Dermot Kennedy’s breakthrough #1 album Without Fear, released in October 2019, had its touring cycle interrupted by a worldwide pandemic, just when the Irish singer-songwriter and Brit-nominee would rather have been treading the boards of global stages. Undeterred, Kennedy featured in Billboard’s Live At-Home concert, and subsequently organized his own virtual concert, Sound Waves, in May 2020 […]
Many of Toronto’s music venues are returning to normal after a one-and-a-half-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of these venues is a popular favourite, The Opera House, which recently had its original Adamson Y-Axis system entirely overhauled with all-new loudspeakers, amplification, and software. The Opera House first opened back in 1909; a vaudeville theatre […]
Broadcast microservices specialists nxtedition played a leading role in customer TV2 Nord’s coverage of the Danish local elections on November 16. The election covered 98 of the country’s municipal seats and five regional councils and the broadcaster relied on its nxtedition system to handle video wall and graphics automation throughout. nxtedition sent data to CasparCG’s […]
Brompton Technology, the industry leader in LED video processors for virtual production, broadcast, and live events, recently helped the VFX team at Pixomondo bring ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ into a new era using virtual production. The new season (4) of the Paramount+ streaming hit leveraged virtual production for the first time, filming on Pixomondo’s large volume […]
Singular.live and Reality Check Systems (RCS) announced their collaboration with QTV to enrich the Scottish Professional Football League’s (SPFL) matchday graphics with enhanced live Stats Perform match data. Leading independent Scottish production house QTV, the SPFL’s outside broadcast production partner, has been working with Singular.live and RCS since 2020; but wanted to elevate matchday graphics […]
Like many other school districts forced to solve the technology challenges of hybrid learning during the pandemic, Joliet Township High School District 204, 30 miles southwest of Chicago, considered conferencing solutions to help bring together remote and in-class students. And when the district’s two high schools –serving more than 6,000 students– started up this fall, […]
Offering breath-taking 360 degree views over the Hudson River and Manhattan Skyline, The Glasshouse is a new multi-function, interconnectable event space in New York City. Able to accommodate almost 2,000 people, and with multiple outdoor terraces set within the 75,000 sq. ft footprint, the venue required a cutting-edge production infrastructure, including transparent audio transmission, state-of-the-art video […]
Thirty APG speakers, subs and racks are back home in Andalusia after a busy summer season of live entertainment with Spanish audio specialist Sonido Zero Dbs. Cabra-based Zero Dbs boasts one of the biggest APG inventories in the region, having worked with the French manufacturer since 2012. For the 80+ live events it helped produce […]
UK-based sound specialists Tall Audio were called upon to deliver a tailored solution to meet the communications needs of the “No Time To Die” world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London. With stars of the latest film in the James Bond franchise walking the red carpet to talk to the world’s media as […]
Lighthouse Church is a non-denominational, spirit-filled church in the beach community of Panama City, Florida. Building a new sanctuary and video production infrastructure following the destruction of its previous location by a hurricane, the church selected Z-HD5500 cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to provide the volunteer-friendly ease of use and inspiring visual quality they sought. Lighthouse Church’s previous main building was significantly damaged when Hurricane Michael tore […]
25 Powersoft amplifiers, including five Mezzo 602 AD and five Quattrocanali 2404 DSP+D, are driving the all-Italian sound system at Expo 2020’s popular Italy Pavilion. Twenty-five Italian-made Powersoft amplifiers are handling the audio demands of the award-nominated Italy Pavilion at Expo 2020, one of the highlights of the recently opened world fair in Dubai. Over […]
A classic concert took place recently at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater Concert Hall, featuring Nobuaki Fukukawa. One of the world’s most active horn players, he is also principal player in the NHK Symphony Orchestra and a major name in the orchestral world. At this recent recital Mr. Fukukawa had the clear desire to emulate his […]
With the media landscape changing due to COVID, Austin-based live streaming company ADL Productions began searching for reliable and broadcast-quality equipment that would allow them to stream events with a limited team. Owner Don Souza and his wife/business partner, Nancy, were tasked with bringing Strongman competitions back into the mainstream and knew they needed to […]
World Harvest Church is a big deal. The 122,000-square-foot main building is home to a sanctuary that seats over 5,200 people and contains an auditorium, a television studio, a children’s ministry that includes Sunday school for children newborn to sixth grade, the Harvest Preparatory School, the ministry’s administrative offices and more, all on a 57-acre […]
The Hyundai Seoul department store’s ALT.1 Gallery hosted the first exhibition of Beyond The Road in Asia through November. The Seoul outing encompasses 33 different rooms in the department store, culminating with an immersive screening room. The project is a collaboration between creative producer Colin Nightingale, creative director Stephen Dobbie and electronic music artist James Lavelle of the famed […]
As the very first of its kind, the 1DayLA event was nothing short of a phenomenon, with 20,000 members mobilized between 18 and 24 July to offer communities across the county of Los Angeles help and hope. It culminated in a massive concert named The Freedom Experience, which was hosted at the brand new SoFi […]
When The Fennec, Birmingham’s new one-of-a-kind live music venue opened for business, ownership called upon long time audio engineer Michael Panepento, owner of Alabama Music & Audio Supervision, to create and install an unrivaled sound experience at the new Parkside District hot spot. Panepento found the solution The Fennec management was looking for with a state-of-the-art […]
As the Columbus Area Bicentennial Commission looked for ways to celebrate 200 years of legacy and culture in Bartholomew County, Indiana, they turned to Blockhouse Studios to create an immersive light projection show that would bring the community together. Blockhouse leveraged seven Epson Pro Series laser projectors to create “200 Years Together: Our Stories Illuminated […]
Located in Adelaide, South Australia, Hampstead Health is dedicated to delivering high-quality, comprehensive, integrated, multidisciplinary primary health care services to the people of the local community. According to Toni Jones, Human Resources Manager at Hampstead Health Family Practice, the facility has a very large and busy reception area that is often quite noisy, making quick […]
GB Labs today announces that sports production specialist, Aurora Media Worldwide, has built live production workflows for three flagship motorsport events around its storage solution. Aurora deployed GB Labs FastNAS platform for the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed and is using the system for the inaugural Extreme E season which kicked off in April 2021. In addition, […]
Sky Germany, in collaboration with O2, presented the top match in the Liqui Moly Handball Bundesliga between SG Flensburg-Handewitt and Füchse Berlin via O2’s high-end 5G network this week. The production was executed fully in the cloud with Vizrt’s switching, graphics, and sports analysis tools, all deployed in AWS. Sky Germany used Vizrt’s world-class Live Production Solution featuring Viz Vectar Plus for switching, Viz Libero for sports analysis, and Viz Engine and Viz Arc for graphics – all through the cloud. […]
Three Kutztown University of Pennsylvania computer science and information technology students and their faculty advisors recently completed a project which interfaces Amazon Alexa with Extron control to allow voice control of the college’s Extron classroom AV systems. The project, dubbed CT-Toolbox, was designed to create ADA-compliant AV systems that are accessible for all students. CT-Toolbox […]
Since 1982, the Projazz Education Institute of Santiago de Chile has been a constant contributor and a reference for the national artistic environment. In 2007, it became the Instituto Profesional Projazz, becoming the first institution in the country to create a professional level jazz program approved by the Ministry of Education. The curriculum includes teaching […]
The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, San Francisco’s premier music event now in its 13th year, returned to Golden Gate Park for a special Halloween weekend edition. For three days, more than 74,000 concertgoers flooded into the park’s vast lawns to experience sets by headliners The Strokes, Lizzo, and Tame Impala, along with more […]
A Martin Audio MLA Compact loudspeaker array system was chosen by partners, North Carolina-based RMB Audio, when locally based Duke University’s Spring and Fall 2020 graduation was postponed until a time of greater health safety. That time was determined to be September 26, 2021—when undergraduates, graduates and professional school class members (and their families) were […]
After a long week at the office, few things compare to a comfortable home, a cold drink, and watching your favorite sports team take on their most bitter rival. For many celebrities and New York City’s elite, this often means getting away for the weekend and unwinding in the Hamptons – a community comprised of […]
If there’s one thing that rubs Harry Blanchard of Creative Systems USA the wrong way, it’s technology that looks as if it was “slapped” onto expensive wall materials. “It pains me to see homeowners spend a fortune on marble backsplashes or rare hardwood finishes only to the surfaces marred by white electrical outlets and surface-mounted […]
DiGiCo’s reliability and long-term support is proven. We’ve seen it. Between that and all the other benefits, the decision to purchase the new Quantum 338 did not take a lot of thought. Not only are they my favourite consoles, but they’re also a good, future-proof choice.” – Robin Johnston, Head of Sound, Elgin & Winter […]
American Dream is an expansive retail and entertainment complex nestled outside of New York City. The mall features an array of entertainment, including the Nickelodeon Universe theme park, Big Snow American Dream ski slopes, a 25,000-square foot “City Under the Sea”-themed aquarium and the DreamWorks Water Park. The ultimate luxury destination, The Avenue, features an […]
The administrators of a new 62,000 YMCA in Urbana, Maryland, had more than the recreation center’s current communications needs in mind when they contacted Audio-Video Group to design and deploy an IP-based audio system throughout the massive, state-of-the-art facility. “One of their main objectives was having a high-quality communications system that would serve all their […]
A month after collaborating on the Team GB Olympics Homecoming, Transition Video was back at London’s SSE Wembley Arena to help deliver another hybrid event, using Green Hippo’s Boreal+ Media Server for The National Lottery’s Paralympics GB Homecoming. Great Britain’s Paralympic stars claimed a total of 124 podium places and were welcomed home from Tokyo […]
Ministry of Sound Classical (MoS Classical) is a celebration of 30 years of Ministry of Sound’s favourite dance classics performed by the London Concert Orchestra. As this spectacular show prepared to take to the stage for a highly anticipated return to the live arena, its audio team turned their attention to giving the 50-piece orchestra […]
