SINGAPORE – JULY 2022 – This summer, the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) returned to the Southeast Asian city island for the first time in two years. Titled The Anatomy of Performance – Ritual, the event featured over 70 performances staged at seven unique sites and venues, all designed by creative designers in various performance art disciplines. Opening the festival with a performance in a defunct power station, SIFA presented the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound provided by J5 Productions.
BRAZIL – JULY 2022 – Jasmin Studio, owned and operated by Brazil-based jazz pianist and composer Ricardo Bacelar, has completed its first Dolby Atmos project — a full-length album entitled Congênito, which will be released in August on his label Jasmin Music. Meantime, the album’s first single, “O último por do sol”, saw its international release on Friday and is now available on all major music platforms around the world.
POLAND – JULY 2022 – Erected in the 19th century at the request of Ksawery Konopacki, the Konopacki Palace is located on Strzelecka Street in the heart of Warsaw’s bohemian Praga district, known as Nowa Praga (New Praga). After major reconstruction works on this Neo-Renaissance style building, the Konopacki Palace finally re-opened its doors as the second home of Praga Cultural Centre in September last year. It offers its auditorium, gallery, and outdoor terrace for various functions, including music concerts, art, and an open-air cinema.
FRANCE – JULY 2022 – Opened in spring 2021, the Scène de Bayssan sits near Béziers in southwest France, which has a rich history going back 5,000 years over successive Greek, Roman, and Gallic societies. With an architecturally conducive space for big-top festivals, the Scène de Bayssan recently hosted a circus in its three spaces: An open-air Claude Nougaro amphitheater, which accommodates 965 people seated or 1462 standing, the Michel Galabru theatre, which holds 432-seated and 1350 standing, and a small structure to house reception facilities.
SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 2022 – New Beginnings Christian Fellowship Church (NBCFC) in Boksburg, Johannesburg, started out with a congregation of just 30 members in 2004. Today, it hosts over 1,000 in its auditorium for Sunday services, and has upgraded its audio system to become one of the first in South Africa to enjoy an installation comprising a KLANG:vokal immersive in-ear mixing processor, along with seven KLANG:kontroller personal monitor mixers, and two DiGiCo SD9 mixing consoles.
POLAND – JULY 2022 – Poland’s recently-constructed Cavatina Hall has been designed with a focus on vision over budget and the ambition of becoming a landmark centre on Europe’s cultural map. The six-storey, multi-functional venue provides commercial and entertainment facilities with over 9000 sq. m of A class office space, a chamber music hall, cutting edge recording studio, and the highlight of the construction, a 1000-capacity concert hall. The hall is complete with state-of-the-art AV technology, integrated into a sophisticated and extensive digital and analogue audio network, streamlined and managed by Quantum 338 digital consoles from DiGiCo’s elite range.
PORTUGAL – JULY 2022 – Experts in providing pro audio solutions to Southern Europe, RMS Proaudio have been working with DiGiCo as its Spanish distributor for almost two decades and have established DiGiCo as the go to mixing solution for the Spanish market.
“RMS Proaudio have been consistently successful with the DiGiCo brand across Spain, so when the time came to appoint a new distributor for Portugal, they were an obvious choice,” says DiGiCo Sales Application Specialist, Fernando Delgardo.
UK – JULY 2022 – DiGiCo is delighted to announce the release of its latest Version 3.0 software update, dramatically increasing the processing power of its small footprint, cost-effective S-Series consoles. Version 3.0 offers an optional software expansion that significantly increases the channel count from 48 to 60 flexi channels and 24 flexi busses, turning S-Series consoles into an S21+ or an S31+.
SPAIN – JULY 2022 – After postponing many of its scheduled 2020 dates due to the pandemic, this year Spanish artist Pablo López’s Unikornio tour finally resumed and is enjoying great successes. Spanish full-service company, Ilusovi, is in charge of supplying sound and lighting equipment for the tour, which is one of the first in Spain to deploy a DiGiCo Quantum338 console.
UK – JULY 2022 – Brompton Technology, a global market leader in processing solutions for LED video walls used in live events and virtual production for film and television, has secured a growth capital investment from specialist private client alternative investments business, Connection Capital.
UK – JULY 2022 – #WeMakeEvents invites keen cyclists from across the events and entertainment industry to sign up for BikeFest 2022, which will take place on Saturday 3 September. Together, the BikeFest team will raise funds for Backup – the technical entertainment charity, which helps industry peers during times of ill health and financial hardship, and other #WME supported charities. Starting at SFL’s headquarters in Reading to a destination in London, BikeFest will also kick off the PLASA Show as it returns to Olympia London from 4-6 September.
AUSTRALIA – JULY 2022 – The Showroom at Twin Towns Resorts is a legendary venue in the town of Tweed Heads, New South Wales; aptly named because the venue lies on the border with Queensland’s Gold Coast suburb of Coolangatta, where revelers can celebrate the turn of the New Year twice in one night, simply by crossing the street to a new time zone. For decades, the 1,000-capacity Showroom’s ideal location has made it a mainstay in the region’s live scene for vacationers from around Australia who come to enjoy the climate and the nightlife. The club’s entertainment program in a typical week may include a stand-up comic, an annual general meeting, a tribute band, or a heavy metal show.
UK – JULY 2022 – Following in the footsteps of other industries that have taken steps to raise awareness of the importance of Mental Health, Backup has created an industry specific Mental Health First Aider logo to help signpost people in need of support on a production, raise awareness and promote discussion around the subject of mental health in our industry.
GERMANY – JULY 2022 – When Doering creative agency contacted LEDcave about their ambitious plans to create unique visuals for German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer Clueso’s new music video Mond (Moon) where he sings together with German-Turkish musician Elif, LEDcave had a stellar solution in mind.
UK – JULY 2022 – The most anticipated weekend of the year, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations took place at the beginning of June in London with a roster of remarkable events, the centrepiece of which was the star-studded Jubilee Concert. Staged by BBC Studios for a live audience of 22,000, and broadcast to over 13 million viewers, DiGiCo consoles played a central role in an intricate audio design by Ben Milton Associates, that managed three discrete stages and complex time alignment
SHANGHAI – JUNE 2022 – With over ten years of experience in advertising, photography, film and television production, the Shanghai MuShang Advertising Co., Ltd. is familiar with the use of cutting-edge technologies to enhance customer experiences. Its latest brainchild, (MuShang XR stage (木上製造), uses cutting-edge technology including Brompton Technology LED processing, ROE Visual screens, Mark Roberts Motion Control cinebots, Unreal Engine and disguise media server hardware, to deliver visual creativity and high-quality productions.
