Yamaha Music Gulf FZE (YMGF) recently held its first regional event in the UAE in partnership with sister brand Nexo. Taking place at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, the event attracted approximately 120 guests from across the Middle East and Africa – a large amount from Nigeria, Egypt and Lebanon – and backgrounds including…
QSC has been awarded a utility patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its unique Q-Sys Web Conference Integration system. The patent (USA 9,973,638) was awarded for the system’s ability to deliver an IP camera stream from Q-Sys PTZ-IP conference cameras into soft codec applications such as Skype for Business via a…
Nestled within the capacious surroundings of Curraghmore House in County Waterford, the inaugural All Together Now (ATN) festival may, on paper, have appeared an event of two halves. A family friendly bandstand perched alongside comedy and spoken word stages, dotted the foreground of the stately home itself. Whilst a field away, separated by woodlands, the…
For the thirtieth anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical Starlight Express, the production was given a major overhaul. Lloyd Webber created new songs, committed out-of-date characters to the scrapyard and put the show on twenty first century tracks. This included a technically ground-breaking new sound design by award winning sound designer Gareth Owen, together…
20 years ago the former central railway station in the German spa town of Baden-Baden was repurposed as the ticket office and foyer for a brand new venue, Festival Hall Baden-Baden, the country’s largest venue for opera, ballet and live classical music. Thanks to its state-of-the-art acoustics, Festival Hall Baden-Baden is renowned for its excellent…
Each year, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is transformed into an electronic dance music village made up of multiple live music stages, food and retail vendors, and more than one hundred thousand resident revelers per day, all there to celebrate a multitude of electronic music genres during the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC). For the…
The C.Group in Hasselt, Belgium has opened a new restaurant and bar, “Het Cordaat”. The C. group is the leading corporation behind various restaurants, hotels and events in and around Hasselt. As location for their latest restaurant they have chosen the Corda Campus, the ever-growing hotspot for entrepreneurship in the technology sector. Informal or business,…
Sennheiser equipment has been an integral element on board the AIDA fleet for more than 20 years The entertainment programme on board the AIDA cruise ships is increasingly becoming the domain of Sennheiser Digital 6000 systems. In April 2017, the AIDAvita became the first member of the fleet to be equipped with the audio specialist’s…
Performances at the outdoor theatre in Ötigheim, near Karlsruhe, attract up to 100,000 visitors each year, thanks in part to their excellent production values. Maintaining a high standard is very important to the ‘not for profit’ owning company Volksschauspiele Ötigheim, which is why a brand new Yamaha mixing and audio management system was installed in…
Not far from the major port city of Caen in the Normandy region of north-west France, lies the small town of Mondeville. Despite its close proximity to Caen, Mondeville enjoys its own mayor, town hall and local services, including the municipally owned La Renaissance theatre, now the proud owner of a new d&b audiotechnik sound…