On February 13, 2022, the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. As one of the most highly anticipated sports events of the year, Super Bowl LVI had a record viewership of over 112 million.
Justin Vernon and his band celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bon Iver, Bon Iver with two YouTube Theater concerts that drew rave reviews for their sound and intimacy.
While the COVID pandemic compelled performing arts companies to stretch their horizons to reach audiences, Michigan Opera Theatre went further than many during the period; for instance, presenting programs in the Detroit Opera House parking garage, among other nontraditional venues for opera.
The Japanese city of Chiba, which stands on Tokyo Bay and is famous among other things for having the world’s longest suspended monorail system, recently hosted the first two days of “uP!!! Special Live Holic extra 2022” (supported by Space Shower TV) in its huge Makuhari Messe complex.
Mexico’s Day Zero Festival marked its 10th year in style with Funktion-One sound systems -from distributor and rental partner Loto Audio - on all three stages.
Brit Floyd, billed as “the World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show,” decided to use a Solid State Logic L200 digital mixing console at front-of-house. He returned to the road this summer following a yearlong hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Since 1988 The Australian Pink Floyd Show have recreated with uncanny accuracy the look and sound of Pink Floyd’s later world tours, complete with lasers, inflatables and a large circular upstage projection screen.
Located in the eastern Dutch town of Hengelo, the Metropool is a long-established live music venue featuring a huge range of acts and genres.
Before any entertainer ever sets foot on its stage, Club Regent Event Centre is already equipped to put on an amazing show with its computer-automated flexible seating system, which can adapt in minutes into over a dozen seating configurations for any kind of show.
On the outskirts of Cincinnati, the city of Blue Ash came to life this summer with the sounds of Carmen, Tosca, and The Barber of Seville reimagined for Cincinnati Opera’s Summer at Summit series held outdoors at Summit Park with support from L-Acoustics L-ISA immersive technology.
Changing audio mixing systems is a big decision for live engineers. It can be fraught with difficulty, especially if the specifications don't match the hands-on experience. But, as Foals front of house engineer Nigel Pepper discovered, Yamaha’s RIVAGE PM series completely lives up to its promise.
For over a decade, Minsk Arena has been the epicentre for all things sports and culture in the Belarus capital. The venue’s main space is an ice arena dedicated to hockey and skating which can also be converted to host other sports events, as well as concerts, conferences, and forums.
Faith Broadcasting Network has consolidated a vast following of approximately 264 million viewers worldwide since its inception two decades ago, with satellite, terrestrial and digital broadcasts reaching worshippers all around the world.
Describing itself as ‘the UK's foremost narrative ballet company’, Northern Ballet performs a repertoire that ranges from very traditional to very contemporary. A key part of its work is taking shows on tour, performing for audiences away from its Leeds base.
The sleepy rural town of Kilkivan in Queensland, Australia, was recently transformed into a hive of activity as thousands of horse lovers – and their horses – descended for the first edition of Cowgirls Gathering; three days of interactive workshops to celebrate the western lifestyle of women all over Australia and beyond.
Founded in 2012, Ruhrtriennale is a three-yearly cycle of music and arts events, which take place from August to October in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region.
Each September, thousands of jazz fans descend on the third largest park in Paris, The Parc de la Villette, to enjoy renowned festival Jazz à La Villette.
Compared with some of Disney’s classic musical films, Bedknobs and Broomsticks has been comparatively late in being adapted as a stage musical. Now the story of three wartime evacuees and their fantasy adventures has made it to theatres in a world premiere tour of the UK and Ireland.
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics Opening and Closing ceremonies almost certainly represented the largest deployment of Optocore audio network devices ever seen.
Although the words ‘TARDIS’, ‘Dalek’, and ‘Cyberman’ are perhaps unfamiliar to those outside of the remit of the BBC, such language – pulled from the lore of decades-spanning sci-fi TV series, Doctor Who – is practically ingrained in British culture; whether you are one of its devoted legion fans or not.
Recently Audi revealed its new all-electric Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron vehicles in what the company called a ‘digital world premiere’. It was a complex production, with a total of 45 live streams, each one in three languages, routed to media in 28 different countries.
As Sound Image was preparing to stage the weekend-long WE Fest country music festival, at the Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, they turned to Optocore to simplify the show’s signal distribution, and implemented a pair of Optocore Festival Boxes to create a format agnostic fiber tunnel for all the guest acts.
