06 l July 2014 business EUROPE Pro Sound Awards: Finalists revealed THE FINALISTS...
The 1975, fi nalist for Best Recording Production
IT GIVES us great pleasure to present to you the category fi nalists for the second Pro Sound Awards! The editors from across the Intent Media titles have whittled down all the entries to what they consider to be the four most worthy fi nalists for each award. Now we let our independent panel of experts pick the winners...
The Pro Sound Awards 2014 recognise outstanding achievement in professional audio, and take place on 25 September at the world-famous Ministry of Sound nightclub in London. We’ll be profi ling the fi nalists individually in more detail in forthcoming issues of PSNEurope. In the meantime, here are their names – and stay tuned for the winners of the prestigious Grand Prix, Lifetime Achievement and Rising Star, to be revealed at a later date! Have got your ticket yet?
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WORLD InstallAwards: they shoot, they score!
The inaugural InstallAwards, celebrating excellence in installed audio, video and lighting, took place on 12 June. Paddy Baker ran the show
THE FIRST InstallAwards took place on the evening of 12 June in the shadow of Wembley Stadium. While across the world Brazil were battling it out with Croatia in the opening match of the FIFA World Cup, the assembled crowd at the Hilton London Wembley were concerned with matters closer to home – who would win the InstallAwards for teamwork,
star product and best project across fi ve market categories. The awards were presented by comedian Adam Bloom to winners in the education; public display and retail; residential; sports and performing arts; and corporate and industrial categories. (For a full lost of winners, see the InstallAwards website.) PSNEurope sponsored the sports and performing arts category.
John Pellowe of Meyer Sound collects the best project award for its steerable CAL column array loudspeaker installation in the Golden Hall, Musikverein, Vienna
LIVE/TOURING SOUND Engineer of the Year Reay Grant Dave Kay Sam Proctor Jonny Lucas
Best Tour Sound Production London Speaker Hire for the Connections by Le Book event
SSE for Avicii’s European tour Capital Sound for British Summer Time, Hyde Park
Adlib for Jack Whitehall Gets Around arena tour
Best Theatre Sound Chris Mace for I Can’t Sing SSE for Jesus Christ Superstar Clive Goodwin for Once National Theatre sound department for The Light Princess
STUDIO Engineer of the Year James Ford Andrew Dudman Dan Cox Mike Crossey
Best Recording Production Arcade Fire – Refl ektor The 1975 – The 1975 John Newman – Love Me Again Paloma Faith – A Perfect Contradiction
Best Studio Assault and Battery (Miloco) Snap Studios Metropolis Astar Studios
Best Sound in Post-Production Gravity X-Men: Days of Future Past Under the Skin Noah
INSTALLED SOUND Best Permanent Installation Project Funktion One for Electric Paris EM Acoustics/Sound by Design for the Royal Albert Hall
Powersoft for Wall of Bass, Austria
Stouenborg/Meyer Sound for Jyske Bank, Copenhagen
Best Temporary Installation Project PreSonus at the Phoenix Open Hole
Paul Arditti/Autograph for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source Distribution/Genelec for the Cock ’n’ Bull Gallery
Powersoft/Soundart GmbH for Dortmund Supercross
Team of the Year SSE Audio Group Sound by Design (for the Royal Albert Hall)
DJW Install (for HMS Alliance) TG Baker (for Waterloo station)
In addition, Paddy Baker, Installation’s editor, presented two special awards to mark the publication’s 15th anniversary. The 15 Years of Excellence award was given to Barco in recognition of its technology leadership over this period; and the 15 Years of Achievement award (sponsored by Renkus- Heinz) went to Robert Simpson, founder director of Electrosonic, for his work in educating the industry, as well as his status as an industry founding father. “I think everyone had a great evening at the fi rst InstallAwards,” Paddy Baker says. “There was a brilliant atmosphere in the room and we partied away till the small hours. Do I understand that some people were playing football somewhere?”
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BROADCAST AUDIO Best Facility dock 10, MediaCityUK Savalas, Glasgow Pinewood Studios The Farm
Broadcast Event of the Year 2014 Winter Olympics (Channel 4) Red Bull Revolutions in Sound (Delta Sound/SIS Live)
Unity – A Concert for Stephen Lawrence (Red TX)
War Horse live (Mixbus)
Team of the Year United Audio Project (Rowan Jennings and Karl Mainzer)
The X Factor (led by sound director Robert Edwards)
BBC Proms MasterChef series 10
MARKETING INITIATIVE/ CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR Idea: brand launch Prism: Mic to Monitor Shure: Call for Legends Powersoft: X Series launch
Powersoft’s Wall of Bass in Austria PROSOUNDAWARDS D
Thursday, 25th September 2014 Ministry Of Sound, London
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