Sonoma State University Music Hall Opens to the Outdoors in California’s Wine Country

SAN FRANCISCO — The Joan And Sanford I. Weill Hall, at Sonoma State University’s Donald and Maureen Green Music Center, opened in late September with a piano recital by Lang Lang. The 1,400-seat concert hall’s rear wall can be opened to provide viewing and listening from outdoor lawn seating for about 5,000 additional patrons.  Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided acoustic and theatrical consulting services for the project.

NEW YORK — For a corporate AV installation project that included a large multi-purpose meeting space along with 60 smaller conference rooms, Video Sonics CEO and founder Glenn Polly relied upon iLive gear from Allen & Heath. He noted that the ability to separate the I/O unit and the control surface “solved a lot of problems for my client.”

KNOXVILLE, TN — Sound Ventures surrounded attendees at Regal Entertainment Group’s General Managers Conference 2012 at the Knoxville Convention Center earlier this year with an audio setup that included WorxAudio’s TrueLine, WaveSeries, and MaxSeries product groups. Pictured here are, from left, crew members Paul McNeil, Scott Grimsley, Robert Smudrick, Joey Davis and Stuart Large.

SAN FRANCISCO — AES is launching an app to keep attendees and others informed about the association’s 133^rd convention, set for Oct. 26-29 (conference) and Oct. 27-29 (exhibition).

CHARLOTTE, NC — ATK Audiotek supported the audio needs at the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC), held here in early September, with 474 of its Powersoft DIGAM K10 amplifiers. All had been upgraded all with DSP cards, and the upgraded gear, which gave the crew a new measure of control over processing, monitoring and other functionality using Powersoft’s Armonía Pro Audio Suite, was used for the first time at the convention, held within Time Warner Cable Arena.

NEW YORK — The Electric Zoo Festival rocked Randall’s Island in the East River here over Labor Day weekend with wall-to-wall sound and light, growing from a total draw of 26,000 in its first year (2009) to more than 100,000 over three days in 2012. Sonic Lab Audio, Integral Sound and Eighth Day Sound supported the festival with d&b audiotechnik gear for all four stages.