The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) is the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world, drawing more than two million people each year. An especially large draw is the 20 consecutive evenings of rodeo and concerts held at Houston’s NRG Stadium.
As part of ongoing upgrades and developments to its studio facilities, Verizon Media – the Verizon digital-media division combining AOL and Yahoo! – has taken delivery of three state-of-the-art mc²36 audio production consoles and a Nova37 Hybrid IP/MADI Plug&Play Audio Router for its studio facilities from German IP broadcast technology pioneer, Lawo.
Spanish indie rock band Vetusta Morla has been touring its fourth studio album, Mismo Sitio, Distinto Lugar, throughout Europe including a sell -out performance at the Caja Mágica Esplanade (The Magic Box) stadium in their home city of Madrid. For this tour, Front of House Engineer Alberto Ruiz chose to use two DiGiCo SD5 consoles supplied by Spanish Tuá Pro.
For the US leg of Ben Howard’s transatlantic tour, L-Acoustics was the number one choice for the Only Lovestar, with Sound on Stage providing a left-right K2 system on all dates. Howard’s audio consultant and front of house engineer, Andy Magee notes that the K2 system was chosen for its “rock solid predictability.”
The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT at Ilmenau, Germany, set up a new reference listening room for their SpatialSound Wave technology. This impressive installation was outfitted with thirty Neumann
KH 310 A studio monitors, supported by KH 805 subwoofers.
The Flyer - San Francisco at Fisherman’s Wharf’s Pier 39 in San Francisco, a new flyover theater attraction, gives both tourists and locals alike a bird’s eye view of the city using cinematic artistry and state-of-the-art HD film footage captured with the help of drones and helicopters, and blended with computer-generated imagery.
MEPTIK, an Atlanta-based experience design agency specializing in dynamic live environments, leveraged the commercial AV industryʼs most powerful media playback technologies to deliver a dynamic audio-visual experience to attendees of the recent Beloved Benefit in Atlanta.
The Shed’s executive team joined elected officials and artists to celebrate the opening of New York’s new arts center during a dedication ceremony just days before the space opened to the public on April 5. The Shed is commissioning and presenting new work from artists working in all genres, including Steve McQueen, Steve Reich, Trisha Donnelly, Anne Carson, Renée Fleming or Björk.
Evolutionary Arts Hackney (EartH) EartH and Community Music announce crowdfunding initiative to raise funds to build onsite Community Music Studios - a new education hub for young people. EartH announces first European live music venue installation of revolutionary L-ISA Hyperreal Sound technology from L-Acoustics.
The buzzzz started in 2016 when childhood friend singer / guitarist Ryan Hennessey and drummer Jimmy Rainsford from Athy, County Kildare, recorded their first song “Take My Hand” and made an accompanying iPhone video which they posted on YouTube and Facebook, where it went viral and received millions of views.
Decades of intelligibility woes fade into memory for a passionate church with a musical message. Worshipers at Crossline Church in El Cajon, California are enjoying a new state-of-the-art VUE sound system thanks to a major upgrade from Pine Valley-based Essex Sound.
Treasure island, Peter Pan, the Wizard of Oz. All these show and many more have already been successfully produced by Wicked Productions. Wicked specialises in family show for theatres across the UK.
Theatrixx Technologies announced today that its Theatrixx Reversible Converter system is a Best New Hardware Infrastructure Technology winner in the 2019 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards. The awards program is the first to officially recognize innovative new products showcased at the NAB Show, in Las Vegas, NV.
Berlin-based manufacturer Stage Tec has upgraded two of Flemish broadcaster VRT’s OB trucks with powerful RMDQ audio DSP units. The HD01 and HD02 OB vans were each equipped with six DSP boards in their NEXUS STAR routers. With them, the OB trucks are now ready for all production requirements.
The historic city of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, is preparing to host the 2022 Asian Games in the largest Olympic Sports Center of its kind in China. The Tennis Center, which belongs to this complex, has recently been inaugurated with the experience and support of DAS Audio systems.
In early February, lighting design firm ENLUMEN utilized 62 Elation Professional Artiste Picasso™ LED profile luminaires for New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Industria SuperStudio, owned, operated and produced by IMG in downtown Manhattan.
Creative engineering specialist WIcreations has designed, developed and installed a unique, bespoke wireless laser-guided system to move eight enormous seating tribunes holding audiences watching Studio 100’s ground-breaking “40-45 Spektakle Musical” around the performance space.
