International News

VERONA, Italy – Amo Pavarotti is the first official traveling museum show on the life and works of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who died in 2007 after more than five decades of success as an opera singer. After a New York preview, the exhibition opened here at the Arena Museo Opera in Palazzo Forti earlier this year. F&G Group supported the exhibition with K-array speakers..

OSLO — More than a quarter century after installing eight UPA-1 and two USW-1 conventionally powered loudspeakers in 1986, the The Oslo Concert Hall (Oslo Konserthus) in Norway again turned to a Meyer Sound solution when it came time for an upgrade. AVAB CAC supplied and installed a MICA line array loudspeaker system..

MANCHESTER, UK — Liverpool’s new East Village Arts Club has been equipped with an array of Turbosound loudspeakers as part of a £1.5m refurbishment. MAMA & Company — which also runs venues such as the Jazz Cafe in London and The Ritz in Manchester along with the Global Gathering, Lovebox, and Wilderness festivals — worked with Dimension Audio on the venue’s three defined spaces, which each required individual approaches.

LONDON — Turbosound’s Flashline Mini compact line array and large scale Flashline line array system will be set up for hands-on demos at 3 Mills Studios in London on Oct. 6 and 7, 2013. Attendance is by invitation only, however, so those interested are encouraged to RSVP at their earliest convenience.

PASAY, Philippines — Touring in support of its new album Living Things, Linkin Park brought its high-powered alt-metal-rap-rock to the Philippines, performing at the SM Mall of Asia Arena on August 13. Audio for the 20,000-seat arena was supplied by Manila-based tour sound contractor SoundCheck with a massive sound system featuring 128 Harman JBL VTX Series line array loudspeakers and subwoofers powered by 30 Crown VRACK amplifier systems.

JUÁREZ, Mexico – The Hardpop Club here draws prominent DJs and electronic musicians around the world. Over the past two years, the club has worked with North Carolina-based Clarity, Inc. to optimize its sound system. The changes including switching out its old sound system with new gear from Danley Sound Labs in a bid to obtain copious headroom, crystalline fidelity, and honest, chest-crushing bass.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – For the the Interceltic Festival, held here, along with other festivals across Switzerland, various audio engineers relied upon several Allen & Heath iLive, GLD and Qu-16 digital mixing systems this past summer. Pictured here, A&H’s iLive was used to mix the audio system for Farafina, at the Festival des 5 Continents.

HAMBURG, Germany – The fourth ELBJazz festival, staged here in late May, drew more than 15,000 visitors from 60 countries with a roster of well-known artists including singer/pianist Jamie Cullum, saxophonist Joshua Redman and Caravan Palace— along with guitarist Mary Halvorson, trumpeter NIls Petter Molvær and pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. ProfiMusik from Lüneburg provided lighting and sound gear, including Alcons Audio.

JOHANNESBURG — The Gearhouse Group of Companies recently provided comprehensive technical support, in the form of audio, rigging, lighting, trussing, structures and power, for a new electronic dance production, Sensation Innerspace. The event took place at the Coca Cola Dome in Northriding, a Johannesburg suburb, on Sept. 7, 2013.

PARIS – Laurent Delenclos, who joined Harman’s distributor for France, SCV Audio, less than a year ago, has been working to support the growing usage of JBL VTX systems at major events throughout France. Three companies—Pan Pot, Echo Animation and Audio Scène—have made substantial investments in the platform, and the gear has been put to use at a variety of big events.

BRESCIA, Italy — For Mille Miglia, a re-enactment of the classic sports car races that were held from 1927 to 1957 with a circuitous route through the Italian countryside from Brescia, Italy to Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo and back, rental company Acoustic Light provided Harman’s JBL VerTec line array systems for the start, mid-point and finish of the race.

SACRAMENTO, CA — David L. MacDonald conceived of Sacramento’s first “Best of Broadway” charity show in 1973. Since then, the volunteer troupe has raised money for various causes. Earlier this year, they performed The Cotton Patch Gospel in support of Sacramento Family Promise. Local audio engineer Michael Strange (pictured here), who served as sound designer for the production, relied upon gear from Lectrosonics.