Like the revellers themselves, the Shamrock festival's musical performances represented a diverse mix. Irish music dominated the festivities with groups like Dropkick Murphys and the Fighting Jameso
Green Hippo will be supplying 11, V4 Boreal and 4, V4 Karst Media Servers (including back-ups) for the set. Previous Eurovision song contests in Finland and Sweden have been run by Hippotizer V3 media servers.
In addition to supplying the equipment as an official technical event supplier, Green Hippo will be presenting its servers at the ESC cafe during LLB Trade Show which takes place alongside the show and gives an opportunity to meet potential clients not just from Sweden but around the world. Swedish distributor SSR Beacon will also have a stand and represent Hippotizer products at LLB.
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Honouring the best in popular culture for 2015, the People's Choice Awards were held 6 January, 2016 at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS. Emmy-winner Allen Branton was the show's lighting designer; Felix Peralta, Kevin Lawson and Darren Langer were the lighting directors.
A.C.T Lighting gave the team the opportunity to demo Scenius fixtures prior to the show, and they felt the new lights would work well with Derulo's medley of Get Ugly and Want to Want Me performed with a complement of backup dancers. The deployment marked one of the
San Francisco Opera (SF Opera) is the first opera company to rely upon Constellation. Located in the newly renovated Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera, the 299-seat Atrium Theatre is designed for multiple configurations, providing both performer and audience members with a very personal approach to opera. Constellation's ability to shape acoustics on demand allows SF Opera to expand from traditional theatre-style seating to cabaret settings with café tables and in-the-round performances, or even edgier configurations.
"If we really want this to be a gateway for new audiences and an ex
The theme for Europe's largest indoor hard style event this year was Deception (nothing is what it seems) - and an ingenious show design ensured that the guest experience met the brief in all dimensions.
A spectacular lighting, set and visuals design was imagineered by Kristof van Mensel, Patrick Bellens and others from Belgian visual design practice, TCF. Playing on the theme - which offered some serious latitude for invention - their starting point for both lighting and video designs was having lots of unpredictable visual tricks up their sleeves .... which could be revealed as the night unfolded.
The lighti
Songs In The Key Of Life features hits like I Wish, Pastime Paradise and As, and won a Grammy for album of the year. Wonder has been playing it to rave reviews in America since 2014. Rolling Stone called it "free-spirited, triumphant and huge," while The New York Times described the three-hour show as "a journey of jubilation". Wonder's 30-piece touring band features his first daughter Aisha, who inspired the opening track of the album's second disc, Isn't She Lovely.
Spaced Out - Veteran French co
"What began with the VDO Sceptron 10 has quickly developed into a suite of products with tremendous versatility," said Wouter Verlinden, international product manager for LED Video at Harman Professional Solutions. "All addressing is done by the P3 System c
The PCE team had been looking for a powered loudspeaker solution that could serve as both a monitor and a two-way stand-mounted system. The company serves the corporate AV market which oftentimes requires high audio quality that is also simple to use and operate.
"We listened to a lot of products but could not find anything we were really happy with," explains Ryan Steidinger, CEO of PCE. "When EAW's Jonas Domkus suggested we give Redline a listen we figured it couldn't hurt. We were immediately impressed. They have that renowned EAW sound, the quality is terrific and th
Showtime, who already had Platinum Beam 5R Extreme's in its rental inventory, now stock only Elation moving heads. They chose to upgrade their inventory of Platinum Beam 5R Extreme's with additional fixtures and acquired the Platinum Spot 5R's as replacement fixtures for aging 250W fixtures.
"The Elation fixtures' easy handling, workmanship and compatibility to our current stock were all factors in choosing them," stated Showtime managing director Guido Nallinger. "Their light output is also excellent. We also value the support we receive from Elation and the price fit within our budget."
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The creation of the Audient Scholarship coincides with a major refit and overhaul of the ICMP recording studios, which are to be centred around a new ASP8024 analogue mixing console.
Facilities manager, Mike Sinnott comments on the new studios, designed and built by Slowglass Creative. "There's one control room with two adjoining live rooms, which will have a traditional analogue set up (tie lines, patchbay, desk), along with ProTools HD, Logic, Ableton, further outboard and a comprehensive mic cupboard. We are also building three production rooms
The park wanted to offer the best experience for their visitors and have just chosen Lynx Pro Audio systems for the park's daily dolphin show. Twenty Ionic-100 column speakers ionic-100, together with 8 DR-N12 subs have been installed in different postions in the dolphinarium, including the roof of the amphitheatre and the borders of the dolphin pool.
The roof of the amphitheatre holds 12 columns in combination with six subs. This combination is done with six groups of two columns per sub evenly distributed under the roof. The rest of the cabinets are fixed very close to the dolphin pool to reach the first rows of seats, with two subs perfectly hidden from view. With a capacity of 1500 people this dolphinarium is
Since its release, the album has topped of the US Jazz Albums charts. The recent Crush Tour delivers the big sound associated with its namesake album. It's a sound made all the more powerful on stage by an appropriately potent lightshow by production designer Gabe Fraboni and lighting designer Wiley Cutler, using a collection of Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional, provided by 4Wall Entertainment.
"We were using another big name moving head, but the people at 4Wall showed us the Rogue Series," said Fraboni. "The Rogues impressed us with their compact, size, brightness and optics. The fixtures fit our touring needs perfectly."
Fraboni and Cutler
Supplied by SSE Hire for the tour, the flagship dLive S7000 control surface is partnered with Allen & Heath's DM64 MixRack to handle an on-stage line-up that comprises the Scottish four-piece's traditional backline, multiple vocals and horn section. As a longstanding fan of Allen & Heath's iLive system, Pattison's decision to rely on dLive for the tour was an easy one to make.
"It really feels like dLive is a step on from the iLive system that I've enjoyed using with various artists over the years," says Pattison (whose CV includes a five-year stint with Amy Winehouse, Ellie Goulding, Texas, Glasvegas and Royksopp). "It's very fast to use, despite the amount of control
Tom Falgien of consulting firm WJHW designed the stadium's new sound system. Falgien says the planning and needs analysis began in August of 2013 and involved the stadium's architectural firm and the school's athletic staff. The school wanted even coverage for the field and for both home and visitors seating with high voice intelligibility and plenty of level to overcome crowd noise. They also wanted a modern system with extended frequency range and
The PA system technician for Adlib was Alan Harrison, working alongside Adlib's Hassane Es Siahi, with Jay Petch looking after monitor world. An experienced and enthusiastic crew, who all worked closely with All Time Low engineers Phil Gornell (FOH) and Ricky Fernandez (monitors) plus Good Charlotte's Jim Carmichael at FOH and Chris Cotten on monitors. Against The Current was the other support act.
Both Phil Gornell and All Time Low production manager Dan Nickleski are big Adlib fans, and were keen to get the Liverpool company on-board for this leg of the tour - with Phil specifying the L-Acoustics K1 system complimented by K2 side-hangs for the (mo
"This was a stripped back version of the bigger shows we've got planned for later in the year, designed to suit the iconic Roundhouse and create the right feel," says Campbell. "I'm using a lot of tungsten in the show, and a video wall of Ereimul Elidy 'S' matrix fixtures and Clay Paky Stormy CCs, which curves around the band in a 'C' shape."
Campbell's consoles are loaded with Titan v9 for the tour, and he's utilising an array of the new and powerful features available in the software.
"The show is packed full of Key Frame Shapes-powered looks, which allow me to get a wide variety of textures and feels," Campbell continues. "Key Frame Shapes is an extremely powerful featu
Gilbert, the country rock singer and songwriter, kicked off the US and Canada leg of the Black Out World Tour playing to capacity crowds in Saginaw, Michigan. After the tour wraps this spring Gilbert will take a breather before launching the Take It Outside summer tour. The current lighting rig will be reprised for the summer tour.
Howard Jones, is president of DCR (Digital Console Rental, Inc.) in Nashville, which provides the sound, lighting and video for the Black Out World Tour. He also designed Gilbert's previous two tours: Hell on Wheels in 2011 and Let It Ride in 2013-14.
"I've been with Brantley since early in his career,
Autosport International is a globally renowned trade show, exhibition and performance car show created and managed by Haymarket Exhibitions at the NEC every January.
Alongside appearances by current and former drivers and teams from a variety of motor racing series, one hall of the NEC holds the Live Action Arena, where members of the public can see an array of current and classic racing cars put through their paces by a team of expert drivers.
For more than five years, PRG XL Video has worked with Malcolm Forbes of Waltham Services to provide projection in the Live Action Arena. For the 2016 show, t
Among these is the successful implementation of world class wireless microphone systems from Sennheiser at the Lusail Iconic Stadium, which played a vital role in enabling handball fans across the world enjoy the televised broadcasts of live matches. This stadium will be used for boxing, handball and basketball championships and also for live in concerts in the future.
Sennheiser, which also supplied microphones for the football stadiums in Brazil, highlighted the importance of its audio solutions. "With several hundred million TV viewers watching live, there is no room for error," said Mig Cardamone, director
"Nightclubs used to be about one thing only - music," said Drummond. "But today, nightclubs are driven to provide audiences with unique and memorable experiences. Every night, they must create a visual and auditory masterpiece. Not only does the audio quality have to be su
Just as in 2015, all students are able to take part by downloading Hog 4 PC and the special Light Converse show file by registering at the link above and there is no charge to take part.
Following Phase 1 of the competition (closes on June 30th 2016) three teams will be whisked away to the Live Finals. These will be held on Friday, 21 October at 5pm on the High End Systems booth at LDI in Las Vegas, where they will compete to win a $20,000 scholarship and Hog 4 for their Universi
Running from mid-January to early March, Amaluna marks Cirque du Soleil's 20th anniversary of Albert Hall productions. A re-telling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, female performers make up the majority of the cast and the entire accompanying band. The set is as lavish as one would expect from Cirque du Soleil, with stylised trees hanging from a central truss which, as well as supporting airborne acrobatics, also accommodates the main L-Acoustics hangs.
The production's head of sound, Fran
The announcement, made at Light + Building Frankfurt, will see Aurora Group products being made available to thousands of electrical contractors across Europe via FEGIME's 1,150 sales points and presence in 27 countries. FEGIME currently has a 10% share of the European electrical market.
David Garratt, managing director of FEGIME, says, "Currently, the lighting business is in a state of constant change. Consequently, it is important for FEGIME to have a wider range of partners to better exploit the opportunities arising. We regard Aurora as a highly innovative, motivated, flexible and distribution-oriented partner. We are happy to welcome th
A key piece of the puzzle was finding the right combination of microphone and wireless system for the artist - one that would handle the hostile RF environment of a major production. They found the Shure Axient wireless with the new KSM8 Dualdyne premium dynamic capsule to be ideal.
According to Shure artist relations senior specialist Nelson Arregu
