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Billed as Switzerland’s first open-air streaming festival, SummAIR was held on June 18th in the town of Hochdorf for a small, socially distanced audience joined by an online crowd. The tight programme of live bands was mixed on an advanced Allen & Heath dLive setup.

Many of the leading live events trade bodies and businesses, and the entire supply chain across the UK, have joined together to bring attention to the dire straits they are facing. The industry is now issuing a ‘Red Alert’.

NEXO unveils ID14, a 5” cubed Polyurethane ground-breaking new point source speaker, made entirely in France, and the smallest ever for the French firm. He's accompanied by its S108 partner subbass. Both are lightweight, versatile and truly outdoor resistant.

L-Acoustics introduces the M1 suite, a comprehensive set of measurement and monitoring tools from data acquisition to system tuning to deliver a streamlined system calibration process as well as real-time performance monitoring.

Artistic Licence is delighted to announce a new formal distribution agreement with Molpass S.r.l. in Italy. With an emphasis on the theatrical market, Artistic's lighting control infrastructure products will augment other premium brands in the Molpass portfolio.

Leading wireless LED lighting manufacturer Astera releases its newest innovation, the NYX Bulb. It is the first colour-tuneable LED bulb for professional film, stage, and event productions. It comes complete with a CRMX receiver for wireless DMX, plus RF and Bluetooth.

Lucas Enguerrand and his brother Quentin, who both work at French company FL Group, wanted to keep morale high and their passion for music and lighting alive in a meaningful way during the Covid-19 lockdown.

ETC has partnered with an award-winning Broadway lighting team to create a new educational challenge: The Hamilton Programming Project. Participants will use actual touring paperwork to finish prep on an Eos show file.

This installation has been deployed as every year in the Petit parc (“small park”) which faces the Versailles Castle. This park is small only by its name, since it covers an area of more than 50 hectares with its different themed groves.

German studio specialist Neumann introduces the V 402, a state-of-the-art microphone preamplifier with integrated headphone monitoring. The V 402 is Neumann’s first-ever stand-alone microphone preamp.

“Illuminate Delaware” was a Memorial Day weekend lighting action, dry hire company Main Light industries hatched to deliver some special visual magic for local communities whilst saluting essential workers as well as fallen US military personnel.

Exton’s lighting designer, Erling Þorgrímson, chose 12 Wildsun K25-TC LED fixtures to lit up Hallgrimskirkja Church in Iceland.

Three lighting brands have worked closely together to enlighten the new Coca-Cola Arena based in Dubaï : Zero 88 for entertainment-style control, iLight for architectural-style control and Ephesus LED sports lights.

You dreamed of having the sound of concerts at home (and of falling out with your neighbors for good !) L-Acoustics Creations unveils 5 premium home sound systems on the newly launched L-Acoustics eStore, and through L-Acoustics Creations Integrator Network.

Meyer Sound’s new « Spacemap Go » adds dynamic spatialization to Bill Fontana’s Primal Energies at Kunsthaus Graz in Austria immerging the audience in a blend of energy-related sounds reproduced by 64 Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers.