbage dumpster with the sheetrock. After a day of filling wheelbarrows with sheetrock, for some reason, I would continually blow black snot from my nose. I’m sure that many construction workers can relate to this. The next step was to pull down all the wooden beams that formed the three-story structure. This process took much patience in order to do it safely, but it was really cool to see big room structures come down by the pull of a rope.

Another huge dumpster was needed for the wood beams. One day, we were not able to complete filling the dumpster in a single workday. This meant that we would have to leave the dumpster overnight on a San Francisco street half full. Basically, this is an open invitation for the local neighbors to secretly throw their personal over-sized garbage into our dumpster for which we had paid hundreds of dollars. The next morning my co-worker, Sunny, and I arrived to work and noticed that an extremely large amount of personal trash had been loaded into our dumpster. Sunny and I immediately started rejoicing and thanking God for all his goodness. We spent 30 minutes pushing the wet, smelly, embarrassingly inappropriate trash aside to make room for ours. I am an audio engineer, not a construction worker or a carpenter. I realized the passionate vision of our church to broadcast in excellence was the joy set before me. It was the power that pushed me through to the finish line.

Robert Castro is a team leader in sound design for WYSIWYG. He has done sound design for “The Roman Trilogy” and has worked on the development of the Sarah DSD location recorder, and H. Ghost (WYSIWYG’s wave field synthesis theatrical sound system).