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05 March 2025

UK - The Olivier Awards 2025 with Mastercard have announced that the recipients of this year’s Industry Recognition Awards are Bryan Raven, Rupert Bielby and Sue Uings.

Bryan Raven is recognised for his ‘transformative impact on the theatre sector’, from leading White Light for over 25 years, to championing sustainability, and facilitating and training a new generation of technicians through his support for TheatreCraft and White Light’s apprenticeship programme.

Rupert Bielby has ‘37 years of outstanding leadership in West End theatre operations’, shaping some of London’s most iconic venues. His dedication, particularly in guiding LW Theatres through the challenges of Covid and reopening, has left a lasting impact on the industry.

Sue Uings is recognised for her ‘exceptional contributions to theatre marketing and ti

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05 March 2025

Europe - On his current Cronicles tour, the German rapper Cro has not only been looking back on his musical history, but also taking a look into the future. Roland Greil designed the lighting for the show – and in so doing, gave GLP’s new LED FatBeam fixture, Mad Maxx, its tour premiere. The recently introduced Mad Maxx is the first LED-based spotlight comparable to 3kW and 7kW xenon spotlights.

Using a single device, the designer has created a series of impressive visual effects, including stunning shadows and silhouettes, giving the show a distinctive look and producing big moments.

With IP65-rated weather protection, the device was specially developed for use as a SkyBeam or as a super FatBeam effect on stages and events. It has no visible external focus points within the emerging beam. With a virtual iris, users can reduce the diamet

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05 March 2025

UK - Located in the Royal College of Music’s East Tower, the Carne Room is one of the institution’s four Parry Rooms, named after composer Hubert Parry (and Royal College of Music director between 1895 and 1918). Also known as the East Parry room, it functions as a multi-use space for performance, practice, teaching and meetings, with visitors treated to views overlooking the Royal Albert Hall.

In order to deliver high quality audio during hybrid meetings, a pair of Audio-Technica ATND1061DAN Dante-enabled Beamforming Ceiling Array microphones was recently installed in the Carne Room’s vaulted ceiling. The unobtrusive design of the microphones was furthered by a custom paintjob by Aura Futures, ensuring the perfect fit for the venue’s impressive aesthetic.

“While the natural reverb in the room is wonderful for acoustic performances, when we

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05 March 2025

France - APG’s iX series speakers and Active Audio column speakers are at the heart of Videlio’s major AV overhaul at the Westfield Les 4 Temps (Paris) shopping centre.

Located in La Défense, the business district to the west of the French capital, and boasting more than 200 shops, 40 restaurants and a 16-screen cinema, Westfield Les 4 Temps is Europe’s largest shopping centre. The audio upgrade, undertaken by Paris-based AV specialist Videlio, was designed to fully immerse Westfield Les 4 Temps visitors in the environment by making audio an integral part of their shopping experience.

Stéphane Le Roux, head of digital media for Videlio’s specialist complex-projects division, Videlio-Scénotechnique, has been working with Westfield Les 4 Temps owner Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield for 10 years, overseeing maintenance of its existing AV systems and

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05 March 2025

UK - Glensound has joined the Avnu Alliance as a Milan Associate member, reinforcing its commitment to networked audio innovation. Announced during ISE 2025, this move aligns Glensound with Milan, an advanced interoperability protocol built on Audio Video Bridging (AVB), ensuring precise, reliable, and deterministic media transport over Ethernet.

Glensound says an increasing number of requests to use the company's products as part of a larger network drove the decision to join the Alliance. Glensound already offers products with Dante and Ravenna connectivity, demonstrating its expertise in networked audio protocols and its commitment to compliance across industry standards.

Milan has been widely adopted in live sound and touring markets, offering a robust and user-friendly solution that eliminates complex switch configurations while ensuring high-pr

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05 March 2025

New Zealand - Baycourt Community & Arts Centre, situated in the heart of downtown Tauranga, is the Bay of Plenty's premier performing arts facility. Designed to serve both the local community and international touring productions, the venue provides spaces for a diverse range of performances.

At the core of Baycourt is the Addison Theatre, a 500+ seat venue equipped with a bespoke orchestra pit and a world-class fly tower. To maintain its reputation for excellence, the venue continuously invests in top-tier technology, ensuring performers and audiences experience outstanding stage productions.

As part of this commitment, Baycourt recently completed a major lighting upgrade with the support of Show Technology, focusing on enhancing its stage capabilities with a suite of Prolights fixtures, ensuring high-performance lighting solutions for its produ

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05 March 2025

USA - Shure has unveiled the MoveMic 88+ Wireless Stereo Microphone. Building upon the success of Shure’s MV88 Digital Stereo Condenser Microphone and MV88+ Video Kit, the new wireless mic for video ‘empowers creators and videographers to record exceptional audio and video separately, ensuring the best microphone placement without sacrificing the perfect shot’.

“The MoveMic 88+ gives creators complete freedom to capture professional-quality audio wirelessly, whether they’re recording in the field, working on a short film, reporting news or creating social video content,” says Paul Crognale, associate director, global marketing at Shure. “Shure’s new wireless video microphone is perfect for travelling light, quick to set up, discrete and easy to use and allows for creativity in any situation, giving creators the video they want with the audio

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05 March 2025

USA - tvONE has announced the appointment of Michael Huth as Southeast regional sales manager in the United States and Oli Fritz as regional sales manager for the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).

Michael Huth’s appointment comes after Jonathan Begleiter, former Southeast regional sales manager, was promoted to the director of sales (NCSA) position earlier this year. Huth brings extensive experience from the projector, display, and direct view LED industry, having worked with leading manufacturers such as Panasonic, Vanguard LED, Salitek, and MAXHUB. His background also includes hands-on expertise as a technical video specialist with the Walt Disney World Company and in the rental & staging industry.

Oli Fritz joins tvONE with a wealth of knowledge in the AV industry, previously serving as a sales manager at Bosch, where he was r

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05 March 2025

USA - Lectrosonics has announced the hiring of Jonathan von Rentzell as Central US regional sales and technical manager. Jonathan will play a key role in Lectrosonics’ business across 19 states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indianna, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan.

Jonathan comes to Lectrosonics from an extensive background in the pro audio and musical instrument industry. Beginning with a fine arts education, he earned an audio engineering degree from SAE Institute in Amsterdam, then helped record such notable artists as singer Jennifer Hudson at staple Chicago studios like Pressure Point and Urban Recording. Recently, was also the sole US representative for Dotterel Technologies, a company specializing in isolation mics designed to ca

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04 March 2025

Europe - Cadac Consoles signed an agreement with Aura Audio at Integrated Systems Europe for distribution in Finland of its CM-Series audio mix system, centred around the CM-J50 digital console.

“We have had very heavy visitor traffic through the booth, principally from potential global distributors,” said Cadac Consoles’ director of marketing and business operations, James Godbehear having finalised the agreement with Mika Isotalo, managing director and sales at Aura Audio, on the second day of the show. “Aura Audio is the perfect partner for Cadac Consoles, with both companies sharing an ‘audio first ideology’ and being unequivocally performance led.”

“The CM-J50’s transparency and seamless summing at all busses really turned our heads,” stated Isotalo. “Plus, the added benefits of a compact, lightweight form factor and the fe

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04 March 2025

Mexico - Responding to the growing demand in Mexico for its line of lighting control solutions, ChamSys has announced it will begin direct distribution of its products in that market with the establishment of ChamSys Mexico operated in partnership with Chauvet Mexico. 

As part of the new plan, the entire ChamSys and GeNetix line of products will be stocked, distributed, and serviced out of Chauvet Mexico's strategically located 1,200 sq.m centre in Lerma. This includes the entire range of ChamSys MagicQ Stadium and Compact Consoles, which have been used to power designs at major events like the Los 40 Music Awards, and tours by stars like Alejandro Fernandez ("El Potrillo"), Manuel Carrasco, and Korn.

Mexico City-based LD Julio Centeno (designer for Natanael Cano and Dani Flow) said: "ChamSys is one of the most user-friendly platforms for lighting d

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04 March 2025

Europe - The OCA Alliance has attested to a positive ISE 2025, full of new implementations and products and a broader industry embrace of open public control standards.

"This was a fantastic year for AES70 at ISE,” reports OCA Alliance marketing chair, Ethan Wetzell. “We saw several new products and implementations of the standard – some of which we knew were coming, but several of which were surprises. And that's really the benchmark of success for a technology like this – when the industry begins to pick it up and implement it independently, that's a ringing endorsement."

Throughout the show, members of the OCA Alliance were on hand to showcase and demonstrate options for commercial hardware, software controllers, hardware and software reference designs, and discuss the standard's latest additions. Of particular interest this year were AES7

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04 March 2025

Spain - On 1 February, Basque band Esne Beltza bade farewell to their fans with a spectacular final concert at Bilbao Arena in Miribilla. With 8,000 people in attendance, the event was a true celebration of the band's career, featuring a visual production that matched the energy of their music.

At the heart of the lighting design were 24 Ayrton Rivale Profile fixtures, used extensively to enhance the atmosphere of the show. The concert marked one of the first major events in Spain to feature Rivale Profile, showcasing its power, precision, and efficiency in a large-scale production.

Lighting design was led by Jon Mentxaka, who crafted an immersive and dynamic lighting setup for the farewell show. Rivale Profile units were positioned to create a strong backlight effect, reinforcing the depth of the stage while ensuring seamless integration with the la

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04 March 2025

Sweden - The Borås Arena is home to top-tier Swedish football club Elfsborg and Division 1 South team Norrby. The 14,500-capacity stadium was opened in 2005 and, last year, a new sound system was designed and installed by local musical instrument and professional sound specialists Musiklagret, who are also a sponsor at the arena.

With speech articulation and uniform coverage at the top of the performance criteria, Musiklagret proposed a Nexo system using 40 x P15s and 20 x P10s from the French manufacturer’s industry-standard P+ Series point-source range.

“Nexo P+ Series was selected for its frequency range, the resolution of the HF, and the facility to change horns to achieve optimum coverage,” reports Niklas Frick from Musiklagret’s Rental and Installation division.

P+ cabinets are installed in pairs at 90-degree angles around the

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04 March 2025

USA - Popular underground rap duo $uicideboy$ completed their Greyday2024 US and Canadian tour with a production design – lighting and set – created by Ian MacDonald, who used Robe moving lights to help deliver a raw, in-the-face, lighting aesthetic. MacDonald is based in Ottawa and has worked with the band since 2021.

This latest tour design featured 42 x Robe iForte LTXs, 34 x Spiiders and four iForte Follow Spots, all supplied by Fuse, who purchased the iFortes for this project, which was co-ordinated for them by account managers Matt Kirkpatrick and Kevin Foreste.

Known for their stark, visceral, often brutal lyrics and fearless narratives touching controversial, complex, and difficult topics like suicide, addiction, and depression, communicating these messages and stories live is challenging and offers creative scope. While imaginat

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04 March 2025

China - Recently, Wuping No. 1 Middle School in Hubei Province celebrated its 100th anniversary, during which it has adhered to a philosophy of "cultivating people with moral integrity and all-round development". During that time it has trained more than 50,000 graduates, many of whom have become high ranked in governing the country, studying, and developing industries.

To mark the occasion, a special Forever Azalea concert was performed in the concert hall of the newly built Science and Art Museum, presenting an audio-visual feast to alumni, guests, teachers and students. Martin Audio's signature sound and consistent coverage created the live atmosphere for the concert, which the school is seeing as a new starting point.

Going forward, this auditorium will be used for a variety of concerts and operas, as well as other cultural and artistic

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04 March 2025

USA/Denmark - LC Innovations has announced that by permission and an agreement with PRG, the Macula remote followspot system is now available for sales in North America.

LC Innovations is a branch of Litecom Group, based in Denmark. Founders and owners Morten and Rasmus Bremer created this branch of the company for their latest innovation, the Macula Remote Follow Spot. The 100% open-source software means the Macula system is able to control any moving head in the intelligent fixture market.

Emil Krog, product manager of Macula explains: “The High Resolution Fluid Head in the Macula system adds the organic feel of handling a followspot and allows for a tighter focus on the performer than previously achievable. Plus, the new firmware version 0.99 includes support for PosiStageNet (PSN) transmission. This upgrade allows the system to send real-time p

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04 March 2025

USA/UK - The Sleep Token experience is all about the music; the band are completely anonymous, so there are no egos or names to get in the way. Thom Pike, front-of-house engineer, has been with the band ever since their third gig in 2018.

For their latest tour, his mixing desk of choice was a Quantum 338. Monitor engineer, Samuel Schmitt, a long-time DiGiCo fan, choosing them consistently throughout his career, is also using a Quantum 338. Both engineers explain why DiGiCo desks are the right fit for this high-profile tour.

“It was the start of a new cycle and a new era in terms of venue sizes,” Pike recalls. “Solotech were able to help us out in terms of budget, so for our first gig at Wembley Arena I went straight to a DiGiCo. By the end of that tour I was in love with the console. I feel like there are no limitations. The desk does exactly w

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04 March 2025

UK - When techno icon Frazi.er and house kingpin Ewan McVicar came together late last year at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, the two titans of the Scottish electronic music scene staged a spectacular. Placing themselves in the centre of the venue in a 360° setup, the two delivered "a performance masterclass which received excellent reviews in every quarter".

The show’s audio was provided by East Anglia-based Audio Plus, who have supplied systems for touring, festivals, special events, and installation for more than 30 years. Audio Plus deployed a Funktion-One Vero system for the event, driven by XTA amplification. Audio Plus has used XTA amplifiers since the 1990s and in recent years has transitioned to using the XTA DPA100 unit for all its work.

Project manager Tino Reschke comments: “The loudspeaker arrangement was planned in collaboration with Fun

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04 March 2025

UK - Just as espresso becomes a martini, Bear café bar spaces transition effortlessly from day into night and the brand has opted for Optimal Audio commercial audio systems installed into all its latest venues to guarantee the seamless shift.

Bear has five stores from Uttoxeter to Wimborne and atmosphere tops the menu in each. With the help of nationwide audio installation partner, York-based Rock-Tech AV, Bear evaluated several commercial audio systems before aligning with Optimal Audio.

Craig Bunting, one half of Bear’s founding partners, explains the appeal. “Primarily, our requirements were for a system that could handle multiple zones and provide excellent sound quality. What we achieved with Optimal is a warm, inviting sound that complements the Bear atmosphere and so many features suit our needs.

“Simple control for the in-store