Spark, the creative technology event born within ISE, has opened registration for its second edition, which will take place on 3 and 4 February 2027 in Hall 8 of Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc, with more than 2,500 m² of exhibition space and two stages.
Bobby Aitken has built the sound of “Pride” on Meyer Sound systems at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre and the National Theatre’s Dorfman. As the musical moves to London’s Bridge Theatre, he is reshaping the design, with LEOPARD line arrays for the first time.
Willie Williams of Rebus designed the production and Cate Carter lit it, with tour LD Tess Falcone, using CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M and STRIKE 1 fixtures for strobe, wash and audience light across arenas and stadiums.
Maranatha Community Church has opened a new 5,500-seat campus in Kempton Park, north-east of Johannesburg, equipped with Africa's first permanent L-Acoustics L-ISA system. Supplied and installed by DWR Distribution, the system is built entirely around A Series loudspeakers.
D&P Audiovisual installed 640 m² of YES TECH LED for Antonis Remos’ free 30th anniversary concert in Thessaloniki, in front of more than 300,000 people. Hours earlier, a storm knocked the transparent MT screen about, yet every panel came back on.
Jonny “Famous” Williams, front-of-house engineer for Sir Rod Stewart for the past two and a half years, has switched to a Solid State Logic Live L650, supplied by Sound Image (Clair Global Group), for the North American tour, with a rack full of SSL analogue processing.
PLASA has partnered with LIVE Green to launch its 2026 Sustainability Survey, an initiative examining awareness, attitudes and actions relating to sustainability and carbon emissions reduction across the entertainment and event technology sector.
On Hilary Duff’s the lucky me tour, monitor engineer Nathan Bond runs every mix, from musicians to the technical crew, on a DiGiCo Quantum338 fitted with a DMI-KLANG card that also works as a communications switchboard.
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing will present the panel “Grammy SoundTables®: Songs That Changed My Life” at AES Show Nashville 2026, on Saturday 31 October at 4:00 p.m. CDT on the main stage of the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.
Generation AV, Martin Audio’s distributor for Asia-Pacific, has doubled its demonstration and training space in Ubi, Singapore, responding to a growing demand in the region for hands-on learning and system expertise.
Bridge Technologies has joined the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) initiative and containerised its entire range of audio and video scopes, which can now be accessed within Grass Valley's MXL-native AMPP OS.
Production Resource Group (PRG) is now the exclusive distributor of SGM Lighting's entertainment portfolio in Japan, effective October 28, 2026. Lighting designers, production companies and venues in the country will have a single source for SGM fixtures, backed by PRG's technical expertise.
For the North American tour of the musical The Great Gatsby, lighting designer Cory Pattak uses 10 ultra-low-profile COLORado Solo Edge 3 RGBWL linear LED fixtures from CHAUVET Professional, supplied by PRG and installed along the front edge of the stage.
In Putney, South-West London, a 7,000-square-metre residence has incorporated a comprehensive audio system. The project, which began with a single 5.1 media room, eventually expanded throughout the entire home. Cinergy handled the integration using L-Acoustics sound systems.
ETC has introduced Arkon, an automated LED beam fixture that combines high light output with a comprehensive effects system and pixel-controlled RGB accent strips, designed for concerts, festivals and outdoor events.
DiGiCo has released downloadable software upgrades for its two most compact consoles in the Quantum range, the Quantum112 and Quantum225 Pulse, bringing features typically found on larger mixing desks to compact models.
The streaming service for Israelis abroad has gone live on Redge Technologies’ TVaaS platform, with its apps published in all relevant stores and its full user base migrated from legacy systems. It is Redge’s first deployment for end users in the United States and its first commercial launch on Roku OS.
