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DiGiCo’s Lizard Wizardry
Six-piece multi-genre Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard recently toured the US with their Phantom Island show, featuring collaborations with local orchestras on eight nights of the 12-date run. For the first time, the band’s FOH engineer Sam Joseph and monitor engineer Joe Santarpia were behind new small-footprint Quantum326 mixing desks.
Calema at the Estádio da Luz
The close to their 15 Years tour, Lisbon’s 68,100-capacity Estádio da Luz was the biggest stadium show yet for Portuguese-speaking band, Calema. The show ran show without a hitch, with two DiGiCo Quantum 338 consoles s at FOH and two DiGiCo SD5s at monitors from Auditiv Audiovisuals.
Back to the Beginning
Planning the band’s last live performance for Birmingham’s Villa Park Stadium, Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning Production Director Jake Berry asked Clair Global if singer Ozzy Osbourne’s vision to play a final show – where it all began in Aston, Birmingham, in 1968 – would be possible as a mutli-band live stream, the answer was always going to be ‘yes’.
Steven Wilson’s Overview
English musician Steven Wilson is currently circling the globe with The Overview tour, an ambitious live multimedia and concert production featuring an immersive L-Acoustics sound system – the first half of the show centres on the two pieces that comprise his latest album and the second features songs from his prolific solo career, performed with band of deft prog musicians.
DeLaurentis’ Musicalism
Taking its title from a 1930s French artistic movement in which painters translated sounds into visual art to evoke specific emotional responses, French electronic artist DeLaurentis’ latest work resonates with her own synesthetic experiences.
DeLaurentis invited Hervé Déjardin to her recording studio in the south of France, where they recorded the sonic universe of a painter’s studio for use on the full-length album, Musicalism.