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The Urban Lighting Showcase highlights a sector which has important social and environmental implications, four stands will show the latest innovations for outdoor public spaces.

The Retail Lighting Showcase demonstrates a buoyant market for lighting projects with retailers focusing on reducing their energy consumption, costs and carbon footprints.

The event has moved back to its original home of The Business Design Centre, Islington, which is at the heart of the capital's architecture and design community.

The ARC Show 2011 will take place from 12-13 January 2011.

(Jim Evans)

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Coco Sound was established in 1986 by sound engineers Hans-Georg 'Hage' Romberg and Ellen Muschal who still run the company today, and is now one of the leading audio, lighting, staging and conferencing production service providers in Freiburg region.

"We chose the Uniline system from APG for a number of reasons," says Romberg. "First, it's a speaker system that really plays in the premier league - it measures favourably against any oth

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There are over 43 new exhibitors who weren't at the show last year, including Ateis, Baldwin Boxall, Bosch, Bose, Christie, Chroma-Q, EAW, Electro-Voice, Intertek, Korg, Lighthouse Technologies, Line 6, Mackie, Martin Audio, M Studio, Penton, Turbosound, Stageco, Sundrax, Taiden, Tomcat, Wasp and Zero 88.

These will add to an already comprehensive line-up of leading manufacturers and industry specialists underscoring PLASA's position as the place to see new products and major industry brands.

The PLASA Innovation Gallery, which profiles all the launch products nominated for a PLASA Innovation Award, will showcase a new format on Sunday 12 September, when entrants will publicly demonstrate their products to the Awards judg

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This historic landmark church required a loudspeaker system that provided clarity of the spoken word, as well as seamless visual integration. Community Professional Loudspeakers answered the challenge with Entasys, a three-way, full-range column-array, weather-resistant loudspeaker system. This system boasts multiple low frequency, midrange and high frequency drivers, delivering a targeted vertical beamwidth from 800Hz to 16kHz. ENTASYS' modular design allowed the installer to use multiple full-range columns to create an exceptionally tight-focused vertical coverage.

"The Entasys system was selected for its quality audio performance and the ability to visually blend with the aesthetics of the hall's classic architecture,&qu

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With a musical score based on Green Day's album of the same name, American Idiot debuted on Broadway in April under the direction of Michael Mayer. Mayer led a creative team that included scenic design by Christine Jones, lighting design by Kevin Adams, and video and projection design by Darrel Maloney. SenovvA implemented the designers' vision, and provided the show's custom video system.

Twelve of the Hippotizer HDs on American Idiot are specially configured machines, outputting up to four 720p video feeds to

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The annual festival, created by local radio station KAZR in nearby Des Moines, has grown rapidly since its resurgence in 2007, and this year marked the first time the show has expanded to two stages to accommodate an expanded roster of hardcore metal musicians.

Grand Island, NE-based Sure Sound and Lighting provided a massive system of integrated Renkus-Heinz line arrays to deliver powerful non-stop metal punch to the show's side-by-side stages.

Sure Sound's Jeremy Wann reports, "We set up two hangs of 12 VerSys VLX3 line arrays on the outer side of each stage, and two hangs of 12 STLA9 line arrays on the inner sides. "We set the system up

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With 18 masts holding it aloft, the big top was furnished with XLD and XLE compact line array loudspeaker systems from Electro-Voice. These were supported by PX1122M and PX1152M multi-purpose loudspeakers, whilst the requisite sound pressure in the low-frequency range was supplied by Xsubs.

The system was driven by amp

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Manufacturing motors for the entertainment industry since 1993, ChainMaster introduced the first variable speed VarioLift motor in 1998. Their product line spans from 1/4 to 12 ton motors, 2-32 channel control boxes, their XYZ computer control for large jobs, and trolleys. ChainMaster was recently awarded the rigging contract for the Qatar Convention Center in Doha and is supplying that venue with nearly 1,800 VarioLifts and seven 256-channel control systems.

"We are very happy to partner with ChainMaster," said Tim Brennan, vice president of PRG Distribution. "When I saw the precision placement and the low noise level of the VarioLift at the Prolight+Sound show, I knew th

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vento Totales and FrancoSound (owned and operated by Jader Montoya and Amilkar Franco respectively) are two well-known sound companies in the Colombian professional audio sector. Both firms service the live sound/pro touring market and also operate equipment rental divisions. Together, they pooled their talent and resources to assemble a high performance sound system that made this year's event among the most memorable in recent history.

Amilkar Franco - with assistance from associate Reynaldo Flores - oversaw the selection and installation of the equipment for this year's event and also handled various sound engineering responsibilities.

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This year, the festival took place at the Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran (JIE). "JIE is an exhibition venue," Andre Supryanata from Sumber Ria Sound, the pro audio rental company in charge, stated. "But it fits perfectly to accommodate the festival's growing audience. What we had do was to present the best audio system that can cover up the lack of acoustic treatment of the building."

In total, P.T. Kairos Multi Jaya, EAW's Indonesian

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Lighting designer Frank Schotman created the special lighting and chose to work with Martin Professional's MAC 301 Wash, MAC 401 Dual and MAC 2000 range luminaires, as well as Martin LC Plus LED panels. The lighting equipment was supplied by Eclipse and acquired from Martin Middle East.

Schotman placed most of the MAC gear on five finger trusses that covered most of the event centre hall, allowing him to envelope the audience in color. He also placed Atomic strobes and other lighting on five truss towers for special effects.

Guetta's show was enhanced by an LED backdrop displaying a multitude of graphics and images. To crea

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The show was a big event that included live performances from a number of top Scandinavian artists including Eagle Eye Cherry, Linda Sundblad, Carpark North, Gentlemen, Jasmine Kara, Anna Maria Espinosa and many others.

Part of the system provided by Electrosound was a full Innovason network system running

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Selected by local partner Nova Superscreen, Lighthouse Technologies provided three LED display screens, one on the main stage and two at the Botanical Garden's Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage and Palm Valley.

"The YTL Concert of Celebration is one of Singapore's most acclaimed and highly regarded events, and with the Singapore Premier and dozens of international guests on hand, we were confident that Lighthouse products would deliver a world-class viewing experience," said Nik Ahmad Huznee, chief executive officer at Nova Superscreen.

"The R16 screens performed stunningly, delivering perfect colour and excellent clarity, just as we expected. Lighthouse really makes the entire process, from

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Director Phil Lidstone believes this purpose-specific policy has given them a competitive edge in one of the company's core market areas.

"We design for each individual application rather than use a one-system-fits-all approach," he stated. "We are known as specialists in this sector, where we integrate the two disciplines of pro audio and audio visual under a common control platform. It's a case of being able to differentiate between speech-only systems and those requiring a full dynamic range - and make them operable by non technical users."

RCF, he says, have systems that cover all eventualities. "We have confidence in their ranges, and from R&D to fini

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Lite Alternative's Paul Normandale has designed the six floor-mounted impression XL LED heads into an elaborate motion controlled set.

His company also fielded a further nine impression 120RZ Zooms from their inventory - adding to the fixtures they first incorporated into the set design for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs earlier in the year (all fixtures supplied by AC Entertainment Technologies). Like the XL's these were mounted at the back of the stage, and blasted their light through four 8 x 8 sections of spinning aluminium louvre shutters, lifted on a Kinesys K2 motion control section.

After a three-year break, the New York-based Scissor Sisters were clearly seeking something more sophisticated than a disco lighting set - b

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As part of the refurbishment, the hotel brought in Bose Pro Partner, Apple Sound, to upgrade and enhance the AV in the Carden Suite. The self-contained Carden Suite, which has its own entrance and car park, can accommodate up to 400 delegates and continues to complement the existing 11 conference rooms and dedicated business centre, all supported by highly trained event and conference organisers.

In addition to nine 60" plasma screens, Apple Sound installed a Bose sound system, consisting of a Bose ControlSpace ESP-88 audio management system, and Bose Panaray 502As loudspeakers with bass support from Panaray MB4s, to provide both background and foreground sound for c

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Monitor engineer, Steve Pattison, uses a mixture of the R72 surface and a Touchscreen laptop, giving him the flexibility to talk to the artists during sound check, and move around the venue during the show.

"The band are loving the fact I am on stage face to face changing their mix as they ask, and not running back and forth to the desk. They want to know why we haven't had this before! It's useful having the laptop when stage space is cramped as I can put the rack backstage and sit my laptop on the house desk."

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Barclay Dakers, who heads up the online resource for theatrical supplies, said, "We have been overwhelmed with positive feedback and suggestions since the launch of the site two weeks ago - it has exceeded all expectations."

The site - which prides itself on ease of use and relevance of information - is an exclusively online service. This ensures that overheads are kept to a minimum and pricing can be reduced accordingly.

Dakers continued: "Essentially, efficiency is the name of the game at oubiance.co.uk. We have worked hard to ensure that the site is easy to navigate and this helps customers to quickly find what they are looking for. In turn, processing an online orde

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Zbigniew Hubner Theatre, which was founded in 1945, has long been a focal point of Polish theatrical culture, attracting leading artists, directors, musicians, choreographers and stage designers both nationally and internationally. The venue has a long history of using Midas consoles, with a Midas Legend 3000 and a Venice installed in theatres two and three respectively.

Sebastian Ku?ma, the theatre's head sound engineer, chose the PRO6 having previously used the Midas Legend 3000. He was particularly impressed with innovations such as the ability to control the time of crossfades between two scenes wit

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DBN was asked to light the dance/indie/crossover by event organisers The Warehouse Project and Ear To The Ground - with whom they have worked on many other projects.

Ian Brown headlined the main stage on the Friday night and Friendly Fires on the Saturday, and the project was managed for DBN by Nick Walton.

Walton also did the production design for the main stage, which was largely based around the lighting spec and design for Ian Brown by LD Fletch from Colour Sound Experiment. The rig also incorporated the flexibility to be morphed into a completely different l

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David Edelstein, who co-organised of the event with his wife Brenda, comments: "We set out from the National Theatre following a hearty breakfast. In total we rode over 1600 miles and on the way visited 16 fascinating and unique theatres. We've been welcomed by some wonderfully hospitable and generous theatre staff and are hugely grateful for all the brilliant support we received. Sponsorship came from all sectors of the entertainment industry, we certainly couldn't have done it without them."

Those who took to the road were: Rob Barnard, Neil Collins, David Edelstein, Charles Haine

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"We are very excited about this relationship and have already begun selling Eurotruss systems into permanent installations through our dealer network," stated Eric Mueller, director of sales for PRG Distribution NA. "It is evident to me that that our friends at Eurotruss have the same mindset for support and responsiveness as we do in any situation. They are very responsive to our needs for our customers and we look forward to working together with them for some time to come."

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"We had been looking for a floor to best suit our school for some time, as we offer such a wide variety of performances we need a floor that could do it all. Overall we found Le Mark's Consor portable dance & performance floor to be incredibly durable easy to roll out and very well priced. My personal thanks to Le Mark for the flexibility and patience in arranging the order and delivery, a great floor, and great service to match" says DanceWork's Sue Stead.

DanceWorks hosted two sell-out shows in June in aid of Help for Heroes.

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Named in honour of the late designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, this award aims to recognise the product developers who have made a significant contribution to the development of the equipment and tools that enable our entertainment technology practitioners to continually push the boundaries of event production, presentation and installation.

Once the shortlist of nominees is decided, the Voting Phase will begin. This year, to help ensure that only legitimate industry professionals can cast a vote, voting for the n