Switzerland - Several Allen & Heath iLive, GLD and Qu-16 digital mixing systems were in use across Switzerland throughout festival season.

PA company, Audiotronic, employed two GLD-80 mixers and an iLive-T system comprising an iLive-T112 Control Surface with iDR-48 MixRack. The GLD mixers were installed at the Interceltic Festival in Lausanne and FΩte de la Musique in Châtel-St-Denis, while the iLive system managed the FΩte Multiculturelle in Vevey.

Sound Lights PA company also used two iLive-T112 systems at the Festival des 5 Continents in Martigny, which attracts a 30,000 capacity audience.

(Jim Evans)

South Africa - The Gearhouse Group of Companies recently provided comprehensive technical support, in the form of rigging, audio, lighting, trussing, structures and power, for the successful execution of the electronic dance production Sensation Innerspace, which took place at the Coca Cola Dome in Northriding on 7 September.

This was the debut event for Sensation in South Africa and the staging of it brought about quite a few "firsts" for technical supplier, Gearhouse SA, as well.

Gearhouse was contracted to G and G Productions, through technical consultants

Australia - Communication technology for today's productions must be highly advanced and more dynamic than ever before, and yet continue to deliver the simplicity of the plug-and-play intercom systems of the past. Clear-Com's HelixNet is a platform of intercom products designed to offer simplified user operations and cabling requirements, ease-of-set-up and system management, unparalleled voice intelligibility, networking flexibility and system intelligence.

Crystal Productions, a Sydney-based AV Production and event company, required an updated communications system to maintain their

Luxembourg - Following on the recent appointment of industry veteran Graham Rowlands to head the business development efforts of Music Group Professional brands Midas, Klark-Teknik and Turbosound, the company has announced that Rowlands will also take on responsibility for the Installed Sound division in the Asia-Pacific region.

Aimed at the integrated systems market, the IS division encompasses offerings from across the stable of MusicGroup brands, including Eurocom- Behringer's breakthrough line of DSP-based auto-mixers, integrated mixer-amplifiers and professional installed loudspe

UK - Networking specialists ELC Lighting will be presenting developments to their product range at PLASA London 2013, on stand H20 from 6-9 October at London's ExCeL. With the move to a new exhibition venue and ELC Lighting's new dmxXLANv4 lighting network management software nominated as a finalist in the 2013 PLASA Rock our World Awards, Silvio Cibien and Joost van Eenbergen have every reason to be looking forward to the show.

Joining the now established Ethernet networks for entertainment systems, ELC Lighting will debut a new and faster switch component - Switch8GB - forming a new

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