International News

NOVEGRO, Italy – The Maximal 2010 Italian Electronic Music Festival near Milan featured 40 international DJs on five different stages, all equipped with RCF TT+ Touring and Theatre systems for the thousands of fans who attended.

WEDEMARK, Germany – Sennheiser announced that its new 15 million Euro Production and Technology Center stands as the biggest expansion project in the company's history.

LIMA, Peru – Miriam Kolar, a PhD candidate at Stanford's Computer Research in Music and Acoustics program, has been using Countryman's B6 microphones as part of the Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Acoustics Project.

PILTON, U.K. – RG Jones Sound Engineering provided Glastonbury Festival's Pyramid Stage audio production for the third year in a row. (The company first worked there in 2007 as suppliers of FOH and monitor control systems.)

WARSAW, Poland – The Zbigniew Hubner Theatre underwent a major renovation earlier this year, with a full audio refit including a Midas PRO6 into the Scena 100 performance hall by Audio Plus, distributors of Midas and Klark Teknik in Poland.

WISEMANS FERRY, Australia – Norwest Productions deployed EAW KF740 line arrays for one of the six main stages at the Playground Weekender music festival, where artists including Bjorn Again and Orbital, among others, performed. Norwest chose the EAW gear for its combination of sound quality, accuracy and ease of rigging.

LONDON – Ellie Goulding is touring the European festival circuit with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 compact Control Surface managing monitors. Monitor engineer Steve Pattison uses a mixture of the R72 surface and a Touchscreen laptop, giving him the flexibility to talk to the artists during sound check and move around the venue during the show.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Electrosound handled all the sound production for the main stage and sound distribution for the TV-4 OB truck during the June wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden with longtime partner Daniel Westling.

NEWBURY, U.K. – Graham Blake, monitor engineer for Simply Red's worldwide farewell tour, is using the Midas XL8 live performance system. The tour provided Blake, who had completed the training with Midas' brand development manager Richard Ferriday some eight months earlier, with an opportunity to use the XL8 on the road for the first time.

JAKARTA, Indonesia – The three-day Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival drew more than 100,000 to the Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran (JIE) to hear a variety of performances including jazz, soul, hip-hop, rock, Latino and world fusion music. Sumber Ria Sound included EAW KF Series line arrays for the sound system.

PAPHOS, Cyprus – After many years of serving the busy festival season on Cyprus, Riccos Sound and Light has made the move to go digital. The company opted for an Digidesign Profile mix rack system, guided by the supplier of the console, SSE Audio Group's Alex Penn.