How To Build An Orchestra, a free interactive installation at Yamaha Music London, uses Yamaha’s Sound xR Image technology to turn the LSO’s new recording of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker into a virtual orchestra visitors can walk through.
FENTUM has developed a sound and lighting project for Secret Studio, a two-floor gym in Sabadell. It combines Dante networked audio, RGBW LED lighting and scene control with Cuety by Visual Productions, with solutions tailored to each space.
Since opening in Toledo in 2021, Puy du Fou España has become one of Spain’s great showcases for show technology. This dossier brings together the lighting, sound, video and stage machinery that make it possible.
Frédéric (Aldo) Fayard and his Concept K team were responsible for the lighting design of the Main Stage and Boursobank Stage at the latest edition of the renowned Rock En Seine festival, held at the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud on the banks of the Seine.
Built in 1932 on Main Street in Bar Harbor, the Art Deco Criterion Theatre has been a cultural landmark for the community for almost a century, hosting film screenings, theatrical productions, concerts and other live events.
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Ali Handal, the latest artist to join Celestion's Partners in Tone programme, explains how she recorded her new album, Slow Burn, and why a single Celestion G12M-65 Creamback speaker housed in a lightweight 1x12 cabinet has become the centrepiece of her live rig.
Turnpike Reggae Festival returned to Germany for two days of roots reggae, modern reggae and dancehall in a welcoming atmosphere. For this volunteer-run event, MA Holtewert expanded its HK Audio system to improve sound coverage and reinforce low-frequency performance.
For a new development by Dawliffe Hall Educational Foundation (DHEF) in west London, Tateside designed and installed audio systems that deliver clarity and accessibility while keeping the architecture in the foreground.
Eichler Hall, home to the College of Music's large ensembles, is now also one of the largest immersive audio environments in US higher education, supporting composition, teaching and multidisciplinary research.
For SummerStage's 60-show season in Central Park, which concluded in October, Spencer Lavoie of 4 Life Entertainment designed a lighting rig featuring CHAUVET Professional fixtures, built for versatility, outdoor conditions and a demanding performance schedule.
Concept Associates and Integrated Audio Visual Sdn Bhd have deployed 43 Powersoft Quattrocanali and Mezzo amplifiers at the Penang Waterfront Convention Centre (PWCC), Northern Malaysia’s largest MICE venue, with native Dante over the venue’s Cisco backbone.
Eric López and Antonio Chico, Loquillo’s monitor and FOH engineers, explain how they rethought every microphone on the Corazones Legendarios tour. The result: an all-Shure setup with the Nexadyne series, Axient and PSM 1000, plus a new mic for Loquillo’s vocals.
At Panda Hookah in Alicante, Ramon Garcia Molino (RGM) has completed a sound installation with AUDAC that combines surface-mount loudspeakers, low-frequency reinforcement, a ceiling speaker and the electronics to manage and amplify the system.
The CU Center at Concordia University Irvine has retained its iconic architectural shape and doubled its seating capacity thanks to the ART active acoustics system from Amadeus, which allows the space to accommodate everything from an intimate sermon to a full symphony orchestra.
This summer, exactly seven years after his first stadium concert, Ultimo performed for 250,000 people on the Tor Vergata plain, southeast of Rome. The show La Favola per Sempre sold out in three hours and became the largest ticketed concert ever held in Italy.
Danish rental and technical production company VIGSØ Group owns 10 RoboSpot systems and 30 iFORTE LTX fixtures from Robe, a combination that, according to its director, Christian Vigsø, has become an industry standard for remote follow spot systems in the Danish festival industry.
Lighting designer Michael Cooper used 26 motorised COLORado PXL Curve 12 battens from CHAUVET Professional, distributed across 13 automated trusses, for Staind's 23-city tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their album Break The Cycle.
Rebellion Festival brought tens of thousands of punk fans together at Blackpool's historic Winter Gardens for four days, with more than 300 live performances across six stages.
At the Dali EDITION resort in Yunnan, China, K-array and KGEAR loudspeakers deliver zone-tuned sound across dining, ballroom and outdoor spaces while staying concealed within the resort’s nature-led design.
The Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester has upgraded Kodak Hall’s sound system with Meyer Sound TIGRA line array loudspeakers, one of the first TIGRA installations in the US, designed by Meyer Sound’s Bob McCarthy and installed by Sound Associates.
The RTVE Orchestra and Choir's Always ABBA concert brought the 42nd edition of Veranos de la Villa in Madrid to a close, featuring more than 100 musicians, four solo vocalists and an extensive lighting rig incorporating ETC Halcyon Titanium HF fixtures and Hog lighting control systems.
Lighting designer Jannik Kenneth has chosen Robe's new Arianne 6 LED wash beam fixtures for Danish singer and poet Tobias Rahim's summer tour, arranging the luminaires in a long line across the back of the stage.
Solid State Logic (SSL) has enhanced the experience for live sound engineers at its demonstration facility by installing Reference Series loudspeakers from EM Acoustics.
