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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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05/26/10 11:10 AM,
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Solid State Logic has announced that Chinese National Radio (CNR) has installed a 24-fader Duality console. The SSL Duality recently found a home in the CNR main production facility that features advanced digital multimedia studios, recording studios and a world-class concert hall. CNR operates nine different channels covering national news broadcast in Mandarin and Nationality Radio broadcast to minority and ethnic groups, to the Story Channel and a popular music channel that includes concert performances. The Duality covers live to…
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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Peabody Award-winning radio personality William “Bill” McGlaughlin has been named Keynote Speaker for the upcoming 127th AES Convention. The long-time host and music director of American Public Media’s popular Saint Paul Sunday public radio program McGlaughlin is a highly regarded broadcaster, educator, composer and conductor. In making the announcement, Convention Chair Agnieszka Roginska remarked, “While the focus of our conventions are largely technical in nature, we are delighted to provide our attendees with an opportunity to enjoy a discourse by…
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Friday, July 17, 2009
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The awards and accolades earned by the work of Stile Antico would be an accomplishment for even a seasoned vocal ensemble, but their meteoric rise to fame in the classical music world makes their successes all the more impressive. Comprised of twelve young British singers, Stile Antico first attracted the attention of harmonia mundi usa’s artistic director, Robina Young, at the 2005 Early Music Network International Young Artists’ Competition. From there, the group’s debut disc on the harmonia mundi label…
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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England’s Eurohire Sound and Light, a long-established turnkey supplier for Europe’s events and entertainment industries, recently decided to bolster its inventory of stage monitors and processors, selecting a complement of products from EAW, including more than 20 MicroWedge Series MW15 stage monitors, a pair of MicroSub stage monitors/subwoofers, and four UX8800 digital signal processors. With the purchase, Eurohire now holds the largest European rental stock of EAW MicroWedge monitors, a line of products developed by EAW in close partnership with…
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Monday, July 06, 2009
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“Opera at the Ballpark” returned to San Francisco at AT&T Park last month with a free simulcast of Tosca, setting a new ballpark attendance record for the San Francisco Opera with an estimated 27,000 viewers. For its fourth simulcast, Bay Area rental house Pro Media/UltraSound turned to Meyer Sound loudspeakers, subwoofers and processing to meet the unique task of presenting a live performance from the stage of the War Memorial Opera House to a crowded sports stadium. David Bowers of…
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Monday, June 01, 2009
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The South Auditorium of Grace Community Church reveals a striking vision of what worship spaces of the future might look like—and sound like. Within this new, extraordinarily adaptable 1,650-seat space in suburban Indianapolis, Ind., a zero-level platform, reconfigurable wrap-around seating, and 360-degree theatrical lighting allow multiple visual and inter-relational effects. Delivering sound for this space, Meyer Sound’s Constellation electroacoustic architecture works hand-in-glove with a collection of Meyer Sound loudspeakers to afford both flexibility and intimacy in creating harmonious aural experiences.…
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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For more than 40 years, the Daytona Beach International Festival (DBIF) has served as the official U.S. home to the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). This year’s LSO Pops Concert, “A Celebration of Speed,” featured a fast-paced multimedia musical program set to a 90-minute high-def film, and paid tribute to Daytona as the ‘Birthplace of Speed’ and to the late Bill France, Jr., who pioneered NASCAR. Syntonic Design Group, contracted for the audio production portion of the concert, provided a DiGiCo…
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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When Athens’ Pallas Theatre was built in 1926, it quickly became a popular cosmopolitan destination for Athenian socialites, replacing the royal horse stables that were representative of this oldest city in Europe. With its regular jazz music and other eclectic performances, the Pallas Theatre paved the way for an influx of cafes, restaurants, and other gathering places, transforming the city’s Voukourestiou Street district into a cultural hub. Many decades later, Athens received a much needed revitalization, and the Pallas Theatre…
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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The newly opened Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) was intended, from its conception, to be a space where the arts, technology, and science would challenge and transform each other. The $200 million-plus EMPAC provides world-calss facilities for creative exploration, as well as for research in fields ranging from visualization to immersive environments to large-scale interactive simulations. Officially opened last October, EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creators from around the…
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
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At the 2009 ProLight+Sound/Muzikmess in Frankfurt, L-Acoustics introduced a new version of the LA-NETWORK MANAGER for LA4 and LA8/LA RAK that adds a new level of flexibility and features to the platform. The most important updates are: • A new Hybrid Preset design tool for building custom presets • New Source Matrix for increased I/O routing flexibility • New EQ section and monitoring during tuning The new LA-NETWORK MANAGER EQ section and Array Morphing tool utilize new filter algorithms in…
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