Adlib’s installation team has completed updating the sound system at the Academy Music Group’s 2,550-capacity O2 Academy Glasgow in Scotland using L-Acoustics and DiGiCo.

One of the UK’s busiest and most successful live touring venues, the O2 Academy Glasgow follows similar installations at AMG’s O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, and O2 Academy venues in Bristol and Newcastle in the past 18 months, all of which also feature L-Acoustics and DiGiCo combinations. Led by John Hughes and Roger Kirby, Adlib collaborated closely with Jeff Woodford, applications engineer (installations) and Sergey Becker applications engineer (touring) from L-Acoustics to provide a careful match for the venue’s requirements. They worked with Academy Music Group Divisional Manager (North), Steve Hoyland.

Electronic music producer Romain Delahaye (aka Molécule) specialises in music created entirely in-situ. Behind this quest lies a clear and challenging goal: to take electronic music into a new sound dimension. All the sounds on his latest album, -22.7° C, were recorded during a five-week stay in a small fishing village in Greenland. Now he has taken on the technical challenge of transposing the sounds of these harsh environments to live mix concerts.

For the audience, it might mean presenting the show in an igloo at temperatures below zero to recreate the album’s recording conditions, or else in complete darkness to sharpen their sense of hearing. On the technical side, he has adopted L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology to play his work in detail – and fully spatialised.

After hundreds of years during which Europe’s arts venues acoustics were designed to supported specific types of performance – theatres with short reverberation times for greater intelligibility and concert halls with longer ambience – 21st century venues strive to support all of performance, along with seminars and amplified music. Digital technology has addressed this need in the form of ambience enhancement systems.

Among these venues, Germany’s Congress Centrum Suhl recently installed an Amadeus Active Acoustics System into the 2,350-seat Great Hall with Renkus-Heinz loudspeakers selected for the installation.

A total of nearly 1,000 loudspeakers will be in use across eight stages at the 2019 Roskilde Festival. This marks the second year of a five-year partnership between Meyer Sound and the festival, with all stages deploying Meyer Sound Leo Family reinforcement systems exclusively.

In addition, Meyer Sound is assisting in training the festival’s own technical professionals and also collaborates with festival management and the Danish Technical University on research in audio and acoustics.

Demonstrating that there is more to Nashville than country music, singer-songwriter and indie entrepreneur Jamie Kent staged the New Nashville Live Riverboat Showcase at the recent SXSW in Austin.

The paddle-wheeled boat sailedon the Colorado River with a diverse array of music artists including Sarah Potenza, Banditos, Szlachetka, LUTHI, Mando Saenz and Willie Jones. For sound, Kent used Bose portable sound systems for the two three-hour cruises – two Bose F1 Model 812 Flexible Array Loudspeakers with an F1 sub, two L1 Compact systems as fill, and two S1 Pro loudspeakers as monitors for the stage on the boat’s main deck, with an L1 Model II system for the acoustic stage one deck below.