Since 1997 Ferri has been lighting the commentators at the US Open and continually advancing the technology used at the event. This year FLDA also brought their expertise to re-lighting the USTA's permanent Press Room at the tennis centre.
For the press interview room, FLDA brought in a completely new lighting system to address the current needs of the USTA. "The room had a pipe with tungsten Fresnels for the interview area,"
A show by band that's original enough to incorporate a xylophone into its tunes requires a lightshow that's unique, varied and very flexible. This is exactly what Justin Casey of Pulse Lighting has been serving up on the current US moe. tour with help from 12 Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures, supplied by Main Light Industries.
Casey positions the 360° rota
In each of these events, styling performance and clear sound are of utmost importance for speech intelligibility and hearing. When searching for a conference microphone system, Kevin Fox, associate director of media services at the law school, chose to install a portable Shure DDS 5900 Digital Discussion System with 40 channels. This all-in-one sound system enables the staff at NYU Law to tailor audio performance to different sized meetings based on several factors that impact performance, including room acoustics, table dimensions, and seating arrangement.
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The annual EDM extravaganza, one of the most popular in Europe and well known for its awesome line-ups, was staged at Daresbury Estate near Warrington, UK.
Working for creative production specialists LarMac LIVE - with production manager Ian Greenway assisted by Matt Smith and Molly Iredale -.Adlib renewed their long and fruitful working relationship with Cream.
Leading Adlib's team on site were project managers Kevin Byatt and Ian Tomlinson, with Ian also designing lighting for the three spaces alongside Ian Greenway from LarMac Live. They worked
The Chapel hosts a weekly mass for the Royal Parish, consisting of members of the Royal family and employees of the Court, as well as a regular music programme featuring organ and classical music concerts. There are also frequent media broadcasts of Royal events, such as baptisms and weddings, at the venue.
"We choose the GLD because of its flexibility. It's a powerful tool for the experienced mix engineer, but also easy to use by novices. It's great to be able to lock out inexperienced users from the more integral settings," explains Christoffer Wetterstr
Also contributing to the event's success were the stands from Gravity. Ashley Cooke, production manager and responsible for T°nder Festival's lighting and sound production, relied on the Adam Hall Group's new brand for the first time - and was very enthusiastic about the outcome: "We are very satisfied with the Gravity stands," he says.
"They are very light, but nonetheless stable. The musicians thought they were g
The extreme high winds and driving rain had blighted the opening day, headlined by Frankie Valli's band, who were joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra and a line-up including ABC, All Saints, Rick Astley, The Feeling and others. As the following day made way for bright sunshine, Status Quo and Madness got the evening party going and were perfect curtain-raisers for the headline act, Elton John.
But such changeable weather conditions in a noise sensitive environment is precisely the scenario that Martin Audio's award-winning MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA), and its advanced DISPLAY software, was designed for.
The Martin Audi
March's appointment emphasizes VER's commitment to their wide range of clients and continual investment in expertise, equipment and leading edge innovation. With nearly 30 years of experience working with production lighting, March joins a highly skilled team of technical and project management professionals at the company's London headquarters.
Susan Tesh, executive director of VER's global lighting division states, "We have been successfully servicing our international lighting clients from our Londo
Clay Paky presented its products at their best, at a large booth in the Ambersphere village, through a demo-show programmed by lighting designer Alex Mildenhall, operator on TV show X-Factor.
The Clay Paky Scenius Profile won the PLASA Award for Innovation. The judges said "This product's innovation reaches from the lamp and reflector all the way through the optical path."
The Scenius Profile was not the only acclaimed product at the Clay Paky booth. Visitors and the award judges themselves showed great interest in the Shar-Bar, a movin
The just launched Spiider LED wash beam luminaire was the visual centrepiece of the stand, with 42 Spiiders arranged on a scenic 'super-web' web at the heart of a spectacular lightshow that ran every hour.
Just launched globally on the internet via the trending 'Spiiders all over the web' video three days before the show, it was the hot product of the expo!
The super-web was neatly concealed behind drapes that transformed the stand into a theatrical space to show off Robe's other highlighted products which included the new Halo pixel ring, the all-LED DL series and
The series of shows billed as Kyosuke Himuro Last Gigs concluded at the Tokyo Dome, with the main audio system supplied by Japanese rental companies Hibino Sound and Tokyo Sanko, who supplied a K1 systems with the new L-Acoustics KS28 subwoofers for the tour.
"Hibino had to deliver every breath of Kyosuke Himuro's performance perfectly, as it was an experience which none of the audience would ever have again," says Takayuki Ozaki, managing director of L-Acoustics Japanese distributor Bestec Audio, who had introduced KS28 to Akitsugu Ke
Created in 1989, and operating in France, Italy and Belgium, Europ Groupe's main focus is on event staging, with additional activities also in the integration market.
The company has been making good use of 54sqm of its 6mm pitch outdoor A6T LED panels over the last two years, and when the time came to upgrade their indoor panel inventory, they turned to Absen.
Richard Lamy, Europ Groupe associate and event services manager, confirms that Absen became an obvious choice instantly: "We were very satisfied with the A6T outdoor solution, and the Absen team has been great at helping us from day one, so we naturally turned to them when it was time to renew our flee
For the fourth time in a row, Light4Brands (L4B) was selected to manage the lighting for the festival red carpet. The Airstar lighting inventory was made up of two 90cm wide Crystal balloons, flanked on both corners of the theatre building and a pair of three-metre-high air ventilated Towair cylinder towers, placed on the top of the stairs to welcome the lucky few during the show nights. To complete the lighting of the event, an impressive three-metre-wide, helium inflated, Lunix LED balloon was anchored and proudly displayed the event logo 15 metres high.
The Lima Film Festival is the most important cinema event in the country an
Lighting designer Bart Burnham shared the vision for the production came from a collaboration between tour manager Charlie Sanderson, production manager Billy Kline and stage manager Jimmy Davis. "The concept was to create a more intimate setting for Hank's acoustic set, use lighting fixtures to spell HANK and to project Hank logo's onto the backdrop and traveller curtain, which would be closed during the intro track and acoustic set," said Burnham.
On the downstage truss, Martin MAC Auras provided a wash for the band and audience warmers during the introduction and acoustic numbers while GLP Impression X4s were used as band specials and as a wash look for Hank's acoustic sets.
VL 3000s featuring custom gobos focused on
Earlier this year, they purchased their first 40 X4 Bar 20 battens for the successful Sarah Connor Muttersprache tour - since when the Berlin-based company has invested in a further 165 GLP impression X4 Bar 20 and 84 GT-1.
The GT-1 promises to offer the best of three worlds: spot, beam and wash in one unit, with a zoom ratio of 22:1. With its auto sensing power supply it is also made further suitable for touring by its low weight, of just 25kg.
These are features appreciated by the professionals of Black Box Music, who have been using both the GT-1 discharge lamp as well as the X4 Bars on the current Rammstein tour.
Alongside equipment rental, the focus of the Berlin company is the planning and imple
Part music festival and part product intro event, the 909 Day Celebration featured performances by a wide range of artists like Linda Perry, Smallpools, Echosmith, Mike Garson, Saint Motel, DJ Pierre and more.
Lighting these performances for the event, which was marketed under the banner The Future Redefined, was an appropriately cutting-edge collection of Chauvet Professional gear, including Rogue R1 FX-Bs, Rogue RH1 Hybrids, Rogue R2 Washes, Rogue R1 Washes an
Commenting on the agreement, Genesis Music Group CEO and chief engineer Bertaux Fleming, aka M. Rude, enthused, "We are extremely proud to become a Uniline partner. I was introduced to the brand in 2010 during a trip to Paris, and when I heard the APG system I was immediately sold. I was stunned by the sound quality that was coming out from these small boxes."
M. Rude praised in particular the professionalism and great relationship developed with the APG team. "Performance wasn't our only criteria,
Kew wished to deliver the greenest, most fuel-efficient event possible and promoters Kilimanjaro Live engaged Cardiff-based 11th Hour Events to meet their stringent demands. At the main stage itself, 11th Hour provided power for: lighting, sound, video screens and working lights. In addition, the company supplied power to the backstage area, artist facilities, concessions, caterers, hospitality areas and toilets as well exit/safety lighting.
Architectural lighting of the trees in the gardens completed a comprehensive installation. Meeting the environmental demands of
The GLP X4 Atom boasts a compact body, bright output and a motorized 9:1 ratio zoom for a 3.5 to 34 beam angle. Its interlocking system allows the fixture to be built into various configurations, meaning it can be used for all of Bandit's various lighting applications including corporate events, touring and special events.
One such example is the Atoms use at events for Blackberry Farms, a luxury resort in the foothills of the Smokey Mountains. As the exclusive event producer for the culinary and wine haven, Bandit strives to ensure that every production detail is executed impeccably, and when the new Bramble Hall amphitheatre event centre needed a fixture to solve a zoom and spotlight problem, the GLP X4 Atom proved the be the solution.
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The network is an integral part of a $14.2m infrastructure upgrade; importantly, Carousel Digital Signage Software also drives airport revenue generation through advertising initiatives.
The varied digital signage displays-including a large, welcoming video wall and two interactive touchscreen kiosks-give travellers just-in-time information about flights, arrivals, departures, gates, security, television, digital marketing and local ads, as well as news, weather and other real-time data feeds. The flexibility of Carousel network, in conjunction with Br
The festival was memorable for many reasons including the new Steel Yard venue -an awesome 50m wide by 100m long space offering up to 26m of headroom with a capacity of around 9,000, designed and built especially for Creamfields by Acorn Structures.
"We were very excited to be asked by the event's technical producers LarMac LIVE to supply lighting and rigging for Steel Yard," says Colour Sound's H (Haydn Cruickshank). "It's always interesting and invigorating to work in new spaces, you have to think out of the box and everyone - all the individuals and companies - involved in creating the amazing Steel Yard vibes worked very hard and as a tight team to deliver a great experience for the
Hancher Auditorium was one of the most popular venues for touring groups in the region, and the flood forced the student and traveling groups that normally used the venue to move into nearby facilities.
But this week, with the grand opening of the new Hancher Auditorium, the University of Iowa and the people of Iowa City once again have a magnetic cultural centre to call their own.
Only months after the flood, Theatre Projects began working with the university to determine how they would recover, rebuild, and move forward - not only regarding the 40-plus-year-old Hancher Auditorium, but also the Voxman School of Music and Clapp Recital Hall, which were attached
Here is a small selection of some of the highlights and the ways in which WI can provide solutions for a myriad of scenarios which require lighting, sound and video to be in specific places, or lifted and moved precisely at exactly the right time.
Dominator 2016 is organised by hard style dance festival and event producers Q-Dance and is one of the largest gatherings for hardcore techno hard trance fans, staged each year in the park at Strand Eersel, Netherlands where WI provided six 11.5m towers for the Main stage used out in the crowd for PA delays and audience lighting. Two 10.8mWI towers were used for the second stage, all
