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Auvitran arrives in Australia with Ben Hur

For two consecutive nights, the show filled the the 80,000-capacity ANZ Stadium

Details: 14 March 2016

Australia - Narrated by Russell Crowe, Ben-Hur rivalled the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in its size and scale. For two consecutive nights, the show filled the 15,000 sq.m performance area with 200 actors, 24 horses and a full-on chariot race in the 80,000-capacity ANZ Stadium.

Travelling outside Paris for the first time since it debuted in 2006, this successful production by StadeFrance Live Events required a high level of international cooperation between its French producers and Australian logistics teams. All audio technical management was in the hands of GL Events Audiovisual, and a team headed up by Fred Viricel, the technical director of sound.

In the world's biggest theatrical space, audio distribution was planned and achieved over an EtherSound network

Louder Than Love has upgraded its live sound arsenal to include a Soundcraft Vi1 console

Louder Than Love adds Soundcraft

Details: 14 March 2016

Sweden - Specializing in live audio for concert tours and corporate events, Stockholm -based Louder Than Love AB has upgraded its live sound arsenal to include a Soundcraft Vi1 console. Founded in 2007, Louder Than Love owner Jonas Skramstad has worked with numerous international artists and companies such as Volvo, SAAB, IBM, the National Hockey League, Coca Cola and Astra Zeneca.

Skramstad's specialty is front of house mixing and he has worked on tours for a wide variety of Swedish artists including the Cardigans, Miss Li, A Camp, Laleh and Dundertåget, among others. His routine is

Miller Theatre opens with Topaze Followspots

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Alfred University's new Miller Theatre has opened in Alfred, New York with a pair of Robert Juliat Topaze followspots.

Barbizon Lighting NY was the integrator and supplier for the theatre, working with Milford, Ohio's Beck Studios, which was responsible for the venue's rigging. The Miller Theatre is the latest addition to the Miller Performing Arts Centre, which features the C.D. Smith III Flexible Theatre, a black-box space; The Rod Brown Acting Studio; dance and instrumental music rehearsal halls; a scene shop; and faculty offices.

The new proscenium theatre is a multifuncti

Mike Bangs, monitor engineer and Neal Duffy, FOH engineer

iLive-T112 consoles tour with Neon Trees

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Over the past year, Neon Trees has cemented its reputation as one of the top up-and-coming indie rock acts in the US with a chart topping single, a featured performance at this year's SXSW festival, and a tour with My Chemical Romance. With a number of one-off fly dates punctuating the tour, stage manager and monitor engineer Mike Bangs and FOH engineer Neal Duffy selected a pair of Allen & Heath iLive T112 consoles to meet the band's needs.

Neon Trees is a straightforward rock band, with two guitars, bass, keyboard and drums along with four vocals. "We are using 24 inputs,

Bowman Hall upgrades with E-V and Dynacord

Details: 14 March 2016

Australia - Blacktown's Bowman Hall is popular venue used in a variety of modes for all manner of productions from concerts and wedding receptions to simple meetings. It is a large, reverberant, asymmetric space with galleries on each side of the long axis.

Audio consultant Trevan Johns of Trevan Johns and Associates was employed to design a new audio system with a level of protection and performance to allow for intuitive operation in a simple user mode, or full access to a digital mixer in concert mode.

The lower level ceilings in the gallery areas shade the central cluster and so

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