ISTANBUL, Turkey — Elit Light & Sound Technologies, DiGiCo’s Turkish distributor, provided a DiGiCo SD9 console to support the audio needs for the annual finals of the Halıcı Computer Aided Composition Contest. The event was held at the Babylon venue here late last year.
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WISBECH, U.K. — DiGiCo had 5 Star Cases build a promotional “sideboard” for the 2012 trade show season. The brief was that it must accommodate a screen measuring a minimum of 46 inches, complete with Blu-ray player, laptop docking station, coffee maker and an integrated loudspeaker system, with power sockets included.
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LAUBERHORN, Switzerland — Walther AG provided an Allen & Heath iLive digital system for events related to January’s International Lauberhorn Ski Races 2012. Now in its 82nd year, the annual ski competition includes a mix of races staged over three days.
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AMSTERDAM — Midas Consoles Benelux noted recent orders for its PRO2 and PRO2C consoles in Holland and Belgium, with systems going into rental, worship installation, touring and TV production applications.
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INNSBRUCK, Austria — Light and Sound provided an L-Acoustics KARA/KIVA WST line source system for the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games. Innsbruck’s city center was transformed into a party zone, with daily victory ceremonies and the week-long Innsbruck 2012 Music Festival taking place at Medals Plaza.
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WROCŁAW, Poland — Tommex Zebrowscy Sp. J. provided a Community loudspeaker-based pro audio and voice evacuation system for Hala Stulecia (Centennial Hall), which was built in 1913. Asseco is handling the installation of the sound system.
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GLASGOW, Scotland — The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has installed a Midas PRO6 live audio system in a major refit to its main theatre. The desk was selected after a rigorous evaluation of digital consoles.
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ROME — A Studer Vista 9 digital console has been added to the technical inventory of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome by Italian distributors Leading Technologies Srl. The goal is to allow the different performance spaces within the complex handle all elements of mixing for recording, music production, live events and broadcast television.
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ALAND, Finland — RCF’s Finnish distributor, Noretron Communication Ltd, provided RCF speaker units for the remodeled two-story center for dining and dancing in one of Viking Line’s seven ships, the M/S Rosella. The system consists of rigged TTL 12AS and four TTL 31A per side and TTS 28A subs in the center ground stack. Four RCF C 3108W delay speakers fill the back parts of the first floor’s low ceiling.
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LONDON — The 2012 Brit Awards, held for the second year running at the O2 Arena, got sound support from Britannia Row, which supplied a Midas PRO6 at FOH and also a PRO6 and PRO2 on monitors. Britannia Row’s Josh Lloyd (pictured here left) served as FOH engineer for the production, working with Brits live sound supervisor Derrick Zieba (right).
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AMSTERDAM — Martin Audio’s Dutch distributor, TM Audio have equipped major concert venues in the Amsterdam area with the company’s sound gear. A recent case in point is at Duycker, an Amsterdam rock venue and cultural center, where TM Audio provided a Martin Audio W8LCi compact line array system. Other examples in recent years include Paradiso and Melkweg nightclubs.
Read More »REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy — Matteo Armelini, 32, a rigger who was working with other crew members in preparation for Laura Pausini’s concert March 5 at the PalaCalafiore here, died at the scene when staging elements fell on him from above at about 2 a.m. Two others helping secure the rig for the three-stage set received minor injuries.
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