Music Builds

Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based equipment rental company Morris Light and Sound Inc. can’t keep its new inventory of Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures on the shelves. The company is also doing a brisk business with its grandMA and grandMA light consoles. A.C.T. Lighting is the distributor for both product lines in North America.

“After getting a demo of Sharpy we purchased 24 for the upcoming Xtreme Muzik The Tour with country duo Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson,” says David Haskell, owner of Morris Light and Sound. “Then we used them on CMT’s live ‘Music Builds: CMT Disaster Relief Concert’ for the victims of the recent storms, floods and tornadoes. After that we ordered 12 more Sharpy fixtures for Jake Owen who’s supporting Keith Urban on tour.

“We’re among the first to take delivery more

VIENNA, Austria – With 12 halls ranging in total seating capacity from 130 to 586, connected with outdated analog wireless capabilities, Atea Audio Visuell Kommunikation (AVK) of Sweden installed a complete digital HARMAN AKG DMS 700 wireless system in one of Sweden’s largest education facilities, Stockholm University. Combining a long-time relationship between supplier Septon Electronic AB and Stockholm University and RF frequency shifts in Sweden, the upgraded solution was perfectly coordinated, timed and implemented for 2011 sessions.

Exclusively distributing HARMAN professional brands in Sweden, Septon and Atea installed a future-proof digital system that was easy to handle and offered stable transmission ability. Atea installed 48 channels of DMS 700 digital wireless, all networked through HARMAN Professional’s HiQnet System Architect™.

“The Stockholm University Support and Maintenance Department laid out the challenges clearly from the beginning: a future-proof, simple-to-use and logistically sound more