Green Hippo has further strengthened its international sales network with two new distribution appointments in Northern Europe, Frequency OÜ and Amepa Oy. In Estonia, Green Hippo has appointed Frequency OÜ, a live event specialist offering expertise in video engineering and equipment for live concerts, conferences, expos and more, founded in 2017 by Matt Villis, a video professional with over 15 years’ experience in the event production industry. “Hippotizer Media Servers provide a great range of products for all aspects of the market,” said Villis. “With events and installations beginning to move again, clients are mindful of their spending. But with Green Hippo’s diverse range, we’re…
Author: James Robertson
The Grand Plaza Mövenpick Media City is one of Dubai’s premium hotels and, thanks to a bespoke Yamaha audio installation, guests who use several of its key facilities enjoy a high quality, flexible audio experience. Located next to Dubai’s Media and Internet City hub, the Grand Plaza Mövenpick Media City hotel features 235 rooms and suites, five restaurants/bars, a 1150m2 state of the art convention centre (including 800m2 Grand Ballroom), meeting rooms, rooftop lounge, gym, spa and swimming pool. Systems integrator Telematics was asked to install audio systems in the Grand Ballroom, spa/gym and five meeting rooms, delivering quality audio…
Genelec has appointed Marcel Schechter as Senior Customer Experience Specialist, with special focus on the domestic German market. Based near Stuttgart, Schechter forms part of Genelec’s international marketing and sales team and will be working in close collaboration with Business Development Manager Eric Horstmann and local German distributor Audio Pro, and will be concentrating on strengthening activities in marketing, education and customer support. Having graduated in Audiovisual Media, Schechter then worked as a studio engineer and lecturer, spending 7 years as engineer at Bauer Studios in Ludwigsburg before joining Audio Pro in 2014 as Genelec product specialist. In this role…
For Victory Church, entering the live-stream world was something that they aimed to achieve within the next few years, but when the pandemic struck, it was a shift that they needed to make within a few weeks. With a limited budget and requirements for wireless capabilities, Pliant Technologies’ MicroCom XR digital wireless intercom system was the right solution for Victory Church. With MicroCom XR, production staff and volunteers can deploy a reliable solution for clear communication, helping productions—both in-person and live-streamed—go on without a glitch. “The Pliant system was the first intercom to be deployed at Victory Church,” says Krystle…
Christie 1DLP laser projectors are delivering highly immersive visuals in a new digital experience pavilion at the new Beijing Daxing International Airport, the world’s largest single-building airport terminal. Featured works by van Gogh and Monet are projected on the walls in the main gallery using Christie DWU850-GS laser projectors (Photos courtesy of Wincomn Technology) Located on the second level of the sprawling terminal building nicknamed “the Starfish” due to its unique star-shaped design, the “Journey of Light and Shadow” digital experience pavilion provides visitors with an immersive and interactive space to appreciate and experience art through the use of cutting-edge…
Working as the Creative Directors and Producers of the 2021 Parrtjima Festival, AGB Events, produced and delivered a travelling installation on The Ghan for NT Tourism. Friday, 9 April 2021 marked the official opening night, however the celebrations actually began earlier in the week, with the iconic locomotive The Ghan – a 900-metre luxury train that travels the 2,797km (1846 miles) stretch between Darwin and Adelaide. Three of the train’s carriages were wrapped in Aboriginal artist Chantelle Mulladad’s work Crossroads. Crossroads was used in the external and internal dressing of The Ghan carriages, and features in the Merging Kultcha installation…
Astera has launched AX2 PixelBar – a linear wash lighting fixture with wireless control, onboard battery, individually addressable LEDs, colour rendering, digital colour calibration and a 21° beam. AX2 PixelBar was developed to meet demand for wall, backdrop or surface washing luminaires offering the same practicality and quality lighting options as pre-existing Astera products and is compatible with the AX and Titan ranges. AX2 features a high CRI and TCLI and can produce a refined range of colour temperatures from 1,750 to 20,000K. The digital calibration allows the fixture to reproduce any colour or gel filter. The quick connect system…
Located at the heart of Gothenburg, Sweden, the Gothia Towers four-star hotel boasts 1,200 beautifully decorated rooms, its own art gallery, and an entertainment complex (The Theatre) that serves as both a restaurant and theatre in one. With an incredible reputation as a business and leisure venue – and its own dedicated conference floor – it was time for a digital upgrade to match the renowned reputation of the hotel. The hotel’s management approached Swedish integrator, Adapt, to create an interactive conference room, which would be named ‘The Studio’. “Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre Gothia Towers wanted to create a…
Integrated Systems Events’ Managing Director, Mike Blackman, has returned to Barcelona this week (13-16 April) as the city prepares to welcome ISE Live & Online. Mike Blackman was taking part in the Barcelona reACT Conference, a four-day working event to relaunch the city’s economy after a year of pandemic. Speaking at the conference and looking forward to June, Blackman said: “We recognise that the world needs events to get back to business and we are thankful for the support we have had from the national, regional and City authorities, the team at the Fira and of course to the pro…
Adam Hall Group announces the release of the new LD Systems IPA Series. The DSP-based 4-channel IPA 412 T (120 W) and IPA 424 T (240 W) installation power amplifiers offer AV system integrators a high degree of performance and flexibility in daily planning and installation operations and are suitable for medium to large installations in hotels, conference centers, educational institutions, houses of worship, and more. The built-in card slots allow Class D power amplifiers to be optionally equipped with Ethernet, or Ethernet + Dante expansion cards, thereby making the IPA Series a central signal component operating in the background…
