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Pagliocca wanted to embrace good production values and was prepared to allocate a decent budget on lighting and sound. O'Neill was given a blank canvass in terms of design, and has produced an elegant lighting design to match and complement the contemporary interior created by Burns Design, also based in Glasgow.

The Classic Grand is located in Jamaica Street and houses two spaces (250 downstairs/550 upstairs), which present live music and club nights. The site has

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Associate lighting designer is Daniel Walker with Kristina Kloss as assistant lighting designer and Rob Halliday handling the lighting programming. "Generally, we were very pleased with the decision to use the MAC 700s," says Walker, "Especially once we put them in 'studio mode', which made them much quieter."

Rob Halliday, who has worked on both the London and Broadway productions, say

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The original installation took place in 2004 when Eden first launchedthe Time of Gifts concept, a series of seasonal events, which includedmusical performance and the creation of an ice rink for visitors toenjoy. An iDR-8 digital mixing processor was selected for its ability toprovide both sophisticated processing and mixing capabilities.

"The rink is a semi open air structure which posed two problems,"explains Steve Yelland from SPS Systems, who assists Eden with its soundand light requirements. "Firstly, the acoustics are difficult to manageas audio bounces off the ice and the sides of the dome. Secondly, therewere restrictions on the position of the speaker

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The show is an assembled choir of 5,000 school children (and 8,000 in Manchester) who are celebrating music in schools; concerts were staged at the NIA Birmingham, Sheffield Arena, MEN Manchester, Belfast Odyssey and ended at The Royal Albert Hall in London.

System technicians were Davide Lombardi and Adam Smith, who say: "This system never [fails] to amaze us, we are really putting it through its paces from rock and Roll with artists such as the Foo Fighters to 5,000 kids in the Royal Albert Hall assembled as a choir, the dynamics are absolutely fabulous."

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Located directly on Junction 5 of the M6, the ease and speed of transport to the local venues and beyond to the motorway network was a major factor determining the choice of site.

Director Paul Fulcher states: "The re-location was an inevitable and overdue requirement for the Midlands branch which is an excellent local service provider but will also prove to be a 'hub' location for further planned Rigging Services branches in the NW and SW of the UK, complementing the main office in London."

The new contact details are: Rigging Services, Unit E

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Bandit UK's executive officer, Lester Cobrin says: "DJ Shadow was an interesting show that involved great teamwork between lighting and video crews, which is becoming increasingly common. It was one of the very diverse selection of tours that closed a tremendous 2006 for us."

Hyne has been lighting DJ Shadow since June of 2006 when The Outsider was released, with the touring schedule ramped up for the second half of the year. The show is heavily visual-based. Hyne's lighting was thus designed to let the visuals have their place, while simultaneously complimenting and illuminating both artist and the stage set.

"The visuals are unique and extremely we

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This year's Technical Grammy Award presentation to Yamaha Corporation recognizes the company's long tradition of highly-successful recording products, including the REV series digital reverbs; the NS-10M studio reference monitors and recently launched HS monitors, as well the Yamaha DMP7, DMC1000, ProMix01, 02R and DM2000 digital mixing consoles.

"Yamaha has been

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Install @ PALME will be staging the inaugural Middle East Lighting Design Awards (MELDA), which represents a unique opportunity for the region to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the world's leading lighting designers. Winners of MELDA (which includes the Middle East Lighting Designer of the Year), will be presented at an extravagant Gala dinner held at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel in Dubai on May 21.

MELDA is endorsed by the world ren

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BSR E1.22 - 200x, Entertainment Technology - Fire Safety Curtain Systems, describes the materials, fabrication, installation, operation, testing,

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The Catalyst was specified by Neil Breakwell, the show's executive producer. He sought a flexible, cost-effective method to giving the show high production values and a contemporary, feel that provided an interesting background. He also wanted to be able to quickly introduce light, shade or other visual moods to the show whilst integrating with the music bed. Catalyst was initially recommended to him by TV LD Chris Rigby.

Breakwell approached PID to advise on and supply the Catalyst software, and they also provided a customised Macintosh compu

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Contracted by Clarion Events, PSL's Birmingham team, based at the NEC itself, provided all of the technical production for three main stages, from creating the specification for the stage areas and building them, to designing and providing all lighting, sound, and projection.

In the Bollywood Cinema area, which was run by BAFTA, some of Bollywood's leading stars were appearing, and PSL set up a 20ft x 15ft screen, using twin projection producing 24,000 lumens of brightness. In the vast space of the NEC's Hall 3a, capable of housing crowds of 5,000, PSL also fl

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The ground-breaking collection of atmospheric and provocative images are produced by a US-based team of visual artists led by Ben Coles. They are stored on DVDs and replayed live by Shadow via two Pioneer DVJX1's DVD decks, output to screen via an Edirol v 4 mixer.

XL supplied nine Barco RLM G5i projectors, complete with Barco 0.8:1 wide angle lenses to rear project onto the 24 ft wide set/projection area, which consisted of a top and a bottom screen - the top measuring 6ft high and the bottom 12 ft. The set and the screen surfaces were custom built and sourced via Litestructures.

Three projectors were positioned on the floor, and the other six each rigged in threes on the top and bottom rails of a truss upstage of the screen a

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With a completely new format and arena-style seating, the event was designed by Imagination with lighting designer Gurdip Mahal for BBC Television. The BBC's production managers, Karen Dorling, Jon Sweeney and John King, along with Imagination production manager Lee Wateridge, called in Vertigo Rigging to design and rig the enormous lighting grid required to cover both stage and audience.

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The Italian company has its UK base in Redditch, and was established in the 1950s. it manufactures its own classic Ianiro product line as well as distributing leading lighting brands primarily in the film, video, TV and photographic markets. They were looking to reduce the lead-time and shipping costs involved in sourcing certain flightcases from Italy, and so initially asked 5 Star to produce three different designs - all in their traditional Ianiro red colour.

5 Star's Dave Harris recommended that their 'Light Industrial' specification would suit the application, made to house different combinations of the tungsten lights. Ianiro's Nick Allen-Mills says: "We're

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The ML5000 managed sound for the evening's series of events hosted by China's popular stand-up comedian, Wu Tsung Hsien, and He Jiong, a well-known TV anchorman. Over a thousand VIP guests were treated to a dramatic dance performance, and one of the film's stars, Jay Chow, performed a song from the movie. The console also provided broadcastfeeds for two national TV stations, and managed the director's introduct

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Scott Wolfeil of the Lighting Design Group in New York City was tasked with "popping him out of his surroundings" as he dangled high overhead. He comments: "The client in our first meeting actually said, 'We envision Mr. Blaine being hit with four really big lights.' My concern was that he stand out - not only at night but in broad daylight - in the middle of one of the busiest areas in the world."

Wolfeil took his client literally and used four high-powered BigLite 4.5 units to highlight the performer. The 4500 W BigLite 4.5 offers real-ti

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PSL was commissioned by West Design to provide a four-metre wide screen on the front of the cinema to show extracts from the movie, as well as an unusual triangular structure featuring three five-metre screens in the Square itself. These showed content specially created by Digital Insanity, in collaboration with Fox and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).

The unique collaboration between PSL and the team from ILM was also in evidence at the lavish after-show for Eragon, where 1,500 guests watched fire-breathing dragons flying around t

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The lighting design in the main room is based around Martin Professional moving lights which have been donated to the event. This will include 30 TW1s, 12 MAC 700s, 10 Entour Washes and 10 Entour Spots. Lighting will be operated by Neil Vann using a Jands Vista console, supplied by AC Lighting.

Downstairs in the party room and main aftershow bar, HSL's design will utilise nearly 100 James Thomas PixelArc LED battens and 12 Robe DigitalSpot 5000 moving head projectors. These are to be operated by Nathan Wan using an Avolites Diamond 4.

The lighting technology takes a historical journey in keeping with the general theming of the Awards, from monochrome in the

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Mike Upright is the principal for Connect West Marketing and brings a wealth of sales and systems integration experience to the partnership. Commenting on the partnership, Upright says: "I am pleased to be adding Listen to our line card. Listen's products are a high quality balance to our other lines such as Tannoy, Biamp and Cloud."

"We are excited to have Connect West Marketing join the Listen team," said Cory Schaeffer, vice president of sales and marketing at Listen. "Mike's experience in system integration will be a great asset to Listen and the dealers/consultants in the western Canada region."

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Detailing the untold story of the witches of Oz, Wicked is directed by Joe Mantello, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Sound design is by Tony Meola, with equipment supplied by London's Autograph Sound Recording and including an 84-slot Cadac J-Type live sound production console.

Head operator Richard George has been working on the show since the opening, joining the team after working with Tony Meola and associate sound

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Morandi produced all the pre-recorded video content himself, which was stored on two Catalyst v 4 digital media servers. He also wove feeds from 16 cameras into the mix - a mixture of Toshiba mini cams and Panasonic DV cam units with remote pan and tilt heads. The two types of video sources and lighting were meshed together into a seamless collage of images.

XL Video's Des Fallon project managed the tour and says: "It's always good working with someone as creative as Ivan. He puts a lot of intelligence and thought into his work - and the results speak for themselves."

The video system was being looked after on the road by chief engineer Alastair Mac

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Key personnel include Elena Porojnikova - head of the commercial department, Vadim Nerokhov - head of engineering and audio development for installations, and Yuri Cheshev - Adamson brand manager. Recently they hosted a three-day training semin

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"The London Eye has become a 21st Century symbol for Britain, and it's a thrill to see this long-planned project come to realization. We've achieved an ambitious goal in bringing dynamic, visually appealing colour to the structure while at the same time eliminating the maintenance costs and requirements of the previous fluorescent system. We're extremely pleased with the results, and believe Londoners and visitors alike will agree," said Kevin Dyer, head of technical operations for the British Airways London Eye.

Color Kinetics was approached to replace this system with an LED-based alternative. Approximately 640 ColorCast 14 uni

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It incorporated 12 boats, creatively lit to ensure they were the star of the stand with a fully integrated AV solution to ensure the lifestyle messages and brand were communicated effectively to the visitors at the exhibition. The central area was dominated by a 'lighthouse', which incorporated four 1x4 portrait Infinite plasma walls sourced from PSCo, to create strips of