Chameleon Welcome the New Year

ABC ushered in 2019 with a star-studded concert on the Boardwalk of the Sydney Opera House. Australians around the country and people around the world tuned into the ABC to celebrate the biggest night of the year, New Year’s Eve. 3.6 million viewers partied the night away, tuning in to The Night is Yours concert,…

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Clair Brothers Helps Sheldon College Solve Deep Reverb Issue in Multi-purpose Hall/Gymnasium

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – DECEMBER 2018: Sheldon College is an Independent, Co-educational, Non-denominational College located in Brisbane’s Bayside, in Australia. Committed to its philosophy of Love, Laughter and Learning, Sheldon College educates children from ages fifteen months to twelve years. Established in 1997 with a campus covering fifty-six acres of semi-rural land, the College is committed…

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Risky Business

Risky Business by Simon Byrne. The live production industry carries significant risk. Large amounts of equipment, temporary engineering, big power in use, time pressures and audiences combine to make an environment primed for an incident. Whether an injury, an event cancellation, equipment damage or theft, they all represent risk. The riskiest of events are the outdoor…

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ACETA Solves the Compliance Issue & $100K Other Reasons to Join

COMPLIANCE ACETA Solves the Compliance Issue & $100K Other Reasons to Join by Jason Allen. If you’ve been keeping up with the issue of electrical and product compliance for Australian technology importers [Pts 1, 2, 3], you’ll know that the most complimentary way to describe it is ‘complicated’. Our peak body, ACETA, have found a…

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Adelaide Convention Centre Selects Riedel Communications MediorNet and Artist

NEWS Adelaide Convention Centre Selects Riedel Communications MediorNet and Artist The Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC) has deployed an expansive signal transport and communications backbone powered by Riedel’s MediorNet real-time media network and Artist digital matrix intercom system. MediorNet provides integrated, decentralised, and fully redundant signal distribution and processing throughout the Centre’s three buildings, with an…

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Road Skills: Sam Smith

ROADSKILLS Sam Smith by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: David Youdell / James Barber. It’s not often that the set design for a concert almost steals the show but Sam Smith’s The Thrill Of It All was impressively creative.   A long, thin triangular stage thrust its way into the audience allowing intimacy with the artist…

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Robe Shines With Hobart-based Alive Technologies Group

For a company specialising in events, a festival that takes over an entire city can be both the best of times and the worst of times. Tasmania’s Dark Mofo winter festival is all of that for the Hobart-based Alive Technologies Group, but it’s a challenge the team delights in rising to! Dark Mofo, created and…

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Caloundra Music Festival

THE GREAT OUTDOORS Caloundra Music Festival by Cat Strom. Every spring, the township of Caloundra celebrates the popular Caloundra Music Festival, a non-profit family-friendly event that includes music performances, cultural programs, environmental awareness, and community events. Held over four days at King’s Beach, the festival started in 2007 and has since become quite refined. Not…

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PL+S 2019: The ‘Vintage Concert Audio Show’

Retro-sound and analogue warmth: at the coming Prolight + Sound and Musikmesse (Frankfurt from 2 to 5 April 2019), visitors will have the opportunity to see and hear milestones of four decades of concert PA systems at the first ever ‘Vintage Concert Audio Show’. Over 200 exhibits on a special-show area in Forum.0 will present…

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Pilot intake for NZ Cert in Entertainment and Event Technology L4 announced

News Pilot intake for NZ Cert in Entertainment and Event Technology L4 announced Entertainment Technology New Zealand and Skills Active have announced the pilot-launch of the New Zealand Certificate in Entertainment and Event Technology (Level 4) and are offering a fee waiver for 10 candidates who may be open to becoming assessors in the near…

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RCF Group Announces The Acquisition Of DPA Microphones

RCF Group, one of the fastest growing organizations in the Pro Audio market, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of DPA Microphones A/S (“DPA”) from The Riverside Company. DPA, based in Allerod, Denmark, is the #1 premium brand in the high-end professional audio microphone market for the live, broadcast, theatre…

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