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University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Upgrades Concert Hall with Soundcraft Vi4™ Digital Console
Entering its sixth performance season, the $64 million DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame campus has recently upgraded its former audio system in the Leighton Concert Hall and now hosts a Soundcraft Vi4 digital console with BSS Soundweb London digital signal processing.
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SSE Audio Group Channels Pope’s Public Mass In Scotland Through Soundcraft Vi6 Digital Consoles
With a crowd of 75,000 followers, Pope Benedict XVI’s voice during mass at the Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, Scotland was entrusted with SSE Audio Group’s deployment of two Soundcraft Vi6 digital consoles. With a 35-piece orchestra, 800-piece choir and pre and post-show concerts, the religious event required reliable and vast amounts of digital channels to ensure no note or prayer was unheard.
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TiMax Tracker and Carmen In-the-Round in Switzerland
Due to unprecedented demand from Switzerland’s classical outdoor festival circuit, TiMax distributor Bleuel Electronics AG have invested in additional TiMax Tracker and TiMax2 SoundHub systems from UK developer Out Board. With their existing rental stock already fully committed to other shows, Bleuel purchased a further TiMax SoundHub-R32 delay matrix and four-sensor TiMax Tracker (TT) performer tracking system to service a spectacular in-the-round production of Carmen being staged outdoors in Schinznach Dorf.
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Konzerthaus Dortmund Installs Riedel Performer Intercom
For its new communications infrastructure the Konzerthaus Dortmund installed a Performer matrix intercom system from Riedel Communications. Riedel, one of the leading manufacturers of intercom, fiber, audio and radio technology, installed a comprehensive system combining a digital matrix intercom with a radio network and the house PA.
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Studer Vista 9 and Soundcraft Vi1 at the Conservatory Great Hall in Moscow
As part of its current restoration, the Moscow Conservatory has purchased a Studer Vista 9 digital console for recording, post-production and broadcast from its Great Hall, as well as a Soundcraft Vi1 digital console for multipurpose use, including at front of house when required.
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ORF and SIVision are Ready to Broadcast the New Year’s Concert 2011
The Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert is in terms of international coverage the largest classical music event in the world. In 2011 the concert will once again be broadcast on television and radio to over 70 countries worldwide. Franz Welser-Möst, following in the footsteps of Clemens Krauss, Josef Krips, Willi Boskovsky, Herbert von Karajan and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, becomes the sixth Austrian conductor to stand at the helm of the Vienna Philharmonic on the first day of the New Year.
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Lighthouse Screens are the Right KITT for Dutch Interactive Installations
Lighthouse LED screens are at the centre of a burgeoning new trend in the Netherlands for art installations, which is taking the concept of large exterior screens and making them interactive.
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Soundcraft Mixing Consoles Meet the Challenge of The Cinematic Orchestra’s Epic Performance at Royal Albert Hall
The Cinematic Orchestra performed a large-scale concert at London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall with the London Metropolitan Orchestra that required the use of Soundcraft Vi6 and Vi1 consoles at front of house and a Soundcraft Vi4 for the monitor mix.
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Christie Projectors are a Hit at the Eid in Riyadh
In Riyadh, Samir El-Wesemy’s company, EvenTech Co. Ltd, staged a major outdoor event at the Regime Palace District, sponsored by the Supreme Authority for Riyadh Development and attended (and officially opened) by HRH Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz. Among his many other duties he is Vice Chairman of The Supreme Saudization Committee.
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NETIA Supports CineCast Innovative Platform for Connecting French Film Heritage With Social Networks
NETIA today announced that its R&D team is leading the CineCast project to promote France's film heritage, facilitate its discovery and contributions to it by the public, and explore new cultural practices. As the French government focuses on the digitization of educational media, the CineCast platform will develop a suite of generic and innovative tools aimed at all content suppliers of the digital age: TV, video-sharing sites, subscription program packages, archives, libraries, VoD, and social media sites.
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PixelRange sets Huddersfield Festival Ablaze with Light
The annual winter event put on by Kirklees Council was this year expanded to fill the weekend across 2nd – 5th December. As well as the usual street theatre spectacular which traditionally packs out the town’s St George’s Square, the council prepared other events, all project managed by TG Events’ Tim Garbutt.
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Green Hippo at Huddersfield’s Festival of Light
One of the biggest annual events in Huddersfield, the Festival of Light, once again made a great impression in 2010. The festival took place from 02nd – 05th December 2010, and alongside the main event in St George’s Square there were a wide range of fringe events taking place across the town. Part of the festival this year was ‘Light Trail’, an event that saw several of the towns landmarks illuminated, with the display commencing at 4pm every afternoon for the duration of the festival.
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Audio and Video for the Court of Burgundy
Worms is ranked top among German historic cities. According to the Nibelungen saga, Siegfried the dragon slayer was murdered here by Hagen von Tronje at the Court of Burgundy. Now the city is going to take advantage of its rich history and location in the heart of Europe by positioning itself as a point where culture and business meet. On January 29 a new convention centre in the heart of Worms, built by Gerkan, Marg and Partner architects, open its doors together with the completely refurbished municipal theatre. Installation of all audio and video systems in the sprawling complex was undertaken by the systems integrator division of the SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP.
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Staging the future: Schauspielhaus Bochum installs grandMA2 and dimMA Digital Dimmer
The „Schauspielhaus Bochum“ (Playhouse Bochum) is one of Germany’s biggest and best known theatres. Build in 1908 as a Variety theatre, it became the town theatre in 1915 and was the biggest stage in the “Ruhrgebiet”. During an air raid in 1944 it was nearly completely destroyed, and then rebuilt based on the design of architect Gerhard Moritz Graubner in an operation lasting until 1953.
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Studer Vista 5 Digital Console Brings State-of-the-Art Sound To Famed Great Festival Hall in Austria
The Grosses Festspielhaus (Great Festival Hall), home to the famed Salzburg Festival--one of the most famous performance spectaculars in the world--has revamped its main audio system for the first time in two decades. The upgraded system includes a completely redesigned control room, featuring a Studer Vista 5 digital console. Celebrating the hall’s 50th and the festival’s 90th anniversaries, the Vista 5 was chosen for its optimum recording capabilities, with performance recordings in demand throughout the year.
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