Indonesia - The Grand Ballroom at the newly renovated five-star Hotel Indonesia Kempinski in Jakarta recently played host to a spectacular gala concert entitled An American Rhapsody. The 40-piece Jakarta Concert Orchestra and Batavia Madrigal Singers led by Indonesia's most accomplished conductor of western classical music, Avip Priatna, treated the audience to an evening of Gershwin, Frank Sinatra and other American legends

Indonesian rental company Megaswara handled the sound requirements for the evening which included an Innovason Eclipse digital mixing console on monitors, with support from Innovason's Indonesian distributor, LaMesa.

LaMesa's Didi Kartanegara explained that the Eclipse was selected for monitors on this event - along with LaMesa engineer, Ahmad Rapii -

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies audio division has won the 2010 / 2011 Best UK Dealer Award from loudspeaker manufacturer Nexo, in recognition of their outstanding sales performance and support over the last 12 months.

The Award for A.C. Audio was presented at Nexo's annual distributor dinner/awards evening, staged this year at the Marriot Hotel during the recent Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt. Attended by around 150 people, the Awards honoured the best achieving dealers and distributors in key categories and sectors.

It is the first year that there has been an Award re

UK - Continuing its ongoing supply of case solutions to audio console manufacturer DiGiCo, 5 Star Cases has produced the latest case for DiCiCo's SD range of digital consoles.The SD11 is the newest sound mixing product from DiGiCo, following on from the success of the SD7, SD8, SD9 and SD10 consoles.

The SD11 is DiGiCo's smallest sized sound desk to date. It is two consoles in one - a rack-mountable and a table top mixer with smart end cheeks and an arm rest - and an easy one-person lift from truck to table top, ready for action.

5 Star's design team was commissioned just before Chr

UK - The ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) Theatre Show has always been a showcase for the latest technology in the theatre and presentation markets and this year's event will be no exception, say the organisers. A highlight among the many new products and emerging technologies that will be on display at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London from 15-16 June is LED lighting.

LEDs have been making inroads into the production sector over the past five years. Architectural and scenic systems have been used for both the theatre and corporate events to create atmospheres a

Germany / Ukraine - Lightconverse recently presented its Lightconverse 3D system at the international Prolight+Sound fair in Frankfurt.

Visitors to the company's stand enjoyed a show facilitated by six projectors shooting perfectly mapped video onto a four-sided surface. Total screen space was 9sq.m with the distance between the projectors and screen surface a short 1.5m. The blended projection was made possible due to the software's new 3D mapping engine automatic adjustment method.

The 3D mapping engine is used to solve common video projection problems such as shooting video or im

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