MIAMI – VOUS Church has grown rapidly in the last five years, not just with its services in two Miami-area school auditoriums equipped with DiGiCo SD9’s, but in the virtual realm. Production coordinator Jon Wygant is now using a new DiGiCo Quantum338 supplied by 3G Productions for VOUS Church’s iTech Auditorium, which delivers streaming services to 40,000 viewers each week.
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LAS VEGAS – As previously announced, the Parnelli Awards, which have coincided with the Winter NAMM show in recent years, will take a “gap” year in 2021. Instead, as NAMM goes virtual this year with its Believe in Music Week (Jan. 18-22), a retrospective of the Parnelli Awards’ 20-year history will appear in a special section within the Jan. 2021 issues of FRONT of HOUSE and PLSN magazines.
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MONTREAL – The 21st annual MUTEK electronic music and arts festival balanced virtual and live performances at two venues this year, using a hybrid model that depended on Meyer Sound products along with the company’s new spatial sound design and mixing tool, Spacemap Go for iPad.
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CHINA – The Songcheng Group, which has logged more than 8,000 performances seen by more than 35 million people a year with its Songcheng and Romance series of theatrical performances in 74 theaters across China, recently upgraded the sound within six of Songcheng’s 10 Romance theaters with KV2 Audio systems.
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SALZBURG, Austria – Pansound deployed an immersive, in-the-round installation of L-Acoustics’ L-ISA sound system for the 227-seat Oval venue within the Europark shopping mall in Salzburg, Austria. Sound designer Martin Rode (arms crossed) and Pansound project manager Rupert Pichler (in green shirt) are pictured here with the rest of the installation team.
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DOHA, Qatar – Along with a unique architectural design by Jean Nouvel, the new National Museum of Qatar features towering walls of video and an immersive, multi-dimensional audio created using FLUX::Immersive’s SPAT Revolution.
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BERN, Switzerland – The Muehle Hunziken (Hunziken Mill) in Rubigen, near Bern, upgraded the sound system within its 500-capacity auditorium. Audio specialists Schallwerk installed a point source Coda Audio system including APS, SCV-F, HOPS5 and CUE4 speakers powered by LINUS14D and LINUS-10C amps.
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NEW YORK – Attendees from around the globe took part as the online AES Show 2020 expanded to become Audio Engineering Month with events and presentations throughout October. From the virtual event’s opening to the final week of online technical and featured events, the AES Show Fall 2020 Convention garnered overwhelming support from attendees, presenters and exhibitors alike.
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LONDON – Even if health authorities give venues the green light to reopen with social distancing measures in place, an analysis of the risks and rewards might convince some venue operators to simply stay dark. One venue bucking that line of thought with a spirit of can-do optimism, however, is London’s Clapham Grand.
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NEW YORK – Clair Global, PRG and Fireplay have teamed up to launch of Virtual Crowd, a customizable and scalable multimedia technology that lets artists, speakers and performers interact with their fans, employees and clients in real time.
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PELHAM, TN – The Caverns concert series made famous with PBS’ Bluegrass Underground went above ground this year due to Covid-19. Sound Image provided an L-Acoustics K1/K2 system last month for a four-night run of outdoor shows above the cave that featured Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit.
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TULSA, OK – Holden Productions and Matchroom Boxing dropped a boxing match in the middle of downtown Tulsa on Aug. 15. Arizona Sound Productions (AZSP) provided audio support, deploying RCF HDL 6-A arrays and RCF SUB 8003-AS subwoofers.
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