WEDEMARK, Germany — Sennheiser, family-run since it was founded in 1945, announced changes to its executive management board that included the promotions of both Daniel and Dr. Andreas Sennheiser, grandsons of founder Fritz Sennheiser, to shared leadership positions within the company. Both will assume the title of CEO on July 1.
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TORONTO – Ryerson University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens now features a newly upgraded sound system that includes One Systems direct weather, high intelligibility loudspeakers. Located in downtown Toronto, Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens is the former Maple Leaf Gardens Arena, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1931 to 1999.
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SAN DIEGO, CA – AV systems integrator CCS Presentation Systems, Inc. recently upgraded the Murphy Canyon Chapel, located in the Aero Ridge community of the Murphy Canyon Military Housing complex here, with a comprehensive package of equipment from QSC Audio. The upgrade includes a Q-Sys Core 250i Integrated System Platform controlling KLA Line Array Loudspeakers and K Series K10 active monitors in the main chapel, with AcousticDesign surface and ceiling-mount speakers powered by ISA Series Amplifiers in a smaller chapel and a community room.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL – At InfoComm 2013, visitors to Meyer Sound at booth 1143 and demo room W203A will learn how its range of sound reinforcement, acoustic systems, and system monitoring and control solutions make exceptional listening experiences easier to achieve than ever before.
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NEW YORK – Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, which was nominated for seven Tony Awards and won two, features Tom Hanks in the lead role as tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, the actor’s Broadway debut. Sound designer Scott Lehrer, associate sound designer Drew Levy and production sound mixer David Stollings are working with a Masque Sound-supplied equipment package that included a Yamaha DM2000 (24-bit, 96-KHz) console, d&b audiotechnik speakers and Sennheiser wireless.
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NEW YORK — The Broadway musical Kinky Boots, pictured here, was honored with six Tony Awards this year, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Kinky Boots’ sound designer, John Shivers, also picked up the 2013 Tony for Best Sound Design of a Musical. The winner for Best Sound Design of a Play was Leon Rothenberg for The Nance. The awards were presented at Radio City Music Hall June 9.
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CUREPIPE, Mauritius – George V Stadium here recently approved the installation of One Systems Direct Weather, high-output loudspeakers. Prosound (Pty) Ltd. of Johannesburg, South Africa performed the site analysis and system design. Rentacolor Mauritius LTD, installed the loudspeakers. George V Stadium is the home of the island nation’s national football (soccer) team, nicknamed Club M.
Read More »TEL AVIV, Israel — Waves Audio is seeing a growing number of up-and-coming live engineers turning to Waves Live tools, including Brett Orrison, FOH engineer for The Black Angels. For the band’s 2013 Indigo Meadow tour, Orrison is using Waves’ MultiRack SoundGrid System with two DSP servers and an Allen & Heath iDR64 that is equipped with an M-Waves card and the iLive T112 surface. He uses a Dell Precision Laptop to steer the SoundGrid DSP servers while multi-track recording with PreSonus Studio One.
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NEW YORK — For the new Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, sound designer Nevin Steinberg outfitted the cast with 30 DPA 4061 Omnidirectional Miniature wireless microphones. Steinberg chose the gear for its unobtrusive appearance and transparent sound quality.
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NAPLES, Italy — During the 96th Giro d’Italia, which began May 4 in Naples and concluded 3,405 kilometers later on May 26 in Brescia, Riedel provided host broadcaster RAI with MediorNet and RockNet networks to link the announce booth, finish line and remote production areas.
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ELON, NC — Audio & Light provided audio support for 2013 commencement ceremonies at Elon University here that included a speech by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. A Yamaha CL5 digital audio console, provided by Draughon Brothers of Fayetteville, NC, handled mixing duties for the speech and for other graduation events.
Read More »TORONTO — The Ontario Ministry of Labor, which has been investigating what led to the structural collapse that killed drum tech Scott Johnson, 33, on June 16, 2012, filed eight charges against Live Nation Canada Inc. and Live Nation Ontario Concerts GP Inc., four charges against Optex Staging & Services Inc., and a single charge against Domenic Cugliari, an engineer based in Bolton, ON, according to reports.
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