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Germany - HK Audio is set to power a month-long extravaganza of events at Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena this summer, culminating in a world record-breaking weekend on 9/10 July.

Throughout June and the first week of July, a sizeable Cohedra system will provide the sounds for a series of Euro 2016 public viewing experiences that will be shown on a 550m

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USA - A youth group that has remained relevant to high school students in the United States for over 70 years must continue to come up with ways to keep its message fresh. The Career and Community Leaders of America has absorbed this lesson very well. Founded in 1945, this non-profit organization has grown to 150,000 members in every state plus Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by wrapping its core message of personal responsibility in an exciting package that appeals to young sensibilities.

This was very much in evidence this April, when the CCLA mixed serious life learning lessons with youth-oriented fun activities at its three-day Wisconsin conference, which was held at the at the Kalahari Resort, home of a 125,000 sq. ft. indoor water park and a 110,000 sq. ft. indoor theme park. Aside from these attractions, the conference also reached out to young attendees by turning i

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USA - Although it's been open for a mere four years in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, The Velvet Note has attracted national attention. Its intimate room seats only 40 and was carefully designed by George Seldon to support music with stunning, well-balanced acoustics.

"We take a lot of pride in the sound of our room," said Tamara Fuller, The Velvet Note's owner and nightly head-of-ceremonies. "We call it 'the acoustic living room,' and we've done everything we can to make it the very best way to experience live music."

"Until recently, the only thing that wasn't five stars about The Velvet Note was the PA system," explained Bob Bakert, an Atlanta-based guitarist, vocalist, composer, and pro-audio veteran who regularly graces the venue's stage. "I had heard Danley Sound Labs systems before, and I knew Danley's fantastic phase-coherence and fidelity could elevate

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USA - BrightSign reports that its players are driving a prominent video wall at The Grand Hyatt Hotel, located in the heart of San Francisco's Union Square. The wall was needed to replace an existing video wall that had been temperamental for nearly two years. The challenges included budget; that the 3x8 array of screens was mounted 20ft above the lobby floor; and that installation of the new videowall needed to happen during the holiday shopping season to reach completion by the 24 December deadline.

AV Structural was awarded the project, and quickly went to work constructing a 20ft -high, 34ft-long scaffolding apparatus that enabled the team to work virtually around the clock, while maintaining safety for their crew and for the guests walking beneath the scaffolding at all hours of the day and night. The new video wall also required a unique installation to provide easy acce

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USA - Professional Wireless Systems, a subsidiary of Masque Sound, has purchased the first two newly-released Bel Digital BM-A1-64DANTE monitoring units for their latest music awards show in Miami, Florida.

Jim Van Winkle, general manager of PWS, says, "We had an analogue monitoring system, but it required us to either put a splitter in line or get a return feed from the main show splitter. We had been looking for a way to monitor through Dante and we decided this box would be a good solution.

"We recently deployed the Bel monitors for the first time and everybody picked it up pretty quickly...we're very happy with it. We used both of our units on a recent Latin music awards show - one at the mic racks backstage for the lead RF engineer, and one on stage where the RF A2 can check a mic before handing it off to the talent."

The BM-A1-64DANTE is being used for monitoring

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USA - The American Cancer Society recently held RelayLIVE, a musical festival which advocates "fighting cancer at every stage".

Bandit Lites donated a lighting package for the inaugural concert that included a line-up of Alanna Royale, Stella//James, Jordan DePaul, Nikki Williams, Megan Davies, Raquel Cole, Zeke Ducon, Shawn Byrne, Jenn Bostic and Daphne Willis.

Leading up to the event, participants and businesses formed teams which raised both money and awareness towards eliminating cancer. According to the event's website, more than 27 teams and 189 participants raised more than $67,600 to go towards those in need in Nashville, including programmes for patients such as transportation to and from treatment, counselling, and the operation of Hope Lodge, where patients from across the country can stay for free during the duration of their treatment.

With the concert tak

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USA - The rainstorm experience at the Foam Wonderland tour is always intense with a thunderous bass, bright flashes of light, and foam cannons that shoot massive projectiles of foam over the crowd. The music is always edgy too, with EDM heavies laying down tracks that keep everyone on their feet.

Although the intensity level on this national tour is unfailingly high, it plays out on stages of very different sizes. On some nights the tour will stop at mid-sized venues, while on others the nonstop action will play out in spacious amphitheatres. Maintaining a consistent look that's true to the Foam Wonderland experience on stages that vary so widely in size is no easy task, but it's a challenge that Creative Production and Design has met very successfully with help from Chauvet Professional video panels.

Contracted by Oh Bleep Events to do production for Foam Wonderland's Sou

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USA - Christ Community Church technical director Michael Montanari has specified SSL L500 consoles for both front-of-house and monitor positions at its St Charles campus in Chicago. The consoles were purchased from SSL Live partner TC Furlong.

The 2000-capacity St Charles Campus auditorium has a regular Saturday afternoon service and two Sunday morning services, as well as a number of larger events throughout the year, including special worship nights and visiting touring acts. The Sunday services are streamed live over a dedicated fibre network live to the church's other three regional campuses. "We put a high value on production," says Montanari. "Concert-style audio, but probably not at quite as high an SPL!"

As most production crew and artists at the church are volunteers, the challenge for Montanari was finding technology that could deliver a big step up in quality, a

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Italy - The recently upgraded Sala Energia auditorium at the Arcadia Melzo multiplex in suburban Milan, Italy is the first cinema anywhere to power all of its screen channels with Meyer Sound Leopard line array loudspeakers. The 630-seat Sala Energia now contains the most powerful permanent Meyer Sound cinema system in the world, as well as one of Europe's largest Dolby Atmos systems.

"When I first heard the Leopard-based system in our Sala Energia, I was so excited and enthusiastic that I was moved to tears," recalls Piero Fumagalli, owner of Arcadia Cinemas. "I sensed immediately that the clarity, dynamics, and musicality of the Leopard arrays represented a major improvement over the previous system.

"This new Meyer Sound system is our investment in the future," continues Fumagalli. "Audiences are now willing to pay more to experience a film in the Sala Energia. We have

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USA - Pearl Jam has hit the road on its 2016 North American tour with a large complement of Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights enhancing their sold-out shows.

Pearl Jam, which has sold an estimated 60m records worldwide, is playing arena, festival and stadium dates across the US and in Canada throughout the spring and summer. Lighting designer Kille J. Knobel, who has worked with the band for 16 years, obtained 36 Scenius fixtures for the rig from Upstaging, Inc. in Sycamore, Illinois.

"We've been providing lighting systems for the band for several years," says John Huddleston, director of lighting services at Upstaging, Inc. The Scenius fixtures on tour with Pearl Jam represent the company's first purchase of the lighting instruments, which Huddleston believes "fill the gap for a compact, incredibly bright and feature-packed moving light . . . Our affiliate, Neg Ear

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UK - Electronic music innovators Above and Beyond played two high profile UK shows on their much anticipated Acoustic world tour at two beautiful and historically significant Albert Halls - the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in central London and the charismatic Albert Hall Manchester, a more intimate but equally beautiful space, formerly a Methodist church.

Lighting and visuals for the tour are designed by Neil Marsh, while equipment and crew for these and a warm-up in Utrecht, were delivered by Colour Sound Experiment. Colour Sound also took the opportunity to invest in more high powered Barco 30K projectors to service these shows, and having also just purchased some for another tour, are now well equipped to deliver the most demanding large format projection projects.

The company's association with Marsh and Above & Beyond goes back some years, and Colour Sound's Haydn C

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USA - Rock band 311 recently celebrated their biennial 311 Day with two arena shows in New Orleans on 11 and 12 March. Lighting designer Joe Paradise of House Lights Go Inc, and assistant designer/programmer Bobby Grey selected Clay Paky fixtures for the event, which drew 15,000 fans.

Paradise was charged with enhancing and interpreting the band's musical style while bringing some big looks to the event, which featured 86 songs across the two shows. Paradise focused his design around 311's signature honeycomb beehive motif. He used eight pods of toned truss to form the honeycomb shape and support the over-the-stage rig in the Smoothie King Centre (formerly the New Orleans Arena).

Paradise selected Clay Paky Sharpy Washes to provide a solid colour base that washed over the stage and delivered keylight from downstage, and used Sharpy beams for dramatic effects. He also place

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Belgium - For many show designers, it can be frustrating to see countless audience members gazing at I-Mag screens for prolonged spells, rather than concentrating on what really matters: the stage action. In conjuring her set design magic for Beyoncé's eagerly anticipated Formation world tour, however, Es Devlin has ensured that all eyes remain on the star's performance by creating an enormous, rotating video screen box - widely referred to as the 'Monolith' - that relies heavily on customised equipment and R&D know-how from Stageco's international offices.

Measuring 22m high x 16m wide x 9m deep, the crucial elements at the Monolith's core have been custom-manufactured and supplied by Stageco in partnership with Belgian motion control systems provider WIcreations. The Monolith is embedded in a 62m wide x 35m deep stage.

On the in-progress North American leg,

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UK - Global flightcase hardware and 19" racking manufacturer Penn Elcom is launching three new climate control products for 19" racking systems.

The CRC02-DTC, the FT-DTC and the FT01-Q-DTC - are all thermostatically controlled for optimised heat management in 19" racking installations.

Digital control gives refined and super accurate heat management via continuous temperature minoring and 'set-and-forget' fan control. All the products are optimised for quiet running, have over-temperature alarms and benefit from running off a universal power supply.

The units are engineered to the robust and reliable specifications common to all Penn Elcom products

The CRC02 thermo exhaust blower is a completely new 2U virtually silent (22.5 dBA) fan exhaust unit designed especially for use with 19" equipment rack units, to expel air from the front of the rack unit.

It can be

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UK - One of the most celebrated post-hardcore bands of the late 90s, At The Drive-In's 2016 reunion tour was greeted with elation by fans around the world. And UK gig-goers were recently treated to a series of dates - subsequently raved about by critics - powered by an Allen & Heath dLive mixing system.

Front of House engineer Ben Hammond (whose other credits include Deaf Havana and Of Mice And Men) employed a dLive S5000 surface and a DM64 MixRack at FOH, with an Allen & Heath GLD80 digital desk, AR2412 AudioRack and two AR84 Expander AudioRacks handling monitor duties (taken care of by the band themselves).

A long-time Allen & Heath iLive user, Hammond said: "The dLive system performed amazingly on the ATDI tour. I've been used to doing heavy bands on the iLive - you can really drive those desks hard and it lends itself to that sound. But despite the dLive being a much '

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USA - The University of Arkansas Razorbacks basketball team recently benefited from a new EAW sound reinforcement system installed for 2015-16 season. The existing system at the 19,200-seat venue was more than 20 years old and in need of replacement. After deciding to upgrade the audio, the university tapped Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon and Williams (WJHW) to design the new system, which was installed by Clair Solutions.

"The previous system was no longer adequate for the events held in the arena," explains Scott Bray, WJHW consultant. "The administration wanted sound reinforcement that was musical and would bring the game day experience up to fan's expectations. They also installed a new scoreboard during the upgrade for similar reasons."

One of the design goals was for the PA to fit above the new scoreboard, keeping sightlines clear. To this end, Bray specified six EAW lin

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USA - Video panels frequently serve as fascia in shows on the Vegas Strip. That's one reason why Michael Smalley and Gabe Fraboni of Twin Designs opted notto use them this way in their standout design for Pitbull's Time Of Our Lives Tour at The Axis in Planet Hollywood.

"Video panels are great, and we use them all the time," said Fraboni. "But the opportunity to design a show for an artist of Pitbull's calibre in Vegas requires us to do something different. He's dynamic and the dancers are amazing, so we needed to give them an area to perform on that could convey the sleek, sexy, and sophisticated theme of the show while giving us lots of options to experiment with."

The two designers found what they were looking for in the Nexus 4x4 COB LED panel from Chauvet Professional. "The Nexus panels really reminded us of all the old-school Vegas hotel facades and sig

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India - Christ University is a UGC-recognised private university in Bangalore, Karnataka. Founded in 1969, it is managed by the priests of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), the first indigenous Syrian Catholic religious congregation in India.

With over 16,000 students and more than 1000 faculty members, it is one of the top ranked universities in the country. It has a foreign student community of over 2500 and It was rated an A+ institution by the NAAC.

The Christ University Auditorium with a seating capacity of 2000 and cutting edge facilities is utilized by many prominent multinational corporations for their events including Accenture, Infosys, Honeywell, Fidelity, Dell, 3M to name a few. The Auditorium has also played host to prominent personalities including the Dalai Lama, the Chief Justice of India, the Chief minister of Karnataka, and hosted concerts by Richard C

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UK - Leicester City Football Club became the Premier League Champions when Tottenham drew 2-2 at Chelsea on Monday 2 May. It was a time for Leicester, as a city, to host a party fit for the champions, their fans, and the proud people of Leicester.

Working with Leicester City Council's Festival and Events Team, and Leicester City Football Club, Leicester based company Upstage Theatre Supplies were asked to help produce the Victoria Park Event, which was held on Monday 16 May, just two weeks after Leicester had won the title.

Upstage also found out, and had to keep the secret, that home -town rockers Kasabian were to perform a surprise gig of three songs to the audience that on the night totaled 240,000 people.

Terry Forryan, managing director at Upstage hit the ground running. This high profile event, which had attracted the interest of the world, would have to bring to

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UK - Capital Sound Hire are providing full audio production for Il Divo on their current world tour, featuring music from their latest album Amor & Pasion. This project is also the first major tour for which the Wimbledon-based audio company are using their recently purchased Outline GTO C-12 system, covering arena shows throughout the UK, Europe and Scandinavia.

Il Divo have enjoyed global success since forming in 2003, recording in seven languages, selling well over 30m albums worldwide and scoring 160 certified gold and platinum hits in 35 countries.

Capital have been the group's choice of audio supplier from the beginning, as Capital's general manager Paul Timmins recalls: "Believe it or not, this is year 12! We started working with them at Ritz rehearsal rooms in Putney all those years ago . . . each successive Il Divo tour has brought new challenges and achiev

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Germany - The luxury cruise ship of AIDAprima is the new flagship of AIDA Cruises, built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding in Nagasaki, Japan to carry a maximum of 3,300 passengers.

Commissioned to design the lighting for the grand launch ceremony at the beginning of May, the technologically advanced onboard lighting was designed by Bj

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USA - Aerosmith's Steven Tyler played a special high profile concert in the David Geffen Hall at New York City's Lincoln Centre called Out On a Limb, in support of Janie's Fund, his new philanthropic initiative to serve abused and neglected girls. Lighting the show was LD Nathan Alves, who used 12 Robe BMFL Spots to produce most of the major signature looks.

It was Nathan's first work with Tyler and the focus was on emphasizing the intimate environment and the delicate subject matter inspiring Janie's Fund and the launch concert. So all the production was centred around the star as he related the narrative of who he is and his personal journey to where he is now.

"Everything I did lighting-wise was designed to be unobtrusive - hiding the technology and highlighting Steven," explained Nathan.

He worked with creative director Jeri Slaughter and art director/set de

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Canada - Adamson Systems Engineering has announced that Westbury National Show Systems, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, has joined the Adamson network. The announcement was made by James Oliver, director of marketing and sales for Adamson.

"Westbury has more than 45 years of experience in audio, video, lighting, staging and systems integration," explains Oliver. "They bring a level of expertise to their growing client base that is invaluable. We are so pleased to have them join our team. I look forward to watching the organization grow the Adamson brand and reputation in both live and installed sound in Canada."

Westbury National has offices in both Ottawa and Kingston in addition to their Toronto headquarters. A sizable E-Series rig, consisting of E15 and E12 line array modules as well as E119 and E219 subwoofers, has joined their impressive inventory of other high-end

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Belgium - Today, Barco will cut the ribbon to officially open its new headquarters in Belgium. Located at the Beneluxpark in Kortrijk, the 230,000sq.m 'One Campus' is a landmark for the region - an all-glass, circular building surrounded by green spaces and connected to three other state-of-the-art Barco facilities.

The campus will be home to Barco's 1,250 Belgian employees and serve as an open house for customers, partners, foreign colleagues and other stakeholders. One Campus marks also a new way of working, centred around dialogue, collaboration and, consequently, innovation. Barco is convinced that its new operating base will be of great support in the future evolution of the company.

The new One Campus, which replaces Barco's older premises in Kuurne and Kortrijk, includes 48,000m2 of general facilities, surrounded by a pound and grass. Standing proudly, at the heart

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