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UK - Event company Logistik co-ordinated and produced the Athens 2004 Ball - a high profile charity live event staged at London's Battersea Park Marquee, for Sparks, The British Olympic Association and The Sir Steve Redgrave Charitable Trust.

Over 1,000 people enjoyed the event during an evening of entertainment hosted by Radio 2's Jeremy Vine and Sir Steve Redgrave - an official 'send-off' party to wish the GB Olympic team success at the upcoming Athens Olympics. Leeds and London-based Logistik were called in to oversee the event's creative and technical production including the design, graphics, dressing and venue themeing for the event.

The night culminated in live performances by international artists including Gabrielle, Mike & The Mechanics and Amy Winehouse. It was recorded for broadcast by Radio 2, and a post-event DVD will be produced by Logistik Vision, the company's

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UK - Manufacturer and installer HIQ Sound has refurbished the sound in a Sleaford bar/restaurant, close to its headquarters in Lincoln. Using a combination of products from its own, and the Wharfedale Pro catalogues, the company has injected a new lease of life into the Barge & Bottle.

As system manufacturers, HIQ partners Mark Hudson and Tony Hopkinson are discerning audiophiles, and they did not take the decision to specify Wharfedale's Programme 50Ts and Class AB MP1800 amplifiers lightly.

Said Hudson: "The existing system was awful and so I worked alongside the proprietor (Frank Graves) to redesign the sound. It was singularly pointless building our own loudspeakers for the background areas when the Programme 50s are so well turned-out and sensibly priced. Overall, they are nicely finished and very satisfying. "They provided the perfect solution for delivering th

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UK - Harlequin Floors' new website provides a useful reference resource for anyone involved with the world of dance and in choosing a dance floor to suit their needs. With the growing understanding that the right floor can allow dancers to perform with confidence and protect them against the risk of injury, Harlequin's new website is a helpful asset.

A simple three step online guide steers through the process to selecting an appropriate floor and presenting the possible options. Product detail and specification as well as help direct from British Harlequin is easily accessed. The site also includes testimonials from many of the world's leading dance companies, case studies of recent projects, as well as useful guides for installing, maintaining and transporting floors.

The site includes a comprehensive coverage of all Harlequin's activities, history, products and services as w

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USA - Denver-based Rave Lighting supply a Martin Total Supplier package for Denver's own South Beach getaway. Modeled after clubs more typical of Miami's infamous South Beach, Rise is a true tropical-themed mega-club complete with real palm trees, Latin beats, Caribbean Happy Hour and tropical cuisine and theatrical entertainment in the form of its very own Theatre Surreal.

Rave Lighting designed and supplied the lighting systems which include a Martin Total Supplier package of Martin lighting, Mach audio and Jem smoke gear. Rave's Brian Gysegem was instrumental on the project, serving as lighting designer and project manager with assistance from Stephen Cox of Rave. Sound engineer was Chad Busse.

The three-floor club boasts one of the largest club layouts in Denver's lower downtown with four dance floors and five separate bars spread across Rise and a pair of sub-venues, the

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UK - Ceven nightclub has recently opened its doors in Albertslund, Denmark, and is already creating waves in the city's nightlife. Lumodan Aps - based in Frederiksberg, Denmark - is responsible for the venue's lighting installation, which features an array of Tryka L.E.D. luminaires.

The products are present in most parts of the club, starting with the entrance, where revellers are welcomed with a wash of colour courtesy of Tryka's Module 12s, on to the bar where the flexible colour changing LinkLEDs help to create the desired atmosphere. RGB Strips fitted on the walls complete the mood of this dynamic nightspot. Control is provided via a Tryka Smart Card Controller.

Brian Markussen, Lumodan's managing director, enthuses: "Tryka's L.E.D. fixtures proved to be the best products for this installation, as well as the strongest available on the market at present."

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UK - An exclusive new members club opened its doors in June, revealing a striking visual interior. Design and brand consultant, David Collins, has created a space designed to stimulate all the senses. With a capacity of just 100, the subterranean Kabaret's Prophecy in Beak Street, Soho, hosts a display of visual stimulation created to "redefine the concepts of environmental design".

Constructed from modular intelligent LED pixel blocks, two of the venue's walls act as backdrops upon which graphics and animations, triggered from a real-time generator or MIDI keyboard, create a constantly morphing environment. Clad in Barco's proprietary MiPIX system and displaying intelligent lighting effects, 3D logos or graphics - even full video content - these moving images curve around the contours of the walls and wrap into the alcoves, giving a strangely three-dimensional depth t

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USA - Chicago Sound has completed the installation of a large Apogee outdoor system for the lawn at the Petrillo Music Shell in downtown Chicago's Grant Park, home of the Grant Park Symphony and Chicago's free Summer Music Festivals. The Apogee system was selected by Ian Hunt, president of Chicago Sound, the sole vendor for all City of Chicago public events and one of the largest Apogee dealers in the Midwest. Chicago Sound installed 16 Apogee AFI-8SX loudspeakers, configured in two inner rings of six speakers, and an outer ring of four speakers placed 300 feet from the stage.

Hunt chose the Apogee AFI-8SX system to replace the music shell lawn's loudspeaker system. He commented: "We were looking to replace the speaker system with a modern, high-output, loudspeaker system that would provide better coverage and sound levels. We chose the Apogee AFI-8SXs because we thought th

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UK - Theatre Sound specialist and d&b audiotechnik partner, Orbital, recently supplied a d&b system to the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, as part of an on-going refurbishment scheme, ensuring the theatre offers advanced audio solutions to contemporary productions from drama and opera, to ballet and West End musicals. Orbital's Sales and Installation division, headed by Tom Byrne, collaborated with the Theatre Royal's sound supervisor, Michael Donoghue, and Ollie Wade from the initial planning stages, supplying a system to their exacting specifications.

Comprising a fleet of d&b's new Ci installation range loudspeakers, the system was powered by d&b's innovative E-PAC amplifiers and driven by Soundcraft's 48-channel MH3 mixing desk. To maximize flexibility, Orbital supplied BSS's Soundweb for control, which can be operated remotely from any point in the theatre via a PC laptop. Dr

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UK - PCM has supplied Lodestar double-braked motors to Adlib Audio for its high profile audio installation at the Villa Marina complex in Douglas, Isle of Man. The Lodestars, flying the main PA arrays, were chosen because their high spec' and double-braking feature means the venue doesn't have to call a rigger to adjust the safety steels every time the installed PA needs to move for maintenance or other adjustments. The same applies if a visiting production brings in their own PA which has to be flown.

Adlib's Andy Dockerty thinks this will become much more common in the future, because it saves time, and at the end of a show, a visiting crew can get their equipment in and de-rigged with a minimum of hassle. Dockerty has used Lodestars supplied by PCM for Adlib's touring work for many years, because of their proven reliability and excellent safety record.

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Ireland - The versatility of BSS Audio's proprietary digital Soundweb engine has been put to imaginative use in the unconventional setting of an offshore pilgrimage centre in the north of Ireland. Situated in Co. Donegal, Lough Derg has for centuries been referred to by pilgrims, who visit the island retreat for solitude, fasting and praying, as 'Saint Patrick's Purgatory'.

But to acoustician Martin Grainger, of Omagh-based Grainger Communication, the only thing on his mind was working within the eight-second reverberation time which dogged the sound in the large St. Patrick's Basilica. Grainger has been servicing the requirements of Lough Derg for around 20 years, but knowing that only a complete audio refurbishment would provide the necessary solution, he wanted to ensure that the first phase would provide a leap forward for the officiating clergy. And so he set off armed wit

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Greece - Bose Professional Systems Division has installed the company's loudspeakers at several of the Olympic stadia in Greece, including the main Olympic Stadium in Athens, where the opening ceremony will herald the start of the Games on 13 August 2004. Bose has been involved in nine projects in all, all of which were completed within the very tight deadlines imposed by the Olympic Committee.

The Bose system designers made use of Bose's tools and technologies that during the planning stages: using the Bose Modeler design software for all venues, and the proprietary technology of the Bose Auditioner audio demonstrator for the main Olympic Stadium in Athens, the company's Greek distributor, Audio Group Greece BV, was able to produce an accurate acoustic model of the space so that key sound parameters could be predicted. For the Olympic Stadium, the use of the Auditioner audio de

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UK - PA Installations (PAI) has completed a sound, lighting and AV project at Pontypridd's new social hotspot, Alfred's Bar. The company was approached to supply the venue's technical needs, with project manager Andy Bonehill co-ordinating the operation. The client specifically wanted an installer able to deliver all elements rather than just lighting or audio or AV. They also wanted everything done to an extremely high specification. "We designed a versatile, neat system, based on the client's needs," says Bonehill, "choosing the best products for the job - one of the advantages of not being product-driven!"

Alfred's Bar is independently owned by local entrepreneur David John, whose family operates other bars and businesses in the area. The multi-function two-storey venue is open in the morning for coffee and breakfast, morphs into a lively lunch bar at mid

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UK - Tourflex, distributed by A.C. Lighting, has launched the new Datasafe 4B digital data cable. The two-pair, 110 ohm, low smoke, halogen-free, ruggedized cable is designed for installation in extreme environments and insulated to 1000V, allowing cable runs in the same containment as power lines if required. The cable's outer sheath is both flame retardant and toughened, for a high degree of wear resistance.

Manufactured and tested to exacting specifications to ensure high performance and consistency, the cable is factory tested for HiPot, continuity, impedance and capacitance. The cable is available via A.C.'s Cable Express service, which provides same-day dispatch on custom manufactured cables and connectors. Other products in the Tourflex Datasafe range include 2-core, 4-core and digital colour changer cables.

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Germany - The Kölnarena, Germany's largest multifunctional events forum, has installed a state-of-the-art digital announcement system manufactured by Interalia, the leading manufacturer of digital voice announcement solutions. Specified and installed by Germany-based electronic-acoustic company, Laauser & Vohl, the Trouncer system is one of a number of Interalia's products being installed by Laauser & Vohl at locations throughout Germany.

Located in Cologne, the impressive Kölnarena is surrounded on all sides by a glass façade. The 83,700 square meter building has a capacity for over 18,000 visitors and offers a full programme of entertainment throughout the year including concerts, shows, sports spectaculars and television productions in addition to providing a venue for meetings, congresses and conferences. Interalia's Trouncer system is used within the Kölnarena centre as

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UK - Welsh contractor AB Acoustics recently carried out a complete multimedia fit-out at The Banc, just outside Newport, South Wales, with the essential audio power tools supplied by Fuzion plc. Confronted with a tight budget, AB Acoustics' Rob Ashton needed to achieve the best result for the 350-capacity all-day venue. The sound system was configured for dual operation as a background music system during the daylight hours, giving way to a more punchy sound after dark - particularly on the weekend nights when a DJ takes over.

Ashton distributed 12 Work Studio 5 two-way full-range loudspeakers, around the venue - finished in white and powered by Work SV series amplifiers. All were supplied by Fuzion plc, and Rob Ashton confirms that he used a similar combination recently to drive the Taff Bar at Cardiff University.

"I have been using Work products for the past three years

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UK - The Corn Exchange in Cambridge has just upgraded its Front-of-House sound to an Opus AT1000 Array Technology system, supplied by Real Time Audio. When Colin Farrell first joined The Corn Exchange as head of sound he upgraded from the existing Bose loudspeakers to a small Martin theatre system, which covered the theatre's basic needs. Then, about five years ago, Real Time Audio, who were doing the sound for Joe Longthorne playing at the theatre, brought in their Opus system.

"That was when I first heard how a system could really sound", recalls Farrell. "At first I took no notice of these large blue boxes being wheeled in but as soon as Richard from Real Time fired up the system I instantly knew this was something really special."

Farrell continues, "That started my determination that one day we'd have Opus at The Corn Exchange. At this venue we c

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UK - Harman Pro UK has supplied Derby-based sales and installation specialists Pro Technical with a wide range of JBL speakers for various Aruba late-night bar installations around the country. One of the most recent is in Hanley, Stroke-On-Trent, which features a sound design utilizing three different types of JBL Control Contractor enclosure.

The Aruba roll-out for The Dukedom Group, now contains 32 venues around the UK, each one of them different and individually designed. The Stoke site is a single large room with a central bar, designed by Mason Wood Architects - who also do all the Revolution Vodka Bars. Each site's audio design and installation is also unique and specific to that venue. At Stoke, the client wanted both a variable loudness foreground music system, and a punchier DJ-led dancefloor area, operational five nights a week. Aruba Stoke is divided into three soun

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UK - PA Installations has been nominated as 'Installer of the Year' for the Scottish Regional BEDA Awards, for its technically daring lighting, sound and AV project at City nightclub in Edinburgh.The 1,800-capacity sports bar/club/restaurant for Paul and Stephen Smith's Castle Leisure Group is located in the former Scotsman newspaper printworks behind Edinburgh's Waverley Station. Set within a 30,000sq.ft space, the £4.2 million refurbishment features innovative applications of technology including a digital 'backbone' for lighting sound, video and CCTV, which also integrates the cash tills under Crestron touch-screen control, and enables Wales-based PA Installations to remotely access, interrogate and troubleshoot the system online.

Other technicals include a 16-zone, 7.1 sound environment in the Sportsters Bar, also linked to the digital network, which handles routing from e

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Tunisia - Since Marantz' workhorse PMD320 was installed in 'Dar Zamen', a visitor attraction in the Tunisian cultural tourist complex of Dar Cherait, back in 1997, the 20 rack-mount CDs have provided continuous playback over a full duty cycle - without a single aberration.

Situated in the southern resort of Tozeur, the park, which is open seven days a week, recalls 3,000 years of Tunisian history. "To this day, the PMD320s continue to function impeccably over an eight-hour cycle, operating until midnight on a daily basis," says M N Chelli, from Backstage Technology - a company created with the visitor attraction's owner Chérait Jallel back in 2002 to take care of all the Chérait Group's technical requirements.

But times have moved forward and the professional playback device has now evolved into the PMD325. In addition to playing conventional CDs it will handle CD

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UK - Stage Two Ltd, the Watford-based sound and lighting company, has recently completed a project to supply and install a new paging system at the large Watford Sorting Office for the Royal Mail. The Watford Sorting Office covers a large area and following the re-structuring of the postal delivery pattern is subject to significant variations in the ambient noise level within the sorting hall itself when the letter-sorting equipment becomes active.

The project called for some 150 speakers in a combination of ceiling and wall units, together with outside projectors for the loading bay. It was also important to create a zoned approach and Stage Two opted for the Cloud Electronics range of products for the amplification and signal processing equipment, augmented by an ambient noise computer from Symetrix and a telephone interface from Baldwin Boxall. Speakers were selected from Pen

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Canada - Strand Lighting has won the contract to supply the lighting system for the new Toronto Opera House. The 2000-capacity Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts will be the new home for the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada. The design team for the project includes Jack Diamond and Gary McCluskie, Diamond and Schmitt Architects, Shaili Patel and Lana MacInnes of electrical engineers Mulvey & Banani International, and Josh Dachs and Richard Hoyes of the theatrical consultancy Fisher Dachs & Associates. The acoustical consultants for the project are Sound Space Design of London in association with Aercoustics Ltd.

Strand Lighting has worked closely with both the Opera Company and the Ballet for over 30 years, most recently at their current home at the Hummingbird Center in Toronto with opera technical director Julian Sleath and resident master elec

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UK - Electrosonic was responsible for the overall system design, project engineering, installation, programming and commissioning of the AV systems at the Science Museums's new Dana Centre in London. The stylish, purpose-built venue provides a forum where the international research community and the general public can take part in exciting debates about contemporary science, technology and culture.

The Science Museum has a full time staff engaged in the realisation of interactive exhibits, and has enormous experience of the realities of using AV techniques in the public domain. With the Dana Centre, it was quite clear about its objectives, but it did not have the in-house resources to complete the detailed design. Electrosonic was chosen from among the proposed solutions, not only because its proposal appeared cost-effective, but also because it was clear that it had relevant e

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Sudan - The Ministry of Energy and Mines in Sudan has placed an order for a complete conference system, to be supplied by Brähler ICS UK Ltd. The system is to be installed into the Ingaz Conference Hall by local Sudanese company, Federal Information Technology Co. The Ministry's premises is located adjacent to the UN headquarters offices in Khartoum.

Brähler ICS was chosen as the principle supplier for the project. Facilities will include an 85-user Automic microphone system, linked to an Infracom simultaneous interpretation system with infra-red delegate receivers and a full public address system. A flexible and robust system was required, as uses will include conferences, seminars and training sessions in multiple languages.

The Automic microphone system comes with portable delegate and chairman's microphones, both with gooseneck stems and interfaces with the interpretati

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UK - CP Sound has supplied a complete lighting and sound design, specification and installation to the new independent club, 90 Degrees - The Right Angle in Grantham, with the technical work being completed in just four days! CP's Colin Pattenden was approached by the owners after they researched the nightclub trade press to find good options for sound and lighting. Pattenden asked David Linger from Robe UK to supply the lighting, whilst he concentrated on the sound and lighting design.

90 Degrees is located in a cavernous old building above a wine warehouse and consists of several rooms, including a main DJ/dance area, a secondary dancefloor and a seated 'booth' area with rounded, cocoon-like seats. From the outset, the club has been designed to be truly multipurpose. The name '90 Degrees' refers to the owners wanting everyone to have a clear view of the performance area in fro

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