After a two-year hiatus due to the coronaviruspandemic, Malaysian band Hujan played a series of virtual concerts transmitted live from the Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre. Hujan 16 Tahun was held acoss four nights during October, with different genres and themes, marking the band’s 16-year career. It was the first time that Hujan has used Sennheiser’s Digital 6000 System.

The band wanted to ensure the shows came as close as possible to a real-world performance to reignite the Indie spirit of their fans – the Raingers. Hujan 16 Tahun was the inaugural event for the newly constructed Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre.

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The Covid-19 pandemic saw the Michigan Opera Theatre presenting programmes fron alternative spaces, including the Detroit Opera House parking garage, among other non-traditional venues. And for one weekend in September, staged Blue, a contemporary American opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson, at the city’s open-air Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre.

Blue is about a young, black couple raising a son in modern-day Harlem and their struggles with police brutality. With its all-black cast, the opera is part celebration, part tragedy, and a timely and highly relevant work. Tying it all together was the production’s implementation of L-Acoustics L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound.

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Founded in 1771, Stockholm’s Royal College of Music has been the training ground for some of Sweden’s most celebrated composers and performers. The college recently completed a major overhaul of its recording and production suites as part of an extensive 15-year renewal project.

To support continually-expanding music performance and composition programmes with world-class facilities, architectural acoustic consulting and A/V integration firm WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group) was called on to design three main stereo control rooms.

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While the caravans that once travelled the Silk Road have given way to modern forms of commercial transport between Asia, Persia, The Middle East and Southern Europe, the flow of news, culture and entertainment to China’s largest province continues thanks to the Xinjiang Corps TV Station, serving the provincial capital Urumqi and its 12 surrounding regions, reaching more than 12m people in the northwest of the country.

Needing to modernise its in-house A/V systems, the broadcaster called in EZPro International to design and provide a solution for its main 1,500m² studio, smaller 400m² studio, review room and conference room.

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Producer and prolific songwriter/composer Ozan Çolakoğlu has upgraded his studio with the installation of a new Audient ASP8024-HE mixing console. With hundreds of songs credited with to his production, writing and arrangement over a 30-year career, Çolakoğlu’s name is never far from the Turkish Top 10. Most recently, he has recorded prominent Turkish singer-songwriter Tarkan, delivering the megastar’s long-awaited eleventh album using the British desk.

The console is installed at his Istanbul production company, Ozan Çolakoğlu Production, which comprises a recording studio, mixing/mastering room and production/arrangement room. His Ozinga Music record company is also based here.

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