Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour is a global concert trek without peer. Kicking off in San José, Costa Rica on March 18 2022 and taking a hiatus following a ten-date residency at London’s Wembley Stadium that concluded on September 12, 2025, the 225-show-to-date tour has performed in 80 cities across 43 countries. Supporting 2021’s Music of the Spheres and 2024’s Moon Music albums, the stadium run has been equally significant for its remarkable sustainability initiatives, reducing CO2 emissions by nearly 60 percent compared to the band’s previous outing. But the trek is far from over; it’s expected to…
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CDD for New York’s Obvio cocktail bar NYC-based Kurt Schlossberg has been specifying exclusively Martin Audio sound systems in Time Out Markets around the world for a number of years. But recently he undertook his first project for Chilean-born restaurateur Juan Santa Cruz, as Obvio joined the operator’s other upmarket establishments, including two in Central London’s trendy Mayfair and Notting Hill areas. His latest modern supper club and cocktail bar — named Obvio — is right on his own Manhattan doorstep, and again it is an exclusive Martin Audio house, taking advantage of the CDD series’ unique coaxial…
Technological advances in Augmented (aR), Virtual (vR) and Mixed Reality (mR), (umbrella term Extended Reality or xR), are currently running well ahead of commercial applications for these technologies. When and how will this change? What are the limiting factors? Who will be the early adopters? Bryan Denyer, editor of AV News, assesses the state of the art, with additional reporting from Darren Banks VP of Partnerships at The LED Studio. The report concludes with ideas of when and how to use the various tools that xR provides, and when the technologies should be left well alone! A lot of press…
The Gantry at LC-39 has been reborn. Once a quiet corner of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, it’s now an immersive, launch-ready destination powered by advanced LED storytelling and real-time spaceflight experiences. Below, we take you inside the full transformation, the challenges, the technology, and the role The LED Studio played in bringing this new visitor landmark to life. The challenge Once a must-see stop for viewing Space Shuttle launches, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s LC-39 fell off the visitor map after shuttle flights ended in 2011. Since then, the landscape has changed dramatically, with annual launches jumping from five…
This November, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and Live Nation will premiere Cirque du Soleil ALIZÉ, its first-ever resident show in Europe, at Theatre am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. To bring its immersive new blend of acrobatics and la magie nouvelle to life, Cirque turned to a Meyer Sound system supplied by Solotech and designed by veteran sound designer Jean-Michel Caron. For Caron, who has worked with Cirque du Soleil for more than 25 years in roles from monitor engineer to project manager to sound designer, ALIZÉ represents a new chapter. “I’ve done a lot of Big Top shows and…
Visitors to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra (Portugal) discovered a new way to experience its mystical gardens and architecture, through an immersive night time show, Festina Lente, created by Vortice Dance Company. The project featured 12 Christie HS Series laser projectors to illuminate the estate’s façades, trees, and lakes with vivid imagery inspired by classical literature and the search for self-knowledge. The experience transformed one of Portugal’s most iconic landmarks into a dynamic display of light, sound, and movement. Blending dance, video mapping, and storytelling, Festina Lente guided audiences through a series of projected scenes that reinterpreted passages from Virgil’s…
PPDS has announced the installation of 110x Google Cast and Netflix ready Philips MediaSuite TVs on Vietnam’s most luxurious 6-star floating superyacht hotels – the spectacular Grand Pioneers I and II. Halong Bay (which translates as ‘descending dragon’) on Tuan Chau Island is one of Vietnam’s most picturesque, fastest growing tourist destinations, with white sandy beaches, a clear turquoise ocean, and thousands of iconic limestone islets creating a paradisical setting like no other on earth. With visitor numbers increasing threefold since 2010 to almost seven million, there has been an equal boom in hotel properties, estimated to now be more than 38,000, with around…
Wildstone has significantly increased the number of panels managed by Alpha Media Group as part of the second stage of its partnership with one of Spain’s most well-known (OOH) media operators. The strategic collaboration between the firms, which began earlier this year with the launch of five new DOOH screens across Madrid, Alicante and Córdoba, was aimed at accelerating the digitisation of Spain’s OOH market. Wildstone will now hand over media sales of 30 further panels across 17 sites in an arrangement aimed at helping Alpha achieve its goal of increasing its market share in the country’s large-format digital space.…
Les Salles du Carrousel, housed beneath the iconic glass pyramid of the Louvre in the heart of Paris, offers 6,635m2 of modular interior space to cater for events of all types and sizes. As the site operator, Viparis has relied for many years on the expertise of Magnum – one of France’s leading audiovisual providers – to deliver high-end audiovisual solutions that elevate the prestige and excellence of the events it hosts. When the time came to renew the audio systems, Magnum selected the new CCL (Compact Cardioid Line Array) system from d&b audiotechnik to elevate the venue’s audio offering whilst…
Vision Audio Visual has unveiled its latest innovation, the VFM-F1, a versatile floor stand designed to work with any digital signage display, regardless of brand. In a market where many floor stands are locked into proprietary ecosystems, especially those tailored only for Samsung’s QMC range, the VFM-F1 opens up the playing field. It provides a universal solution for integrators seeking flexibility, safety, and speed of installation without compromise. Stuart Lockhart, Managing Director at Vision, said: “This is a really elegant and integrator-friendly solution. Most digital signage floor stands out there are either brand-specific or overly industrial in design. The VFM-F1 changes…