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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PROSPER, TX — Acoustic Dimensions recently completed the design and commissioning of a JBL VerTec line array system at the new Prestonwood Baptist Church.
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MINERSVILLE, PA — Dirt track racing on Big Diamond Raceway has long been a big draw among “single guys out for a day of drinking,” according to Paul Moyer of Moyer Electronics, based in nearby Pottsville. In a bid to make the track more “family-friendly,” the owners opted for an upgrade, including a PA system that could be heard above the roar of unmuffled engines.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The 2009 Cape Town International Jazz Festival has emerged as a major event, drawing 60,000 over two days to the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
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BOCA RATON, FL — Pianist, singer, composer Ben Folds recently made a concert appearance at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton as part of a tour supporting his new solo album, Way to Normal, and ASR ProEvents of Orlando provided gear, including an updated set of Martin Audio wedges.
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CHARLESTON, IL — Eastern Illinois University recently completed the expansion of its Doudna Fine Arts Center, and Symetrix’s SymNet is handling the digital signal processing for the audio system in its various performance spaces, linking the rooms to each other and to the Antoine Predock-designed building’s main concourse audio system.
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LOS ANGELES —IPR Services recently completed the design and installation of the audio system at the new Club Nokia performance venue, part of AEG’s $2.5 billion LA Live complex.
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