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UK - Point Source Productions has added a number of Pathway Pathport DMX Manager Plus! to its hire stock specifically with its corporate clients in mind.

This 4-Port Ethernet Node has been designed as a means of expanding the DMX capabilities of shows using channel-hungry modern technology - where DMX universes get used up within a very short space of time.

Pathway Pathport DMX Manager Plus! is a 1U box with the ability to act as a DMX splitter or merger in addition to its function as a four-port Ethernet node. Each of its four ports is individually configurable as an input or output and has both male and female five- pin XLRs.

An integral Ethernet switch and two Ethernet ports give direct link-through, while the unit can be configured to include DMX universe routing, channel

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Australia - Eight new Robe ColorWash 750AT Tungsten fixtures have been added to The Gold Coast Arts Centre's moving light system. Technical manager Chris Dbais, states: "We needed some new fixtures, and the Robe Tungsten's were the best choice for excellent reliability and great features."

Robe's Australian distributor, the ULA Group, provided the Arts Centre with some demo Tungstens, which were utilised on the Whitlams Orchestral Tour.

The Tungstens are being rolled out in the coming weeks for the Centre's annual in-house production of the hit Broadway musical, The Boy from Oz. Lighting director Scott Allan has included the fixtures in his rig, and Dbais comments that he is "excited" to see what the LD comes up with.

The Gold Coast Arts Centre is a multipurpose facility incorporating the Arts Theatre, art gallery, comedy clubhouse, boardroo

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UK - Style By Solares managing director, Wren Solares contracted TAO Group to design and produce L'Oreal Redken's Tribe '08 Hairdressing Awards, held at Battersea Evolution during London's Fashion Week this September.

Presented by TV's Alex Zane of Popworld, Tribe '08 is L'Oreal's annual awards for the UK's top hairdressers and was attended by over 1,200 hairdressers from around the country.

This year the aim was to achieve a more rock 'n' roll feel. TAO's Andy Cotton designed a production that included two 4mx 3m rear projection screens with Barco SLMR12 projectors, interspersed with 240 panels of stealth screen, supplied and operated by High Resolutions' Peter Canning.

The stage was installed as a three-stage system with a 12m x 10m main stage and a 9m central catwalk protruding into the audience arena. A connecting DJ stage was set at 18 inches higher and occupied

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France - Digigram has announced the launch of its online directory of 'Network Audio Gurus' at www.ethersound.com/guru. The directory is designed to offer website visitors instant access to the right kind of expertise for their projects. The directory is free to register and open to all consultants, system designers and contractors with network audio experience who wish to promote their services via the pages of EtherSound. Interested parties can create their own profile and describe their field of expertise.

According to Digigram's marketing communications manager, Remi Oudinot, this is an opportunity for all network audio experts to increase their visibility within the market place. "We get over 6,000 visitors per month to ethersound.com," he explained. "Many of those will be looking at the site to see how they can incorporate EtherSound technology into their pr

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France - Barco reports that the world's leading car brands have again selected Barco LED solutions to deliver maximum brand impact to their booths at this year's Mondial de Automobile in Paris. Barco LED displays are used on over 70% of the booths at the show.

Held at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, the Mondial de Automobile is a showcase for over 500 international brands and a celebration of the European automotive industry. This year, the show will be celebrating its 110th anniversary and pays host to over 90 world premières. It runs from 4 to 19 October 2008.

The use of black LED is a major trademark of this year's show with many auto manufacturers choosing Barco's new true black LED displays, the NX-4 and NX-6, as an integral part of their booth design.

"Alongside the trend to black, creative use of LED at auto shows also continues a dominant trend," says Andr

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Spain - The Music and Fashion Sea Adventure is the brainchild of The Wellenreiter, an ambitious team of music and business experts, who, in conjunction with AIDA cruises, have put together the ultimate clubbers dream: eleven decks of paradise for the sun-seeking clubber on board the luxury liner AIDAcara out of Palma, Majorca.

In addition to the pools, bars, restaurants, wellness centres and driving range that form part of the AIDAcara cruising experience, the Music and Fashion Sea Adventure saw an additional five tons of sound and lighting equipment installed over three stages by Live Audio of Braunshweig, Germany. LiveAudio specified Crest Audio-driven Martin Audio systems throughout.

Crest Audio Pro 8200 and Pro 9200 powered Martin Audio mini line arrays transformed the pool deck into a powerful main dancefloor for 800 clubbers, where heavyweight DJs such as M.A.N.D.Y., Moo

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Australia - Gold-Coast-based Con-Sol has recently boosted its audio rental inventory with the purchase of a L-Acoustics' Kiva line source array system from Australian and New Zealand distributor Random Audio.

Con-Sol managing director, Bill Karaitiana said the company had been seeking a system with flexibility and versatility to suit the corporate market.

"We chose to go with the Kiva and Kilo LF extension system because of its incredibly high 'power to weight ratio' without compromising audio quality. We were also sold on the new LA4 amplifier with inbuilt amp and processing power - which takes away the opportunity for curious 'little fingers'.

"Our new Kiva system debuted at the Cairns Convention Centre with an event for one of our national clients. It was a great success and our client was over the moon with the clarity and quality of sound."

(Jim Evans)

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China - Lighting designer Durham Marenghi specified individual i-Pix BB4 LED cells to up-light the performers onboard the special double decker London bus in the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics 'Handover' sections of the 2008 Beijing Olympics & Paralympics Closing Ceremonies.

The two Handover events took place three weeks apart in the Birds Nest stadium, and were integral elements of both Games' Closing Ceremonies.

Marenghi chose BB4 cells - high power homogenized 20 degree RGB lightsources - because they were "efficient, bright and low power". There were 24 individual units bordering each of the two scissor lift platforms either end of the bus, and 20 on the central hydraulic ram lift.

The bus was designed by Stufish, and the BB4s - along with other lighting elements - were integrated into it by Stage One, who customised the whole vehicle for the shows.

(Ji

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South Africa - DWR Distribution has been appointed as the official Vari*Lite distributor for South Africa.

Vari*Lite had been scouting South Africa for some time, and Bob Schacherl, VP of sales visited earlier in the year with the objective of identifying a suitable partner company. Whilst there, he consulted with many industry professionals and "the company most frequently mentioned was DWR," he reports.

He was also familiar with Duncan Riley's history in the industry, and the passion and enthusiasm that drives the company and has carved out its reputation for delivering world class customer service and support - a goal shared by Vari*Lite.

Riley and Schacherl met recently at PLASA 2008 in London and came to a verbal agreement which has now been formalised. Schacherl says he is "very excited" to be entering the South African market.

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Spain - For the first time in three years DJ Tiësto returned to the Spanish island of Ibiza to host his own weekly residency at Privilege, the world's largest nightclub. Playing accompaniment to the four-hour DJ sets in the form of a dynamic backdrop was a high impact 120sq.mMartin LC Series LED wall.

The event ran every Monday night from early July until the closing party on 22 September and featured new production and effects gear including a customized DJ booth and the state-of-the-art LED backdrop.

"The use of lasers was not an option this year so we took a look into the LED screens on the market," says Bart Roelen, production manager for Tiësto. "We couldn't do lots of rigging in the club so lights had to be hung on a steel layer construction placed upstage. Video is a very important element of Tiësto's show so we needed a system that could be placed on

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Australia - ARX has announced the addition of the ARX DI Plus2 RC Stereo Direct Box to its DI Plus range of audio interfaces.

ARX's managing director Colin Park says: "Our recently released DI Plus has proved very popular with audio professionals around the world and the ARX design team has re-engineered this unit's circuitry into a compact two channel package resulting in our new DI Plus2 RC Direct Box, which is now in production at our Melbourne, Australia manufacturing facility.

"Like its single channel stable mate the DI Plus 2 RC is powered with an internal long life NiMH rechargeable battery that can be charged off either phantom power applied to either of the output XLR sockets or via the 12V DC input, removing battery 'throw away' as an environmental issue."

The DI Plus2 RC features low noise high impedance input buffers with switchable 20db Pad, and

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UK - XTA processors have played a major part in this year's record-breaking summer festival season.

Audile and SSE Audio are two of the most prominent audio companies that used XTA equipment on many of the main festivals. Between them, they serviced stages at events including Reading and Leeds, both V2008 venues, the Isle of Wight Festival, Glastonbury, Download, Cropredy, Bestival, Camp Bestival, Creamfields, Global Gathering, Latitude, Oxegen, Gatecrasher Summer Sound System, Escape In The Park and Beach Break Live, along with brand new events like Summer In The Park and The Hop Farm Festival.

Audile's festival rigs comprise Funktion One self-powered Resolution 5s with F-221 subs (the latter featuring Funktion One/XTA A6 amp modules) and passive Resolution-5s/4s with F-218 subs, driven by MC2 amplifiers. Control for the systems is by XTA DP448s and GQ600s, with C2 compressor

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UK - PEL Music & Media has installed a comprehensive professional sound system into the new Boffi kitchens and bathroom Showroom in Chelsea, London.

Opened in March 2008, the Boffi Chelsea showroom is the first Boffi owned showroom in the UK and has been designed by architect Piero Lissoni. It occupies 6,500 sq.ft and displays models of kitchens and bathrooms in an absolute minimalist style.

To aid the ambience in the new store, Boffi wanted a professional sound system and went to manufacturer Bose for a suitable solution. PEL Music & Media is a Bose Pro-Partner and was recommended by Bose for the system design and installation.

PEL based the design of the sound system around a Bose Professional System, featuring a multi zoned Bose FreeSpace 3 system driven by Cloud amplification, including an iPod docking station.

Showroom manager Steven Salt comments, "The system wo

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Festival News - Half the tickets for 2009's Glastonbury festival have been sold already, eight months before the Somerset festival is due to take place. Tickets went on sale on Sunday morning and by early evening more than half the 137,500 places were snapped up. Spokesman John Shearlaw said he was "chuffed" so many tickets had gone for the event at Worthy Farm, Pilton. The early ticket sale comes after last year's event failed to sell out on the first day. Despite that, Shearlaw said he had not expected the tickets to sell out so far in advance. "That would have been extraordinary, without a line-up and eight months before the event," he said. "You can look at it from both sides because if they had all sold out, there would have been eight months of turning people away.

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UK - Sustainable events came a step closer to reality with the announcement of the UK's single largest self-funded programme on implementing the new British Standard, BS 8901 Sustainable Event Management.

The programme, which commenced earlier this year, involves every part of the industry sector, from event clients to organisers, and venues to suppliers and features large corporate companies through to small and medium-sized enterprises.

This programme is managed by the Sustainable Events Group (SEG) and is due to run through until the planned review of the new standard early in 2009. Experiences from the programme will feed directly into the BS 8901 revision process undertaken by the British Standards Institution.

"The programme gives the UK event industry a real chance to lead the world in the application of sustainability principles to their activities and events,&q

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Australia - Swinburne University in Prahran, Victoria, already a client of Coemar De Sisti Australia contacted the company regarding requirements for a lighting and dimming system for a new studio under construction.

They required a dimming system with patch facilities, so Coemar De Sisti Australia specified LSC. The installation was completed in just two days. Michael Ellul Coemar De Sisti's project manager attended on-site and commissioned the system immediately.

The studio is now up and running with a LSC EKO installation dimmer rack, LSC iPatch and Minim lighting console along with De Sisti Giotto over head cyc lights.

(Jim Evans)

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UK Sunbaba was commissioned to provide over 4500m of branded signage for the Sky Sports Freewheel which took place on 21 September. The event was produced by experiential marketing agency RPM, Limelight Sports and the Greater London Authority (GLA).

An estimated 50,000 cyclists were given free rein of the city for a day as a central 12km route between the Tower of London and Buckingham Palace was closed to traffic. Some participants donned unusual costumes whilst others rode vintage penny farthing bicycles alongside the many families with children who were enjoying cycling without the pressure of heavy London traffic. Rest stops were placed around London offering refreshments and entertainment including live music, cycling limbo challenges and jugglers.

Sunbaba supplied 4000m of non woven Polyester which lined the main cycle route and 500m full colour Ultramesh covered

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Germany - More than 50 DPA 4060 and 4061 miniature mics have been used for a production of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen - a piece for three orchestras - performed during the Berliner Festival in late September. The epic piece was performed four times as part of the festival finale by the Berliner Philharmonika with conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding and Michael Boder, in a 1930s aircraft hangar at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.

Gruppen was written for 109 players divided into three orchestral units, each with its own conductor, deployed in a horseshoe shape to the left, front and right of the audience. The spatial separation was designed to keep simultaneously played, musically separate passages distinct from one another, but in some passages a single musical process passes from one orchestra to another. This setup required three discrete sound systems.

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Singapore - D.A.S. Audio continues to host seminars across Asia. Singapore was recently chosen to host a workshop session led by Joan La Roda, D.A.S. sound engineer, attended by around 50 students from the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) of Singapore.

The four-hour session included the presentation Line Arrays: How they work, focusing on the technical features and applications of line array systems, as well as an explanation about subwoofer characteristics and configuration entitled Subwoofer Configurations and Time Alignment.

Eduardo Lopez, sales & marketing for D.A.S. Audio Asia joined Joan La Roda at this international event. With its strong practical flavour, the seminar also featured an explanation about how to take high precision acoustic measurements using two programmes designed specifically for this purpose, namely SATLive and Smaart Live.

(Jim Evans

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UK - Show Presentation Services (SPS) was recently appointed to work with leading creative agency Neighbour to launch the Levi 501 Jeans by House of Holland on 18 September in store at Selfridges, London.

The brief was to provide a window display system visible to pedestrians passing by Oxford Street. The screen incorporated content prior to the launch of abstract images of models on a catwalk with text announcing the countdown to the launch. After the launch, the screen was used to show edited footage of the product being displayed on the catwalk at London Fashion Week.

Using a traditional display system such as plasma or LCD screen in a street-facing shop window would dramatically affect the screen visibility due to the high ambient light conditions. The solution provided by SPS was to use a high brightness indoor/outdoor Barco Dlite 7 LED display with a screen size of 2688m

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USA - Developer of system design and control software, Stardraw.com, has appointed Joel Schwartz as business development manager for North America. Schwartz joins Stardraw.com with 30 years experience in IT, consumer electronics, custom installation, commercial audio-visual and healthcare industries.

"I have had a great informal relationship with Stardraw.com for several years," says Schwartz, "and have enjoyed being something of a sounding-board for strategic planning. As Stardraw.com has accelerated its growth into new markets using cutting-edge technologies, the opportunity to cement that relationship was just too good to miss."

Schwartz's career began as a programmer and systems analyst in the days of punch-card computing. Since then he has held senior positions with well-known organizations including Harman International and Mordaunt-Short, and sat for

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