Summer Heat Music Festival
Money, Media & Microphones
Doing any live event can be a high-stakes affair. You get one take, one shot and one chance to get it right. In a Christmas pageant at a local church or a coffeehouse performance at a neighborhood bistro, such situations provide for a certain amount of production concerns, perhaps with a 0.5 rating on a 1 to 10 scale. These should hardly lead to anxiety on the part of any seasoned audio production pro. Now let’s bump up the ante a bit — in this case, the first nationally televised debate on Sept. 26 at Hofstra University with Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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Product Hits of AES 2016
LOS ANGELES —From Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, 2016, thousands of audio professionals made the annual trek to the Audio Engineering Society convention, held this year on its bicoastal rotation at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The extensive technical program of papers, technical tours, workshops, and seminars had a good sprinkling of live audio related topics.
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Céline Dion’s Return to Touring
Solotech Supports Céline Dion’s Return to the Road
With an enormously successful recording and live performance career spanning more than three decades, with legions of fans worldwide and some 200 million albums (in English and French) sold to date, pop singer Céline Dion is nothing less than a phenomenon.
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CBS Radio’s Live Performance Stage in Chicago
Pretty much since the invention of radio, recording artists have always jumped at the chance to perform live on the air. Yet where they actually perform is afterthought — if it’s a thought at all. CBS radio’s Sam Cappas, a regional director of engineers, had an idea about creating a live performance space worthy of the talent that comes to play.
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Theater and Performing Arts Center Projects
Bringing High Performance Audio to Every Seat in the House
Throughout the world, live theater — once considered a dying art — continues to blossom and rise in popularity. This phenomenon is not strictly by happenstance, but through the evolution of live theater, which incorporates all forms of technology — lighting, staging, visual effects and state of the art audio — into creating reality on the stage.
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Calzone Case Co: Decades Later, Still Setting Standards
“It all started with a trap case,” recalls Joe Calzone, as he reflects on the case making company he founded in 1975. The legendary company, now known as Calzone and Anvil Case, celebrated its 40th anniversary last year. Recognized as the largest fabricated case manufacturer in the world, the name is synonymous with protective cases across a broad spectrum of industries other than rock-n-roll.
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Parnelli Lifetime Achievenent Award Winner Richard Fernandez
This could be Richard Fernandez’s list of clients, or your favorite playlist on your iPod: The Cars; Crosby, Stills, & Nash; Bob Dylan; Eagles; Faces; Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; Boz Scaggs; Neil Young; Frank Zappa; and more.
It’s likely both.