The Kitakami Cultural Exchange Centre, affectionately known as Sakura Hall, is a community hub in the Iwate Prefecture of Japan. Since opening in 2003, its small, medium, and large-sized halls have welcomed performances by national groups and local independent artists. The centre also features rooms for arts and craft workshops, rehearsal rooms for ballet and dance, and a music room for musicians to practice after office hours. Sakura Hall’s Tatsuya Sato noted that the original sound system was no longer holding up to the Great Hall’s current needs. “This is the first renovation since the Hall’s opening, 17 years ago,”…
Author: James Robertson
Christ Fellowship Miami has been the area’s multi-generational, multi-cultural and multi-location church for over a century. In that time, it has grown to six South Florida locations plus an online presence. Three of those sites—Palmetto Bay, Doral, and downtown Miami—have recently become showcases for the flexibility and scalability that L-Acoustics Kara sound systems can bring to multi-campus houses of worship. The new installations, all designed and integrated by Colorado-based Summit Integrated Systems, accommodate various worship-space configurations and types, while still offering the ease of maintenance and operation, plus the consistency of audio quality of a single sound system across all…
Italian innovator Powersoft is now able to offer system integrators (SIs) the ability to scale inputs and zones conveniently and efficiently with the dynamic routing capabilities embedded on its fixed install amplifier platforms. This ability makes it simple to share variable music sources locally and/or between different zones in small- / medium-sized venues, independently from the source location, and carry control signals in an automated fashion – all without the need of a centralised DSP. With dynamic routing all inputs can be shared over the network as Dante signal. Moreover, user interfaces (UI) will allow integrators to obtain control of…
ENCO has shifted its business operations to a modernised office space in the growing community of Novi, Michigan, just 17 miles from the company’s longtime Southfield headquarters. The newly constructed, 12,000-square-foot facility will offer a more collaborative work environment and a centralized location for staff and customers in the Detroit suburbs. ENCO’s entire operation across sales, administration, engineering, finance, management, manufacturing and marketing will be based in Novi, effective immediately. The interior building design, which embraces an open floor plan, will bring the previously separated functions closer together – as will the other modernized perks that the Southfield headquarters lacked.…
Integrated Systems Events and its co-owners AVIXA and CEDIA have jointly announced ISE Live & Online, a series of local events in Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam and London which will be supported by a comprehensive digital offering powered by CISCO. With the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and global travel restrictions, ISE Live & Online will take the place of the traditional in-person large tradeshow format. Integrated Systems Events Managing Director Mike Blackman explained: “We have reached this decision following extensive discussions with our exhibitors over the last few months, and more explicitly, these last 10 days. All along there has been…
The Rival hotel in the chic and bustling Södermalm district of Stockholm is renowned as one of the city’s favourite meeting spots. A building with lots of history, it has remained dedicated to entertainment and hospitality since its beginnings in 1937. In 2002, the complex was purchased by Benny Andersson (yes, that Benny Andersson from the legendary ‘70s supergroup, ABBA) along with two associates, and extensive redevelopment work began to shape the complex into what it is today – a luxury 99-room boutique hotel complete with bars, a bistro and café, modern meeting facilities and a theatre. The latest addition…
The Adam Hall Group has named the Seoul-based Sonicvalue as its exclusive Korean distributor for the LD Systems, Gravity and Palmer brands, as well as for Adam Hall 19” Parts. Alessio Foti, Global Business Development Manager at Adam Hall Group, said: “We’re extremely pleased to have joined forces with Sonicvalue and have them as our distribution partner for Korea. The Korean event technology market is highly attractive to us, is future-oriented, and fits well as another piece of the puzzle in our international aspirations. As an up-and-coming distributor with a young, dynamic team, Sonicvalue has a broad dealer network as…
When full service lighting company Squeek Lights converted part of their new facility in Middlesex, New Jersey, into the Ruby Stage last July, the space, which featured Elation Dartz 360 and Artiste Picasso lights under NX2 control, quickly attracted music clients for livestreams and video productions. Ruby Stage has now been updated with a new design that offers clients an enhanced professional setup for even better on-camera looks. “The stage had been up for a while and had served our clients well but we wanted to mix it up with a new design,” stated Victor Zeiser, founder and managing partner at Squeek Lights.…
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States, worship centers across the nation, including New Life Church in Framingham, Massachusetts, were forced to close their doors. With New Life’s services transitioning to a virtual platform, Tech Director and Senior Outreach Engineer Barney Borovoski was left searching for AVL solutions to help improve the quality of the church’s livestream events. When it came to finding a full-duplex intercom system to deploy at New Life Church, Barney found a solution that checks all the boxes with Pliant Technologies’ MicroCom XR digital wireless intercom system. “We were previously using a two-way radio, but…
LD Systems announces a new release of additional EASE files for its installation loudspeaker series. Since releasing the DDQ Series’ active full-range touring-class loudspeakers as GLL files for the leading 3-D acoustic simulation software during the past few months, LD Systems has invested heavily in licensing additional loudspeaker series for the installation industry. The EASE files are now available for a wide range of installation loudspeakers for EASE, EASE Focus 3, and EASE Address applications. The complete list of licensed LD Systems products includes the following loudspeaker series and products: • CONTRACTOR: CFL52, CFL62, CICS52, CICS62 • CURV500: S2, DSAT,…
