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Broadcast on 9 January h from Messecenter Herning, Sport09 recognised the year's best in Danish and international sport. Pedersen commented, "This year I wanted to try something new and decided to try out the MAC 401. We got some very good looks with them. It has a big fat beam that I loved, and the colour mixing was good. They made a good fill across the set."

Used as both a set design piece and beam luminaire, Pedersen dispersed 401s between background rows of Martin LC Series LED panels with several units on the floor lining the main performance stage. "It's light and small and the design is also n

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Harman Professional distributors GSL Professional LLC provided the BSS Audio devices to Bond Communications. These audio tools function on most of the Tower's 164 floors, and GSL's marketing & PR manager, Glen Kershaw, states, "We were selling these products to Bond pretty much up until the day of the opening - and I anticipate that the after-sales support will be ongoing following the opening."

Bond Communications AV package manager, Omar Chataw, confirms that his company was asked to provide an integrate

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It was based on plays - between 2000 and 2009 - on TV, radio and in public places including pubs, clubs and shops. PPL collects royalties for sound recordings. Last year, another chart compiled for Radio 2 - also by PPL - found that Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale was the most played song in public places in the previous 75 years. The song, which features a distinctive organ riff, stayed at number one for six weeks in the UK in the summer of 1967.

Health & Safety - Three workers were injured when part of the stage for a co

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Clear-Com will continue operation as a wholly-owned subsidiary of HME, with no changes planned for its award-winning product portfolio or its current mission to be the world's first choice for high-end intercom solutions.

HME, a privately-held company, based in Poway, California, is a pioneer of digital wireless intercom solutions for restaurant, hospitality, sports and pro audio markets. The company says: "Combining HME's world-renowned expertise in wireless with Clear-Com's leadersh

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Roving TiMax Tracker tags are distributed in toys to children by spotters in the audience, to control tracking cameras which feed images of the childrens' faces to Pandora's Box where they are rendered for projection onto the heads of the dancing Tweenies. The radio mic'd talent are also tracked so their voices can be followed by the demanding and discerning audience.

XL Group director Rich Rowley takes

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Born Gulilai Amit, Huimei has been a number-one recording artist since her first album, Sisters, in 1996, developing a substantial fan base for her pop star character, 'A-Mei'. She has since released 17 albums over the past 12 years. Her current tour features a lavish stage production and planned showcases in Malaysia, Hong Kong and other majo

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In addition to the press day rig of 22 VL3500 wash fixtures, Imagination's in-house lighting designer, Jonny Milmer, requested nine of PRG's proprietary BadBoy luminaires. The advanced accuracy, speed and zoom range of the BadBoy allowed Milmer to track the cars as they were driven around the Ford stand, peeling off to reveal and illuminate a static exhibit of the vehicle as it passed. Control was via a Hog iPC console, programmed by Paul Cook.

Milmer commented on the BadBoy, "In Geneva we work with a 16.5m trim height. In an arena with an incredible amount of daylight fittings, even the brightest lights on

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MGM CEO Martin Frigg says, "With the Opera Digital, Flexsys and DVX-Series - and the new ranges launched at Pro Light & Sound this year, I am sure dBTechnologies is offering us exactly the right products to meet our market's needs. Our mission is not just to sell products. We want to fulfill the needs of the customer in terms of consulting and engineering, so that they feel comfortable from the outset."

European sales manager Harald von Falkenstein says: "MGM reflects our desire at dBTechnologies to put the customer first, which goes hand in hand with providing a good product for a good price as far as we're concerned. We look forward to supporting our partners in the Swiss territory to this end."

"We have know

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One Medialon Manager V5 Pro license is used as the main A/V and building management control system of Alexandra Park. The installation has been designed to control all the building's audio visual play out across the race course.

Six projectors and 12 50" plasma screens located around the bar and other corporate entertainment areas are fed a combination of media by the Medialon control system. Live feeds from the race course internal TV channel together with music, video and advertising material are routed to the various screens.

The Medialon c

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Event Services was working for Abu Dhabi production company Flash Events and Lee Charteris.

It was the first time that Wakestock has taken its mix of music and extreme sport to the UEA. The artist line up included Maximo Park, De La Soul, Goldierocks, Carole Samaha and many more, and the event hosted the first leg of the 2010 WWA Wakeboard World Series, where local and international wakeboarders showcased their best tricks and acrobatic stunts on the water.

The calibre of the artist line-up dictated they needed a good-sized stage with decent weight loadings to facilitate the flying of sound, lighting & video e

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The ninth series of shows, broadcast live every Friday during prime time from the Teatro delle Vittorie in Rome, has some elegant new scenery based on natural materials, designed by Riccardo Bocchini. There is wooden parquet on the floor and on the arch enclosing the stage, and chrome-plated trim behind the three large LED walls.

The lighting equipment has been supplied by Di & Di Service, and consists of 20 Alpha Profile 1200s (half of which are arranged at the height of the proscenium and the other half in the auditorium for front lighting), 20 Alpha Spot HPE 1200s (all as backlighting), 16 Alpha Spot HPE 700s (arranged around the whole intern

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The show's orchestration places instruments in three separate locations in the theatre: guitars are situated on one platform, keyboards and miscellaneous percussion on another, and a full drum kit on a third. To make this layout work, Stage Entertainment, producer of Zorro The Musical needed a way to configure the monitor mixes to keep all the musicians on cue and in time while also minimising cost and setup time.

"We had only one day for soundcheck with the musicians, so we needed to spend less time on gear settings and more time on sound," says Bertrand Billon, audio manager with Stage Entertainment. "With the Aviom system, all we had to do was run Cat 5 arou

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"Once again we are honoured to participate in The ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes programme," said Engel. "As you know, we contribute part of the sales proceeds from the popular Roscolux 359, Medium Violet, to Behind The Scenes. The entertainment community is a family, and we at Rosco believe it is important to take care of family in times of need. Our sincerest thanks goes to The ESTA Foundation for creating a way for us to help and to all the folks who use 359 and make this donation possible."

Tobin Neis, a longtime member of the Behind the S

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PSI had the advantage of having worked in the space once before, in 2008 for another live RTE broadcast. This time the lighting production was a lot bigger and more comprehensive, and required more precision rigging utilising the Cathedral's original wooden beams.

Either side of the nave where the majority of the congregation sit, is a row of six pillars, and the other side of these, an aisle with a narrower set of pews running the full length of the building, right down to the altar, and it was these aisles that had to be used to accommodate the lighting trusses. Lighting positions were needed to fire through each of the se

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This show was designed by lighting design student Simon Gray a level three student at Rose Bruford College, as his final year project.

"I wanted to take on the challenge of transforming a truly iconic building, and make people take a second look at a familiar landmark," says Gray. "Big Ben is one of the world's most famous images, and to many it represents London. It was a natural choice to do this for Sport Relief, and I was delighted to be helping to raise awareness of this fantastic fundraising campaign."

Gray and his team of students from the Lighting Design and Lighting Programming courses at the College required special permission for the eve

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J. R. Clancy presented the vast assemblage of materials to the FSU School of Theatre on 31 March at the opening of the USITT Stage Expo in Kansas City, MO. FSU will make this collection of documents accessible to students, historians, and others who may research the development of theatre rigging.

Particularly fascinating are the drawings that tell the story of a critical period in the company's history, during the transition to motorised rigging. Beginning in the 1960s, Clancy manufactured the synchronous point hoist and early 'package hoists', precursors to the motorised hoists that are so popular today.

The university projects that the archive will be available in digitised form on the FSU

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"As our worldwide sales continue to grow, we appreciate the need to provide our European distributors with the same speed of service that we can give our customers in North America", commented Julia Lee, Community's director of marketing and sales.

Community's Entasys column line array is among the most popular products being stocked in the European warehouse, says the company. Demand for Entasys has continued to increase as the system gains popularity in house of worship and conference room projects, where quick turnaround time and expe

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LumenRadio's CRMX Nova technology (CRMX = Cognitive Radio Multiplexer) is the first automated and adaptive wireless technology specifically developed for real-world conditions in the lighting industry. The products are also available in rugged outdoor enclosures for permanent installation.

Niclas Norlén, CTO of LumenRadio says: "Our goal is simple: Provide affordable completely configurable systems, capable of combining Ethernet, DMX, RDM, DALI and all other popular lighting protocols. Our technology provides total data integrity and no interference with other wireless equipment. We are excited to be associated with a quality-driven

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The Bridge Live Communications, a UAE-based experiential marketing company, contracted by IRENA, called upon Creative Technology Dubai to provide video equipment for the commission meetings held in the Emirates Palace Hotel Ballroom - one of several venues chosen to hold the numerous events and meetings.

CT Dubai provided two pairs of Christie HD18K DLP projectors used to front-project onto two 6m wide screens placed at either side of the main stage. Three Sony DXC D50 cameras, all with long lenses, were positioned out fro

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To accommodate the multi-zone configuration, and provide the flexibility required, Soundworks proposed an Audica Professional MICROseries system, which was auditioned by the restaurant's owner prior to installation.

Each of the four zones of the restaurant was fitted with individual Audica MICROzone controller/amplifier, and each MICROzone was provided with an Audica WMR (wall mount remote) for local individual control.

In the main restaurant area the MICROzone is used to feed a four-channel MICROplus power amplifier, which drives 12 MICROpoint loudspeakers, and two active MICROsubs for additional low frequency reinforceme

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The particulars of loudspeaker system configuration are the work of the production's associate sound designer, Richard Brooker, who was charged with fulfilling overall requirements set by Bobby Aitken, principal sound designer.

"I'd first used M'elodies on my design for a Spanish production of Jesus Christ Superstar," recalls Brooker. "I needed to handle a dynamic and often quite loud show, but the production had to change venues quickly. Also, in most places I could not fly the system. After much head-scratching, I went the Meyer route with M'elodies and 600

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Mannie Manim, executive director at The Fugard and formerly the CEO at the Baxter Theatre, says that the building construction took just a week beyond six months to complete, where three buildings were made into one unit. "It was an enormous labour but we had a fantastic building team," said Mannie.

Thanks to UK-based producer Eric Abraham, who established Isango Portobello in 2006, The Fugard Theatre is equipped w

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The new system was designed by Mick O'Gorman of Dublin-based Mosco Sound Design and Recording, working closely with the venue's technical and facilities manager Ollie Dempsey.

"The existing system we had was becoming unreliable, and I spent half my life patching up and adding on to meet the increasing demands of artists," says Dempsey. "It was also a bit of a nightmare for anyone who was not 100% familiar with sound. They could operate the old mixing console, but the slightest problem would

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To show her multi-faceted vocal style to best advantage in live performance, Saint Lu uses microphones from Electro-Voice. Franz Menke, sales manager EV Microphones EMEA, comments: "We are certain that Saint Lu is going to make it big, and we're proud to be in a position to contribute to that success."

(Jim Evans)