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Over the last few months they have purchased 16 Robin 600 fixtures comprising of four Robin 600 Washes, four Robin 600 Spots, four Robin 600 LEDs and four Robin 600 Beams.

"The purchasing of new sound equipment has been put on hold while we focus all our energy and resources on lighting and audio visual," commented Kagiso 'Daystar' Moima, owner of Blackmotion. "Over the years we split our resources way to thin and growth was limited. Now we will head towards modular screens and mapping integrated with lighting."

Blackmotion provides all the necessary services from visual rendering to lighting design. While the company has sound in their warehouse, their l

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14 March 2016

Andy Booth, senior contracts manager with Northern Light, said, "Whilst Northern Light has extensive experience of delivering the design and installation of technical systems in theatres and concert halls worldwide, we feel the time is now right to promote our expertise in the design and project management of TV studio systems to an international audience."

Working as a specialist sub-contractor to the construction industry, Northern Light has been responsible for the design and installation of technical systems for TV studios within a multitude of venues right across the UK. Recent projects that the company has been involved in include the Theatre, Film and Television building at the University of Y

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Specified by Huddersfield University's senior technician and manager of resources for drama, theatre & performance - David Wainwright, the new Hippotizer HD will be used by students on the BA Honours courses in Technical Theatre and Drama.

As an experienced provider of industry-standard technical facilities to leading educational institutions and markets, AC-ET were approached by the University when deciding to replace their original Hippotizer media servers with the very latest and most powerful HD video playback technology currently available on the market.

"Our research confirmed that the Hippotizer HD is arguably the most popular and appropriate media server for the t

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14 March 2016

Award winning lighting designer Ian Tomlinson of Adlib Design, the design department of Adlib Solutions, used Clay Paky Sharpys to deliver an extra special 'homecoming' show for the bands loyal fanbase at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena - the largest venue in the group's 2012 UK tour.

Promising a 'full-scale performance', Lostprophets were out to impress. Tomlinson used the Sharpy's unprecedented brightness and pure, laser-like beam to create an array of spectacular mid-air effects and fast moving, atmospheric backlight.

"I used the Sharpys as an effect - a bit like a laser", explains Tomlinson. "In particular they were used to create big effects into the audience. Weirdly I really l

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The band which has become hugely popular in the last two years, has just finished another very successful US tour playing venues with a capacity of between 5,000 and 20,000, and will release their second studio album shortly.

The lighting - effectively also the stage set for the current design - is described by Warren as "Vintage barn dance with an epic edge" and the idea is that it looks interesting even before the rig is fired up.

Warren was first introduced to Robe products, and the creative potential they offer, by Ian Turner of Southampton, UK, based rental company GLS. Turner, a busy lighting designer in his own right, is also a big fan of the Robe brand. GLS owns a large stock of Robe fixtures and supplied

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The system consisted of two hangs of five JBL VT4886 sub-compact line array elements with three ground-stacked VT4883 subs per side. The system was powered by Crown iTech 12000HD power amplifiers, housed in three tour-ready Crown V-Racks. The JBL VT4886 is a true three-way high directivity line array element which with its companion VT4883 cardioid-arrayable subwoofer provide a very high degree of output and predictable coverage capabilities in an extremely compact package.

Darius Kedros, (FoH engineer for Hadouken!), commented, "A

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When tickets sold out, Michael and Emily Eavis posted a joint statement on Twitter saying: "We're genuinely humbled by the sheer number of people who would like to come to the festival and we dearly wish we could have you all along. Sadly, that just isn't possible, which means a significant number of people have missed out. Demand simply outstripped supply."

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Martin Price has been appointed as business development manager - Midlands and North, heading up an expanded team focused on building business for PSCo Rental and stamping its mark as the video wall and large format experts in the region. Price will concentrate on driving awareness of PSCo Rental's latest and most innovative displays, specialist service offerings, 24/7 technical support and complementary rental packages.

Commenting on the appointment, Stuart Holmes, CEO of PSCo Group said, "We are looking to develop PSCo Rental's of

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The event - an experiential to promote Clover's Super M milk drink - was staged at Durban's Wavehouse, with Hirezone's Richard Gild the project manager.

For the lighting rig, the company worked to the specification of Parlotones' LD Travis Yeatman, and also provided the most appropriate fixtures for the venue, with which they are very familiar and features a relatively low ceiling height.

Lights were hung above the stage on a ground support system - optimised to gain every last millimetre of headroom - and also on the deck.

The Robe elements included six Robin 600E Spots and six 600E Washes on th

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"We were delighted to step in and do our bit to help with this world-famous concert," says Black Light's head of hires Calder Sibbald. "It was quite something to think that our gear was helping to add to the colour and excitement of this iconic event."

The Proms Last Night Celebrations, which took place in September at the City Halls in Glasgow, featured Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith, Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the dazzling Joanna MacGregor on piano.

"I decided to use the lamps to backlight the audience, as

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Lab.gruppen's Finnish distributor Noretron Audio Ltd. finalised the deal with Viking Line Abp, which will see the delivery of a total of 27 Lab.gruppen amplifiers to the new M/S Viking Grace cruise ship. Amplification is for a massive 344 units of Turbosound loudspeakers which will be installed in the night club, several restaurants, tax free shop and conference rooms.

Noretron is also supplying all other entertainment audio including digital and analogue consoles, wireless microphone- and IEM-systems.

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Trifu says, "Kusturica is known for flying both actors and scenery, creating a significant challenge in lighting - this was far from a typical theatre show. The moving lights which I specified were easy to control from the Ion. It is a small but very powerful desk - I have used Ions before, and am always impressed by how much fine control I have of intelligent fixtures."

The show is described as 'punk opera'; the theatre's stage can have a large number of actors on it at any one time; and scenery changes frequently. The stage show is from a 1988 Yugoslav film by the Serbian director, and tells the story of a young Romany man with magical p

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Sound Skating Cracovia is a multi-functional PA/VA system. The commentator's room houses a Dynacord CMS 1000-2 mixer and the system's Dynacord DSP244 digital processor. This feeds to the amplification room which houses the heart of the system, the Swiss g+m elektronik APROSYS APS modular system. In addition to the priority task of efficient evacuation during an emergency, the sound system is also used for commercial purposes at sporting events.

"Due to the difficult acoustics and harsh climatic conditions in the ice hall, the choice of loudspeakers was fundamental to the system's performance and

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The tour's star-studded line-up and non-stop action required hard-hitting lighting and video effects that could keep pace with its frenzied intensity. Yet as with any national concert tour, the gear also had to perform reliably night after night, stand up to rugged travel conditions, and be able to be assembled and torn down quickly.

To set a visual backdrop that would enhance Identity Festival's pulsating excitement, while meeting the tour's rigorous challenges, Charley

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"Vivid Light is where Sydney becomes a playground to showcase the latest lighting technology. It is where your immersive interactive experience creates the next new trend. It is where artist's lighting expressions of art grace the city's CBD and harbour and it is a time where wonderful new ways to play with light touch hundreds of thousands of people," say organisers.

The event transforms Sydney into a wonderland of colourful lights, and surprising adventures, with interactive lighting art sculptures, inno

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"I chose to use the Viper because it was a new fixture with the best light output available," he said of the fixture's 26,000 lumens of power, an output greater than that of 1200-watt fixtures. Locklin also emphasized the Vipers "performance" as well as its "even field of light".

Locklin bottom-hung the 20 fixtures on the truss with one fixture top-hung with pan/tilt disconn

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Date Restaurant & Designers' Corner is a new multi-functional venue in Istanbul offering entertainment around cuisine and fashion. On the first floor, Date Restaurant & Designers' Corner serves as a bar and restaurant. On the second floor, the Date Restaurant & Designers' Corner hosts events around fashion and design. Fashion collections designed especially for Date were exhibited for the opening celebration, followed by a fashion show choreographed by the Turkish fashion designer U?urkan Erez.

Aside from providing a multiple activities under one roof, Date Restaurant and Designers' Corner put a lot of thought into choosing the sound system and sound design appropriate for their space. The building dates from 1873

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Curated by high profile Club Silencio from Paris, the Future Young Contemporaries party featured a set by art rock band The Kills and was staged around the uber elegant water roofed 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Herzog du Meuron and Ai Wei Wei (who also designed the Beijing National stadium).

Working for production company Bacchus, Gray proposed an all-LED rig to be as power-friendly and eco-conscious as possible, but without compromising on any creativity.

He produced a concept and

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Cinderbugz Tek-One installed 40 Ilumipanel 48 IP and 34 Ilumipod 48 IP lights, which were provided by Stage Equipment and Lighting. Used as cove lighting, Ilumipanel 48 IP fixtures spread bright even fields of light from inside the second floor's walkway and light the south and north towers on either side of the building. Ilumipod 48 IP lights uplight the façade from the base of 18 columns and highlight the corners of the building.

"We chose RGBW fixtures because we wanted to enhance the architecture and could

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The venerable 5100-seat venue was recently treated to a large-scale audio makeover, upgrading their aging horn-based system to Community's R-Series all-weather loudspeakers. According to William Hartley of Albuquerque-based Sound & Signal Systems, the R-Series was selected not only for its durability but also for its tight pattern control.

"The stadium is situated very close to a residential neighbourhood, and the sound from those pole-mounted horns was shooting right across the surrounding homes," Hartley explains. "After receiving several formal complaints, the city approached us to design

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Ayrton's Wildsun 500 K7 is equipped with thirty-one 6700K multi-chip LEDs and, with its 75% optical efficiency, Wildsun 500 K7 is one of the most efficient models on the market.

Wildsun 500 K7 delivers a massive 20,000 lumen output from a power consumption of only 380W. This amazing power and low consumption, in combination with the full motorization of the luminaire, make the 500 K7 particularly suitable for exhibitions and car shows, and the like.

New Advanced Technology also chose the same moment to invest in 200 Ayrton Arcaline 2 fixtures. The Arcaline 2 is a very powerful 16 x 10W RGBW LED batten. Its IP65 ing

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For the second consecutive year, David Horner of VCL worked closely with lighting director Andy Cottey and lighting gaffer Gafin Riley of NEP Cymru to create a special look for the ceremony, hosted on the night by the The One Show's Alex Jones at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.

2012 is a momentous year for BAFTA Cymru, which is celebrating its 21st anniversary. With this in mind the lighting team created a high gloss, Hollywood feel for the evening, devising layers of different looks which changed throughout the night to keep up audience interest.

Andy Cottey said, "The winners at BAFTA Cymru are receiving

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The Royal Opera House Muscat is a spectacular building, housing a number of venues, each of which embrace an arsenal of state of the art entertainment technology and equipment. However this opulent façade sometimes belies some challenging and harsh conditions.

"Oman is primarily a desert country, and this can be challenging for a number of reasons," Cox, who previously worked at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, e

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Jeff A. Davis was the lighting designer hired for the season opener and could not be happier with the choice in fixtures. "Martin did an exceptional job with LED dimming and no colour shift while fading; something fixtures from the competitors can't hold a candle to."

Martin also colour calibrates all of their fixtures at the factory to be certain that all of the fixtures match. "The kinds of whites you can achieve from the RGBW engine is amazing and the output is breathtaking. I can proudly say that the Aur