2017 was a very successful year for Stage Tec, the Berlin-based professional audio equipment manufacturer. The company launched AVATUS, a new concept for a mixing console with trend-setting technology and featuring a contemporary look and feel.
Pamela Taggart, CTS®, Senior Director of Development Europe for AVIXA, tells us how AV companies are thriving in the industry.
Ambion and Stephan Aue rely on ACL 360i and the new Dartz 360 for Finnish rockers fall tour. From mid-October to early December, Finnish rock band Sunrise Avenue toured across Europe on their “Heartbreak Century” tour, a run of smaller venues before the five-member band hits the road on a bigger arena tour in the new year.
On stand U265 in Hall 15, at this year’s Integrated Systems Europe (Amsterdam RAI, 6-9 February), Powersoft will launch the new Duecanali 804 and Duecanali 4804, a two-channel amplifier platform with optionalDSP and Dante dedicated to the fixed install market, and the perfect answer to system integrators’ needs for a high-performance amplifier solution in leisure and retail spaces.
NW Group provides seamless technical solutions for live events across Australasia. Its audio specialist brands, Norwest and Oceania, have been users of L‑Acoustics product since its first Kudo purchase in 2006 for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in Doha.
Riedel Communications’ MediorNet, Artist, and Bolero are playing major behind-the-scenes technical roles at the National Theatre in London, and Riedel is looking forward to revealing that story in early 2018.
When a major Swedish theatre closed, following the sale of all the property around it, it took a very innovative solution to ensure that it could reopen. To complement the brilliance of the rebuilt venue’s design, an equally brilliant audio system was needed. Alcons was the obvious choice.
Four years in its construction, Ukraine’s impressive Lavina Mall has opened the doors to its vast 140,000 sq. m. shopping and leisure concept – the largest in the country. Housed within and occupying a staggering 20,000sq.m is Galaxy Amusement Park, one of the largest indoor theme parks in Europe.
Tecnica Vidal is the largest rental and production company in the west of Argentina, and one of the top five in the country. Founded by Miguel Vidal in the 1980s, it is located in Rivadavia the centre north of Mendoza province, internationally renowned for its wine production.
AVIXA™, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, has partnered with Parks Associates, an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services, to support the inaugural Integrated Life program atInfoComm 2018 in Las Vegas.
Developed and published by Riot Games, ‘League of Legends’ has become one of the world’s most popular third-person multiplayer online battle arena games, attracting more than 100 million active players each month. This year the Brazilian finals took place l on September 2nd at the Mineirinho Arena to a live audience of approximately 8,000 and was also broadcast live on ESPN in Brazil.
Elation Professional is pleased and excited to announce that one of the lighting industry’s most knowledgeable, experienced and affable professionals, Matthias Hinrichs, has joined the company as a Product Manager.
“The TouchMix-30 Pro is unbeatable in its design and ergonomics, and the way it sounds – which is marvelous. It is an amazing, portable tool that allows you to handle the challenges of all kinds of live sound engineering situations!”
The Club Music scene for years has had a strong impact on generations, influencing culture and entertainment in the music business. When we think of the major international EDM and Electro events we find them even bigger and with increasingly important productions advancements.
Dutch astronaut André Kuipers presented his SpaceXperience Live show as the central element of a larger conference / expo style event at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome, an immersive intergalactic journey staged in-the-round, with Kuipers relating his many stories and real life experiences working in space on various ESA programmes.
At the end of August an exciting event took place at Al Habtoor City in the heart of Dubai. La Perle, the spectacular new acrobatic water show from Franco Dragone, opened its doors for the first time in a purpose-built, 1300-seat, theatre designed by renowned set designer, Jean Rabasse, and executed by Khatib and Alami Architects and theatre consultants Auerbach Pollock Friedlander.
Allied Productions and Sales installs rider-friendly K2 system at St. Paul’s architecturally complex landmark performance venue. The Palace Theatre is one of Saint Paul, Minnesota’s downtown gems. First opened in 1916 as a classic vaudeville and movie venue, it was rescued by the city exactly a century later, after three decades in the dark, and renovated as a live music destination. Within a few months of the new Palace’s first show in March of 2017, the 2,500-capacity venue once again received the royal treatment—this time in the form of a new L-Acoustics K2 PA system installed by local integrator and rental vendor Allied Productions and Sales.
