"As a stage manager, your main job is to achieve the impossible." Author and experienced stage manager, Liam Klenk shares insights on how to maintain calmness and balance in a challenging environment.
Keep your cool backstage as a stage manager: 12 insights
By Liam Klenk 20. August 2020
Temaer: collaboration, avpro, professional, stage manager, 12 tips
Navigating The New Normal in Business Communication
By Nevil Bounds 6. August 2020
‘The New Normal’ is a phrase which has been used and perhaps over-used in the last few months when describing our lives post Covid-19 lockdown. From a business and meetings point of view, how will our interaction change and what will that interaction look like?
Temaer: professional, communication, videoconference, covid19
Guide to becoming a media server professional – Part 9: The network standards
By David Aleksandersen 23. July 2020
Have you considered becoming a professional media server operator or user? Unsure of what technical skills you need to become one? In the ninth blog in the series, we look at networked video and audio standards – a topic that seems hotter than ever these days.
Temaer: network video, audio, network device interface, mediaserver, professional
The Early Synth Days: Electronic music, the 70s and start of Dataton
By Björn Sandlund 11. July 2020
This week, we're adding a dash of history to the blog with an excerpt from "The Early Synth Days" by Dataton founder, Björn Sandlund. Aimed at readers with a major interest in synth history (and/or the cultural climate of 1970s Sweden!), the story begins at the world's most advanced electronic music studio and ends with a startup focused on modular solutions for playback. Read on…
Temaer: dataton, communication, history, synth
Guide to becoming a media server professional – Part 8: The network
By David Aleksandersen 25. June 2020
Have you considered becoming a professional media server operator or user? Unsure of what technical skills you need to become one? In blog number eight in the series, we continue with the infrastructure and system setup, moving on to network standards and connectivity. So fetch a coffee and let’s go!
Temaer: cables, displays, video pro, mediaserver, professional, adapters
Dear Diary – VJ Spetto on life in lockdown
By VJ Spetto 19. June 2020
This week we hand the blog over to internationally-acclaimed VJ Spetto, founder of United VJs, who reflects on life before and after a pandemic, with a candid look at the downsides and (unexpected) upsides of life in lockdown.
Temaer: video, avpro, professional, lockdown, VJ
The science of color and light
By Michael Cassera 9. June 2020
Additive color mixing, Newton's Theory of Color, subtractive mixing, CMY fixtures… Las Vegas-based lighting designer and technical manager Michael Cassera examines the theory behind color and light.
Temaer: lighting design, avpro, professional, color
Going virtual – museums in the age of corona
By Nevil Bounds 21. May 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on visitor numbers to museums, attractions and tourist destinations around the world. Not to mention the all-important revenue that is attached to these. What can on-line and ‘virtual’ tours offer and how many organisations have grasped the opportunities that lie out there?
Temaer: audience engagement, VR, professional, communication, AR
While virtual reality as a term has been around for quite some time, multiexperience, augmented reality and mixed reality are relatively new terms. But what do these technologies and terms encompass? And how will people-centric multiexperience impact the audio-visual business?
Temaer: future, entertainment technology, networking, VR, AR, multiexperience
There's no such thing as a free lunch
By Arica Rust 16. April 2020
Sound engineer Arica Rust takes a look at some of the challenges in the world of live audio and discusses the value of a scientific approach to system optimization to create the ultimate sound experience.
Temaer: sound, audience engagement, avpro, professional