Sapphire Touch

Over the summer, 30 Seconds to Mars headed out on an ambitious festival run across Europe, covering 16 countries with audiences of over 40,000 people as well as 2 shows on a private Croatian Island for a “Mars Island” experience. Ensuring the band’s vision became a reality was experienced production designer Tom Campbell of MIRRAD with his Avolites Sapphire Touch and Q3 Media Server.

The design theme took inspiration from the artist James Turrell (both Campbell and Jared Leto are fans of...

If there were an award given to the band combining the most eclectic mix of musical genres, San Diego’s Slightly Stoopid would be an ideal contender for the prize. Blending a fusion of folk, rock, reggae, dub and blues with hip-hop, funk, psychedelic, metal and punk, Slightly Stoopid has steadily grown its devoted fan base since Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell signed the group to his Skunk Records label in the mid-’90s. Celebrated for its relentless touring and engaging live shows, the...

A lot has happened in Maggie Rogers’ world since 2016, when a video of her demoing a then-newly-recorded song, “Alaska,” for Pharrell Williams at NYU went viral. Following opening slots on major tours with both HAIM and Mumford & Sons last year, Rogers dropped her own major label debut, Heard in a Past Life, this past January, which charted in the second highest slot of the Billboard 200. Consequently, the artist has spent much of 2019 on the road in support...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – August 2019 — Aspiring baseball players call the major leagues “the show,” but in recent years all sports have incorporated more entertainment elements as games, and even former backroom transactions like player drafts, have been transformed into full-fledged events. Major League Baseball’s 90th Annual All-Star Game, recently held at Cleveland’s Progressive Field on July 9, is a perfect example of this shift. Adding to the high-production ambience was Greensboro, North Carolina-based SE Systems, which provided lighting and audio...