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Ireland - In the hands of Wicklow-based systems rental house Sound Design, Nexo's STM Series line array systems have played a prominent role in Dublin's month-long official commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising, the long and bloody rebellion of the Irish people against British rule.

Ireland 2016 was an ambitious and wide-ranging national commemoration with an extensive programme of music and speech, theatre and sport. As in 1916, some of the most significant events took place in Dublin, where large crowds attended ceremonial parades and entertainments, culminating in a multimedia spectacular at the legendary Croke Park Stadium.

Irish president Michael Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny were guests of honour at Croke Park, along with 82,000 spectators who watched two

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UK - PLASA Focus Leeds (10 -11 May, Royal Armouries) seminars this year offer visitors the chance to attend sessions on a variety of topics and to demo new products from leading brands in the world of entertainment technology.

Highlights include sessions from d&b audiotechnik, MA Lighting console training from Ambersphere Solutions and HOG4 training from High End Systems.

The seminar from d&b audiotechnik's Steve Jones explores how loudspeaker size affects its whole performance including its directivity, the direct to reverberant ratio and what loudspeaker throw actually means.

The three sessions available from Ambersphere Solutions on MA Lighting dot2 compact lighting consoles will provide visitors with an overview of all the features of the new console, including hands-on instruction covering all the basic operational features. High End Systems will also offer traini

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UK - On 1 May 2016 Vanguardia will be working with sound engineer Roly Oliver to promote the latest innovation in sound management in the live events industry.

In his new position as head of live business, Oliver will establish and oversee the company's distribution of pioneering sound management tool MeTrao in the UK, for which Vanguardia has secured sole rights.

Also in May, Vanguardia will celebrate 10 successful years as a leading sound and acoustic consultants in the entertainment sector. The appointment of Oliver further expands the company's team of 30 consultants.

In a career that has spanned a quarter of a century, Oliver has provided sound engineering expertise to legendary acts and artists including Manic Street Preachers, Daft Punk, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Pet Shop Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snow Patrol.

Joining from audio equipment specialists Eight

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Canada - Robe North America has announced the appointment of John Bilyk as its Canadian sales manager effective immediately.

Bilyk has enjoyed a long and successful career in the entertainment lighting market working for numerous leading companies including most recently a 15-year stint as the Canadian sales manager for Dallas-based Vari-Lite.

Robe North America CEO Bob Schacherl commented, "I've had the pleasure of both knowing and working with John most of my professional career. He has a deep and extensive knowledge of the Canadian market and outstanding rapport with the principal lighting designers, rental companies and system integrators. We expect John to make an instant impact on our business in Canada."

John Bilyk stated, "Recognizing Robe's existing leading position in the global entertainment lighting market, I look forward to leveraging my client relationshi

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Belgium - Barco has announced that Mr. Eric Van Zele, CEO, plans to retire later this year. In anticipation of Mr. Van Zele's retirement, the Board appointed Mr. Jan De Witte, a former corporate officer of the General Electric Company, as CEO-designate. Mr. Jan De Witte will join Barco's Core Leadership Team in June 2016 to effectively take over as CEO as of 1 October 2016.

Mr. Van Zele will continue to serve on the Board of Directors to ensure continuity of leadership and strategic focus for the company.

Mr. Charles Beauduin, Chairman of the Board, commented, "Under Eric's leadership, Barco became a global market and technology leader as well as a more focused and leaner organization. His drive for strategic innovation and customer intimacy has helped to harness Barco's entrepreneurial culture and shift the company's strategic direction towards more value-added software-e

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UK - Over the past 12 months, WL has grown exponentially, expanding its audio department, acquiring video and lighting firm Shock Solutions and working on more projects than ever before. With 2016 set to be the company's busiest year yet, WL has appointed several new business development managers to oversee the various markets in which the company is continuously expanding.

With its origins in theatre, WL is still the leading lighting supplier to West End and UK touring productions, with the company providing the lights to both Show Boat and Dr Faustus which opened in the West End earlier this week.

Joining the team as business development manager is Ritchie Reed, who has more than 20 years' experience in the entertainment lighting industry. This includes having worked for Martin Professional as their UK sales manager, Selecon Lighting/Phillips Entertainment

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USA - Originally founded in 1984, the Bethel World Outreach Church has seen its ministry grow to where they currently hold worship services in six locations nationwide.

As part of this growth, the worship family located in Brentwood, TN, recently underwent a building campaign to expand their ministry even further and in doing so they wished to make LED video a part of their worship services. While attending the WFX tradeshow in Nashville, Senior Pastor James Lowe found his solution for the new facility which was FLEXLite 6.9mm LED video tiles from PixelFLEX.

"With our Bethel Build Campaign underway, we were also about to undertake a month-long sermon series where our pastor wanted to show HD video elements during the message," began Technical Director Garrett Hestla. "This was something entirely new for us and since we wanted to bring LED video into the new facility as wel

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With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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Germany - From 15 to 17 June Stage|Set|Scenery will be represented at the Stage Technology Conference (BTT), which is organised by Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft (DTHG) and will be taking place in Bremen.

The BTT is the most important advanced training event organised by the theatre and event technology industry in German-speaking countries. A total of 80 companies will be represented there, including established family-run firms and innovative enterprises, ranging from small start-ups to major market leaders. The Stage Technology Conference can look back on a history that spans more than 100 years and this year will be taking place for the fifty-eighth time.

The extensive programme of supporting events comprises around 70 lectures, seminars, round table discussions, workshops and excursions. High points of the conference will include the SoundLab, specially desig

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USA - Celebrating 30 years in 2016, the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) is a six-day event held every March in Austin, Texas (USA). Allen & Heath's digital mixers from across its dLive, GLD and Qu ranges were employed this year in many of the particpating venues.

Two dLive systems managed the popular British Music Embassy Showcase, hosted by Austin's Latitude 30 club and featuring 10 to 12 bands each day of the festival. A GLD-80 was installed at the Threadgills venue to manage their roster, plus local PA company, Rock 'n Roll Rentals, supplied Qu mixers to various smaller venues.

dLive was requested for broadcast duties at the SPIN magazine party at Stubbs, where Chvrches, Deftones, and Vince Staples played, and a GLD-80 Chrome system with Waves was used by Tommy Williams mixing Ry-X for his key performance at St David's Episcopal Church.

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Philippines - One of the biggest boy bands in K-pop, EXO, have played their first two concerts outside of Korea with a high-impact lighting design by Moon Won Jun of Lite Factory using over 200 Clay Paky fixtures in Manila, Philippines.

PMX Trading and Technical Services supplied a full technical package to the two consecutive dates, including 130 x Clay Paky Sharpys, 50 x Sharpy Wash 330s, 16 x A.leda B-EYE K20s and a mix of 42 Stormy CC and Stormy LED strobes. The sold-out concerts took place at Manila's 20,000-capacity SM Mall of Asia arena.

"In my experience, Korean productions are all about having the latest technology and the most spectacular lighting designs," says technical director Dwight Carvajal of Beatbox DJ Store & Launch Pad Events, which operates under Launch Pad Consultancy Ventures Inc. "This is why Mr Moon Wun Jun specified such a large amount of Clay Pak

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The Netherlands - Wowing crowds of 17,000, Dutch superstar Marco Borsato's Symphonica in Rosso is one of the most spectacular series of performances. Held at Amsterdam Ziggodome Arena during 2016, 12 sold-out concerts broke boundaries in terms of technical creativity, innovation and wizardry.

Jo Pauly, d3 operator and programmer from Belgium-based Visual Solutions was brought in to consult and design all video during the preplanning process.

Another first for BlackTrax, the motion tracking solution was used to track key performer, Marco Borsato on stage and on a guitar shaped interactive LED video catwalk throughout the performance.

BlackTrax was seamlessly integrated with d3 technologies 4by4pro media servers to manage content for the entire concert including main stage LED wall, two IMAG LED walls and two rows of LED video banners throughout the whole venue.

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Austria - Broadwick Live partnered with Intellitix for the second consecutive year to deploy its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to enable cashless payments and smoother access control at Snowbombing 2016, April 4-9.

Dubbed 'the greatest show on snow', Snowbombing takes place in the Austrian town of Mayrhofen and welcomes over 6,000 festival-goers for a week of music and snow sports. Following on from last year's success of taking Snowbombing fully cashless for the first time, Intellitix once again deployed a bespoke system across the entire festival site, which included installing the system's antenna 1,500ft above Mayrhofen.

Intellitix's RFID system was implemented across the festival's main venues including Europahaus, Bruck 'N Stadl, The Racket Club and The Arena to enable secure Cashless Payments and speed up transaction times at key locations with a

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UK - HD Pro Audio is holding a day of demonstration and evaluation sessions for the KLANG:technologies 3D IEM system at John Henry's rehearsal studios in London N7 on 13 May, 2016.

KLANG:technologies takes stage monitoring to the next level, allowing engineers to create a much more spatial and natural-sounding IEM mix, combined with the option of simple wired or wireless multiple simultaneous user control via the KLANG:app, says the company.

The sessions will also introduce KOS2.1 to the UK market. Founder and chief marketing officer of KLANG:technologies, Dr. Pascal Dietrich, commented, "We are excited to present major improvements and additional features in our software after recently showcasing upcoming products such as our motion sensor KLANG:vector."

Dr. Dietrich continued, "Our new firmware KOS V2.1 has just been released for KLANG:fabrik and KLANG:vier. As well

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Italy - The first edition of Music Inside Rimini (7-9 May - Rimini Fiera) sees a heavy involvement from loudspeaker specialist Outline.

Outline's participation is two-fold: a stand of over 100sq.m (Hall A5C5 017) and the Music Inside Festival: 36 hours of music with 30 top-grade DJs, whose sounds will be amplified by three distinct GTO (Grand Touring Outline) systems supplied by Angelo Catoni's rental company Emporio On Stage with the support of Federico Rotondo's Sound Tech.

Outline will present the Vegas series, designed for installation and amplification in various vertical markets. The range includes a super-compact model with the very specific function of image shifter, and three coaxial systems with unique features for this type of speaker. The Vegas 24, 8 CX, 12 CX and 15 CX models are designed and manufactured to the same stringent quality standards as the Grand To

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China - David Dohrmann, Adamson's technical director Asia Pacific, has teamed up with their Chinese distributor, Real Music, to take the new S10 line array on the road. Real Music and Adamson will host technical seminars and S-Series product demonstrations in four Chinese cities in May 2016.

Consulting firms, integrators and sound engineers are invited to attend any of the four Adamson events held in Beijing (9 May), Shanghai (11 May), Chengdu (13 May) and Guangzhou (15 May). During each seminar, Dohrmann will provide a product demonstration of the S-Series S10 line arrays supported by the newly introduced S119 compact subwoofers. He will also provide a live demo of the accompanying Blueprint AV simulation suite software and review available E-Rack solutions.

The new S-Series represents a milestone in Adamson history. "The S10 line array offers a very attractive blend of p

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UK - Visual production expert FIX8Group is expanding its dry hire division with the addition of a wealth of new products under the direction of the company's technical director, Nick Charalampidis.

Charalampidis, who has been with FIX8Group since early 2013, is now responsible for enhancing the division's dry hire inventory with industry-leading products, carefully selected to suit almost all requirements.

"Before joining FIX8Group I worked with Green Hippo for five years, so my knowledge of Hippotizer servers and software is second to none," says Charalampidis. "I am adding an array of Green Hippo kit to our stock, including the Boreal, Karst and Amba servers, with the new, powerful, v4 software."

FIX8Group's technical mission is to always give the best service possible - to supply servers set up in the correct way and loaded with the right software to suit the user's

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UK - Music Group has today announced that it "proposes to dismiss as redundant" around 70 staff at its Tannoy manufacturing and office facility in Coatbridge, Scotland.

The company's statement says it is about to enter into a process of collective consultation with all affected employees, but in the event that the redundancies are confirmed following consultation, the Coatbridge facility would cease operations completely.

In this event, say Music Group, the Tannoy loudspeaker production would be transferred to Music Group's manufacturing plant in Zhongshan, China, with its R&D and marketing activities being relocated to the Group's Innovation centre in Manchester, UK.

The announcement was made to employees today by senior vice-president, Lifestyle & Home, Peter Sommer: "Following an extensive evaluation of our operational and financial structure, we have taken the diff

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UK - Television and entertainment lighting rental specialist Aurora has appointed Gemma Oldfield to the position of office manager at their West London operation.

Graduating with a degree in Business and Marketing, Gemma began her career at Neg Earth. Moving to the role of marketing co-ordinator at Richard Martin Lighting, Gemma became a well-known face of the company, further extending her knowledge, customer and colleague base to encompass the world of television.

Commenting on her new role, Gemma says, "I was extremely flattered to be asked to join the Aurora team. With their fantastic reputation and recent acquisition by industry giants VER, now seems like the perfect time to join the company - I am very excited to be a part of it all."

VER European sales director Adrian Offord concludes, "We are extremely fortunate to have someone of Gemma's calibre join the Auror

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UK - Elation Professional invites lighting professionals to Stand N-D32 at PLASA Focus Leeds for an up-close look at an impressive line-up of new lighting solutions that includes three all-new product series.

On display May 10-11 at the Royal Armouries in Leeds will be Elation's new Fuze Series, a dynamic range of LED wash luminaires with single-lens RGBW COB LEDs for a wide choice of colours and extremely homogenized field of light. Available in moving head or IP65-rated PAR versions, all Fuze Series fixtures (Fuze PAR Z60, Fuze PAR Z120, Fuze Wash Z120, Fuze Wash Z350) house a wide 5-50-degree zoom.

Also showing will be the DTW Series, a new variable white LED series of products designed specifically for the broadcast and video market. DTW Series fixtures are color temperature adjustable and can emulate the "dim to warm" look of conventional tungsten / halogen fixtures.

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UK - Audio-Technica is set to showcase a wide range of products from its microphone and headphone ranges and the latest offerings from distributed brands Allen & Heath and Apart Audio at PLASA Focus 2016 at The Royal Armouries in Leeds on 10-11 May.

In addition, Rodrigo Thomaz (Audio-Technica senior technical product specialist) will be hosting a seminar entitled Exploring The Advantages Of 100 Volt Line Audio Systems on Wednesday 11 May at 2pm in The Royal Armouries' Wellington Room. Presented in conjunction with The Institute of Sound and Communication Engineers, the session will look at the difference between low impedance and 100 Volt Line speakers, tackling the myths of installing 100V Line systems to make installations easier and quicker.

The recently launched Audio-Technica ATM350a clip-on condenser microphone - with its exemplary range of instrument mounts (

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Korea - Renowned new age pianists, Kevin Kern and Daydream, recently held a joint concert at KEPCO Art Centre in Seoul, Korea, managed by an Allen & Heath Qu-32 compact digital mixer with AB168 remote IO audio rack.

Kevin Kern and Daydream are well known for writing sound tracks for many popular TV dramas, such as the popular Korean TV dramas, Autumn in My Heart and Winter Sonata, as well as documentaries and radio broadcastings.

Technically, the focus of the concert was to capture a live recording for TV broadcast, and also use the recording to mix down a live album, as well as provide live sound reinforcement.

The project was managed by director, Jaehoon Um, who has a distinguished career in recording and mixing more than 6,000 pieces of K-POP, and Film and TV drama sound tracks.

Each microphone was connected to the AB168, which was installed on sta

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