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UAE - Large-format projection specialists E//T//C UK projected giant images onto the majestic Gate International Finance Centre in Dubai, for the launch of Credit Suisse's new Middle Eastern offices. The event production company was Eclipse LLC, and the original concept was developed by Adrian Bell, managing partner of Eclipse. Duncan Shortt was the production and project manager.

Credit Suisse wanted to announce its arrival in Dubai and the UAE in grand style. They did this initially at an opening gala event for key Credit Suisse organization figures, followed by a week of projections in a high traffic area to maximize brand exposure and impact. Eclipse won the bid for the contract by presenting the boldest and most effective response to the brief, combined with a reputation in t

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USA - Inspired by the success of a special one-off concert in New York in August 2004, singer/songwriters Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren, together with special guests Ethel, a contemporary string quartet, have now taken the show on the road throughout North America and Europe. The tour utilizes Sennheiser and Neumann microphones not only for the performance but also for the nightly live recordings, captured by front-of-house engineer George Cowan.

Cowan, who is also acting as tour manager, says that the original plan was to take Jackson's pair of Neumann KMS 105 vocal microphones out on tour. "We meant to use them from the very beginning, because Joe had bought two on the last tour we were on - but he couldn't find them!" So the tour set off with a different microphone on Jackson's vocals. Then, he says, "We did a recording with a truck, and the truck had a 105, so

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UK - DL Electronics, Duran Audio's Northern Ireland dealer, has installed two AXYS Intellivox Digital Directivity Controlled loudspeaker arrays in the recently refurbished St Peter's Cathedral in Belfast. The interior of the Cathedral has been completely restored and as part of this D.L. Electronics was employed to install a new sound system that would ensure a high level of speech intelligibility within this marvelous interior. The AXYS Intellivox units are used to cover the main area of the nave.

"This is the fourth Cathedral that we have installed Intellivox arrays in. The units were chosen by the design team, which included Northern Ireland based Acoustic Consultant Peter Lloyd, for many reasons," said David Dalzell from DL Electronics. "The system is more intelligible, thanks to Duran Audio's Directivity Control technology, than conventional solutions and it

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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USA - ESTA (The Entertainment Services and Technology Association) has published its 2005/2006 Membership Directory - a valuable reference resource for the industry. To receive your free copy, email ESTA at the address below or call +1 212 244 1505 with your address and the quantity required.

The publication includes complete listings for all of ESTA's members including location, prime company contacts, phone and fax numbers, email addresses and websites, and a brief description of each company's activities, while indexes allow you to search for members alphabetically, geographically, and by membership category.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - At the Hilton Brighton Metropole, the increasing popularity of the hotel's exhibition halls for different types of events has meant that the risk of noise disturbing local residents has also increased. Loading and unloading of vehicles for exhibitions is strictly controlled to certain hours of the day, but evening functions, with either DJs or live bands, have caused complaints from some local residents. Local acoustic specialists 24Acoustics and Big Sky Audio were called in to work with the local authorities and sound installation company Xtreme Audio Visual to find a solution.

Following analysis, it was concluded that the only way the hotel could ensure absolute control of the noise within its largest exhibition hall was to install a house PA system. Future calculations for sound isolation within the structure could then be based on a known and predictable system with bui

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Australia - Lighting control systems manufacturer LSC Lighting Systems has announced the appointment of Ian Pope to the position of business development manager. Pope has extensive experience in sales and business development in the world market across a broad range of products. His wide network of associates across the world in differing sectors is something that LSC will capitalize on, say the company.

"My experiences show that in Australia we are certainly capable of delivering world class products, so when the offer to join LSC was made available I welcomed the opportunity. The management structure is one that encourages teamwork and with our very capable agents globally, coupled with new product development, I see LSC as a future Australian Export Award Winner."

Gary Pritchard, LSC's managing director, commented: "The success of the maXim range of control d

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Russia - 65 dealers and rental companies from all over Russia attended the annual Electro-Voice Russian Dealers' Academy in Moscow's Kuzminky Hall on 26 April. This year, host Gregory Ronin, MD of EVI Audio's Russian partner Ruton S, together with Walter Reh (EVI Audio) and Peter Hallstein (Electro-Voice) were able to offer participants an exciting programme including a presentation of EV's latest sound reinforcement systems, such as the ZX4, ZX5, X-Line Very Compact System, XLC and SxA powered speaker systems; a guide to the current EV microphone range (with suggestions as to how best to promote sales); workshops and demos; and live music (from the USB band).

The event was reported to be a great success: Gregory Ronin noted: "Word of the quality of Electro-Voice systems is spreading in Russia, as is borne out by the year-on-year increase in the number of visitors attending

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France / USA - Continuing to consolidate efforts and maximize efficiencies, L-Acoustics US and L-Acoustics have recently merged the content of their previously independent websites. The newly combined site provides a single, convenient web destination for anyone looking for L-Acoustics-related information. A Kudo presentation on the site's splash page delivers complete details on the concept, implementation and achievable results of the manufacturer's new horizontal and vertical line source array system. The website also offers comprehensive information on the rest of L-Acoustics' product line, recent news from around the globe, technical support and R&D details, downloadable user manuals and DSP presets, and many other notable resources.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Ian Herbert has been elected the new Chairman of the Society for Theatre Research. The Society provides a meeting point for all those interested in the history and technique of the British theatre, offering its members annual publications, the journal Theatre Notebook and many other privileges. It also organises an annual series of public lectures, whose speakers last season included David Wood, Oliver Ford Davies and Professor Peter Thomson. It is responsible for a number of research grants, and awards its annual Theatre Book Prize. The Society's president is Timothy West.

Herbert, founder and now consultant editor of Theatre Record, is also President of the International Association of Theatre Critics. He edited the last three editions of Who's Who in the Theatre, and contributed to or edited all but one of the International Theatre Institute's reviews The World of Theatr

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UK - British Harlequin plc will be exhibiting at the ABTT Theatre Show (15-16 June, Royal Horticultural Halls, London). Commenting on prospects for this year's show, marketing manager, Monica Arnott said: "We are always very encouraged by the quality of the people attending ABTT. Not only do we meet many of our existing customers here, but we always gain many interesting new enquiries."

Harlequin's worldwide operations serve the dance community at a number of levels with important recent projects including the new Copenhagen Opera House, the French National Dance Centre (CND) in Paris and Jazz at the Lincoln Center in New York. Harlequin floors have also been in demand for the growing trend for special events such as 'Constant Speed' - a continuous dance performance on London's Jubilee line between Canary Wharf and the Waterloo Eurostar Terminus - and at 'Art plus Danc

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Europe - Bandit Lites is supplying a full lighting production and crew package for the current Elvis Costello tour - hot on the heels of its work with the 'other' Elvis tour 'Elvis The Concert'. Elvis Costello - one of the world's most loved and acclaimed multi-disciplinary musicians - has been a Bandit account on both sides of the Atlantic for some years. The current LD is Liam McCarthy, one of a number of candidates put forward by Bandit three years ago, when Costello last sought an LD. This leg of the tour sees a step up in production size which is project managed by Bandit's Lester Cobrin.

The essence of lighting Costello is keeping it understated, subtle and in the background - so it's not a distraction to him and his music, explains McCarthy. There's specific things he doesn't like - including smoke, spot lights or audience lighting, and certain things he does like - like

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UK - At the forthcoming ABTT Show (15-16 June, Royal Horticultural Halls, London), Lightfactor Sales will show a variety of its core theatre and performance orientated products available from Italian manufacturers SGM and LDR, LightProcessor and Wireless Solutions.

From SGM will be the Palco LED colour-changer for indoor and outdoor use (IP65 rated), the Ribalta - a batten-style LED fixture, IP-rated and available in 4ft lengths; and the Giotto 400 CYM - a new moving head projector for use in high-profile entertainment applications - concerts, theatres and television studios. Features of the Giotto Spot 400 CMY include 400W hot re-strike MSR lamp, 9°-27° motorized zoom, CMY colour generation system, plus a colour wheel with six colours and white, two rotating indexable gobo wheels and an animation wheel, linear iris, full variable frost, variable CTO filter, a rotating prism,

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USA - A Hog iPC is being used for control of the Nine Inch Nails' tour's lighting show. LD Roy Bennett designed the tour, with lighting director Chad Smith out as board op. Recently, lighting contractor PRG had purchased a number of Hog iPC lighting consoles, so Smith switched out his Wholehog 2 for the new unit with the tour already underway.

"I heard good things about the Hog iPC from Butch Allen, who's using it on Garbage, so I was excited about it," Smith says. "So when we were in Boston, I switched out the day of show. I was freaking out at first, thinking, 'What am I doing?'. In this show, there is no room for error, but I felt confident with the console. I powered it up and ran my show and I haven't looked back."

Hog iPC is the newest product in the Wholehog family of controllers, and the industry's first hybrid console - it's designed to use the Who

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Spain - Spanish professional audio manufacturer, Pinanson, has announced at the AES convention in Barcelona that it has become the latest company to select the EtherSound standard as the vehicle for delivering digital audio distribution to its customers.

Pinanson manufactures audio and video connectivity tools including splitters, patchbays, stageboxes, multicores, cables, connectors and a large number of accessories. Until now, the company has been dedicated to the analogue model, but with the increasing use of digital technology in the marketplace, Pinanson has taken the decision to incorporate digital technology, specifically EtherSound, into its own products in order to offer their customers maximum choice and flexibility. The first digital product to be manufactured is a stagebox featuring 48 EtherSound inputs (mic and line) and 16 EtherSound outputs.

Pinanson's president

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UK - Since its opening in 1997, Itsu has become synonymous with chic yet accessible Japanese eating. Owned and run by the same duo responsible for the Pret A Manger chain, Itsu currently has four sites across London. The flagship restaurant in Chelsea boasts an enviable location in the heart of Brompton Cross. When the decision was taken to upgrade its sound system, restaurant manager Dan Levine turned to AV specialist Sound Division.

Sound Division's David Graham explained that the brief was to refurbish and upgrade the existing Bose installation and reconfigure it into a multi-zone system. "Stage one of the project was to replace and zone the upstairs level which comprises three sections; the main lounge bar; an intimate 'Cocoon' bar for 6-8 people which can be hired out on a private basis; and a walkway which connects the two." The system is based on the Bose Freest

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UK - Carlsbro has introduced the Wanderer and Wanderer Deluxe portable PA system series, aimed at a range of applications including seminars, training classes, street entertainers and aerobics classes. The Wanderer is available in three versions, say Carlsbro: the Wanderer Deluxe (with true diversity handheld UHF radio microphone) is a 50W RMS unit with two 8" speakers, a CD Player, cassette tape player/recorder; master volume, echo, tone and tape/CD level controls; voice priority function; mains or battery (4-hour life) operation; two microphone inputs and MP3/Minidisc input. The Wanderer Deluxe is also available with a headset mic, while the basic Wanderer system is supplied without a microphone. All versions come with a trolley handle and wheels, and a pole mount.

(Lee Baldock)

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Japan - The 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan is themed around nature and the power of life. The Australian pavilion reflects this theme - 'Nature's Wisdom' - from an Australian perspective. The pavilion showcases Australia's unique lifestyle, shaped by the harsh and beautiful continent and influenced by the people that have come to its shores, including indigenous Australians, European settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries, and more recent arrivals to Australia from Asia and all around the world.

The Australian Government appointed Melbourne-based firm Think!OTS to design, construct and maintain the Australian pavilion. Think!OTS joined forces with the major Japanese exhibition company Delphys Inc, which has been designing and building pavilions stretching back to the World Expo held in Osaka in 1970. Leading indigenous design firm Balarinji is also part of the Think!OTS

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Australia - New to Australian Monitor's Installation Series, the AMIS ZRM4 is an easy to use, yet highly featured 1U zone routing mixer, say the company. It features six inputs that can be balanced XLR mic or dual RCA/balanced XLR line level, all available to any combination of four zone outputs.

Input one can be designated as a paging input with priority over all other inputs individually selectable at each zone output. Front panel switches with LED indication provide for simple routing of each input. Each input has bi-colour status LED indication and two-stage equalization. Each input has an internal gain trim which can provide a further +/-15dB of gain. Phantom power and high-pass filters are also supplied per input. Outputs feature bi-colour status LEDs and remote master volume VCA control.

Also new, from The Australian Monitor AMAV brand, the AV25PS and AV40PS are active

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USA - The Foo Fighters have switched the majority of its onstage microphones to Sennheiser for its current tour, which kicked off in May with a handful of UK and US radio festival shows. The equipment in use features Sennheiser Evolution 600 and 900 series microphones on drums and percussion, plus the Sennheiser MD431-II for lead singer Dave Grohl.

"I've wanted to try a 431 on Dave's vocals for a long time," reveals monitor engineer Ian Beveridge, a Scot who has worked with the band, "pretty much my whole life. It's a long-term thing." He comments: "A lot of companies manufacture a spike in the mic response, but I wanted something that was totally flat. The 431 is the flattest vocal mic I've ever heard, even flatter than a lot of condensers. You can make it sound however you like. And it's amazingly smooth."

The MD431-II, which won out in an A/B t

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UK - The Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians has announced that a new series of one-day pyrotechnic safety awareness courses is currently in preparation. The dates are provisional at the moment but anyone interested in attending can register their interest at the website below.

The dates are: Belfast - 16 June; London - 24 June; Cambridge - 8 July; Cardiff - 13 July; Manchester - 20 July; London - 29 July; Warwick - 2 August; Birmingham - 3 August; Ryde (Isle of Wight) - 1 October.

(Lee Baldock)

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Spain - An Adamson SpekTrix system has been installed at Petit Palau, a small concert hall that was recently completed as part of the renovation of the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Spain.

The Petit Palau is situated below street level, with audience seating for 538. The room is primarily used for recitals by choirs and chamber ensembles. On either side of the stage three SpekTrix enclosures are installed above a SpekTrix Sub. Power for the installation is via two Lab.Gruppen FP3400 and two FP6400 amplifiers, with two Adamson DX6000s used for processing. The sound system package, supplied by Lambda/2 of Barcelona, offers the possibility to extend the system further using additional enclosures. The contractor for the project was Barcelona-based FM2.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Palau de la Música Catalana is considered to be one of the world's most magnificen

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