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Vera Blue
Road Skills Vera Blue By Cat Strom Photos: James Hughes Vera Blue, aka Celia Pavey, is one of Australia’s most promising emerging talents. Following the arrival of her debut single ‘Hold’ three short years ago, Vera Blue has released an EP ‘Fingertips’ and her first full-length album ‘Perennial’, and also featured on tracks with Illy, Slumberjack…
Read MoreCrew defend Noll
By Julius Grafton After someone lobbed a full can of drink at Shannon Noll he lost his mind. He said some offensive things. It went viral, and the condemnation was inevitable. CX asked around and got a more balanced report of what happened at The Duck Creek Races. While the Three Rivers Machinery Duck Creek Picnic…
Read MoreENTECH NZ rolls in July. Biennial roadshow a hit
Opening on Thursday 26 July at Christchurch’s Airforce Museum, ENTECH NZ is now firmly established in NZ with all exhibition spaces sold and registrations for 2018 well ahead of the last tour in 2016. The roadshow then hits Wellington on Monday 30 July, and finishes in Auckland on Wednesday 1 August. People registering are reporting…
Read MoreInfoComm 1998
From the Archive InfoComm 1998 CX Media has covered many InfoComm trade-shows. Here’s our coverage from Connections Magazine in July 1998, if you are curious about what AV/integration looked like 20 years ago… By Editor Julius Grafton: “DATELINE INFOCOMM DALLAS, AS THE ‘NEW’ AV INDUSTRY PUTS ON 20% GROWTH InfoComm 1998 shone like a beacon in Dallas last month, as…
Read MoreInfocomm: IC18 – The Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association Steps Up
Feature Infocomm: IC18 – The Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association Steps Up By Julius Grafton. June is InfoComm time, where what was once just the AV industry shows new stuff and huddles in conference rooms. These days it’s a whole lot more, so the organising association have rebranded themselves. Now they are The Audiovisual and Integrated…
Read MoreTLC Global announce two new partnerships
News TLC Global announce two new partnerships Lighting distributor TLC Global have added two new brands to their portfolio – Montreal-based Minuit Une and Irish tracking company Spotrack. “Our team prides itself on the ability to put innovation and technology in the hands of our creative Australian and New Zealand peers,” said Sean McKernan,…
Read MoreElation Fuze PAR Z175 LED Wash Fixture
Road Test Elation Fuze PAR Z175 LED Wash Fixture By Jim Kumorek. This review was first published in Church Production Magazine In a nutshell, Elation’s Fuze PAR Z175 is a COB-based LED wash fixture with RGB colour-mixing capability, zoomable lensing, and strobe capabilities. One of its standout features: brightness. With the advent of Chip on…
Read MoreFear and Loathing at Overseas Exhibitions
Duncan Fry / Dunk’s World Fear and Loathing at Overseas exhibitions Where the Hell’s our stand gone? When you tell people you’re off to Amsterdam, or Los Angeles, or Frankfurt, or Nashville to work at an exhibition, they nearly always say, “Enjoy the holiday!” Hah. Dream on baby! It’s as far from a holiday as…
Read MoreJet Get Born… Again
Roadskills Jet Get Born… Again Jet remind us what made them one of Australia’s most successful rock bands of all time with a killer show By Cat Strom. Photos: Troy Constable Aussie rockers Jet have completed their 15th anniversary national tour in celebration of their 2003 debut album Get Born. Entitled the Get Re-Born tour, the…
Read MoreEducation
Education In this issue, CX surveys the types of formal education on offer for those seeking to learn about live production – what they teach, how that curriculum is set, and what pathways to employment are provided. It boils down to two flavours – degree courses offered by a variety of private institutions and universities,…
Read MoreFormal training is acronym heavy – Why ‘on-the-job’ training is so popular
Education Formal training is acronym heavy – Why ‘on-the-job’ training is so popular By Julius Grafton. Training for the technical production industry remains predominantly ‘on the job’, twenty years after a push to get formal vocational education training (VET) into the industry. It started with the CUE98 training package, which arrived fashionably late in 1999.…
Read MoreThe four-hour mix session
Regulars By Andy Stewart. If time is money, musicians have none and record companies spend none, it’s time mix engineers took stock of the ways we waste both. Blowing a client’s budget shouldn’t be the default Plan B of any engineer working against the clock, nor should working for free. I’ve been guilty of it…
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