Emphasising the multicultural history of Singapore and themed Project Wonderland, this year's parade featured 13 floats, with over 4,000 performers from 40 organisations from Singapore and seven other countries including Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, India, South Korea and The Philippines. An estimated 150.000 visitors j
The retail outlets are gathered in malls and a village area around a central atrium the size of a football pitch with a spectacular undulating glass roof. To bring life to the atrium, and to offer support to the entertainment events which will often be staged there, Westfield is equipped with some of the very latest lighting technology, all supplied by leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light.
"We started with a brief to support the events, shows and experiential marketing that was planned in the first year to seed the space, and I also look
"I've always enjoyed analogue consoles, and I'll use whatever suits the job," says Boothroyd. "A band like AC/DC warrants using a good old analogue desk because they're a good old analogue band. It's not like I have masses of processing, FX sends or over-EQing going on, just a little bit of compression. Nothing fancy as it doesn't need to be, and I'm having a great time using it."
The 25-year-old PRO40 was
Since working with the new PA system, Adris Group has secured a long term contract with Dicroic for the design, projecting, installation and maintenance in the field of audio, video & multimedia solutions and has named Klotz Digital as one of its official suppliers.
"Klotz Digital's remarkable technology allows a fast and individual assignment of zones without rewiring, which is an extraordinary advantage in the SPA. Separate areas and rooms are used for different events over a specific time period and need to be rearranged, both physically and acoustically, every few weeks," says Dicroic's proje
The board was specified by the venue's experienced head of sound, George Gregori, on recommendation from Soundcraft dealer, Pete Brotzman of Crystal Pro Audio, who provided the venue with much of its audio support.
The desk is also used by day to run live sound training courses run by Gregori for his company Live Sound Courses. With many alumni having progressed to great achievements in the professional world of live sound mixing, he believes that the physicality of the analogue surface is much more forgiving than the digital equivalents.
"The MH3 is perfect for our needs - unlike our previous desk which was being repaired so often that it became uneconomical to maintain," observes Gregori.
The Grand Auditorium, a two-storey space with a capacity of 1,114, has been installed with 18 Kudo cabinets configured in three equal hangs at left, centre and right positions. These are supplemented with four SB28 subwoofers which can be positioned as required, four 115XT HiQ monitors for front-fill, four 112P self-powered stage monitors and four 8XT compact oaxial as rear surround. This system is driven by 10 LA8 and two LA4 ampl
The Return To Eden tour, promoted by Live Nation, plays 17 dates across the UK throughout April and May. Two Eat To The Beat chefs, Rachel Collins and Ali Matthew, are travelling with the tour, carrying their own flight cased equipment and utilising each venue facilities to prepare and serve three meals a day.
Production Manager Dave Claxton observes, "Midge [Ure] was recently a finalist on Celebrity Masterchef so he understands how pressurised the life of a chef can be. It always amazes me how they manage to produce such a varied spread at high standards in a wide range of conditions. They do it with humour and
Ivonne Atmojo, the owner, said that there are not many performance halls in Indonesia that have good acoustics. At the end of 2007, she and Hadi Sumoro, a member of Community Professional Loudspeaker's Technical Application Group (TAG), worked together planning the school's performance hall. Her main concern was
Tutored by Orbital's training manager Theo Holloway, the course is designed to combine theatre sound theory with extensive hands-on practice.
"A technical career in theatre sound requires a broad range of skills, from understanding the specialist technologies to the interpersonal qualities required in a tightly-knit team environment," says Holloway. "This year has probably been the most successful course to date - we had a great bu
At opposite ends of the UK, and indeed opposite ends of the musical spectrum, two artists have recently been using the RSS V-Mixing digital 40-track package to record concerts, one for a live album release later in the year and the other for archive purposes. Both AC/DC tribute band Live/Wire and Sheila Jordan, one of the stars of the Sage Gateshead International Jazz Festival, were using RSS digital audio technology to provide front-of-house and stage sound control for their shows.
The 'grandmother of bebop', Sheila Jordan is still performing in her eighties. For her concert at the Sage Centre in Gateshead, Simon Kenning from RSS was on hand to support
Ben Harrison and John Owens were two high profile names invited to the committee to oversee the design of the audio systems.
"The brief was that the sound equipment had to be state of the art and able to cater for every kind of production that Curve might be likely to stage, with minimal extra hire costs," says Harrison. "We knew the producti
Mucho, the band's latest album, brings expression of the band's latest evolutionary steps into sharp focus with a selection of songs mixed in London by Phil Brown of Roxy Music fame. "Phil has always been a mythical rock-god engineer to us," Dárgelos says. "Given our rock en espanol budget, we didn't think there was much chance of us ever working with him, however. That's why we were stunned after we sent him a disc of some of our songs, and he accepted to do Mucho right away."
Bringing the songs of Mucho to Baba
Installed by well-established audio-visual integrator Technomight, based in Dubai and Doha, UAE, the installation of an 8 x 6 panel (5.12m(w) x 2.88 m (h)) Lighthouse P6-FA screen in the building's lobby, provides an instant impression of the bank's high quality standards.
"We first met Lighthouse in 2007 to discuss some potential projects at the Dubai Palme exhibition and have maintained regular contact ever since," says Technomight's Yogesh S. Wadke.
"This is the first time we have installed Lighthouse LED panels. We chose the P6-FA front access panels because the bank needs excellent picture quality with a short vi
The Auditorium is a multi-purpose venue, hosting meetings and presentations, theatrical productions and orchestral concerts, so the demands placed on the new sound reinforcement system were heavy. In addition, the theatre is protected under historic building regulations, so the installation of equipment had to be visually appealing.
Zap Audio proposed an all-purpose system centred on Nexo's new compact Geo S1230 two-way enclosures. Two of these modules have been flown either side of the stage, supplemented by a Nexo RS15 subwoofer and two Nexo PS8 cabinets as rear FX speakers. These loudspeakers are all driven by a pair of Nexo's NXAMP
The museum has been designed by noted architect Sn°hetta and tells the story of the 17th century Norwegian clergyman and poet named Petter Dass.
One Medialon Manager PRO license, integrated by Multitekst Ltd and YIT Systemteknikk, controls the entire auditorium and the exhibition sections of the museum.
A Rugboard (touch panel) is the main user interface for the entire installation, and runs Medialon Panel software. It allows the museum's tour guide, by a simple touch, to control windows blinds and curtains, screen and building lighting as well as the show applications running in the Auditorium and the exhibition sections of the museum.
In the Auditorium, one Medialon Display Player (MDP) runs a 20-minute introduction mo
"The band had just released a new album, a very important album that they had spent a lot of time on, and I wanted to make the light show brand new and cutting edge to match the new material," Waful states. "Also, coming in as a new lighting designer for the band, stepping in for an LD who had been with the band their entire career, I wanted it to look fresh and new. We knew it was going to take something extra special to highlight these new compositions."
That something extra came in the form of the Martin MAC III Profile."I was tasked wi
The Aviom gear is an incremental upgrade to the university's current headphone distribution system and according to the programme's audio/digital systems engineer, Jeff Seitz, has proven to be flawless.
"The theory and application of recording is taught in the recording classes," says Seitz. "Learning to do a headphone mix is certainly part of the process. I chose Aviom for our studios because of its technical specification and ease of use."
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Yogesh Dhawan, director of Dhawan Electrical comments, "The troupe's French FOH Engineer, Paul Schneiter, found the Si3 to be very user-friendly and he quickly learned the board's features and was very comfortable mixing in no time. By the time we finished the one-hour sound check, he was very familiar with the entire desk and its features."
Dhawan added, "The Si3 easily managed the 18 mic input
With nine acts scheduled for the first night and seven each thereafter over the course of the festival's three days, production manager Robert Stewart reached out to veteran sound engineer Raphael "Raffie" Alkins to take the festival to a different level and help solve the logistical dilemma of managing so many performances in such a short span of time.
"This was an easy one," Alkins notes, recalling the hectic days on the laid-back island leading up to the event. "I showed the team a flow chart I designed for the show and how to make it ha
Celebrating 40 years since her professional stage debut, Paige played a string of shows across the UK in February and March beneath dynamic light from six Martin MAC III Profiles, eight MAC 700 Washes and 10 MAC 700 Profiles.
"We aim to maintain a modern and comprehensive stock of lights, and as one of the most prominent and technologically advanced lights presently on the market, the MAC III Profile fits into that nicely," stated Bill Adie of Amber Lites. "It has all the attributes of an innovative moving head - brightness, easy exchange of gobos and most of all, total reliability and versatility."
Handling lighting and
The tour sees them perform 55 dates in 14 countries to almost half a million people. Following a series of North American dates, the tour is currently on its European leg and will then return for more dates in the US and Canada.
Tour LD Steven Douglas was looking for a semi-transparent video surface that would enhance the band's performance rather than detract from it. In addition, he needed something that would take up very little truck space and could be curved into different shapes, due to the design of the stage truss configuration. Douglas considered several popular LED video surface solutions before selecting the Color Web system, which he had used to great effect
The event was staged at the Dom Hrvatskih Branitelju (House of the Croatian Army) venue in Pula, Croatia.
It was jointly organized with guest partner Perini? Sistemi and attracted over 70 lighting specialists from TV (including HRT national TV), theatres (including the HNK Zagreb Croatian National Theatre, HNK Split, the Centre of Culture in ?akovec, INK Pula and Teatr Poega) plus several rental companies (GIS, DD Elektroakustika, ARA Electronic, Produkcija Zvuka).
Robe was represented by international sales manager Harry von Den Stemmen."This was the third Sali Trade open day " he comments. "Each time the events grow and improve
The core of the new system comprises an Electro-Voice XLC rig, which includes eighteen XLC127DVX loudspeakers and eight XLC215 subwoofers. These are complemented by eight PX1122M, four QRx153/75 enclosures, and two QRx218S subwoofers. The system, which is equally suitable for the reproduction of music and the spoken word, is driven by nineteen TG5 amplifiers. The order placed with Alpha Audio include
This musical has already enjoyed a highly successful West End run, drawing audiences totalling over a quarter of a million. On 3 April it started a full UK tour. Opening at The Manchester Opera House the show will take in 21 venues nationwide and close at The Liverpool Empire Theatre in December 2009.
The tour is being engineered by Marcus Wadham (Lazy Town, Dancing in the Streets), who will be working with the system designed by independent sound designer Richard Brooker and supplied by theatre hire company, Blitz Communications.
Along with a DiGiCo SD8 console and Sennheiser radio mics, Brooker specified Opus Audio for the main FOH system, having previously used the company's products on Daddy Cool at
