The University Art Museum (UAM) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) kicked off its prestigious and innovative audio installation of “Metal Machine 3: The Creation of the Universe” with an appearance by Lou Reed, American rock superstar.

A pair of grandMA2 lighting consoles was recently installed by Miami Stagecraft at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts - one for the John S. and one for the James L. Knight Concert Hall. Miami Stagecraft also upgraded the hall’s entire network to 1Gbit to promote fast, high-speed response time.

VDM records completed recording one of the Vatican’s most memorable and notable concerts of 2011 on December 21st using a Pyramix MassCore workstation as the primary recorder. Using 2 x MADI coaxial PCIe Mykerinos cards, Igor Fiorini, the lead engineer, was able to record 96 inputs over the hours of performance at the Concerto Di Natale XIX Edizione (Christmas Concert 19th Edition).

An Optocore system has been used by leading French rental company De Préférence for a one-off show by Vangelis, to inaugurate the new Katara Amphitheatre in Doha.

Colt, Europe’s leading Information Delivery Platform, today announced that it is supporting the Berlin International Film Festival’s transition to digital content by connecting the Berlinale film office with more than 20 cinema halls across Berlin via its high speed data network. For the third year running, Colt’s services are playing a key role in enabling Berlinale, the largest public film festival in the world, to distribute the significant volume of digitalised content at the city-wide festival, taking place from the 9th to the 19th February.

Just over one hundred and fifty years ago Brampton was first recognised as a village with a population of five hundred souls. Today it is home to around five hundred thousand people making it one of Canada’s largest cities. Although urban sprawl has brought it closer to Toronto, Brampton has an individual and proud cultural heritage that celebrates the hardworking and industrious nature of its citizens. The Rose Theatre, built in 2006 in the very centre of the city, is a confident combination of glass and brick that boldly reflects the city's pride in itself.

W-DMX™ by Wireless Solution Sweden is currently being used for a rigorous show schedule at the Oslo Opera House, home to the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and considered one of the landmark modern buildings in Oslo.

Today, Philips is proud to introduce the final music video created for the winning track “No One’s Town” from the global Obsessed with sound competition 2011, featuring the winners of the competition, Inky from Sao Paolo, Brazil, the Metropole Orchestra and Steve Lillywhite. The competition searched for unheard music talent with the greatest sound across the world, offering the winner the chance to have their track re-worked by the Metropole Orchestra, the worldwide leading pop and jazz orchestra, and then produced by Grammy Award winning producer, Steve Lillywhite.

W-DMX™ by Wireless Solution Sweden along with MA Lighting had full control over a very special New Year celebration held at Marina Bay in Singapore. Headed by the Esplanade and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, this New Year spectacle spanned across the Marina Bay area, a 1 km2 fresh water reservoir flanked by the new Marina Bay Sands Resort complex, the Financial District and the Esplanade itself, which includes a collection of theatres, restaurants and parks.

Although Friday the 13th does not seem to be a particularly auspicious date for a world premiere at first glance, the timeless magic of Disney’s classic Fantasia prevailed and proved a huge success with a spellbound audience at the Lucerne concert hall in Switzerland.

UK theatrical suppliers Hawthorns recently supported the Breakin’ Convention International Festival of Hip Hop Dance at Sadler’s Wells Theatre with a charitable loan of 9 Clay Paky 1200 Profiles.

Occupying an eight hectare site, the magnificent new Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM), built at the behest of Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, was officially opened in October. The complex, consisting of a concert theatre, auditorium, formal landscaped gardens, cultural market with retail outlets and luxury restaurants, is an arts centre for musical, theatrical and operatic productions, and has been designed to reflect contemporary Omani architecture.

The GTC will this year celebrate its 40th anniversary in the same city and the same month as its foundation. In May 1972, the inaugural meeting of what would become the Guild of Television Cameramen was held at the Birmingham studios of Associated Television.

Gerriets had a new and exciting opportunity to help realize the fantastic concepts of visionary designer Petra Blaisse and her company Inside Outside. Previous projects with Inside Outside include the Casa da Musica (Porto, Portugal) and the Mercedes-Benz Museum (Stuttgart, Germany).

It has long been a Philharmonic tradition at the New Year to present a program consisting of the lively and at the same time nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the Johann Strauss family and its contemporaries. These concerts not only delight the audiences in the Musikverein in Vienna, but also enjoy great international popularity through the worldwide television broadcast, which is reaching an audience of more than 50 million spectators in 73 countries.