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Integrate 2018 – Stand by Stand
Tradeshows Integrate 2018 – Stand by Stand Round-Up of Gear on Show By Jason Allen. Here’s Part II of our Integrate 2018 coverage. Read Part I here. PAVT PAVT brought their EAW Anya line array, their craft beer bar, and regular enormous presence. Hot items on the stand included the ClearOne Converge Huddle; an all-in-one…
Read MoreRoady for Roadies – Fri Sept 21, Onehunga to Auckland
On Friday September 21, 2018, the music industry and associated businesses will walk the 16km Coast to Coast from Onehunga to downtown Auckland to raise money for road crew “roadies” who may have fallen on hard times. This is not a race, it’s a walk. The Roady for Roadies walk has been proposed by music…
Read MoreSuperannuation for Independent Contractors – LPA issues definitive statement
It has come to Live Performance Australia’s attention that there is uncertainty as to whether employers in the Live Entertainment Industry must make superannuation contributions for independent contractors. All employers in the Live Entertainment Industry should be making superannuation contributions on behalf of both their employees as well as people they engage as independent contractors…
Read MoreA Letter Without an Envelope
Listen Here A Letter Without an Envelope by Andy Stewart. The days of releasing a single without a video are over. They were 30 years ago. So why are so many people still scrambling to make a last minute video for their latest music release, or worse, shrugging their shoulders and doing nothing? Video-less single…
Read MoreHow to establish a good relationship with your lighting hire company
How To Establish a good relationship with your lighting hire company By Marcus Pugh. So you’ve just landed your first lighting design and the venue doesn’t have everything (or anything) you need to make your design a reality, what are you going to do? You’re going to need to hire some or all of your…
Read MoreCompliance for Australian Entertainment Products
Features – Compliance Compliance for Australian Entertainment Products By Steve Devine. I thought I could knock this article off in an afternoon. I have been researching for over a month and frankly it’s been doing my head in. I have done my utmost to ensure the information I have provided is correct. Having said…
Read MoreLPA Workplace Health and Safety Briefing – Sydney 23 August
The new “Safety Guidelines for the Live Entertainment and Events Industry” were released earlier this year. LPA will be providing Members and non-Members with a briefing on the new Guidance material in Sydney on 23 August 2018. The meeting will be held as follows: LPA 2018 Workplace Health and Safety Briefing Thursday 23 August 2018 1:30pm – 3:00pm…
Read MoreSafe Data at Live Events
Data Storage Safe Data at Live Events By Simon Byrne. Data storage plays a huge part in live events in this modern world. From digital audio desks to processors, lighting control, recorders, video processing, and display. In some way they all use templates, media, and complex configurations that are stored digitally. This brings enormous power…
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…
Read MoreUse it or Lose it
Regulars Use it or Lose it. By Simon Byrne. If you are a small to medium profitable production company thinking of buying some new gear, this month is a great time to do it. The May Federal Budget extended the simplified depreciation rules allowing the instant write off threshold for assets up to $20,000 to…
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