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UK - Fast-growing live video, AV and technical production specialist CPL has announced a further investment in d&b audio equipment, underlining its commitment to the brand, with whom CPL has enjoyed a long and productive relationship stretching back 20 years.

CPL MD Matthew 'Max' Boyse states, "d&b has proved a high quality, hugely reliable and consistent solution for our audio needs for many years," adding that as well as continuing their relationship with these latest purchases, it also "steps up a level with a new 'partnership' arrangement recognising our long-term focus on the brand".

The latest deal includes substantial quantities of Y and V series speakers, which replace all CPL's older Q-series stock, and another large amount of E-series - E6s, E8s and B4-SUBS - takin

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UK - Performance and visual arts venue, The Lowry, in Greater Manchester's Salford Quays launched its first festival of arts, Week 53, earlier this year.

The 11-day festival, which brought together contemporary dance, visual arts, music and theatre in interactive installations, exhibitions and performances, featured more than 200 international artists, and will be held annually for the next three years with a view to extend into the future. The occasion was marked by the procurement of a new ATMe haze generator to complement The Lowry's 15-year-old MDG Atmosphere.

MDG's ATMe is an evolution of the Atmosphere which is a long-term industry standard. ATMe has an added degree of controllability which attracted the attention of The Lowry's head of technical services, Dave Woodward, and was supplied by MDG UK complete with a portability kit.

The ATMe was brought into use for

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UK - This evening marks the world premiere of EXPOSURE The Musical at St James Theatre, London. The new British musical has been written by Mike Dyer and Quentin Russell and stars Michael Greco and Natalie Anderson. Alongside providing the lighting to The Stripper which is currently running in the venue's studio space, White Light has also supplied the equipment for this new production.

EXPOSURE The Musical tells the story of young photographer Jimmy Tucker who faces the biggest challenge of his life when a stranger commissions him to find and shoot the seven deadly sins within modern-day London. Yet, throughout the night, a series of encounters with girlfriends, family history and the world of celebrity reveals there is more at stake than just money.

The lighting designer on the show is Ben Cracknell. He comments, "Projection plays a huge role in E

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Australia - The Adelaide Convention Centre has expanded its already impressive fleet of High End Systems consoles with the purchase of two Full Boar 4's and six Road Hog 4's, bringing their inventory to four Full Boar 4's and 10 Road Hog 4's in total.

The purchase is part of the plan for the anticipated mid-2017 opening of their new Plenary Building, a multi-purpose venue built on the site of the original 1987 Convention Centre, with a capacity of up to 3,500 seats. Local production and installation company AJS were selected to fulfil this government tender, and have developed a close working relationship with the ACC.

"This was all part of the Convention Centre's tender process for stock replenishment and the new Plenary Building," relates AJS's Luke Hattam. "We contacted Australian High End Systems distributor Lexair Entertainment for guidance. We were successful in our

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Switzerland - Winkler Multi Media Events in Canton Aargau is one of the leading Swiss event solution providers for multimedia and three-dimensional live communication. They were recently entrusted with providing the equipment for the opening ceremony of the Gotthard Base Tunnel.

With a construction period of almost 17 years, and extending to 57k in length, the world's longest tunnel is regarded as the "Swiss project of the century", and has attracted many superlatives.

The construction, which is 7k longer than the Eurotunnel, is the heart of the new Railway Link through the Alps and connects the cantons of Uri in the north portal Erstfeld in central Switzerland to the south portal in Bodio (Canton Ticino). As a result, the travel time from Zurich to Milan has been reduced by one hour to about two hours 40 minutes. For freight transport, the new Gotthard tunnel brings great

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Italy - Nine years after his death, Luciano Pavarotti still attracts thousands of fans and followers. The residence of the Master in Modena, Italy, was turned into a museum and inaugurated during last year's Expo in Italy. Now it has become a permanent project.

A few kilometres from the city of Modena, the ancient villa represents an important part of the tenor's life and it contains a vast collection of personal items, souvenirs and scene costumes that Pavarotti was particularly fond of. Unreleased pictures and videos are projected in the rooms where the Master spent his last years, and constitute a great opportunity to get to know more directly the artistic and human heritage of the tenor.

The quality of the audio system is a key feature of the Home Museum. Willy Gubellini, a sound professional who has worked on all editions of the famous charity project Pavarotti & Frie

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Europe - From 1 July - 30 September, MILOS will be focusing on its range of Mobiltechlifts and offering a free transportation wheel kit with every Mobiltechlift purchase.

During its three-month promotion, MILOS will be releasing a product range video and expert instructional video by Marc Hendriks that will be available on the Milos website.

Mobiltechlift features include: Tested in accordance with draft of DIN 56950-3; Integrated wheels with brakes; Easy setup with a round spirit level; Rubber feet on the outriggers to protect sensitive floors; Practical design for ease handling; TUV Baumuster-approved and constructed to the design criteria of BGV-C1 and BGG/GUV-G 912.

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USA - API has announced its new Miami-based dealer, Wynwood Audio. With a team made up of artists and musicians, and more than 20 years of experience in the music industry, Wynwood Audio is dedicated to providing insight and expertise that helps customers get the most out of their gear.

William Castro, owner and CEO of Wynwood Audio, says, "I've been using API for a long time and being able to now offer it to my clients is very exciting for me. API has been a leader in this industry for many years, and I'm looking forward to supplying their products and helping my clients have a better quality sound."

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USA - MUSIC has announced the appointment of Goldsmith Sales & Marketing as its manufacturer representative firm for the Northwest Territory states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. The firm will be promoting MUSIC's Enterprise Division brands - Midas, Klark Teknik, Lab.gruppen, Lake, Tannoy and Turbosound.

The announcement was made by Chris Wildfoerster, senior director of Touchpoint Americas for MUSIC's Enterprise Division. "Goldsmith Sales & Marketing has earned great respect from channel partners and consultants," states Wildfoerster, "MUSIC looks forward to working with Goldsmith Sales & Marketing to continue building on MUSIC's family of solutions and expanding our market presence while increasing sales through our channel partners."

Michael Smith, principal of Goldsmith Sales & Marketing commented, "Goldsmith Sales is proud to be representing one of the most

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UK - Avolites' lighting consoles, dimmers and media servers once again delivered robust, festival-proof performance to shows across Glastonbury's vast and varied musical programme.

For nearly 40 years, Avolites equipment has been found surviving the mud in each corner of the Worthy Farm takeover. This year the British manufacturer's consoles and media servers were not only used on the main stages such as the Pyramid, which was also powered by Avolites ART2000 dimmers, the Other, John Peel, West Holts and the Acoustic Stage but also Arcadia Spectacular and The Temple immersive dance environments, and afterhours areas such as the Unfairground art field.

Lighting designer Andrew Liddle, whose recent portfolio includes OMD, The Charlatans and La Roux, has been working with Avolites consoles for the past 35 years. Like Avolites, Liddle is a Glastonbury stalwart, hitting the fes

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UK - An impressive delivery of nearly six tons of LED displays has been received at Handy AV's Kent headquarters, as the company moves to hold the most comprehensive on-site stock in the country, with demonstration areas to match.

Handy, who have recently moved into impressive new 6,000sq.ft offices in Sidcup, Kent, are well known for global retail installations and content management - having completed AV projects for clients such as Adidas, Dior, Kenzo and Primark.

The company is now expanding its offering into other key vertical markets, including corporate, stadia and leisure and the arrival of 5,888kg of various pitch LED panels will allow instant fulfilment on orders, with Handy's expert team on hand for any required installation.

As well as order fulfilment, the large stock holding will partly be used to demonstrate the benefits of different LED pitch solutions

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UK - DPL Production Lighting has recently chosen to invest in the newest moving light fixture from Clay Paky, the Scenius. Managing director Darren Parker explains why. "As a company that supplies equipment to all sorts of different events, from those looking for a single followspot or a couple of washes up to a full festival lighting rig with all possible bells and whistles on it, we have to maintain the very broadest range of stock in the warehouse.

"We already have a solid relationship with Clay Paky's UK distributors, Ambersphere Solutions and have invested in Clay Paky before with great success so it seemed the obvious way to go.

"We needed a new 'Big' output versatile fixture to replace some of our older technology and the Scenius simply ticked all our boxes. We did a shootout at a local theatre; the beam width and the optical quality were more than impressive. The s

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USA - Midas flagship console, the PRO X, was put to use as America's largest pops orchestra, The Philly POPS, opened festivities for Wawa Welcome America, Philadelphia's citywide Fourth of July celebrations. The 65-piece Philly POPS is the largest pops orchestra in the United States which boasts a repertoire of songs from colonial times up through today's chart toppers.

Against the dramatic backdrop of Independence Hall, the POPS performed a lively score of well-known tunes to the town's crowd, which gathered for one of the main highlights of the week-long patriotic festival.

Andre Houser, chief engineer of Houser Audio, has overseen the sound design and served as FOH engineer for The Philly POPS over the last eight years as the orchestra has grown to serve an audience of over 100,000 per year.

"The Midas PRO X is the perfect solution for the Philly POPS," says Houser.

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USA - For Gwen Stefani's appearance on the Today Show's Citi Concert Series, lighting designer Peter Greenbaum wanted to do something special to accent the onstage magic. He provided this extra pop by beefing up his Rockefeller Plaza rig with 20 of the new Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B moving LED fixtures, supplied by WorldStage.

"Gwen is one of the most charismatic performers you'll find anywhere," said Greenbaum. "We wanted to create the most dynamic lightshow we possibly could on a stage of this size for her appearance, not only for our TV audience but for all the people who came out to see her live."

For Greenbaum, the Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures provided a natural fit for the Stefani performance. "I like the intensity of the five moving heads on this fixture," he said. "They provide a great pop to the daylight stage. Because we can create so many different look

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France - On 14 July, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, more than 400,000 spectators celebrated Bastille Day, the National Holiday in France, marking the beginning of the modern French nation. And to Lawo, it was a further chance to demonstrate the power of their latest live and broadcast technologies.

Having mixed classical music and show tunes in 2015, this year's Bastille Day celebration programme opened and closed with the same pieces - The Damnation of Faust by French composer Hector Berlioz and the French National Anthem - but was a more conventional performance for the 250 musicians of the National Orchestra of France and the Radio France Choir, featuring French composers Bizet, Ravel and Saint-Sa

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China - At the domed Dai Show Theatre, built exclusively for producer Franco Dragone's newest themed spectacle, the nightly displays of jaw-dropping aquatic acrobatics are bolstered by immersive music and effects sonically choreographed through a 128-channel Meyer Sound D-Mitri digital audio platform and reproduced by an encircling array of 103 Meyer Sound loudspeakers.

The D-Mitri platform, working seamlessly with CueConsole control surfaces, provides a complete and fully integrated solution for mixing, matrixing, multitrack playback and show control. In addition, Meyer Sound's innovative Space Map software allows dynamic panning of sounds around and across the two rings of individually addressable, self-powered loudspeakers.

"Having D-Mitri integrated with Space Map definitely expanded my creative options," says Corrado Campanelli, hand-picked by Dragone to design sound

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Brazil - International creative design and AV company Sarner is working with the FIVB (Fédération Internationale De Volleyball) to showcase volleyball and beach volleyball at the Rio Olympic Games this summer in a unique way. Using the latest in virtual reality technology, Sarner has created an immersive experience within Volleyball House, a specially designed venue near the iconic Beach Volleyball Arena on Copacabana beach.

VIPs and special guests will be invited to Volleyball House to enjoy volleyball past and present by engaging and immersing themselves in the Virtual Reality lounge.

Ed Cookson, projects director at Sarner, says, "Being part of volleyball at the Rio Olympic Games is a real privilege. Using the latest in virtual reality technology, visitors can experience the sport in a completely unique way from perspectives usually only available to athle

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China - Popular Chinese pop singer, music producer and professional guitarist and 'New Asian King' Li Ronghao recently kicked off his "ideal world tour" with a concert at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai. The tour is being reinforced by an Adamson E-Series PA provided by Beijing Global Visual Culture Development Co. Ltd.

"We are using a combination of 36 E15, 42 E12, 16 E218 and 18 E219 on the tour," explains Beijing Global Owner Li Ran. "This package provides the flexibility to cover virtually any venue we are dealing with."

On the first show at Mercedes Benz Arena Shanghai on 9 July the PA consisted of left-right hangs of 12 E15 over 6 E12 line array modules with side-hangs made up of 12 E12 modules each. Low-end support is handled by a total of 18 E219 subwoofers - ground stacked in a horizontally delayed arc - and two flown subwoofer arrays, each consisting of 6 E21

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UK - The Shure UK Systems Group provided RG Jones with product and technical support for upgrades to the audio infrastructure at the historic Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, including a QSC Q-Sys audio network installation.

Shure Systems Group's Q-Sys experts collaborated with RG Jones project engineer Jake Miller in the development of the bespoke Q-Sys infrastructure. Combining a Core 250i, I/O frame and QSC ISA300Ti amplifiers, the Cathedral's Q-Sys system is separated into 10 zones to address the requirements of the various and diverse worship services, ceremonial events and meetings held daily throughout the 167m long cathedral.

Q-LAN - the audio-over-IP audio networking component of Q-Sys - is used to combine the elements that handle the audio and control the system separately over a straightforward Layer 3 network utilising standard network switches.

In addition t

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Norway - CODA Audio recently appointed Rubicon, as its new distributor for Norway. The impact of this arrangement has been immediate, with Rubicon reporting substantial sales of CODA stock including three ViRAY systems.

As well as acting as a distributor, Rubicon is also a renowned rental company in the region and have themselves purchased CODA systems to cover their extensive and thriving, club, theatre, festival and corporate provision. Norway's festival season stages many large scale events and Rubicon is taking CODA's new AiRAY system out on a number of significant upcoming shows including those by Earth, Wind and Fire and Norway's own international star KYGO.

Founder of Rubicon Petter Norby comments, "We had heard about CODA Audio from a number of quarters. There was a buzz about the new AiRAY system and all the messages we were getting said how fantastic the sound qu

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UK - FBT UK has announced the launch of the JTS TC-22 replacement condenser capsule for professional wireless mic systems, offering "an unbeatable combination of sound quality and price".

Available in two models (one to fit JTS and Shure wireless systems, one to fit Sennheiser systems) the TC-22 offers a wide dynamic range and very low touch noise, making it suitable for stage applications where the highest quality reproduction is required, says the company. Delivering a condenser microphone's characteristic crystal clear mid and high response, it is a notable improvement over dynamic equivalents.

The TC-22 offers a frequency response of 50-18,000Hz and a sensitivity of -68

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