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  Knight of Illumination Awards 2015 Announces New Category
The 2015 Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) has announced that it has added a brand new award in the Concert Touring and Events category.
The KOI Awards, which celebrates the creative talents of international lighting and ...
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Music Festival Boom Powers Growth in Live Sound Gear
As music festival season swings into summer, more bands are investing in easier-to-travel professional-grade gear to ensure top-notch live shows on any stage. Pollstar's 2015 Global Festival Calendar lists more than 1,500 events in ...
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Analog Way Announces the Appointment of Two New Rep Firms
Analog Way, a designer and manufacturer of presentation switchers and image converters, announces the appointment of two new representative firms for the southeast US. Effective May 1, Mainline Marketing will be Analog Way's ...
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Audio-Technica Expands Online Video Series Exploring Mic Techniques in Real-World Applications
Audio-Technica, a designer of transducer technology for over 50 years, has posted the latest videos in its series exploring different aspects of mic technique, mic placement, and more. Utilizing some of Audio-Technica's most popular ...
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Sensaphonics Announces Better Hearing Month Facebook Giveaway
Sensaphonics, the technology provider in hearing loss prevention for the music industry, has announced a Facebook giveaway. In celebration of May as Better Hearing Month, the company will award one winner with a pair of classic 2X-S ...
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Compact Qu Manages 5SOS Promo Tour in America
Fresh off a stadium tour supporting One Direction, Australian punk pop band, 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS), embarked on a promo tour of the USA with Allen & Heath's Qu-16 digital rackmount mixer managing the live acoustic performances.< ...
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Visions Lighting Uses Nexus to Reflect the Many Moods of Invasion Del Corrido
Latin music is as richly diverse, complex, and enthralling as the cultures that gave it to the world. From Latin pop to Tejano and mariachi, this broad musical genre covers a range of emotions; so too do the reggae and created reggaeton ...
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Renewed Vision Graces Passion 2015
With spectacular staging, big-screen displays, theatrical lighting, all-encompassing sound, and close to 20,000 spectators at every event, this year's Passion Conference -- Passion 2015 -- looked more like a major rock concert than a ...
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Jon Burton Mixes The Prodigy Through Martin Audio MLA
Martin Audio's German rental company partners, Complete Audio Berlin, recently fielded their MLA system for The Prodigy -- the premier electronic music group known for their heavy breakbeats and chest-thumping basslines. Mixing at ...
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Talking It Up with ETC Ion
"Let's start talking!" shouts Julie Chen, host of the CBS show The Talk, as her bubbly cohosts charge onto the set. The live studio audience is on its feet cheering -- it feels more like a football game than a one-hour chat ...
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The Kimmel Center Employs d&b V-Series for Movies, Music, and More
The Perelman theatre in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing arts is primarily a recital room but also serves as the venue's cinema. David Conner is the Center's audio department head: "We have just completed a ...
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Theatre in Review: Cool Hand Luke (Godlight Theatre Company/59E59)
The talented people at Godlight Theatre Company don't merely adapt novels to the stage; they take a book, boil it down to its essence, and reimagine it in strikingly theatrical terms. There's nothing fussy or overly literary about this ...
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Production Resource Group Announces Plans to Acquire XL Video
Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG) today announced that it has agreed to acquire the XL Video Group, one of the largest providers of premier multi-market video services. PRG chairman and CEO Jeremiah J. Harris and ...
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USITT 2015 Session Recordings Now Available
Audio recordings of up to 70 theatrical design and technology sessions from USITT 2015 in Cincinnati are now available online, as are videos of top sessions including the keynote address by Terrence Spivey. ...
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SurgeX Hosts Energy Intelligence Training During InfoComm 2015
At InfoComm 2015, ESP/SurgeX, a provider of surge elimination and energy intelligence, will host "Electrical Protection of Digital Signage, AV & IT Equipment (Session MT26)," a training course for consultants, integrators, ...
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Quiet Planet Joins the Pro Sound Effects Library
Gordon Hempton, the Emmy-winning nature recordist, announces a partnership with Pro Sound Effects, the next level sound effects library, to include his entire Quiet Planet nature recordings catalog in the Pro Sound ...
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Pro Systems Hits Homerun for San Diego Padres with Chauvet Professional Rogues
Power was the name of the game as the San Diego Padres pounded the World Series-champion San Francisco Giants 10-2 on April 11 during their 2015 Home Opening Series. But the 20 hits off the bats of Padres sluggers weren't the only ...
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Bose Professional Loudspeakers Chosen for the New The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center
The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center recently opened in Norfolk, Virginia, bringing the number of The Salvation Army facilities put in place by the late Joan Kroc, widow of legendary McDonald's entrepreneur Ray Kroc, ...
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Epic New Musical Doctor Zhivago Opens on Broadway with grandMA Lighting Control
An epic romance set in the last days of Czarist Russia, Doctor Zhivago has opened at The Broadway Theatre with lighting design by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley. Conventional and moving lights, wind, fog, snow, and fire ...
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Theatre in Review: ToasT (The Public Theater)
Playwright Lemon Andersen's poetic drama is set in the days leading up to the Attica prison riots in 1971, days that he fills with lively, if sometimes opaque, conversation. Andersen is a spoken word artist -- the Public presented ...
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