BRIGHTON and SUSSEX, U.K. — The organizers of the Shakedown Festival and the new Love Supreme Jazz Festival will be including Flare Audio Ltd in their gear lineup for 2013, according to Flare. Pictured here is the Space X5, Flare’s new touring line array system.
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VAL DI FIEMME, Italy — Trento, Italy-based Jam Session and PFM Showstructure teamed up to support the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship that took place here in late February and early March with a K-array sound system sourced through Exhibo, K-array’s distributor in Italy.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Harman’s Soundcraft is taking its “Mixing with Professionals” (MwP) training to Prolight + Sound 2013 in Frankfurt. Hosting the sessions will be Harman’s Gert Sanner (pictured here) and freelance engineer Mathias Lunau.
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SYDNEY — Opera Australia, which garnered plaudits from last year’s introduction of the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, a series of productions that take place on the harbor waterfront, recently presented Georges Bizet’s classic, Carmen. The audio included 3D processing from Iosono.
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VIENNA, Austria — For the Regions of Climate Action (R20) conference that took place here Jan. 31-Feb. 1, local broadcast company RadioMax hired freelance audio engineer Andreas Putz, who made good use of his Allen & Heath iLive-112 modular surface and iDR-48 MixRack loaded with a Waves network card.
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LONDON — FOH engineer Barry Bartlett used Turbosound’s Flashline line array speaker system for the Young Voices Arena Tour earlier this year. Longtime Turbosound partners Britannia Row Productions provided the gear.
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KATOWICE, Poland — For a recent concert at the saucer-shaped Spokek Arena featuring former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash along with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, Prosound and Music Cook provided sound reinforcement gear that included Harman’s JBL VTX line arrays.
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LONDON — EMI held its annual Brits after show party on board the Silver Fleet’s Silver Sturgeon, a river cruiser on the Thames. SW19, the production arm of London’s newest rehearsal, production and storage facility – provided both technical and logistical support for the Feb. 20 event.
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HONG KONG — Max Production Ltd, based here, recently underwent full technical training covering Martin Audio’s MLA and MLA Compact systems. The soundco, based here, is one of the first in the Far East to adopt the MLA sound systems.
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PARIS — Adamson Systems Engineering announced that France-based rental and touring provider Audiolite added Adamson E15 gear to its rental inventory, and that Adamson’s long-time French distributors, DV2, had brokered the deal. Pictured here at SIEL 2013 are, from left, Guy Vignet (DV2), Thierry Tanguy (Audiolite) and Didier Dal Fitto (DV2).
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — Adlib supplied sound for recent solo shows by rising young Australian pop star Cody Simpson, who took time out from his busy schedule opening for Justin Bieber to perform in the key cities of Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester promoting his first studio album, Paradise.
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VENICE, Italy — Marghera, a city situated on an area of dry land facing Venice that includes both residential and industrial zones, recently installed an audio warning system to alert the population of hazards including an industrial accident or airborne toxins. The system relies upon Community loudspeakers.
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