UK - Research from Panasonic has found that 3D mapping, the technique of using projection to illuminate building facades, is replacing traditional types of event entertainment such as fireworks. A survey of design agencies, events companies, end users and manufacturers, commissioned by Panasonic and carried out by Installation Magazine, shows that over the past three years both the number of projection mapping projects and the revenue they have generated has grown.

Survey respondents were clear that driving this growth is the way that audiences expect more and have higher expectations when it comes to being entertained and informed, 75% of those surveyed agreed that 3D mapping was being used instead of traditional approaches like fireworks.

The evidence shows that pro

China - APG North East Asia has announced completion of its first Uniline house of worship installation in China. Situated in Shantou, the 3,000 capacity Shantou Sheng Ming Tang church is one of the biggest in the Guangdong province.

The project was carried out by MPHK Group Ltd, the Hong Kong based APG dealer, who installed the entire sound system as well as HD video and LED stage lighting solutions. The project was completed in just a month, from system design to implementation.

"The main acoustical challenge was to overcome the unwanted resonance due to the size of the church," remembers APG North and Eastern Asia managing director Raymond Wong. "Its high ceilings and the presence of two corridors on each side of the room were challenging as they created unwanted resonance. Because the Uniline range is easily controllable, we knew we would easily overcome those challeng

Germany - HK Audio is set to power a month-long extravaganza of events at Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena this summer, culminating in a world record-breaking weekend on 9/10 July.

Throughout June and the first week of July, a sizeable Cohedra system will provide the sounds for a series of Euro 2016 public viewing experiences that will be shown on a 550m

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USA - A youth group that has remained relevant to high school students in the United States for over 70 years must continue to come up with ways to keep its message fresh. The Career and Community Leaders of America has absorbed this lesson very well. Founded in 1945, this non-profit organization has grown to 150,000 members in every state plus Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by wrapping its core message of personal responsibility in an exciting package that appeals to young sensibilities.

This was very much in evidence this April, when the CCLA mixed serious life learning lessons with youth-oriented fun activities at its three-day Wisconsin conference, which was held at the at the Kalahari Resort, home of a 125,000 sq. ft. indoor water park and a 110,000 sq. ft. indoor theme park. Aside from these attractions, the conference also reached out to young attendees by turning i

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UK - Event policing specialist TSG has promoted former temporary team member Martin White to operations executive, a full-time position.

Responsible for maintaining trained staff numbers and equipment, White will also look after the logistics behind TSG deployments, liaise with clients and support the perpetual push for new business.

After 23 years in senior management at the MOD, where he was schooled in high-risk search, explosive ordnance disposal and crisis management, White worked with a number of private security agencies, including TSG sister company Definitive Security.

David Boswell, managing director at TSG, comments, "Martin is a perfect fit. On top of all his logistical experience, he has a comprehensive understanding of the operational management processes that are integral to TSG, the ability to expand and deploy TSG assets nationally and a firm grasp of

UK - Television and entertainment lighting rental specialists Aurora has announced the addition of Joe Marter to their project management team. Having spent a number of years at Aurora in the role of equipment co-ordinator, responsible for the preparation and maintenance of a wide variety of lighting equipment, Joe brings with him an industry perspective and a serious understanding of the company's product range.

With additional experience gained through his time as technical manager with London Light, the transition to project manager allows Joe to capitalise on a considerable knowledge of all aspects of entertainment lighting to support and service productions at the highest level.

On shifting roles within the company Joe says, "It's incredibly exciting to be taking on a new role within a company that I understand so well - I've worked as part of the Aurora team for seve

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USA - Although it's been open for a mere four years in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, The Velvet Note has attracted national attention. Its intimate room seats only 40 and was carefully designed by George Seldon to support music with stunning, well-balanced acoustics.

"We take a lot of pride in the sound of our room," said Tamara Fuller, The Velvet Note's owner and nightly head-of-ceremonies. "We call it 'the acoustic living room,' and we've done everything we can to make it the very best way to experience live music."

"Until recently, the only thing that wasn't five stars about The Velvet Note was the PA system," explained Bob Bakert, an Atlanta-based guitarist, vocalist, composer, and pro-audio veteran who regularly graces the venue's stage. "I had heard Danley Sound Labs systems before, and I knew Danley's fantastic phase-coherence and fidelity could elevate

USA - BrightSign reports that its players are driving a prominent video wall at The Grand Hyatt Hotel, located in the heart of San Francisco's Union Square. The wall was needed to replace an existing video wall that had been temperamental for nearly two years. The challenges included budget; that the 3x8 array of screens was mounted 20ft above the lobby floor; and that installation of the new videowall needed to happen during the holiday shopping season to reach completion by the 24 December deadline.

AV Structural was awarded the project, and quickly went to work constructing a 20ft -high, 34ft-long scaffolding apparatus that enabled the team to work virtually around the clock, while maintaining safety for their crew and for the guests walking beneath the scaffolding at all hours of the day and night. The new video wall also required a unique installation to provide easy acce

USA - Professional Wireless Systems, a subsidiary of Masque Sound, has purchased the first two newly-released Bel Digital BM-A1-64DANTE monitoring units for their latest music awards show in Miami, Florida.

Jim Van Winkle, general manager of PWS, says, "We had an analogue monitoring system, but it required us to either put a splitter in line or get a return feed from the main show splitter. We had been looking for a way to monitor through Dante and we decided this box would be a good solution.

"We recently deployed the Bel monitors for the first time and everybody picked it up pretty quickly...we're very happy with it. We used both of our units on a recent Latin music awards show - one at the mic racks backstage for the lead RF engineer, and one on stage where the RF A2 can check a mic before handing it off to the talent."

The BM-A1-64DANTE is being used for monitoring

USA - The American Cancer Society recently held RelayLIVE, a musical festival which advocates "fighting cancer at every stage".

Bandit Lites donated a lighting package for the inaugural concert that included a line-up of Alanna Royale, Stella//James, Jordan DePaul, Nikki Williams, Megan Davies, Raquel Cole, Zeke Ducon, Shawn Byrne, Jenn Bostic and Daphne Willis.

Leading up to the event, participants and businesses formed teams which raised both money and awareness towards eliminating cancer. According to the event's website, more than 27 teams and 189 participants raised more than $67,600 to go towards those in need in Nashville, including programmes for patients such as transportation to and from treatment, counselling, and the operation of Hope Lodge, where patients from across the country can stay for free during the duration of their treatment.

With the concert tak

USA - The rainstorm experience at the Foam Wonderland tour is always intense with a thunderous bass, bright flashes of light, and foam cannons that shoot massive projectiles of foam over the crowd. The music is always edgy too, with EDM heavies laying down tracks that keep everyone on their feet.

Although the intensity level on this national tour is unfailingly high, it plays out on stages of very different sizes. On some nights the tour will stop at mid-sized venues, while on others the nonstop action will play out in spacious amphitheatres. Maintaining a consistent look that's true to the Foam Wonderland experience on stages that vary so widely in size is no easy task, but it's a challenge that Creative Production and Design has met very successfully with help from Chauvet Professional video panels.

Contracted by Oh Bleep Events to do production for Foam Wonderland's Sou

USA - Christ Community Church technical director Michael Montanari has specified SSL L500 consoles for both front-of-house and monitor positions at its St Charles campus in Chicago. The consoles were purchased from SSL Live partner TC Furlong.

The 2000-capacity St Charles Campus auditorium has a regular Saturday afternoon service and two Sunday morning services, as well as a number of larger events throughout the year, including special worship nights and visiting touring acts. The Sunday services are streamed live over a dedicated fibre network live to the church's other three regional campuses. "We put a high value on production," says Montanari. "Concert-style audio, but probably not at quite as high an SPL!"

As most production crew and artists at the church are volunteers, the challenge for Montanari was finding technology that could deliver a big step up in quality, a

Italy - The recently upgraded Sala Energia auditorium at the Arcadia Melzo multiplex in suburban Milan, Italy is the first cinema anywhere to power all of its screen channels with Meyer Sound Leopard line array loudspeakers. The 630-seat Sala Energia now contains the most powerful permanent Meyer Sound cinema system in the world, as well as one of Europe's largest Dolby Atmos systems.

"When I first heard the Leopard-based system in our Sala Energia, I was so excited and enthusiastic that I was moved to tears," recalls Piero Fumagalli, owner of Arcadia Cinemas. "I sensed immediately that the clarity, dynamics, and musicality of the Leopard arrays represented a major improvement over the previous system.

"This new Meyer Sound system is our investment in the future," continues Fumagalli. "Audiences are now willing to pay more to experience a film in the Sala Energia. We have

USA - Pearl Jam has hit the road on its 2016 North American tour with a large complement of Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights enhancing their sold-out shows.

Pearl Jam, which has sold an estimated 60m records worldwide, is playing arena, festival and stadium dates across the US and in Canada throughout the spring and summer. Lighting designer Kille J. Knobel, who has worked with the band for 16 years, obtained 36 Scenius fixtures for the rig from Upstaging, Inc. in Sycamore, Illinois.

"We've been providing lighting systems for the band for several years," says John Huddleston, director of lighting services at Upstaging, Inc. The Scenius fixtures on tour with Pearl Jam represent the company's first purchase of the lighting instruments, which Huddleston believes "fill the gap for a compact, incredibly bright and feature-packed moving light . . . Our affiliate, Neg Ear

UK - Electronic music innovators Above and Beyond played two high profile UK shows on their much anticipated Acoustic world tour at two beautiful and historically significant Albert Halls - the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in central London and the charismatic Albert Hall Manchester, a more intimate but equally beautiful space, formerly a Methodist church.

Lighting and visuals for the tour are designed by Neil Marsh, while equipment and crew for these and a warm-up in Utrecht, were delivered by Colour Sound Experiment. Colour Sound also took the opportunity to invest in more high powered Barco 30K projectors to service these shows, and having also just purchased some for another tour, are now well equipped to deliver the most demanding large format projection projects.

The company's association with Marsh and Above & Beyond goes back some years, and Colour Sound's Haydn C

USA - Rock band 311 recently celebrated their biennial 311 Day with two arena shows in New Orleans on 11 and 12 March. Lighting designer Joe Paradise of House Lights Go Inc, and assistant designer/programmer Bobby Grey selected Clay Paky fixtures for the event, which drew 15,000 fans.

Paradise was charged with enhancing and interpreting the band's musical style while bringing some big looks to the event, which featured 86 songs across the two shows. Paradise focused his design around 311's signature honeycomb beehive motif. He used eight pods of toned truss to form the honeycomb shape and support the over-the-stage rig in the Smoothie King Centre (formerly the New Orleans Arena).

Paradise selected Clay Paky Sharpy Washes to provide a solid colour base that washed over the stage and delivered keylight from downstage, and used Sharpy beams for dramatic effects. He also place

Belgium - For many show designers, it can be frustrating to see countless audience members gazing at I-Mag screens for prolonged spells, rather than concentrating on what really matters: the stage action. In conjuring her set design magic for Beyoncé's eagerly anticipated Formation world tour, however, Es Devlin has ensured that all eyes remain on the star's performance by creating an enormous, rotating video screen box - widely referred to as the 'Monolith' - that relies heavily on customised equipment and R&D know-how from Stageco's international offices.

Measuring 22m high x 16m wide x 9m deep, the crucial elements at the Monolith's core have been custom-manufactured and supplied by Stageco in partnership with Belgian motion control systems provider WIcreations. The Monolith is embedded in a 62m wide x 35m deep stage.

On the in-progress North American leg,

UK - Global flightcase hardware and 19" racking manufacturer Penn Elcom is launching three new climate control products for 19" racking systems.

The CRC02-DTC, the FT-DTC and the FT01-Q-DTC - are all thermostatically controlled for optimised heat management in 19" racking installations.

Digital control gives refined and super accurate heat management via continuous temperature minoring and 'set-and-forget' fan control. All the products are optimised for quiet running, have over-temperature alarms and benefit from running off a universal power supply.

The units are engineered to the robust and reliable specifications common to all Penn Elcom products

The CRC02 thermo exhaust blower is a completely new 2U virtually silent (22.5 dBA) fan exhaust unit designed especially for use with 19" equipment rack units, to expel air from the front of the rack unit.

It can be

UK - Exactly one year after forward thinking track expert Triple E's successful launch of the award winning, 'universal building system', ModTruss, the company will return to the ABTT Show, Alexandra Palace, 22-23 June.

Often described as full size Meccano by its users, ModTruss won 'Engineering Product of the Year' at last year's ABTT Theatre Awards for its lightweight aluminium construction and repetitious hole pattern, which ensures that build configurations and applications are practically limitless.

Since then, the product has been used in many prestigious locations, most notably at the Royal Opera House in London, Deutsche Oper in Berlin and to build the TV broadcast centre for the 2016 Superbowl in San Francisco. ModTruss made its European debut at the 2016 ProLight+Sound, Frankfurt, Germany, where it also garnered a great deal of attention.

Back in the UK and a

UK - John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd has announced the arrival of their combined UK trade catalogue and price list for 2016/2017.

Once again using a book format and featuring every one of their 5700+ product lines, the new 240 page JHS catalogue makes it easy to track down those all-important SKU's from the Garforth-based suppliers huge inventory of products.

New to the catalogue are products from HK Audio including the innovative Lucas Nano 608i all-in-one PA featuring an integrated 8-channel digital mixer which is iPad enabled, Premium PR:O D cabs and Elements Easy, Smart, Line and Big Base single systems. Lab.gruppen expands its touring/portable and Lucia ranges while Lewitt introduce the LCT640TS multi-pattern large diaphragm condenser microphone.

"We know from talking to our dealers and from the feedback from our ASM's that last year's new look catalogue format was a

USA - Audinate has announced that 300 manufacturers have now adopted Dante, the audio-over-IP networking solution, and that more than 750 Dante-enabled products are now available worldwide.

To celebrate these milestones, Audinate will bring back its popular #DanteEverywhere contest at InfoComm 2016, giving attendees the chance to win a variety of prizes by finding Dante partners exhibiting at the show.

To participate, attendees just need to take photos of the Dante Spoken Here signs at any of the over 90 Dante partner booths and post them to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DanteEverywhere.

Participants posting the most pictures each day will win Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones, and everyone who enters will win a Dante T-shirt. Get more information and a map of the Dante licensees at the Audinate booth #C11529, or at ww

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