Attendees at the recent Performing Arts Managers Conference in San Francisco, California, were given a demonstration of the Constellation sound system at the Zellerbach Rehearsal Hall at the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center. It was an ear-opening experience, in

U2 started off playing small venues. So did Belle & Sebastian, the Cure, the Police…you could literally add hundreds of big-name acts to this list. Small venues are the proving grounds for building audiences and polishing performances. It’s important, then, that they c

Below is a great video of the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing Edgard Varèse’s “Amériques” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The piece is enhanced by an architectural video installation created by Refik Anadol that analyzes and responds to the music and the conductorR

The 5th Annual Lights All Night Festival just packed 40,000 citizens of EDM nation into the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. Al Rojas, assistant director at the convention center, invited IAVM’s magazine team to attend the 2013 festival where we saw first

Want to get under par? Perhaps some Charlie Parker will help. Maybe smooth out your swing? Try some Sonny Rollins. Really, any jazz will do, because a new study shows that listening to it will improve your golf game. “The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of