Sennheiser has announced that Alex Snape, a talented first-year student of the BA (Hons) Sound Technology course, has been selected as the deserving recipient of the prestigious Sennheiser 2023 LIPA Scholarship. As part of the scholarship, Snape will receive a financial bursary for his tuition, gain access to Sennheiser’s vast network of contacts, and benefit from the audio specialist’s unparalleled industry experience, expertise, and mentorship. Snape, who was born and raised in North Wales, considers the opportunity to study at LIPA to be a dream come true. “It almost feels wrong to ask for more!” he exclaims. “Being able to…
Author: James Robertson
The beginning of June 2023 marked four months since the launch of The Power of Events. The prime focus has been on the platform itself, providing a single destination dedicated to showcasing all seven core sectors of the UK events industry, as well as profiling the essential industry community. From a standing start, over 25K unique visitors have to date visited the platform since launch, with hugely positive feedback. It has seen consistent engagement with the podcast listings and the events calendar, which are fast becoming essential resources for many eventprofs in the UK events industry. Helping do all of…
Matthieu Larivée and the team at Lüz Studio created one of the final shows in Reba McEntire’s current tour at Madison Square Garden. The Montreal based design and production team, which included David Rondeau, Pierre-Luc Bedard, and LD Andy Knighton, wove a beautifully textured narrative to reflect the multi-Grammy winner’s music by using a range of different techniques, most of them centered on employing lighting and set extensions as storytelling tools. “This show is a great music show; it is not theatrical at all, so lighting is a big actor in the narrative,” said Larivée. “We wanted to create lighting…
Southern California Sound Image has appointed Jesse Adamson as President. Dave Shadoan will step out of the President’s role and continue his duties as CEO for the company. Adamson joined Sound Image in 2013 as the Director of Business Development. Prior to this, Jesse held the position of Vice President at Adamson Systems Engineering. “Jesse is a talented young executive who knows how our company operates in detail. I’m proud to announce Jesse’s promotion and I couldn’t ask for a better successor. I have been grooming him for the chair, for some time now.” said Dave Shadoan, Sound Image’s CEO. “He is…
When it comes to lighting, Lorna Shore and their LD, Nate Haber, have one edict that they’re pretty strict about: limit the use of front light. “The band and I have come up with a few guidelines regarding front light,” said Haber. “In no particular order it goes something like this: the default is that they have no front light. Also, we try to keep Austin and his drum set as lit as possible. When Adam has a guitar solo he always needs light; and when Will is talking to the crowd, he needs light too. There are a few…
In celebration of the coronation of King Charles III on 6 May 2023, Palace of Westminster in London was illuminated in the iconic colours of the Union Jack – red, white, and blue. The home of the UK Parliament is a worldwide famous building dating from 1840 with iconic architecture. To illuminate the Gothic-style exterior facade in the national colours, lighting designer David Bishop chose a total of 74 units of Cameo ZENIT W600 LED Wash Lights, supplied by Version 2 Lights. The IP65-rated ZENIT W600 fixtures were placed at the base of the building’s facade over a width of…
David DeCarolis and Yichen Zhou employ Fuze MAX moving heads in lighting design for three student-produced plays on annual theatre festival. In partnership with dry-hire rental house Main Light, Elation Professional provided Fuze MAX series moving head luminaires to David Geffen School of Drama at Yale for use on the school’s annual Carlotta Festival, which showcases plays written, directed, acted and designed by students. The Carlotta Festival features three fully produced new plays by graduating playwrights performed in rotating repertory. The plays presented in this year’s festival, which ran May 5–12 at the Iseman Theatre, included littleboy/littleman by Rudi Goblen…
One development starting to impact our industry in a post-COVID-19 world is the growing commitment to training at a grassroots level. In response to this Martin Audio’s complete systems, software and control have been touring selective universities in spring 2023. The idea was the brainchild of Martin Audio Product Support Engineer, Paul Connaughton, who proposed the move shortly after joining the company 18 months ago. “Everyone agreed it was a good idea, especially after the pandemic where we saw a huge drop in numbers with regard to skilled workers, crew and suppliers,” he said. “It is extremely important that we…
Metallica has continued to break new ground with the dynamic, in-the-round production for the global, two-year M72 World Tour that recently kicked off in Europe. Throughout the tour, the band’s sound is immersing the entire audience — at full bandwidth across a broad stereo landscape — through a Meyer Sound system comprising a record 288 PANTHER large-format linear line array loudspeakers. For decades Metallica concerts have been known for technical and artistic innovation, and once again the band and long-time creative director Dan Braun have moved beyond the old paradigms. Two concerts will be presented at every tour stop, with…
ADJ has launched the new Focus Spot 7Z automated luminaire. Offering an impressive output of 20,000 Lumens, this feature-packed moving head spot is capable of producing spot and wash effects. It’s extensive collection of integrated beam-shaping tools include full CMY + CTO color mixing; an animation wheel; motorized zoom, focus and iris; as well as two rotating GOBO wheels, two rotating prisms, and two frost filters. The Focus Spot 7Z is the latest addition to ADJ’s extensive Focus Series of LED-powered moving head fixtures, which all offer carefully curated feature sets, robust build quality, and excellent value for money. Powered…
The HOF team continues to grow and has gained another event technology expert in Lars Noske. Lars will work as Product Manager, and will reinforce HOF‘s product development and product management team. Lars has been working in the event technology industry for many years and is already very familiar with HOF’s portfolio. www.h-of.de/produkte/veranstaltungstechnik/traversen
At InfoComm 2023 HARMAN Professional Solutions will be showcasing products released since InfoComm 2022, including HARMAN Professional product announcements from this year’s Integrated Systems Europe show in Barcelona. With two activations at InfoComm Orlando for HARMAN Professional, Booth #4443 and audio demo room #W222B, featured products will include a wide range of new-to-show solutions, including new additions to the JBL VTX Series, the JBL SRX900, the JBL PRX900, powerful indoor and outdoor lights from Martin, and the next generation of controllers and processors from AMX. Live audio demos will be conducted during the following times: – Tuesday, June 11: 11:00am-12:00pm;…
Funktion-One has partnered with Gearlounge as the loudspeaker manufacturer’s exclusive distributor for Korea. The collaboration represents an important step for both companies as they work together to bring Funktion-One sound to more audiences through a range of applications, while supporting Gearlounge’s objective of re-shaping Korea’s music and audio industry landscape. Since its inception in 2006, Gearlounge has rapidly established itself as an innovator through an unwavering commitment to meeting the technological needs of music makers and their audiences. At the core of the company’s values is the creation of an infrastructure that empowers musicians to access and utilise world class…
Founded in May 2003, Global Motion has become one of the live event production industry’s most respected touring vendors. Since its inception, the company has remained independently owned and run. After surviving the Covid-19 pandemic, the company began its 20th year with two of the world’s biggest tours; Ed Sheeran’s Mathematics, and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres. Supplying Air, Sea and Road Freight Services, Freight Charters, Hand Carry, Storage and ATA Carnets, Global Motion has today worked with some of the biggest names in rock n roll alongside some of the music industry’s most exciting up-and-coming talent. From its offices…
d&b audiotechnik has appointed Christian Orcin to the position of Territory Manager for EMEA. His new responsibilities include overseeing all sales, support and marketing operations in the region and developing new business opportunities. Orcin joined d&b in 2019 as General Manager for Spain and Portugal and has since reinforced the company’s leadership in the Spanish mobile/rental and fixed installation markets, while also taking on the management of d&b’s Italian and French subsidiaries. Orcin will now focus on strengthening the foundations of the EMEA subsidiary and distribution markets whilst driving growth across the broader EMEA territory. “d&b is a great company…
Production Futures is an initiative created to provide opportunities for young people to learn, train, network, and develop real careers in production across every area of the live events, music, touring, festival, theatre, TV, broadcast and film industries. At its most recent On Tour roadshow event in Manchester, which was opened by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, Chief Executive Hannah Eakins announced the expansion of the Production Futures Breakthrough Talent Awards to better reflect the wide range of roles and skill sets required across the production industry. These rely heavily on transferable skills such as computer science, architecture, engineering and…
Brompton Technology, LED video processing company, will be exhibiting its latest solutions at InfoComm in Orlando, Florida, 14-16th June. Located on booth 761 within the Digital Signage Pavilion, Brompton will demo groundbreaking technology including its next-generation Tessera G1 receiver card and its new TrueLight technology. “We’re thrilled to be returning to InfoComm, one of the biggest destinations in the U.S. to showcase innovations for LED processing,” shared Cesar Caceres, Product Lead at Brompton Technology. “This year we are proud to show our new next-generation solutions – the G1 receiver card and TrueLight. We created the G1 as a platform to…
The creatives behind the stage design for Scotty McCreery’s current 31-city North American Damn Strait tour have achieved the balance of creating big, bold, dynamic looks on stage, while still meeting practical considerations by creating an eye-popping show night after night with a rig that fits in a single trailer. Helping them make this happen is a design that cleverly uses rolling carts and upstage downlighting, along with well-placed specials to enlarge looks, along with a potent, yet compact, lighting rig that features 24 CHAUVET Professional Rogue fixtures, owned by the former American Idol winner. “The big thing about this…
