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This was Kenny's first year doing the show and his first opportunity to use the award-winning Platinum FLX luminaire. "I'd been looking at Elation for quite a while," he said, "and had the chance to use 60 Platinum Series fixtures on last year's MTV European Music Awards show in Milan, which worked out really well. For the Pitbull New Year's Eve show, they wanted more of a live concert feel so I turned to the Platinum FLX fixture and was impressed with the looks it gave."

Kenny worked with full service sound and lighting company Beachsound & Lighting, who partnered with Main Light Industries of south Florida to provide the fixtur

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In short, music is a big deal at Stony Point. Different bands play each week with a lot of reliance on the congregation's many musically talented individuals. When the church built a new 500-seat sanctuary, everyone wanted a new sound reinforcement system that could help elevate the impact and emotion of its services. In consultation with the Richmond-based AV integration firm RTW Media, Stony Point installed a robust LCR system composed of Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers, subwoofers, and DSP-enabled amplifiers.

"Despite all the incredible musical talent at

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Top Israeli LD Ronen Najar created a lighting scheme for the latest series which was recorded at the Russell theatre in Ramatgan, Tel Aviv, where he included 11 x Robe BMFL Spots, six MMX Spots, together with eight LEDBeam 100s around the back of the audience in his design.

All the Robes were provided by lighting rental company Argaman Systems and programmed and run by Ronen on a grandMA2 console.

Now in its third edition, the series has no vote-offs or negative judgements. All the finalists get a chance to impress the audiences both live and on TV - who can vote for their favourite at the end of the series.

The th

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The 471 seat venue modelled on the Elizabeth Sneddon theatre in Durban hosts around four or five major productions throughout the year and is utilised by the Drama, Music and Art departments over the academic year. It is also a receiving house for outside shows including the yearly Think Theatre Shakespearian production on the KZN national curriculum, which this year is Othello.

The space is additionally used for school presentations, events and assemblies, and it's the main venue for the annual Hilton Arts Festival. Staged in and around the extensive grounds over three days

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The Atrium space, with eight of the fixtures, is primarily used for rock 'n' roll and jazz events, and occasionally for theatre shows, so the fixtures needed to be suitable for as wide a range of applications as possible. The remaining 28 units will be used to expand the lighting system in the main theatre space and to improve its existing setup.

Says Tom Vandermeulen, head of technical services at Dommelhof Neerpelt, "The ColorSource PARs are very user-friendly in comparison to our traditional tungsten fixtures. Previously, it took us a lot more time to change the co

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The event is being staged on Tuesday 23 February and Wednesday 24 February 2016 and comprises a full day session with a morning seminar, lunch, and an afternoon 'hands-on' workshop. Doors Open at 10am and visitors are invited to choose either the Tuesday or Wednesday events.

Products on demonstration will include the FBT Muse 2-way line array system, which features dual 10" custom Low Frequency drivers and dual 1" B&C high frequency drivers in birch ply cabinets. The dual 10" drivers offer great low frequency performance from this very compact design. The system has been massiv

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"Products and subjects relating to theatre and stage technology have gained greatly in significance for Prolight+Sound. Therefore, I am particularly pleased that, with this lecture by Guang Jian Gao, we can also present a special highlight for trade visitors from this segment at this year's fair", says Prolight+Sound Director Michael Biwer. "Our special thanks go to Florian von Hofen, CTO of Rouge AVE, who made contact with Guang Jian Gao and went to great lengths to make this extraordinary highlight possible."

China's leading stage designer, Gao has been honoured many times for his work a

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14 December 2016

Every networked audio product on the market was counted, with the assistance of representatives of each protocol's alliances - Audinate, MNA, RAVENNA and AVnu.

This year's count shows Dante increasing its dominance and significant increases from

RAVENNA. AVnu has a reduction in ProAV sector licensees and there is a reduction in the number of available AVB products.

The stats reveal the following:

For the first time the total number of networked audio products exceeds 1000.

Dante has 275 manufacturer licensees and 108 of those actually shipping product.

RAVENNA has 45 manufacturer licensees and 12 of those actually shipping product.

AVnu has 23 manufacturer licensees and

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. Housing two and four long-life 100W warm white 3,200K COB LEDs respectively, they provide a bright, high-density output that mimics the look of an incandescent source.

"I really like the flexibility of the Cuepix Blinders," stated Niclen CEO Bodo Valasik. "They are excellent white light audience blinders with a high CRI but can also be used permanently full-on so have use for tradeshows or other applications where a wide beam angle floodlight is required. It's also easy to mount two Cuepix WW4 Blinders together to make an 8-light audience blinder."

Marc Librecht, sales & marketing manager for Elation Europe, added, "We are very pleased that Niclen has chosen to add

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Bandit Chair and founder, Michael T. Strickland accepted the award, acknowledging the win as a shared success with Bandit's employees and clients. "We are again very humbled to be honoured by our peers in the industry. We credit this win to our phenomenal staff and to our wonder clients, without which we would not be where we are. We promise to work harder every day to deliver the world's finest people, service and gear in order that our clients shine as bright as they possibly can."

This honour marks the 24th 'Lighting Company of

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14 December 2016

After investing in an initial batch of 40 to enable them to undertake projects at high profile locations such as Alton Towers, a further 60-plus units were requisitioned for use on the top of the London O2 Arena during the recent Rugby World Cup - at the request of Projection Artworks. Here they memorably delivered the flower effects onto a 'canvas' in support of the English rose - an O2 sponsored project, claimed to be the world's largest projection in terms of light output (totalling 1.42million lumens).

HSL's managing director Simon Stuart recognised that G-Spot, attached to the O2's masts, would comfortably withstand all weathers over the seven-week per

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PVRIS may still be in its infancy, but the band recognized the significance of this prime exposure, and were keen to invest time in ensuring their appearance was memorable. They turned to Okulus' lighting designers and programmers, James Scott and Louis Oliver, to bring their ideas to life.

Scott and Oliver decided the unique appearance and reliability of Ayrton's MagicBlade-R fixtures were a sure-fire way to achieve this and used them as a dynamic backdrop to the band's equally dynamic performanc

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Currently, exhibitors from 11 countries - Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Serbia, the UK and the USA have registered to take part.

The signs are that the stage technology section will be well represented again at Stage|Set|Scenery 2017. Hall 21 is almost completely booked and Hall 22 is already filling up. Major machine and systems manufacturers, among them Bosch Rexroth AG, SBS B

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Central to this year's event was a 23m x 5m 10mm outdoor LED video wall provided by Maestra and run on the company's new Dataton 6 Watchout servers which were linked with Hawk-Eye Innovations software to provide real-time game feedback, analysis and results to spectators.

Maestra designed and produced a range of custom video content that played during the opening of the tournament each evening.

Inside a private pool-house also on the property, Maestra provided a further 6 x 6mm LED screens running from a separate Watchout Server. This was used to show stunning visuals and more custom content around on

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They were deployed by the Chinese manufacturer's Egyptian partner, Hi-Lights, to meet an inspired concept by Ahmed Arafa, considered the best designer / operator in Egypt.

Hi-Lights themselves are the country's largest service provider (and one of the biggest throughout the Middle East). They were awarded the contract by the Egyptian Handball Federation & Ministry of Youth and Sports to provide the lighting, sound, video projection and LED screens.

One of several international companies working for the client, their appointment was based on their creativity and quality of service and production over 25 years' experience.

To illustrate a united 'Afric

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The world's largest Celtic music festival, Celtic Connections saw Glasgow play host to 2,100 artists and 300 events across 20 venues last month. This year, as part of the festival, more than 500 people enjoyed four days of live music performances at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).

More than 500 people enjoyed the four days of live music performances at the GCU campus, as part of the world's largest Celtic music festival.

GCU Audio Technology and Audio Systems Engineering students used a system provided by The Warehouse at the free concert series which featured up-and-coming talent drawn from Scotland's universities, colleges and schools.

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It will be hosted by Harman senior application engineer for tour sound, Ed Jackson. The course is open to audio industry professionals on a reservation basis, including sound engineers, broadcast, events, theatre, houses of worship, rental, installation and production companies.

Practical topics will be covered in the workshop including: Vi basic operations and patching, How to best accommodate visiting engineers, Troubleshooting, Show Management, Copying, pasting and the use of library functions and Vi local rack, stage

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The Behind the Scenes Boutique will also be open for business during the show featuring an assortment of great Behind the Scenes swag and the famous Long Reach Long Rider T-shirts and kazoos.

Tickets for the raffle are an affordable $5 each or five for $20 and can be purchased at the Behind the Scenes booth throughout the show. Winning tickets for nine regular prizes and one grand prize will be drawn at 1pm on Saturday, the final day of Stage Expo.

The prizes, provided by t

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Taking place from 14 - 17 January, Lumiere London was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London. The range of spectacular displays included the lighting of Westminster Abbey, a purpose-built Garden of Light in Leicester Square and even images of A-list actors projected onto BAFTA's headquarters.

With its strong reputation in lighting across various markets, WL was contracted by Unusual Services and White Productions on behalf of Artichoke to provide its support.

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Of the venue's five rooms, three were earmarked for a major technical and design overhaul as part of the £1m refurbishment, and Middlesex Sound & Light (MSL) specified Martin Audio's new CDD (Coaxial Differential Dispersion) installation range of loudspeakers in each. The spaces concerned were the now sophisticated basement Cocktail Bar (previously Crystal Bar) and Club Room (a conversion of the former Groovy Wonderland), as well as the Ground Floor Bar and Kitchen upstairs. MSL also installed new lighting.

Novus Leisure project manager, Graeme Sutherland, says that the aim was to bring a traditional 1980s style disco into the modern age and give the venue greater flexibility, with the ability to host

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14 December 2016

Creating the cohesive vision this year for Fiat Chrysler Auto's booth, designed and built by George P Johnson Experience Marketing, James Klein Events were brought in to curate the show production. This featured a spectacular hourly 'Superstorm' that saw each of the Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Alfa Romeo, Mopar, Chrysler and Fiat brands 'takeover' the entire stand with hundreds of moving lights, dozens of HD video pixel-mapped elements and "awesome surround sound scores".

James engaged Michigan-based Sound Reality Corp. who incorporated the much sought-after dynamic audio

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Elite audio services supplier, ATK Audiotek, provided system integration and audio services for the landmark event, creating an agile audio solution that consisted of 18 mobile speaker carts - each equipped with JBL VT4889 line array elements, JBL VT4880A subwoofers and Powersoft K10 amplifiers. The speaker carts were rolled onto the field for the pre-game, halftime and post-game portions of the event.

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Ed Sheeran also won his first two Grammys for song of the year and best pop solo performance for his number one hit Thinking Out Loud. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars won two awards for their hit Uptown Funk, including record of the year, while Meghan Trainor was named best new artist. Muse won best rock album for Drones, and Tony Bennett collected his 18th Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album.

There were also a number of acts who gave tribute performances - Lady Gaga sang a medley of David Bowie songs, Jackson Bro

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The Motown Featuring Afro-Dite revue is one of the Dr