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Lebanon - ARX has appointed Beirut based Sparks Audio as its exclusive distributor for Lebanon.

"Sparks Audio is run by a group of sound engineers that have been active in the pro audio industry in Lebanon for more than two decades and are well known for their audio engineering talents for local and international shows," says ARX MD, Colin Park.

"We decided that Sparks Audio with its many years of experience in the pro audio installation and production industries was the ideal partner to grow the market and user base for ARX's digital and analogue product range in Lebanon."

"ARX fits perfectly into Sparks Audio product portfolio, and will be of great interest to our dealers and end users," says Jean Gibran a partner in Sparks Audio.

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Norway - Zenitel, an international leader in critical communication solutions, have delivered safety communications and entertainment equipment as part of Norway's largest ferry contract.

In 2014, Bast° Fosen won the contract to continue to operate Norway's busiest inland ferry route, between Moss and Horten, until 2026. As part of the agreement, three new ferries were built to serve this vital transport route. Zenitel has delivered communication and entertainment systems to all of the new vessels.

The inland ferry link also forms part of the national road network, Riksvei 19, acting as a highway across the Oslo fjord. In 2013 over 1.3m vehicles and 1.6 million foot passengers used the ferry service. Many of Zenitel's own employees use the ferry as part of their daily commute to the company's operational head office in Horten.

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USA - Since making his debut on social media and on shows such as X Factor and American Idol, RCA Nashville recording artist Kane Brown has seen a meteoric rise in the country music industry. Brown recently launched his first headlining tour in support of his self-titled debut album. Needing a production design to complement the Tennessee-native, his management team enlisted the assistance of designer Chris Lisle who got to work creating an exciting yet functional tour design which included PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain HD 6.25mm LED video supplied by tour sponsor Monster Energy.

"This is my first tour with Kane Brown as his production has now grown to a point where he needed creative direction, so I was contacted by his business manager and asked to come on board," began Lisle. "Since he would be playing a wide variety of venues, we had to create a tour design that woul

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USA - There is no shortage of theatrics in the annual series of El Monstero concerts that sweeps through America's mid-section every year like some tornado of light and sound. Formed by members of Stir in 1999, and currently made up of musicians from a variety of different bands, the group pays tribute to Pink Floyd with an immersive concert experience involving upwards of 75 actors.

El Monstero captures the evocatively edgy Pink Floyd sound with spot on renditions of songs from classics like The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and more. A Pink Floyd concert was never just about sound, though. To recreate the complete concert experience in 2017, the band serves up a dazzling visual show with fantastical live characters in costume, all colourfully illuminated by a Chip Self-designed lightshow that features Rogue and Legend fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

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UK - With the original Broadway and West End productions winning 11 Tony and two Olivier Awards respectively, La Cage Aux Folles is back for what will be its first ever UK tour. Produced by Bill Kenwright Ltd, this classic stage show stars John Partridge and Adrian Zmed and is currently visiting venues up and down the country. White Light was approached to provide the lighting on this occasion.

La Cage Aux Folles tells the story of Georges and his partner, dazzling drag artiste Albin, who live an idyllic life in St Tropez. Yet when Georges' son Jean-Michel invites his future parent-in-laws over to dinner, Georges and Albin must try and conceal their vibrant lifestyle for an entire evening. The lighting designer for the production is Ben Cracknell. He comments, "From the offset, I knew this show would require two very clear lighting styles: the action taking place

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UK - Located in the centre of Southampton, Switch is a 1,200-capacity nightclub that has grown from a musical nucleus into a state-of-the-art, after dark venue. It is home to a Funktion-One loudspeaker system from Audio Feed, which has been projection mapped for added visual appeal.

Switch is the brainchild of Gary Bennetton, Richard Gilbert, Ryan Keary and Peter Toland. Each of them brings something different to the party but they are connected by a shared passion for good music, as Bennetton explains, "We had seen the music scene in Southampton evolving over a number of years and had been trying to cater for a more production and music-led audience by hosting a number of warehouse parties in the city.

"The demand for this grew and grew to a point that we knew we needed to take it to the next level. We opened our own venue so we could then create an immersive dance music

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Nigeria - For the fourth year running, Cytech World Communication provided an Outline sound system for The Experience, with production and control services supplied by Subfrantic Production Services Ltd. The event, held in Lagos' Tafawa-Balewa Square and organised by The House on the Rock Church, is considered the world's largest gospel concert and attracted a crowd of 700,000.

The last edition featured an array of music ministers including Don Moen, Donnie McClurkin, Frank Edwards, Smokie Norful, Travis Greene, Chioma Jesus, Tope Alabi, and the Lagos Metropolitan Gospel Choir of House on The Rock amongst others.

The Experience's FOH audio set-up comprised 30 GTO C-12 line-source systems plus two underhung GTO-DF (down-fill) modules, while 16 DBS 18-2, eight Subtech 218 and four LAB 21 HS subwoofers ensured the low and infra-low frequencies power and precision.

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UK - Acklam Hall in Middlesbrough is a Grade One listed building with a fascinating history. Built in the 1680s, it was the home of the Hustler family for 200 years, before becoming a boys' school in the 1930s, and has only recently been restored to its former glory to become a luxury restaurant, conference centre and wedding venue.

When it was decided to introduce audio into all the public areas, the venue approached Bose Pro Partner, Riverside Leisure Promotions to design and install a high quality background and foreground sound system for conferencing, weddings and fine dining. A major consideration was how to ensure the system remained discreet with virtually no visible wiring.

Care had to be taken not to damage any of the original structure, and speaker cabling had to be fed behind original studded walls, with speakers placed discreetly yet positioned to deliver a cl

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India - India TV, the country's leading Hindi news channel, has invested in Allen & Heath's flagship dLive S Class digital mixing system to manage audio connectivity in its state-of-the-art broadcast centre.

Part of the Independent News Service Private Ltd., India TV has a reach of over 90m viewers, and its programmes have won several prestigious awards.

As part of an audio refurbishment, India TV was keen to install dLive as a permanent mixer in the studio, selecting the S7000 Surface and DM64 MixRack.

"My team is very impressed with Allen & Heath's sound quality, and the S Class dLive system has huge IO capacity, enabling them to manage the increasingly wide network of channels," explains Ajay Seth, technical general manager.

"The dLive surface is very user friendly and we did not face any issues transitioning from analogue to digital, and the powerful 96kHz proc

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USA - A former student at Dr. Phillips High School Theatre Magnet in Orlando, Florida, has been making creative use of GLP's X4 series to light school productions.

Michael Pagan's interest in lighting design dates back to his school days, starting off in the theatre world. "I became more and more interested in the art of lighting during middle school and when I first did my internship at PRG Orlando I saw GLP's X4's being tested for the first time and witnessed how much they could do," he remembers.

He undertook his first design using the fixtures for Orlando Business Journal. "The client wanted movement but we needed to keep the power consumption low, so the impression X4 was the answer."

He says there was much that impressed him about the fixture. "They are light weight but have the brightness equivalent to an arc lamp. The vibrant colours, where I can go from a past

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UK - Penn Elcom, working closely with EW Production Services, has specified and supplied over 2500 Osram, Comus LED and Integral LED lighting fixtures and lamps plus around 250m of LED Flex as part of a fully retro-fittable LED lighting solution for a number of different areas aboard the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines ship, MS Braemar.

Eight areas - including the Neptune Lounge main entertainment space and adjacent Morning Light pub as well as the vessel's engine room - have now been switched over from energy-hungry tungsten and fluorescent lights to cleaner, greener and hugely more cost efficient lighting sources which has also vastly improved the quality of the lighting for all aboard - guests and staff - to enjoy.

EW Production Services' operations manager Paul Byrne has a long-standing relationship with Penn whose Nigel Howse and Razvan Vasiliu co-ordinated the supply. The pr

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South Africa - Enchanting audiences year after year, the FNB Starlight Pop Opera was hosted at the Chris Saunders Park, Umhlanga in KwaZulu Natal on 6 and 7 August. Headliner Patrizio Buanne, the Neapolitan-Austrian baritone singer, songwriter and producer, along with local South African artists such as Arno Carstens, were accompanied by the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra.

The event is a gift from First National Bank to their top 1,500 clients where all service providers rise to the occasion to provide an extraordinary evening. For the fifth consecutive year, EPH Production supplied the full technical, while lighting designer Johan Ferreira from BF Production Services created magic moments on a grandMA2. The lighting rig also included 24 Claypaky Sharpys.

"As a lighting designer, this show is one of my annual highlights. It's dynamic ranging from opera to full on rock and is a

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Italy - LITEC has recently introduced a new concept in heavy-duty portable roofs - the MyT Folding Steroid Roof System. The MyT Folding Steroid was purpose-designed by LITEC engineers to answer the needs of live event companies that require colossal structures with extreme loading capacities, while optimizing transport costs and reducing storage requirements.

The successful debut of the MyT Steroid Folding Roof System was at the San Paolo Stadium in Naples, Italy, which served as both a test build and massive roof structure for an important live concert. The custom made 30 x 15m MyT Folding Steroid Roof System was expertly delivered and erected by Massimo Stage, one of Europe's premier event production and rental companies that specializes in big events.

The modular, self-contained design of the MyT Folding Steroid Roof System consists of heavy duty components that are

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UK - Now in its fifth year, VAULT Festival returns to London with six undiluted weeks of entertainment. Whether it is thrilling theatre, top notch comedy or exhilarating music performances, this year's festival is the biggest yet, with literally hundreds of new shows being programmed. Following its work on previous VAULT Festivals, White Light has been called upon once again to provide the lighting equipment and technical support.

VAULT Festival was founded in 2012 by Andy George, Tim Wilson and Mat Burt with the aim been to provide a fair and equal platform for emerging artists to showcase interesting and risky work. Andy, the festival co-director and production manager, comments, "Theatre can often be a very safe place where little risk is taken, largely due to commercial reasons. VAULT Festival is an opportunity to programme shows and acts that would normally be overlooked.

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Finland - Finland became an independent state on 6 December 1917. To celebrate this important moment in the country's history a huge crowd of more than 100.000 spectators gathered at the turn of the year at Kansalaistori Square in Helsinki.

The theme of Finland's centenary celebration year is Together. Visual designer Eero Helle created his design for this event name Finland 100 Grand Opening by relying on three grandMA2 light, one grandMA2 fader wing, four MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and MA 3D for previsualisation.

Helle's design was based on more than 500 fixtures and 300sq.m of LED screen, including Clay Paky Sharpy, Laser Imagineering C-LED, Laser Imagineering Wing, Laser Imagineering Frisbee and Rober Juliat Victor follow spots.

"From my point of view there is no other option than grandMA2 for shows like these," Helle stated. "Especially when two or more oper

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USA - Elation Professional's Fuze Wash Z350 single source PAR moving head luminaire was chosen by ProSoundWeb readers to be a top lighting product in the entertainment technology industry, winning a 2017 Readers' Choice Award (RCA).

All voting for an RCA is by the readers of ProSoundWeb and end-users from around the world, and with more than 27,000 ballots cast last year is one of the most successful entertainment technology awards programs in the industry. This was the eighth annual edition of the ProSoundWeb Readers Choice Awards.

The Fuze Wash Z350 is one luminaire in Elation's Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash lights. It is a single source PAR moving head luminaire featuring a 350W quad colour RGBW COB LED for an extremely homogenized field of light and wide palette of colours.

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USA - Country music superstar Chris Young had an incredibly busy 2016, including #1 hits I'm Comin' Over and Think of You, a Christmas album and a massive headlining tour with an all new production look. His I'm Comin Over Tour, which is continuing in the New Year, features a lighting packaged provided by Bandit Lites.

With the show heavily featuring video, lighting designer Chris Lisle created a scalable lighting design featuring video while still allowing for punches of lighting around the content.

"Chris is one of those artists who allows his team to be creative and do their jobs - which we love!" said Lisle of the design process. "We had a couple of meetings with both him and management, and made some slight tweaks to the design, but overall were allowed creative freedom."

One fixture Chris Young liked specifically was Ayrton MagicPanels, so Lisle and

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USA - Psych pop jam band Madaila have been making waves since the release of their debut song The Dance in 2015. With their catchy synth heavy choruses, spontaneous melodic excursions and joyfully long riffs, the group is reminiscent of another jam band that came out of The Green Mountain State: Phish. Going beyond their free-flowing sound, however, Madaila captivates crowds with their shamefully unscripted dance moves, wildly colourful attire and overall antics.

Lighting designer Kyle Rose accented this up-and-coming band's jubilant stage presence at a recent appearance at Burlington's iconic Higher Ground Music Hall by adding eight Rogue R1 Spot fixtures to the house rig.

"We already had a Rogue-heavy rig with over 25 various Rogue fixtures flying over or positioned on the stage," said Rose, who serves as the house LD for the 600-capacity venue. "I used the added

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UK - The Science Museum in South Kensington, alongside London-based event caterer Tonic and live event AV company Matrix UK Solutions, last week welcomed 300 event professionals to an evening of spectacle and discovery to launch its new spaces including Wonderlab: The Statoil Gallery and Mathematics: The Winton Gallery.

Guests attending the exclusive event were able to experience three of the museum's stunning spaces- the Media Gallery, Mathematics gallery and Wonderlab, all in one evening. The event also saw the launch of Tonic's new brand and its experiential catering and service concept.

The event journey began for guests in the Media Gallery where they were able to discover the very latest event production technologies courtesy of Matrix UK Solutions. This included a small, but very impressive selection of the leading edge technology they own. This ranged from their Me

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Poland - Audio professionals looking to source world-class reinforcement solutions now have easier access to Adamson Systems Engineering products through the company's new Polish distributor, ProAUDIO-AVT.

Dominika Zaj?c, ProAUDIO-AVT's product manager for Adamson, explains that her company's mission is to provide clients with the best possible audio solutions for any application, pure and simple. Now, they're better poised to do so.

"In Poland, Adamson has always been considered one of the elite loudspeaker manufacturers with a versatile product portfolio," says Zaj?c. "Hearing these boxes, it's immediately clear how they've earned that reputation. We're very enthusiastic about working with this prestigious brand and bringing Adamson's top-end performance to our clients throughout the country."

With over 20 years of experience in AV integration and product distributio

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Mexico - Osvaldo Giuliano 'Chicho' is one of three partners in PRO3 an innovative, forward thinking lighting design collective based in Mexico City, with an office in the thriving creative community of Condesa.

There is a special synergy between the three individuals - Juan Carlos Zamudio "Charly" and Fulkas Camacho - are Chicho's partners. They all bring different personalities, ideas and talents to a show design and their work.

They own a quantity of their own lighting equipment - kit which they feel no design is complete without - and this includes 36 x Robe Pointes together with some other fixtures and effects, all stored in a warehouse in Iztapalapa, another part of the city away from the inspirational bohemia of Condesa.

Their Robe fixtures are out constantly on their own projects, including a recent tour with OV7 y Kabah, two youth groups who joined forces to co

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Japan - Located in the Aoyama district of Tokyo, 'b-monster' is a completely new form of workout that combines nightclub dancing with full-scale boxing fitness training while at the same time promoting fun.

The 'fitness after dark' concept was born in New York and has now been adopted in Japan. One of the most fashionable new brands in the luxury area of Tokyo, it is driven by Powersoft amplifiers, provided by the company's Japanese distributor, Audiobrains.

After the opening of the first gym in the Ginza area, the latest b-monster has set out to capture the atmospheric excitement and high powered sound quality "without compromise", in order to emulate a nightclub environment.

The entire Martin Audio CDD speaker series is Powersoft driven. Three M50Q HDSP+ETH control 12 of the full-range enclosures, while a single Powersoft X4 DSP+D pilots the four CSX118 subs. "This i

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UAE - An impressive 18m pixels of custom video and graphics content was powered by three Avolites Ai T Series media servers during Emiriti star-studded stage event FakhrakYaWatan (The Pride of the Nation) as part of Emirate Ras Al Khaimah's 'National Celebration Day' festivities.

The show was the result of three years of meticulous planning between Ras Al Khaimah's national government and prominent Dubai-based production specialist Lighthouse Productions (LHP), that enlisted the power of two Avolites Ai T4 media servers and one Avolites Ai T8 media server to deliver the show's substantial video element.

"Lighting and digital content now drives the majority of live events," says Terry Miranda, founder and managing director of LHP. "It was crucial for us as a production company working on such an event to have access to a reliable video control manufacturing brand. A show of

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