KLANG:technologies visited Jeff Wayne’s The War of Worlds to talk with him and monitor engineer Becky Pell about the challenges in managing a full string orchestra and band with 168 tracks. Jeff Wayne commented: “When I’m conducting, I’ve got a band on one side and a symphonic string orchestra on the other and with the KLANG system, the placement of those elements is very much as I’m seeing them, rather than just having a good general mix. The result is that it’s very much more alive – more 3D. I have a better balance in my head, so the sound…
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Highlite International BV will be present during Integrated Systems Europe, ISE 2019 from 5 to 8 February at the RAI in Amsterdam, hall 7, stand Y190. At the Highlite stand various installation solutions from DAP Audio, visuals from DMT Premiere LED screens, effect lighting from Showtec and Infinity with the Furion and Signature series will be showcased. Since their first edition in 2004, the ISE-event has developed into the largest exhibition for AV and system integration professionals. For Highlite each year the perfect opportunity in this B2B environment to introduce innovative ideas and to provide answers to installation matters. DAP…
TW AUDiO overcomes a challenging environment to deliver a big sound. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/26 Photos: Steve McManus www.twaudio.de
Sheltered in the concrete underground of the Etihad Stadium carpark in Melbourne’s central business district, B3 arrived on the city’s clubbing map in late-2018 with the promise of three special events per year, each one welcoming around 7,000 people. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/20 Photos: Funktion-One www.funktion-one.com
Luke Edwards, Production Designer and Production Manager for Gary Numan’s latest UK tour, discusses dealing with an unpredictable, and sudden tragedy on the road. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/72 helpline@musicsupport.org www.mhfaengland.org
FMX and BMX, skates, scooters and screams… TPi’s Kel Murray ventures into the wild world of whirring wheels. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/74 Photos: Andrew Benge, Nitro Circus and TPi www.nitrocircus.com www.productionvalue.co www.video-design.co.uk www.bpm-sfx.com www.rockitcargo.com www.flybynite.co.uk www.clairglobal.com www.negearth.com www.taittowers.com www.nononsensegroup.com www.missioncontrolltd.com www.phoenix-bussing.co.uk www.snakatakcatering.com
A fleet of ‘Numanoids’ flocked to The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to witness their industrial electronic hero perform cult tracks from his genre-defining back catalogue and latest album, Savage (Songs from a Broken World), accompanied by The Skaparis Orchestra and Kantos Chamber Choir. TPi’s Jacob Waite reports… https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/58 Photos: www.thefifthestate.co.uk & TPi www.garynuman.com www.cue-design.co.uk www.prg.com www.adlib.co.uk www.aclasers.co.uk www.csuk.coach www.brianyeardley.com/truckingby
Much to the pleasure of their loyal fans, the eclectic indie powerhouse returned to UK arenas for a seven-date stint which manifested as one of the most sophisticated and elegant productions of 2018. TPi’s Stew Hume met the innovative crew behind the enchanting High As Hope tour… https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/46 Photos: Luke Dyson and TPi www.florenceandthemachine.net www.willoperron.com www.timroutledge.co.uk www.premierglobalproduction.com www.fivepointsproductionservices.com www.clairglobal.com www.upstagevideo.com www.bpm-sfx.com www.beatthestreet.net www.brianyeardley.com www.xpeditiousunlimited.com www.rockpooltourcatering.com www.thepowershop.eu
When British electro-pop trio Years & Years – Olly Alexander, Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre Türkmen – returned to the UK charts with their second album, Palo Santo, the band had a strong concept to deliver. The dystopian, fictional world populated by a majority android nation sees gender blending and sexual ambiguity in full force. TPi’s Kel Murray visited the live ‘dark cabaret’ show only to discover non-conformity and inclusion can rule as one. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/32 Photos: Tony Woolliscroft, Roy Brown and Joe Okpako. www.yearsandyears.com www.onlyhelix.com www.cassiuscreative.co.uk www.fraystudio.co.uk www.sillismovement.com www.neoncircus.com www.unipix.tv www.negearth.com www.sseaudiogroup.com www.flybynite.co.uk www.phoenix-bussing.co.uk www.allaccessinc.com www.popcorncatering.com
Litec has just released a new video on A4i.tv dedicated to its MyT Folding Steroid Roof System, which was chosen for an extremely large Tribute Concert in Naples, Italy that celebrated the life and songs of Italian singer Pino Daniele. The video documents construction of the massive MyT Folding Steroid Roof System, which also featured spot and delay towers (constructed with MyT Folding Steroid’s modular components), and shows them in action during the evening’s performances. The highly publicized and nationally televised concert attracted an impressive crowd of more than 85,000 attendees and was broadcast to a television audience of millions.…
Learn from Luke about Avolites Synergy on its first tour ever, the Gary Numan tour Read the full story in the January issue of TPi.
Marcel Quiroz has become one of the most in-demand live-sound mixers in the Bay Area. He has established a solid audio foundation as a recording engineer in major regional studios, such as Different Fur and Hyde Street Studios. His ongoing work with reggae singer J Boog at the artist’s Wash House Studios led to a new career as a live-sound mixer. He noted: “I was really focused on the studio at first, but then I participated in some live-sound courses as part of the program at what is now the SAE Expression College in Emeryville.” That all led to an…
Studio Tanta, the newest and largest recording studio in Tokyo which opened in the Shibuya district in May 2018, chose Ayrton lighting products for its rehearsal studios. The successful installation includes 10 Ayrton NandoBeam S3 units, 6 WildBeam R fixtures and 4 Arcaline 2 100 battens which were permanently installed in Rehearsal Studio-C. Studio Tanta is an impressive 7-storey building which took five years to build from planning to completion. It has two recording studios, a rehearsal studio, two artists’ rooms, and a restaurant. Hibino Lighting Inc., Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for Japan, was responsible for the supply and installation of…
Painting with Light is both a creative and a technical partner of the ambitious new 40-45 Spektakle Musical production being staged at the Pop-Up Theatre in Puurs, Belgium, by Studio 100 and directed by Frank Van Laecke which is currently a huge talking and trending point. Painting with Light’s creative director Luc Peumans is the show’s lighting and video designer, and the scenic video content was also produced by the Genk based visual design practice. The company invested over €350,000 in the purchase of the 10 disguise gx media servers which are wirelessly controlled and delivering the video to…
For her recent DVD production Ivete Sangalo Live Experience in the Allianz Park, São Paulo, Brazil, lighting designers Paulinho Lebrão and Guillermo Herrero used 2 grandMA2 full-size consoles, 1 grandMA2 light and 4 MA NPUs (Network Processing Units) to control a set with more than 800 fixtures. Lebrão explained: “We have been using grandMA2 consoles since 2011, and the experience, knowledge and confidence we have in the system leaves us no doubt in the choice. When art director Gringo Cardia presented this project, the mission for us was create lighting that could show the big size, plus all the details…
The West London demo room of Kinesys was home to a Green Hippo Automation Masterclass with an international flavour. Welcoming attendees from Finland and the Netherlands, as well as the United Kingdom, Green Hippo partnered with Kinesys to deliver Masterclass III – Automation. The two-day course, which took place earlier this month, enabled delegates to take a deep dive into integrating moving elements with Hippotizer and SHAPE 3D projection mapping. Occupying the Kinesys base, conveniently located 20 minutes from Heathrow, students benefited from a venue fully-equipped with chain motors, rotators, trolleys and truss – this was a true hands-on experience where…
FOH and Monitor engineer Charles Izzo (Portugal. The Man, The Naked and Famous, Dawes) chooses products from Waves Audio, including MultiRack, SoundGrid Extreme and Plugins, for the Childish Gambino This is America Tour. Responsible for what Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino, hears in his monitors night after night, Izzo commented on his setup: “I am using a Solid State Logic L500 console, which goes into 18 mixes of Shure PSM1000 IEMs, one Clair Cohesion wedge, one Clair Cohesion drum sub, and various mixes to other departments such as show director, lighting, video departments, etc. Running all those plugins through Waves MultiRack on my…
Over 840 Claypaky fixtures were used on the 16th Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) final which was broadcast live from Minsk to more than 2.7 million viewers globally. The enormous production was skilfully orchestrated by Head of Production Ola Melzig with lighting designed by Alex Manzenko. The predominantly Claypaky rig for JESC included Claypaky Scenius Unico, Claypaky Mythos 2, Claypaky Scenius Spot, Claypaky Sharpy, Claypaky Axcor Beam 300, Axcor Profile 600, Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20, Claypaky Stormy CC, Claypaky Sharpy Wash, Claypaky Sharpy Wash, Claypaky Shotlight Wash, and Claypaky Alpha Spot 1500. “We specify Claypaky products as they’re extremely reliable, and…
