Belgium - Established in 1990 in the Belgian municipality of Kuurne, Temple of Tune specialises in television, film, corporate promos and radio commercials. With owner Fredo Gevaert always striving to improve the facility's service, his investment in a Yamaha Nuage system has reaped immediate dividends.

Temple of Tune comprises four studios, all connected by a network of hard disks, so that several can work on the same project at once, files can be quickly moved around, sound effects quickly accessed and so on. Working on major projects in Dutch, French and English, a regular part of

UK - A new workhorse is gaining popularity behind the scenes on the West End. ETC's Eos Titanium (Ti) lighting control system has been taking over the programming duties on a growing number of London's top shows, with more lighting professionals choosing the power and flexibility that the desk offers. Two of those professionals - Vicky Brennan and Andi Davis - share their experience with Ti and why they trust it on even the biggest shows.

Vicky Brennan recently programmed the lighting for Stephen Ward: The Musical at the Aldwych Theatre on a Ti desk. The show's set was complica

UK - When Wicked opened at the King's Theatre in Glasgow in May, little did the management realise it would be the highest grossing show in the history of the venue. Over 53,000 tickets were snapped up for the show's sell-out Scottish premiere.

But to ensure the venue could play host to the spectacular musical phenomenon, it needed a little assistance from the team at Unusual Rigging, specifically to make the grid of the King's compatible with the magnitude and distribution of suspension points required for the show.

Gavin Snelling, project manager at Unusual Rigging, said, &

Denmark - TV lighting designer extraordinaire Kasper Lange was 'blown away' by the power of the Clay Paky fixtures used in his highly efficacious lighting design for TV event of the year, Eurovision.

Denmark based Lange worked with Eurovision's creative director Per Zachariassen to create a huge, structural lighting design that complemented the show's titanic 'diamond' stage. Lange crafted a clean, architectural lighting look that allowed the angular stage to 'open and close' creating a dynamic mix of open and intimate lighting looks.

"The brief for the show can be summed up in

South Korea - French lantern manufacturer, Robert Juliat, has been enjoying increasing success in Korea with long-term distribution partner, C&C Lightway.

C&C Lightway has worked with Robert Juliat for over 20 years, promoting the brand in a strongly competitive market.

"We are up against strong competition from long-established, premium-brand Japanese manufacturers, particularly for conventional fixtures like Fresnels and ellipsoidals," says C&C Lightway's Hwan-Soo Chung. "However, we have worked to raise awareness of Robert Juliat's great reputation to the same leve

USA - Professional comedians often use an ellipsoidal, a few house lights and not much else for their performances. Not so with Gabriel Iglesias whose current Unity Through Laughter tour has him travelling across the US with an Elation lighting rig of spots, washes, strips, strobes, PARs and more, including the new Elation Satura Spot LED Pro moving head.

Supplied by Sacramento Production & Lighting, the Elation lighting package was chosen for several reasons including durability and price point, a major consideration these days for the touring market, according to Dion Cook, S

USA - Sensaphonics reports that five more hearing health professionals have successfully passed the company's Gold Circle training seminar. The two-day course includes in-depth teaching sessions at Sensaphonics headquarters, plus a hands-on studio session with a live band. The event took 23-24 May 2014, at Sensaphonics headquarters and Mystery Street Recording Company, both in Chicago.

Those gaining their Gold Circle certification include: Theresa Bartlett of Virginia Hearing Consultants in Norfolk, VA; Helene Levenfus of Cedar Audiology in Lyndhurst, OH; independent audiologist Anali

Estonia - Eesti Laul, the Estonian qualifying competition where the winner gets to represent Estonia in the prestigious Eurovision Song Contest was this year using LumenRadio's wireless CRMX Nova products to control the spectacular lighting rig.

Under the lights of a massive lighting rig containing over 80 x Robe moving heads, the 10 finalists performed in front a large audience at Tallinn's Nokia Concert Hall.

LumenRadio's Estonian distributor E&T, provided a CRMX system containing one dual universe transmitter and multiple single universe receivers. E&T's General Manager Olev Luha

UK - Cadac has announced the appointment of LMC Audio Systems as an official UK dealer with immediate effect. The leading live audio sales company will be showing Cadac's new CDC eight-16 digital production console at the ABTT Theatre showthis week.

Speaking for LMC Audio Systems, managing director, Paul Hinkly, says, "This is a chance to work in meaningful partnership with a genuinely premium UK brand, meaning, not only top quality products from first class people but also a common purpose, to transfer the technical and commercial responsibilities and values, so expertly acquire

Spain - The 2014 Cadena Dial Awards was staged by leading Spanish Radio Station Cadena Dial and produced by Planet Events at the Auditorio Miguel Delibes in Valladolid to celebrate the most successful Spanish language performing artists and bands from the year.

The lighting design was created by Juanjo Beloqui who specified 30 x Robe Robin Pointes and 30 x Robe Robin LEDBeam 100s - among other moving lights and generic fixtures - but the Robes were a major part of his show. Beloqui has lit the event six times since 2007 and is also the Director of Photography. Each year he ensures tha

France - In the Bohemian Marais District, in the centre of bustling Paris, a new tech hub opened in the final months of 2013. The Silicon Sentier aims to provide a digital ecosystem to help aid and accelerate tech innovation in small and upcoming companies.

Media and tech designers Blow Factory offered the Sentier the idea of providing some interactive fun and excitement, using Light Emissions creative LED video display system. Blow Factory owner Paula Guastella had worked with Light Emissions previously in London, and knew that the Art system could provide the brightness and pure vid

UK - In his newest sonic sculpture, Vertical Echoes, renowned sound artist Bill Fontana brings the horror of the WWI battlefield to IWM North, part of the Imperial War Museums, in Manchester.

As in several of his sound installations, Fontana has selected a remotely powered IntelligentDC system from Meyer Sound to accurately reproduce his soundscape and immerse museum visitors. IntelligentDC systems will be featured in live demos at InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas this month.

Vertical Echoes is housed inside a 55m-high tower known as the AirShard, located at IWM North. To ev

UK - Since Soccer AM first started in 1995 it has developed a cult following, with generations of fans spending their Saturday morning in front of the TV to tune into features such as 'Can He Kick It', 'Big Tackle', 'Fan of the Week', 'Third Eye'....not to mention the Soccerettes!

In addition to the weekly TV show hosted by Helen Chamberlain and Max Rushden, every year Soccer AM also host a live event with music and special guests. This year it included performances from Soul II Soul and rapper Tinchy Strider.

Long term LD Malcolm Reed designed the show which was suppo

UK - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light has supplied lighting solutions and support for Barry Manilow's 2014 UK Arena Tour. The singer visited arena and stadium venues throughout the UK including Manchester's Phones 4U Arena and London's O2 and Wembley Arenas.

Lester Cobrin, head of concert touring for White Light, worked closely with tour manager Sacha Bambadji, production manager Peter Edmonds, and lighting designer Seth Jackson to determine the tour's equipment list and support requirements. This was the first time Jackson toured with White Light. "I've known Lester

USA - ABC-TV's musical drama Nashville features a number of performances in every episode. The final episodes performance got the full star treatment with Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures.

The series, which just finished its second season, shoots in and around Nashville with many of the musical performances staged in a purpose-built studio in town. Sometimes the musical sequences are shot on location; the recent two-part season finale featured performances at Fort Campbell, the US Army base on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, and at Nashville's LP Field.

"The storyline included p

USA - Jesus Culture, which began as a youth group at a church in northern California, has become a global movement that includes conferences, events, campus ministries, and worship curriculums dedicated to "demonstrating the love and power of God".

To commemorate its recent relocation from Redding, California, where it was based for 18 years, to Sacramento, the Jesus Culture band recorded Unstoppable Love, a live album and DVD, at Sacramento's prestigious Memorial Auditorium. With the help of Martin Professional lighting console and fixtures, lighting designer Robby K

USA - Seating nearly 8,000 patrons, Starlight Theatre has been a staple of Kansas City's performing arts community since it first opened in 1950. Hosting a full calendar of Broadway plays and musicals each summer season plus numerous concerts, corporate events, weddings and fundraisers - many classic productions have trod the boards of the large open-air venue over the years, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Oliver!, Hair, Camelot, Sweet Charity and West Side Story.

As to be expected, Starlight, which is operated by the not-for-profit Starlig

UK - Sennheiser UK has announced further dates for its UK Sound Academy courses, which have proved extremely popular with professional sound engineers, students and others working within the audio industry.

The 'Basic Wireless Microphones and Monitoring' course, aimed towards achieving practical setup of small RF systems, will run on 25 June, 20 August and 28 October 2014, whilst the 'Wireless Mics and Monitoring - The Masterclass', for experienced engineers, will be launched later in the year.

"Feedback from previous students has been very positive," says Tim Sherratt, en

UK - Utopium has invested in a range of new event lighting technologies with sustainable, creative benefits to clients.

Utopium's six figure investments have added significantly to the choice of modern LED lighting the company can offer event organisers and lighting designers.

Utopium's managing director Colin Bodenham comments, "Having listened to clients, applied our experience and researched recent product releases, we've added some revolutionary lights to our inventory. LED technology means improved sustainability and economy through reduced power consumption and being smal

Europe - New York-based Cellist Dane Johansen is embarking on The Walk to Fisterra, a 600-mile musical/walking journey along the Camino de Santiago, a popular pilgrimage route through France and Spain. Over the course of his six-week journey, which began 14 May, Johansen will stop at several of the 36 historic churches along the Ancient Roman footpath, where he will perform Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, while a team of filmmakers and music producers capture content for a stunning documentary about the pilgrimage.

To ensure the highest quality audio, sound engineer,

China - British manufacturer Audient has appointed Digime as the new distributor for its compact product range, including the USB interface, iD22 and the 8-channel mic pre and ADC, ASP880.

Fresh and fully energised after the recent PALM Expo 2014 in Beijing, Digime's COO Lenlo Zhu and his team are encouraged by the visitor response to the Audient range. Lenlo says of the iD22, "It's simply fantastic! It has that traditional, classic Audient console sound, with a British design style. A monitor, mixer and mic preamp all combined in one unit - it's a best buy!"

Audient's Sim

USA - Performers often win new fans when they appear on NBC's Today Show. Sometimes high-output LED panels do too. Such was the case recently when the Nexus 4 x 4 panel from Chauvet Professional was used for superstar Mariah Carey's performance on the Today Show.

Lighting designer Peter Greenbaum was planning on running halogen panels, when Drew DeCorleto, director of lighting production at World Stage (New York), asked him to consider the Nexus 4 x 4 LED panels instead. "On Drew's recommendation I tried the Nexus and was very pleased," said Greenbaum, who is n

UK - Huge events are the norm for Delta Sound but when faced with a major product launch in an aircraft hangar, additional challenges faced the sound design team.

Appointed by brand experience agency Jack Morton Worldwide, the size of the venue was not the only problem because significant movement was also involved, requiring 24 surround sound zones plus significant LFE. This was achieved with 12 powerful yet detailed point source speakers either side of the seating block and enough strategically placed subwoofers to thrill the audience. This system was mirrored on the other side of t

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