Following a successful premiere at Venice Film Festival’s VR Biennale, Satore Tech’s Cosmos Within Us prepares to bring its 360 audio VR experience to London. The next stop is Raindance, the UK’s largest independent film festival, which is dedicated to fostering and promoting independent film around the world. Cosmos Within Us, a joint production from Satore Tech, a_BAHN and Satore Studio, is unique in its technical approach. “From the beginning we knew that the piece was going to be performed live, which meant we had to put an audio system together that would allow for that to happen,” said Tupac…
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SSE Audio Group has announced the acquisition of BCS Audio. As part of the move, BCS Audio founder and managing director, Dave Shepherd joins the SSE Audio hire team, while continuing to run the BCS operation. Dave Shepherd commented: “Joining SSE Audio Group, and at the same time its parent company, Solotech, is an incredibly positive development for us and our existing client base. It means we can access the resources and expertise of the largest audio services company in the UK, who as part of Solotech are also a global player. We are planning to integrate our rental inventory with…
The team behind the 6-minute immersive mental health installation Blackout is delighted to reveal that they will be running a pioneering industry evaluation alongside their exhibition experience at this year’s PLASA Show at London Olympia from Sunday 15 to Tuesday 17 September 2019. Bringing academic analysis to the exhibition, Research Director in Clinical Psychology at the University of Surrey Dr Paul Hanna has devised a questionnaire to undertake the first evaluation on mental health awareness specifically within the UK technical backstage entertainment industry. Dr Hanna has worked closely with the Blackout creative team since the project launched at Guildford School…
London-based multidisciplinary studio, Satore, has revealed how its Eriya art piece – a holographic tech installation used in UNKLE’s Beyond The Road exhibition – was created. The musical and art hybrid, which took over the top floor of the Saatchi Gallery this summer, was experienced by the NME: “Two years in the making, this ground-breaking project interprets UNKLE’s ‘The Road: Part I’ and ‘The Road: Part II/Lost Highway’… To step into it is to leave reality behind and enter a bewitching, neon-lit netherworld.” Collaborating with world-renowned and award-winning contemporary artists, filmmakers and photographers, the exhibition deconstructed the exclusive soundtrack by…
The Zero 88 team fully embraced the vibe, buzz and excitement of the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where they were – again – on the ground with training and technical support for a range of lighting consoles and control solutions. They also embraced the sociosphere with the creation of #behindthefringe – a fun and informative forum for anyone into fringe performance and involved with a show using Zero 88 products! Building on this success, #behindthefringe will be launched as a website later in the year as a hub and platform for comments, experiences and opinions, sharing information and connecting people…
It’s fair to say that the hottest product in global system processing for the last couple of years has been Outline’s extraordinary Newton, the world’s most advanced multi-source audio processor. Newton has re-written the rulebook by combining digital signal synchronisation, all-new filter technology, multi-format audio signal routing and standards conversion within a compact chassis and combining it with intuitive computer control platforms. So far, so good – but it’s about to get even better with this new release (v.95 firmware / v.1.9 software), available via the App Store. The highlights include: This new feature represents the quickest and easiest way…
Xstage has just released a video on A4i.tv that puts the spotlight on its new, advanced design stage deck – the S10! Weighing in at only 33kg, but without any reduction in loading capacity (750 kg/m2) or stability, the new S10 deck is winning over live entertainment professionals around the world. Discover the advanced design and leading features that have made the S10 so popular by watching the video here. (https://www.a4i.tv/2019/09/10/xstage-s10/)
“I can’t wait to start this exciting new chapter in my career,” said tech entrepreneur David Weatherhead, hot on the heels from last week’s sale of Advanced Presentation Products, Inc. to Diversified. Today Weatherhead did just that with the announcement that he plans to expand his other company, APG Rentals, into a full-service LED videowall and media technology powerhouse called APG Media Group that will be comprised of APG Rentals, APG Distribution, and APG Technical Services. According to Weatherhead, the company will grow both its U.S. and Canadian operations by opening a larger Canadian headquarters this winter in Toronto and…
This year’s Glastonbury headliner, Stormzy amazed audiences at one of Poland’s largest annual music festival, Open’er. The Open’er Festival is a music festival held in Gdynia on picturesque North coast of Poland. Considered one of the biggest and most popular annual music festivals, Open’er has attracted a host of household names over the years such as The Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Bruno Mars and Radiohead. This year proved not to disappoint featuring headline acts such as Kylie Minogue and recent Glastonbury sensation Stormzy. Concept for the main stage was undertaken by native veteran lighting collective Green Beam Design. The main…
Bon Jovi is out on the 2019 leg of their This House Is Not For Sale tour and it is a visual spectacular. A major part of the impact is achieved via three huge, curved LED screens. Provided by PRG, they deliver high resolution visuals, with perfection of image assured by Brompton Technology’s Tessera SX40 processors. PRG has worked with Bon Jovi for the past 17 years. The remit for this year’s tour, which takes in some of the world’s best known stadiums including London’s Wembley and Liverpool’s Anfield, was high definition, as PRG Vice President Sales Mark O’Herlihy explains: “The brief was…
Allen & Heath mixers tackled FOH and monitor duties for We Out Here Festival, held for the first time this August and curated by BBC Radio 6 DJ, Gilles Peterson, his Bronswood Recordings label and Worldwide FM. Taking place across four-days in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, the family-friendly festival showcased an eclectic line-up of underground artists and DJs. Supplied by AV production company A-Live Sound, based in Glasgow, Scotland, five dLive and four SQ systems were chosen to run FOH and Monitors across seven stages. Iain Mackie (Director at A-Live Sound) comments, “I chose to invest in dLive and SQ as…
Last year’s debut two-day Trondheim Rocks festival was such a success that this year it added an extra day. Headlined by Def Leppard, KISS and Iggy Pop, Alcons Audio pro-ribbon systems again succeeded in the difficult task of giving 19000 rock fans the volume and clarity they wanted, while keeping levels outside the arena low enough not to disturb nearby residential buildings. Held in the grounds of the Norwegian city’s Dahl brewery, a big part of last year’s success was thanks to the Alcons systems used on both the main and second stages. This year, the event’s sound was again…
“The power of our diversity unites us” screamed the headers emblazoning the Main Stage at Budapest’s fabulous Sziget Festival, which saw another amazing lineup including Martin Garrix, The 1975, Florence + The Machine, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran amongst many others thrilling up to 80,000 fans a day for 7 days. The base Main Stage production / house rig was designed by Mark Kontra from rental company Colossal, who have supplied lighting for this stage of the event for the last several years. Mark headed up a lighting crew of 18, working day and night shifts to ensure that the…
The Austrian AV technology manufacturer AV Stumpfl recently announced that its new projection screen and media server distributor for the United States, Evolve, has invested heavily in their groundbreaking AT64-SHIFT screen system legs. Evolve is so impressed by the product that they are working to convert their entire inventory over to the AT64-SHIFT system by the end of the year. Evolve is an Orlando based company, with offices in Dallas TX and Las Vegas NV, that distributes and rents out video equipment for the live events industry. Evolve also provides industry leading training programs to prepare new technicians for a…
Taking place on 10 September, the day hopes to raise awareness for the cause. Each year, death by suicide is listed in the top 20 causes of loss of life globally for people of all ages and is responsible for over 800,000 deaths. That’s a lost life every 40 seconds – and the impact can be catastrophic. According to World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) research, “For each suicide, approximately 135 people suffer intense grief or are otherwise affected. This amounts to 108 million people per year who are profoundly impacted by suicidal behaviour.” The music industry is unique. People working…
The Klassik airleben shows play an important part in Leipzig culture, bringing orchestral music to many who are presumed to rarely attend concerts in the Gewandhaus concert hall. Conducted by Musical Director, Andris Nelsons, this year’s shows featured soloists Kristin Opolais and Thomas Hampson in a programme of works by Italian composers Rossini, Verdi and Puccini. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep19_digitallr/8 Photo: Jörg Küster www.frontsound.de
Run by touring veteran Phil Woodhead, Touring MiniCams (TMC) has made a name for itself supplying a range of lipstick cameras to touring productions. Having cut his teeth in the early ’90s by producing camera packages for extreme sports, including climbing and kayaking, Woodhead has worked closely with mini cameras for over 25 years. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep19_digitallr/112 Photos: Touring MiniCams www.touringminicams.com
The Grand Concert de Paris, celebrating the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, takes place every 14 July at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, in the Champ de Mars. This year, a crowd of 300,000 people assembled to listen to the concert live, while a record audience of 3 million viewers tuned in to watch the spectacle on television. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep19_digitallr/12 www.broaman.com www.optocore.com
