In response to requests from key broadcasters and production houses, including SKY, ITV, the BBC and RAI in Italy, DK-Technologies is launching the MSD100C Loudness, which is designed to tackle the issue of the perceived loudness of audio signals. (more…)

Artist, activist and curator Lisa Kirk features fog effects created with Look Solutions‘ Viper NT fog generator in her latest project, REVOLUTION!, a multimedia installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art located in Long Island City, NY. Consistently challenging white box aesthetics and institutional elitism with democratic verve, Kirk‘s work has evolved as a series of scripted events and their ephemeral fall-out. Her projects have served to dramatize a shift in focus to the significance of social rituals.

REVOLUTION! began as a fragrance developed in collaboration with Symrise perfumers, based on interviews with journalists, activists, and political radicals who responded to the question, “What is the smell of revolution?” Using the resulting fragrance, which blends the odor of smoke, gasoline, tear gas, burnt rubber and decaying flesh, Kirk addresses the issue of contemporary luxury branding with interactive perfume displays, ad campaigns, a mock front-page story in The Baltimore Sun and the organization of the Revolutionary Knitting Circle. (more…)

Quirky alternative indie-rock duo They Might Be Giants (TMBG) has been beguiling audiences since 1982. Now in its 25th year, it is still going strong and is currently on tour in the USA with a three-piece backing band. Mixing at the gigs is being done with a DiGiCo D5 and D1 package, supplied by New York-based audio company SK Systems. (more…)

The summer season by Switzerland‘s ThunerSeespiele theatre company saw a month of performances of the musical Les Miserables take place on the company‘s unique outdoor stage, with a DiGiCo D1 console making its debut on Front of House and monitors. (more…)

ELKHART, Indiana – December 2007 – As Crown International has successfully transitioned to a lean manufacturing approach over the past few years, the company’s endeavor has not gone unnoticed. As a result of dramatically streamlining its manufacturing, further improving both efficiency and product quality, Crown recently had the distinction of being a tour site for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) 2007 International Conference in Chicago. (more…)

San Clemente, CA–December 2007–iPort (www.iportmusic.com), the company which introduced the worlds first in-wall music system for the Apple iPod®, is becoming an important add-on feature for new homebuilders across the country. Recently, Holliday Development installed 20 in-wall iPorts into their Blue Star Corner Homes in Emeryvile, CA. (more…)

Sight & Sound Theatres, a company which combines story, song and spectacular staging to bring biblical stories to life, is employing an inventory of Clay Paky lights to visualize and dramatize the epic shows it produces at its Strasburg, Pennsylvania Millennium Theatre. Clay Paky fixtures will also be part of the lighting complement at Sight & Sound‘s new Branson, Missouri theater which is still under construction. (more…)

Minneapolis, MN, USA — (November 30, 2007) – www.chiefmfg.com – Chief® Manufacturing, the industry leader in flat panel TV and projector mounts, introduces a new series of state-of-the art in-wall swing arm mounts. Designed for 26-63” flat panel TVs up to 200 lbs (90.7 kg), the new MIWRF™ and PIWRF™ Series allow perfect TV placement during installation without the need to retrofit existing wall structures. Simply cut out the drywall at the desired wall location and install the new in-wall box. (more…)

RICHARDSON, Texas – Nov. 30, 2007 – AMX® announced today that Gary Schafer has joined the company as vice president of regional sales for the central United States. Schafer is a software industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in sales and customer relationship management. (more…)

Miramar, FL–November 29, 2007–SIM2, the Italian manufacturer whose striking high-performance HD home theater projectors are known worldwide for their pristine video and dramatic cabinet designs, showcases the “Glamour of Technology” with its exciting new-generation design of the award-winning Grand Cinema C3X projector. SIM2‘s C3X 1080 is the smallest and highest-performing Full HD 3 Chip projector on the market, and is one of the first to use Texas Instruments DLP Products‘ latest DarkChip™4 chip to integrate superior contrast and benchmark-quality 1080p video display with the functions and features required to power today‘s sophisticated home theaters–all within the dramatic industrial design for which SIM2 is justly famous. (more…)