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...

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...

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…

When planning its new facilities, the Mansfield Performing Arts Center faced a dilemma – requiring a large auditorium and a smaller performance hall, the available budget would not support both.

The solution lay in the multi-use Cunningham Performance Hall of the Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts, which uses a Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic system to provide acoustics for its varying room configurations and programmes…

Leading Singapore TV/commercial audio facility Yellow Box has extended its operation with the opening of a new ‘no-expense-spared’ music recording and production studio.

‘Singapore has never had a facility for audio like this one, where film and music are merged,’ says Yellow Box Studios MD, Rennie Gomes. ‘We foresaw this convergence of media a long time ago, and now music and picture are prevalent in all interactive and traditional media. The music production and recording facility will cover all of our postproduction needs, as we do quite a lot of music recording and ADR for our films and commercials.’