International News

WETHERBY, U.K. — Maintaining a cutting-edge technical inventory can be an expensive business when you run a turnkey live events production company. But for AV-Matrix, based here, it is paying off — and the demand to service bigger functions has now led to them purchasing an RCF TT+ (Touring & Theatre) TTL33-A II.

CARHAIX, France — The four-day Les Vieilles Charrues, one of France’s largest festivals, drew a crowd of 244,000 with headliners including Bob Dylan, Sting, The Cure, Garbage, Portishead, LMFAO, Kasabian and France-based artists including Thomas Dutronc, Zebda, Orelsan, Amadou et Mariam, among others. Audiolite’s gear for the event’s main stage included E15 loudspeakers from Adamson Systems Engineering.

BUDANG, South Korea — The Global Mission Church, (Jiguchon), based here, offers worshippers 14 services every Sunday, additional worship services on Wednesday and the main church and satellite campuses host a variety of other gatherings during the week. The church leadership opted for a DiGiCo SD7 console with an EX-007 expander to handle its unique array of audio mixing needs.

SCANZANO JONICO, Italy — Officials from Italy’s Basilicata Region hired International Sound in late June to amplify the words of the Dalai Lama for an event here that drew some 12,000 people. Franco Firulli of International Sound provided a K-array sound system to cover a 7,000-square-meter area.

SINGAPORE — On Aug. 29 and 30, Adamson and Team 108, Adamson’s exclusive distribution for Southeast Asia, held a two-day Asia Pacific Energia seminar and demo here. Locally-based Team 108  handled  all the logistics for the event,  which drew attendees from Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, and Australia.  Additional Energia Seminars will be announced in September and October.

LONDON — John Meyer, who founded Meyer Sound Laboratories in 1979 with his wife Helen, was named winner of the 2012 Gottelier Award, named for the late Tony Gottelier, one of the entertainment industry’s most influential designers, innovators and commentators. Meyer was also the recipient of the first Parnelli Audio Innovator award in 2004.

SHANGHAI, China — Sennheiser China and Real Live Entertainment supported events related to Formula 1 auto racing events at the Shanghai International Circuit earlier this year with KR400S speakers, chosen for performance, compact dimensions and other design features.

DUBAI, UAE — Showtech Sound & Light Design, based here, added a JBL VTX line array system to its existing inventory, which includes a JBL VerTec line array system and wide range of other products from Harman. Showtech purchased the system from Dubai-based Harman distributor GSL Professional LLC. The system consists of 24 VTX V25 line array loudspeakers along with 16 VTX S28 subwoofers. To power the VTX system, Showtech purchased 32 Crown I-Tech HD 12000 amplifiers.

MAINZ, Germany — Many years ago German musician Maurice Kzionska found his love for music expanding into love for good sound. So he migrated to sound engineering—firstly in a small club nearly two decades ago but more recently as an in-demand freelance and house engineer at Theatre of Rüsselsheim, near Mainz. To support his increasing workload he has invested in a new Harman Soundcraft Vi1 digital console, supplied by Cologne-based Toneheads, after being introduced to them by Jörg ter Veer of Harman’s German distributor Audio Pro Heilbronn.