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24 October 2025

USA - On 20 September, the Magik Theatre in San Antonio hosted its annual fundraiser, A Night of Magik. The venue was transformed into a Hollywood-style premiere, complete with a red-carpet entrance, themed décor and photo spot opportunities that welcomed guests to a night under the stars.

The lighting design for the event was led by Thaddeus Morris, who also served as the lighting supervisor and programmer. His approach to the lighting design was to merge the elegance of Hollywood with the excitement of modern production, using a variety of Mega-Lite fixtures throughout the theatre, courtyard and lobby.

Inside the theatre, the setup featured 10 MW1s, one Framebot, four MS1s, and a Mega Node. The MW1s were used as front and back light for podiums and stage areas, creating balanced coverage and depth. The Framebot served as a flexible front

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23 October 2025

UK - East London venue Troxy has begun its ‘most ambitious transformation in decades’, designed to ‘revive hidden heritage, boost the fan experience and increase the venue’s capacity to 3,600’.

The ambitious restoration of Troxy continues, with the intention to redefine what promoters and punters can expect from a night out at the Art Deco venue by improving fan comfort, accessibility, operational flow, and high-impact production potential.

At the heart of the works is the revival of Troxy’s long-sealed basement, which is being completely reimagined to include a permanent cloakroom, a new high-capacity toilet block, and structural upgrades to fire escapes that unlock more standing room in the main auditorium.

“We are really excited that the next stage of the restoration of Troxy has begun. This phase involves the reactivation of

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23 October 2025

USA - Brown Note Productions in Thornton, Colorado deployed 92 new Claypaky Ultimo Sharpy fixtures at DJ Sammy Virji’s high-energy show in Denver’s Civic Centre Park on 13 September. Set against the neo-classical backdrop of the City and County Building, Virji entertained a crowd that braved inclement weather for a night of electronic dance music.

Virji has ‘exploded’ on the EDM scene since he last played Denver one year ago at the Greek Theatre. He has played Coachella and Tomorrowland, charted hit solo tunes and made notable collaborations in the lead up to one of the biggest shows of his career at Civic Center Park.

Brown Note teamed with Chris Schroeder Productions and lighting designer Erik Mahowald of Bending Light Productions to use 92 Ultimo Sharpys to create a dynamic backdrop of light, which framed both the artist

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23 October 2025

USA - Elation dealer Morgan Sound of Lynnwood, Washington recently completed a full-scale lighting, audio, and video upgrade for the Evangelical Chinese Church of Seattle, integrating an Elation lighting rig and Obsidian NX4 lighting control system. The project, completed in October, marks a major step forward for the 200-seat church as it transitions from a traditional worship style to a more contemporary, dynamic environment designed to engage a younger generation.

Led by Fraser Brearley, sales and systems associate at Morgan Sound, with Art Howard as project manager and Jamey Atkins and Steve Gregory as lead installers, the Morgan Sound team designed and implemented a fully-integrated AV system. The upgrade included a new PA line array, video wall, and lighting positions for front, stage and side areas.

“The church’s old audio and lighting sys

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23 October 2025

Canada - For Glass Life – a multi-screen video installation by artist Sara Cwynar – Branch Audiovisual partnered with 1 Sound to design an audio system that matched the depth and scale of the artwork. The exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, which examines how images influence perception and value, immerses viewers through layered moving visuals, text, and sound.

The installation features a Cannon C8i, three C5is, two Tower LCC44s, and a SUB310, powered by Powersoft amplifiers. Each speaker was mounted and aimed using custom colour C-Clamps for Cannons, allowing precise positioning that blended with the exhibition’s visual composition.

Branch AV built the audio and video rack, outfitted with an Allen & Heath AH-AHM-16 Processing Matrix, Powersoft Q2404 and Q4804 amplifiers, and Blackmagic Design broadcast decks and convert

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23 October 2025

UK - For more than three decades Chalset Sound has been an event production and installation specialist across the UK, Europe and Turkey, supplying PA systems, stage lighting, and special effects. For the last 10 years, Midas consoles have been a mainstay of the business, with the Midas M32 and Midas Pro1 prominent in much of its work.

Recently, Chalset decided to invest in the brand’s flagship HD96. Belchin Sirakov of Chalset Sound comments: “We invested in the HD96 last year and, as with our other Midas consoles, have been happy from the off. It’s a robust feature-rich unit with great pre-amps, and is extremely user-friendly. The console has already seen a lot of use, including on a number of high-profile shows across Europe.”

One such recent prestigious show saw Chalset Sound deploy the HD96 on monitors at the Royal Albert Hall for Turkish

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23 October 2025

USA - Zach Scott has developed a captivating design for punk rock icons The Academy Is… on the 12-city fall leg of their Almost Here tour.

The band kicked off their tour at the 20th annual Chicago Riot Fest on 21 September. Running his show on a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium Console, Scott mixes richly saturated colours, a stark blend of intense brightness and dark space and some artfully placed silhouettes to captivate attention while supporting his client’s performance.

“The role of silhouettes, brightness and intensity in this show stems from my deep-rooted programming style of theatrics with impact,” said Scott. “It is heavily influenced by one of my mentors, Gigi Padron. I prefer to use dark space as my dynamic rather than video, and the band was on that exact same thought process.

“This is something that th

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22 October 2025

Belgium - The 2,150-seat Henry Le Bœuf Hall at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts –  known by locals as Bozar – now boasts its first ever permanent sound system: a L-Acoustics L-ISA Hyperreal Sound installation featuring the L Series. The inauguration of the new system took place on 2 September, led by Nicolas Bernus, technical production manager at Bozar. On this occasion, Syla and the Belgian National Orchestra performed, with both specialised and general press in attendance.

For decades, amplified performances in the iconic hall relied on rented systems that could never quite match the venue's artistic ambitions. Now, with artists like Sigur Rós, Bob Dylan, Kae Tempest, and Zaho de Sagazan playing its stage this autumn, Bozar has equipped itself with technology that matches its status.

"The new sound system is specifically designed to support

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22 October 2025

France - Known as the Black Pearl of the Mediterranean due to the basalt rock it is built on, Agde is one of the oldest cities in France.

In October 2025, residents celebrated a new development in their community with the inauguration of the Palais des Festivités, a modern and versatile facility designed to host a wide variety of arts, community, and festive events.

Replacing the city’s old festival hall, demolished as part of a wider redevelopment of the area, the main hall at the new venue has a seating capacity of 600 and can accommodate up to 2.5 times that number standing. It features acoustics designed for artistic performances and modular spaces, enabling it to adapt easily to the needs of each event.

With modularity at the heart of the brief for the sound system at Palais des Festivités, the AV and event technology specia

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22 October 2025

USA - Brent Washburn's first experience working in sound was mixing punk shows in his basement around 15 years ago. "I had an old analogue console with full D-sub output to a computer for recording," he recalled. "I met a lot of great artists from that experience, and started touring with a few of them."

After touring for a while, Washburn started looking for a more consistent experience at each venue. "I got tired of the console du jour, and having to dial in IEM mixes each time," he explained. "It left me less time to work on my front-of-house mix before we actually hit the stage."

Seeing influential engineers like Drew Thornton mix big acts on compact control surfaces inspired his next move. "That seemed to make a lot of sense," he recalled. "I heard how great their mixes sounded, and started seeing more and more people go that route."

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22 October 2025

South Korea - The 4,000-seat Manna Methodist Church in Bundang New City offers five services a week and has expanded its output to include performances, attracting thousands of congregation members to the church and large audiences online. To maximise flexibility and accommodate their expanding channel count, the Manna Church team made the decision to replace their existing SD7 with two DiGiCo Quantum 852, one in the church for live performances and another in their broadcast suite to manage online audio.

Overseeing the purchase and installation was DiGiCo’s South Korean distributor, Soundus Corporation. Soundus also commissioned and completed the original installation in 2012 and sales engineer Sean Kim is a regular visitor to the church. For him, DiGiCo’s stability was a large part of the decision process.

“The initial choice to use DiGiCo co

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22 October 2025

Romania - The Cocor Shopping Centre in Bucharest has unveiled a major upgrade to its massive digital signage display. The installation, a well-known feature of the city's urban landscape, has been revitalised with LED technology from Absen.

This landmark project was executed by local AV integration firm, Eltek. The project has transformed the facade, upgrading its visual performance, energy efficiency, and operational reliability to meet modern standards of performance.

For years, the Cocor’s LED system, based on older technology, had become difficult and expensive to maintain. The system's high energy consumption and frequent technical issues made it inefficient and unable to support modern visual digital campaigns. Additionally, the outdated content management system lacked modern automation features, further limiting its capabilities.

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21 October 2025

France - On 15 April 2019, a world-famous religious building was engulfed in flames, destroying its spire and roof and causing significant damage to the cathedral's altar, pipe organs, 13th-century rose windows and many religious relics. Five years later, on 7 December 2024, after what is described as one of the most ambitious and extensive house of worship reconstruction projects in modern history, the Notre-Dame de Paris officially reopened.

Appointed as the lead integrator for this momentous job, Novelty Paris handled the vast majority of the integration work, seeking critical support from its sister company De Préférence for fine-tuning and acoustic optimisation, and the wider Groupe Novelty companies to undertake the challenge of equipping the religious monument with a sophisticated and fully integrated audiovisual infrastructure.

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21 October 2025

UK - TSL has continued to grow within the TV and broadcast lighting sector, consistently supporting a diverse range of high-profile sporting events both across the UK and internationally. Our commitment to excellence and our comprehensive capabilities ensure seamless and visually stunning broadcasts for major global events.

This past summer, TSL teams were instrumental in providing lighting and dedicated crew to various locations throughout England for the broadcast of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025. The tournament culminated in the finals held at Twickenham.

A record-breaking peak audience of 5.8m viewers tuned in across TV and streaming platforms to witness England’s victory. This final not only became the most-watched women’s rugby union match ever on UK television, but also secured its place as the most-watched rugby match of the

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21 October 2025

Australia - The Chandler Theatre, originally constructed for the 1982 Commonwealth Games, has long served as one of Brisbane’s most versatile performance spaces. With its original loudspeaker system reaching the end of life, the 1,500-seat venue required a modern upgrade capable of handling a wide range of programming, from school productions and orchestral concerts to national touring acts.

After a competitive design process, a new sound system based on JBL Professional’s VTX A6 subcompact line array was installed by High Noon Stage Productions, with system consultation by XConnect Professional Services and support from Australian distributor MadisonAV. The result is a powerful yet discreet audio solution that balances performance with architectural and operational requirements.

The final design features three hangs of eight JBL VTX A6 loudspeak

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21 October 2025

Bahrain - Egyptian superstar Tamer Hosny delivered a crowd-pleasing performance at the Beyon Al Dana Amphitheatre at the Exhibition World Bahrain in September, supported by an Adamson Systems Engineering sound system deployed by Showtech Productions Bahrain.

The Adamson E-Series serves as one of the company’s flagship large-format line arrays and has supported international tours and stadium-scale productions across the globe.

Producing a concert for Tamer Hosny requires great attention to detail, especially when delivering sound to a large, open amphitheatre. The production team needed a system that could provide both consistency and efficiency while maintaining clarity across the venue.

The E-Series presented the balance of power and practicality. Its lightning-fast rigging system and efficient truck pack design not only reduced set-up ti

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21 October 2025

Poland - The Municipal Culture Centre in the central Polish town of Gostynin was founded in 1993, and for more than three decades has been the community’s base for musical and theatre performances, social activities, and cinema screenings. More than two years ago, its management took the decision to modernise and refurbish the Centre, since which it has undergone a significant transformation.

Upgrading the venue’s technology was an important part of the project and audio specialist Tommex was engaged to design, supply, and install a quality sound system to cater for a demanding programme of theatre shows and concerts.

Tommex chose Coda Audio’s N-APS compact arrayable point source for the 250-seat auditorium.

The flown system installed at the Centre comprised three N-APS and two N-SUB per side supplemented by a single, centrally mounted

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21 October 2025

The Netherlands - Spot is an umbrella organisation set up to run music productions staged at two busy venues in the city of Groningen – De Oosterpoort and the municipality’s main theatre, Stadsschouwburg.

Since 1973, De Oosterpoort has been the leading music venue in the area and is the home of the Noord Nederlands Orkest and the four-day Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) festival, plus numerous other shows, productions and business events. Last year, Oosterpoort’s first Robe moving lights arrived as part of an upgrade to start replacing their old halogen stock with LED luminaires, with more recently delivered, so all their moving lights are now LED-based.

The venue has three halls. The Grote Zaal (Main Hall) can accommodate 1,850 standing and 1,150 seated, the Kleine Zaal (Small Hall) has a capacity of 750 standing and 450 seated, and the

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21 October 2025

UK - Based on Lawrence Kasdan’s 1992 Oscar-nominated Warner Bros. film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, the hit musical The Bodyguard returns with a UK tour running from 2025 to 2026. Directed by Thea Sharrock, the production transitions between concert-style spectacle and intimate, suspenseful storytelling.

It features a lighting design by Mark Henderson, working in close collaboration with associate lighting designer Dale Driscoll and lighting programmer Stuart (Stacy) Cross. The team approached White Light (WL) to supply the touring rig, continuing a long-standing partnership; WL previously supported the original West End production and subsequent tours.

Now in its fourth UK tour and 20th iteration overall, The Bodyguard has evolved significantly. Dale explains: “The show moves from big concert-style production num

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21 October 2025

Germany - One of the country's most acoustically revered concert halls has been transformed. Originally built in 1926 as a planetarium, Tonhalle Düsseldorf was converted into a concert hall during the 1970s and has since earned worldwide recognition for its exceptional natural acoustics.

Today, the venue serves as home to the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra while hosting an eclectic mix of classical, rock, pop, comedy and cabaret performances. But when the hall's aging sound system began experiencing critical failures, Tonhalle faced the urgent challenge of installing an audio system worthy of a venue approaching its centennial without compromising its acoustic integrity. 

The solution came through a competitive EU-wide public tender won by integrator Thomann Audio Professional. Following a system design developed by consultancy firm Bühnenplanung

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21 October 2025

UK - As 2025’s UK City of Culture, Bradford is playing host to an extensive programme of events in the arts and entertainment field, and has invested in a number of innovative creative spaces to provide opportunities for people to engage with cultural events.

One of the most versatile is The Beacon, a custom-made mobile venue, which is being constructed, dismantled and moved between four different parks across the 141 sq.mile district. A full schedule of events at each site includes weekday shows and weekend festivals, featuring music, comedy, clubs, classes, family activities and more.

Bradford-based specialist Pro Audio Systems (PAS) was engaged to supply and install the venue’s technical requirements, including a robust and flexible lighting system from Chauvet Professional, which could cater for the wide-ranging demands of the venue’s ambit

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20 October 2025

USA - DiGiCo’s Quantum112 compact flypack mixer – previously codenamed Pufferfish – is already being put through its paces by Ed Sheeran’s FOH engineer, Simon Kemp, and production manager, Chris Marsh.

Appropriately, the tiny desk had its first official deployment on National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Concerts video series, recorded live at NPR Music’s office in Washington, DC. The very next day, the ‘still-secret digital mixer’ was in Williamsburg’s Domino Park in Brooklyn, New York for an exclusive TikTok LIVE performance promoting Sheeran’s eighth and latest album, Play.

DiGiCo has enjoyed a long history with Sheeran, tracing back to 2011, when Chris Marsh began mixing the artist’s early solo tours on a compact SD11. In 2017, to accommodate an ever-increasing need for more busses, Marsh stepped up to

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20 October 2025

Romania - The launch season of new Romanian TV talent show The Ticket premiered in September and is being recorded at Castel Studios just outside Bucharest. It is produced by Imagic and Antena 1 and lit by lighting designer/DoP Dan Andrei and lighting director Marius Matyas, using a large Robe moving light rig, which is owned by the Antena TV Group.

The show highlights the talent of the performers and the quality and professionalism of their stagecraft, which gets rated for creativity, entertainment value and audience engagement, judged by both a panel of celebs and the public, who vote – via an app – on the ticket price they would theoretically pay to see this act live. Each of the 14 rounds finishes with a winner who goes through to the finale in December.

The acts can vary greatly from a children’s choir group or a pop band, to a gr

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20 October 2025

Italy - One of the best-known spiritual destinations in the world, the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi recently underwent a major audio and control system upgrade to enhance the worship and visitor experience for millions of annual pilgrims. The project brought together JBL Intellivox loudspeakers, BSS signal processing, and AMX control systems to deliver precise coverage, intuitive operation, and seamless integration across the site’s 10,000sq.m outdoor space.

The Basilica of St. Francis holds deep cultural and spiritual significance as the birthplace of the Franciscan movement, characterized by humility, poverty, and devotion to all creation. With two adjoining churches, frescoes by Giotto, and an expansive piazza that hosts large gatherings of worshippers and tourists, the site presents challenges for sound reinforcement.

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