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11 July 2025

Serbia - The first Avolites D7-330 and D7-215 consoles have arrived in the Balkans region – received by Belgrade-based Avolites distributor, Light & Sound Design (LSD) – where they will be in action with the team led by Milan Scepanovic.

LSD proactively distributes the full range of Robe Group brands – Anolis, Artistic Licence, LSC, and of Avo – across all the Balkans countries (Serbia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania) and the Robe brand itself in Serbia, Bosnia, North Macedonia and Montenegro.

LSD’s CEO Milan Scepanovic says, “It is great to have the first D7 models – to my knowledge – in the whole of southeast Europe. The consoles are powerful, flexible and portable and they look very cool. Given the general presence of Avolites here in the region, I think there will be plenty of interest in the D7 and we will be

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11 July 2025

France - A new Robe moving light rig has been installed in the 800-capacity Liquid Lounge main theatre space aboard the Carnival Sunshine cruise ship, which stages a host of large-scale production shows, themed performances, and other entertainment events. This was undertaken during an extensive refurbishment of the vessel whilst in dry dock at the Chantier Naval de Marseille in Marseilles, France, earlier this year. 

The lighting upgrade included the installation of 84 Robe moving lights – 40 x Painte Spots, 34 x LEDBeam 350s and 10 Fortes – into the venue and was overseen by the Carnival Cruise line fleet supervisor for lighting, Silviu Ardelean, and Carnival’s entertainment manager for lighting Alex Nelson. The project was coordinated for Robe’s Maritime division by global sales director for maritime, Tony Perez.

This combination of light

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11 July 2025

UK - An impressive collection of ChamSys consoles were deployed at Glastonbury 2025, handling all the demands made by a five-day festival spread across 900 acres, yet powerful, flexible and intuitive enough to help LDs conjure up some memorable moments.

At the head of the pack was the MagicQ MQ500M+ Stadium Console, flagship of the ChamSys line that directly supports 400 universes without external processors and offers fully motorized faders and encoders with 42 playbacks.  Its potent features were put to use at the Woodsies Stage where Ed Warren powered shows by Four Tet and Lola Young with consoles supplied by LCR. Joe Beardsmore brought one of his own MagicQ MQ500M+ Stadium consoles to cast an immersive mood for Tom Odell at the stage provided by Siyan and a floor package from Coloursound Experiment.

Over at the Circus Big Top, James Loudon made

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11 July 2025

Spain - Located in the city’s Raval district, The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) hosts exhibitions, debates, festivals, concerts, film cycles, courses and lectures around the core themes of the city and urban culture.

The CCCB features a variety of event, hospitality and learning venues including the Hall, a 730sq.m space with a capacity of around 400 people.

A recent public tender for a new sound system in the Hall required that it should be powerful and versatile enough to accommodate all types of performances without the need to hire in supplementary equipment. The contract was awarded to Barcelona-based event technology specialists Imesde who installed a Nexo system.

“The original tender specified a line array system from another manufacturer but, working with Nexo’s NS-1 system configuration and prediction sof

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10 July 2025

USA - Walk through the front doors of Telemundo Centre in Miami, and the sound of JBL is everywhere. Literally. From the glass-walled atrium to the broadcast control rooms, post-production suites, and live event spaces, NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language division has built an expansive audio environment around JBL Professional’s end-to-end loudspeaker ecosystem.

That integration begins in the building’s most acoustically challenging space: the atrium. A visually striking but highly reflective all-glass venue used for premieres, town halls, and client events, the atrium required a solution that could deliver clarity without overwhelming the space.

“When coming into this project, we had to look at minimising energy in the space as it is all glass and very live,” said Robert Acito of Acoutech, the audio contractor for the installation. “We were

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10 July 2025

UK - Chauvet Professional had a strong presence at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

A newcomer to the Chauvet Professional family, the Strike V, a high-powered 180° tilting hybrid strobe/wash, was at the centre of one of Glastonbury’s highlights: the headliner performance on the Other Stage by The Prodigy. Fuelling the intensity of their music was a no-holds-barred lighting design by Tim Fawkes that drew heavily on the dual layered pixel effects of his Strike V fixtures, which were supplied by 4Wall Entertainment.

In addition to The Prodigy’s show, Chauvet Professional made its presence felt at the Opening Ceremony Circus Spectacular in the Pyramid Arena, as the Maverick Storm 1 Beam and Ovation Rêve E-3 IP from GLX produced stunning visuals.  For the final act of the festival on the same stage, COLORado PXL Curve 12s added an extra dimensi

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10 July 2025

Germany - The AStA Summer Festival in Paderborn has been attracting up to 14,000 music fans to the western German city’s university campus every year since 1998.

One of the oldest and largest student-organised festivals in the country, this year’s event which took place on 5 June had something for everybody from German rap, pop and indie to rock and techno, with established headliners including Zartmann, Blond and Ikkimel in the line-up alongside student performers and regional bands.

Paderborn-based event production specialists Sound Linear supplied sound for the event deploying their Nexo STM inventory on the mainstage in a system comprising main left and right hangs of nine STM M46 main modules and six STM M28 down fills, supplemented by adjacent hangs of B112 bass extension modules.

Six cardioid pairs of STM S118 subs were gr

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10 July 2025

UK - Choosing Glastonbury Festival for their only live performance of the year, Friday headline band The 1975 relied heavily on their long-standing production designer Tobias Rylander and his team, to bring something special out of the Pyramid stage by way of high-octane visual impact.

Rylander, who has worked with the band for the past 15 years, designing “pretty much every live show they’ve ever done”, is noted for his ability to use video as a lighting tool. But for his ‘one-off’ Glastonbury design, thanks to GLP’s next generation JDC2 IP hybrid, he realised he could also convert lighting into powerful striations of video, bathing the band’s loyal fans in rich colour imagery. He was able to do this by deploying 211 of the super-bright fixtures - the biggest single consignment of JDC2 IP ever.

“We more or less framed the whole stage

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10 July 2025

USA - Thunderous sounds of the crowd greet every eventgoer at Portland’s fabled Providence Park. Completed in 1926, Providence Park is the oldest facility configured as a soccer-specific stadium for use by an MLS team and is one of the most historic grounds used by any United States professional soccer team.

Two professional soccer teams, the Portland Timbers of MLS and Portland Thorns FC of NWSL, use the facility as their home pitch, and both clubs rank among the top ten in attendance among professional soccer teams (men's or women's) in the United States and Canada.

The facility has undergone several recent renovations to expand its seating capacity to over 25,000, with associated infrastructure and AV upgrades. As expected with any MLS stadium, cameras abound around the stadium to catch the action from several simultaneous angles. The AV feeds a

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10 July 2025

Faroe Islands - Relocating to a refurbished commercial bakery in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Burn Fitness wanted to raise its audio game with a proven solution for its Spinning Room. With sound quality essential, the fitness centre owners selected AV integrator, AVLux. The brief was to deliver an audio solution with a simple user experience for the spinning instructors, in addition to energy and atmosphere in the room. AVLux chose the Optimal Audio ecosystem for its balance of quality, ease of control, and cost-effectiveness.

Adopting the old bakery’s original layout, the fitness machines dominate what was the storage room, the hand equipment occupies the old oven room whilst the spinning room utilises an adjoining space. The compact room features a low roof at the front – where the instructors' platform and the video screen are positioned – that slopes

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09 July 2025

USA - Braxtin Pieper went through an array of different looks to support the freewheeling music of Shane Smith & The Saints when the band appeared at Red Rocks Amphitheatre recently. Moving seamlessly from soft monochromatic colour washes, accented by a touch of fog, to intense strobing effects and blinders, he utilised every inch of his rig in different ways, depending on the mood of the music in the 30-song set.

At least one thing was consistent though, throughout the concert, the sandstone rock formation behind the stage was always there enhancing his design.

“I have to appreciate the venue,” Pieper said of Red Rocks. “The upstage rocks are such a key part of the red rocks design. I love the tungsten backlight, but also the element of lighting the ‘trees,’ or the rocks for this show, gave it another level of colour that I strive to h

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09 July 2025

Germany - From 12-15 June 2025, the German Tolkien Society hosted a four-day festival in Geldern am Niederrhein. A total of 14,000 Tolkien fans and fantasy enthusiasts enjoyed a varied programme, including a concert evening featuring diverse artists and ensembles.

Technical audio production was expertly handled by Rockline Sound&Light from Issum, who deployed an extensively scaled Wharfedale Pro system to cover the broad musical programme.

The demands on the system were considerable. Initially, the Wharfedale Pro system needed to cleanly amplify classical ensembles with diverse acoustic instruments to various vocal performances. Later in the evening, volume and power were crucial for the headline performance.

The medieval metal band Feuerschwanz delivered an energetic set featuring a pyro and fire show. The Wharfedale Pro system provided

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09 July 2025

UK - Allen & Heath has announced the release of dLive firmware V2.1, building on the landmark V2 release with powerful new processing and RackUltra FX, expanded wireless integration, group to group routing, and some of the most requested workflow features from the dLive community.

Headlining V2.1 is CompStortion, the DEEP emulation of the definitive hardware compressor. With a wide range of attack and release times, distortion modes, and Smash and Brit modes, CompStortion is designed for everything from vocals and guitars to drums and mix bus compression.

RackUltra FX card users will welcome the addition of Rhythm Delay where a pattern-based delay engine provides fully customisable repeat patterns and musical filtering. Rhythm Delay unlocks delay possibilities previously only achievable through top-end studio plugins.

V2.1 significantly e

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08 July 2025

Uzbekistan - Sevara Nazarkhan stands as Uzbekistan's most internationally recognised musical artist, known for blending traditional Uzbek music with contemporary arrangements and for collaborating with artists like Peter Gabriel and Sinéad O’Connor. Her solo concerts at the 12,500-capacity Humo Arena drew audiences from across Central Asia, with all three performances reaching full capacity. The artist's intricate vocal arrangements and diverse instrumentation - from traditional Uzbek instruments to modern orchestration - demanded a sound system capable of reproducing every musical detail with precision and clarity.

Technical production company Yastreb-Sound became the region's first L Series partner with their L2 acquisition, and the concerts marked the system's first major deployment. The partnership was facilitated by L-Acoustics certified provider dis

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08 July 2025

UK - Sam Tozer, lighting designer and creative director of Plymouth-based Vision Factory, created the lighting for the Chase & Status Live Tour using a combination of Ayrton’s Domino LT and, taking centre upstage, over 100 Ayrton Rivale Profiles. “Ayrton is one of my go-to manufacturers,” says Tozer. “Their fixture range consistently delivers when it comes to reliability, feature set, and output. I’ve used their products across multiple projects.”

For this run of six exclusive arena shows across major UK cities, Tozer needed a lightweight yet punchy hybrid fixture to meet the demands of Chase & Status’s eclectic sound: “The Rivale Profile offered speed, beam strength, and versatility to create dynamic layers of light and texture throughout the show acting as the backbone of the rig and matching the energy of the band,” he says.

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08 July 2025

Vietnam - Located in the capital of Ho Chi Minh City, POC POC Garden first featured in DJ Magazine Top 100 clubs the year after Duc Pro Audio fitted a premium Martin Audio sound system, back in March 2023. Now in 2025 it has risen higher in the rankings of the world’s leading nightclubs.

Situated in the heart of District 3, and with an impressive outdoor space and premium stage, the club combines artistic performance with high octane dance music.

Faced with competitive tenders, Duc Pro Audio extended its long association with Martin Audio by drawing on the brand’s matchless nightclub pedigree. It has enjoyed consistent presence in superclubs ranging from Ministry of Sound to fabric -the latter recently upgraded with next generation Martin Audio sound.

Duc Pro Audio product manager, Pham Duy Quang was confident that a Torus constant curvat

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08 July 2025

Germany - A colourful London bus is making its last stop for the time being in Neu-Anspach near Frankfurt. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Adam Hall Group, the restored tour bus of Paul McCartney and his band Wings has been presented to the public for the first time on the company’s campus.

The psychedelically painted double-decker bus in which the band toured Europe in 1972 will in future be on display as part of the company’s own Rock‘n’Roll Library in the Experience Centre at the Adam Hall Group’s German headquarters – and is symbolic of the company’s anniversary claim, namely: “Honouring the past, driving the future.”

The tour bus – a Bristol KSW5G, built in 1953 – was specially converted in 1972 for the European tour of Paul McCartney’s new band Wings. Instead of travelling by plane as usual, McCartney opted for a dou

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08 July 2025

France/Canada - Media server and real-time compositing platform Smode is powering Sensitive Abstraction, a new full-dome graphic and sound art performance by visual artist Yannick Moréteau and electronic music composer Flore.

Described as an immersive journey through the poetic dimensions of mathematics, Sensitive Abstraction has been touring planetaria and digital arts festivals in Canada and France since its premiere in 2024. Created entirely within Smode, Sensitive Abstraction transforms abstract mathematical principles such as the Fibonacci sequence and Euclidean grids into flowing visual tableaux, synchronised in real time with Flore’s score in spatial audio. 

Yannick Moréteau, founder of the arts collective WSK, developed and runs the entire performance using a single Smode media server, from the creation of the

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08 July 2025

USA - In support of their seventh hit album Clancy, Twenty One Pilots launched their most expansive tour yet: a 73-date, four-continent tour that debuted in Denver last August and continued through Oceania and Central and South America, before finishing this spring in Europe. To best support The Clancy World Tour, all facets of production, particularly the audio system, needed to align with the artists’ cinematic vision. Cohesion was the chosen PA for the tour.

The Clancy World Tour was designed to electrify the senses by incorporating a massive number of visuals, pyro, cryo, lasers, and a consistent, robust PA in Cohesion that would deliver sonic impact every night.

“It’s about evoking an experience,” said FOH engineer Kenny Sellars. “Sometimes you feel like your head is pinned back. We have insane sub drops, fir

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07 July 2025

Vietnam - The Opera Convention Centre in Hai Phong recently opened its doors, aiming to establish itself as a premier venue for international-class artistic performances, conventions, and large-scale weddings. Committed to excellence in sound and lighting, the Opera Convention Centre selected advanced audio solutions from RCF.

The new audio installation, handled by ProAVL, RCF's official distributor in Vietnam, features a robust lineup of RCF products, including 38 HDL 6-A compact line array modules. Known for their precise, detailed audio reproduction and powerful performance, the HDL 6-A systems provide consistent and accurate sound coverage throughout the venue, ensuring optimal acoustic experiences for every seat.

Complementing the line arrays, 12 SUB 8008-AS active subwoofers were strategically deployed, enhancing low-frequency reinforcement and

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07 July 2025

Portugal - Taking place throughout July in Cascais, just west of Lisbon, Ageas Cooljazz 2025 continues to offer audiences a summer experience that ‘blends music, nature, and heritage’. Now in its 21st edition, the festival is held in the Hipódromo Manuel Possolo and the surrounding green spaces, drawing international artists across genres including jazz, soul, pop, and world music.

Alongside its programming, Ageas Cooljazz is known for careful attention to staging, ambience, and technical execution. For the 2025 edition, local rental company Audiomatrix was selected to supply and manage the festival’s main audio system, choosing an integrated solution based on Outline technologies.

The main PA features two hangs, each combining Outline GTO and GTO C-12 line-source modules. These systems are designed to ensure consistent throw

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07 July 2025

USA - Matthieu Larivée and the team at Lüz Studio designed the production for Rascal Flatts' 21-city Life is a Highway Tour, which ran for three months this year in North America.

The tour covered the multi-award-winning band's 25-year career, one that has resulted in 16 No. 1 hits and over 11m concert tickets sold. When discussing the best ways to reflect the band's far-reaching achievements, the Lüz team took a slight step back from the immersive 3D video elements that characterise many of their designs and leaned more heavily on light.

"Given the nature of this retrospective tour and the band's rich history, we focused on lighting, which is timeless," said Larivée. "Their catalogue has some ballads, which need gobos or very subtle lighting chases; power ballads, which need powerful lighting swaps; and rock ‘n’ roll songs, which ne

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07 July 2025

USA - Hip-hop artist, producer and record executive Dr. Dre has upgraded the main room at his Aftermath Entertainment studio facility in Los Angeles to a 96-input Solid State Logic Duality Fuse SuperAnalogue mixing console.

Dr. Dre – whose influential debut solo album, 1992’s The Chronic, introduced G-Funk to the world and defined West Coast hip-hop – has owned or worked on every model of large-format SSL analogue music console since the E series, commenting, "The first love of my life was the SSL board."

Aftermath Entertainment’s head engineer, Quentin ‘Q’ Gilkey, has worked not just with Dr. Dre but also many of the artists on the label’s roster, including Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, The Game and Earl Sweatshirt. He began working with Dr. Dre 15 years ago, becoming Aftermath’s lead engineer in 2014. He

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04 July 2025

Europe - Art on Ice is a frozen extravaganza where performers dance, sing, play and perform acrobatic stunts on ice. Audiences in Europe continue to be captivated and, highlighting the success of its format, the show will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2026.

Behind the scenes, conditions are as demanding as they are for the artists: camera operators complete their work on the ice using Segways, and sound engineer Michael Nöth mixes from behind the PA on the side of the ice rink. Thanks to KLANG:konductor, performers enjoy clear, immersive mixes ensuring they stay in time with the music, without distractions from sonic reflections while speeding around on the ice. Michael Nöth comments:

“We operate on a very tight schedule, with limited rehearsal time and welcome multiple, high-profile guest artists,” he says. “The show itself is h