André Rieu Stages a Classical Spectacle for Australia with Dramatic Visual and Crystalline Audio from Meyer Sound

Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu recently brought the world's largest transportable set to stadiums across Australia, staging an unparalleled classical spectacle for anticipating audiences. The stunning production included a 125-meter-wide stage with a 600-square-meter ice skating rink, a gold coach pulled by six white horses, and a full-size reproduction of Vienna's famed Schönbrunn Castle, replete with golden ballroom and gilded chandeliers. Montreal-based Solotech met Rieu's demand for sonic excellence with a state-of-the-art Meyer Sound system based around the MILO line array loudspeaker and the SB-1 parabolic long-throw sound beam for reaching the farthest seats in the vast space. Read More »

Meyer Sound UltraSeries Delivers Standout Performance at Glen Street Theatre

With a wide selection of performance venues, theatres, and the historic Sydney Opera House vying for the public's attention, the caliber of even the smaller theatres in Sydney, Australia tends to be exceptionally high. Read More »

Musical Billy Elliot Hits Australia with Music, Dance and Meyer Sound M'elodie

Following an award-winning run in the UK, Lee Hall and Elton John's musical Billy Elliot opened to sellout crowds in Sydney, Australia's Capitol Theatre. Read More »

Month-Long Sydney Festival Gets Sonic Boost from Coda Audio and Meyer Sound

For three weeks this January, Sydney closed down several city streets and held an eclectic celebration featuring over 500 artists such as Brian Wilson, Bjork and Sufjan Stevens. Over a million people enjoyed the summer sun and rich festivities at outdoor stages, tents, and dance floors as well as musical acts and dance troupes in performing arts venues including CarriageWorks and Sydney Opera House. For the 14th year, Sydney, Australia-based Coda Audio handled audio and production duties with self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Meyer Sound M1D Well Married to Chapel at Sydney's Hillsong Church

Crowned as the largest church in Australian history, Sydney's Hillsong Church has added an intimate, 300-seat chapel to accommodate weddings and other gatherings. The chapel's gracefully arcing roof encloses a spacious vaulted interior, while a fully windowed front wall admits abundant natural light. Along with pleasing aesthetics, the chapel's architecture also introduces acoustical properties that are problematic for the chapel's events. The solution of choice was a powerful - yet discreet - system of Meyer Sound M1D line arrays.
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Fireworks in Australian Sky Celebrate National Day with Meyer Sound MILO and Coda Audio

Australia Day, the country's official national day, is a celebration of the first European settlement on the continent. With over 5,000 events planned across Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and beyond, the myriad of celebrations across the country traditionally draw well over eight million people. This year's Australia Day weekend concluded with the popular Sydney Ports Jazz on the Water concerts and a spectacular fireworks display, organized by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and produced by Andrew Lopez and Adam Huie. An audience of over 150,000 packed the Cockle Bay in Darling Harbour for the concerts and fireworks, powered by a robust Meyer Sound system. Read More »

Meyer Sound Brings New Self-Powered MM-4XP Miniature Loudspeaker to Sydney's Entech

At Entech 2008 (February 11 - 13) in Sydney, Australia, Meyer Sound will highlight a range of innovative self-powered loudspeaker systems that combine compact dimensions with extraordinary power and clarity. Visitors of the booth can also witness some of the industry's most powerful and robust software tools for creating high-performance audio systems. Read More »

Meyer Sound Self-Powered Loudspeakers Take Australia's Powerhouse Museum Further, Faster, Higher

The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney's Darling Harbour is the largest museum in Australia. It hosts a continually expanding selection of more than 22 permanent exhibitions, in addition to hundreds of interactive exhibits spanning history, science, technology, design, industry, decorative arts, music, and more.
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Miss Saigon in Australia Adds Meyer Sound M'elodie to Their Sound Repertoire

After more than three years playing to sellout houses throughout the United Kingdom, North America, and Korea, a new production of the musical Miss Saigon opened in Australia to glowing reviews and wildly enthusiastic audiences. Created under the auspices of British impresario Cameron Mackintosh, the tour Down Under has been scaled back from its original large-scale format in order to accommodate a wider range of theatres, but no compromises were made in cutting-edge visual techniques or high-impact, immersive sound. To deliver the utmost in audio coverage and quality with a smaller footprint than previous productions, sound designer Peter Grubb, a director of System Sound Pty Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia, modified his previous design for the Korean production to a configuration incorporating eight self-powered M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers. Read More »

Australia's Largest Convention Center Replete with Meyer Sound

In 1988, the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre (SCEC) opened its doors to booming business and high demand for a first-class venue for meetings. Set on the edge of Sydney's picturesque Darling Harbour, the center was literally an overnight success, and remains to this day the largest convention center in Australia. More than 600 different conventions, events, meetings and product launches are held at the SCEC every year, with attendees at many major conferences numbering more than 5,000. Read More »

Meyer Sound Australia

In September 1996 business partners Harley Richardson and Steve Devine began discussions with Meyer Sound about becoming its Australian agent, believing that Meyer would be the best solution for government clients that had requirements for high quality audio systems. The timing was perfect; having investigated the size of the Australian market, Meyer Sound was actively seeking someone to set up Meyer Sound Australia as a sales and service outlet. Read More »

Meyer Powers Surround Matrix for Sydney Opera House Premiere

Sydney Opera House is not only a busy performing arts center, but also one of the world's best-known architectural landmarks. With the distinctive "white sails" of its roofline creating a commanding presence on Sydney's waterfront, the building is a star in its own right, making it a fitting venue for the high-profile premiere of a major motion picture like The Matrix Revolutions. But it's no small challenge to transform a hall such as SOH's Opera Theatre – designed for opera and ballet –- into a suitable sonic setting for the full-throttle 5.1-channel soundtrack of a contemporary action film. "It was essential to the success of this show that every seat had great sound with full surround coverage," says David Claringbold, head of Sydney Opera House's sound department. To make it work, the department drew on its longstanding experience with self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound, crafting a system that delivered both clarity and power for a full-impact experience. Read More »

Australia's Cabaret Nets Award with Meyer System

In Australia's live entertainment industry, there's no higher accolade than the Helpmann Award, established by the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA) to recognize excellence and distinguished artistic achievement. This year's presentation was a particular triumph for a Broadway-originated revival of Cabaret that has been touring the country's lyric theater circuit. In addition to awards for Best Musical, Best Musical Direction, and in several acting categories, Cabaret also took top honors in a crucial technical category: Best Sound Design. For the designers, John Scandrett and Julian Spink of System Sound in Prahran, Victoria, the recognition was made all the sweeter by the challenges they overcame along the way — with the help of a versatile collection of self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Sydney Opera House Taps Meyer Sound for Key Festival Events

From its modest beginnings in 1976, the Sydney Festival has grown into one of the world's premier international arts events, presenting three weeks of dance, opera, theater, visual arts and music ranging from hip-hip to Haydn. The 2003 Festival drew paid audiences of over 93,000 and roughly 1.5 million to the free outdoor events, and once again the Sydney Opera House was the setting for several festival highlights – with Meyer Sound systems on hand to provide appropriately stellar audio. Read More »

M Series Ensures Flexibility at Sydney Opera House

The courtyard at the famed Sydney Opera House was recently transformed into a spectacular open-air performance space, set against the stunning backdrop of the "white sails." The Forecourt had been used previously for New Years Eve celebrations and special concerts during the Sydney Olympics. While in past years rented sound reinforcement was acceptable, this new use demanded a dedicated production setup that was flexible enough to meet the variety of performances and configurations planned for the space. In keeping with the high standards associated with this prestige venue, a Meyer Sound M Series system was chosen. Read More »

Meyer Sound Reaches Out at the ICAAP in Melbourne, Australia

A Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker system helped to get the message across in word and song to approximately four thousand delegates from the ICAAP (International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific) this past October. The Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, Australia hosted the conference in which a mixture of compelling, sobering speeches and moving and uplifting theatrical acts made for a remarkable evening. Featured speakers included the Governor of Victoria, Sir John Landy, The Premier of Victoria, Steve Bracks and the Federal Health Minister Michael Woolridge. Read More »

Meyer fills the Tivoli bill at Sydney's Capitol Theatre

Tivoli is a glitzy razzmatazz of cancan girls, ventriloquists, battlefield vignettes, Swan Lake and vaudeville. In the distant (and inconceivable) era before television, singers, dancers, contortionists and even balloon folders entertained people all around Australia at Tivoli theatres. A co-production of Sydney Dance Company (SDC) and The Australian Ballet, this colorful, zingy production features a 10-piece band, recorded music, and vocalists including Linda Nagle. One of the stops on its national tour was Sydney's Capitol Theatre, a century-old venue recently restored to its former ornate and gilded glory. Read More »

Australian Moon Shines on Buena Vista Social Club

The crowd arrived early for the Buena Vista Social Club outdoor concert as the sun set over Sydney Harbour. A giant cumulus cloud, framed by the sails of the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, glowed tangerine and pink. Tonight, the Cuban band would play its final, sold out concert on the forecourt of the Opera House, surely one of the most splendid sites on earth. Read More »