PUSH has launched PUSH LIVE UNLIMITED to provide live content creators greater control of their content, audience, engagement and interactions, opening up exciting prospects for the live industry. Major festivals, such as Insomniac’s EDC Mexico, have leveraged the PUSH LIVE UNLIMITED platform to increase its digital audience by over 300%, distributing the three-day multi-stage festival to 87 curated live streams across artist and partner channels. Brands including Xbox, Warner Music and supporters of social movements such as Black Lives Matter have also partnered with PUSH to share live content with targeted audiences. The new cloud-based technology empowers the embattled live…
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Performing at West Hollywood’s Troubadour, the gig was streamed to fans on 18 October as part of a collective action weekend in support of independent music venues. A total of 35 artists – including Miley Cyrus, The Roots, Major Lazer and Leon Bridges – played in multiple venues in cities across the US and joined the Foo Fighters in raising awareness and funds to keep North America’s cherished independent concert venues from closing indefinitely. Named #SOSFest, the three-day virtual music festival was created to support the Save Our Stages initiative and America’s National Independent Venues Association’s (NIVA) Emergency Relief Fund.…
According to research carried out on behalf of Live Music Industry Venues & Entertainment (LIVE), over 26,000 permanent jobs will be lost in the live music industry before the end of the year if UK government support is withdrawn. In addition, 144,000 FTE roles, including self-employed and freelance workers, will have effectively ceased to exist by the end of 2020. For the past 11 years, LIVE has represented the UK’s live music business. Its members include the Entertainment Agents’ Association, the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM), the Association of Festival Organisers (AFO) the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), the Concert Promoters…
With this year’s Summer Night Concert, an event that has been taking place since 2004, the Vienna Philharmonic wanted to send a signal of hope in the year of COVID-19. As a result, the concert went ahead — albeit with a small number of spectators on site — as a live broadcast event on the TV channels ORF2 and 3SAT. The concert production itself, under the direction of Valery Gergiev, and featuring world-famous soloist Jonas Kaufmann, had to be optimised for television broadcasting. With highly experienced DoP Jerry Appelt at the helm, the production was able to fall back on…
The JBL IRX115S powered subwoofer, the newest member of the JBL IRX Series, draws from JBL’s top professional touring technologies to deliver superior sound without the guesswork, thanks to its custom driver and amplifier designs; tuned, ported enclosure; and built-in crossover and polarity settings. It all adds up to an impressive 128 dB of deep, powerful low-frequency coverage in a rugged, compact cabinet weighing just 65.3 pounds. “With our IRX Series, we’ve drawn from 70 years of JBL innovation to design a portable P.A. that’s lightweight, powerful and doesn’t take a lot of work to sound great,” said Craig Lambrecht,…
Cut off from her touring routine by the lockdown, multi-GRAMMY Award winning artist, Tori Kelly, appeared virtually on The Late Show with James Corden late this summer to support her latest EP, Solitude. Lighting Designer, Julien Reux reflected this radiance with warm white light from 18 CHAUVET Professional STRIKE 1 fixtures supplied by PRG. “I wanted to give off an angelic aura to the performance,” said Reux, owner of ReuxLight Design. “The warm white glow from the STRIKE fixtures was critical to conveying this mood.” Kelly’s performance was videoed at The Beehive Studios in Los Angeles and livestreamed to Corden’s…
Continuing its commitment to cultivate future generations of designers, Vectorworks will open submissions for its fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship on December 1, 2020. The Vectorworks Design Scholarship invites undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape, entertainment and interior design to submit either new or old projects. “Last year, we received over 1,600 submissions worldwide and we’re looking forward to getting even more submissions this year,” said Marketing Programs Director Alice Lowy. “The Vectorworks Design Scholarship is an amazing opportunity for students to take the next step in their professional development by submitting to win…
With the opening of its London and LA based Extended Reality (xR) showrooms, disguise now offers two fully operational, in-house virtual production demo spaces. LED products to build the LED floor and walls of the xR Stages were supplied by ROE Visual as part of the partnership. Customers and partners can now get a demonstration of the idea and techniques behind virtual production. disguise and ROE Visual are often mentioned in one sentence in any article on live or virtual production. Firmly established as suppliers to the live event and touring industry, both companies have left their mark with first-class…
PROLIGHTs strikes a new distribution agreement with Acoustic & Lighting Systems in Malaysia and Singapore. Eugene Yeo, Acoustic & Lighting Systems General Manager, commented: “We support customers in many sectors of the industry, and thrive to offer them the best solutions for their applications. We see PROLIGHTS as a manufacturer with a vast product catalogue, allowing to tailor our customer’s needs to their offering,” Yeo added. “Their tech-savvy R&D and sales make our lives very easy – we can see they are product-oriented and very passionate about the products they release.” “We wanted to reinforce our presence in Asia, and…
The LD Talent Club – The Warehouse Competition held its 2020 contest finale in September at the historic Zeche Zollern in Dortmund, Germany where Claypaky fixtures were among more than 500 lighting instruments featured in show projects and on site illuminating architecture and landscapes. A total of 88 young lighting designers from Germany participated in previous legs of the competition, which afforded them a platform to showcase their skills. Just nine were invited to the finale where, using the same complement of lighting fixtures, they created live, time code shows to selected music tracks. A panel of senior LDs and…
disguise has launched three Extended Reality (xR) stages in its London, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong offices. The new stages provide a dedicated space for xR innovation and customer demonstrations, allowing disguise to present new workflows. The disguise team have taken this opportunity to explore and finesse xR workflows, experiment with content ideas, and support the community with remote production worldwide, including the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards and America’s Got Talent. The stages are equipped with disguise’s xR solution and a proven complement of LED displays, cameras and camera tracking systems to ensure successful xR productions. For its London…
Molpass srl, the exclusive distributor for MDG products in Italy, recently supplied a perfect fog solution to film company, 2aFilm, for a shoot on the banks of the River Po. The new film, Lei Mi Parla Ancora (She Still Speaks To Me), is directed by Italy’s prolific, award-winning director, producer and screenwriter, Pupi Avati, who is especially renowned for his work in the horror genre, and is working with his long-time director of photography, Cesare Bastelli. One scene called for a naturalistic covering of fog on a long stretch of road beside the River Po for a number of cars…
The rejuvenation of The Stamer Group’s management team marks an important step towards reorienting and securing the future of the company as a family business. Hans Stamer, co-founder of the Stamer Group based in Sankt Wendel, is departing after more than 40 years as Managing Director and CEO, thus paving the way for the new management team. From November 2020, the new four-person corporate management team will be made up of executives who have been with the company for many years. Lothar Stamer, brother of Hans Stamer and second co-founder of the Stamer Group, remains with the company as Managing…
Continuing its quarter-of-a-century tradition of sponsoring the world-renowned Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) with a Student Scholarship Programme, Sennheiser has named William Stringer as the latest winner of Sennheiser’s Student Scholarship Programme. Stringer will receive full financial support for his tuition fees and accommodation costs, as well as being given the benefit of access to Sennheiser key contacts and the company’s vast audio expertise. Since 1996, Sennheiser has been an active partner of LIPA, with both organisations striving for the common goal of supporting the talent of the future. Providing them with the tools necessary to succeed has resulted in…
Outline launches the all-new L3000 multi-purpose amplifier to offer a compact, powerful DSP-equipped multi-channel amplifier that can be configured to drive most loudspeaker configurations during this strange time. L3000s form factor eschews the traditional 19” rackmount format, its mechanism being housed in a super-tough, lightweight chassis using the same materials and roadworthy polyurea external coating as Outline’s tour-grade loudspeakers. The modest dimensions make it ideal for a huge range of audio installation projects, notably those where space constraints, especially working from home, make it impossible or impractical to find space for traditional amplifier racks. L3000 allows 3,000w of pure audio…
CHAUVET DJ is offering customers exciting, value-driven ways to create bold, new looks as they jump start their live entertainment and event businesses by unleashing a stunning array of product introductions that include the company’s first CMYO colour-mixing fixture and the first Intimidator to use built-in RGBW colour-mixing instead of a colour wheel. Covering a broad product range, from washes to movers and pin spots, the new fixtures represent the latest in lighting technology. Many of them offer advanced DMX control features. Among the new wash units are the Wash FX Hex, a powerhouse multi-purpose effect light that packs a…
Waves V12 adds exciting new features to Waves’ entire massive catalog of plugins. This includes the ability to resize Waves plugins, highly requested by Waves users. Other new additions include a new accelerated preset search engine, sharp retina-ready graphics, and plugins added to select premium bundles. Waves V12 plugins now let you resize your plugins, in order to view them however large or small you want to. You can choose from five GUI sizes – up to 200% of the original plugin size. You can also customise different default sizes per plugin, to have them open in whichever size you…
RTS has revealed the global introduction of OMS OMNEO Main Station, a hybrid IP/digital/analog main station for partyline intercom systems and the core component of a major new product family: RTS Digital Partyline. Presented in a compact 1RU enclosure, OMS is a uniquely versatile and cost-effective solution capable of interconnecting both wired/wireless and IP/digital/analog devices. Full TCP/IP connectivity is supported. Whereas current systems on the market offer analog-only, digital-only, proprietary or non-Dante-compatible products, OMS encapsulates the RTS philosophy of bridging all standards and formats. OMNEO* IP technology – incorporating Dante (audio transport), AES70 (device control) and more – allows OMS…
