This year's World Youth Day took place over six days in Lisbon, attracting more than 1.5 million attendees. The largest event ever to be hosted in the Portuguese capital took place in the 100-hectare riverside Parque Tejo, with a massive stage and series of screens and audio systems set up…
Free Your Mind: The Matrix was an immersive, dance-based reimagining of the cult 90s movie franchise, created as the opening event for Manchester’s impressive new cultural space within Factory International. The brainchild of director Danny Boyle – who teamed up with choreographer Kenrick “H20” Sandy, composer Michael “Mikey J” Asante…
The Norfolk village of Thursford, known for its steam engines, musical organs and fairground rides, as well as its spectacular theatrical shows, will be delivering a new, immersive sound experience with its Thursford Christmas Spectacular this year, thanks to a state-of-the-art d&b Soundscape from audio technology and solutions company, d&b audiotechnik.…
Situated in the Beaches neighbourhood in the east end of Toronto, History is a state-of-the-art 2500-capacity venue. Run by global entertainment giant, Live Nation, its packed programme of events sees a wide variety of artists from all genres pass through the venue, with bills often featuring multiple acts. As is…
Background music (BGM) in restaurants, bars, shops and hotels has always been a contentious and divisive issue. Some people may feel while shopping or trying to enjoy a meal they are being bombarded by songs, often played at overly loud and intrusive levels; but others might feel uncomfortable if a…
A shared workplace in Connecticut has turned to AtlasIED to address the problem of ensuring their business conversations remain confidential. The 740sq metre Office Evolution franchise in Westport is home to 36 private offices, two conference rooms, a co-working lounge and phone booths. Since the pandemic it has becoming increasingly popular…
EPOS has announced an extension and expansion of its partnership with the Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 team as global audio partner. The renewal of the existing sponsorship agreement extends the collaboration, which began in 2021, continuing to offer support with audio and communications to the team’s commercial operations. Building…
Manchester-based sound design specialists and audiologists tube uk are supplying audio systems to eight popular Christmas trails throughout the UK and one in Germany this season – totalling 168 individual sound systems and 1,681 loudspeakers! Working closely with the production team from Culture Creative, a worldwide leader in creating trail…
L-Acoustics hosted a 'destruction event' in Tampa to mark the disposal of 136 counterfeit speakers. The speakers were seized following a judgment by the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The court ordered rental company Se7ven Sounds Music to pay $5 million in damages to L-Acoustics…
U2 have had to adjust their style of playing to introduce more distortion into the extraordinary sound system at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Sphere Immersive Sound provides individualised sound to each of 17,600 seats at the venue, drawing on a sound system with 1,600 permanently installed and 300 mobile…
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