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Safety Guide Goes Live: AESRG brings industry together
The rational world will standardize on entertainment rigging – with the release of the International Code of Practice for Entertainment Rigging otherwise known as ICOPER. Now Australia has a unified guide to Entertainment Safety with the launch of the Australian Entertainment Safety Resource Guide – AESRG. The Guide is a subscription website containing 21 Chapters…
Read MoreStereo is obsolete. L-Acoustics L-ISA is here
By Julius Grafton. At the L-Acoustics (inventors of V-Dosc) headquarters in France I heard something more wonderful, more startling, and more exciting than anything ever before. It is called L-ISA, and it is a new way to mix, deliver and to hear audio. What they have done is pull down the left and right (and…
Read MoreThe Revolution has arrived: Spatial audio mixing – 3D sound for the stage
The Revolution has arrived: Spatial audio mixing – 3D sound for the stage In 1999 Adelaide Festival Theatre installed a Lares system. It was the first local implantation of an acoustic enhancement system, where 156 loudspeakers were installed to bring concert hall reproduction of an orchestra. Each speaker was fed by an amplifier, and the…
Read MoreSydney’s new 2,000 seat theatre – build underway
Who knew? We sure didn’t, but then again we don’t hang around Rooty Hill – 45 minutes west of the Sydney CBD where the local club (NSW’s largest) is remarkably investing 100 million to build the Western Sydney Performing Arts Centre. With unprecedented scale, design and facilities, in close proximity to Sydney’s new airport and positioned…
Read MoreRumours, Bits & Bytes. Wed 22 November
Well known industry guy, Thomas Kelly joins NAS in Sydney as of next Monday, departing Midwich. Prior that he was at Hills, enjoying some of Ted Pretty’s guidance. The (former) supreme leader of Hills is currently at a listed startup called Covata – which he says ‘listed too early, promised too much, delivered too little’. He…
Read MoreBic Runga Drives JBL VTX A12 on Anniversary Tour
New Zealand’s most awarded individual artist Bic Runga has celebrated the 20th anniversary since the release of her debut album with a New Zealand tour. Regarded as one of the most iconic albums in New Zealand history, her first album Drive was released in August 1997. It achieved platinum status seven times and won the…
Read MoreOpera on the Beach
Features Opera on the Beach The idea of transforming the sands of Coolangatta Beach into the Egyptian shoreline for an alfresco production of Aida looked good on paper. Unfortunately Queensland turned on some rather unseasonable weather which resulted in a lot of sand, wind, more sand plus some rain and more sand. It also resulted…
Read MoreArt From Science: The FFT
Tech Tools Art From Science: The FFT By Simon Byrne. The progress of loudspeaker development has benefited greatly from computers. Once manufacturers had access to enough processing grunt, it meant they could develop their designs dramatically, both acoustically and electronically. For example, the concept of a line array has been around since 1957 when Harry…
Read MoreListen Here – The Bleeding Obvious
REGULARS If you’re at a show and the mix is clearly up a certain creek without a paddle, are you someone who finally says “enough!” and storms the FOH position, or do you suffer in silence? Listen Here – The Bleeding Obvious By Andy Stewart. Last Saturday night I went to a gig straight after…
Read MoreRumours, Bits & Bytes
15th November edition Previously we pondered the prevalence of success that has smiled on some people in the lighting trade. Millionaires like Richard White (Wise Tech is worth 1.6 billion), John Gunton (Dynalight was sold for gazillions) and of course theatre supremo Stephen Found (Bytecraft was split in half and sold twice!) all started in…
Read MoreDrake’s Boy Meets World tour
By Cat Strom. Grammy-Award winning artist Drake toured his record breaking Boy Meets World tour around Australia and New Zealand. As a massive influence in the hip-hop and contemporary music space and the most streamed artist on Spotify and Apple Music, Drake has never not been in the Hot 100 charts since debuting in the…
Read MoreLDI opens in Vegas on Friday
The annual LDI Show promises much when the doors open at the Las Vegas Convention Centre on Friday. Inconveniently scheduled across the weekend (who does this?) the show has traditionally been strong on lighting and supported by some audio and screen firms. A strong contingent of Australians are there, and although this may be slightly…
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