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The Electric Canvas – White Night Reimagined
PROJECTION by Jason Allen. Visit Victoria’s popular festival White Night Melbourne was ‘Reimagined’ in August 2019 from a one-night, all-night event in summer to a three-night festival in late winter. Peter Milne, Managing and Technical Director of creative projection company The Electric Canvas spoke to CX about what it takes to get 10 major projection…
Read MoreIntegrating The Outsider
INTEGRATE 2019 by Dr. Catherine Wolf. Dr. Catherine Wolf of Hidden Technology wears many hats, including office management and freelance writer. But no matter how many hats she wears, her passion for stationery will always be foremost in her heart. I attended the Integrate AV Expo in Melbourne in late August. I came to this…
Read MoreDrones in Drag
Drones are not just busy conducting military strikes, spying on far off countries or, on good days, transporting medicine to isolated populations. They are also firmly establishing themselves in live entertainment. And we’re not talking capturing footage. These days drones are getting in on the act itself. Katie Cullen Montgomerie, Kiwi born and bred, is…
Read MoreClear-Com Freespeak II
ROAD TEST Anthony Skerman Anthony Skerman is a Technical Director at CMS Australasia, a customer-driven, bespoke event production company with offices in Melbourne and Brisbane, and presence in Sydney and Perth. CMS provide servvies in media and content creation, theming, live streaming, and sports pres, in addition to the core technical backbone of AV and…
Read MoreHere today… and tomorrow… and the next day
INSTALLATION by John O’Brien. Shows and live productions are pretty transitory affairs. Huge efforts go into the logistics and budgeting for just one show and then, save for a few faded flyers and fanboy clips on the internet, the next day it’s all but a memory. Permanent installations are just that – permanent. They will…
Read MoreMaximise Your Meeting Room Flexibility with Sennheiser
INSTALLATION Save time and costs with flexible beamforming technology The trend towards beamforming technology is now revolutionising the microphone market. What makes this technology particularly attractive for meetings is that it localises and evaluates sound sources and suppresses interference. For both installation and use, beamforming products perform better than conventional microphones. The benefits range from…
Read MoreAstera is a Match for the Titans
Titan Fitness is an independently-owned fitness studio in Coogee, NSW, which prides itself on being a unique experience with a dedicated team of instructors and experts plus state-of-the-art facilities focussed on offering the highest standards of equipment and inspiration to its members. The fully-equipped 4-floor facility has been open since 2009, and its Spin Studio…
Read MoreDo you understand? Intelligibility
INSTALLATION by Simon Byrne. Obviously an audience needs to be able to understand what is spoken or sung. That is, the performance must be intelligible. Therefore well implemented PA systems combined with acceptable acoustics are crucial for this to be achieved. This becomes a major safety issue for evacuation PA systems in buildings such as…
Read MoreSafer Trucking – Driver Monitoring Proves Itself at ATS
by Julius Grafton Australia’s largest entertainment logistics firm ATS have introduced a fleet-wide driver monitoring system called Guardian Seeing Eye that has already saved one driver within weeks of implementation. The driver-facing camera feeds a control face-and-gaze-tracking algorithm that measures the driver’s head position and eye closure and, when safety parameters are exceeded, audio alarms and…
Read MoreInaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference
NEWS Inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference Announces Second Round of Speakers The inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference (AFIC) will be held across 24-25 October 2019 at Opal Cove Resort in Coffs Harbour, NSW. Founder and organiser, Carlina Ericson, has unveiled AFIC’s program of speakers, who represent some of Australia’s biggest names in festival management, consulting…
Read MoreFCTN Nightclub
INSTALLATION FCTN is a multi-purpose entertainment venue in the heart of Canberra that can host anything from concerts to club nights, exhibitions, theatre, live art, and innovative performances. Housed in an old renovated movie cinema with charismatic industrial décor, FCTN is a two-tiered basement venue that can cater for up to 1000 people. The name…
Read MoreLabour Hire Licenses Snare Productions – AV firms may breach new laws
by Julius Grafton The State of Victoria is the latest to bring in an onerous new license system for labour hire that will affect any firm that rents labour. It is not restricted to crewing agencies but also applies if a line item on an invoice includes labour by the hour. From 30 October 2019,…
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