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USA - QSC Audio Products Inc has announced two new appointments. Paul Kenline takes the position of senior technical trainer, while Shawn Watts joins the company as systems specialist for installed sound.

Kenline joins the Marketing Services team after four years as an engineer in QSC's R&D division. His in-depth knowledge of QSC's products makes him the ideal person to spearhead the company's education and demonstration initiatives, say QSC. Kenline's responsibilities will include conducting informational seminars, overseeing technical marketing support material, and co-ordinating the development of QSC's new education and demonstration programs. These programs are part of QSC's effort to distribute product and background information to each specific vertical market in a manner t

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USA - With its new Mania series of inexpensive DJ lights that will eventually include effect lights, colour changers, strobe lights, deco effects, scanners, promotional lights, smoke machines and more, Martin Professional is going head to head with the established manufacturers of DJ lighting both European and in the US.

The first in the series, Mania EF-1, is a dynamic flower effect featuring 6 coloured patterns -useful as revolving dance floor motifs, wall projections or flying mid-air effects. The effect can be either sound triggered, moving to the beat of the music, or automatic, performing its own program independently.

While other lights fall foul to heat exhaustion, the Mania "cool" concept centres on Mania's ability to remain comfortably cool all night long. Simply put, Mania has no duty cycle, meaning you don't need to shut it down and wait for it to cool o

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UK - Spirit Design was invited by production company Corporate Events Plus to light the Tesco's Company Conference 2003 - the second time Spirit has been involved in this project. The biennial event brings 2,000 senior managers from as far afield as Malaysia to attend a one-day conference and gala event. This year Excel in London's Docklands was selected as the venue for the meeting. Using 13 of Excel's 34 flexible venues such as a registration area, plenary auditorium, champagne bar and dinning space were created, totalling 28,000sq.m of presentation space. Spirit directors Danny Evans and Justin Adams shared responsibility for the design of individual zones. Adams commented: "The size of the event and the lead time made it impossible for the entire project to be handled by one designer, Danny and I were particularly careful to ensure that all of our designs gelled into a co
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USA - Shure recently announced that it has been recognized by the second annual Chicago Innovation Awards for the development of the Shure E2c sound isolating earphones, a revolutionary new approach for providing a pure listening experience.

The E2c earphones are the result of Shure's long history in "in-ear innovation." The technology for the E2c earphones was originally developed for musicians trying to monitor their performances in loud onstage environments. They work by using soft foam or flex sleeves to seal out background noise, allowing the high-performance mini-speakers to deliver precise sound directly to the ear. The E2c earphones can be used with any audio or video device such as CD, MP3, and DVD players.

Sandy LaMantia, president and CEO of Shure, said: "This award is incredibly exciting for us. We're thrilled to help bolster Chicago's reputation as

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Belgium - Philippe Raymakers has recently been appointed director general of Videohouse, a technical facilities company in the audio-visual sector. He has a degree in commercial engineering and has been active in the AV sector for many years now, both in the video world and the film industry alike.

Raymakers will report to Ludo Maes, managing director of Videohouse. Luc Meertens will remain active within the company, but as an independent consultant, continuing his task of supervising and guiding the administrative and financial departments. He will also carry on with his current project to further develop the French market. Videohouse's executive board thanked Meertens for the important contribution he has made in the past towards the company's successful development.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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Italy - Following intense competition, ETC has won a major contract to supply one of the world's best-loved opera houses with a complete lighting and control system. La Fenice was one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world and the leading opera house of Venice until a fire destroyed it in January 1996. The building burned for more than nine hours, leaving only the façade intact, the interior was completely destroyed, leaving the structure in danger of collapse. Efforts to control the fire were hindered because the two canals nearest the theatre had been drained for dredging, ironically in order to facilitate access by Venice's emergency motorboats.

So named because it rose like a phoenix from the ashes of its predecessor, La Fenice has been destroyed twice before by fire. Construction began in 1790 but the building burned down before completion. It was quickly rebuilt

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The Netherlands - Leading Dutch rental agency, Sound Support, currently touring with one of Holland's top acts, 'Van Dik Hout', has recently made a considerable purchase to boost its Allen & Heath stock. In addition to its existing stock, which includes ML5000, GL4000, GL3300 and MixWizard consoles - Allen & Heath's Dutch distributor, TM Audio, has supplied the company with an ML5000, two ML4000s, a GL3300 and a MixWizard.

Sound Support's Jack van den Berg said: "The diversity of our clients and productions generates complex technical demands, which require flexibility and quality in the equipment we provide. Allen & Heath's GL and ML series have been acclaimed all over the world as great sounding, high quality consoles.''

(Lee Baldock)

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France - Delta Sound recently provided all sound reinforcement for the prestigious Microsoft Xbox X03 games festival in the South of France, attended by some 400 guests, among them members of the international games press, developers, publishers and programmers.

Microsoft is a long-term client of Delta, and this was the third year running that the London-based PA company has worked on one of the annual Xbox events. It followed the unveiling of the first console, the X01, at Pierre Cardin's 'bubble' villa, also in the South of France, and a second event on a lake in Seville last year. This year saw a return to the Côte d'Azur and the exclusive resort of Juan Les Pins, where the festival was held at the newly opened Les Pecheurs beach club followed by an all-day conference at the town's Palais des Congrès.

The proceedings kicked off with presentations by Microsoft dignitaries

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UK - Earls Court Ltd and Unusual Rigging Ltd have been fined a total of £100,000 at the Old Bailey following a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution into the death of 26-year-old David Mott at Earls Court, London. The prosecution follows an HSE investigation into the incident in which Mr Mott fell 35m to his death at Earls Court Exhibition Hall 1, on 23 June 2000. Six months prior to the death of Mr Mott, another worker had also been killed in a similar incident. Earls Court Ltd was subsequently fined £70,000 in a prosecution taken by the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Mr Mott, from Brentwood, Essex, fell through fragile, false ceiling tiles while dismantling mobile platforms as part of a refurbishment project. He was taken to Charing Cross hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival from multiple injuries.

Earls Court Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching sect

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UK - West London's trendy Ladbroke Grove has seen the reawakening of the acclaimed Subterania club, which was closed earlier this year. The new venue, christened 'Neighbourhood', is owned by Ben Watt and Alan Grant, partners in the famed Cherry Jam club. UK AV designers Blue Box created the club's sound system, featuring a mix of four QSC PowerLight PL 2.0 and four PL 4.0 amplifiers driving a four way Funktion One system with six F218 bass boxes and six Res4 mid-high enclosures. The club also uses several QSC PL230 amps to drive the Funktion One F88 cabinets in the ante area and on the mezzanine.

The spacious DJ booth, designed by Ben Watt, is centered on a Rane MP44 mixer. The booth is also equipped for live sound mixing, with a Midas Venice 32-channel board. Effects and dynamics are courtesy of Yamaha, BSS and Drawmer. QSC PL236 amplifiers drive monitors in the booth and on st

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Austria - Having received numerous TEC Awards over the years in recognition of its achievements in microphone technology, Vienna-based AKG received the prestigious award again this year for its K 271 Studio headphones.

The award was presented at a ceremony at the New York Marriott Marquis on October 11. Presenters of the awards included music and recording legend Les Paul, Grammy awarded producer Bob Ludwig, bassists Will Lee and T. M. Stevens and famous recording engineers including Al Schmitt and Chuck Ainlay.

The K 271 Studio headphones have been internationally acclaimed and accepted by audio professionals due to their sonic quality, user comfort offered, product styling, and manufacturing excellence. Dr. Richard Barnert from the Vienna AKG headphone team and Mike Torlone, market development manager of studio products and headphones, from AKG Nashville, accepted the TEC A

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Singapore - Richard Lim from ARX's Singapore distributor Bell & Order Engineering Pte Ltd has recently completed two major installation contracts involving ARX products. The new sound reinforcement system Bell & Order has installed throughout the four-storey New Assayfaah Mosque located in Sembawang Road, Singapore caters for the reproduction of both prayers and speech, and includes two EQ60 graphic equalizers, five EQ 15 graphic equalizers, eight ZR 350C constant voltage power amplifiers, one ZR 550 power amplifier and 16 of the company's new Climate weather-resistant loudspeakers.

Bell & Order has also completed the installation of audio-visual systems at the new DSTA (Defence Science Technology Agency) Building, located at Singapore's Science Park #3 complex. The six-storey facility now includes four ZR550 power amplifiers, two ZA400 multi-channel power amplifiers and six ZR3

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Australia / Malaysia - Tryka L.E.D. has announced the appointment of Total Concept Projects (TCP) as its distributor for Australia and Malaysia. TCP have developed a professional approach to customer needs and have grown to become one of Australia's leading lighting and sound solution providers. Tryka's managing director Chris Rolph says: "Thanks to their versatility and experience in several sectors, TCP are well positioned to distribute our products across the many markets our range is suitable for."

Tony Musico, managing director of TCP, adds: "We believe that LEDs are the way of the future. After extensive research, Tryka have come up trumps. Their range of fixtures, quality of build and sheer brightness make them ideal for the Australasian environment.

(Lee Baldock)

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Germany - Siegmar Pröbstl has been appointed head of the Osram Photo-Optic Division with effect from 1 October 2003, replacing Bernd Schaefer in Berlin who is retiring after 15 years as head of the division. Pröbstl was previously managing director of Osram in Great Britain, prior to which he worked for Osram in Turkey, South Africa and Korea. His career with the lighting manufacturer began in 1985 at the Osram head office in Munich.

Osram holds a strong position on the world market in special photo-optic lamps. Its products include light sources for the chip industry, cinemas, medicine, the media, theatres, airports, video projection and the home cinema.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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USA - Broadway's newest musical Wicked opens this month at The Gershwin Theatre, combining a 19th century tale of wizards with a high impact rock sound from sound designer Tony Meola. Wicked concerns the untold tale of the witches of Oz, and comes to Broadway after a successful debut in San Francisco.

Directed by Joe Mantello, the show features a cast of 34 performers, with a 24-piece band, plus a new 101-slot Cadac J-Type Live Production Console, supplied by ProMix-Electrotec. The console is specified with a combination of 35 programmable stereo and mono dual-input modules, 48 standard dual-input modules, 67 motor faders and 14 groups, housed in two frames and controlled with Cadac's Sound Automation Manager (SAM) software.

Meola's hallmark is subtlety, aiming to ensure that the sound appears to come from the performer on stage rather than visible loudspeaker st

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USA - Power Plus Sound & Lighting provided audio reinforcement for the San Diego Symphony recently. Searching for a specialized microphone for Ilmar Gavilan - the Cuban-born violinist in Doc Severinsen's Latin Band - audio engineer David Leyton auditioned several mics before choosing the DPA 4061. He characterizes the reaction musicians had to the miniature condenser in a typically straightforward way: "They play for a few seconds, look up and say, 'we want to use that one'."

Leyton explains: "We need a very high quality mic to use on the strings to get more gain with pop and rock acts, and because of the high SPL this microphone can handle, it can be used in virtually any application. What's beautiful about the string mounting system is its non-invasive rubber mount that hooks onto the strings behind the bridge. A lot of violinists are hesitant to hook anything r

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Canada - The international announcement of the premier of the World Stage Design 2005 received a positive response at the 2003 Prague Quadrennial, which was held in June. So far nearly 200 designers from 33 countries have indicated plans to have their work shown at the exhibition, which is to be held in Toronto during March 2005. The organizers hope to have many more designers exhibiting by the entry deadline of 30 June 2004.

Designers can complete the entry process on the WSD2005 website, where they will find information and details of the exhibition, entry documents, they can also obtain a unique ID number and upload digital images.

The WSD2005 is a joint project of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT), and the International Organization of Scenographers, Technicians and Architects of Theatre (OISTAT

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UK - The London fashion world turned out in force at the end of last month for the launch of Matches' eighth store in the capital, this time in trendy Notting Hill. Top models and fashion designers including Alexander McQueen rubbed shoulders with 200 guests and fashion celebrities at the event, while Matches turned to entertainment specialist Sound Division to provide the necessary DJ control equipment and audio services, including a radio link to deliver the audio across three separate stores.

Sound Division's Chris Baxter, who was responsible for designing and specifying the system, commented: "As with all of these events, providing the control equipment was the easy bit. We supplied a pair of SL1210 MK III turntables, a Pioneer DJM500 mixer, and a Denon 1800 CD player with a JBL Eon10 powered monitor. The tricky bit was cabling around the store in a discreet and tidy ma

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UK - The ISCE (Institute of Sound & Communications Engineers) enjoyed another successful Institute Day recently. The event, held in Watford 17 October, included the 2003 Warren-Barnett Memorial Lecture, given by Dr. Paul Darlington on AFILS (Audio Frequency Induction Loop Systems). Later, the Institute held its AGM and Annual Dinner, during which Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Leon Pieters of Ampetronic and E. A. H. W. 'Bill' Preedy - considered to be the Father of Voice Alarm.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Elections for the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA) executive committee are set to take place during November. Employees of Full UK member companies are currently being invited to put themselves forward to play a key role in the future direction of the Association.

This is a pivotal time for PLASA as it reviews its long-term goals, and with issues such as safety, training and legislation high on the agenda, those who stand will be able to directly influence the way these aims are met, and the way in which PLASA moves forward.

Letters have been sent to all eligible members, inviting representatives to stand for the three places available, which have arisen as a result of the stepping down of long-serving members Mick Hannaford (LightProcessor), Sammy de Havilland (Deco Leisure) and Neil Darracott (Total Fabrications). If you feel you can make a positive

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UK - Architectural lighting specialist i-Vision has developed a new LED solution to meet a challenging brief for the Coffee Bar at Topshop, one of the larger retail outlets in the high profile £540m new Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. LED strip lighting was specified by Christopher Rowell to light a series of polyester fabric sails, designed and installed by tensile fabric specialists Architen Landrell. i-Vision's Luke Dodd worked in close collaboration with Rowell to achieve the desired result. Architen's client was Cube Music, concept designers of the Coffee Bar area - a chill out space where shoppers can re-energise or just have some space away from the fray for relaxation and socialising.

The brief was for the sails to be tinted red. The problem was that nothing could hang down below a very shallow series of rafts (housing cabling and control equipment) suspended in

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