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Staging and live events leader TAIT acquires creative agency and production studio Silent House, formalizing a long-standing partnership.
Staging, automation, and live event engineering leader TAIT has announced the acquisition of Silent House Group, an Emmy Award-winning creative agency and production studio. The acquisition formalizes a long-standing partnership between the two companies and integrates TAIT’s technical execution with Silent House’s creative design and production management.
The merger aims to provide artists, brands, and promoters with a comprehensive platform for touring, experiential, and broadcast productions. By consolidating these services, the companies intend to streamline the development process, aligning creative concepts with technical and financial logistics from the project’s inception.
Adam Davis will continue to serve as CEO of TAIT, while Baz Halpin, founder and CEO of Silent House, will lead the new creative and production divisions within the TAIT organization. TAIT currently operates 24 global offices, providing infrastructure for live experiences across 30 countries and all seven continents.
“We have been in each other’s lives intimately for 20-something years,” Halpin said in a statement to Variety. “Increasingly, our vision for the industry, the future, and what interests us has been more and more aligned. So as we at Silent House looked to grow and develop and enter our next phase, and we looked at potential strategic partners, this made the most sense.”
According to Davis, TAIT’s workforce of 2,000 includes “everything from architects or physicists and storytellers to sculptors.”
“We have a deep, deep bench of electrical, mechanical, and software engineering, with a million-square-feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing, and then the entire team globally to that is out in the field delivering the work, but also continuing to service and support that work around the world,” said Davis.
“And for us forever, it’s been about creating an ecosystem where great talent can come with a great idea, and whatever it is, challenge us; we can support that,” Davis continued.
“And where we get really excited with this, and what we’re building together, is the ability to now further support our clients, because not only can we take the great ideas and deliver it, but we can continue to develop the process that Baz and the Silent House team have for being a true, efficient producer and layer in the content.”
TAIT is a global provider of staging, automation, and engineering for live entertainment, founded in 1978. The company continues to set the industry standard for concert touring, theme parks, and permanent installations through precision manufacturing and technology. The Backstreet Boys Sphere residency and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour are some of their most recent engineering projects.
Founded in 2010, Silent House is a full-service design and production agency. Comprised of specialized divisions in studios, touring, and productions, the agency creates large-scale live experiences and award-winning broadcast content for leading artists and brands worldwide.
