TEL AVIV – Although big concerts planned for Tel Aviv this summer have been cancelled, starting with a July 17 Neil Young/Crazy Horse appearance that was canceled by police out of safety concerns, Lady Gaga’s artRave: the ArtPop Ball tour stop at the same outdoor Tel Aviv site, Hayarkon Park, went on as planned.
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LONDON – Electronic pop band Little Dragon took to the stage at Somerset House here recently. Monitor engineer Marco Cruneri opted for a Soundcraft Vi3000 console to handle mixing duties for the band.
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SALZBURG, Austria – For the 2014 Salzburg Festival’s late Aug. 2014 presentation of Don Juan Kommt aus dem Krieg (Don Juan Comes Back from the War), a play written by Ödön von Horváth in 1936, technical director, Andreas Zechner used a three-module setup of Salzbrenner’s Polaris Touch system.
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LISBON and BRAGA, Portugal — Portuguese installer Sislite provided WORK Pro products for installation projects at the Sofitel hotel in Lisbon and Hotel Mercure in Braga.
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TORRE de ROVERI, Italy – Pasquale Quadri, founder and chairman of Clay Paky SpA, passed away in his home shortly before midnight on Sept. 6. He was 67. Quadri, who is survived by his wife, Antonella; his daughters, Alessandra and Francesca; and granddaughters, Melissa and Martina; is credited as the driving force behind one of the world’s most prominent manufacturers of entertainment lighting fixtures.
BARCELONA, Spain — For this year’s Primavera music festival in Spain, an event that draws huge crowds to the Parc del Fòrum public park grounds here, Twin Cam Audio specified L-Acoustics sound systems for five of the festival’s seven stages. Twin Cam’s technical director, Juan Cid, worked closely with L-Acoustics touring application engineer Frédéric Bailly to optimize the sound for the five stages. Twin Cam also used the event to debut its recently-acquired K2 components.
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The Dark Sea, a new ride at Italian theme park Cinecittà World, is a roller coaster journey through Dante’s interpretation of hell which ends with a vertical free fall of 20 meters. The visual elements for this ride are stunning depicting visuals of hell; however, the sound was equally as important to create the fear factor and recreate the imagination of Dante’s inferno. 26 x KK52s and 12 x KMT12s are installed to substantially help the yield of the low frequencies and create a thundering boom for the fear factor.
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TIANJIN, China– Eastern Acoustic Works Avalon loudspeakers played a key role in the success of the new S.Muse nightclub, located in the Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China. The two level night club features a main PA that consists of four Avalon CLUB.two full range loudspeakers mounted 4 meters high and firing down on the dance floor while four Avalon Sub.two subwoofers drive the low end of the club system. Four compact CLUB.four loudspeakers are used as near-field monitors for the DJ booth. Fourteen EAW JF59 and 10 EAW LA128ZR loudspeakers deliver music to the lounge areas on the first and second floor.
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HONG KONG — Actor and singer Ivan Rutherford, who has performed the role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables over 2,000 times on Broadway, sang a series of Broadway hit tunes for a recent one-off show staged at the Academic Community Hall here recently. The show, titled A Taste of Broadway, got an assist from DPA Microphones and its Hong Kong distributor, Digital Media Technology. Rutherford performed with DPA’s d:facto vocal mic, and the company’s d:dicate 4011A Cardioid and d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones were used for a piano that accompanied Rutherford’s voice.
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BRASILIA, Brazil – Eight of the major stadium venues in Brazil’s 12 host cities featured Harman’s wide range of audio solutions. While the components installed vary by venue, popular products include Harman’s IDX communication systems, AKG microphones, BSS signal processing, Crown amplifiers, Soundcraft digital consoles and JBL loudspeakers.
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BRISBANE, Australia – Biamp Systems’ Tesira, a DSP-based media system, is used for interactive audio for The Cube, an interactive learning and display space at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) here. The Cube is installed in the university’s Science and Engineering Centre.
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ELSAU, Switzerland – Swiss rental and event production company show-concept.ch has recently purchased a Harman JBL VTX V20 line array system and additional Crown amplifiers from Harman Professional distributors Dr. W.A. Guenther Audio Systems AG with the aim of broadening the range of services they offer.
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