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The refurbishment entailed the replacement of the curtain wall which provided a more efficient and sustainable building. The retention of the concrete structure meant that the refurbishment was vastly more sustainable in terms of the carbon that might have been produced had the owners decided to demolish the structure completely and re-build from scratch. Architects AEDAS, lead by David Clayton, envisaged a rapid and efficient plan to transform the asset for their clients, Pamfleet Limited.

The sustainable theme was continued in the lighting design. Nexxus needed to make a statement, something that would stand out when viewed in the two parallel 'concrete canyons'

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The transformation was designed to create, in RSC artistic director Michael Boyd's words, "the best theatre in the world to perform the works of Shakespeare". It involved a massive reconstruction that created a new RST auditorium with a thrust stage and embraced the adjacent Swan Theatre, with a colonnade connecting the two and extensively upgraded public facilities throughout.

Stage Electrics, as specialist theatre contractor and technical coordinator, was contracted to provide and install the Theatre Electrics Package, including every electrical, audio and lighting system within both the RST

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AMAC director Abdul Razzak Assafiri comments, "AMAC's policy is to keep on pushing towards a better future and leadership in the A/V market. Electro-Voice is of great significance for us."

Assafiri continues, " We offer services and solutions. That is to say - distribution, consultancy, design and simulations, system integration and after-sales services. We are also skilled in installations and solutions such as professional sound for theatres, house of worship, conferences, hotels, pubs and clubs. And last but not least we offer DJ equipment as well as automation and control for both residential and commercial venues."

AMAC has two offices and two showrooms, one located in North of Lebanon and the other in the centre of Beirut.

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Fully understanding the necessities for this design, TMS began working with the design team to provide the ideal lighting tools and decided to use 21 VL3000 Spot, six VL3500 Wash, and eight VL3500 Spot fixtures.

Now on the road, the VL3000 Spot luminaires are being used for key light on the band, gobo breakups t

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Additionally, a large number of projects will be on display in outdoor public spaces throughout the city - a unique occasion to discover Prague through the eyes of the world's contemporary artists. Visitors will also be able to explore various disciplines essential to the performing arts thanks to special projects focused on lighting and sound design, architect

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Michael Goldberg, sales director for PEL Europe, says: "Now that the brands of Selecon, Strand and Vari-Lite are all under the Philips Entertainment Lighting umbrella, it's a logical step to offer DWR Distribution exclusive distribution for all the Philips Entertainment Lighting brands. DWR has very successfully distributed Vari-Lite products for the last year. The company's reputation in the South African market place is exemplary and it's renowned for its excellent service and product support. These are all excellent reasons for moving exclusive distribution to DWR."

Since DWR Dist

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At the Leeds Metropolitan University show, the band used a pair of HK Audio CT115 Contour Series monitors which had been bi-amped off two channels of a Lab.gruppen FP+10000Q and Channel 1 of an HK Audio DSM2060 speaker management processor.

Taking the drum seat for the tour is acclaimed session drummer Karl Brazil who used HK Audio monitors from the Contour Series (a pair of CT118 subs and a pair of CT115 speakers).

"Karl is a very musical and dynamic player," says Dan Trowhill, Feeder's monitor engineer. "It has been diffi

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The elaborate set designed by Riccardo Bocchini consists of a double stage, connected with a wide central gangway on which the competing artists move. All around this is the orchestra, whereas the jury and VIP guests are inside six 'windows' on several levels. The audience is seated on stands at the end of the studio and in two ranks of balconies. There is a total of 400 seats, which makes it one of the largest RAI production studios in Rome.

The Clay Paky effect lights include Alpha Profile 1200s, Alpha Spot HPE 1200s and Alpha Wash 575s. Their arrangement was designed by the d

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The opening ceremony was held on 14 August 14 at the Float @ Marina Bay Platform, the world's largest floating stage located in the heart of Singapore. The Singapore skyline served as a backdrop, which required a display of lighting, lasers and fireworks.

The set involved a ring of shipping containers to symbolize Singapore being the biggest harbour in South East Asia. A 5000sq.m lake was created in front of the scenography. In the middle stood a 32m high lighthouse, which held the cauldron for the Olympic flame. In a very different approach to typical Games ceremonies, the Singapore skyline was used as a backgr

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These were specified by Mark Wade, who is production rigger for the current JLS UK arena tour with his company OTT supplying all the tour's rigging equipment and services to the show's technical producers, Production North.

Thirty-five of the double-braked, motors to BS7906: Part 1- Category A are used to suspend a U shaped catwalk approximately 120 ft long that flies in low above the audience so the UK's favourite boyband can perform a whole section of the show right above the heads of their hugely enthusiastic fans.

Wade uses two IBEX controllers for the up and down movement of the catwalk and the car, he is delighted with the performance of the LoadGuards "They are going to be very busy, and I already have

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Many of these shows are traditional pantomimes. This year's count has seen White Light supply four Aladdins, six Cinderellas, two Dick Whittingtons, two Jack and the Beanstalks, four Peter Pans, three Sleeping Beautys, four Snow Whites and just the one Robin Hood.

White Light is also once again providing the lighting equipment for two shows that have established themselves as perennial Christmas favourites - White Christmas and The Snowman. White Christmas this year appears at the Sunderland Empire, with lighting designed by Ken Bill

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Phase One of construction was recently completed at the new 38-acre site, which features nearly 95,000sq.ft of worship, education, and commons/fellowship space. Development, design, and construction were handled by Myrick Gurosky & Associates of Birmingham, Alabama. Walthall & Associates managed the acoustical and AV portions of the project, working with in-house Electro-Voice applications engineer Stu Schatz to design the loudspeaker configuration. The PA was installed by Cleveland's GravelRoad Entertainm

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The 2010 event took place in the magnificent surroundings of Leeds Town Hall, which for the duration of the festival was turned into a huge multi-media location with an enormous screen and a sophisticated immersive audio infrastructure.

Pro Audio Systems designed, installed and operated a bespoke sound system for the event comprising mainly Meyer Sound equipment. Providing seamless coverage of the large auditorium required the creation of 11 separate audio zones, programmed and independently controlled using Meyer Sound's SIM audio analyser system and Galileo processors.

An Extron SSP-7.1 surrou

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The new mics will be deployed across PTS' new HDTV facilities in Taipei, including four new TV studios, two new HDTV OB trucks and an audio recording truck dedicated to mastering in surround. A major part of their use will be for recording classical music and opera performances at live venues such as the National Theatre and Concert Hall.

PTS' supervising audio engineer Julius Wang comments: "I'm extremely happy with PTS' additions

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Recently, Mastermind purchased 18 JBL Vertec VT4886 subcompact line array elements and nine VT4883 subcompact arrayable subwoofers to add to its rental inventory. Other JBL speakers in use by Mastermind include VRX932LA-1 Constant Curvature powered loudspeakers, eight 18" VRX918S subwoofers, SRX712M stage monitors, and AC25 speakers for use as area-fill speakers. The company will be adding more VT4886 and VT4883 speakers by the end of December.

"We are a regional sound company in Orange County, California. We pride ourselves on having great gear and doing great work," says Chad Griswold, president of Mastermind Production Group. "We do a lot of church and school events, functions for the City of Anaheim, as we

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Adlib's Ian Tomlinson designed the lightshow for Goulding, which was developed in close collaboration with Goulding's drummer and musical director Joe Clegg, who produced all of the show's video content through his design agency Artclub.

Taking these visuals as an overall creative starting point, he and Tomlinson looked at the options on screens, which resulted in Adlib's purchase of the Pixled F30, which is configured for the tour as an 8m wide by 4m deep back wall ups

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The system consists of two MaxModule Cerebrums, two MaxModule Playbacks, two MaxModule Buttons, one MaxModule Programmer, and five MaxModule Submasters, all mounted in a completely customised frame.

The man responsible for integration of the extensive setup is Matthew Paupst, system design engineer at FBP Systems of Las Vegas. Paupst brought in Hilton lighting director Mark Broedling to programme the system.

"The showroom underwent a facelift and needed a new lighting control solution," Paupst stated. "I've used the Maxxyz system for a long time and am familiar with its many benefits, but the modular concept o

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Working at height to change the lamps and gels for static lights is common practice in UK theatres, but the PixelPars have brought a dramatic change of circumstance to the theatre. For the first time, operators have instant control over the lighting colour via DMX control. The PixelPars are fitted with 40 degree diffusers to give good coverage and are zoned to spread colour evenly across the stage.

Technical manager Steve Smith comments: "We looked closely at the marketplace to see what was available and the PixelPar won the vote of th

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"Earlier this year we were able to secure a production budget to carry consoles, so we started shopping for a desk to rent," says Rich Caldwell, Flyleaf's front of house engineer. "We wanted to go analogue at the time, but it's just not practical for a multi-band bill and limited trailer space. After several lengthy conversations with Vince Kapchinski, the owner of Backstage Sound and Lighting [of Bryan, Texas], we decided to take out the Vi6. He kept raving about how 'analog' the Vi6 digital sounde

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The 3511 kit consists of a pair of matched DPA 4011-TL cardioid microphones with stereo booms and mounting accessories. These mics are linear in their frequency response, on and off axis, and provide high SPLs to allow close as well as distant placement. The 3506 kit contains two 4006-TL compact omni mics which have a detailed and natural reproduction with high sensitivity and low noise-floor.

"DPA microphones transfer the sound very faithfully," says Mo?d?er, explaining why he's chosen the DPAs. "They reproduce everything: the hammers working inside the piano, the touch of the fingers on the keyboard, the mechanism of piano's pedal. The microphones record and reproduce everything that is going on while playing; th

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The show, produced by Endemol Nederland BV, was broadcast from the Lichtfabriek in Haarlem, a venue now well known for cultural and corporate events that was once responsible for providing energy to the homes in Haarlem. The simple, elegant setting and clever light design transformed the venue from a spacious factory into a stylish, intimate catwalk studio. The models were complemented by a lighting design from James van Someren of DutchView.

The Laser operator for the event was DutchView's Jeroen van der Velden who chose to use Cuelux for the control of three green l

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U2 took $131.5m (£83.6m) on the second leg of its 360 Degree tour, performing to 1,312,784 people in 22 sell-out shows. They were followed by AC/DC, ranked third with $122.6m (£77.9m), and Lady Gaga, in fourth place with $116.2m (£73.9m). Hip-hop collective Black Eyed Peas complete the top five with takings of $81.6m (£51.9m).

Theatre News - Belfast's new £18m home for the Lyric Theatre is to open in May 2011 after two years of construction and planning with a gala performance on its newly named Northern Bank Stage. The announcement comes as Norther

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All the preparatory work on the barge was carried out down river at Tilbury Docks, and the challenge presented to Unusual Rigging was how to rig the Christmas trees - which weighed 1.5 tons each - so they could be lowered to enable the barge to pass under the five bridges between Tilbury and the South Bank.

Unusual's project manager Jason White, senior project manager Simon Tiernan and managing director Alan Jacobi put their heads together with their design department to develop a c

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Gearhouse SA's project manager was Bill Lawford, who started work two months in advance, collaborating closely with the tour's US-based production manager, Nick Jeen.

Three venues - Sun City Superbowl, the Grand West Casino in Cape Town and the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban - were visited over a 12 day period.

The tour brought its full monitor rig and control consoles for sound, lighting and video to SA - the production sound elements came from Sirius Show Equipment Germany for this section. At the first two venues, they hooked into the house racks-and-stacks for audio, with Gearhouse supplementing a quantity of Kudo and dV-DOSC cabinets, a