Sound Reinforcement for YES Campaign’s show

24th November 2006 at 11:59 | | COMMENT

The YES Campaign’s music show was held in Dharumavantha School on the 24th and 25th November 2006.

At the planning meeting, I requested for the input lists of the bands via email and got sketchy details prior to the event. The weather was bad and there were massive delays in the work flow as the stage was not completed on time. The bands had access to the stage, just a couple of hours before the event and the sound check was called off at the last-minute, at the request of the organizers. It seems that the exhibitors complained about the loud sound.
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Redhan Sound Reinforcement

24th August 2006 at 12:00 | | COMMENT

Redhan_soundpass.jpgRedhan organized by MCs Event Management Group in association with Maldives Surfing Association was held in Kuda Bandos on the 24th of August 2006. The sound setup initially was designed for an audience of 2000 pax and to cater for a live band and three DJs.  

Initially I planned to have two tunings for the master sound, one for the live band and one for the DJs. However, due to massive delays with co-ordination and with bad weather, the live band was cancelled last minute and only the DJs performed. [More]

I’m on flickr.com

3rd July 2006 at 07:00 | | COMMENT

With my continued interest in photography, although with long breaks, I have started taking photographs with my recently purchased Canon 350D. Generally I am quite happy with the camera although I would like to have better lenses soon.

Then a friend recommended that I try and upload my photos to flickr.com. So here is my page on flickr. Please have a look and feel free to leave your comments.

It is motivating know that some of my photos made it to Explore – a selection of the Top 500 photographs selected each day out of approximately half a Million photos uploaded each day.

fayid. Get yours at flagrantdisregard.com/flickr

Update as of 1st Jan 2010:  I have sold my Canon 350D and demoted myself to a Canon G7.  I just don’t have the time for photography and did not want to hold onto a camera that is going to be superseded by new models every couple of months.

Bohemian Rainbow Concert Sound Reinforcement

2nd June 2006 at 20:00 | | COMMENT

Rainbow_soundpass.jpgThe Bohemian Rainbow Concert was held on the 2nd of June 2006 in Olympus Stage at 20:00hrs. It featured a talented array of young musicians along with some impressive guest performers.

The master sound was tuned one day prior in the morning leaving the rest of the day and night for the bands’ sound checks. As many individual artistes and different line-ups performed, a sound check had to be done for all. Some extra time was spent on giving newer artistes to get accustomed to the acoustics of the venue. [More]

Fasy’s DVD Launch Sound Reinforcement

14th May 2006 at 21:45 | | COMMENT

FASY_DVDlaunch_pass_front.jpgFasy released their DVD of their concert in an event held on the 14th of May 2006 at 21:45hrs in Studio 3, TVM.

They approached me to engineer the sound. They rented the gear from Island Music and Hambe hooked up the system. The live in-house audience had a capacity of 500 pax. However, a part of the event was telecasted live on national television starting from 22:30hrs. [More]

Played for FASY LIVE

16th February 2006 at 23:55 | | COMMENT

FASY_performer_pass.jpgFaseeh called me sometime in the November of 2005 and asked me if I could play some bass for him for his up coming concert. Initially, I was reluctant as I have been very out of touch as I haven’t played my bass regularly for a very long time – something like 6 years or so. However, after some discussion, he persuaded me into it. With some further discussion as for the timing of the concert, we set the date for 16th February 2006 some time in November 2005. [More]

Writing Dhivehi in Windows XP

18th December 2005 at 20:51 | | 12 COMMENTS

I thought that this was a very interesting development. Already I’m seeing country and language specific web sites spring up. Some sites are browser specific though.
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MUSICinMALDIVES.com

20th November 2005 at 09:30 | | COMMENT

MUSICinMALDIVES.com was test launched on 20th November 2005. Initially I started this as an experiment, not sure if it would attract any attention and planned myself to tune up the site at my own pace. I did initially mention about this to about ten friends. Within the next fourteen days, I was awstruck when I found out that more than thirty users have registered on this site! This meant to me that I had hit on something that there was a lot of demand for. But I did not know what it was.

Indian Idol Sound Reinforcement Project

10th November 2005 at 09:30 | | COMMENT

IndianIdol_soundpass.jpgI was invited by Island Music to plan and execute the sound re-inforcement project for the Indian Idol Show in Maldives, which was held on 10th November 2005. The event was organized by habeys.com

Indian Idols ranking 1st – Abhijeet Sawant, 3rd – Rahul Vaidya, 4th – Prajakta Shukre and 5th – Ravinder Ravi performed in this one night event.

Preparations totalled a duration of 17 days from the first task to dismantling. This excludes minor pre-planning meetings and discussions. This project had a team of 15 members, mostly from Island Music which was headed by Hambe. [More]

Wataniya Launch: Sound Re-inforcement Project

5th August 2005 at 09:30 | | COMMENT

WoW_soundpass.jpgThe Wataniya (Maldives) official launching ceremony was marked by “WOW!” – a concert organized by Artline Maldives. This concert was hosted by MTV’s VJ Nikhil. The concert featured top local bands like Amazon Jade, Mezzo, Sultans, and dances by Theatre Mirage. In addition to that, a laser-show was performed by a team from Singapore. It was held on the 5th of August 2005 in Alimas Carnival at 21:30hrs.   [More]