Once a single wine store, San Francisco’s PlumpJack Group has grown into a multi-faceted hospitality and lifestyle business that includes Verso, a premier event space and nightclub. Wanting a sound that would better major US nightclubs, PlumpJack found its answer in a system from Alcons Audio.

Located in a former printing works on San Francisco’s Mission Street, Verso is a high quality space designed to switch quickly and seamlessly from hosting events to a nightclub. Bradley S Katz of the city’s JK Sound had previously worked with PlumpJack on another venue, MatrixFillmore, and was asked to look at Verso as a result.

With Yamaha’s flagship Rivage PM10 digital mixing console finding favour through the 2016 festival season, the Festival de Radio France used a PM10 to mix two weeks of wide-ranging jazz performances.

Taking place in Montpellier, Festival de Radio France features many different styles of music in venues throughout Montpellier. The 1,800-seat open air Amphithéâtre du Domaine d’O – managed by the city’s Department of Art and Culture – was the venue for the festival’s jazz programme, with all performances broadcast live on radio station France Musique.

From its debut at the UK Milan Expo 2015 pavilion, The Hive has relocated to London’s Kew Gardens, where its elaborate and soundtrack is again controlled by a hybrid system using live bees, and a TiMax SoundHub playback server and audio showcontroller.

The 17m-high abstract aluminium lattice structure that comprises the immersive art installation offers visitors a multisensory experience as it responds, with the help of TiMax, to the activity of bees in a beehive located behind the scenes at Kew. The object of the walk-in figurative beehive is to help highlight the significance and plight of bees in our foodchain and ecology.

The installation of a second – larger and more complex – Yamaha audio system in Westminster Abbey’s Central Hall (CHW) underscores the role of the manufacturer and audio itself in the Abbey and the QEII Conference Centre.

Offering the largest conference and events space in central London, CHW includes a 2,400-capacity auditorium (the Great Hall) and a number of rooms and spaces that host more than 700 corporate and televised public events every year. It is also a vital resource for many important events, which take place nearby. As well as events and breakout sessions from the Palace of Westminster, CHW is regularly used as a media hub for major Parliamentary developments, debates and weddings at the Abbey.

With a 12-year track record as one of the Philippines’ most creative sound and location recording companies, WildSound Studios has opened a Dolby Atmos audio mixing studio for its film and video production clients.

The studio owners are Mike Idioma and Tony Tuviera – both accomplished recording engineers with multiple feature film and commercial credits. Having found an ideal space in Quezon City’s Sampaguita Pictures Compound for the new facility, they called on the Walters-Storyk Design Group to create a state-of-the-art mixing theatre. WSDG Brazil partner Renato Cipriano met with Idioma to discuss the new studio…