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Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall

London’s Royal Albert Hall has continued its commitment to d&b audiotechnik, upgrading its house sound system with a new cardioid solution based around d&b’s KSL, XSL and CCL elements. This latest system, with its extraordinary directivity control, delivers the highest standard of listening experience

Canadian Stage’s Twelfth Night

Canadian Stage’s Twelfth Night

Dream in High Park by Canadian Stage is one of Canada’s largest and longest-running outdoor professional theatre events, a popular and accessible summertime production based on the mischief and magic of Shakespeare, attracting over 30,000 people each year. In 2026, the company produced Twelfth Night, presented as

Electric Feel Entertainment

Electric Feel Entertainment

The Jade Room Electric Feel Entertainment has opened its new Miami headquarters, a multi-story complex in the heart of Midtown. The facility brings together two world-class music production studios, creative offices, label spaces, dedicated listening environments and artist-focused hospitality across three floors, establishing a fully integrated home

Bell Media

For Canada’s leading media and entertainment company, reliable studio lighting is essential to keeping daily television productions on the air. At Bell Media’s Ottawa broadcast facility, that need has driven a years-long transition from traditional incandescent and fluorescent lighting to a modern LED infrastructure built around Elation

Broadcast AV: Glass-to-Glass

Broadcast AV: Glass-to-Glass

From corporate studios to live events and higher education environments, spaces increasingly rely on workflows that combine both broadcast and pro AV. To help bridge the gap between these converging disciplines, AVIXA is building upon its resources for the community with the new online course “Broadcast AV: Glass-to-Glass.

Bantony Castle Museum

Bantony Castle Museum

Christie® is announced that its 1DLP laser projectors are illuminating a diverse range of digital experiences at Bantony Castle Museum in Shimla, transforming the historic property into an engaging showcase of Shimla’s history, art, and culture. The 145-year-old colonial-era building, located in the mountainous state of

Winelands Productions

Winelands Productions

(Photo courtesy Winelands Productions) Founded in 2024 by Eric van der Watt, Winelands Productions is a dynamic technical production company offering equipment and design services, based in the Winelands region of Cape Town, South Africa. One of Eric's first lighting investments for the new company was 12 Robe

Anderson Theater at Henry Ford Academy

Anderson Theater at Henry Ford Academy

In the heart of Dearborn, Michigan, lies the Henry Ford Academy, a public charter school that blends STEM education with art, design, and hands-on career experiences. Uniquely located within Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, the school offers students an immersive learning environment surrounded by history and progress. The

Gunwharf Quays

Immersive technology is often associated with individual experiences; think headsets, personal screens and digital environments designed for one user at a time. At Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth, Holovis took a different approach. Visitors to the ApolloDomes installation were invited to step together into a fully immersive environment, surrounded by light,

St. Jude’s Catholic Church

St. Jude’s Catholic Church

When St. Jude’s Catholic Church in Southern California set out to modernize its aging audio system, the parish leadership knew the upgrade needed to deliver clarity, consistency and long‑term reliability for its 5,000–6,000 parishioners. To achieve this, they turned to DayTech Consulting, led by Owner

Dream Live Performing Arts Center

Dream Live Performing Arts Center

Just a football’s throw from the Meadowlands Sports Complex stands American Dream, the second-largest indoor shopping mall in the United States. Beyond its roster of 450 stores and more than 65 dining and drinking locations, the sprawling facility also offers the country’s largest indoor waterpark, North America’

Queen Machine

Queen Machine – one of Europe’s best Queen tribute bands – definitely live up to their claim both in terms of performance and production! Formed in Denmark in 2009, and known for their flawless, high-energy replications of Queen's legendary music, Queen Machine is hugely popular, and tours extensively

NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball Opener

NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball Opener

Lighting designer Nick Whitehouse used Robe SVOPATT multisource LED luminaires for NBC Sports’ 2026 Sunday Night Baseball show open, starring Zac Brown Band. The inventive lighting created the scale and energy of an epic stadium performance. Filmed at American Family Field, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, the show open features

Astera Connects Event Lighting

Astera Connects Event Lighting

Astera launches its new Connect Series, extending the performance and creative possibilities of its lighting into permanent and long-term installations – and opening up new opportunities for Astera users and partners. The first product in the series is QuikBeam Connect, enabled by the TracklightAdapter. The adapter can be fitted to

Guildhall School’s As You Like It

Guildhall School’s As You Like It

Follow-Me performer tracking was utilised at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (GSMD) this year, supporting the lighting design for a student production of As You Like It. Produced entirely by a student production team, the show saw Lighting Designer Catja Hamilton working alongside third-year Theatre Technology

Willowdale Seventh Day Adventist Church

Willowdale Seventh Day Adventist Church

Although Willowdale Seventh Day Adventist Church has updated its lighting infrastructure over the years, it was only recently that the North York, Ontario-based church decided to undertake a comprehensive overhaul. Headed by sparkAV, the project required replacing Willowdale’s house lights with Chroma-Q Inspire XT and 2Inspire fixtures,

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

This fall, Behind the Scenes is bringing practical mental health and bystander intervention skills to entertainment professionals with a series of training opportunities. Supporting the people around us doesn't have to wait for a crisis. These trainings give entertainment professionals practical skills they can use every day — to

Theater de Kampanje

Theater de Kampanje

Theater de Kampanje in the northern Netherlands city of Den Helder is a vibrant environment running a diverse and interesting programme of dramas, musicals, comedy, music concerts, and touring shows across its three performance venues. Also hosting business and corporate events, the annual schedule presents around 500 shows / events a

The Glasgow School of Art

The Glasgow School of Art

The GSA's new 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos studio, featuring 11 Genelec 8030 monitors and a 7060 subwoofer. As a recognized center of excellence for the study of Sound for the Moving Image, The Glasgow School of Art’s (GSA) School of Information and Technology (SIT) has an

Pope Leo XIV's Monaco Visit

Pope Leo XIV's Monaco Visit

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Monaco for an apostolic visit marking a historic moment for the Principality on 28 March 2026, marking the first papal apostolic visit in the contemporary era. Nearly five centuries have passed since a reigning Pope had set foot in Monaco. And as a sovereign state

A1 Audio

A1 Audio’s Chris McAleese with his preferred mixing ecosystem of a DiGiCo Quantum225 console paired with a DMI-KLANG card and Fourier Audio transform.engine running natively on the console’s worksurface. If it’s your wedding, it’s as important as a Paul McCartney concert. That’s pretty

Aalborg Musikkens Hus

Aalborg Musikkens Hus

Aalborg Musikkens Hus (House of Music) is a gleaming, futuristic architectural masterpiece, standing prominently on the water in Limfjord in a new cultural district of Aalborg, Denmark’s bustling fourth-largest city and major port. Opened in March 2014, the building offers a 1300-capacity main concert hall, a 600-

Liberty Lights

French artist and music producer Michael Canitrot collaborated with show director Romain Pissenem from High Scream and became the first DJ ever to perform at the Statue of Liberty in Upper New York Bay with “Liberty Lights” This was another unique performance inspired by Michael’s “Monumental” touring concept as

Fellowship Church

Fellowship Church

Kevin Bonnot (lower right) mixing Fellowship Grapevine’s house sound on one of the church’s two new DiGiCo Quantum338 consoles From its founding in 1990 by Pastor Ed Young, Grapevine, Texas’ Fellowship Church has unswervingly focused on helping people “discover real answers for real life.” After more than three

Humber Polytechnic - Where Immersive Audio Becomes Music

Humber Polytechnic - Where Immersive Audio Becomes Music

At Humber Polytechnic, musicians receive and outstanding education – including working in a state-of-the-art studio and exceptional immersive audio facilities. Producer, engineer, composer and educator Justin Gray explains the meaning of immersive audio for music and the Humber approach to teaching music and audio. Since the opening of