Familiar as Luke Skywalker’s hometown of Mos Espa in the original Star Wars trilogy, Ong Jmal in Nefta, Tunisia, is also an annual festival location – for the last three years, the area’s sand dunes and domed houses provide the backdrop to a 30-hour rave.

Les Dunes Electroniques, is organised by the team behind Plages Electroniques in the French Riviera, and has been touted as ‘the event to put Tunisia on the global festival map’ – this year featuring 30 artists including headliners Luciano and Apollonia, and others such as Astrid, Ben & Lola, Mehmet Aslan and Fantastic Twins.

With design by the Malvicino Design Group and Ocean Way Audio loudspeaker systems for stereo and 5.1 monitoring, Invite Only Studios has joined New York City’s recording scene.

While Studio A is centred on a 48-channel SSL Duality mixing console, Studio B has as its centrepiece a custom Slate Raven Z3C MTX console, the only one of its kind in the world. Studio C functions as a writer’s room and boutique project studio with iso booth.

Presented by DarkLab, the team behind the Museum of Old and New Art’s winter solstice festival Dark Mofo, Project X is a programme of contemporary artworks and events designed to bring visitors to Tasmania’s Huon Valley after the bushfires suffered during 2018–2019.

The festival takes place annually, and is one of the world’s more unusual winter festivals, featuring big-ticket music shows and large-scale public art. During Dark Mofo in 2019, DarkLab hosted a soundwork by composer and sound recordist Chris Watson called Hrafn: Conversations with Odin. Co-presented by The Wired Lab, it played out through a multichannel sound installation based on L-Acoustics Syva co-linear source elements as day became night.

Opened in 2015 by engineer Neeraj Khajanchi, NK Sound Tokyo has recently completed an extensive update to its main studio which includes the addition of an 80-input Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console – the largest 5088 sold to date, anywhere in the world.

The console was provided by Rupert Neve’s long-time Japanese distributor Hook-Up Inc, and is loaded with 48 channels of Shelford 5052 Mic Preamp/Inductor EQ modules.

Cirque de Soleil’s latest production R.U.N continues to flip theatregoers expectations at the Luxor in Las Vegas. A live-action graphic novel, R.U.N delivers back-alley fistfights, bike jumps, car chases, high falls and body burns, the sounds of which are captured though the inventive use of Point Source GO-8WM microphones.

Shifting from the ethereal acrobatics that has defined Cirque, R.U.N is a stunt show with special effects that pulse with physicality you can hear and feel– a ground-and-body-breaking spectacle, forged from the sonic vision of globally renowned sound designer Jonathan Deans.