A place of worship has existed at the site of Martinikerk (Martini Church), in the heart of the Dutch city of Groningen, since the year 1,000. The present building harks back to the 13th Century roots of a larger church, constructed in Romano-Gothic style, traces of which are still present in its stunning architecture, including round […]
San Fernando, Ca (United States), 22nd July 2019 – Last autumn, production designer Owen Pritchard-Smith (of Spirit Design) joined up with emerging Irish singer songwriter Dermot Kennedy for a European tour, having previously worked with the artist’s management on other projects. Though he was largely playing through house rigs on that initial tour, a UK stint […]
Vienna, Austria – July 2019…With preparations already well underway for the landmark 10th anniversary of LEWITT in 2020, the Austrian audio pioneer is gearing up to celebrate with the launch of a ground-breaking new flagship microphone. Intended to become the company’s boldest launch to date, the as-yet unnamed microphone is being developed under the working […]
Coventry, UK – July, 2019. Coventry’s Godiva Festival, which takes place in the City’s War Memorial Park, began life as a free festival back in 1997 (and was described as the UK’s biggest free family festival). For much of the event’s life Chris ‘Stan’ Saunders has been overseeing its evolving technology requirements, as has the […]
DRAPER, UTAH, July 23, 2019 — When pitching clients on a home theater installation, one of the biggest challenges is delivering an enticing preview of the home theater experience to generate excitement, anticipation and a sale. As a premier provider of home security, entertainment and control systems for new home builds, Texas-based HomePro knows that […]
CYPRESS, Calif. – (July 22, 2019) – A global roster of artists descends on Alys Beach, a small Floridian town, for a weekend of digital art each spring. This year, the residency artists – the artist duo Tamiko Thiel and /p, Jes Van Zee from AOA and Kaiman Walker – used Christie technology to project […]
San Fernando, Ca (United States), 16th July 2019 – Australian psychedelic band Tame Impala’s incredible year reached its zenith at the Coachella Festival recently. Held annually at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Headlining on the Saturday night, at the annual extravaganza held in Indio, CA, the big occasion gave innovative lighting designer Rob […]
Tacoma, WA, July 11, 2019 — Since it opened last April, McMenamin’s Elks Temple Spanish Ballroom has become a go-to stop for artists touring the Pacific Northwest. Now a destination venue with Powersoft’s Quattrocanali platform, the Spanish Ballroom once served a different purpose but now hosts a wide variety of events. Housed in a century-old Tacoma […]
MEXICO CITY – (July 10, 2019) – Guadalajara’s new Lunaria planetarium is equipped with six Christie® Mirage 304K 3DLP® projectors and Evans & Sutherland’s Digistar 6 system illuminating its 8K dome with 30 million pixels across 500 square meters. The integration was carried out by Planetarios Digitales, a local representative of Evans & Sutherland (E&S). […]
In 2018, one of the UK’s largest airports, London Luton Airport (LLA) completed a £160 million transformation designed to elevate the airport’s passenger experience through a contemporary terminal extension, new luxury retail area and cutting-edge digital signage network. This year, LLA celebrated its 80th birthday. The airport has grown from a small municipal airfield to […]
9 July 2019, London, UK – The gx 2c server features even more GPU processing power, more capture and storage, as well as 10-bit and HDR support. Creatives can now build environments with more particles, effects and richer scenes, at higher resolutions and smoother frame rates. As creative ambition increases, the GPU and memory has […]
Video walls are an increasingly popular treatment of lobby areas in commercial and residential buildings in urban centers. New York-based RedStraw is one of the creative media content agencies at the forefront of this trend, supporting designers, contractors and building owners by offering them new ways to use the latest video technology to liven up […]
Panama City, Panama – June 2019… The Biomuseo (www.biomuseopanama.org) is a jewel in Panama’s crown. Housed in a spectacular building created by famed architect Frank Gehry and located on the Armador Causeway at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, the Biomuseo hosts a permanent exhibition entitled “Panama: Bridge Of Life.” In eight galleries, conceived […]
Paris (France), 25 June 2019 – A pioneer of the ‘French Touch’ and key player on the international electronic music scene, DJ Étienne de Crécy is renowned for the eclecticism and efficiency of his productions. His latest tour, Space Echo, came to a packed Philharmonie last April, with a striking show design that featured Smode’s […]
Washington, D.C.- June 2019… Home to the 2018 Arena Football League Champion Washington Valor, NBA Washington Wizards, NHL 2018 Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals, and Georgetown University Hoyas men’s basketball team, the Capital One Arena hosts about 220 events per year, including major concerts. The arena opened in December 1997 and recently received a major […]
June 2019… The brainchild of entrepreneurial educator Mark Featherstone-Witty and music legend Paul McCartney, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) received the top Gold rating in the Government’s most recent Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Awards, and can boast an impressive list of successful artists, creatives and technicians among its alumni. LIPA has recently benefited […]
Upper Saddle River, NJ, June 4, 2019 — Founded in 1961, Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, began with a congregation of 270 families. Since then, it has brought together more than a dozen times that number of families over the last half-century, making it the largest parish in the Archdiocese of […]
3 June 2019, London, United Kingdom– SACO Technologies was tasked with designing a permanently mounted system capable of delivering high-resolution video capabilities. They selected the disguise production toolkit integrated with SACO’s own systems to power the LED screen running the length of the world’s tallest building. Burj Khalifa, developed and owned by Emaar Properties Dubai, […]
Louisville, KY-June 2019… The Dominicans arrived in Louisville, Kentucky, just as the American Civil War came to a close, and the building St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church still occupies was dedicated less than ten years later. One hundred fifty years after its founding, St Louis Bertrand attracts more than 2,000 parishioners on major holidays. The […]
New York, NY, June 3, 2019 — In the latest episode of Gear Club Podcast, Electric Lady Studios Manager and co-owner Lee Foster discusses the “ants-in-your-pants” daily modus operandi of serving 30+ regular clients at the venerable New York landmark four-room facility that has reassumed its market leadership in the New York City recording scene. […]
Newport Beach, Calif. — May 22, 2019 — University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public research university educating over 30,000 students on a 332-acre campus just two miles east of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. UNLV offers more than 350 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in varying image005.pngfields, which are taught […]
RIVERSIDE, CA, MAY 21, 2019 – As technical director at the Collinsworth School of Music at California Baptist University, Matthew McConnell holds the equipment he purchases to the same high standards expected from the school’s students. When McConnell recently found that he wasn’t satisfied with the sound he was capturing on the string bass and […]
Boston, MA, May 22, 2019 — As the largest church of any faith in New England, Cathedral of the Holy Cross has long served as an important gathering place and “Mother Church” for Catholics living in the Archdiocese of Boston. Since its dedication in 1875 however, the structure’s Upper Church has received relatively little refurbishment […]
Atlanta, GA-May 2019… A gem of a baseball stadium, with all of the amenities, SunTrust Park became the new home of the Atlanta Braves starting with the 2017 season. Located ten miles northwest of downtown Atlanta, the new park boasts many special features, including a Monument Garden with audio, light, and water elements and a […]
ATLANTA, May 15, 2019 — MEPTIK, an Atlanta-based experience design agency specializing in dynamic live environments, leveraged the commercial AV industry’s most powerful media playback technologies to deliver a dynamic audio-visual experience to attendees of the recent Beloved Benefit in Atlanta. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community, the inspirational event brought notable […]
LOS ANGELES, MAY 15, 2019 – As FOH engineer for best-selling rapper, singer and songwriter Post Malone, Joe Hellow takes pride in capturing the artist’s feelings and emotions during live performances. Getting a rich and warm sound in hip-hop can sometimes be a challenge, with a lot of artists cupping the mic and losing the […]
CYPRESS, Calif. – (May 16, 2019) – Art, architecture and technology intersect at Digital Graffiti, the annual festival of immersive, projection mapped art that takes over the town of Alys Beach, Florida from May 17-18 2019. Artists from around the world participate and compete in a curated weekend of design, animation and projected technologies. Christie […]
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, April 25, 2019 — Haroon Inam, Chief Technology Officer at Smart Wires, a company that generates advanced technologies to improve the world’s electrical grids, is the definition of a hard worker. Working 14 to 16-hour days to manage the technology that supports hundreds of jobs at the company, he realized long ago that […]
Overview As a luxury casino, resort, and spa, Agua Caliente in Palm Springs, California was looking to further push the boundaries of aesthetics and create a unique, immersive experience, unlike anything else in Palm Springs. Through the use of a curved wide-scale visual display in its new sports bar, 360 Sports, patrons in the sports […]
Pro AV Engineering (PAVE, LLC) is a Nashville-based technology integration form that was founded in 2003. When developer Tony Giarratana and his team reached out about creating a show home in one of four 45th floor penthouses within a luxury high rise apartment building in downtown Nashville called The 505, the PAVE team, along with […]
Orlando, Florida, USA (April 23, 2019)– As one of the fastest growing churches in the U.S., Action Church has become a community fixture in local Orlando areas including Oviedo, Sanford and Winter Garden. Most recently, Action Church expanded its reach when it opened its newest location in Winter Park, FL this past November as its first […]
STOW, OH, April 25, 2019 — Sweet Jean Media Services is a multi-purpose multimedia company that specializes in scalable corporate event production, audio-visual rentals, live sound mixing, post-production audio and related services. One of its ongoing recent projects has been as the meeting-audio provider for a series of weekly medical advisory board conclaves across the […]
