Archive for the 'Cool' Category

Live Design Sound Awards Presented at BSMC

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Last weekend I had the great pleasure of traveling to New York as a sponsor for the 2008 Broadway Sound Master Classes. I had the honor of meeting so many amazing folks, from Scott Lehrer (a QLab user whose work on South Pacific was recently nominated for the first-ever Tony Award for Best Sound […]

Sighting: Lifecoach in the West End

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Anthony Lynch writes:

The show hasn’t opened yet (it opens officially on 22nd May) but I will be using QLab for the sound playback of Lifecoach starring UK comedian Phil Juptitus at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End.

Having been introduced to QLab at Theatre South Carolina, where I’ve been for the last year, I am […]

Sighting: Theatre in the Square

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Chris Moore writes:

Theatre in the Square located in Marietta, Georgia recently opened the last show of Main Stage season with Poetry of Pizza. I used QLab from start to scratch. It work flawlessly!! AS ALWAYS!! I used Digital Performer 5 to record and edit sound effects on one Mac Book Pro and used a shared […]

Live Design 2008 Product of the Year!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

I’m thrilled and honored to announce that QLab has been chosen as one of the Live Design 2008 Sound Products of the Year!

http://livedesignonline.com/news/2008_ld_products_of_the_year_announced_0407/

Expect to see a writeup in the May issue of Live Design. In addition, Live Design will be recognizing all the product winners at a reception during this year’s Broadway Sound Master […]

Sighting: South Pacific at Lincoln Center

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Last Thursday evening the first revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s masterpiece South Pacific opened at Lincoln Center with sound powered by QLab.  There hasn’t been a single Broadway revival of this landmark work since its original run ended in 1954.  Figure 53 is extremely proud to be part of this highly anticipated event.

South Pacific joins a […]

Bobby Andersen describes creating the QLab icon

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Wunderkind Bobby Andersen gave an impromptu talk about creating the QLab icon at Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch’s C4. Check it:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/9

Sightings: Broadway, West End, Regional…pretty much everywhere

Friday, February 29th, 2008

It’s getting hard to track all the places QLab is used these days.

The McCarter Theatre in New Jersey just wrote up a blog post about their new QLab system that will run four projectors in an upcoming production of The Mad 7.

On Broadway we’ve seen David Mamet’s new play November, Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, […]

Sightings: Mackey’s Lounge / BlahBlahBlah:BANG! / Our Town

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

A triple dose of in-the-wild news!
Phil Packer writes to report:

Here’s a little “Rat-Pack” thing we do called “Mackey’s Lounge” for “Right Now Productions” in Walton-On-Thames near London.
The two QLabs are a main and a standby, they are linked together by the box you can see in the front centre, which is basically two USB keyboard […]

Sighting: Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Chris Moore, the Head Audio Engineer at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, reports:

The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre is the first major performing arts facility to be built in the Atlanta, GA area in 40 years. This 2,750 seat theatre features the best state of the art systems money can buy. Two years and […]

iPhone and iPod touch remote controls

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Brought to my attention by Jesse Kriss and his RSS feed of music/design/art/visualization goodness:
iPhone, iPod Touch as Music Controllers: Transmit MIDI or OSC