ARAM, Poland’s largest event technology company, built a rig of GLP JDC Burst 1, JDC2 IP, Creos and WildBar 16 for one of the country’s biggest hip-hop festivals, with fixtures designers already ask for on their riders.
During the first summer season of the MoonPay X Games League (XGL) in Sacramento, California, OSA International debuted the Rebel Line 16 linear tilt bars from Elation in the event's largest music production to date, featuring nightly concerts.
Lighting designer Giovanni Pinna used 26 CHAUVET Professional Maverick Storm 3 BeamWash and 55 Color STRIKE M, imported by Zalight and serviced by Agora, to hold their own against a giant video backdrop on Tiziano Ferro’s stadium tour.
Broadcast audio engineer Matt Manix explains how the DCA901 microphone array reduces the amount of equipment required, enables software-based coverage adjustments, and captures audience reactions at concerts, festivals, and televised productions.
US rock band Bleachers, fronted by singer and producer Jack Antonoff, are on tour following the May release of their fifth studio album, Everyone for Ten Minutes. Designer Tobias Rylander has chosen 30 Robe SVOPATT fixtures for an analogue look.
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), part of Edith Cowan University in Perth, has upgraded its performance spaces with DiGiCo consoles, L-Acoustics loudspeakers, Fourier transform.engine processors and KLANG:vokal systems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lighting designer Fabrice “Tom” Azoulay of CANAL LED used Chorus Line 16, Proteus Rayzor 760, Proteus Maximus and Artiste Picasso fixtures to light a moving 120-metre inflatable structure with throw distances of less than one metre.
Working with Emaar Properties and systems integrator Blue Rhine Industries, INFiLED deployed around 1,100 m² of MVmk2 LED in roughly 50 positions inside and around the world’s largest shopping destination, where skylights and glass façades push indoor light levels close to daylight.
Teatros del Canal, one of Madrid's leading contemporary performing arts centres, has added 24 FORTE, 24 T2 Profile and 24 Arianne 6 LED wash beam fixtures from Robe, all supplied with their respective flight cases, as part of a major technical equipment upgrade.
Peter Maffay stepped away from conventional touring after his farewell tour in 2023. Since then, and again in 2026, he has returned each summer with a series of individual concerts under the Love Places banner, performing at venues that either hold personal significance for him or bring a special atmosphere to each show.
For the 2026 edition of Dream in High Park, one of Canada's largest and longest-running professional outdoor theatre events, Canadian Stage lit Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with 35 Astera LED fixtures — 27 QuikSpots and 8 QuikPunches — supplied by rental company Apex Lighting.
The open-source, browser-based suite expands the tools available for creating HTML5 broadcast graphics templates compatible with the EBU OGraf standard, allowing designs to be transferred between compatible systems without being tied to a single vendor.
Mexico City-based rental and production company Meridian has added 50 Robe iFORTE LTX fixtures to its inventory, following the acquisition of four RoboSpot systems over the past year.
