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07 October 2025

UK - No Martin Audio dealer partnership has existed longer than that with Irish distributor Rea Sound, which dates back to 1982. Fast-forward 43 years and the system integrators continue to specify permanent Martin Audio solutions in a broad variety of facilities - most notably Houses of Worship.

Three churches demonstrate how Rea Sound has adopted a different approach to suit the needs (and protect the heritage) of the respective buildings.

One of these is St. Finnian’s Church of Ireland in Castlereagh, outside Belfast. States the church’s Mike Johnson: “We’d had our audio system since around 2017-2018. But with COVID came a necessity to stream services, and the rector asked me to put together a package. So I spoke to Rea Sound and very quickly they proposed a system which we installed five or six weeks later.”

Rea Sound director R

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07 October 2025

UK - When Barry Can’t Swim headlined All Points East in London this summer, audio specialists Patchwork London were tasked with delivering a wireless system capable of supporting both the full band and their orchestra on a major festival stage. With a large channel count, congested spectrum, and the pressure of a high-profile live environment, Patchwork required a solution that could deliver bulletproof reliability, centralised monitoring, and flexible control.

The RF requirements were significant and resulted in an audio design consisting of two independent monitor control rigs needed to run simultaneously - one for the main band and another for the orchestra with dozens of channels operating in a crowded RF spectrum.

As All Points East is an outdoor central London production landing on an August Bank Holiday weekend, it was clear that the show de

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06 October 2025

Egypt - Three major mosques across Cairo - Al-Sayyida Nafisa, Osama Ben Zaid and Al-Ali Al-Azeem - have received major audio upgrades powered by JBL Professional and Crown. Each project, integrated by partner Audio Technology, reflects a tailored approach to acoustics in sacred environments, ‘uniting high-performance sound with architectural reverence to ensure sermons, recitations and prayers reach every corner with clarity and balance’.

Recently inaugurated during Ramadan by Prime Minister Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, the Al-Ali Al-Azeem Mosque in Almaza, Heliopolis, represents one of the most ambitious house-of-worship projects in the region. Spanning 8,100sq.m and accommodating up to 5,000 worshippers across three floors, the mosque also houses a library, clinic, nursery, and classrooms, making consistent audio coverage a complex challenge.

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06 October 2025

USA - Dave Matthews Band (DMB) took their signature live show on the road this past summer, delighting fans across North America with their hits and jam numbers. Wrapped in August, the tour featured a large Elation lighting package, including Proteus, Pulse, and SŌL series luminaires.

Production design was led by Fenton Williams, who has been with the band since its beginning in 1991, with Williams and Aaron Stinebrink handling lighting design on this latest tour. Stinebrink, who has worked with Dave Matthews Band since 2002, also handled lighting programming.

The tour featured 36 Pulse Bar S, 21 Pulse Bar L, 18 SŌL I Blinder, 12 Proteus Rayzor 1960, 22 Proteus Rayzor Blade L, and 17 Chorus Line 16, all provided by TMS of Omaha, Nebraska, who have supported DMB for over two decades.

The tour introduced a fresh visual design concept. “We t

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06 October 2025

Costa Rica - System integrator Bansbach Akustik has completed a comprehensive audio update for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), selecting Powersoft’s Quattrocanali fixed-install amplifier platform to drive a networked conference system designed for ministerial-level sessions and international delegations.

Established in 1942, the IICA is an agency of the Inter-American System, an organ of the Organisation of American States (OAS), promoting agricultural development and sustainability in its 34 member states. Bansbach Akustik, which operates in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, is a long-time commercial partner to the IICA and was brought in to manage the upgrade to the agency’s main auditorium, located at its headquarters in the Costa Rican capital, San José.

Akustik was tasked with conceiving and managing the transiti

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06 October 2025

USA - Fans got an unexpected surprise near the end of Bassrush Arizona’s closing slot. Headliners Black Tiger Sex Machine shocked everyone when they tore off their glowing tiger masks and performed the final 10 minutes of their show bare-faced.

Matching the sounds with an equally dynamic visual background was a distinctive lighting design by Luis Torres of HiLite Designs powered by 164 Chauvet Professional fixtures supplied by Hardwired Productions.

Torres used this power-packed rig to immerse the entire venue in intensely bright light. At times this light was made of monochromatic washes accented by splashes of white and amber. During other passages during the one-day festival the immersive light was created by video displays, geometric patterns, and laser beams that hurled their way over the entire dancefloor.

“The venue here really enh

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06 October 2025

Czech Republic - Leyard Europe has successfully deployed a Leyard VDS Series LED wall at the Emergency Medical Services of the Pardubice Region (ZZS Pardubice), transforming the dispatch centre into a high-performance command hub for coordinating emergency responses. The installation showcases ultra-fine 0.7mm pixel pitch technology while supporting ZZS Pardubice's mission as a critical emergency response provider across the region.

ZZS Pardubice's services provide medical response through advanced dispatch technology, managing around 150 incidents daily while providing rapid response capabilities through 32 ambulance vehicles and 18 strategically located stations.

The dispatch centre serves as the main hub for emergency medical services throughout the Pardubice region. The facility operates continuously, representing the front line of emergency medi

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03 October 2025

USA - The Weeknd has become the first major touring artist in North America to use GLP’s Mad Maxx CW searchlights – on his long running After Hours til Dawn world tour, which is set to run until August 2026.

The artist’s long-term LD, Jason Baeri, had been an early adopter of the powerful fat-beam LED fixture, with its massive 750mm beam diameter, when he specified a pair of heads for the Canadian artist’s grand walk-on at this year’s Grammy Awards back in February. “But this time, the deployment was very different,” he states. “For the Grammys we just needed something that had an awesome amount of power behind it, without having to deploy 20 different fixtures. The Mad Maxx was the most effective tool for the Grammys, whereas this time we are taking advantage of the considerable throw, and the nature of this being a giant sky-tracki

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03 October 2025

USA - An Avolites Ai media server is at the heart of the new lighting installation that wraps both towers at Las Vegas landmark, the Rio Hotel & Casino.

This is being used to map, help control and schedule over three miles – and 351,032 pixels – of ‘illuminative possibility’, designed by the creative lighting team of Chris Kuroda and Andrew ‘Gif’ Giffin, using Clear LED’s X-Bar 25mm product which wraps 360 degrees around the buildings.

Well-known for their work as live music and entertainment lighting designers, Chris and Gif programmed a series of cues, scenes and sequences that run automatically.

Ruben Laine from Australia and US-based Creative Integration Studio was asked to devise a control solution that treated video as lighting.

This involved outputting lighting in a video-centric format, enabling micro-managea

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03 October 2025

Italy - SPACE - originally founded in Ibiza - brought its experience to Italy in 2024 with the launch of an open-air venue. Now, after completing its second season, the venue has firmly established itself as one of Europe’s most technologically advanced destinations. The club chose to partner with Claypaky when installing a permanent IP66-rated lighting system.

Designed specifically for the demands of a fully open-air venue operating during the summer season, the new lighting setup transforms SPACE into the SPACE Festival, a format that merges electronic music, artistic performances, and immersive technology. The 2025 season, which opened on 2 June and concluded on 30 August, featured internationally artists including Carl Cox, Gigi D’Agostino, Peggy Gou, Tale of Us, Marco Carola, and Charlotte de Witte, attracting a cosmopolitan crowd and deliv

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03 October 2025

Hungary - Sziget is staged on the Óbudai-sziget (Old Buda Island) in Budapest, an island on the Danube, a short distance from the city centre. The island is transformed into the ‘Island of Freedom’ community for the six-day duration of the event.

Robe moving lights were prominent on several major stages this year, including the Bolt Night Stage supplied by Light Positive with some fixtures that were a new investment, The Revolut Stage supplied by VEG Europe, and the Main Stage, supplied by Colossal.

Robe’s distributor AVL Trade organised a backstage area and tech hub for all crew, creatives and others working BTS across the site, which included the Avostream mobile demo vehicle, a comprehensive merch cabin, bar and chilling zone under the trees adjacent to the Night Stage backstage village. Up to 60,000 festival fans attended each day.

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03 October 2025

USA - Las Vegas-based designer Jeff Maker set the tone for I Prevail’s Summer of Loud Tour, which united multiple metal giants with pyro effects positioned upstage, mid-stage, and downstage.

Throughout I Prevail’s shows on the tour, the fiery effects underscored the core character of the band’s performance. Nevertheless, Maker was careful to arrange the pyro units so they did not block the lighting, which he saw as essential to “sculpting the band differently from song to song.”

“Light angles played a big role in setting moods and moments throughout this design,” said Maker. “By shifting between uplighting, side lighting, and crowd lighting, I could sculpt the band differently from song to song. I felt that it gave the show a dynamic flow and kept the visual storytelling evolving.”

Colour also helped shade the mood

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03 October 2025

Spain - Formerly known as Hotel Sofia, the transformation into the Grand Hyatt Barcelona has included the renovation of some of the five-star hotel’s most popular hospitality spaces, covering everywhere from the pool and terrace to the 19th floor rooftop restaurant. Sound quality and ease of use have been at the heart of the transformation, with loudspeakers from Electro-Voice and electronics from Dynacord central to the process.

The audio transformation started outside the hotel. “We began with the design of the pool and its bar creating a perimeter of outdoor speakers,” explains Mauricio Lombardi Gomez from Koala Projects SL, the company responsible for the installation. “The idea was to have exterior speakers taking into account the outdoor space but also having a bit of bass. We chose Electro-Voice speakers and Dynacord power amplifiers because o

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02 October 2025

New Zealand - When Taieri Musical staged Jesus Christ Superstar at Dunedin’s Regent Theatre, a full JBL Professional sound system powered the rock opera with ‘clarity, impact and energy’.

The Regent Theatre, with its ornate baroque-revival interior and 1,600 seats is a landmark in its own right. But for sound engineers, its scale and architecture present a serious challenge to make sure every audience member hears every word and every note.

That task fell to the team from Strawberry who supplied the sound equipment, with system engineering led by Dave Bennet. “In a theatre like the Regent the challenge is covering all the seats while staying out of the sightlines,” Bennet explains. “You can’t just hang giant speaker arrays in front of the stage and those beautiful views. Instead, we used a mix of flown and ground-stacked arrays

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02 October 2025

France - Built in 1975 and previously known as Les Arènes de l'Agora, the Arènes de Grand Paris Sud has been transformed into a modern cultural and sporting destination following a comprehensive five-year, €35m renovation. Part of the ambitious Grand Paris project aimed at injecting new employment and cultural opportunities into the suburbs surrounding Paris, this striking contemporary venue now serves as the prominent cultural, concert and sports arena in the South of Paris, with capacity for up to 3,000 spectators.

The arena has quickly established itself as a multipurpose space, conceived as a flexible performance venue that regularly transforms from a seated theatre to a standing concert hall, sports venue, or central-stage e-sports arena. Most significantly, when the venue was commissioned as the official home of France's leading e-sports team, Karm

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02 October 2025

UK - Solotech has been servicing the South Facing Festival since the transformation of the dormant Crystal Palace Bowl in South London, back in 2021.

Promoted by Marcus Weedon, and with production duties back in the hands of Method Events (in the shape of Mia Barrett and Matt Hendry), Solotech again fielded Martin Audio’s WPL line array, which had last year replaced its long-serving forerunner, the MLA multicellular array.

Since this year’s programme leaned more heavily than previous years towards EDM and DJ-oriented acts - with Nile Rodgers & Chic, Basement Jaxx, Skepta and Busta Rhymes among the prominent acts (alongside Mogwai and Morcheeba) - Solotech account manager, David Preston, said that a diligent approach was required when it came to sound containment, in view of the dependence on sub bass. Thus, production was fortunate t

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02 October 2025

USA - Ericsson has upgraded its 300-seat auditorium at its North American headquarters in Plano, Texas, delivering ‘a seamless and professional presentation environment powered by tvONE and Green Hippo solutions’.

The project, led by the executive team at Audio Visual Dallas, replaced outdated projection and switching systems with modern technology designed to ensure flawless visuals for both in-person and remote audiences. Under the direction of Dave Pollock and Jason Nix, with support from operations manager Allie Stewart, Audio Visual Dallas managed the project from design and programming through installation and commissioning.

“Before upgrading, the auditorium housed a less-than-ideal setup,” explained Nix. “The main visual was a decade-old rear-projection screen supported by two 85” LCD displays. Presenters relied on small floor moni

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02 October 2025

USA - St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church in Boca Raton, FL has implemented a system upgrade led by pro audio and lighting equipment supplier Sound & Lighting Solutions. The project, which included the installation of an EAW ADAPTive sound system, resolved the church’s long-standing acoustic challenges while preserving the space’s architectural splendour.

For years, the sanctuary stood as a visually stunning and architecturally rich space, but it struggled with a persistent challenge: poor acoustics. Inconsistent sound coverage, harsh reflections and low speech intelligibility continually distracted from the worship experience.

“When I first visited the space, I recognised the severity of the issues,” said Jay Krause, owner of Sound & Lighting Solutions. “The answer came in the form of four EAW AC6 ADAPTive Column Loudspeakers. The syste

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02 October 2025

UK - LED Studio has announced the successful test flight of a drone-mounted LED curtain, ‘an ultra-lightweight, ultra-thin and highly transparent mesh display’. The trial highlights how airborne LED technology could reshape visual storytelling at events, live shows and cultural landmarks, says the company.

The LED curtain weighs just 1.2kg per square metre, with a slim mesh construction designed to reduce drone load and support stable flight. Engineered with up to 70% transparency and high wind permeability, the display performs reliably in outdoor, low-altitude conditions, maintaining both visual integrity and flight efficiency.

Modular by design, the system supports scalable configurations through multi-piece splicing. Standard screen sizes range from 2×4m up to 4×10m, offering flexibility for large-format displays. The mesh has a 50,000-hour

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01 October 2025

UK - A smartly executed production by Limited Edition Event Design helped create the glamour for the world premiere of Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning at London’s Leicester Square. For technical support and lighting, Limited Edition Event Design turned to its frequent collaborator, Milton Keynes-based IPS.

Helping to ensure that that the star-studded premiere was shown in the best light for the sizable live crowd, as well as for the many fans who watched broadcast and other media coverage of the event, IPS relied on 530+ Chauvet Professional fixtures and panels that were positioned throughout the site.

Included in this collection were over 460 REM 3IP LED video panels. Displaying evocative images from the film and its stars, the panels were positioned across a 50m main platform, as well as on-branding walls around a custom-built f

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01 October 2025

Germany - 100 ADJ fixtures were deployed by production companies Laserframe and Creative Sounds Veranstaltungstechnik across two stages at the recent Into The Madness festival in Zülpich.

Vizi Beam RX2 moving heads and Jolt Bar FXIP linear LED fixtures created the effects in the Core arena, while IP65-rated Hydro Beam X12 automated luminaires filled the night sky above the open-air Dunes stage.

Located within a huge ‘big top’ tent, the Core stage at Into The Madness festival 2025 was dedicated to Uptempo and Hardcore dance music. Working collaboratively, Laserframe and Creative Sounds Veranstaltungstechnik were responsible for the complete technical production of the area and pulled out all the stops to create a visual spectacular.

At the centre of the stage was an octagonal truss structure, flanked on each side by mirr

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01 October 2025

UK - Clear-Com’s IP Transceivers are rapidly gaining traction in the professional theatre world, being deployed for some of the most ambitious productions across London’s West End, Broadway, and international touring circuits. From Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Back to the Future, and MJ the Musical in London, to Shucked and & Juliet on US tours, major sound designers and technical teams are turning to Clear-Com.

At the heart of this growing adoption is the capability to support up to 10 FreeSpeak II digital wireless beltpacks per IP Transceiver.

“IP Transceivers are now our preferred transceiver for Arcadia Central Station,” said Russell Godwin of Gareth Owen Sound. The company supports an array of top-tier productions and plays a significant role in shaping technology expectations in the

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01 October 2025

USA - Five-time Tony Award-nominated lighting designer Ben Stanton chose 58 Ayrton Diablo S fixtures for Broadway’s Maybe Happy Ending, the South Korean musical about human-like helper-bots who forge a relationship.

Maybe Happy Ending premiered in Seoul in 2016 and has enjoyed many international runs before arriving at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre in September 2024. The production recently won six Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical with Stanton receiving a nomination for his lighting design.

Prior to Maybe Happy Ending, Stanton had used various Ayrton fixtures for concert touring but had not deployed them on theatre projects. For this show he needed “a very small, powerful fixture that could be a workhorse for the design” and Diablos filled the bill.

“I needed a light that would fit nicely

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01 October 2025

USA - For 17 days and nights each spring, the city of Charleston, South Carolina, welcomes hundreds of performers to fill its historic venues with art and culture. Spoleto Festival USA, the American counterpart to Italy’s Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, serves as a dynamic showcase for talent.

This performing arts event celebrates everything from theatre, opera, and dance to orchestral, jazz, and contemporary music. To bring these performances to life, KV2 Audio was selected as the official sound partner.

Having collaborated with the festival in previous years, sound design and audio specialists Autograph A2D returned to install the 2025 sound system. “We’ve been involved over the years through sound designer, Lew Mead,” says Preston Dunnavant, sound engineer at Autograph A2D. “In 2023, I took over from Lew as le