International News

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian War Memorial (AWM) recently embarked on a major exhibit, recording and reproducing the exploits of Australian pilots in the skies over the Western Front in France and in the Middle East.

BERLIN — For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Riedel Communications delivered a comprehensive audio, video and communications distribution network for the multiple stages and video walls used at the event and the various departments.

LONDON — Outline’s Butterfly VLA was again requested by both the BBC and London’s Roundhouse for the 2009 Electric Proms season, which featured Robbie Williams backed by a 34-piece orchestra plus his own touring band on opening night. Producer Trevor Horn was playing bass and directing the band.

LONDON — FOH engineer Russell Fischer and monitor mixer Andrea “Vito” Carena had no qualms about using Audio-Technica’s 5000 Series wireless system for Taylor Swift’s Fearless tour for frontline and backing vocals.

HELSINKI, Finland — Systems contractor Pertti Krautsuk of Workland specified eight of JBL Professional’s CBT100LA column enclosures as part of the sound system for the Latokartano Sports Hall.

BELFAST — Lisburn-based Zest Audio has recently completed the installation of a Community sound system for the demonstration facilities of Lightstep Technologies at their Belfast headquarters. Lightstep works to simulate life-threatening situations so people have a better chance of surviving if they are unfortunate enough to ever face the real thing.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The 120 year-old Berns Salonger restaurant and entertainment venue has been updated with three separate Alcons Audio sound reinforcement systems. Club 2.35:1 is located in the Berns Salonger basement and features video screens behind black glass. To match the visuals, local audio specialists Electrosound chose a 7.1+1 surround Alcons system.

TRONDHEIM, Norway —The Olavshallen concert hall has been equipped with a Midas XL8 digital mixing console, supplied by Midas’ Norwegian distributor AVAB CAC. The XL8 will be used to host a range of musical events at the 1,250-capacity venue.

NEW DELHI, India — As many as 50,000 students from across Southeast Asia flooded into the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) campus for the seven-day Pulse festival featuring rock bands Sonu Nigam, Euphoria, and Motherjane.

DUBLIN — Allen & Heath’s Irish distributor, Rea Sound, has reported the recent sale of eight iLive-T series digital mixing systems to customers in Ireland, including various combinations of iDR-32 and iDR-48 MixRacks with iLive-T80 and iLive-T112 Control Surfaces.

LONDON — The Star Wars saga is looming large via Star Wars: In Concert, where a live symphony orchestra and chorus performs John Williams’ film score beneath HD projections from the six Star Wars films on a 60-by-30-foot screen. FOH mixer Steve Colby is using Studer’s Vista 5 SR digital live mixing console for the tour.

VIENNA, Austria — Bamboo flute prodigy Pravin Godkhindi has been performing since he was six years old. Now, with his own band, he uses the AKG WMS 450 wireless microphone system and IVM 4 PM system.