His sound room is downstairs in his living room, and the control room is upstairs in the attic.
In a Skywalker sound room, Giacchino sat alongside Stanton as the director explained, "There are two plans at work, and the clock is ticking on both.
"The Sound Room was open to the elements," said Allan Abrams, the building's technical director, who had dutifully closed the door before fleeing the building.
When the north tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, the Sound Room survived but the conduit bank ceased to exist.
The Sound Room operator can also run the atrium systems from upstairs by plugging a laptop into control panels at many locations.
But he opened a door twenty yards away, and there were the studios: in a converted garage, chopped up into a sound room, a mixing room, an editing room.
The Sound Room is part of a larger installation in the station that also includes a Wall of Marathoners with the names of all the estimated 45,000 runners.
All the new wires had to be continuous for hundreds of feet from each plug-in panel up in the atrium down to the Sound Room, "without a single splice," Mr. Berling said.
