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BIG BEAST STAGE VISUAL EXPERIENCE Visual Noise, Disguise and PRG announced the successful completion of their recent work on Mdlbeast Soundstorm 2025, combining creative, technical and production expertise to deliver a next-level fan experience at the festival. powered every stage and screen, with the festival being the first in the region to deploy their own recently unveiled, new GX 3+ media server.
Now in its sixth year, 2025’s Soundstorm festival welcomed hundreds of thousands of fans over three days. Attendees enjoyed performances from an impressive line-up of around 250 artists, including Cardi B, Post Malone, Pitbull, Calvin Harris and more. After a record-breaking event the year before, the festival grounds and stages were reimagined as musical districts for fans to explore like a city.
Visual Noise produced visuals and oversaw cameras across seven of the festival’s stages along with hundreds of informational screens throughout the site. The flagship Big Beast stage, delivered by PRG, was redesigned to showcase ultra-low-latency visuals on a vast LED canvas capable of ingesting 10 UHD 4K feeds. Disguise
RISE AV LAUNCHES ASIA PACIFIC COUNCIL Following the success of its January 2025 UK launch, Rise AV, a global non-profit initiative dedicated to supporting and advancing women in the audio-visual industry, announced its expansion into the Asia-Pacific with its first overseas council and mentoring programme. The Rise AV Mentoring programme, beginning in Singapore and Hong Kong, provides six months of structured mentorship and professional development for women at all career stages. Applications are open for female mentees and industry-leading mentors of all genders. Participation is free, thanks to the generous support of industry sponsors, including QSC and ROE Visual. The Council will include senior industry leaders from across APAC, from Maureen Aw, senior AV manager at Marina Bay Sands to Sand Leung, Nova Range’s managing director; Angela Franco, senior manager of strategy and business operations at APAC, QSC; Sujith Sivaram, ESCO’s managing director; Molly Chow, Vega Global’s executive director; Candice Siow, regional director at Lightware; Grace Kuo, chief strategy officer at ROE Visual and Jeff Shoesmith, senior channel sales rep – PA/VA, Honeywell.
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES TOUR Van-Damme cabling solutions will continue to support the production preparation behind bringing Music of the Spheres to life. He recalled beginning the groundwork ‘around five years ago, just after we’d
of Coldplay’s global Music of the Spheres World Tour , one of the most-ambitious and highest- attended tours in live music history. Since its 2022 launch, the tour has delivered groundbreaking, sustainability-focused stadium shows across multiple continents, with more dates in 2026 and 2027. Behind the scenes, the tour’s audio team oversees an intricate, ever-moving ecosystem designed to deliver the same emotional impact to millions of fans, night after night. This means that every part of the signal chain has to be rock-solid – from city to city, climate to climate and stage to stage. FOH engineer Dan Green, who has been with Coldplay since 1998, spoke about the scale of
finished the record,’ as the team shaped the audio vision that would eventually launch in Costa Rica in 2022. “We’re now finishing up this part of the tour before taking a little break in Wembley with 10 shows.”
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