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China - TC Group has announced that it has appointed Peter Glinvad as managing director of TC Group China.

Originally from Denmark, Peter Glinvad has been working and living in China for 12 years. His in-depth knowledge of the Chinese culture and fluency in the language are a golden opportunity for TC Group China to have the best of both worlds. Drawing from experience in general management and as the chairman of the Danish Wind Energy Group - China, Ginvad brings a wealth of knowledge to the position.

Further, TC Group China has recently been incorporated as a WFOE (Wholly Foreign

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USA - Moogfest, the annual electronic technology, art, science and music festival celebrating the creative vision of analogue synth pioneer Bob Moog, expanded its festivities in downtown Asheville, North Carolina this year to five days in late April and more than 10 venues. For audio reinforcement at US Cellular Centre's 2,431-seat Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, which served as the festival's primary stage, Thunder Audio specified the use of its new L-Acoustics K2 loudspeaker system.

The loudspeaker complement for Moogfest 2014's main stage included left and right arrays of nine K2, plus ei

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Ivor Novello Awards - Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie has been honoured with a lifetime achievement at this year's Ivor Novello songwriting awards. McVie played with Fleetwood Mac for 28 years and wrote some of their most famous songs, including Don't Stop and Little Lies. Other winners at the ceremony in London included London Grammar, The Chemical Brothers and Nile Rodgers. The annual awards, now in their 59th year, are voted for by songwriters.

Picking up her award, McVie confirmed she had rejoined Fleetwood Mac after a more than 15-year absence and would join them on

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China - Audioprof NV, manufacturer of Apart audio products for the fixed install audio market, has announced that it will be cooperating exclusively with Sennheiser Greater China for the distribution of its product line in Greater China.

This partnership supports both Apart's ongoing push to expand its market presence in Asia, as well as Sennheiser's dedication to offer its customers ideal audio solutions for fixed install sound solutions in bars, restaurants, retails shops, corporate environments, hotels and many other places.

Marc Vincent, president of Sennheiser Greater China say

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Italy - Proel S.p.a has announced the formation of Solo Distribution, the new division specialized in the distribution, development and commercialization of musical instruments and proprietary brands.

Solo Distribution inherits the know-how of Proel's Distributed Brands Division, consolidating its strength and presence in the Italian marketplace through exclusive distribution of top brands like Behringer, Line6, Jasmine, Takamine, Gretsch, Orange, Toca, Gibraltar, Studio 49, Hagstrom, Bugera, and KAT.

"To Proel S.p.a.," says sales and marketing manager Maurizio Curto, &quo

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Finland - Shure's Finnish distributor, Noretron Audio Oy, has been appointed exclusive distributor for the DIS line of audio conferencing and interpretation systems in Finland, effective 1 June 2014.

"Many Shure distributors throughout Europe also distribute DIS," explains Ron Marchant, Shure EMEA's general manager of sales. "This agreement adds another country to that group, as well as bringing to an end a period when the DIS product line has not been available to buy in Finland. Noretron Audio is an established, respected distributor in the Finnish market, with a busi

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UK - Visitor registration for PLASA London 2014 is now open and for a limited time attendees can register for free.

PLASA London is offering free four-day passes for attendees who register before Tuesday 1 July. The show, which has been a pivotal date on the international entertainment technology tradeshow calendar for more than three decades, will return to ExCeL London for the second consecutive year on Sunday 5 October until Wednesday 8 October.

Exciting developments to the show's format mean that the registration offer is just one of many visitor incentives for 2014, as PLASA's

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New Zealand - DPA Microphones has announced the appointment of Direct Imports as its distributor in New Zealand. This appointment signals DPA's continued commitment toward growth and customer service throughout New Zealand. From its headquarters in Hastings, Hawkes Bay, Direct Imports will carry a full stock of DPA products for live, recording and broadcast applications.

"We are delighted to have been appointed the New Zealand distributor for DPA Microphones and honoured to have this outstanding brand join our portfolio and complement our current range of pro audio brands,"

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UK - Roland Systems Group, in association with Leisuretec Distribution, will be 'Demystifying Web Streaming' with an informative, interactive day to be held at Leisuretec's Leighton Buzzard premises on Tuesday 17 June.

The event, which is free to attend, will focus on the range of 'ready to stream' solutions from Roland, including the popular multi format VR-50HD HD AV mixer, the VR-3EX AV mixer and the V-4EX video mixer. Guests will be able to get hands-on with the products to gain a practical understanding of web streaming and recording in different applications such as presentation

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Europe - Rising Australian punk pop band, 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS), has completed a tour of the UK, USA and Australia, and are about to embark on European dates supporting One Direction, travelling with a compact Allen & Heath iLive system to manage monitors.

Comprising an iDR-48 MixRack and rackmount iLive-R72 control surface, the system was specified by monitor engineer, Ben Booker, a long time iLive user. Booker is providing mixes for eight sets of in-ears - four for the band, two for the crew, one for himself and a matrix spare - as well as a drum sub mix.

"Crowd noise is

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China - Allen & Heath's Chinese distributor, Sanecore Group, was appointed to install a new sound system in a 400sq.m multi-function hall of China Petrochemical Corporation, Sinopec. Sanecore selected a GLD mixing system, comprising a GLD-80 digital mixer, with accompanying AR2412 and AR84 remote I/O expander audio racks,

The multi-function hall is mainly used for company meetings, training, performance and video playing. The GLD system was complemented with a EAW JFL210 linear array speaker system, and sources include a Blu-ray player, six sets of wireless microphone, eight instrumen

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Mexico - One of Mexico's most popular rock groups, the platinum-selling, Latin Grammy Award-winning band Zoé is world renowned, having played concerts across North America, Europe and South America. For their latest world tour, which has already made more than 40 stops in the U.S. and Mexico, the band's monitor engineer, Gustavo Zertuche, is using an SSL Live console to drive the group's wedges and in-ear monitors

Supplied by Meridian Proaudio, the first rental company in Latin America to offer SSL Live, the console's ease of configuration makes it perfectly suited to handle mo

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USA - Audinate's tradition of creating innovative and cutting-edge solutions continues, with the introduction of Dante HC, billed as the industry's highest-capacity networked audio solution for professional AV systems. Dante HC supports up to 512 x 512 redundant bi-directional uncompressed audio channels on a single Xilinx FPGA.

Dante, created by Audinate, is the leading audio-over-IP networking solution. It offers virtually perfect synchronization, ultra-low deterministic latency and plug-and-play configuration management. Dante's real-time streaming is suitable for live broadcast, c

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UK - With the installation of RedNet, the London College of Music - part of the University of West London - is at the forefront of an audio networking revolution. Focusrite's RedNet product specialist, Adrian Hogg, will be hosting a networked audio distribution and recording demonstration at LCM on the evening of Thursday 5 June from 6:30pm until 9:30pm.

Adrian will be joined by guest speakers including London College of Music's Richard Liggins (pictured left) and Composor / Producer Dom Beken whose credits include The Orb, Jonny Marr and the BAFTA nominated game score Shooter.

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UK - Eric Lund, who recently racked up no less than 31 years with the MI and Pro Audio brand, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of May. Lund, who started with the company in the early 80s (when it was based in East Sussex) has been instrumental in the company's growth from being the UK arm of the Peavey Corporation to one now distributing to the entire EMEA region. These include a number of direct European markets distributed to from the Corby sales and warehouse facility.

Lund who started working for the company as the northern sales rep, quickly expanded his role hel

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USA - Bartha of Columbus, Ohio has become one of the newest rental companies to purchase a Meyer Sound LYON linear sound reinforcement system. Bartha sees LYON as a powerful tool that will allow the company to deliver the utmost audio quality for corporate events in convention centres and arenas as well as indoor and outdoor music concerts. LYON will be featured at InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas from June 18-20 (Meyer Sound Booth C9725).

"We invested in LYON because we always strive to have the latest and best from Meyer Sound," says Chris Andrus, audio department manager at Bar

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Taiwan - MoMo TV, one of the biggest TV shopping channels in Taiwan, has recently relocated to a new production building owned by parent company Taiwan Mobile. As part of the move, the channel has added three DiGiCo SD8 consoles to its broadcast facilities.

Broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, MoMo TV is based in three new studios in the new facility at the Neihu Hi-tech Industry Park, Taipei. Each studio features a new DiGiCo SD8, installed as part of a comprehensive technical upgrade and replacing the channel's previous analogue consoles.

DiGiCo distributor Rightway Aud

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UK - Hertfordshire-based production, entertainment and event-management company Production Plus, recently put an Inspired Audio Axis AX12 loudspeaker system through its paces.

The system, supplied by LMC Audio, was used on a high profile event with a contemporary artist who had minimal staging and space for technical equipment.

Julian Rees, technical director of Production Plus, comments: "With Axis AX12 our client's expectations were met with limited visual impact, allowing clean sight lines whilst also keeping the artist/engineers happy in terms of performance."

He con

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USA - Northeast High School is a four-year public high school in Pasadena, Maryland. With almost 1,600 students, Northeast has several notable sports teams, a growing music programme and its own designated acting troupe that puts on three shows a year.

Originally constructed in 1964, Northeast has recently undergone a major renovation. As part of that renovation, the school received new AV systems in its main and auxiliary gymnasiums, its multi-purpose cafeteria and its black box theater.

Northeast hired consultant Steven Sinclair of Polysonics, an engineering firm in Warrenton, Vir

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UK - London-based production company Subfrantic is currently in the midst of a gruelling 60 date UK tour with Joe McElderry. Playing a wide variety of venues, a Yamaha CL5 mixing system has helped to make the once impossible, possible.

Despite being best known from the modern medium of television singing and reality shows, X Factor winner McElderry's Set Your Soul Alive tour harks back to tours of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, when acts would embark on seemingly never-ending national treks.

Criss-crossing the UK, from Billingham to Yeovil, Hastings to Weston-super-Mare, taking in d

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On The South Bank - Arts Council England is to fund the lion's share of a £24m repair and maintenance programme for the Southbank Centre's music venues and gallery after warnings by English Heritage that restorative work "could not be further delayed". The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery will benefit from work aimed at improving workshops and backstage areas, disabled access for audiences and artists and restoring building interiors to their original appearance.

ACE is to provide £16.7m - equivalent to 70% of the total cost - with the Londo

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USA - At the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre(CST), a Meyer Sound M1D line array loudspeaker system is optimised to provide audio support for everything from Shakespearean dramas to contemporary, high-energy musicals like Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, and Gypsy. Designed to meet specific architectural challenges, the system was supplied by long-time Meyer Sound dealer TC Furlong, Inc. of Lake Forest, Ill., with logistical coordination by Jeff Cech.

The 18 M1D loudspeakers in CST's 500-seat Jentes Family Courtyard Theater replace an aging, point-source centre

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USA - Lectrosonics has announced the introduction of the Digital Secure Wireless system. Featuring AES-256-CTR (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption technology, the new Digital Secure Wireless system is designed for use in environments where privacy is of paramount concern, such as corporate boardrooms, shareholder meetings, and government facilities. As a rugged and high-quality wireless microphone system, the new products will also find a home in theatres, film making, touring and other demanding applications, says the company.

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UK - The organisers of what promises to be the best ever Farnborough Air Show yet which takes place on 19-20 July, have called on Showhire, one of Europe's leading public address and communications hire companies to provide the public address and communications system for the site. For this enormous project, involving literally many miles of top quality cable, Showhire turned to VDC Trading and the prestigious Van Damme range.

Showhire director Nick Chubb explained, "We specialise in the sports and corporate events market, providing services to a massive range of events throughou

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