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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: Nexo's new GEO T 'Tangent Array System' was seen at the Siel show in Paris in February (see L&SI March), but got its first major airing in Frankfurt. The GEO T expands on the experience gained from the development, testing and successful operation of Nexo's first tangent array design, the GEO S. The components of the Geo T system are the T4805 (Vertical Tangent Array Module) and T2820 (Vertical/Horizontal Tangent Array Module), along with the new Controlled Directivity Subbass, the CD18. Designed as a scalable system for audiences from 1000 up to 100,000 or more, Geo T has been successfully field tested by SSE Hire (with Tori Amos) and by Show Company in Singapore (with Alan Tam).

Proprietary technological features of the system include the Hyperbolo

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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: Proel Introduced the 'Next' Series of polypropylene moulded cabinets for portable applications, available in both powered and passive versions. The cabinet is equipped with a 90°H x 60°V constant coverage horn on a 1" compression driver, with a 12" neodymium LF driver with an aluminium die-cast basket for low weight. The bi-amped powered versions include a custom crossover with electronic protection, plus an integrated mixer with three separate balanced input channels. Two-band EQ, volume and ground lift switch complete the control panel. All amplifiers feature thermal, DC voltage and short-circuit protection.

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UK - Silverdown Studio has installed a complete 5.1 Genelec monitoring system featuring 1034B, 1031 and the new LSE 7073 sub-woofers, to cope with the heavy demand it has been experiencing for 5.1 work. The Hertfordshire studio is owned by Jeff Calvert, who has had a string of hits over the years, starting with a massive number one hit Barbados which he wrote, followed quickly by Starship Trooper. Calvert, who started at Morgan Studios in the 70s, left to set up Silverdown, which was originally located in London. After many successful years, he decided get out of ‘the smoke’ and re-locate to the gently rolling countryside of Hertfordshire.

Calvert’s production partner Chaz (Dabat) Kkoshi says: "We have just completed the intro music for a new PlayStation game in 5.1 called Dance Flight, a new album by Mona for the record company TLC, and we are in negotiat

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UK - More new members have signed up for Association services.

Joining as Full members are London-based Kinesys Projects (Tel: +44 (0)20 8704 0603), a manufacturer of control equipment for motors, hydraulics and pneumatics, and also power distribution equipment; DMC Ltd of Slough (Tel: +44 (0)1628 667124), a long-established provider of CDs for DJs. The company is also the official UK music merchandiser for Technics; Burnley-based Rubber Box (Tel: +44 (0)1282 830965), is a supplier of rubber distribution boxes, cable reels and handlamps; London-based Live Business International (Tel: +44 (0)20 7801 1732), a specialist sound, lighting and AV installer and consultancy.

Joining as Full EU members are Italian company Coemar Spa (Tel: +39 0376 775 21) a veteran of the lighting business and a pioneer of intelligent lighting; Behringer Spezielle Studiotechnik GmbH of Germany (Tel:

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USA - Vari-Lite and Entertainment Technology have relocated into one central facility in Dallas, Texas. Genlyte Controls has completed the relocation of the three brands which comprise the Genlyte Thomas Group's controls division. Entertainment Technology, Lightolier Controls and Vari-Lite all began working from a new single location on 1 April. The move to he new facility, which has more than 70,000sq.ft of manufacturing and office space, consolidates all operations of the three companies in one facility.

"Each of the three brands will continue to operate and function as individual companies," said Genlyte Controls general manager Steve Carson. "But having each of the companies in a single location, and under the same roof will allow us to operate more efficiently and take greater advantage of the synergies and resources that the companies share."

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USA - Creative Technology North America provided high performance display technology for the recent 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, which aired on ABC and was seen in 150 countries around the world. The celebration, thought somewhat subdued, took place at the Kodak Theatre in the Hollywood and Highland Complex and was hosted by comedian and actor, Steve Martin. Presenters included John Travolta, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ben Affleck and Halle Berry, to name a few.

Creative Technology provided 17 Digital Projection Lightning 28sx projectors to project video images onto a variety of projection surfaces throughout the venue. The most interesting surface was a 30ft tall ‘flute’ that sat centre-stage and also served as a scenic element. The flute, approximately 40ft in diameter at the top, narrowing down to 7ft at the bottom, was created out of wh

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UK - SSE Hire has completed a series of highly successful shows in Ireland and Germany with Oasis, using the long-awaited Nexo Geo-T tangent array system, launched at the Frankfurt ProLight&Sound exhibition earlier this month.

SSE has been field testing the system over the past three months, powered by Camco Vortex lightweight amplifiers. It appeared in public for the first time on Tori Amos' Rotterdam Ahoy show during her recent European tour. Following the run of highly successful Oasis shows, FOH engineer Bruce Johnston, who is a long-time Nexo fan and was very keen to be one of the first to use the new Geo-T system, comments: "I'd been to the demo in Frankfurt and couldn't wait to get my hands on the system and try it out. It was fortunate that the Oasis German shows coincided with the launch and that I could be one of the first to get out there with it. I have to say I

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Create new traditions – Cameo P6 - High Output Full-Spectrum Ellipsoidal

Cameo's P6 is a future-proof LED profiler with a powerful 600 W RGBACL engine and 16,000 lumens. It’s an energy-efficient replacement for 2.5 kW halogen profile lights in theatres and venues. With excellent light quality and natural colour rendering, it fits perfectly in theatres, musicals, TV studios, congresses, and live events.

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 - A number of new products have been introduced by Germany’s GLP: these include the Junior Scan, a stylish scanner unit designed for use in restaurant and entertainment centres, at trade fairs and in shop and architectural lighting. With these installation applications particularly in mind, GLP has opted for a lightweight plastic chassis. The Junior Scan offers a wide range of mirror movement (230° pan and 110° tilt). Other features include 15 dichroic colours (plus white), two multi-colour effects, a rainbow effect, 19 gobos (two exchangeable gobos) and a high-speed shutter.

The unit also features an integrated 4.5mW laser diode. This mini laser beam, which extends the range of available effects, is positioned using the deflecting mirror. The Junior Scan comes in two versions: the Junior Scan 1, with a 24V/250W halogen lamp, and the Junior Scan 2, with a 150W d

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UK - Even while the facilities design branch of Nautilus Entertainment Design steams toward the 2003 launches of Cunard’s ‘Queen Mary 2’, Costa Cruise Line’s ‘Fortune’ and ‘Mediterranea’ and Carnival Cruise Line’s ‘Glory’, Jim Tetlow and the production lighting design arm of NED entered 2003 with a full slate of corporate theatre and special event projects.

January saw the team working on the Porsche exhibit and Cayenne SUV introduction at the Los Angeles Auto Show, on behalf of Jack Morton Productions. Intel had a huge arena show for several thousand of its sales and marketing personnel, produced by John Halloran Associates, while Kaleidoscope Productions oversaw the Glaxo Smith Kline business meeting in Phoenix; both relying on NED for lighting design services. In the spirit of the auto show season, NED designed

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USA - BSR E1.25-200x, Recommended Basic Conditions for Measuring the Photometric Output of Stage and Studio Luminaries by Measuring Illumination Levels Produced on a Planar Surface, is new standards-drafting project intended to help manufacturers collect the data required to be reported in ANSI E1.9 - 2001, Reporting Photometric Performance Data for Luminaires Used in Entertainment Lighting. The adoption of that standard has been slowed by the lack of rules for the basic test conditions for any of the commonly used photometry systems that involve shining the light from a luminaire at a flat screen or wall.

Flat-wall photometry, either using a digital camera photometry system or a simple hand-held meter to measure the illumination levels, is the most common type used by stage and studio luminaire manufacturers, but no standards exist to provide guidance for these me

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UK - Forge Europa has recently expanded the company’s range of LED components to include a comprehensive series of Precision High Performance LED lamps. The new range has been specifically designed to meet the demands of the expanding outdoor display market with a number of different size and wavelength options. Package styles currently available are 3mm and 5mm round, with viewing angles from 15° - 35° and a number of elliptical devices.

The company has also recently introduced an extensive range of square LEDs in domed and flat lens options having 115° viewing angle in two dimensions, making these devices ideally suited to switch top and fascia illumination.

(Ruth Rossington)

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UK - Projected Image Digital showcased a RADlite visual manipulation system with television lighting director Will Charles, who utilized it in a new and innovative way on the Carlton TV series ‘Starfinder’. The show, shot at Black Island Studios, Park Royal, north London for transmission as a series this autumn, is produced by Justin Scroggie and features a spectacular set designed by Richard Drew.

‘Starfinder’ is a children’s games programme, set on a space station, with elements from both Crystal Maze and Big Brother. Each episode sees four ‘astronauts’, aged 12 - 14, who won their places via the internet, engage in a series of games, and battle for popularity with the viewers who vote them on or off the space station. The simulator part of the programme - where the contestants whiz through space, playing games, in their special vehicl

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USA - The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is currently undergoing a $250 million expansion project that will soon add over a thousand new suites and 150,000sq.ft of supplementary meeting space to the already palatial complex.

The new meeting facilities, in particular, are comprised of three large boardrooms, 19 meeting rooms and three 14,000sq.ft. ballrooms, each of which may be split into 14 individual meeting rooms. To accommodate the demanding audio DSP and routing requirements for a project of this magnitude, Michael Naylor, systems design engineer for The Venetian, created a system primarily based around BSS Audio's PS-8810C Prosys processor. "The CobraNet-equipped Prosys units are really the heart of our audio system," says Naylor. "By using The Venetian's Ethernet and fibre backbone, we're able to send audio from any of these new meeting

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Italy - From 13 January to 16 March 2003 the exhibition ‘Renoir and the light of Impressionism’ was opened in the new exhibition rooms of the Musei del Canal Grande of Trieste at the Palazzo Gopcevic. The exhibition, organized by Maïthé Valles-Bled and Vincenzo Sanfo, was conceived and created by New York Masters Exhibitions of Rome and Nuova Tavolozza Eventi of Palermo. The exhibition embraces 30 paintings and another 30 various works institutions and private collections in France, United States, Italy, England and Switzerland.

Allestimenti & Co, jointly with the Altair company, used a Clay Paky V.I.P. 1200 to project the name of the renowned artist on the façade of Palazzo Gopcevic, using a 150mm lens and dichroic gobo - the latter essential for providing the precision required with such a large format projection. The exhibition's logo - showing Renoir’s s

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UK - Visitors to this year’s Daily Mail Ideal Homes Exhibition can’t fail to notice the giant centrepiece of the exhibition, the 16m high ‘Tower of Time’. Commissioned by the exhibition’s organizers, and designed by Andy Johnstone of Johnstone Design Partnership, the four-sided mirrored obelisk showpiece was built by exhibition set construction experts ESS.

"The actual construction was extremely complex," said ESS’s Jeff Burke, "as there’s not a single perpendicular truss or right angle in the entire structure. We used 228m of LT Tower Truss and 24 specially designed and fabricated angled frames to allow the truss sections to interact."

"The outer covering was 700gsm blackout fire retardant pvc, printed on one side to a design by Andy Johnstone," said ESS project manager, Rob Smalldon. "The finished p

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USA - Horizon Control Inc, in conjunction with Entertainment Technology, has announced the release of the much-anticipated ‘furniture’ for the popular Horizon Lighting Control System - the Marquee console. Horizon, the professional Windows-based lighting control system, was released in 1996, and to date has had very limited hardware to accompany it. Most of the work was carried out via the user's PC using a keyboard and a mouse. Horizon found that this user interface, while popular with many users (architectural installations and churches especially), was not well-liked by ‘traditional’ theatre people.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - New Wave truss caught the eye of the judges again in Las Vegas, picking up a Buyers Choice Award for innovation at the Exhibitor 2003 trade show. The small truss with a growing reputation adds this prize to the Debuting Product of the Year award it won at LDI 2002 and the Product of the Year - Rigging and Hardware LDI 2001 award won by the OMNI connector, a variant of which is used in new wave.

The Judges at the Exhibitor Show were impressed with many features of the truss, giving special mention to its pleasing good looks, versatility and branding capabilities. Many positive comments were also made about the weight of the truss (approximately 1lb per linear foot) and the reduced cost of drayage from loading dock to show floor.

In addition to the strong, lightweight and infinitely customizable carbon fiber truss, the acrylic p-wave version is now ready to ship.

(Lee Ba

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UK - London-based Spirit Design & Production recently staged the Headmasters Awards 2003, for client Headmasters, the south London-based hairdressing group, in association with cosmetics giants L’Oreal, at Wimbledon Theatre.

The long-running annual awards event showcases the best work and latest styles from the past year and honours stylists and sales people alike. Spirit were awarded the contract to supply the full production service, including event design, in 2002 and were brought back to infuse the 2003 event with more fresh ideas and a new look. Spirit D&P, owned by Tor Cooper-Evans and Chris Biddulph, has years of collective experience in the events industry but adds a unique combination of cutting-edge ideas and stylistic presentation. "We simply do not believe in offering a client an off-the-shelf idea," comments Biddulph, "even though that might be

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UK - After 32 years at the helm, Iain Price-Smith, MD of Multiform Lighting, has announced the company’s merger with Light Engineering of Walthamstow, London. As a founding member of PLASA, Multiform was one of the companies that pioneered the development of lighting effects controllers for clubs and rock bands from its early beginnings in the industry in 1970. Light Engineering have distributed the Multiform range for many years.

Under the partnership, the existing product range will be manufactured at new premises in Basildon, with sales handled by the Light Engineering sales team. Iain Price-Smith has moved his consultancy and design organization to Hailsham and will continue to operate as Multiform Technology, providing technical support to Light Engineering. New Multiform Lighting products are under development, and are planned for release at PLASA 2003.

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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: Sennheiser UK has announced an exclusive distribution deal with respected Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer Adamson Systems Engineering of Toronto. The agreement, signed at the recent Frankfurt MusikMesse, marks a significant expansion of Sennheiser UK's distribution business and includes Adamson's acclaimed Y-axis Series line array.

Having completed negotiations, started at last year's PLASA 2002 with Guy Vignet, president of DV2 (Adamson Europe), Sennheiser UK's director of sales, Alan Johnson, is looking forward to the new relationship: "Adamson produce one of the most highly regarded new line arrays on the market, so this isn't so much a sales project, as an exercise in managing demand," stated Johnson.

Sennheiser UK's director of marketing John Steven underlines that the agreement with Adamson was entered into after careful deliber

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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: XTA introduced the DP6i Audio Installation Controller. The unit has two inputs and six outputs: both inputs have an eight-band parametric EQ, base delay and gain control. All outputs feature crossover filters, five-band parametric EQ, high and low shelving filters, limiter and delay. Full metering is provided for inputs and outputs, with a mute button for instant system control in emergencies. The four front-panel memory buttons give the installer the chance to offer different system set-ups and make switching between them as simple and fast as possible. A single system mute button (front-panel lockout can be configured as well) also increases user-friendliness, while comprehensive tamper-proof security is also provided. XTA's AudioCore control software enables centralized control of up to 32 DP6i units, with the ability for further units to shadow t
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