"The metaphor is the bridge is alive. It was conceived originally as an interactive soundscape in which the people could play the bridge as an instrument. As the project evolved we changed to the idea of a dream; something contemplative to walk through." Contemporary composer Martyn Ware describing one of the more diverting entertainments commissioned by the Lord Mayor's office to delight visitors to London throughout this Olympian summer. "To give it meaning the music needed some narrative element."

Chandos records the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande using networked audio converters: From left to right: Ricardo Ryan (Merging Software QA & Project Manager), Claude Cellier (Merging CEO), Neeme Järvi (Maestro), Ralph Couzens (Chandos Managing Director) and Brian Pidgeon (Producer)

Broadcast Sports, Inc. (BSI) a leading developer and service provider of wireless camera, audio and communication systems, reveals its role in obtaining shots of the speed boat on the river Thames during the Opening Ceremony for NEP Cymru.

Broadcast audio specialists Red TX sent its Red II Outside Broadcast truck to Cambridge recently to capture an extensive programme of music during the three days of the Cambridge Folk Festival.

Arguably the most recognizable landmark of the US’s West coast, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge recently celebrated its 75th birthday. Thanks to wysiwyg, the award-winning previsualization suite from CAST Software of Toronto, Canada, tens of thousands of spectators experienced the light show and pyro celebration as a complete surprise.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has acquired the rights to the Rose d’Or Festival, one of entertainment television's foremost international galas.

DPA Microphones played an important part in delivering a fantastic evening of classical music to over 10,000 people who attended a summer concert organised by Heritage Events at Leeds Castle in the UK.

In what was considered to be a cultural milestone, Lighthouse Technologies provided Chicago’s Jay Pritzker Pavillion in the city’s Millennium Park with its revolutionary VideoBlades™ LED video display for a recent simulcast of the Paris Opéra Ballet’s Giselle, presented live by Chicago’s Harris Theater and the Grant Park Orchestra.

June saw an event which marked another ‘first’ for Yamaha’s new CL series of digital mixing consoles - the first time one had been used at an outdoor classical concert.

Robe moving lights and LED fixtures – around 135 in total -  were again specified by lighting designer Helmut Krammer to illuminate the 2012 Summer Night Concert, staged by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra in the fantastically sumptuous Baroque setting of Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

On July 12, 1962, the first transatlantic television transmission was sent from the town of Pleumeur-Bodou in Brittany, France, to Andover, Maine via the Telstar satellite. Exactly fifty years later, on Thursday July 12, GlobeCast is participating in an event organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the French Embassy, which will see a live link between France and the United States.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has once again tapped DPA Microphones for its nationally broadcast, live Boston Pops Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. Held annually in the Hatch Shell at the Esplanade along the Charles River, the concert and fireworks show hosts nearly 400,000 attendees. As the most watched Independence Day performance in the U.S. each year, the Pops have continued to rely on DPA Microphones to ensure that audio at the Spectacular is as magnificent as the rockets’ red glare.

HARMAN’s Soundcraft and Studer’s Italian distributor, Leading Technologies Srl, along with sister company Sound Light & Technologies (SL&T) recently participated in an exciting recording project with RAI Radio, using a combination of Soundcraft and Studer digital mixing platforms in order to optimize the sound.

More than one million people lined the River Thames in London on Sunday, June 3rd to catch a glimpse of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as she celebrated her Diamond Jubilee with a River Pageant involving 1000 boats. And in typical British style the weather was dreadful, with heavy rain doing its best to spoil what was supposed to be the highlight of the UK’s Diamond Jubilee weekend.

London UK based projection artist Ross Ashton of The Projection Studio had his ‘Face Britain’ video projection work onto the front of Buckingham Palace officially confirmed as a Guinness World Record for the ‘most artists working on the same art installation’.