Outline GTO rig deployed again at top Florence festival. The Visarno Arena, located in Florence’s Cascine Park and catering for crowds of up to 50,000, hosted two events this summer that underline the Tuscan city’s status as a top-grade reference point for live music in Italy: Firenze Rocks and Firenze Summer Festival.
Shows at Planet Hollywood’s venue running on a pair of SD-Series desks have become the template for production excellence in the Entertainment Capitol of the World and beyond.
One of the world’s most celebrated composers and conductors, Ennio Morricone has written over 500 film and television scores, over a career that spans seven decades. The only film composer ever to have received the honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
The Danuta Baduszkowa Musical Theatre in Gdynia, Poland, has featured an extensive NEXUS routing network for some time. In cooperation with its Polish partner Konsbud Audio, Stage Tec, the Berlin-based manufacturer of digital audio equipment, has now continued this project – a CRESCENDO platinum with 32 faders has been installed as the heart of the sound control room.
Robe Pointe and DL4S Profile moving lights have been installed as part of the spectacular City of David Lightshow - “Hallelujah” - in Jerusalem, a gripping and intense multimedia experience relating the history of the city which is projected onto the walls of the ancient citadel of King David, surrounded by the associated archaeological site and steeped in history dating back over 3000 years.
Hurricane Harvey benefit features rig of 100+ Elation fixtures including new Artiste DaVinci™. For the second year running, Houston-based event staging company Stage Directions Inc. provided the creative visuals for the city’s annual “Toast to Living Well” Gala, considered Houston’s largest black tie event.
The Munich veteran band stages a gigantic anniversary show. They were the rock idols of the Munich ‘Schickeria’, and in the 80s and 90s were Bavaria’s hottest rock exports throughout the whole of Europe. We are talking about Barny Murphy, Günther Sigl and the Spider Murphy Gang.
Creative Technology finds “the future of auto show lighting” in new, auto show-optimized LED moving head. Lightswitch principal John Featherstone calls Fuze Wash 575 “the best light I’ve ever seen for lighting automobiles”.
The Aalborg Kongres & Kultur Center (AKKC) is one of Scandinavia's largest conference and cultural venues, welcoming more than half a million visitors each year to live music and theatre, fairs, exhibitions, conventions and other meetings. The recent installation of four more Alcons Audio systems has meant anyone can deliver the highest quality presentation, with no technical assistance required.
Ambion and Stephan Aue rely on ACL 360i and the new Dartz 360 for Finnish rockers fall tour. From mid-October to early December, Finnish rock band Sunrise Avenue toured across Europe on their “Heartbreak Century” tour, a run of smaller venues before the five-member band hits the road on a bigger arena tour in the new year.
NW Group provides seamless technical solutions for live events across Australasia. Its audio specialist brands, Norwest and Oceania, have been users of L‑Acoustics product since its first Kudo purchase in 2006 for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in Doha.
When a major Swedish theatre closed, following the sale of all the property around it, it took a very innovative solution to ensure that it could reopen. To complement the brilliance of the rebuilt venue’s design, an equally brilliant audio system was needed. Alcons was the obvious choice.
Developed and published by Riot Games, ‘League of Legends’ has become one of the world’s most popular third-person multiplayer online battle arena games, attracting more than 100 million active players each month. This year the Brazilian finals took place l on September 2nd at the Mineirinho Arena to a live audience of approximately 8,000 and was also broadcast live on ESPN in Brazil.
“The TouchMix-30 Pro is unbeatable in its design and ergonomics, and the way it sounds – which is marvelous. It is an amazing, portable tool that allows you to handle the challenges of all kinds of live sound engineering situations!”
The Club Music scene for years has had a strong impact on generations, influencing culture and entertainment in the music business. When we think of the major international EDM and Electro events we find them even bigger and with increasingly important productions advancements.
Dutch astronaut André Kuipers presented his SpaceXperience Live show as the central element of a larger conference / expo style event at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome, an immersive intergalactic journey staged in-the-round, with Kuipers relating his many stories and real life experiences working in space on various ESA programmes.
At the end of August an exciting event took place at Al Habtoor City in the heart of Dubai. La Perle, the spectacular new acrobatic water show from Franco Dragone, opened its doors for the first time in a purpose-built, 1300-seat, theatre designed by renowned set designer, Jean Rabasse, and executed by Khatib and Alami Architects and theatre consultants Auerbach Pollock Friedlander.
