Switzerland - Every seven years the small Swiss monastery town of Einsiedeln turns itself over to a large-scale open-air production of Calderón's Welttheater. A modern re-work was written for the summer of 2013, and to fully support the scale and complexities of the piece, sound design was again put in the capable hands of award-winning Tom Strebel of Basel's audiopool, using the ubiquitous TiMax2 SoundHub audio localisation matrix system from Out Board.

This year for the first time Strebel also used TiMax Tracker performer-tracking which controlled the TiMax SoundHub delay-matrix in real-time to achieve fully automated vocal localisation across the entire 2,700 capacity audience. Strebel comments, "For me, TiMax is now indispensible for theatre production because of

The Netherlands - Hitachi Digital Media Group will be encouraging visitors to visit stand S34 in Hall 4 at ISE to see demonstrations of a range of new products that break new ground for Hitachi in a number of areas. The innovative new products that include high-end professional projectors, interactive systems and ultra-short throw models will impress, entertain and stimulate visitors with their versatility and quality of image through a series of showcase application demonstrations, says the company.

"Already renowned for attributes such as innovation, quality and low total cost

USA - Mood Media, provider of retail music solutions and sound systems, is seeing recent growth in the design and installation of multi-zone distributed audio in shopping centres and other public locations. Mood Media has turned to components from Bose Professional Systems for many such installations in malls in the US and Canada. Several of these projects have been in properties owned and managed by Simon Property Group.

Craig Breigle, premier systems account executive, Mood Media, based in Austin, TX, notes that the PowerMatch and ControlSpace products are chosen for their reliabili

UK - Ross Ashton and the Projection Studio (TPS) worked as consultants to Jack Morton Worldwide who produced the Mayor of London's New Year's Eve fireworks display for the 10th consecutive year and invited TPS to provide the large format video projections system.

The event was watched by over 200,000 people along the banks of the Thames and live at home by 13.7m through the BBC One broadcast. This year, through the partnership between the Mayor of London's Office and Vodafone, the live experience featured the world's first 'multi-sensory' fireworks display. Exotic fruit flavours, sync

Germany - With clubs throughout the Germany's Rhineland, including the major cities of Köln and Düsseldorf, Just Fit is one of the region's premier fitness centre chains. The company currently has 18 fitness centres, with two in Frechen and the latest one, in Kerpen, featuring Denon DN-700H Network Audio Players. They will also be installed in two new Köln clubs, due to open in early 2014

"We have chosen the DN-700H because it is very easy to use, it delivers audio from a wide range of different sources, the display provides all the information you need and it can be used full

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