SAN FRANCISCO – The 129th AES Convention, set for Nov. 4-7 in Moscone Center, will be the first to feature a Product Design Track. Roger Furness, AES executive director, cited the "perpetual interest" in product development sessions as a factor in forming the first dedicated Product Design Track, chaired by Bob Moses.
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CHESTER PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its work on Carbon Ring Cone Technology.
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BRIDGEPORT, Barbados – Quality Sound Inc. (QSI) provided sound gear from D.A.S. Audio for the thousands who turned out for Crop Over, a five-week summer festival.
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DENVER, CO – Dowlen Sound used Powersoft amplifiers to pump up the volume at the 2010 Mile High Music Festival in mid-August at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Denver. The amplifiers, designed for efficiency, supported performances by Slightly Stoopid, Train, Weezer and others.
Read More »OCEAN GROVE, NJ – The Forge Conference is set to run from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. After a meet-and-greet Sept. 29 at 9 p.m., registration opens at 9 a.m. Sept. 30, with the first session beginning at 10 a.m. The final session will conclude Oct. 2 at 4:15 p.m.
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LEEDS and READING, U.K. – Liverpool-based Adlib Audio supported the NME/Radio 1 stages at the Reading and Leeds festivals this year. The brief for these tented venues included the provision of sound for outdoor areas left, right and to the back of the tents, and for the standard system inside as well.
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BURLINGTON, MA – Avid named Ron Greenberg senior vice president of marketing. Greenberg will lead all global marketing efforts across the company's hardware, software and services offerings, including corporate branding, web presence and demand generation initiatives.
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SOUTH BEND, IN – Holy Cross College's Pfeil Center, the largest meeting space on campus, is used for indoor sports, student recreation and large events such as welcome and graduation ceremonies. Last Pew Sound Engineering provided a Symetrix Automix Matrix 780 signal processor with Symetrix ARC wall panels to help the sound reinforcement system meet the varying needs of the space.
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AMSTERDAM – The Red Bull Air Race has been awarded with the IBC Innovation Award at this year's IBC convention. The "Content Creation Award" recognized the Red Bull Air Race's use of fiber-based distribution of all communications and HD video and audio content via Riedel's MediorNet technology.
Read More »BERKELEY, CA – Matt Ferguson, formerly with the Disneyland Resort's Technical Services staff, is leaving the house of mouse after five years. He has been asked to join Meyer Sound to provide technical support for the D-Mitri Digital Audio Platform.
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MARINA DI PIETRASANTA, Italy – A sound system that included Axiom and Powersoft gear played a supporting role in the production of the rock/pop musical, Rent, that brought this year's La Versiliana Festival to a close.
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DORSET, U.K. – Void Acoustics supplied sound gear for Windfest 2010, an extreme sports festival sponsored by Animal, the clothing retailer. The three day event returned to Dorset for its 12th consecutive year and attracted over 10,000 visitors.
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