Having hosted performances by Albert Mangelsdorff and Dexter Gordon among other notable artists, Jazzclub Karlsruhe has secured a lasting place in the jazz world.
After years in temporary venues since opening in the 1960s, the club has now found a permanent home in the heart of Karlsruhe where its latest technical upgrade features a 16-fader Lawo mc²36 audio mixing console and mics from Schoeps.
SynthTemple – a hybrid facility combining a fully operational recording studio with a museum of electronic instruments – the Melbourne…
As the TED Organisation’s relationship with its PA supplier neared its end, audio consultant Michael Nunan was working on a TED Countdown…
French company Smode Tech has struck a partnership with Cercle Odyssey, the world’s first large-scale 360° immersive concert, to provide…
Marking five decades of late-night Saturday Night Live TV show, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert was staged audiences at the Radio City…
The recent UK Reproduced Sound conference invested heavily in acoustic modelling and auralisation. Among the event’s speakers, conference chair Paul Malpas looked at ‘the role of auralisation in interdisciplinary design’, questioning the neglect of sound in the early development stages of buildings. Good man.
On the surface, it wasn’t an issue that should have needed raising at an acoustics conference. But if not here, then where?
There’s a big problem with the Big Bang. A Big Audio Problem.
The background noise thrown up by the current rush of theories – p-branes, inflation, a bubble universe, multiple Big Bangs and their like – has drowned out the impossibility of a bang of any kind occurring where no gasses or fluids yet exist.
But then, you can’t believe everything you hear about sound…
Tim Goodyer was absolutely right when he described the uptake of MP3 and other audio compression formats as an ‘uneducation’ problem in a recent Facebook discussion.
Although I’ve seen it happening over a long time, I’ve only started to realise the magnitude of the problem over the past few weeks. And the past month or so has solidified my thinking on it.
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A friend recently told me a true story that highlights the ‘outsideʼ view of live sound.
It begins with a veteran club comedian being booked by a well-to-do sporting club to entertain an audience of around two hundred. Accepting the booking, our comic pointed out that he would need a microphone and asked whether the club had one. They had not, so he passed on details of a local PA hire operation and thought no more of it. Unfortunately...
Recorded for release on the EMI Classics label, Bruckner’s 9th Symphony and Quattro Pezzi Sacri by Verdi made an exciting live programme. The recording saw Sir Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at Rome’s spectacular Parco della Musica.
Alongside commercial recording and broadcast ambitions, the session represented a test of some new technology for the recording team.
The attitude to audio taken by TV advertisers and gamers could not be more contrasting, more telling – or more damning.
While advertisers eagerly lay claim to the term ‘creative’, their antagonistic stance on loudness betrays a small-minded regard for sound and its applications. Gamers, on the other hand, appear to be getting the most out of audio on all fronts. And that includes loudness…
While geographically expansive, the world of pro audio is modestly populated. In any specific sector, the key players comprise a small but extremely mobile club. It’s a ‘people business’ – perfectly suited to a trade show’s ability to bring people together.
In reality, while a show might appear big and busy, it can easily be exhausting, exasperating and expensive. Now there’s an alternative…
Stepping in where magazines and manufacturers’ own channels of communication have failed, Technicians Crew Pass is a new social website expressly aimed at Australian audio and A/V technicians.
‘The aim is to help better the industry by having the most up-to-date information about what is happening in the industry right now, and by working with technicians from all over Australia,’ says Chris D’bais.
It’s been nearly 40 years since Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ introduced Bruce Springsteen to the record-buying public (and laid the groundwork for Manfred Mann’s ‘Blinded by the Light’ chart success.
And while not initially a commercial success, the album marked the start of one of rock’s most distinguished careers – as evidenced by his current round of three-hour-plus shows, sold-out arenas and glowing reviews.
‘It is inherent in the nature of this business to hoard equipment’ – this business being equipment rental and the speaker being Chris Headlam. Specifically, high-end theatre equipment rental, as dispatched by Headlam’s London-based Orbital Sound operation.
Clearly, any rental company’s inventory is essential to its operation. But what happens when the inventory begins to handicap the company?
I could almost hear the gentle shuffle of feet and slow intake of breath while courage was gathered. A long pause. Then the news. A fellow audio journalist and good friend has been told that he needs hearing aids. It's a confession...
Another silence. It is an awkward moment at both ends of the phone. Although we are the press, we do audio. We love audio. The unspoken question, then – is it all over for him?
There’s something offensive about TV ads. They run roughshod over our viewing and undermine the work of the many people it takes to make a feature film or television feature.
They do not extend the respectful invitation of print ads, designed to succeed on merit and message, but force themselves on us like party gatecrashers. They were the first terrorists of the advertising world…
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