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UK - Whilst many major towns and cities across the UK are served by local theatres, each playing a multipurpose role within the community, The Lights in Andover has raised the bar a good deal higher.

Originally built in 1972, the waterfront location was a run-down venue when it was taken over by the local Test Valley Borough Council. But this Autumn it has emerged as a vibrant regenerated facility, with its own leisure arena, dance studio and theatre, which will accommodate an ambitious programme of music, theatre, comedy, dance, education and conferencing.

The theatre has undergone the first UK installation of QSC's ILA line array sound reinforcement system, which was recommended and installed by locally-based specialists Stagecraft Theatre Services Ltd (STS).

Stagecraft have been in business for three decades - and specifying QSC products for at least the last ten years. I

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Italy - Martin Audio loudspeakers feature in a revolutionary Italian leisure hospitality concept which has opened in Brescia. Known as MYA Dinner Moving the premises simultaneously operates as a restaurant, lounge bar, meeting point, dancefloor, art gallery, theatre and much more.

Accessed via a crystal elevator, the articulated scene is spread across 800 sq.metres on different levels, with electronic systems able to completely transform each area. This is an innovative use of space where the common denominator is 'togetherness' - the kitchen, rooms, music and decor effects are all united in a single aesthetic, with high architectural values masterminded by Adriano Verzelletti.

On the top floor, customers are able to dine under the stars - thanks to an additional 500sq.m terrace, with hanging gardens and water games. After dinner MYA 'changes its skin', transforming completely

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Denmark - dbx Professional Products, a Salt Lake City-based manufacturer of professional signal processing products and a division of Harman International has provided a signal distribution solution for a new hotel wellness and conference facility in Denmark.

Situated in the idyllic surroundings of Snekkersten, in Denmark's North Seeland, Comwell Borupgaard Hotel has recently undergone a significant renovation with the opening of its Body & Mind Spa. This has met the increased demands for qualitative meeting facilities and relaxation from delegates within the business community. In this simple, beautiful and sensuous universe - created by Bente Midelbye of TO B Design, the main focus is on silence and tranquility.

The task facing Morten Paulsen from Pro Event, Frederiksværk who supervised the audio installation, was to meet the psycho-acoustic requirements of this spa, massag

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Australia - Luxeon LEDs from Lumileds have been used to light the InterContinental Executive Club Lounge on the 32nd floor of the InterContinental Hotel in a project which provides a lounge for guests along with a viewing deck of Sydney's Botanical Gardens and Harbour.

NDYLight specified Megabay Lighting Enterprises, a certified member of the Luxeon Lighting Network, to create a relaxed, stylish environment through the creative use of light, while taking advantage of the stunning views of the city.

As the new lounge is surrounded by glass on three sides, lighting design director, Susan Lambert, had the challenge of minimising the amount of interior light being reflected back into the lounge. To achieve this, NDYLight's solution for the Executive Lounge incorporates Luxeon LEDS on both the interior and exterior. These are used to highlight individual elements of the design.

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UK - Dynalite will be unveiling the new DTP160 LCD Colour Touchscreen at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, in January, and at ARC07 in London, in February.

The new DTP160 offers a powerful 640 x 480 resolution 160mm graphical user interface. The device incorporates the Windows CE operating system and display graphics are easily created using standard HTML authoring tools such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver, providing design flexibility of custom user pages.

The Touchscreen is a part of Dynalite's Revolution range, and incorporates an innovative clip-on cover facility, the DTP160 will accommodate fascia options of virtually any architectural surface medium, providing designers with unrivalled décor matching capability.

Also new is Dynalite's powerful suite of PC software DLightIII, which combines intuitive user control features with monitoring and reporting faciliti

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Japan - Solid State Logic's new Duality console will make its Japanese debut in April 2007 when the first desk to be installed in the country is unveiled by the Osaka School of Music (OSM). Established in 1986, OSM is part of the Jikei Group - itself a member of Community Colleges for International Development (CCID). The Jikei Groupoperates 47 schools throughout Japan and has in excess of 35,000 students.

OSM's colleges in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka operate under the name of The School of Music and Communication Arts. These establishments cater for 15,000 students and teach a variety of courses covering music entertainment, creative entertainment and ecology.

As part of its ongoing expansion, OSM is preparing to open Sendai Communication Arts, a new centre in Osaka that will be completed by next April. The 48-channel SSL Duality will be used to teach its music entertain

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USA - Since opening in the summer of 2006, Hotel 1000 has fulfilled its focus in becoming Seattle's finest luxury boutique hotel. Located in the heart of downtown Seattle, Hotel 1000 boasts 120 luxury hotel rooms on ten floors, 47 condominium residences on fourteen floors. It also includes a selection of restaurants and bars, a full service spa and fitness centre, a wine cellar for the residents, a dog-walking park on the roof, and over 6,000 square-feet of high-tech meeting and banquet space for business guests.

Design/build firm Pro-Comm and its division, The Music Room installed AV systems and automatic shades in all 120 hotel rooms. Hotel 1000's nine boardrooms and conference rooms also feature an AV distribution system installed by The Music Room using SymNet audio networking equipment.

"We were referred to the product specifically by our A/V designer, Stan Holt. We

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UK - Forward-thinking book retailers, Maher the Bookseller, are pioneering a revolutionary new interactive Listening Post in their shops, designed to increase sales of audio book titles. The pilot scheme is the initiative of managing director, Tony Maher, and his idea has been turned into reality by multimedia solution providers Creative Retail Entertainment (CRE).

Two of Maher's three shops - in Welwyn Garden City and Fleet - have been equipped with the technology and they are already paying dividends. Tony Maher says the development is in line with his company's policy of providing a more welcoming environment in which to shop, conscious that 50% of the population never ventures into a book shop. "We wanted to create a bright, contemporary design, with the infrastructure that would enable our staff to be able to offer an exceptional service to customers," he said.

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UK - Utopian Leisure has just completed its third new venue launch - in the spectacular Odyssey complex situated on the riverfront of Belfast City opposite the famous H & W (Titanic) Shipyards. The Box is a two tier nightclub and bar venue offering a diverse selection of style, imagery and music. Following on from their successful openings of Sam Jacks and Bar 55 in Newcastle and Love Shack in Durham, MD Bob Senior and operations director Carl Hornsby called in Andy Austin-Brown of KV2 Audio to specify a new sound system to match the standards that had been installed in the previous venues.

The Box represented another challenge, that of being able to contain and control sound without creating external noise pollution. In this case the Odyssey complex is surrounded by a multi screen cinema complex, an IMAX cinema directly above and several well know chain restaurants in the surro

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UK - Already with a reputation as one of the most luxurious cinemas outside the West End, the renowned Everyman Cinema Club in Hampstead, London, has nevertheless been getting a makeover, commissioning CGA Integration to enhance the technical facilities in its bar and private screening lounge.

Hot-foot from its recent project at the Dorchester Hotel, CGA has altered the identity of the Cinema's ground-floor, transforming the lobby into a cool bar seating area with the installation of an Electro-Voice sound system, using four wall-mounted EV S-40 ultracompact compact monitors together with a 50" plasma screen.

The space has been re-designed to include a cyc-type wall, new lighting, and shocking pink and orange furnishings. Says Chris Gunton of CGA, "even given the hot colours, it's a square design so I chose Electro-Voice's square S-40 cabinet, which sounded much warm

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UK - When the Barbican Concert Hall decided to integrate its four different sound system controllers with an AMX integrated sound control system, they were referred by AMX to Hawthorns to carry out the installation.

"This wasn't a straightforward AMX installation, as the Barbican use the system in a unique way and we enjoyed the technical challenge," said Simon Ling, installation manager for Hawthorn.

Hawthorns have done over 12 AMX installations, for a variety of clients in the UK, over the past 12 months: "When we were asked to recommend a potential installation company by the Concert Hall, we had no hesitation in recommended Hawthorns who have done superb installations for us in the past and our customer feedback on their performance has been glowing," said Sarah Chiappi of AMX.

Ingo Reinhardt, deputy technical manager at the Barbican said: "We ar

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Italy - Newly open for business in the town of Brescia, just an hour from Milan, La Nave di Harlock is a houseful of creative musical opportunity that defies description, including a recording studio, video editing facilities, gelateria, restaurant, live music venue and even an ice rink.

Owner Gianluca Renna has just opened the restaurant and live music venue at the Harlock, which has been equipped with a JBL PA system, Crown amplifiers, and a Soundcraft GB8 for front-of-house audio control. The venue is hosting live music four nights a week, and plans are in place to double its capacity by utilising the upper floor, which has a gallery overlooking the stage.

Renna already operates a tour sound rental company, which carries JBL Vertec line array in its inventory. His businesses also include a promotion company, running its own festivals and gigs, a commercial graphic design an

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Norway - Clear-Com, a Vitec Group Communications brand, has recently completed an installation at the renowned National Theatre in Oslo, Norway. The installation of a FreeSpeak 10 digital wireless intercom system, with 10 FreeSpeak beltpacks extends the capacity of the other Clear-Com equipment already in use at the theatre. The installation was managed and completed with the support of Clear-Com's Norwegian distributor, Danmon and its managing director, Oivind Iversen.

FreeSpeak 10 brings the power of matrix communications to the wireless environment, combined with the coverage flexibility of a local cellular network. Up to 10 beltpacks can operate from a single 1-RU base station via individually located Antennae, and users can talk beltpack-to-beltpack or in small groups. Each beltpack is registered with a User ID that the base station will recognise. This prevents interferenc

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Italy The Congress Palace in Bologna is using Cayin Technology digital signage to offer a flexible information platform for congress' participants and visitors. The Congress currently offers the use of five venues and more than thirty meeting rooms throughout the city.

Ten SMP-WEB players and 2 CMS-MINI servers are used together with large plasma displays of 42" and 50". Those screens are positioned at the reception, in conference rooms and in the congress cafeteria to deliver live information about hosting companies, meeting schedules and rooms usage. Due to the limited capacity of the auditorium, the platform is also used to transmit live streaming video from the main auditorium to other conference rooms to increase the number of viewers.

SMP-WEB is a scalable web-based networked digital signage system. It allows event hosting companies to display a variety of mult

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USA - Located in downtown Chicago's busy River North district, Spy Bar is a smaller venue that stands out from the crowd by offering patrons an intimate club experience that is big on style and sound quality - using a Dynacord Cobra line array system installed by Audiolines.

"Spy Bar's owners chose the Cobra as their new main room system after the DJ booth was renovated earlier this year," says Eric Dahl of Audiolines. "The Cobra has a small footprint, yet pumps out huge sound into the 30ft by 30ft room. Two stacks of two Cobra Tops and two Cobra PWH subs are ground stacked either side of the booth, standing about nine feet high, tucked in nicely under the 12ft basement ceiling. The Cobra hardly takes up any space, but it's taken the sound Spy Bar to another level."

"The Cobra is simply a great club system," Dahl continued, "one that opens up

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UK - This Bedford club needed a face-lift - so the whole club was torn to bits and restarted from the ground up.

Designer Craig Trotter specified all the lighting for the venue - including the two main dance floors, the bar lighting, the VIP room, the ambient lighting, the lights on the outside of the building and even the lights in the toilets. An enormous amount of LED lighting was used to provide the ambient lights in each of the areas with LED fixtures utilised on every pillar.

Control of the lighting in the club is realised entirely using ChamSys MagicQ software and ChamSys MagicQ control wings. ChamSys MagicQ is a complete network system enabling multiple lighting and media systems to be interconnected via standard networks, Ethernet cables and routers. This makes a very low cost solution (network equipment is readily available from computer stores) with the significant

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UK - Adlib Audio has supplied lighting and sound equipment the brand new music and drama building at Maricourt Catholic School in Maghull, Liverpool. Lighting equipment has been supplied to two identical drama workshop/studios on the first floor, and full audio to a full sound recording and studio set up on the ground floor.

Adlib has worked on many educational and schools projects over the years, gaining a great reputation for supplying appropriate kit that's practical for students and their teachers to use. The company is renowned for its policy of not over-specifying.

The overall installation project was overseen by Adlib's Roger Kirby. He also drew up the recording studio spec with Mark Burnley, while Adlib's head of lighting Pete Abraham, sorted out the visual elements. The Adlib team worked closely with Sean Back, Maricourt's head of music who also runs the recording stu

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Ireland - Going to the cinema has just got a whole lot better for audiences in North Dublin thanks to the opening of Movies@Swords, a brand new 11- screen complex that is equipped throughout with JBL Professional speakers and Crown DSi amplifiers.

Cinema installation specialist GFD Communications Ltd was responsible for installing sound systems into all 11 theatres and sourced the JBL and Crown units from Harman Pro UK. JBL Professional 3000 Series speakers were used in the smaller theatres, while 4000 Series speakers were installed in the four larger theatres. GFD also installed projectors, screens and automation systems, including computer touch screens to activate the projectors.

For more than 30 years GFD has been providing full design, supply and installation services to cinema owners throughout Ireland and now boasts more than 280 cinema installations to its credit. The

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Germany - For over a century, the Friedrichstadtpalast has been one of the main landmarks in Berlin's night life. Over the years, the theatre has changed its name and function several times: founded as a covered market, then used as the "Renz" circus, it later became the Große Schauspielhaus, Theater des Volkes, Palast Varieté and finally the Friedrichstadtpalast, but the spirit and quality of the outstanding performances on its stage has not changed.

20 moving head luminaires and 40 scanners from Clay Paky provide lighting for the stage and the lobby of the theatre, together with many other standard projectors, with control from MA Lighting consoles. Both the lighting system and the consoles were supplied by Lightpower of Paderborn, which has been supplying the venue since 1984.

Olaf Eichler, lighting director of the Friedrichstadtpalast, has spoken of this

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Europe - Five bands a night is tough by any measure, make that five bands from thedark side of metal and you can begin to imagine the levels demanded of the system. But that is not the only pressure. "Some days we have to open doors at three in the afternoon," said Tim Quinby, soundman for top of the bill Slayer. "But to tell the truth the system we have is so fast to put up, my guys have it down to twenty minutes a side for a full blown arena rig, thatI still get time to make my line check every afternoon. I can honestly say it goes up faster than any PA I've ever seen."

The Unholy Alliance tour has recently shipped into Europe from the US and sound service provider, Eighth Day Sound elected to send the complete touring package over with them.

Quinby says: "When I was originally asked by management to specify this tour I asked for something else. Eigh

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USA - grandMA consoles were featured in two back-to-back high-profile live broadcasts from New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall: the MTV Video Music Awards 2006 (VMA) and Fashion Rocks, a music and fashion extravaganza on CBS that kicked off the city's semi-annual Fashion Week. Scharff Weisberg Lighting furnished the grandMAs in support of lighting designer Allen Branton.

Since Branton doesn't run consoles, he deferred to lighting director and programmer Felix Peralta's choice of the grandMA, a choice that was seconded by lighting director and programmer Kevin Lawson and upheld by Branton himself. "When we do these shows we're caught between two worlds: we need to do something in music TV that looks like a rock concert, but we have to be in total control, constantly editing light levels and programs. More than half of what we do is refining the TV product. The grandM

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Sweden - Wireless Solution Sweden recently had the opportunity to help with a unique large-scale project in their home country. Täby Centrum, Sweden's largest indoor shopping mall, has installed a massive Christmas light show on the façade of the building, sequenced to holiday music. During the four-minute show, which repeats every half hour from 4pm to 8pm nightly, Christmas tree lights chase, Syncrolites sweep over the crowd, and giant Blachiere snowflakes flash to the beat of the popular Trans Siberian Orchestra. The inaugural show kicked off on 4 December, and runs until 26 December.

Stockholm-based Spectra Stage & Event Technologies supplied equipment for the show, which includes 90 Par-64, two Syncrolite B-52, 200 Egg Strobes, 3 Data Flash Strobes, 13 Blachiere Christmas decorations, 3 High End Systems F-100 Fog Generators, 96 flood lights, and 12 Color mixing fluorescen

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Spain - The celebrated Museo Picasso in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona is comprised of five old palaces, and much of its original structure can be dated back to the thirteenth century. Although it is a popular venue for functions and receptions, the cavernous space not only has a number of side chambers of differing sizes, but it is made out of old stone, in some places 700-year old stone, so fixing reinforcement equipment to the walls is not an option.

For the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, hosting a reception at the Museo for many distinguished foreign visitors, the challenge was to provide a sound reinforcement for speech and acoustic music, which would service a 70-metre long central space as well as the side chambers.

The solution was the revolutionary wireless So Cube system from Vieta. 16 cubes were deployed, the contents of Vieta's standard fl

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Finland - The Svenska Teatern, a Swedish-speaking theatre in Helsinki, is the first venue in Finland to purchase Digidesign's new D-Show Profile live mixing console. The theatre, designed by Russian architect Nikolaj Benois and built in 1866, has hosted many concerts by Swedish performers and also repertory theatre during its illustrious history.

Although the great hall seats around 500 and the small hall 100, the red and gold adorned architecture made scant provision for the sound control room. Resident house engineer, Andreas (Stanley) Lönnquist operates from the tiniest of sound booths, from where he often has to send a monitor mix to the performers as well as deliver a highly intelligible house mix to the d&b system in the auditorium.

Commissioned four years ago, the existing sound desk was ready to be upgraded. Top of Lönnquist's wish list was Digidesign's Venue - but h

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