Axion Displays has appointed Stéphane Bourdon to lead sales across France, Spain and Portugal, strengthening its local market coverage and ensuring continuity for Digital Projection customers across the region. Bourdon brings more than 20 years of professional AV and display industry experience to the role. He joins Axion Displays following 14 years at Digital Projection, where he was sales manager for France, Spain and Portugal, as well as territories across North Africa and the Balkans. For existing Digital Projection customers and partners, the appointment means no change to the relationships, product expertise or support they rely on. Bourdon will remain…
Author: Todd Staszko
DT51 Xi’an, a premium shopping mall and lifestyle destination, opened in China’s Yanta District in late 2025 to provide the region’s youth with an upscale retail experience. Designed to combine luxury shopping with immersive art, DT51 puts customer experience at the forefront of its identity. Xi’an DuWu WuYan Cultural Industry Co., Ltd., which specialises in cultural events and exhibition services, selected DT51 to house an interactive art installation curated by bright! studios, that would help turn conventional retail environments into community-focused experiences. Stage Precision’s SP Grid platform provided the intuitive control backbone for the multimedia system, making the complex system…
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), part of the Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, has just completed a huge investment programme in its performance spaces. When choosing audio equipment, the faculty wanted students to experience the best that the industry has to offer, so chose DiGiCo consoles and L-Acoustic loudspeakers alongside Fourier’s transform.engine and KLANG.vokal systems. Equipment was supplied by Group Technologies, distributor for DiGiCo in Australia and New Zealand. With a reputation for excellence and one of the most comprehensive offerings for performing arts training in Australia, the WAAPA facility includes vast mixture of performance spaces across…
Powersoft has appointed Hernán Domínguez as Americas distribution sales regional manager, reporting to Fabrizio Bolzoni, distribution sales manager. Based in Mexico City and travelling frequently across the region, Domínguez will lead the company’s sales and distribution strategy throughout Latin America and Canada. In the role, Domínguez will be responsible for aligning regional sales strategy with Powersoft’s global objectives and for developing and managing the company’s network of distributors, dealers and system integrators across LATAM and Canada. He will take the lead on key account management, building relationships with major integrators, consultants, rental companies and specifying professionals. He will also work…
The Obama Presidential Center opened to the public on 19 June 2026 in Chicago’s Jackson Park. The date was chosen deliberately, as Juneteenth is a United States federal holiday that marks the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Following a dedication ceremony attended by dignitaries, the nearly 20-acre campus opened its doors to the general public. The Center rises across eight floors, four of them given over to public museum space, presenting exhibitions that explore the story of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama through film, interactive displays, and large-scale immersive media. Barack Obama was the first United States president to…
M Suite is a Karaoke Television (KTV) entertainment venue in Ho Chi Minh City designed around private karaoke experiences for groups of different sizes. Its new location features a range of Small, Medium, Large and Signature Rooms, creating distinct entertainment environments that progress from more intimate karaoke settings to a larger premium performance space. With music and vocal performance at the center of the guest experience, the audio system needed to deliver the clarity, output and low-frequency impact expected from karaoke while adapting to the different scale and layout of each room. Rather than repeating the same loudspeaker configuration throughout…
A former historic church in Amsterdam has been transformed into a vibrant multi-purpose venue with the help of ETC lighting and control, supplied and installed by ETC dealer Controllux. The Balkissoon Theater in Amsterdam Amstel is a 550-seat venue housed within a church originally built in 1957. Following years of disuse, developer and visionary Lenny Karamchand Balkissoon transformed the historic building into a multi-purpose venue designed to bring people together. It includes theatre productions, dance performances, concerts, corporate events, community gatherings, a hotel, restaurants and more. Supporting this varied programme, 16 ETC ColorSource Fresnel V fixtures have been installed alongside…
On a single night at National Sawdust, a program might feature eight composers with eight sonic setups, each asking something different of the room. One piece might send playback tracks moving around the audience; the next might call for the spacious acoustic of a cathedral; the one after that a tight, controlled room for a rock band. This summer, the Brooklyn venue upgraded the Meyer Sound Constellation system behind those shifts, moving from D-Mitri to NADIA processing and adding a Galileo GALAXY 816 Network Platform as part of a renewed partnership. “When we released NADIA, we said, National Sawdust is…
Dreyfoos Hall at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is the first venue to deploy Meyer Sound’s TIGRA™ line array and 1800-LFC™ low-frequency control elements as a complete system, at the center of an ecosystem that spans the building, from Spacemap Go spatial audio capabilities in the main hall to connected sound reinforcement in public spaces. The upgrade succeeds a Meyer Sound MICA array that served the 2,195-seat hall for 18 years. Designed with symphonic performance in mind, the largest stage on the nonprofit center’s West Palm Beach campus now presents Broadway, touring concerts, jazz, dance, and…
d&b audiotechnik has introduced vCore, a new standalone Soundscape software processing engine. Available free of charge, vCore offers a new way to access d&b’s immersive Soundscape solution, enabling preproduction without the need for a physical processing engine. Using the d&b Create.Control software together with a pair of headphones, users can create and experience binaural output that delivers realistic spatial audio wherever they are. “With vCore, the Soundscape ecosystem gains a new tool that allows audio professionals to plan and prelisten to their projects without requiring a physical Soundscape processing engine or a loudspeaker system,” said Robb Allan, Head of Product…
