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UK - XL Video supplied equipment and crew to HFM Lighting to help realize the projection of three separate giant moving images onto the curved fascia of Kingston-Upon-Thames Guildhall building. The 50ft high Guildhall was chosen because its circulator shape reflects the 'Zoopraxiscope' invented by Muybridge, which was used to animate film.

The Muybridge Festival celebrated the life and works of Eadweard Muybridge, one of the finest pioneering Victorian photographers who was born in Kingston in April 1830. The majority of his highly acclaimed experimental work was completed in America, and Muybridge is credited with being a founding father of modern cinema.

XL Video supplied three 17,000 lumen Barco ELM R18 projectors to transform Kingston High Street into a public gallery for tw

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24 new members have signed up over the summer months and a further 38 are currently applying for membership.

Included amongst the recent new members are Spectrum (UK) Lasers Ltd (Peterborough), Theatre Projects Consultants (London), Robe Show Lighting (Czech Republic), AV Matrix (Harrogate), Bryant Broadcast (Surrey), Central Presentations Ltd (Kenilworth), Miltec UK (Maidstone), Chainmaster (Germany), Milos Ltd (Czech Republic), PR Lighting Ltd (China), VXCO Lighting Systems (Switzerland), The Sound & Light Company Ltd (Isle of Wight), DiGiCo (UK) Ltd (Chessington), Guangzhou Surepro Audio & Lighting Equipment Co (China), Meyer Sound (USA), Duran Audio BV (The Netherlands), Sleepless Productions Ltd (Havant) and Atmosphere Inc (Derby).

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PLASA has announced a joint initiative with CMP Princeton, organizers of the annual Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention, to launch a new pavilion at the event, focusing directly on lighting, audio, AV and staging technologies.

The PLASA@Sea Pavilion will form a key element of the show which is the largest gathering of cruise line owners, operators and suppliers in the world. Although such technologies have been seen at Seatrade before, this is the first time they will feature in a dedicated area.

This new initiative offers a targeted market opportunity for companies who want to directly connect to the growing cruise markets and will also raise the profile of PLASA and its members.

Seatrade takes place in Miami in March 2005 and UK companies may be able to secure funding to participate. For further details call our US office on +1 212 352 2334 or e-mail

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UK - The COHEDRA Coherent Dynamic Response Array system from Germany's HK Audio was given one of its biggest challenges to date on the first UK production tour for boy-band sensation McFly. COHEDRA's longthrow projection was invaluable at cutting through the screams of the teenage girls who packed the venues to see their idols in action.

The three-week tour in late September and October featured a rig of 12 COHEDRA mid/high cabinets per side at most venues. The system was supplied to Production North by HK AUDIO's UK distributor John Hornby Skewes, together with two COHEDRA PR-8 and two PR-16 Power Racks. It was configured by FOH engineer Nick Warren using HK's CAPS Aiming Software prediction software. " COHEDRA exceeded my expectations for this tour," says Warren. "Firstly it is fantastic to fly and put together. The way the rigging is configured means that apar

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UK - After a competitive tender process, AV systems specialist Tiger AV has been awarded a key contract by Cheshire County Council. The contract is valued at £38,000 and is to provide audio-visual maintenance services to schools in Cheshire.

Over 150 schools with pupils of all ages have subscribed to the project, which is proving so successful that schools outside of the catchment area are now also interested in coming on board. The contract covers the repair of AV equipment including TVs, videos, DVD players, OHPs, slide projectors and a range of audio equipment. Tiger AV guarantees an engineer on-site within three working days of a fault being reported, thereby minimizing any 'down-time' of AV equipment.

Tiger AV's technical director, Tony Crossley said: "There are a number of reasons for the success of this contract. The first being our flexibility; in the fact we o

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UK - London-based ear monitor and hearing protection specialist Sensorcom has announced the release of Soundcheck, a simple key-fob style audio level meter designed to give a visual indication of noise levels. Suitable for use in music venues, theatres, nightclubs and in industry, Soundcheck has a traffic-light format of visual display to indicate when audio levels are safe or too high to work in without ear protection. Current and future noise at work legislation stipulates that employers must be aware of noise levels and must provide hearing protection beyond 90dB, also known as the 'Second Action Level'. This figure reduces to 87dB from April 2006.

Operation of Soundcheck is simple: a single button activates the device and from the resultant display the noise levels can be interpreted from the flashing or steady-state of the LEDs; the red LED indicates the noise level is at

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Sweden - In 2002 the old Market Hall in Uppsala, Sweden was severely damaged in a fire which left little of the old building behind. Now after two years of work, the Hall has been restored as a fresh vegetable, fish and meat market featuring several top quality restaurants. The owner of the restaurants, Svenssons Krogar, decided to give each restaurant its own specific style, and brought Gothenburg-based Diroco Sound and Light in to the planning process early on to develop a well thought out lighting scheme. Diroco set out to integrate Martin intelligent luminaires along with conventional lighting to create the environment the client was looking for.

As the building was not yet complete when Diroco was contracted, they used Martin's ShowDesigner lighting design software package to create the lighting solution. It was, among other things, the ShowDesigner that convinced the cl

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UK - Edinburgh lighting specialist black light recently lit a forest walk in the heart of Perthshire, known as Big Tree Country. The annual Enchanted Forest walk at The Hermitage, situated near the town of Dunkeld and owned by the National Trust for Scotland, has become a very popular attraction for both locals and tourists.

Open to the public from 22 October to 7 November, this is the first year that black light has designed and installed the lighting for the Enchanted Forest. "The Hermitage had come up with a theme of the four seasons, but that wasn't entirely practical. For example, how do you portray 'summer' in a forest at night in the middle of autumn?" says black light's Paul McGreal. "We thought that having focal points was important, as opposed to a linear route which is more-or-less the same throughout. We felt the four elements - Earth, Fire, Air and Wa

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USA - Another prestigious LDI award has been bestowed upon Total Structures - bringing their total to three awards in four years. Following awards for the revolutionary OMNI connector and the highly innovative and critically acclaimed new wave truss, the judges selected Ballast Truss to be Product of the Year in the Staging, Rigging and Hardware Category from the four new aluminium products launched by Total Structures at The Entertainment Technology Show - LDI 2004 in Las Vegas.

The redesigned medium duty fold flat truss, the fixed catwalk truss for permanent installations and the value engineered, industry standard trusses that form the Element range, all attracted considerable interest, but it was the Ballast Truss, a practical solution to the issue of stability of outdoor delay towers and roof structures, that won the vote. Peter Hind (Total Structures' VP engineering) acce

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UK - Stage Electrics will be holding an auction in North London on behalf of Northern Light on Saturday 20 November. 850 stage and entertainment lighting, sound and miscellaneous lots will be under the hammer at the Millennium Studios, 5 Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire from 10:00am. Over 2500 invitations have been distributed and the level of response has been impressive. Viewing of the equipment takes place on Friday 19 November from 14:00 to 20:00 and on the Saturday morning from 08:00.

There will be new and used equipment to suit every budget. From large Gladiator follow spots to small birdies, Patt 23 to Strand SL Profiles, From Carousel to Barco LCD projectors. The list is endless and an up to date version can be found at the website below.

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UK/USA - At this years LDI show in Las Vegas Artistic Licence announced its latest product for the lighting industry: Visual-Patch. With no more patching and no more start addresses, it is often said that the best inventions are the simple ones and that seems to be true with Visual-Patch. The company has combined the power of the new Remote Device Management (RDM) protocol, a lighting console and a video camera (simply point the camera at the stage and press the Visual-Patch button). The lighting console uses RDM to switch each lamp on in turn; it analyzes the position, shape and size of the lamp using the video camera, adds it to the patch and automatically sets the lamp start address.

The first product to implement Visual-Patch is Colour-Tramp, a lighting console optimized for control of two- and three-dimensional arrays of colour changers. Visual-Patch allows large arrays of

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UK - A.C. Lighting's Special Projects division has provided the £200k supply and installation of all technical facilities for a theatre studio and other teaching rooms at the B6 Sixth Form College in Hackney, London.

The College is the first of its kind for London in ten years and runs a wide range of further education courses for students in the borough, including Performing Arts vocational courses in Technical Theatre, Acting and Dance. When the College was granted funding to build new teaching rooms for the Creative Arts and Media department, it commissioned Theatre Consultant Crin Claxton to produce a detailed specification of the technical facilities required for a new theatre studio, dance studio and film screening room. The theatre would be used to host multiple types of student and guest artist performances, and provide teaching space for the various production and perf

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USA - Meyer Sound has appointed touring sound veteran Don Pearson to its staff of educational trainers as a technical seminar instructor. Pearson co-founded Ultra Sound (now Pro Media/Ultra Sound) in San Rafael, California, with Howard Danchik in 1978.

The company established a reputation for taking a studied approach to sound reinforcement and providing pristine audio using Meyer Sound loudspeakers for its clients, who have included the Grateful Dead, Santana, the Dave Matthews Band, Andrea Bocelli and many others. Pearson left the company in spring 2004 to be an independent consultant providing audio services, including system tuning and educational seminars.

"We have known and worked with Don for many years," says Helen Meyer, executive vice-president of Meyer Sound, "and have always respected his devotion to combining the science of sound and the realities

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Russia - Vision Systems, the global provider of early warning fire, public address and security systems which purchased Ampekko/Millbank earlier this year, has announced the appointment of Mikhail Elisseev as a regional sales executive for Russia. The appointment is a result of increased demand for Vision Systems' very early smoke aspirating VESDA solution. The appointment will ensure even better levels of technical support to Vision Systems' network of channel partners, and promote awareness of VESDA to target end users and specifiers throughout Russia and CIS region, say the company.

Mikhail has extensive experience in the field of fire engineering from his role with SEM, the leading Russian Fire Engineering and VESDA reseller. Prior to his time with SEM, Mikhail was a teacher at the State Service Technical School and holds a Masters Degree from the Academy of State Fire Servi

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UK - XL Video supplied projection and playback equipment, while Enttec Sound and Light supplied the lighting, for the 2004 National Television Awards, staged recently at the Royal Albert Hall. It was the first time that XL has been involved in this high profile event. Lazlett recommended XL to the show's producers, Indigo Television, and the project was managed for XL by Paul Wood.

The screen was custom made for XL by ECT from Matt Brite material to Bill Lazlett's set design, co-ordinated by Wood. It measured 29m wide and was 10m high at the stage right end and 2m high at stage left, curving around the rear of the stage. The projection was via 10 Barco ELM R18 projectors, with five projectors overlaid in two stacks for optimum brightness, situated in the RAH's Grand Tier boxes.

Taking a 'big canvas approach', screen content was created for the show by Richard Turner and his c

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UK - Sound design and installation specialist CP Sound has completed a JBL installation at Octave - Covent Garden's newest live Jazz Bar and restaurant. CP's Colin Pattenden was asked to handle all Octave's audio elements, after completing other successful projects for owner Glendola Leisure.

The intimate new venue consists of one large area with bar, divided into several different level zones - raised or sunken - complete with two separate areas for live performance, which together with the low ceilings produced an interesting set of acoustic conundrums.

The Stage B position is the favoured one for performances - an expediently sized area with just enough room to get a duo on stage, adjacent to the resident piano.Pattenden's sound proposal was designed to allow them to stage simple live acts with mic inputs, as well as a background music system with full zone control for the

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USA - San Diego-based design and installation company, Bluewater Audio, recently furnished U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar with a multi-zone paging system using Allen & Heath's iDR-4 programmable DSP distributed audio system. The installation was the finishing touch on a $4 million construction project to build a state-of-the-art facility to support the embarkation and debarkation of service members to overseas areas.

"We put in a six zone paging system using the iDR-4 as the heart of the system," explained Paul Svenson, co-owner of Bluewater Audio. "We also put in a remote controller - the PL-3 - at two locations, duplicating each other; there's one by the door and one by baggage handling."

Based on the same technology as the Allen & Heath iDR-8 system, iDR-4 is a 4 input / 4 output digital processor, with additional 2 input / 2 output dual-function

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UK - L-Acoustics introduced the Kudo system at the recent AES exhibition in San Francisco. The company says Kudo is a new generation of line source array offering far more flexibility than any other line arrays to date, and marks a significant evolution in L-Acoustics' pioneering Wavefront Sculpture Technology (WST) - since WST can now be performed in both vertical and horizontal planes.

Two patented DOSC waveguides are incorporated in Kudo, allowing WST to be performed either vertically or horizontally. In parallel, coverage pattern adjustment is available in the perpendicular plane using patent-pending K-Louver technology. Mechanically-adjustable K-Louvers provide directivity control for the mid/high section and allow Kudo to be reconfigured with four different coverage pattern settings.

The system is primarily intended for end users such as regional sound companies for to

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UK - Drapes and rigging specialist Blackout was appointed by London based production house Robbie Williams Productions Ltd., to supply all the branding materials and soft goods for the British Olympic Heroes Parade.

Double Gold Medallist Kelly Holmes led the victory parade of 100 medal winners from Team GB along with Paralympic medal winners. The celebratory procession, comprising five giant branded floats, started at Piccadilly and snaked along The Haymarket before arriving in Trafalgar Square. It culminated in a presentation attended by over 15,000 fans, which launched London's 2012 Olympic bid campaign slogan - " Make Britain Proud".

For each float Blackout produced five giant perforated vinyl mesh banners, each measuring 14 x 2.4m to fit each flat bed trailer deck. Designed by Mark Norton of Think Farm, they depicted five different sports disciplines - rowing/sai

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UK - Summit Steel installed over 5,000m of 4 mm steel wire cable at the Frieze Art Fare in Regents Park to support muslin ceilings in four Owen Brown clearspan structures, with interiors designed specially for the event by architect Davis Adjaye.

The four-day Frieze 2004 was the largest ever contemporary art exhibition and events programme staged in the UK, and was enjoyed by over 40,000 visitors and art lovers. The look and feel of the exhibition space was airy, open and predominantly white. Following the phenomenal success of last year's inaugural event, this year the area Summit was dealing with increased to total 15,720sq.m. The largest of the structures measured a massive 200m x 40m with a capacity of 8,000sq.m.

The steel cable was secured to the structures using Summit's custom designed rafter clamps - two part metal clamps, which fix into the lower grooves of the roof r

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UK - Selecon UK has announced that David Wilkins, formerly a senior manager with Lancelyn in Oxford, has joined their team as UK market manager with effect from 25 October. Mike Goldberg, Selecon's European sales director comments: "This is a very positive appointment. David has a great deal of experience in the lighting industry and I'm looking forward to working with him."

Wilkins originally trained in stage management at the Guildford School of Acting, after which he worked for a number of hire companies rigging lighting and staging equipment. It was the lighting side of the business that caught his imagination and he joined Strand Lighting, where he stayed for seven years, doing a variety of jobs including estimator, project manager and mobile sales engineer. A variety of other jobs primarily in the lighting industry gave him the broad experience that he now bring

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