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BOTHELL, WASHINGTON – Exhibiting for the first time since ratification of Open Control Architecture (OCA) by the Audio Engineering Society as the AES70 standard, the OCA Alliance experienced its busiest ever trade show at ISE, reflecting a heightened interest among AV industry professionals in a common remote control standard. The alliance’s booth was effectively a walk-on rolling OCA seminar, hosting a live demonstration of OCA (AES70) control interoperability and continuous advanced technical discussions between OCA Alliance member company representatives and the AV industry at large.

ABILENE, TX – Originally constructed in the late 1960s, the Abilene Civic Center is a spacious, multi-purpose venue with a live performance theater, an exhibit hall and a large conference center that can be subdivided to accommodate as many as four simultaneous events. Marsh PMK designed a flexible system with wireless iPad setup and control. Auto-mixing, signal processing and control are provided by a BSS London DSP with iPad interface and the system includes seventy-eight Community D SERIES model D8 two-way coaxial ceiling loudspeakers powered by Lab Gruppen amplifiers.

MILFORD, NH – Earthworks is pleased to announce that it has joined the Crestron Integrated Partner Program. Earthworks installation microphones are controllable and can be communicated with the Creston system environments.

NASHVILLE — Roland Professional A/V, in cooperation with its southeast regional rep HWPco, recently took over two rooms at the SoundCheck Nashville rehearsal facility for two days of hands-on demonstrations of its audio and video production solutions. The Roland M-5000 Live Mixing Console was the featured audio hardware, with three desks on hand; HWPco personnel and Roland live audio products sales engineer Brian Belcher were available to guide the tours of the desk for 50 media pros.

MARION, IN –  Indiana Wesleyan University’s Phillippe Performing Arts Center (PPAC) recently installed L-Acoustics’ Kara(i) and Kiva elements within PPAC’s Phillippe Auditorium. SineWave Audio Inc installed the upgrade supplied by L-Acoustics certified provider Mid-America Sound. SineWave Audio designed a hybrid system extending the range of the subs for music and playback with a center array of 15 compact Kiva enclosures primarily used for speech reinforcement. Pictured here at FOH are IWU technical coordinator Phil Huber and director Casey Martin.

ST. FRANCIS, KANSAS – St. Francis High School’s gymnasium hosts a variety of events including district-wide sports tournaments, town meetings, and local entertainment. Its flexible sound system — installed last October by Colorado and Kansas-based DK Audio Video (DKAV) — has Powersoft X- Series amplifiers at its foundation and is now the pride of the local community.

SALT LAKE CITY – USITT’s 2016 Annual Conference & Stage Expo comes to Salt Lake City March 16-19. More than 5,000 members of the production industry are expected to attend the event, which promises to turn the Salt Palace Convention Center into a spectacle of lights, projection, costumes, props, sound and special effects from fog to flying.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – In an evening of moving musical tributes and memorable live stage performances, audio manufacturer Sennheiser came through to deliver ultra-reliable wireless audio for the duration of the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards. With more than 18,000 celebrities and music fans in attendance and a viewership of more than 24 million, featured artists including Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Adele and The Weeknd each delivered performances using Sennheiser wireless microphone technology, with Taylor Swift performing the show’s opener “Out of the Woods” on a Sennheiser Digital 9000 system.