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Merging audio and visuals: the Ghoemas Music Awards

With its ambitious use of audiovisual content, South Africa’s Ghoemas Music Awards had adopted Dataton’s WatchOut multi-image display and presentation software. Initially, however, the accompanying audio presenteted problems.

The solution lay in Merging Technologies’ Ovation media server/sequencer, as PenMac Audio Visual’s Malcolm Finlay disovered at the 2013 ISE show. As the local WatchOut Premium Partner, PenMac advised the awards organisers that advanced audio could be added to the presentation...

James Last: One More Time

Comprising 23 shows in six countries, James Last’s One More Time tour gave German rental company Sound Linear to opportunity to put the claimed flexibility and scalability of its Nexo STM loudspeaker system to the test.

With London’s Royal Albert Hall and the 02 World in Berlin to accommodate, the tour presented a range of challenges: ‘On one hand, we needed a small system that wouldn’t intrude visually on the production design,’ says Kalle Hogrefe. ‘On the other, we needed an arena system because of the distances involved in the larger venues. Using STM M46 main cabinets with S118 subs on top, we were able to fulfill both criteria perfectly. Any other system that could do that would have had a much larger footprint.’

Sound reflections at the Art of Living Foundation

Founded by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the Art of Living Foundation is among the world’s largest volunteer-based humanitarian and educational non-governmental organisations. One of its retreats is The International Center for Meditation and Well-Being in America’s Great Smokey Mountains.

The retreat’s Meditation Hall is a large, multi-purpose space that is used for yoga and meditation classes, as well as dance events and performances. As with all such spaces, its reflective surfaces present problems to anyone installing a sound system...

Magic moments at Shakespeare’s Globe

Situated beneath London’s famous Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Underglobe events space has hosted a long series of corporate functions – many served by London-based live production company ARC Sound. Opened to the public in 1997, the reconstruction of the original wooden Elizabethan playhouse, has never allowed, or indeed attempted, a full production set-up in the main theatre space itself.

The celebration of Shakespeare’s 449th birthday, however, saw a concert audio production set-up allowed into the 1,500-capacity space for the first time...

Opera recording at the Parco Della Musica Auditorium

Recording a specially commissioned double DVD of two operas, the sound team at the Parco Della Musica Auditorium in Rome placed a premium on audio quality. Performed as part of the Santa Cecilia Opera Studio, an educational programme devoted to the Italian bel canto tradition opera tradition, the challenge was further complicated by the need to hide the recording mics from the video footage.

Sound engineer Giacomo De Caterini struggled to work out how he could comply with the director’s brief…

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Language: A Virus?

Language is a virusOnce again, it began as a throwaway Facebook exchange. Why, a Friend asked, do DJs have to invent new words and stupid spellings for everything?

Moving on from DJs posturing and muso disdain, there is a wealth of worth in the language of the music business. It is constantly evolving to define, enable and exclude, responding to events, techichal advance and outside forces. And we need it as much as we need mics and mixers or ambition and opportunity…

 

Once More, Without Feeling…

Moog-eyeFor most players, the ‘feel’ of an instrument is an intrinsic and essential part of its character and its use. It can even be the most important part of your relationship with a particular instrument. To separate sound and feel would be laughable – unless you’re a keyboard player.

We’ve done this twice to date. First, when we used electronic keyboards to imitate other instruments. And now we’re doing it again with ‘soft synths’.

 

Second Coming: The App, the TV and the Tablet

F1 TimingTwo years ago, I blogged about apps ‘shaping future computer operation’. Not a bad call, on reflection – but I completely missed their potential role in ‘second screen’ television viewing.

Here the convenience and mobility of a tablet or smartphone conspires with a suitable app to become a companion device to live TV. Sounds trivial? Big broadcasters and serious numbers say that it’s not…

 

Dark Energy: The Power of the Tribute Band

Dark Side of the MoonWanted: Keyboard player/tape recorder technician for BBC Radiophonic Workshop tribute band. Knowledge of British 1960/70/80s TV and strong technical background essential. Must be able to patch unreliable synthesisers, splice tape and change valves in live performance setting. No time-wasters, breadheads or planks.

No takers? No surprise, really... Yesterday’s World is no place for today’s Tomorrow People. Or is it?

 

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