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Working in the main Concert Hall, which holds over 1,000 people, Bico installed a Unison Paradigm system with 24 ways of dimming to control the house and rehearsal lights, along with an sACN network system, all connected both to a new Ion control desk and several wall mounted fader stations. Two 48-way Sensor dimming racks and five gateways were also fitted for show light.

Søren Jørgensen, sales project manager at Bico, comments, "This year, we were tasked with updating all their old dimmers with streaming ACN (sACN) and integrating the house and stage lighting. After doing on site tests with the Ion and another manufacturer's desk, the Ion was specified because it operates sile

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The Victors - the first to enter South Africa - are installed in the largest of the venue's three auditoria, the 1487-seat main Opera Theatre, where upcoming shows include Le Grand Cirque Fantazie, African Songbook, the Cape Town International Ballet Competition and Mamma Mia!.

Senior lighting operator, Nicolas Tilney comments, "Robert Juliat has fantastic equipment with superb R&D. Their followspots are extremely user-friendly with the placements of their controls. The followspots have a general feeling of high quality. From what I had read and seen I knew what I wanted and what I would get from RJ. There was no reason to compare them with any other products."

Robbi Nassi from Electrosonic add

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The ceremony, held at the Cultural Village in Doha on 10 May 10 was the second stage, the first phase of which began in November 2005 and was completed in December last year. This is an ambitious project, the aim of which is to provide gas to some of Qatar's most significant industries.

For this event Creative Technology supplied four Barco R20+ projectors with 0.8 lenses blended onto a 27m wide x 6m high rear projection screen, also provided by CT. This was used to run the main show content and included GFX video and Catalyst. Operated and programmed by CT London's Anthony Bezencon, the entire system was driven by

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The lighting designer of this event, Liufeng Shu, renowned for having realized several shows of international significance, including the Singapore International Cantonese Opera Festival and the Qingdao Austria Sail, has chosen the iSpot Extreme 6000, the iSpot Flex and the CF 7 Hard Edge X, which are all Coemar products.

The iSpot Flex, launched in 2002 at the LDI in Las Vegas, boast three patents. They are the first moving heads made with 2000 W discharge lamps, featuring a carbon fibre body.

The iSpot Extreme 6000, created for the Winter Olympics of 2006 in Turin, are the first moving heads with a 1450 W lamp.

The CF 7 Hard Edge X won the Award for Innovation in 2000, are

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Iwate Prefectural Hall plays a leading role in the art and culture of Iwate, being used for many different purposes, including music, theatre and conventions. Open since 1973, the building's main hall spans three floors and can accommodate almost 2,000, with a secondary 600-capacity hall.

"The reverberation time in the main hall is 1.75 seconds when vacant, and 1.45 seconds at 80% capacity," says the hall's head of hall administration, Mr Naruo Seki. "With a system that has a relatively long r

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Melvin Benn, who runs the Reading, Leeds and Latitude festivals, described it as "blatant money-grabbing". He told BBC News, "The quantum leap in what the PRS are being paid by live music promoters is very, very substantial compared to what it was 10 years ago. Live music is so much stronger than it was, and therefore the receipts the PRS are getting are substantially more than they were. Instead of being ple

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Baldwin joined fellow students and leading figures from the College, the board of Governors, architects BFLS, project managers Davis Langdon and construction team Willmott Dixon to celebrate this symbolic moment in the building project. Work will begin shortly on the roof structure, the final construction phase of what will be an important new gateway to Cardiff.

"It'll make such a difference to us as students to have everything all together in one building at last, and on this scale, and not to have to travel to other venues to do our work,' said Baldwin. 'I can't wait to get in there and start s

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The Playground Weekender has emerged as an eclectic gathering featuring a diverse mix of international and local artists, coupled with a relaxed outdoor atmosphere featuring multiple music stages, cabaret acts, a cocktail bar, a healing area, yoga and an array of international food and market stalls. The PA system had to cover a large area but also needed to be well integrated into the visual presentation, and to go up quickly.

The main system consisted of 24, three-way KF740 modules flown in two line arrays on either side of the stage using 12 KF740 modules each. These were augmented with eight EAW SB1002 Large Format

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During the week thousands of delegates, presenters, exhibitors and visitors descend on the Harrogate International Centre. To facilitate the audio-visual aspects of the conference, R&B provided a team of 30 engineers who work closely with the event organisers, Ocean Media Group and the venue technical staff. 2010 was the 9th year that R&B have provided support for this event, which is always a highlight of the year.

As well as AV support in five conference rooms, R&B Group also supplied numerous plasma screens to exhibition stands and produced a daily in-house/web TV program

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Stageco project director Dirk de Decker and creative designer Es Devlin consulted with Muse production manager Chris Vaughan, and Malcolm Birkett, technical designer for the tour to create the unique stage designs to support the artistic concept of the show.

Stageco's Koen Peeters and Tom Frederickx were also essential to the team, creating CAD designs and complex calculations needed for the bespoke stage, which was comprised of 20% unique components alongside Stageco's trusted staging system. Dirk then worked out the tour logistics to create the stage in the most efficient way for transportation and building.

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The Sector Skills Council for creative and cultural industries has named Gateshead College as the only college in the North East and one of only a few in the country to lead on new training opportunities.

This will mean that the college, in partnership with international music venue, The Sage Gateshead, will now work as the founder college of the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural Skills (NSA) to ensure it continues to provide the best possible learning opportunities by bringing together education and industry.

The NSA, along with the national network of 20 founder Further Education colleges, is also working in partnership with over 200 theatre and live music employers. Gateshe

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Pulse AV were asked to design, supply and install a comprehensive audio visual system for the entire venue which is divided into five separate audio zones: Bistro, Main Bar & Lounge, Function Area 1, Function Area 2 and Function Area 3.

Wall-mounted DBX ZC-8 keypads located behind the bars are used to control the volume level and audio source in each zone. Each zone is capable of having its own audio source and volume level regardless of what is being heard in any other zone.

A combination of Control24 and Control26 in-ceiling speakers are used throughout the entire venue. Weatherproof surface-mount

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Investors in People is a national standard which helps organisations transform their business performance. Preparing for the IIP assessment (which took over a year) has involved all of the Black Light team and has led to a business-wide rebranding, improvements in its business systems and a number of changes in staff roles and responsibilities. Together, these have streamlined the company's operations and improved customer service.

"IIP has helped me, as the business owner, focus on what is important for Black Light and start rolling that out," says Gavin Stewart, Black Light's managing director. "I hope tha

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Monitor engineer Graham Blake, whose 25 years' experience includes working with Queen, Live Earth, Spice Girls and the Classical Brits as well as the last five years with Simply Red, says, "The band all commented on the warmth and richness of the sound. They really noticed the difference. I've never had a band respond to new equipment like that before.

The tour provided Blake with an opportunity to use the XL8 on the road for the first time, having completed the training with Midas' brand development manager Richard Ferriday some eight months earlier. "Even with that kind of gap it was easy to pick up," says Blake who was won over by the XL8's scope and versatility, and eager

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With its external chairlift, the Swiss Pavilion is an eye-catching element of during the Expo. The chairlift takes visitors up to the flower beds of the green roof, as a symbol of the natural environment. In contrast, the interior area stands for the urban part, where 21 Barco CLM HD8 projectors are used to create a 360° projection showing visitors images of the cities Zürich, Basel and Geneva.

Winkler VST is responisble for the planning and technical realisation of all AV equipment. "We have experience with Barco's CLM HD8 projectors and have learned that they are ideal to use in multi-p

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Eric Porter, experienced independent rigger, trainer, adviser and committee member for the PLASA National Rigging Certificate, led the two-day course. A structure was built in the studio area that allowed delegates to carry out working at height training, truss building, motor flying and rigging exercises, with a separate classroom area for theory work.

The course included an evening out allowing people attending the course to get together and enjoy a meal alongside staff from A.C. Rigging and Litestructures.

Jay Bridges, technical manager - produced, for the Derby LIVE group of venues, commented, "I was looking for a forma

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The workshop will be held in English and will focus on all aspects of a live gig, including planning and setting up the public address system, miking and frequency manage¬ment, and finally fine-tuning the monitor and FOH sound. Prominent sound engineers and event professionals will assist participants, while the band Rauschenberger will perform the live act. The Live Mixing Workshop is organised by Sennheiser Sound Academy and supported by co-sponsor Yamaha, the SAE Institute and Fischer Amps.

"What makes the Live Mixing Workshop so special is its practical orientation," explains Kirsten Wessendorf, manager of

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Stage Electrics is one of the biggest suppliers of technical equipment to the Edinburgh International Festival and Festival Fringe.

This year, Stage Electrics will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of successfully supplying the prestigious Assembly Rooms.

Along side this, the company is supplying more venues than ever before, with over 55 performance spaces in total including the Gilded Balloon, Underbelly, Universal Arts, The World Festival and many other shows and venues around the city.

Adrian Searle head of technical and hire comments, "This year sees the Assembly Rooms cele

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In the five years since the company's creation, i-Pix's products have proved popular with lighting designers for concerts and live events - including forming the core of the design for Radiohead's 2008 world tour, and more recently as a key element of the Kick Off Celebration Concert for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The current i-Pix product line-up includes the BB1 'building block' modular LED light-source, the BB4 LED washlight, the BB7 beamlight/washlight fixture, and the versatile Satellite.

"In our five year history, we have doubled our revenues year on year, and both our product range and expertise have increased," notes i-Pix founder Chris Ewington. "We have worked directly with l

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Confirmed exhibitors include: Christie Lites, Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC), EPIC Production Technologies, GerrAudio Distribution, JD International, MDG Fog Generators, Ontario Staging, Roland Systems Group, ROSCO, Sennheiser Canada, Show Distribution, Technically yours Inc (TYI) and ZFX Flying.

A limited number of three-minute showcase slots are still available for the New Product Breakfast on Friday August 13 from 8am to 9am.. Book your slot today! Open to Trade Show Exhibitors.

A Conference highlight will be the Annual CITT Awards Banquet on Saturday 14 A

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This marks a digital first for Keyes, who has never before taken a digital console on the road. She has been mixing monitors since 1991 and, in recent years, more usually opted for a Heritage desk.

"In the past," says Keyes, "we have not been able to get (vocalist) Eddie Vedder on a digital because we've not got the sound quality but the PRO6 has really delivered. We have found no issues with latency and the band loves the sound."

Keyes herself quickly felt at home on the PRO6. "I felt pretty comfortable with it after the first show," she says, "and the factory support from Midas is amazing.

"The key to mixing monitors for Pearl Jam is keeping my eyes on Ed and the band

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14 March 2016

The Fabulous Feasts menu, designed specifically to suit the family-oriented Oxfordshire audience, was freshly prepared on site from their newly built bespoke temporary catering facility.

Hugh Phillimore, director of Cornbury Festival, comments, "Cornbury is thrilled to welcome Jamie's Fabulous Feasts to their first summer festival. Cornbury is famous for its family audience, its great music and wide range of international food; so it's a perfect fit for Jamie's new events catering company.The Fabulous Feasts team have shown that it is possible to bring fresh, tasty, responsibly sourced food to the public at large scale events like this one."

(Jim Evans)

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For years, the church battled with a poor monitoring system that did not effectively meet the needs of the musicians and singers in the worship band. Frustrated musicians complained that they could not hear themselves while the volunteer audio staff said the musicians' high monitor volumes made mixing for the congregation impossible.

As part of an upgrade to its monitoring setup, the church moved to an Aviom personal mixing system, installed by First Live Sound Sdn Bhd and supplied by Coda Audio Services Pte, to help overcome the challenges. With the Aviom Personal Mixers

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AC-ET has been supplying Sound Technology brands to dealers and end-users in the core production markets for many years. Combined with their sales and warehousing operations in the North and South of England, the strategic alliance provides Sound Technology customers with increased access to stock in the UK .

As part of the agreement, AC-ET holds stock and demo units of key lines in the Sound Technology portfolio, such as Soundcraft's latest Vi1 digital mixing console.

Sound Technology sales director, Greg Niven, comments, "Having enjoyed a close working relationship for a number of years we are very pleased to add AC-ET to our