Founded in 1771, Stockholm’s Royal College of Music has been the training ground for some of Sweden’s most celebrated composers and performers. The college recently completed a major overhaul of its recording and production suites as part of an extensive 15-year renewal project.

To support continually-expanding music performance and composition programmes with world-class facilities, architectural acoustic consulting and A/V integration firm WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group) was called on to design three main stereo control rooms.

While the caravans that once travelled the Silk Road have given way to modern forms of commercial transport between Asia, Persia, The Middle East and Southern Europe, the flow of news, culture and entertainment to China’s largest province continues thanks to the Xinjiang Corps TV Station, serving the provincial capital Urumqi and its 12 surrounding regions, reaching more than 12m people in the northwest of the country.

Needing to modernise its in-house A/V systems, the broadcaster called in EZPro International to design and provide a solution for its main 1,500m² studio, smaller 400m² studio, review room and conference room.

Producer and prolific songwriter/composer Ozan Çolakoğlu has upgraded his studio with the installation of a new Audient ASP8024-HE mixing console. With hundreds of songs credited with to his production, writing and arrangement over a 30-year career, Çolakoğlu’s name is never far from the Turkish Top 10. Most recently, he has recorded prominent Turkish singer-songwriter Tarkan, delivering the megastar’s long-awaited eleventh album using the British desk.

The console is installed at his Istanbul production company, Ozan Çolakoğlu Production, which comprises a recording studio, mixing/mastering room and production/arrangement room. His Ozinga Music record company is also based here.

The second Clockstock Festival rallied first-generation global DJs at Chelmsford City Racecourse in the UK recently for a 12-hour dance event was designed to recreate the spirit of the 90s clubbing scene – complete with VJs, special effect flame throwers, CO2 jets and dancers. Staged by Clockwork Orange (Danny Gould and Andy Manston) the event pulled an audience of 15,000 old school ravers, and was served by local sound company, Event Sound & Light (ESL).

ESL’s Paul Galley fielded his front-line Martin Audio MLA Compact PA for the two main stages, with a Wavefront Precision (WPC and WPS) in the Olds Kool big top, where there was also an early outing for Martin Audio’s latest baby, Torus. 

Performed live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London as part of a series of performances marking its 50th anniversary in 2023, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells saw DiGiCo SD7 consoles at both FOH and monitors alongside additional equipment provided by RNSS Ltd, the production company based at London’s Southbank Centre,that manages sound for large UK events.

With musical direction from Oldfield’s long-time collaborator Robin A Smith, Tubular Bells: Live In Concert featured a live band, with actor Samuel West replacing the late Vivian Stanshall as master of ceremonies. The music was brought to life on stage through a visual interpretation by the Circa Contemporary Circus, led by Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz, with ten acrobats representing Oldfield’s work.