Bjork’s Cornucopia theatre masterwork played a four-night residency at the recent Perth Festival in Western Australia. It delighted fans and was staged in a purpose-built 5,000-capacity pavilion in Langley Park, ensconced amid a ‘cybersonic Garden of Eden’ uniting nature and technology. The tour’s lighting is co-designed by UK-based creatives, Richard White and Bruno Poet, and for the Perth shows, equipment was supplied by local rental company, Showscreens, with a package including several Robe moving light fixtures. Gracing the rig were 18 Robe BMFL Blades, 20 BMFL Spots, 15 BMFL Wash Beams, 30 Spiiders and 12 LEDWash 600s plus two more…
Author: Jacob Waite
Working alongside Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) faculty, Final Pixel and Absen provided students studying Visual Effects and Games Art courses the opportunity to further develop skills and refine their knowledge of this emerging industry with a live brief, that culminated in facilitating support and expertise across a four-month project which culminated into a two-week virtual production (VP) shoot. With the use of Absen’s PL2.5 LED screen, Jonathan Dyson, Virtual Production Director for Absen demonstrated the product’s capacity for virtual production. Regularly providing a range of LED applications for universities and colleges, Absen became involved with the Final Pixel on the…
August Burns Red is currently touring the US and Canada in celebration of its 20th anniversary. At the heart of Lighting Designer, Carlos Katsurayama’s rig for the shows is a wall of 32 ADJ Jolt Bar FX LED wash/strobe fixtures, which provides a flexible backdrop to the band’s high-octane performances. Arranged in five continuous rows, which frame the musicians’ performance space, the Jolt Panel FX fixtures are used as the visual anchor for the production, generating a wide variety of distinctly different effects throughout the band’s energetic one and a half hour headline shows. Katsurayama began working with August Burns…
Funktion-One’s R&D team will lead a demo day being hosted by the loudspeaker manufacturer’s distributor for Germany at Movie Park in Bottrop. The event, which takes place on Friday 21 April and is open to audio and event professionals, will deliver a detailed showcase of Funktion-One’s Vero VX and provide an opportunity to listen to the recently launched Evo X. Funktion-One: A Day in the Park will take an in-depth look at Vero VX, hearing directly from Funktion-One founder Tony Andrews, product support/live sound engineer Will Wright, and acoustic design engineer James Hipperson. The programme will explore the Funktion-One design philosophy…
Former Republika band member, Leszek Biolik and the band, Czarno-Białe Ślady (Zbigniew Krzywański, Jakub Nowak, Jacek Bończyk) welcomed regional stars to share Republika’s music in one of the first immersive audio live concerts in Poland featuring Adamson FletcherMachine. The concert, part of the Obywatele Republiki [Citizens of the Republic] music project, was attended by 1,800 guests experiencing new interpretations of Republika’s songs through a modern multi-channel sound system. Guests included Renata Przemyk, Piotr Rogucki, Julia Pietrucha and Michał Wiraszko. “We are working in every region to showcase to artists, audiences and engineers how immersive audio experiences can engage audiences. The…
The Showman’s Show will return to Newbury Showground from 18 to 19 October 2023 with an extended format as Lance Show & Publications launches a party on the Wednesday evening. The Showman’s Supper promises to bring event professionals together in a social setting offering networking and entertainment. Held onsite within a permanent building at the showground it is set to capture the atmosphere of Showman’s Show parties past whilst adding a contemporary twist. The evening will be carefully crafted to create an environment for networking at the end of a busy season of events. Moving away from the traditional sit-down…
Muse’s Will of the People LP took an unsparing look at a looming post-apocalyptic world through its words and music. The same compelling force can be felt throughout arenas today on the multi-GRAMMY winners current tour in support of the LP, not just in the British rocker’s shredding riffs and mind-bending electronics, but also in a powerful production design that is generating so much attention in the press. A collaboration between Creative Director and Co-Production Designer, Jesse Lee Stout and Lighting Designer and Co-Production Designer, Sooner Routhier, the thought provoking visual panorama does more than merely support the music on…
Last year, KLANG:technologies joined Jerry Harvey Audio in celebrating the launch of Sharona, JHA’s new flagship IEM model. Twenty-four hours after the product’s official debut, KLANG made an announcement that it would be giving away five extremely-limited KLANG-branded pairs of Sharona to the contestants that submitted the best photos of themselves using a KLANG product. Now that the winners have all received their custom IEMs, KLANG recently followed up with each recipient to find out how they’re enjoying the new Sharona. As part of Mosaic Church’s production team for the past 16 years, Jeff Amato currently serves as Technology Systems…
Outline’s Newton audio processor has been awarded a European patent [N° EP3776932B1]. This qualification follows the awarding of an Italian patent for Newton in 2020 – N° 102018000004143 – and is the result of significant investment and effort on the part of the Brescia-based company. It is actually the third patent awarded to Newton, the other covering the unique WFIR filter topology that is a key factor in its audio performance. Outline leaped to the forefront of innovation in advanced FPGA-based audio processors when Newton was launched in 2017, since then it has been adopted by leading companies and technicians…
Astera Titan Tubes and PixelBricks are woven into the lighting design of Björk’s Cornucopia Tour by Bruno Poet and Ricard White. The show concept was initiated by the artist herself and developed with creative collaborators, James Merry and Argentinian Film Director, Lucrecia Martel. The video content was produced by Tobias Gremmler with the set designed by Chiara Stevenson. With a host of strong visual identities from the stage design, the theatrical performance of the musicians and the video content, White felt that lighting “needed to complement, embellish and tie-in with all these elements and become the link between the physical…
Croatian singer-songwriter and composer, Gibonni played two arena concerts in Zagreb that sold out in minutes, with over 40,000 fans flocking to see the performing artist. Upon arrival, live music enthusiasts were treated to stage and lighting design by Sven Kučinić featuring 140 Robe moving lights. A series of scenic set pieces were designed by Neven Stojakovic based on the theme of clocks – an idea from Gibonni himself – and time, loosely related to and translated from the title of his latest album. Using these as references, Kučinić added trussing and lighting, and in collaboration with Stojakovic, developed the…
Touring with Inhaler almost continuously since late August 2021, FOH Engineer, Martin Mittler has relied on a DiGiCo SD12 mixing console, chosen for its compact design and wide range of features, to provide hassle-free performance at an affordable price point. The band’s production manager and monitor engineer, Dave Skelton, and Mittler joined the band in early 2020 and managed two tours, one in the UK and then a brief stint in Europe, before the pandemic put everything on hold. “We had to wait until July 2021 to be able to rejoin them in Dublin for production rehearsals. Since then, it’s…
Meyer Sound has announced an expanded presence at the 2023 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, bringing additional personnel and resources to showcase products and technologies for the touring, recording/post-production, and immersive audio markets. This year’s NAMM Show is scheduled as a one-time-only springtime event, with exhibits from 13–15 April 2023. Meyer Sound can be found on the show floor at exhibit space #17215 (ACC North Level 2). “Meyer Sound is coming off a record-setting year in 2022, and we will be working hard to continue that success in the coming months,” said Senior Vice President, John McMahon. “We are building…
Legendary film music composer, Hans Zimmer, drew over a million fans to arenas, stadiums and open-air concerts for his spectacular Hans Zimmer Live European Tour, his first large-scale arena tour since the COVID-19 pandemic. The award winning composer performed live on stage, joined by an orchestra, band and choir, to perform hits from favourite films as well as new material in two hours of reimagined arrangements. For the first time on a Zimmer tour, a KLANG immersive in-ear monitor system was deployed, delivering previously unattainable space in the monitor mix and also finding favour at front of house. Sound Designer…
Bringing with him knowledge accumulated over more than thirty years in the industry, Fabio Deambrogio has joined ADJ Europe in the role of Business Development Manager for the Italian market. Working alongside ADJ’s existing Sales Representatives in Italy, Deambrogio will focus on expanding the company’s market penetration in the country’s rental and production sectors. Having worked as a Sound Engineer and Lighting Production Manager, most recently for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Deambrogio has firsthand experience of the production/rental business. He also has an extensive background in manufacturer sales, with a rich network of contacts built up across…
Underoath has hit the road on its Blind Obedience tour featuring Ayrton Mistral fixtures from SONUS Productions. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America. Based in Moorestown, New Jersey and with offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, SONUS Productions is a lighting, video and audio rental, production and design house specialising in touring, anime and gaming, and conventions. For Underoath’s Blind Obedience tour the company is furnishing all the lighting and audio equipment and SONUS Productions Director of Touring Accounts, Lenny Sasso, is serving as the Lighting Designer and Programmer. Underoath kicked off the 24-city, cross-country…
In mid-March, White Juju, a unique collaboration between the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and jazz saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch, was performed at Printworks London. First performed at the Barbican as part of the 2021 EFG London Jazz Festival, Kinch’s work for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra was written in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, Black British history, Brexit and the Covid-19 lockdowns. Two and a half years on, the soon-to-be-redeveloped concrete cavern of the Press Halls: Live Stage at Printworks London gave the piece a new feel, with a different approach to mixing the sound. The LSO’s…
CHAUVET has acquired LynTec. Founded in 1982, Lenexa, Kansas-based LynTec is widely known for its advanced lighting control panels, with these products installed on well over 10,000 sites throughout the world. “With the addition of LynTec to our group of companies, we will be able to offer our customers a complete solution that embraces lighting, video, show programming, and control at every level from the creation of a design to the control of power at an installation,” said Albert Chauvet, CEO of CHAUVET. “We not only value LynTec for its technology, we’ve also been very impressed by the company’s ongoing…
