TORONTO – Adamson Systems has announced the appointment of BG Media Solutions and MM Technologies as sales representatives for the Ontario and Quebec, Canada territories respectively. Ontario’s BG Media Solutions was founded in 2007 by Bryan Guidolin with a focus on representation of commercial and professional premium audio brands.
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SHANGHAI — Earlier this year, K-Array (k-array.com) announced the first entries in its Firenze series — its new KH8 top and KS8 subwoofer touring loudspeakers. Referred to as “Slim Array Technology,” the KH8’s fit the name — each is built into a 46.4 x 19.7-inch (W x H) frame that’s that’s less than eight inches deep, yet contains eight 8-inch neodymium woofers, eight 4-inch cone MF drivers and four 1.4-inch exit HF compression drivers, offering 120° horizontal and DSP-controllable vertical dispersion.
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LONDON — After working with RG Jones’ Martin Audio Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) at Glastonbury Festival, as well as the smaller MLA Compact at other events, David McEwan’s vision was to use it at the holy grail of London venues, the Royal Albert Hall. As the long term recording and live engineer for Nitin Sawhney, the opportunity came when this British Indian musician, orchestral composer and producer announced his return to the famous London venue for performances from his forthcoming album Dystopian Dream and a selection of material from his first nine albums.
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PARIS – For Rising Star, a TV talent competition airing in France, producers Euro Media turned to Paris-based Yasta for the music premix for the OB van. Yasta made use of their turnkey digital audio recording/mixing/networking solution built around a Lawo mc²56 digital console combined with Optocore networking modules.
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FIORANO MODENESE, Italy – Established ceramics maker Florim Ceramiche SpA was looking for visually unobtrusive speaker components that could still deliver optimum sound quality for the 9,000 square meter Florim Gallery. Exhibo designed and installed a system that pairs K-array Kobra KK102 speakers and KMT12 subwoofers in the central portion of the gallery. Elsewhere, Exhibo installed K-array KZ10 (Lyzard) components.
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MEYLAN, France – The Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, a theatre situated here near the French Alps, has six sides, similar to the shape of France itself. The 560-seat venue recently upgraded with Adamson Point Series loudspeakers from Port Perry, Ontario-based Adamson Systems, which were chosen to overcome the venue’s challenging acoustics.
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OSLO — Atea provided K-array gear for a 16th-floor restaurant in one of the new high-rise buildings that are collectively known as the Barcode project in Oslo’s Bjørvika neighborhood. The restaurant setup at the DNB building includes KMT21, KMT12, KP102 and KP52 components, all painted in a custom RAL color to match the restaurant’s interior.
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CARDIFF, U.K. — For October gigs featuring electronic duo Chase and Status, along with Dimension and Kove, at multipurpose music venue Splott Warehouse here, Spartan Audio provided a Void Acoustics touring PA system that included flown Arcline 6 line arrays and Stasys XV2 subwoofers for close to 4,000 revelers in the audience.
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MILAN, Italy — Trade show organizer Fiera Milano SpA and Volume Srl, Euphon S.p.A. Group worked with Harman Professional Italian distributor Leading Technologies on an audio upgrade for the MiCo- Milano Congressi convention center here that includes a Harman BSS Audio Soundweb London networking solution.
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LLEIDA, Spain – Eric Masip, a freelance audio engineer who works to enhance the sound at concerts, theater events and conferences, recently acquired a Harman Soundcraft Vi1 digital console.
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ROME — At MAXXI Museum here, visitors can listen to Sonic Mappings, a musical landscape created by American sound artist Bill Fontana that makes use of Meyer Sound MM-4XP components provided by Scott George of Autograph Sound. The permanent installation also relied upon SpaceMap multichannel surround panning, the the D-Mitri digital audio platform for signal processing and other Meyer tools.
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GUANGZHOU, China – For VCAT, one of a new breed of “superclubs” beckoning revelers in China, Catwalk Group turned to Most Technical China, which installed an Incubus Air Array from Void Acoustics for the club’s main room, supplemented with Nexus Series loudspeakers.
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