BOCHUM, Germany – When the updated production of Starlight Express opened at the Stadionring here, it also marked 25 years since its premiere performance at the specially constructed ‘Starlight Express Theater’ in 1988. The production now uses Martin Audio’s Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA).
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Murat Boz played at the Avcilar stadium in Istanbul on August 10th, drawing in 65,000 spectators. Park Technical Production, Istanbul, used two KR400 systems and eight KF12 full range powered speakers from K-array for the concert.
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BANGALORE, India — Harman Professional recently hosted its Sambandh 2013 business conference at the ITC Gardenia hotel here. Sambandh 2013 brought the Harman Professional India team together with other key Harman executives from around the world. More than 150 people, including dealers, leading system integrators, consultants, sound rental companies, and end users, attended the event.
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MIELEC, Poland – Tommex Zebrowscy Sp. J. has completed the design and installation of a Community loudspeaker-based audio system for the new 30,000-capacity Mielec Stadium here. The multi-use venue is home to the Stal Mielec football (soccer) team.
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LONDON — Working with theatre consultants Theatreplan, Stage Electrics supplied and installed the audio, video and Ethernet infrastructure along with the lighting control systems for the newly-built Caryl Churchill Theatre at Royal Holloway University here, including more than 5000m of audio cabling and 3000m video cabling. Along with custom communications racks, the project included relocating patch panels for loudspeakers and microphones and a new paging system including an RCF amplifier and Penton paging speakers.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications, based here, will participate in the AVB@IBC Conference set for Sept. 15 in conjunction with IBC2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. — Adlib, based here, once again provided an array of sound gear to support the Creamfields dance festival in Daresbury, Cheshire, U.K., which took place over the U.K.’s summer bank holiday weekend in late August. Adlib again worked closely with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE on the event.
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LONDON — RG Jones Sound Engineering relied upon Riedel Communications’ Artist and Acrobat intercom systems for the 2013 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. The system was used by Hawk-Eye operators, statistics collectors, scoreboard operators, and other staff, including the team supporting on-court presentations following the victory of the U.K.’s Andy Murray over world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the men’s final.
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VERONA, Italy – Measuring 140 by 110 meters (length by width), the Roman arena in Verona is known for its large-scale opera and theatre performances. Once capable of housing 20,000 patrons per performance, the arena is now limited to 15,000 because of safety reasons. But it still hosts more than a half-million audience members annually. Musical Box Rent and K-array were involved in providing a modern sound system for the ancient venue.
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LONDON, UK – Entec is supplying the current Skunk Anansie festival tour with a control and monitor system, working with the band’s long term engineers Paul Ramsay (FOH) and Simon Higgs (monitors).
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CORNWALL, UK – An Allen & Heath iLive system with 18 ME-1 personal mixers were employed for a special 21st anniversary show of UK band, Tindersticks. Part of a European summer tour, the band performed a special set at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucern, Switzerland, where a 17 piece string section played alongside the regular six piece band.
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Front-of-house engineer and producer Brad Divens (Garbage, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Jane’s Addiction, Linkin Park) is one of a growing number of engineers turning to live tools from Waves Audio.
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