Tucked away in Ebisu, one of Tokyo’s most refined neighbourhoods, BAR DANRO is the kind of venue that rewards those who seek it out. Conceived around a luxury vintage concept, it combines the allure of a hidden speakeasy with the polished elegance of an upscale hotel lounge. At the heart of the space sits a stone fireplace, a focal point around which guests settle into plush sofa seating and relax with a carefully crafted drink, enveloped in warmth and quiet sophistication. In a space this precisely curated, every element had to earn its place, including the audio. The brief set…
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Ronnie Scott’s, London’s legendary Soho jazz club, has turned to Shure to deliver the audio backbone of ‘Upstairs at Ronnie’s’, its newly redeveloped live music room. The venue, which sits above the club’s famous downstairs stage, has been built from the ground up with a single ambition: to create the greatest small live music venue in the world. Designed to seat 140 guests, ‘Upstairs at Ronnie’s’ combines world-class technical specification with intimacy, pairing a Yamaha S3X Grand Piano and d&b sound system with a fully digital Shure microphone and monitoring signal chain built around SLX-D+ and Axient Digital PSM. The result is a…
HIVE and Panasonic have helped deliver one of the world’s most technologically ambitious immersive museum experiences at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), where more than 170 HIVE media engines drive 128 Panasonic 20,000 lm 4K projectors across a series of large-scale projection environments. The deployment processes more than 21 billion pixels of visual content every second, bringing Qatar’s history, culture and future ambitions to life through immersive storytelling. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, the National Museum of Qatar is renowned for its striking desert rose-inspired architecture and immersive visitor experience. The museum’s galleries combine cinematic projection, artefacts…
The Black Crowes are back on the road this summer for the “Southern Hospitality Tour,” a 41-city run across the U.S. and Canada in support of ‘A Pound of Feathers’, the band’s 10th studio album. Delivering the tour’s sound is a Meyer Sound PANTHER line array provided by Bay Area-based rental house and integrator UltraSound. For UltraSound project coordinator Jason Mills, the challenge was to design a single system capable of serving diverse venue sizes from 3,000 to 30,000 seats. “The band is playing a smattering of arenas, and then mostly amphitheatres,” he says. “It’s easier for the guys on tour…
Lightware is introducing the biggest update yet to the LARA Wizard Touchpanel configuration experience, designed to help integrators work faster while delivering a more professional end-user interface. The update focuses on practical improvements that reflect common room setups, with more control, clearer visuals, and easier deployment. A key addition is Dual Display Control, allowing integrators to configure two video outputs from a single touchpanel, with independent display settings per output. This supports the most common real-world spaces where two monitors either the same type or different types are used, removing the need for workarounds. The Wizard also adds Light and Dark themes via…
Through its ongoing collaboration with media artist Refik Anadol, Absen’s COB LED technology forms the visual backbone of ‘Dataland’, the world’s first AI-themed museum of fine arts, housed within Frank Gehry’s THE GRAND LA in downtown Los Angeles. Dataland, co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and his wife and partner Efsun Erkilic, opened its doors on 20th June as the world’s first museum dedicated entirely to AI-driven fine art. Located within THE GRAND LA, the architecturally celebrated mixed-use complex designed by Frank Gehry, the museum spans approximately 35,000 sq ft, including five galleries totalling around 25,000 sq ft and roughly 10,000…
Austrian opera house, Volksoper Wien, is one of Vienna’s most sophisticated venues for musical entertainment. Hosting thirty productions throughout its annual season, the theatre is renowned for its exceptional opera, operetta, musicals, and ballet performances. The 2025/2026 program features Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute – the classic tale of the prince on a quest to rescue a princess. While the story may be a familiar one, Volksoper’s immersive production offers a fresh experience. From the minds of artistic director Lotte de Beer, The Magic Flute blends traditional storytelling with innovative technology, using video projection to create an array of fantastical…
Vanessa Paradis and her team put Spectera handheld to the test Vanessa Paradis’ 2026 tour, the audio team around monitor engineer Matthieu Speck have adopted Sennheiser’s Spectera wireless system, including the new SKM handheld transmitter. The tour is visiting an exciting mix of big arenas, large indoor venues and festivals, so the team was looking for a system that would be reliable, with stable RF and transparent audio – in brief: capable of building complete trust with the artist from the very first soundchecks.The set-up for this tour includes two Sennheiser Spectera Base Stations, complemented by a backup unit, and…
Absen has announced a full upgrade to its global showroom booking system, making it easier for customers and partners to schedule visits to the company’s growing international network of showrooms. Designed to deliver an intuitive and user-friendly experience, the refreshed platform supports Absen’s wider strategy of deepening brand localisation and strengthening offline service capabilities in key markets worldwide. Over the past year, Absen has continued to expand its global showroom footprint, opening new sites and brand factory stores across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Newly added locations include Los Angeles, Mexico and Denver in the Americas; Morocco and Saudi Arabia…
TriTec AV marked a major milestone in Jordan’s live event production industry by deploying their d&b audiotechnik XSL System for the first time in the Kingdom during the official celebration of Jordan’s 80th Independence Day. Featuring live orchestral music, choir performances, playback video elements and a keynote address by His Majesty King Abdullah II, the production needed a sound system capable of delivering exceptional speech intelligibility, musical clarity, consistent audience coverage and high gain-before-feedback – all in a demanding live broadcast environment. TriTec AV deployed a left/right main system of d&b XSL hangs, with 10 XSL8 per side, supported by…