Capita Symonds is part of the FTSE100 Capita Group plc and employs 3,300 staff in 45 UK offices and another five overseas. It has doubled its turnover to £200m in the two years to 2005 and is one of the fastest growing firms in the consultancy and engineering sector.
Commenting on its new ACE membership, Capita Symonds managing director Richard Marchant said: "We made a conscious decision to join ACE as it is the leading business association in our sector. ACE can help Capita Symonds by being an ambassador for consultancy and engineering and by being an active member we can in turn have a greater influence in the industry.
ACE chief executive Nelson Ogunshakin said: "Capita Symonds joining ACE further
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!
Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi
Plus, the company launch the new ERAC 2500R amplifier/controller package, a four-way, active control and amplification system specifically designed for the KV2 Audio ES Series modular loudspeaker systems. This draws technology from KV2's existing EPAK amplifier/controller and combines it with the company's VHD technology to produce a rack mounted amplifier/controller that incorporates digital alignment utilizing a DSD (Direct Stream Digital) 6.0 MHz delay line. It houses all signal processing and a
This installation will be the first to have the new Stasys 3 Series II cabinet, which features the waveformer horn system unique to Void Acoustics. Infinite amplifiers will power the system with loudspeaker management provided through the Void Digidrive and Void Livedrive.
Paul Buck, Void's marketing manager says: "BCM will make a useful addition to our portfolio of venues and we are also delighted to welcome Ilusion into our expanding network of dealers.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
Shure Performance Listening Centre brings state-of-the-art recording and product testing capabilities to the company's 65,000 square-foot, two-story Technology Annex, which opened last year. Offering all of the comfort of an elegant theatre with tiered seating for 14 and a bamboo floor, the critical studio is furnished with three ATC SCM 100 ASL active monitors, a Carillon Audio Systems computer, and 192 kHz multi-channel AES/EBU interface capabilities from Lynx Studio Technology.
"Shure has developed a first class recording studio, allowing them the ideal environment to test mult
You're A Star's lighting was designed by Andrew Leonard and programmed by Peter Canning. Canning also co-ordinated the supply and design of the VersaTUBE feature and the Catalyst system used to run it, via his company Zencorp.
Dublin-based Zencorp specializes in digital media and LED fixtures and control systems. The company purchased a quantity of VersaTUBEs from UK and Irish distributor Projected Image Digital at the end of last year which have been in constant use ever since.
Leonard and Canning came onboard for this - their first - You're A Star series, having worked on a special charity edition of the show last year. For visuals, they broug
The concept offers a range of support services for testing, piloting and commercialization of new products and services. The space can be used in product launches and pre-marketing as well as a tool in product design, etc.
Several key requirements were set as the basis of the design process: usability of the space, ease of maintenance, flexibility, expandability, modularity and innovation. Removable walls allow for easy expandability. The modules also include embedded box-shaped showcases and four electronic information displays are a
Rimini Fiera Chairman, Lorenzo Cagnoni, announced the official figures of each of the key sectors of the two expos, which were hosted simultaneously at the expo centre until Tuesday 14 March: "Overall, between lighting, audiovisuals and complementary products, SIB represents a part of Italy's economy with a value of approximately 650 million euros. Last year, the sales of actual musical instruments, for which DISMA Music Show is the leading event, increased by 3.6% com
The project has been co-ordinated by Valley's Kids, a local charity working with children and young people in the area. The £2.4 million refurbishment of Capel Soar is a massive boost to Valley's Kids and a major step forward in offering interactive environments for learning, working and experiencing a range of activities from football and theatre to dance, cinema and everything in between.
Theatre Technical Consultant Iain Hill from Illusion International originally thought the roof aperture would be ideally suited to a CABLEnet system and put the idea forward. He's been involved with Valley's Kids for many years, and worked
The AKG system was selected after numerous different systems were tested, both in rehearsal and live on stage, prior to the tour in the US. Production manager Bryon 'Hot Dog' Tate, and FOH mixer for the European tour John C. Clark III, unanimously elected the WMS 4000. "Intelligible vocals at high volume levels, road worthiness, and customer support were our main requirements, and AKG got the job done!" states Clarke.
The tour carries two C5900 equipped WMS 4000 systems for use by Kanye on stage. Eight AKG C 411 MicroMic condensers are also being used to mic the string section on the tour. These attach
Joyes will head up E//T//C UK's new high power video projection department. One of his immediate tasks will be to help introduce its revolutionary new OnlyView multi-screen control software to the market.
Joyes brings a wealth of technical experience and knowledge in both lighting and visuals to the equation at E//T//C UK. He's worked in the production industry for over 25 years, across every discipline - from theatre, rock 'n' roll and corporate events to festivals and large scale spectaculars - and has also undertaken many shows with E//T//C UK as a freelance engineer and programmer. His touring video exploits include working with pioneering artists such as David Bowie, Madonna, Peter Gabriel and the Stereophonics.
E//T//C UK's Ross Ashton sa
Incorporating the historic structure of an early Victorian carriage works and old Electric Press Building, the new venue is part of a £12 million commercial development of bars, cafés and restaurants grouped around a glass-roofed courtyard. Replacing the existing Leeds Civic Theatre, The Carriage Works offers two performance spaces - the 350 seat main auditorium and a Studio Theatre - in addition rehearsal and conference/meeting facilities.
The project was managed for J&C Joel by Tony Griffiths, who comments: "J+C Joel were proud to play an active role in such a prestige city centre project."
J+C Joel manufactured and installed a full stage depth counterweight wall frame accommodating up to 37 counterwe
The consoles have been installed into the Katuaq Greenland, the country's primary multipurpose arts centre built in the capital city of Nuuk in 1997 to strengthen cultural life in the country. Having operated with its main console for the nine years since it opened, the venue's technical staff felt the time was right for an upgrade, and following a Midas demo, the Legend 3000 was chosen. A Venice 240 was also selected for use at smaller events at the Katuaq.
"We needed a good replacement board because the venue gets a huge amount of use, with jobs ranging from theatre and dance to conferences and corporate events, which include different complex setups," says the centre's technical manager Kim Larsen. &quo
The MH3 replaces a Soundcraft Venue. Having previously worked with TMC to upgrade the theatre's reinforcement system, head of sound, Sean Pritchard, had begun looking around for a suitable upgrade and replacement for the venue when the MH3 was launched onto the market.
"We chose the MH3 on the basis of advice from Nick Bolton at TMC, and several others," explains Pritchard, "It was clearly the best buy for its price, with 40 channels and all the auxs - we are using all 12. The overall spec meant that it was a real bargain."
The MH3 was pressed into immediate service on the Everyman's pantomime over the holiday season. Installed just one week before the run of Rock 'n' Ro
XL tendered for and won the contract on the strength of their previous West End work including Women In White. Theatre and arts expert, Malcolm Mellows, is handling the project for them. XL is working with video designers Scharff & Weisberg, who initially designed the system for the New York production at Radio City Music Hall.
Video is central to the show, and is divided into three main display device types: There are 70 tiles of Barco I-6 LED making up two downstage moving slabs of video, whilst upstage is 3630 clusters of Barco MiPix in custom fibre optic star effect frames. All LED is supplied complete with Barco D320 processing; and custom remote diagnostics. Finally, projections come from
Boys based the specification of his ProTools rig on FX's hire system following advice from the company's ProTools department, purchasing an HD2 Accel system with 24 IO on 192s, Sync IO, a Dual 2.7 GHz Apple Mac, 19 inch TFT screen , Glyph Firewire GT103 with Keydrives and a large selection of plugins including Waves.
"I used FX because I have known them for years and therefore I know they give good service and back-up," explains Boys about his choice to purchase ProTools from FX. "They were also very competitive on price."
Boys, who cut his teeth on the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and also recorded and mixed the Buena Vista Social C
"This NASDAQ Capital Market listing is an important step in our program to enhance LOUD's visibility in the financial community," said chairman and CEO Jamie Engen. "As a leader in the rapidly growing professional audio industry, we believe that LOUD is on the right track as we continue to implement our strategy to increase revenue, improve margins, and build value for our shareholders."
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
The event featured plenty of award action plus live performances from six acts including Dirty Pretty Things, Pete Doherty; Razorlight; The Sugababes; Plan B and Ian Brown.
Fleetwood recorded the show 'as live' and it was broadcast 90 minutes later to E4 viewers and re-broadcast n Channel 4 the following day. The audio team was led by Fleetwood's operations director Tim Summerhayes and Dave O'Carroll looked after any musical fixes and the Audio Dub. The OB Scanner for the event was supplied by Andrew Jones of 021, while Tony Gregory directed the show for Remedy.
Emma Sheldon, production manager for Remedy Productions, which commissioned Fleetwood, says: "This was the biggest Awards sh
The new items are the Mediator Enterprise media asset manager system; the Exception alarm monitoring system; the Reflection browse system; the Transcoder file converter; and the Rewrapper MPEG2 processor.
Mediator Enterprise has been developed from the Mediator media management system and integrates media asset management, browsing and workflow control. It can perform automated ingest and transfer, automated transcoding and low-resolution previewing under Web browser control. According to the company, it has a greatly expanded ability to link disparate systems, to audit library content bookings and tape movements, and to handle the
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