Even for the city of Hong Kong the statistics are fairly breath taking; The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) offers some sixty six thousand square metres of exhibition space, plus two theatres and a further five... 
A live performance venue, but not as we know it, Nicofarre takes its audience into a quasi reality where the division between real life and what we see on the screen is blurred. The venue itself situated in Tokyo is a wall to...
Dolby Laboratories has its headquarters in San Francisco spread between three buildings sat each side of Central Freeway 101 south east of downtown. While the headquarters at 100 Potrero is an anonymous brick building typical of...
With regard to neighbours Adelaide is five hundred and sixty five miles from the next major city Melbourne. Outside Australia it’s over eight thousand miles to LA, even NZ is four hours away by aeroplane. Yet here in Adelaide,...
A school, a theater and an industrial unit; a congregation of the unlikely you might say, yet this enigmatic association has a single community at its heart, and a very potent one at that. Elevation Church is new, robust, and...
The brotherhood of bonding that is your typical heavy metal festival revolves largely around the nihilistic pursuit of music plugged directly into the emotional cortex of the listener. These days the mark of a successful metal...
From the beach to a bunker, the journey of Mr Naji Gebran is one of the more unusual tales to emerge from Beirut and the world of clubbing. “I am a musician firstly, and was also a DJ. Back during the war I used to make...
“This is an amazing show, a mix of electronic technical instruments, and old fashioned acoustic ones. Some have only been created in the last twelve months. The acoustic instruments are very quiet, and we are playing in the round...
Replacing old systems and improving capability through employment of new technology is all very well, but when the venue in question is a victim of its own success other considerations take precedence. “I’ve been doing this job...
The d&b audiotechnik benchmark E-Series comprises some of the smallest loudspeakers within the Black range of products. They are highly compact and unobtrusive in their design, making them visually discreet yet audibly impressive...
Many of Hong Kong’s residential communities are served by Civic Centres, which integrate many different services for the local population. Located in New Kowloon, Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre is twenty years old and is the oldest of...
There are fast cars and then there are Ferraris. It’s not just about how fast they go, it’s about how superbly well they do it and in a word: class. In the world of music we might cite Lady Gaga for the same reasons; her style...
Infusing the excitement and atmosphere of a big rock show into a largely speech based national meeting can be a daunting prospect, “during the awards segments of the show the dBC weighted reading reached 106-108 dB SPL, said...
Harrah’s currently boasts seventeen casino complexes across the United States, from New Orleans to Philadelphia, from Atlantic City to San Diego. In North Carolina it is Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel that invites you to...
Push the point hard enough and consolidation is inevitable; that’s the premise presented to Simon Foster as he prepared to take the revitalized Pixies around north America once more. “We had already confirmed the LED video and...
The venerable Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) is home to six performance venues. Of the six, The New Athenaeum theatre, true to the Academy motto ‘nil sine labore’ (nothing without work) has just come to the end...
“It’s what makes it work that matters,” comments John Tinline of Encore, “you’ve got to know the parameters and what the priorities are.” Such statements would be meat and grist to most members of the pro audio community, but...
In amongst the finer things in life, those that are hardest to value are often the most sought after. For the world of the classical concert hall an exceptional acoustic can prove almost as important as the orchestra and...
Since the industrial growth of urban sprawl first began in the middle of the nineteenth century, the civic park has been the recognised as a vital part of city dwelling; a place to rest, recuperate and indulge in some much...
Within the triangle formed by Leicester, Peterborough and Northampton, in the East Midlands region of England, there sits a town with an unlikely demographic, shaped by its industrial past. During the 1930s, Corby attracted so...
Whether you’re making a mud pie or cooking up a fusion generator, the right ingredients are what matters; for Glastonbury revellers both metaphors apply, and as we all know, nobody comes to hear the lights so sound is that vital...
The foyer and bar area immediately adjacent to the main concert hall at Brighton Dome situated on the south coast of England has many virtues, not least a light airy atmosphere that makes it rather conducive to the occasional...
A splendid mix of technologies with an overwhelming presence of LED, Hanoi’s NewSquare club located in the confines of the five star Hanoi Daewoo Hotel is proving to be one of the hottest destinations in the city. “This project...
Hyperbole surrounds news of every new club opening like confetti, yet uniquely for the Trilogy Club in Mumbai even the Oxford Dictionary of Superlatives has proved inadequate. “To isolate the sound of the club from the VIP...
Together with Arup’s Senior Theatre Consultant, Philip Heselton (Project Manger), Wise has recently completed the technical design and installation of Dublin’s newest addition to the Dockland Project: the asymmetrically urbanite...
The d&b audiotechnik office in Barcelona is the centre for the Spanish distribution of their sound reinforcement systems, and which oversees the carefully chosen Partner network throughout the country. This move to a new location...
“Creative, destructive, but ultimately happy” is a typical adult take on the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, what intrigues and amuses the child, evokes deeper feelings in the parent. But there’s nothing typical about the...
It is a fact that the oceans know no boundaries; so it is that famous international mariners, even fictional ones such as Captain Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones from the mythical Black Pearl, do eventually visit every possibility....
As eighties theatre venues go, Salle Albert Rousseau has weathered the ravages of time better than most. It has been well cared for by the citizens of Quebec city, Quebec, Canada and despite self-imposed changes from being...
Considering it was Azerbaijan who won, there was also an enormous groundswell of praise throughout Europe for what Germany achieved in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) finals in Dusseldorf. “Bearing in mind this was...
Nick Warren is one of those methodical sound engineers; he looks at the task, notes all the details, and then maps out how he will assemble the sound. For the Roxy Music tour he was presented with some old markers, “there’s a...
A three hundred and eighty million Euro pint of Guinness on the edge of the River Liffey? Dublin’s dazzling new Convention Centre (CCD) opened on 7th September 2010. The iconic glass atrium, locally referred to as an oversized...
“Sometimes I don’t think people realise just how big Spain is. At over half a million square kilometres it is more than twice the size of the UK, yet with forty-six million inhabitants it’s just three quarters the population....
A nation of one hundred and ninety-seven million people spread across almost six thousand inhabited islands makes Indonesia one of the most challenging territories for any business. For Sebastian Song who heads up d&b...
Unexpected to say the least, yet it’s true. On the streets of Guangzhou, 339 Huan Shi Dong Road, the ground floor of the Crown Plaza Hotel to be correct, sits the most popular nightclub in the entire city. Despite the location,...
Some might call it careless to let your prime venue burn down after some twenty odd years, but for the Empire Theatre, Australia, 1933 was just the start of what’s become a glorious, if protracted rebirth. “Within nine months the...
The purpose built resort of Sun City, lying a couple of hours north west of Johannesburg, is unashamedly dedicated to pleasure and entertainment on a luxury scale. Only the best will do. So the combination of a d&b audiotechnik...
Living up to its name, Paradize is the most opulent of venues; a banqueting complex with three separate dining areas all targeted directly at big, event based dining; an increasingly popular pastime for the bright young things of...
Drive south on I-35 from Minneapolis and, before crossing the state line between Minnesota and Iowa, you will discover the small town of Owatonna. Home of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church boasting a congregation of about eight...
“This says everything you need to know about building a strong network on the back of fantastic products,” commented David Rosello who heads up the d&b audiotechnik Spanish office. Speaking after receiving a special award for...
Borgerforeningen is one of those awkward compound nouns beloved of the Skandic/Germanic north European languages. A literal translation from the Danish approximates to Civil Association, but inevitably it’s much more than that....
It’s a pleasure to find a contemporary hard rock band unafraid to include a harmonica to drive the vocals; and drive they do. Volbeat’s Front of House engineer Mads Mikkelsen is contending with a band whose music embraces three...
To outgrow the Excel Centre in just four short years takes some expansion, but then of all the contemporary Christian movements Hillsong knows all about harnessing momentum. So it was that the O2 Arena was for three days host to...
A short distance west of the great city of Alexandria lies the warm coastal region of El Alamein. Now more famous as the most popular summer vacation destination for the majority of Egyptians, El Alamein is these days host to a...
For those who discovered that X really did mark the spot for d&b audiotechnik at this year's Integrated Systems Europe exhibition there was certainly not only a large selection of new products to behold but also a couple of...
The appetite for cultural events is, it seems, no barrier for the citizens of An Dong in Southern Korea. Not a destination name that trips off the lips of international travellers, it is nevertheless one of the main centres for...
For the last eleven years the mountain town of Mayrhofen in the Austrian Alps has been host to a week-long festival; extreme sports on its slopes during the day; and multi-venue musical extravaganzas when the sun goes down. Of...
Ryan Knutson, co-founder of Brown Note Productions, Inc. is in the rather enviable position of being able to claim the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre as his local venue. Stir into the mix a six year tenure as FOH engineer for the...
With the ever increasing demand for a genuine live music experience the club and dance market has been looking at ways to integrate this element into its client offerings for some time now. A good model that confronts this issue...
