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Damon Albarn (musical score) and Gorillaz partner Jamie Hewlett (visuals, stage & costume design) present this innovative performance work fusing Chinese opera and circus with animated video cartoons and live performance.

Summit won a competitive tender to supply rigging services and equipment to the show which is staged by AEG Promotions UK. Summit's team is project managed by Chris Walker who is working closely with AEG's site production manager Tom Armstrong and Monkey Journey 2008 (the touring company) production manager, Jim Leaver.

The show's flown infrastructure is based around a 22.4m wide by 20.5m deep ground support system that was installed into the tent by Star Events Group.

From this, Summit

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Lisa Tapper explains: "It is a very exciting time for us all; we have a clear focus and a driven, knowledgeable team. Certain assets were acquired by Stagecraft Technical Services from Stagecraft Limited, which recently went into voluntary liquidation.

"Stagecraft Technical Services is well placed to offer full technical support services for staging, lighting and sound projects of all sizes, alongside extensive a

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Maroon 5 and George Michael took full advantage of the D5, while Alicia Keys, Queen and Paul Rogers benefitted from Delta's substantial stock of L-Acoustics' cabinets, and the spectacular launch of Atlantis, The Palm made good use of the company's entire inventory.

"It's great to have access to DiGiCo products in the Middle East," says Jim Ebdon. "It means that I can just take my setting with me on a USB key, rather than having to ship large amounts of kit. And on this occasion it was particularly useful, because the other option available would have meant using two desks instead of the just the one D5."

"Delta Dubai has gone through a period of si

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When the venue was restructured, new installations included a sound system by Dynacord Alpha Concept and lighting by DTS and Zero 88. The new lighting system was installed by FG Lighting, with technical supervision by Dario Juka, to a lighting design project by Michele Sgolacchia of DTS.

DTS and Zero 88 products installed at Area Venezia include eight Helios full colour LED projectors inset in a semicircle in the false ceiling above the dancefloor; 35 MR16

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Paul Galley of Event Sound & Light comments: "We had used the RCF Line Array a couple of times and had achieved great results with it, so it made perfect commercial sense to look at adding a line array system to our hire inventory, as we already have a large point source system. The line array allows us the benefit of offering both systems to our clients, but more importantly we have the option to use what is right for the individual job.

"We had been looking at various systems, but after a visit to RCF's HQ in Italy it became clear that the TT+ system could deliver far more than what we expected and also allowed us the scale ability we had been missing. The one major th

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The award was presented to Marc Lopez, marketing manager of Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems by Night Ranger guitarist Jeff Watson and Howard Page, senior director of engineering for leading US rental firm Clair Brothers.

In accepting the award, Lopez paid tribute to Yamaha's dealers and end users worldwide whose continued feedback, suggestions and support have helped to ensure that the PM series digital consoles continue to evolve and offer the most advanced facilities and intuitive user interfaces in the large format console market.

(Jim Evans)

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The base will feature the portfolio of PSCo's advanced products including a fleet of Panasonic 103" plasma screens, the Sharp 108" LCD, new Infinite plasma screens and a selection of top of the range mainstream AV products.

PSCo managing director Stuart Holmes comments, "For a long time we have seen a growing demand for our innovative 'Advanced' product range, for events in the north of England and the Midlands. This was the driving force for the decision to open the new office, from which we will also be offering training and demonstrations for clients."

(Jim Evans)

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Rob Lingfield (Martin Audio), Bob Mundy (Adam Hall) and Ric Salzedo (Avolites) were all due to stand down at the end of this year, and while Rob Lingfield and Bob Mundy decided to re-stand for election, Ric Salzedo did not.

Matthew Griffiths, PLASA CEO, commented: "We would like to thank Ric for the time and energy he has devoted to PLASA during his tenure on the Executive Committee. His commitment and his input has been of great value to us, and we wish him well."

The other PLASA Members putting themselves forward as nominees for election were Matt Lloyd of GDS, Craig Buckley of RW Salt, Tim Roberts of The Event Safety Shop and Clive Kinton of IDEX.

Following the voting, PLASA has announced that Ro

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The green art fair Miami 2008, held the first week in December, drew 15,000 art patrons into its venue - three 5,000 sq.ft adjoining tents made of recycled fabric and aluminium. Inside, visitors viewed a fashion show and browsed art made of recycled materials. Their purchases were also packed in reusable shopping bags.

Chauvet LED lighting fixtures were used to highlight the eco-friendly products. Nick Assunto, CEO of Visual Formula, located in Miami's design district, volunteered to light the fair using 82 Chauvet LED wash fixtures, powered by solar panels and a biodiesel generator, further lessening the eco-friendly lights' carbon footprint. The LED luminaires included COLORado 1s, COLORado 3s, LEDsplash-2 and Q-Wash LED fixtures.

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"Cirque du Soleil's stage productions are distinguished by their artistry and expressive power, and Pandoras Box proved to be a valuable tool in creating a visual narrative for ZAIA," said Jimmy Lakatos, who worked with fellow Geodezik founding member Raymond Saint-Jean to provide video system and content design for ZA

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Memorable moments onstage at the 42nd annual CMA Awards continued throughout the night with appearances by Shure endorsers Martina McBride, who sang Ride using a UR2/SM58 combination, and Miranda Lambert, whose rendition of More Like Her was heard via a UR2/Beta 58.

(Jim Evans)

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One of the most popular will be the visit to the Philips factory in Hamilton, which offers the opportunity to see one of the last remaining lamp manufacturing processes in Western Europe. Philips makes the SOX range of lamps here, with much of the work still being carried out by hand, and also assemble other types of luminaires, many of them specifically for sports venues, such as all the fittings for the first night time Grand Prix at Singapore.

Other 'business' vis

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Stage One were brought in by Top Gear Live production manager, Simon Aldridge and were responsible for the construction of both the set and Swampy, along with the associated automation. Designed by Paul Bonomini, the set both framed and became part of the live action.

Stage One built a replica oil tanker, which split open to reveal Swampy - an 8m high, automated, fire-breathing monster. Swampy was constructed with a steel frame, a moulded head and four metre long arms with over sized sculptured hands. He was scenically dressed in camouflage netting

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Sold by Dutch systems integrator and Lighthouse's distributor in The Netherlands, Hecla Professional Audio & Video Systems BV, one system resides at FC Utrecht, the football club that has its home in Holland's fourth largest city, whilst the other is co-owned by two rental companies and two advertising agencies which have signed deals with several separate clubs.

"The first system we sold was 216m2 of Lighthouse's new B10 LED banner system," says Jos den Hartog, new business manager for Hecla. "This was purchased by a combination of two rental companies and two a

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The new stadium was officially inaugurated on 5 November 2008 with a Women's World Cup soccer warm-up match between Chile and Brazil. The first official match of the Women's Soccer World Cup was played on 10 November. The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, visited the site to check on the work progress, and congratulated Prosound for the job.

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Presented by deputy general manager Karl Christmas and installation manager Scott Fraser, the first of these seminars took place at London's Central School of Speech and Drama in late November.

"As a company, we have extremely broad knowledge of audio networking technology," says Christmas. "The half-day course is intended to be a thought-provoking introduction to the subject, covering a range of digital protocols and examining which is best for any given situation."

Although using Yamaha equipment for demonstration purposes, the course is designed to be as 'non-partisan' as possible

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"Being a lower cost, higher volume product with a slightly different market emphasis to DiGiCo's existing consoles, it requires a different route to market," says Mick Anderson, whose company, Mick Anderson Consulting was brought onboard in July 2008 to help put in place the commercial template necessary to capitalise on the SD8's exceptional take up since its launch at PLASA in September.

"We are delighted to be chosen as one of the key dealers for the new SD8 console," says Autograph director, Duncan Bell. "It continues the close association that we have built with DiGiCo.over the last five yea

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"As predicted, Allen & Heath has proved to be a perfect complement to our other hi-end pro audio brands - HK Audio, LA Audio and LAB.Gruppen," comments JHS MD, Dennis Drumm. "As such, adding Northern Ireland and Eire to our A&H sales territory is the perfect way to capitalise on our work with the brand. We look forward to generating similarly successful results with the additional expansion of these areas to the JHS sales map."

A&H sales manager, Martin Daley adds, "The transfer of PA and ZED distribution to JHS has proved very successful and the sale

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The 2009 awards mark the introduction of a new Best Lighting Designer category to the awards. This category is sponsored by White Light.

As with all of the other categories, nominations for the Best Lighting Designer award came from members of the public. The lighting nominees are Chahine Yavroyan for Relocated at the Royal Court Upstairs and Wig Out! at the Royal Court Downstairs; Jean Kalman for The Year of Magical Thinking at the NT Lyttelton and In The Red and Brown Water at the Young Vic; Malcolm Rippeth for Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket and Six Characters In Search Of An Author at the Gielgud; Mark Henderson for U

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Until this year, however, the Casa lacked its own permanent sound reinforcement system - a situation now remedied by the installation of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers in both the main 1,300-seat venue, Sala Suggia, and the Casa's auxiliary hall, Sala 2.

The permanent systems are supplied by Meyer Sound Portugal, and installed by the Casa's own engineering department under the direction of in-house technical production manager, Ernesto Costa. Explaining the time lag be

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ARX managing director Colin Park commented, "I have been discussing the possibilities of working together with Check Audio in Spain for some time, Their sales team felt our range of signal processing products was a very complementary fit with the other lines they currently represent, especially our newer USB and Analogue interface and dynamics products.

"Spain has always been important for ARX, along with the UK and Germany it's one of Europe's trend setting markets. We're looking forward to working with Jon Ivory and his team at Check Audio to consolidate ARX's position in the Spanish market and to reinforce to their customers the state of the art performance that ARX products can offer them."

(Jim Evans)

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The 468-seat theatre now benefits from twin horizontal arrays each comprised of two ARCS enclosures flown above the left and right sides of the stage accompanied by a single dV-SUB enclosure per side down on the deck. L-Acoustics LA Series amplifiers power each of the loudspeakers.

According to Michael J Graphix, production manager and technical director for Kanbar Hall, "We've wanted to upgrade our system since we opened in 2004. We present many European and Israeli performing artists, and L-Acoustics equipment is usually their first request on the tech riders."

In addition to the new ARCS/dV-SUB system, Kanbar Hall has also utilised L

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While CMI's head office and national distribution warehouse are located in Melbourne, the company maintains a national presence through sales offices and territory managers who service an extensive dealership network across all Australian states and territories. CMI Music & Audio's product ranges are supported by the company's extensive experience in sales, service, marketing and distribution, all of which is underpinned by local market knowledge.

CMI's managing director, Peter Trojkovic, states, "We have worked hard t

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Additions to its product portfolio include ten UPJ-1P compact VariO loudspeakers and a number of UMS subs from the Meyer Sound range as well as a Cadac S-Type mixing console, which has already seen service on a new concept in corporate entertaining and creative business development, The Great Northern Cook Off.

Pete Stanbank has joined tghe company as warehouse manager and a new association struck with sound engineer Steve Phillips.

"Audio Alliance concentrates on the corporate sector," says director, Oliver Driver. "Demand for our services is high, with regular work coming from a selection of Euro