Australia - St Kilda's Australian National Memorial Theatre is a 783-seat theatre and theatrical arts school which exists to provide Australian and international students with affordable, world-class training in ballet and dance, drama and music theatre. This not for profit theatre provides a dynamic, caring, non-discriminatory environment that recognises the potential of the performing arts to enhance life skills as well as provide a career.

The venue houses a versatile, professional performance space that is also available to community, educational and professional organisations at favourable rates. It operates with a minimal technical crew, usually only two, and so a reliable wireless communications system is a necessity.

"Keeping in contact with our staff was becoming m

Sweden - Immediately after unveiling its new MLA Compact system in London, Martin Audio was able to announce its first sale.

DM Audio AB, its long-serving Stockholm-based rental customer (and part of the EM Nordic Group), has invested in a System 36 (comprising 24 MLA Compact top boxes and 12 DSX subwoofers), which is supplied with all necessary cabling and accessories for rental stock. The order was handled by EM Nordic AB's sales arm, XL Audio.

Although long term this will provide DM Audio with a system for rental stock, it was immediately sub-hired to Norwegian rental company Rub

UK - This week marks the end of an era for both TV and Richard Martin Lighting (RML) as the very last Harry Hill's TV Burp was filmed. The series, featuring comedian Harry Hill, has been running since 2002.

Long standing lighting designer Martin Kempton comments, "It's very sad to see it go - it's been a regular fixture in my diary for the past 11 years and I've been really proud to have been associated with it."

The four-time BAFTA winning ITV show uses a small and selective amount of lights (including MAC 250's, MAC TW1's, Pixel Par 90's and Alpha Spot 575 HPE's) to crea

Germany - As ever, consistency remains a key word in the d&b audiotechnik almanac. However, this year, it was a multiplicity in size, colour, application and intelligent solutions that were centre stage at Frankfurt prolight+sound 2012.

Taking the lime light was the new V-Series, a formidable addition to the d&b stable of line array offerings within their Black product range. The latest cabinets to the E-Series ,the teenyweeny E4 and E5 were also on display alongside fresh options for installers contemplating the d&b White range.

Frankfurt was the choiceby d&b audiotechnik for their

Germany - UK loudspeaker manufacturer EM Acoustics presented a range of self-powered products at ProLight+Sound 2012; a move that breaks new ground for the company. EM Acoustics self-powered solutions are amongst the most advanced in the industry and bring new levels of flexibility to product function and integration, especially into digital systems, says the company.

All new products are self-powered versions of existing products. They all utilise the same amplifier and DSP package, keeping use techniques consistent across the product range. Denoted by the suffix 'SP', so far they in

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