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UK - Lighting Technology Projects (LTP) has completed the installation of a striking media wall feature which has integrated solid state lighting and forms a visual centrepiece in the foyer of the new 11 storey building at 110 Fetter Lane (a site formally known as Rolls & Arnold House) in the heart of the City of London.

The space is currently taken up by the Royal Courts of Justice housing an extension to its 120-year-old Victorian gothic building on The Strand and a leading offshore bank.

Working for clients Delancey, the main contractor and installer for the construction project, LTP was brought in to provide specialist AV and integration services for both the video wall and a surrounding scenic lighting 'frame' which is prominent in the reception area.

LTP specified Philip

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China - Riedel Communications installed a comprehensive communications system for the Asian Games in Guangzhou. Riedel provided the venue communication system as well as the intercom for the opening and closing ceremonies, combining wired and wireless technologies.

The system for the ceremonies furnished an Artist digital matrix intercom system consisting of two mainframes connected via fiber, about 20 Artist 1000 series control panels and around 75 Performer digital partyline beltpacks.

To provide the infrastructure for venue communications, Riedel equipped the venues with a Performer digital partyline systems offering a versatile and easy to use communications system with high quality digital audio and more than 600 beltpacks.

Riedel Communications also handled the installation of the analogue radio network that was also integrated into the wired intercom infrastructure vi

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Olympic Marathon - To celebrate the London 2012 Olympics, Shakespeare's Globe will stage all of the playwright's 38 plays, each in a different language and by a different international company. Performances in Maori, Aboriginal languages and Cantonese will all be presented during the season and there will also be a production of Love's Labour's Lost in British Sign Language. Over the course of six weeks, companies including the National Theatre of Greece, Rome's Cometa Off Theatre and Oyun Atolyesi from Istanbul will play the Globe. The Globe itself will also stage one of the plays.

In an Urdu production, Pakistani TV star Nadia Jamil will star as Katherine in Taming of the Shrew and international directors Eimuntas Nekrosius and Tang Shu Wing will mount shows in Lithuanian and Cantonese respectively. Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole said tha

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UK - As the newest performance space in the South West, Pavilion Dance has certainly got the equipment and technology to deliver a first class act. Consultants Drama by Design were chosen to produce the solution, while Audio Light Systems Ltd were the chosen to engineer the demanding design in this compact but well-equipped venue.

The lighting package uses almost 200 ways of ETC Sensor dimming, controlled by an ETC Congo Junior desk. Amongst the 100-plus lanterns supplied were 12 Robe 575s, 24 JB LED A7s plus Selecon, ETC & Thomas units.

The d&B audio system is controlled by a Yamaha LS9 32 & DME64. This makes it possible to switch easily between FOH and Cinema mode at the touch of a button on the Crestron control system, which also provides complete AV & lighting control. The transformation to a digital cinema was enabled by the installation of a Christie Digital Roadstar HD1

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UK - Flare Audio is pleased to announce that it will shortly be opening a new R&D and demo facility in West Sussex, UK. Building work is currently underway and is on schedule to complete shortly. The 6000sqft building will also house the company's new head office.

In other news from Flare, the company welcomes D&E international as its official distributer in Hong Kong. Davies Roberts from Flare Audio comments: "We are very pleased to welcome D&E International into our network and we look forward to a long and successful business relationship with them. We are honoured to have such an established company join our international network so early."

The Flare Audio team are currently developing a new compact, multi format high pack (due late Spring 2011) that can be used as a true line source enclosure, point source enclosure or close field monitor. "Using technology

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Hungary - The culmination of the city of Pécs 2010 tenure as a European Capital of Culture was December's opening of the Kodály Centre, a new, multi-million euro concert and conference venue. It features a major Yamaha audio installation.

Inaugurated by Hungarian president Pál Schmitt, state secretary of culture Géza Sz?cs and Pécs mayor Zsolt Páva, the multi-purpose venue was opened on the 128th anniversary of eminent Hungarian composer and music teacher Zoltán Kodály's birth, after whom the centre is named.

Featuring a total area of 11,000sq.m, the facility cost €22m and includes a 999-capacity concert hall, recording studio, two conference rooms (one which also functions as a ballet room, the other which can be divided into two sections with a movable wall), rehearsal rooms, changing rooms and offices for the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra.

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USA - Theatre Projects, in collaboration with Gehry Partners and Frank Gehry (partner in charge), has completed its most recent project in theatre design, with the opening of the New World Symphony campus this week in Miami Beach, Florida. Theatre Projects executed the design for The New World Centre as a technologically and visually advanced music laboratory intended for the highest quality of music education and performance. Theatre Projects played a key role in the theatre design and planning as well as in designing the customized performance equipment.

Theatre Projects worked closely with Frank Gehry, Gehry Partners and Yasu Toyota, Nagata Acoustics (the same team that collaborated on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles) to bring to life a space that blends concert hall, theatre, global stage, and teaching facility into a single, large-scale concert and projection ha

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UK / USA - 2010 was a busy year for Kings Of Leon, who have been touring since summer in support of their new album, Come Around Sundown, with Midas XL8 live performance systems at FOH and monitors.

The Midas systems have been supplied by Eighth Day Sound in North America, and Britannia Row Productions in the UK and Europe. "We decided to go with the XL8 because it offers everything you could ask for in a console," says Saul Skoutarides, a UK-based Australian engineer who has been mixing monitors for Kings Of Leon since mid-2009 "Most importantly, it gives us the sound we need, both out front and on stage. It's the best sounding console I've ever used."

This is FOH engineer Brent Rawlings' first tour with a digital desk, having never found one that met his audio standards. His previous console of choice was the Midas XL4. It was the automatic latency

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UK - Black Light helped Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrate the end of 2010 in spectacular style by designing, installing and operating a series of technically sophisticated lighting shows for the city's celebrations.

"This was our most exciting Edinburgh's Hogmanay ever," says Stephen Reid, Black Light's head of events. "We used some really exciting new equipment to produce jaw-dropping effects that did full justice to the global importance of the event."

To kick-start the proceedings, the company lit the Son et Lumiére finale to the annual torch-light procession on the night of 30 December. This culminated with a dynamic lighting display that brought the architecture of the capital's Calton Hill to life. This display, which was designed in conjunction with Unique Events and programmed by Black Light's technicians, used over 50 intelligent fixtures, incl

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France - Budillon Rabatel has invested €15m in upgrading its alluvial quarry at Izeaux, in south eastern France. For the special inauguration, the company called upon sound, light and video specialists, Euro Sono Alex T'Rem, to supply lighting for this tomb-like location, spread over 100 hectares.

The exact location of this gravel pit is called Mollard Mouton, and many political and economic celebrities visited the Region iséroise for the occasion. The lighting system featured six PR Lighting XLED 590 LED moving head washlights, which had to perform in the difficult conditions. These were accompanied by effects from StarWay - all working in harmony to create a spectacular show under the open skies.

According to Alexandre Jeannerod, manager of Euro Sono, while conditions were hazardous, this could not prevent the lighting from functioning perfectly. He said that the pow

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The Netherlands - Sharp is to debut its new Video Cube at ISE in Amsterdam. Sharp is to bring the Video Cube to Europe for the first time following its success at CES in Las Vegas earlier this month. The Video Cube is made up of 64 individual Sharp PN-V601 ultra thin bezel 60 inch LCD displays. Their ultra-thin bezel of just 6.5mm between adjacent monitors offers the solution for high-quality video wall installations, says the company.

Other Sharp products on display at the show include an indoor sports installation made up of frameless 60inch monitors for pitch, track, court and arena advertising.

Darren Gaffey, UK product marketing manager, said, "The Video Cube application showcases the tremendous visual impact that can be created combining our 60-inch PN-V601 screens. We're very pleased to premiere this cube solution in Europe, especially after the excitement it cause

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UK Sound reinforcement for the 2010 Conservative Party Conference, held at Birmingham's ICC's Symphony Hall in early October, was provided by RDC Audio for the third year running, working with the Conference's production company Blueway. A DiGiCo SD9 console was at FOH.

"We purchased the SD9 via Wigwam sales department and there are a number of reasons why it's ideal for this kind of job," says RDC's Steven Neave. "They include the physical number of faders on the surface, the split banks of faders, flexibility of fader assignment and the straightforward layout and patching, all of which make for very fast access around the desk. "The stereo channels, Cat 5 multicore and external overview screen were additional reasons why we invested in the SD9."

Audio planning for the conference began in May, which included site visits and discussions with broadcaste

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UK - Adam Hall has launched the DEEP2 amp series, featuring four class-H power amplifiers with toroidal cores offering amplifying levels from 2×350 W to 2×800 W at 4 Ohm. During the developmental stages of this series great importance was placed on the reliability and durability of the amps whilst in continuous operation, for this reason only high end, carefully selected components are used, says the company.

According to Andrew Richardson, general manager of Adam Hall UK, "The Deep2 Series is simply the best class-H power amplifier on the market because nothing else comes close, with this performance level and cost, backed by the LD systems two year guarantee."

The Deep2 series features include a clip limiter as well as all the standard protection circuit. While in continuous operation the amps are 2 Ohm and 4 Ohm (bridge) stable. All common in- and outputs can be

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UK - Lift Turn Move has announced two additions to its product range - The C-Force Manual Chain Block and C-Force Beam Clamp. These new products are all black in colour which makes them suitable for venue and touring rigging applications.

With this range, LTM is aiming to make the manual chain blocks as affordable as possible, whilst maintaining a very high build quality. These professional duty blocks come complete with swivelling load and suspension hooks, lightweight, low headroom, safe and easy operation. In addition to this costs are kept low by offering them pre-chained to 10m as standard. This reduces labour costs and these savings are being passed onto the customer, says the company.

The Chain Blocks are available in capacities from 250Kg - 1,000Kg all tested and certified and available from stock in the UK and Germany.

LTM has also supplemented its existing product

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The Netherlands - At ISE 2011 in Amsterdam, Meyer Sound will give system integrators an in-depth, hands-on experience of the latest advances in loudspeaker technologies and digital audio solutions. Live demonstrations of the Constellation acoustic system will feature. Other products on show will include the new Mina line array loudspeaker, CAL column array loudspeaker, D-Mitri digital audio platform, and a range of low-profile, low-voltage sound reinforcement systems.

Constellation employs multiple small, self-powered loudspeakers in conjunction with VRAS digital signal processing algorithms to create variable acoustical environments. Providing live music for demonstrations at the show will be British flautist Adrian Brett.

Meyer Sound's new D-Mitri digital audio platform will serve as the backbone of the Constellation system at ISE. Incorporating the emerging AVB networking s

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Denmark - Martin Professional's PC-based lighting software, LightJockey 2, is now shipping with the new Martin One-Key protection device, one Martin USB DUO DMX and the MSD5 MC Edition 3D Visualizer.

Martin also announces a LightJockey hardware replacement programme. Through the programme, old LightJockey hardware from an ISA PC card to a Universal USB device can be returned for exchange.

The replacement kit includes the Martin One-Key, either one or two Martin USB DUO DMXs, and an MSD5 MC Edition 3D Visualizer.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Leeds College of Music (LCM) recently took delivery of two Audient ASP8024 mixing consoles as part of an upgrade of their current studio facilities. The Audient desks were supplied together with Lynx converters and Drawmer outboard gear by Funky Junk, and will be used by the college's Music Production degree students for recording, mixing, production and mastering.

"Previously we had digital desks that were getting a bit old so we traded them in for good analogue desks," explains LCM's senior studio technician, Keith Smith. "The studios didn't have any outboard gear at all before, so we bought a few units so that students can get used to patching and mixing outside of the computer."

BA (Hons) Music Production course leader, Craig Golding says, "The Audient ASP8024 console provides the College with a quality analogue platform for use in delivering

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The Netherlands - Supertramp co-founder Roger Hodgson is currently touring with Front of House engineer Howard Heckers, a DiGiCo SD9 and a pair of DiGiRacks.

"The reasons we chose the SD9 are its sound-quality, flexibility and its size - it is very compact to travel with," says Heckers. "Sometimes we have a flight to catch after every other show; the SD9 makes it easy for us to travel and still use our own FOH desk."

Another feature he likes about the SD9 is that they can only use one stage rack if Roger is playing a solo show, or use both when he is doing shows with a full band.

The console was supplied by DiGiCo's Dutch distributor TM Audio. "When we delivered the SD9 to Howard's studio, he was familiar with the complete console within an hour - it is that easy to learn," says the company's Jaap Pronk.

"When Roger and I hooked up the ge

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UK - The Le Mark Group team raised £5,934.00 for the RNLI. Managing director Stuart Gibbons welcomed Mark Spruce from the RNLI and received their official thanks on behalf of the entire staff of Le Mark. "Despite difficult trading conditions for many companies, Le Mark continued to grow and expand their workforce during 2010" stated Gibbons. "We felt that as an established company blessed with staff originating from different parts of the world, who all showed excellent social awareness, we wanted to help those less fortunate in some way."

The company raised the money by committing a percentage of their net profit to the RNLI. This way every person in every department contributed through their own individual efforts to make a definite difference to the overall sum raised.

(Jim Evans)

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Germany/The Netherlands - Optocore's stated mission to deliver more energy-efficient, higher-capacity and cost-competitive product upgrades under the 'R' banner, has taken on new momentum with the announcement of the DD4MR-FX and DD2FR-FX dual MADI, video and data network devices.

Following on from the release of the DD32R interface last autumn, these two 1RU products have been designed for compatibility with Optocore's new Cat 5-based SANE platform, allowing up to 256 channels over Cat 5. The existing DD4ME and DD2FE MADI devices have thus been re-engineered to function within this environment, and include RJ45 SANE network connectivity, while the optical port upgrade (to 2Gbit LC SPF's) allows for simple user exchangeable single or multimode fibre transceivers.

The expanded capacity provides each ring with the capability of carrying up to an unprecedented 1024 audio channels

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The Netherlands - At ISE in Amsterdam, Apart will introduce the CHAMP-3D amplifier, the newest model in APart's series of convection cooled amplifiers. CHAMP3 is a 3-channel, fully programmable digital amplifier.

CHAMP-3D features four MASK8 top speakers and two SUB2400 subwoofers. The unit has a built-in DSP (digital signal processor). A speaker configuration wizard makes it possible to select other APart speakers and subwoofers that go with the CHAMP-3D amplifier. All the installer has to do is select the speakers, and the settings will be adapted automatically (e.g. the crossover frequency). It will be possible to add future speaker models through an RS-232 upload of software updates posted on the APart website. The advantage for the installer is clear: minimum preparation and install time, minimum worries, maximum performance, says the company.

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