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BEAVERTON, OR – Biamp Systems promoted Gina Napoli to vice president of marketing. Napoli reports to Steve Metzger, who was named president of Biamp earlier this year.
As vice president, Napoli will retain her key marketing
responsibilities, which include developing and driving the global marketing
plan, directing new product introductions, overseeing corporate communications,
and directing the activities of the company's external marketing agencies.

As head of training, a key duty will be to advance the Biamp
Education Experience. Napoli will manage a global training team dedicated to
ensuring that integration partners receive the training they need to design and
install Biamp products.

POLAND: Alex Carlin has earned the new Guinness World Record for Longest Concert by a Solo Artist with the aid of a Telefunken Elektroakustik M 80 vocal mic and Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar. Eclipsing the previous record of 27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds, Carlin performed for 32 hours at the Pub Bourbon Street, Radomsko, Poland.

Source: What, no encore? Telefunken mic is part of 32-hour solo performance

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Still with us? Here’s today’s hot picks for panels down at SXSW in Austin, TX:

11:00 AM
Adult Rock Music Meeting
Lots of great AAA radio folks on this panel, including NPR’s Bob Boilen, MPR’s Jim McGuinn, and WXPN’s Bruce Warren.

11:00 AM
CLE 1 – Music Policy, Legislation, and Food Fights
Folks from the NMPA, AFTRA and SoundExchange will talk about legislative issues.

11:00 AM
DIY or Sign with a Label
A2IM’s Rich Bengloff will be joined by all sorts of cool indie label folks. read more

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Source: SXSW: Hot panel picks for Friday, March 19

The AX-Series are an improvement on the design of the successful A and SX Series monitors.

Source: ADAM Audio Announces Introduction Of AX-Series Monitors

GENEVA – SEAT S.A., a Spanish subsidiary of Volkswagen's Audi Brand Group, debuted several new car models at the Geneva Motor Show with a performance by Shakira. Pere Capell of BTM Sound specified an Out Board TiMax2 SoundHub for the multi-channel sound system used at the event.
TiMax2 SoundHub
was used as the system matrix to tie together the exhibition stand's
distributed presentation system and a concert sound system used for the press
launch.

SWITZERLAND: PSN-e has been informed that sales of Midas’s PRO6 and XL8 into install enjoyed “large double digit growth” during 2009, reports David Davies. In the latest in a long line of high-profile installations, X-Tra Club in Zurich has been equipped with a PRO6 Live Audio System by Swiss distributor Audiotech.

Source: Zurich club selects Midas PRO6 as install sales continue to boom

Wow. We just wrapped up a panel here at SXSW called Creative Capitol: Music, Culture and Policy Under Obama, and it was amazing. Here’s what the roster looked like:

Michael Bracy Policy Director, Future of Music Coalition

Rachel Goslins President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities


Austin Schlick General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission


Tim Tuten Hideout/Department of Education


Christine Varney Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Department of Justice

This panel of Beltway peeps covered a LOT of ground, from net neutrality and broadband expansion to music education to the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger to the Obama family’s dancing chops. It would be impossible to do a full rundown, but you can check out our Twitter feed (hashtag #SXSW) for a realtime, 140-character play-by-play. read more

MINA enables smaller venues to provide their audiences with quality sound in a compact package.

Source: Meyer Sound Launches MINA, The Smallest Loudspeaker In The MILO Family