NORTHRIDGE, CA — Texas Tech University honored Harman CEO Blake Augsburger with its Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering Distinguished Engineer Award. The award goes to University alumni who excel in their profession.
Read More »POTTERS BAR, U.K. — Harman International’s mixer group announced changes with the end-of-year retirement of Bruno Hochstrasser, executive VP of sales. Adrian Curtis, previously VP of sales for Soundcraft, will be handling duties for both Soundcraft and Studer, effective immediately, with Hochstrasser overseeing the handover.
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QUEBEC — Ex Machina’s name reflects the philosophy of its founder and artistic director, Robert Lepage: that technology can enhance artistry, and the multidisciplinary company has been relying on technology from Lectrosonics for a variety of artistic performances.
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NEW YORK — Will Ferrell recently staged a critically praised one-man show, You’re Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush, at the Cort Theatre on Broadway, using a Meyer Sound M’elodie line array loudspeaker system. The show, directed by Adam McKay, ended its well-received limited run in March.
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TORONTO — Sounds Distribution Inc. announced that it has added Phil Hall to the company’s sales force in Western Canada. Hall will focus his attention on Sound’s dealers across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
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JOHANNESBURG — Gearhouse South Africa supplied sound for the 2009 Coca Cola Zero festival at Riversands Farm and the Lourensford Wine Estate in Cape Town. Oasis and Snow Patrol headlined the event, which also featured Panic at the Disco and six Africa-based bands — The Dirty Skirts, Zebra & Giraffe, Casette, Foto na dans, aKing and One Day Remains.
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HOUSTON—The John Cooper School, located in The Woodlands, Texas, recently upgraded its 515-seat performing arts center with a Soundcraft Vi6 digital mixing console. The Vi6 is a permanent fixture on the main stage and is responsible for a wide range of performance applications and productions.
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PLOUGOUMELEN, France — Innovason named Gauthier Dalle its new sales and marketing director, effective May 1 following a hand-over period from current sales and marketing director, Xavier Pion.
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LLANELLI, U.K. — Vaughan Sound Installations (VSI), in conjunction with Whitehead Building Services, installed Community’s R.5 stadium speakers, with control via a TOA VX system manager, plus power amplifiers and power supplies for the public address system at the new stadium here, Parc y Scarlets, which replaced 130-year-old Stradey Park.
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ATLANTA — Seamus Fenton, monitor engineer for Sarah Brightman, Goldfrapp and the Pet Shop Boys, doesn’t consider himself an “RF guy,” but he says that monitoring radio frequencies seems to be part of his job. What follows is his account of what he calls his new “essential toy,” the Invisible Waves, PC-based RF Spectrum Analyzer (Model IW1800).
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ST. LOUIS — Ironman Sound Industries recently teamed up with Contemporary Productions to present St. Louis Fashion Week––Spring 2009 at the Lumiere Casino, which encompassed six shows in five days for over 2,000 guests.
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VANCOUVER, BC — Vancouver’s 18,630-seat General Motors Place, to be redubbed Canada Hockey Place in anticipation of the Winter Olympic Games starting in Feb. 2010, has already geared up for NHL home team Vancouver Canucks with a loudspeaker, amplifier and network/control system from L-Acoustics.
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