year 2017
Musical ‘family’ in exile
Story of the Sham Trio living in Berlin. . . . Berlin magazine article of their story with embedded full video of their Saturday 1st July 2017 concert…
Place Fédéral ‘à la télé’
While filming the Bern Pride in 2017, we looked for how the Swiss “live” television green-screen interviews showing the Federal square and the “Palais Fédéral” are produced. Has…
Grand Théâtre Genève
Geneva’s Opera House (Le Grand Théâtre) dates from 1879. It was significantly destroyed by fire in 1951 and re-opened in 1962. There was renovation in 1997/1998 which upgraded…
Post-production (3)
It might look a mess, but efficiency won out over aesthetics in this case. A bit of background might help explain why. When volume was low and when…
AMR, Sud des Alpes
Home to the “association pour l’encouragement de la musique improvisée” (AMR). Within the house are teaching facilities, rehearsal studios and two concert spaces shown on this short video,…
AMR 4nights (3)
A composition by Sylvain Fournier, performed by Le Grupetto on the first of the four evenings “comme au studio” 14th November 2013. Overview – 1st video – vernissage.…
L’Opéra des Nations (1)
marcomathieumedia is as fascinated by technique back-stage as by the performance itself – each decent production involves so much. And behind the ‘stage’ are other back stories -…
No more car – change of life
After many years of car ownership, and of driving everywhere for everything, our fourth BMW finally gave up under pressure of an ailing catalyser — a decision was…
An apple is an apple?
CNN just put out an ad about it being an honest and trustworthy TV network – not one of ‘fake news’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vckz6EAn30Y&rel=0 Numerous video responses have been posted…
EPFL (2) – DNA
Montreux jazz stored as DNA – at this link Scientists from Microsoft and the University of Washington have reached an early but important milestone in synthetic DNA storage…
Swiss Railways (2)
The Rhätische Bahn (Rhaetian Railways) is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage and comprises an incredible number of amazing tunnels, bridges, viaducts and earthworks. Probably the most iconic…
UN-work in the sun
For the first time since our involvement with NGO activities at the UN, we filmed a series of interviews in the grounds of the United Nations in Geneva.…
Giants in Geneva
Invited by the Théâtre de Carouge – Atelier de Genève and the City of Geneva, Royal de Luxe presented a new creation from the saga of the Giants…
Science&Faith ProjectPage
Announcing a compact project page for the 2015 Science & Faith Geneva sessions. (Four sessions over four months, 16 panelists from specialties of science and of faith. We…
Shard & Tower Bridge
The Shard is termed a “vertical city” as it houses offices, private apartments, a hotel, restaurants, and public viewing platforms on the 69th to 72nd floors. The official…
Conservatoire Populaire
Le Conservatoire Populaire de Musique, Danse et Théâtre We have recorded twice during 2017 in the concert hall (160 seats) located in the 3rd basement of this magnificent…
Pride Bern 2017
Our regional Swiss-Romande Pride this year was held in the capital city of Bern. The local mayor is very supportive and you can hear his voice over the…
Rabarama art
Reggio di Calabria & Geneva Along the water-front promenade (Lungomare Falcomatà) in Reggio di Calabria are three sculptures by Rabarama – amidst very large ficus trees. (Paola Epifani,…
Swiss Railways (1)
Over several years of visiting central and Eastern Switzerland – we have captured images from the home of the Rhätische Bahn and many other iconic regional railways. Most…
GYSLER/PEREZ/NICK 3io
a privilege to studio record this trio at the Conservatoire Populaire de Genève in June 2017. We used the concert room for the second time that year –…
51st Montreux 2017
At the 2017 festival, quite a bit of concert live-streaming this year – we visited Montreux (Friday 8th July) noting that tickets for the Montreux Jazz Club (in…
EPFL (1) – Heritage/Art labs
HERITAGE & ART LABS Original intention of this visit to EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) was to experience the Montreux Jazz Lab listening space (see Montreux Jazz…
Transport perspectives (6)
BROCKEN STEAM – as part of a 2017 “kultour” in the land of Martin Luther, we ventured westwards to the Brocken (Brocken mountain) which is a steam train…
Chaplin Corsier/Vevey
We visited both the Nestlé alimentarium in Vevey and Chaplin’s World in Corsier above Vevey. Chaplin’s World is excellent – ‘well worth the detour’, as the Michelin guide…
2017 – comment(2)
France – oooff . . . . . . Thank God for some sense among the majority of French voters to have avoided a major blow to Europe…
Les Brenets
A day trip to Les Brenets – a long train journey for friends from Zurich — followed by a high path walk, a backpack pic-nick, and a boat…
Piano mics
Ask those with experience in placing microphones for piano recording and the chances are you will hear of it being an art form rather than a reproducible technique. …
Auto Salon Trends 2017
In 2014 & 2015 we published Geneva Auto Salon documentaries in the form of “following our visitor” who is looking (but not too urgently) to replace his Volvo.…
On-location: cathedral
Major icon of Geneva’s old town – the cathedral has large spacial acoustics, plenty of natural lighting as well as good artificial lighting for video work. The sound…
Transport perspectives (5)
Analog video example (2) from our digital archive project — the Vallée de Joux steam train — filmed in 1992 on Sony Hi8 analog tape – one of…
Science & Faith
Science and Faith — project of Saint Andrews Four live sessions of this project were filmed in 2015 – there were panel presentations /discussions and table discussions with…
2017-comment(1)
Every week is a week of reflection, but the week between Christmas and New Year seems even more so . . encouraged a little by TV and web…
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