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12 September 2025

Turkey - Every night, fans of Empire of the Sun, affectionately known as Empyreans, wait in line to see the Australian duo’s Ask That God tour. Many follow the band from city to city.

Less of a traditional concert, and more like an experience where sci-fi mysticism slams into concert energy, Ask That God blazes its own path in every possible way.

Oliver ‘Olly’ Suckling was more than up to the task on the long-awaited EU leg of the Ask That God tour, which concluded 30 August at Bonus Parkorman in Istanbul, after beginning in July at Sagres Campo Pequeno in Lisbon, with stops in Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, The UK, Poland, The Czech Republic, France, Belgium and other countries along the way.

After designing the show, Suckling ran it on a rig supplied by Lights Control Rigging (LCR), using t

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12 September 2025

Mexico - Tucked into a quiet residential block of Colonia Condesa, in Mexico City, OWL Hidden Bar inhabits what was once the storage space of a former restaurant. At just 102sq.m, its discreet footprint captures the spirit of a hidden bar – secrecy, intimacy, and the thrill of discovery.

Inspired by 1920s speakeasies, the project reimagines Art Deco geometry through a contemporary lens. A monolithic brass bar anchors the space, functioning as both centrepiece and stage. Around it, illuminated textiles and warm finishes balance brass, wood, concrete, and fabric, setting the scene for a night that shifts seamlessly between calm conversation and lively music.

When it came to sound, the project team initially had a different brand in mind. But that changed once they visited NTX Distribution’s showroom and heard 1 Sound for themselves.

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12 September 2025

USA - Located in downtown Miami, Gale Hotel Miami is a 51-story architectural landmark offering a blend of boutique hotel comfort, upscale condo living, and culinary haven, complemented by a wellness centre complete with a spa. Guests can indulge in a variety of dining experiences on the 9th floor, offering vistas of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline.

Gale Hotel Miami hired Interlink Group to design the audio systems for the two restaurants on the 1st floor and the three restaurants on the 9th floor. Interlink, in turn, partnered with Designer Digital Systems to design the sound system, build the racks, and programme the system. With space for only one full-sized rack on the 9th floor and one in the mezzanine MDF room, and requirements to power many speakers at high SPL for parties, amplifier size and power were major considerations. LEA Professional amplif

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12 September 2025

UK - Tazaar’s GeoTag DIN Rail made its global debut as a central part of the PLASA Show’s Innovation Gallery. The new solution provides visibility to asset management professionals who need to know exactly where every power unit is at any time. The new solution sees Tazaar’s rugged GPS tracker reimagined to bolt directly onto generators, power units, and heavy industrial equipment, making it ideal for protecting expensive power equipment.

With GeoTag DIN Rail, Tazaar is solving the problem of how to effectively protect expensive equipment in open areas without a permanent security presence. GPS support ensures that users will always know that their power supplies are in the right place, preventing potentially disastrous situations and lowering the risk of equipment theft.  

GeoTag DIN Rail combines industrial durability with digital intellige

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12 September 2025

The Netherlands - DirectOut has announced its focus on interoperability and third-party integrations at this year’s International Broadcast Conference (IBC).

Visitors to stand 8.D65 will not only discover the latest innovations and updates, but will also experience a series of technical showcases and collaborative sessions with renowned industry partners. The sessions will highlight DirectOut’s open approach, showcasing the flexible workflows across diverse production environments that DirectOut’s integration is known for throughout the broadcast industries.

Among the companies joining DirectOut at IBC 2025 are BFE, EVS, Lawo, NEP, NetOn.Live, RTW and Skaarhoj. Each will present practical use-cases and integrations with DirectOut solutions, demonstrating how broadcasters can benefit from streamlined interoperability in real-world scenarios. Nic

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12 September 2025

The Netherlands - Sound Devices [Hall 8, Booth C24] has announced a robust set of feature and firmware updates for the brand’s 8-Series Mixer/Recorder and Astral Wireless product lines. Sound Devices will be showcasing all of this as part of the brand’s appearance at IBC 2025.

​Since debuting in 2019, Sound Devices 8-Series Mixer/Recorders have become an industry standard, favoured by top professionals within the film/TV production and broadcast industries. A major part of this has been Sound Devices’ commitment to an open dialogue with the industry, resulting in regular firmware updates and new features. V11.0 adds several requested features to the 8-Series CL-16 Linear Fader Control Surface, making it more flexible and powerful than ever before. These features include the new Waveform Display, Speed Shuttling +/- 32x, Advanced Navigation Tools, Fad

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12 September 2025

Europe - David Schubert has joined the sales team of GLP as senior sales manager. In his new role, he supports sales activities in Germany and Switzerland, contributing to the continued expansion of the company’s market presence.

A trained wholesale and foreign trade specialist, Schubert brings more than two decades of experience in the professional event and media technology industry. Following his vocational training, he gained extensive expertise in both inside and field sales and soon specialised in the distribution of lighting technology. Since 2010, he has been continuously active in sales, focusing primarily on field sales from 2015 onwards.

“I am very excited about my new role at GLP and about introducing our innovative products to customers, supporting them in turning their creative ideas into reality, while also nurturing existing partn

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11 September 2025

UK - During the PLASA Show in London, the European associations AFIAL, APESA, AVITA, Event Confederation, PLASA, PSA and VPLT announced their intention to join forces internationally.

The group represents manufacturers, distributors, dealers, system integrators, production companies, professional end-users and technical service providers involved in live events.

The new alliance (Entertainment Technology Industry Alliance - ETIA) offers a platform for exchange, pools expertise and resources, and provides a strong voice in European legislative and regulatory processes. The associations represent six European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

The associations are: Event Confederation (umbrella organisation for Belgian event professionals); AVITA (Audiovisual Association of Finland); APESA (French Allia

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11 September 2025

Europe - Drake is getting his steps in. On his current $ome $pecial $hows 4 U Tour, co-headlined with Party Next Door and currently on its European leg through mid-September, the show features a stage which forms a ring around the standing room audience, with walkways running along the long end of the floor and larger stages at opposite ends of the arena. Drake typically performs across all the stages during a show. It’s a lot to keep up with, but the pair of DiGiCo Quantum852 consoles on an Optocore network that also supports three SD-Racks and one SD-MiNi Rack – all supplied by tour vendor Eighth Day Sound, a Clair Global brand – are more than up to the task.

“The Quantum852 is extremely flexible,” states tour monitor engineer Chris Lee. “Whatever we need, whatever anybody requests, I can do it. It’s the Swiss Army knife of consoles.

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11 September 2025

Chile - When the Chilean Army inaugurated the Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) in Santiago de Chile in July 2025, the event marked the consecration of the country’s first institutional church, serving as a spiritual home for service members and their families. With its soaring laminated wood arches, 14 stained-glass windows, and expanded 300-seat capacity, the new church was a symbol of faith and national identity, but it also presented a major acoustic challenge.

With a reverberation time of 4.5 seconds, even the most solemn words of the liturgy quickly became blurred, leaving parishioners disconnected from key moments of worship. To address this, Chilean HK Audio partner ProSound and distributor SETESA designed and installed a new sound system built around the HK Audio SI Series P10j.

The installation includes six SI

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11 September 2025

UK - St Michael’s Abbey is a small monastic community in Hampshire where Benedictine values and worship have been observed and preserved since the Abbey’s foundation in 1895. Living a traditional life of prayer, work and study, the community of monks at Saint Michael’s welcomed a recent upgrade of the Abbey’s AV, IT and security systems, a project led by specialist systems integrators Whitwam AVI.

Brother Michael, a resident of St Michael’s Monastery responsible for overseeing the community’s operations, reached out to Whitwam AVI following a visit he made to Saint George’s Chapel in Windsor. “I appreciated the attention to detail which had been taken to respect the surroundings when installing the technology at Saint George’s,” recalls Brother Michael. “On seeing the custom-coloured loudspeakers, I knew this would be a great solution f

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11 September 2025

Brazil - Powersoft’s energy-efficient Duecanali amplifier platform is providing the audio backbone for a wide range of performances and community events across Sesc São Paulo’s network, with more than 100 Duecanali 1604 amplifiers now installed throughout Brazil’s most populous state.

The multi-site programme has been steered by designer and consultant Reinaldo Pargas, whose company, AVM Projetos e Consultoria em Tecnologia, has been working with Sesc since 2003 on projects that balance the organisation’s strict technical standards with the real-world needs of touring artists and educators.

Established in 1964, Sesc (Serviço Social do Comércio, Social Service of Commerce) is a private organisation funded by São Paulo’s business sector to improve the quality of life of employees and their families. As of 2025, it maintains 43 centres thr

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11 September 2025

Hungary - Lightware has announced the launch of the Lightware Enterprise Program, empowering corporations and organisations with its portfolio of signal management solutions bolstered by dedicated, personalised support. Offering two distinct tiers of Enterprise agreements, Enterprise Global and Enterprise One, these programmes are designed around a shared set of essential benefits, including direct manufacturer engagement, extended warranties, advanced technical support, demo assistance and customised training.

“In today’s connected world, AV infrastructure is more than just a tool,” says Craig McQueen, director of enterprise sales at Lightware. “Whether our clients are operating globally, or in a single region, our structured offering for enterprise clients serves their specific needs for reliable, scalable and future-ready AV systems.”

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11 September 2025

Belgium - Lokerse Feesten is a 10-day festival of music, food, and community, which takes place in the Belgian city of Lokeren in August. This year saw the 50th edition of the event which is now one of the country’s premier festivals, having hosted a who’s-who of international artists of every musical genre.

This year’s event saw appearances from The Pet Shop Boys, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sex Pistols, and Iggy Pop, and was attended by more than 100,000 visitors. A newly added feature for 2025 was an intimate stage near the entrance to the main stage which hosted a series of Secret Sessions, a platform for local and emerging artists to shine at this high-profile event.

The small, outdoor Secret Sessions area hosted a wide variety of solo artists and full bands, requiring a compact and versatile, top-quality PA which combined hig

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11 September 2025

USA - Hip-hop act Wu-Tang Clan capped their touring career this summer with The Final Chamber, a 27-date North American farewell tour celebrating the New York group’s 30-plus years at the forefront of rap. An impactful production anchored the shows, with lighting designer Ben Walton and associate lighting designer/programmer Eliot Jessep relying on Elation’s Pulse Panel FX and Proteus Hybrid Max to deliver the eye-catching looks the milestone demanded. Lighting supply came from Fuse Technical Group.

The farewell concert series in June and July followed the April release of the album, Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman.

Jessep, in his first collaboration with Wu-Tang Clan, joined the tour via director Jennifer Bui, with whom he had previously worked on The Kid Laroi and Lil Baby. “It was a natural flow into this project,” he

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11 September 2025

China - Christie reports that its partners, Jianye Display and Shanghai Qingying Digital Technology, have deployed more than 100 Inspire Series 1DLP laser projectors across multiple exhibition halls at the new Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum. The installations deliver vibrant, high-impact visuals that transform the museum into an interactive journey of scientific discovery with a distinctly futuristic feel.

Located in Guangming District, the museum is themed around Digital Civilisation, with architecture inspired by a giant spacecraft. Its flexible, open spaces house four permanent halls featuring 950 exhibits, over 80% of which are interactive. Since its opening, the museum has drawn more than one million visitors in just three months, establishing itself as a leading hub for science popularisation in Shenzhen and a benchmark for innovation

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11 September 2025

UK - This year, Highlite International – an exhibitor at PLASA Show since 2016 – showed several new lighting and audio products.

Infinity impressed with its brand-new Infinity Furion FX402 bar – an IP65-rated LED batten with 10 high-power 60W RGBW LEDs in 10 tilt heads and 60 warm and cold white strobe pixel LEDs – a fixture which further strengthens the Furion series.

Showtec’s new Xpression series was introduced, along with the Titan Strobe 200 FX, the Stage Blinder 200 Blaze and the Goliath. The Xpression series consists of the 2000S – Spot, the 2000B – Beam and 2000W – WashBeam with each light designed to work together to create a truly unified lighting experience. Additional LEDs add colour capabilities to the traditional effects of the Titan Strobe 200 FX and the Stage Blinder 200 Blaze, while the Goliath blends modern technolog

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11 September 2025

The Netherlands - Astera has launched SolaBulb, billed as ‘the only bulb on the market with an inbuilt 15º - 50º zoom range that is optimised for maximum lux output’.

The SolaBulb project first germinated when LunaBulb was being launched in June 2024, as the R&D team was learning more about the potential of the LunaReflector to emulate the style and look of PAR bulbs. A SolaBulb prototype was quickly produced.

Astera’s head of product development, Ben Díaz, explained that it was soon realised that SolaBulb – a small, versatile, high-quality lightsource – was completely unique as a product.

Ben highlights that high-level innovation also comes with some risk, so he travelled to the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand with prototypes, meeting a range of lighting professionals to gather their feedback, both to improve the samples a

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11 September 2025

The Netherlands - Leyard Europe joins Zero Density and KST Moschkau on booth 7.B01 at this year’s IBC show at the RAI in Amsterdam from 12-15 September.

The ZeroDensity booth will showcase an 8 x 8 DirectLight Pro 1.2mm in a virtual studio setup to demonstrate the company’s XR solutions, with a 4 x 3 panels video wall used to show its on-air graphics solution. The KST Moschkau setting will feature a 6 x 6 DirectLight Pro 0.9mm LED in a broadcast control room setup showing KST Moschkau’s solutions for broadcast studio automation. Both the ZeroDensity virtual studio and KST Moschkau broadcast control room solutions will run on advanced Brompton Technology processing.

Made in Europe and enabled by MicroLED technology, the DirectLight Pro Series delivers a wide colour space and deeper blacks for improved video performance and is available in pixel

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11 September 2025

The Netherlands - Studio Technologies will spotlight four of its innovative audio solutions at the Nixer Audio stand during IBC 2025 (Nixer Audio, Stand 8.F96), including the Model 394 GPI Interface and companion Model 395 GPO Interface, the Model 201 Interpreter’s Console, and the Model 5682 ST 2110 to Dante Bridge.

Studio Technologies is debuting the Model 394 GPI Interface and the 395 GPO Interface for the first time at IBC 2025. The Model 394 supports two general-purpose input (GPI) signals for a range of applications, while the Model 395 provides two general-purpose outputs. To support a variety of applications, they can operate together to transport one or two contact closures over a standard Ethernet network or can be utilised independently.

The units are housed in lightweight, aluminium tabletop enclosures. Each model has a 100BASE-TX (100