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Under the proposal, the combined entity would be wholly owned and operated by Wenger. The shared vision of Wenger - including its subsidiary J.R. Clancy - and SECOA is to "provide a superior value proposition featuring the highest quality products and services for all stakeholders in the performing arts industry".

A statement continues, "After conducting exploratory conversations, the leadership teams of both organizations became excited about the synergies that exist, both strategic and tactical, with the combination of the businesses. By aligning the SECOA, Wenger and J.R. Clancy brands, Wenger expects to reinforce its position as a unique global provider of the broadest array of solutions in the industry. This transa

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This move will enable Calrec to expand its market breadth across the USA and continue to maintain high levels of service as business increases with the expanded portfolio, including the newly launched Brio36 compact broadcast console and Remote production RP products.

This will not affect Calrec's relationship with Studio Consultants Incorporated (SCI), who have worked with Calrec for many years and will continue their dedicated Calrec sales and support work in the East coast regions in conjunction with Calrec and Group One.

Says a statement, "In recent years, Calrec has delivered the highest levels of customer care and service in the USA through the operations of Calrec America. With the new arrangements, it is pleased to announce that the

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McCann - the company also behind the impressive lights on the tram bridge joining Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre with the University of Nottingham - is a long-term supporter of the 'Green n Whites'. When the team moved last season from its shared Notts County FC ground at Meadow Lane to its new home at Lady Bay, they looked to the leading civil and electrical engineering company for help in building its entire electrical infrastructure - including those all-important floodlights.

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This is the second year that WL has worked on the event, following last year's celebrations at the Canary Wharf Crossrail Station. Richard Stirzaker, WL's creative producer, comments, "The Progress 1000 is one of the most important dates in the capital's social calendar therefore the expectations of those in attendance are always extremely high. The brief was to make the evening as visually impressive as possible while accentuating the features of the Science Museum an

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Now, Puy Du Fou has taken things to the next level once again with their newest production - Le Dernier Panache - probably one of the most daring shows they ever created. The team at Puy Du Fou commissioned ShowTex with the production and installation of all masking drapes, printed fabrics, projection screens, rails and motion control systems that brought Le Dernier Panache to life.

Performed in a completely custom-built and 360° rotating theatre, the 2.400 members of the audience are immersed in the story on a multi-sensory level, smoothly rotating to watch the performance taking place on six different stages.

ShowTex rose to the challenge and installed the most solid an

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The Magical Lantern Festival hits Roundhay Park, Leeds and Birmingham Botanical Gardens from 25 November to 2 January, and Midas generators will provide for 40,000 bulbs at each, illuminating a trail of spectacular handmade lanterns. The displays then combine for a return to the capital ahead of Chinese New Year.

Ian Xiang, the festival's co-founder and Creative Director, said, "Most of the lanterns are actually made in my hometown, so it makes me incredibly proud to see them come all this way across to the UK. This festival will show many people something they've never seen or experienced before. It has the potential to increase understanding of Ch

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The 20m high by 20m wide Monolith is 10m deep and was created by production designer Es Devlin working in close conjunction with Beyoncé herself who is involved in all the major details of her stage presentation. It takes the striking beauty, isolation and simplicity of a Monolith design concept to amazing new levels.

The object opens 7.3m in the middle, tracks - as two sections on sliding grids - and rotates 360 degrees, a feat of engineering enabled by Belgian automation specialist WIcreations who designed the rotation and slid

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The momentous occasion involved a high profile gala event. A special classical programme was played by the Accademia Teatro alla Scala conducted by Zubin Mehta, and the Colosseum was lit by lighting designer Giancarlo Toscani who utilized 20 Robe BMFL WashBeams for this special occasion.

Giancarlo was asked to propose a lighting scheme by the show director, Fulvio Michelazzi, working for event producers Studio Exhibita for end client Grupo Tod, one of the co-sponsors of the restoration project along with the Italian government working in a PPP arrangement.

The brief was to l

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When a show contains such a level of technical production as Muse's, with it comes the requirement for an equally high standard of communication. For a flexible and reliable system, Channel 16's managing director, Paul English, turned to Green-GO's Digital Intercom system. The dedicated and independent talk back system ran via PoE switches, which formed the fibre-backbone for the configuration.

Show Caller for the performances utilized a 12-channel MCR12 desk unit, as did playback operator/backline manager and monitor engineer for the tour. Lighting designer and content designer both utilised an ei

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Chip Self, owner of Logic Systems Sound and Lighting, created the patriotic display on the exterior of Brookings Hall, the sprawling Gothic structure that serves as the symbolic heart of Washington University's Danforth Campus, where the debate took place.

Logic Systems used 40 COLORdash Par-Quad 18 RGBA LED par style fixtures, six COLORado Ridge IP RGBWA LED wash panels and two ellipsoidal units to bathe the iconic building's north side in colorful light.

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The festival invited audiences to rediscover the City of London and beyond, past and future, through a series of art installations and performances. Jim Dugan who headed the event management team at Unusual Rigging said, "This event offered an opportunity to understand just how much of an impact the fire had on the architecture, outlook and infrastructure of the City, including some of its most iconic buildings and landmarks, and we worked with Artichoke to demonstrate this through their very unique perspective."

He continued: "Unusual was brought on board just eight weeks before the i

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Old Gold - The first leg of the much-hyped Desert Trip festival took place over the weekend, with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Roger Waters, Paul McCartney and Neil Young taking to the stage in California. Organised by the people behind Coachella - and dubbed #Oldchel

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Tim Kennard, Lighting Sales Manager at Jands was upbeat: "GDS lighting products complement our extensive lighting offering perfectly. This distribution

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FCLC hired local A/V integration firm Sight and Sound Technologies Inc. to design and install the new sound, video, and lighting systems. Repeating a strategy that had succeeded in the past, Sight and Sound Technologies COO Kris Johnson partnered with Danley Sound Labs, whose expert engineers helped design an impactful Danley loudspeaker and subwoofer system with transparent fidelity and even coverage.

"Although Family of Christ still has a classic Lutheran service, its contemporary service

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Alumni of the programme, including Will Lee, Bruce Hornsby, Steve Morse and Jon Secada, have contributed significantly to the music and audio industries. Much of the programme revolves around the L. Austin Weeks Recording Studio, one of the best academic recording studios in the world, where students participate fully in the maintenance, modification, installation, and design of all systems.

After a year-long renovation, the studio's control room now houses three cutting-edge audio consoles: a 48-channel SSL AWS948 with De

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On two stages, there was a steady flow of stars of the electronic dance music, among them Marek Hemmann, Oliver Koletzki, Format:B, Felix Kroecher and then some more. An interesting fact was that the visitor figures had almost doubled, compared to the previous year, which the organizers sometimes ascribe to the "fat sound".

The feedback from many visitors, the organizers and the on-site techs speaks for itself. Sound engineer and technical manager Jan Leyendecker describes his impressions as follows: "Already on the first job with the VT20 System at the Lucky Lake Festival 2015, we realised that this line ar

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Freelance UK theatre lighting designer, Andy Webb, presents Robe's LED range of fixtures with the context of how to use these fixtures within theatre show designs while incorporating examples of productions he has designed. Andy explains why LED is so useful within his theatre designs, describing key factors such as fan noise (being super quiet), Power consumption (being able to link multiple fixtures together on power runs), colour mixing (having endless colour options and not just a single LEE colour filter o

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Fluge first started investing in DiGiCo when the company launched its D5 Live consoles back in 2002.

"When the D5 arrived here, it surprised us," says Fluge's technical director, Raúl Mendez. "It was easier and faster to use than other digital consoles on the market in those days and it had a really good sound that was very close to that of the big analogue consoles."

Raúl is convinced that working with DiGiCo has helped Fluge to become a reference in Spanish live audio, theatre productions and installations. This year alone, the company has worked on an extremely impressive list of projects that includes tours for Alejandro Sanz, Manolo Grazia, Malu, Migue Bosé, musicals such

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Piazza Italia has nearly 200 stores across Europe, Asia and Africa. The company has now opened IntelliGent Store outlets in Aprilia (Rome), Afragola (Naples), Crotone (Calabria region), Beinasco (Turin) and Udine (Friuli region), with more scheduled to follow. The stores needed a high impedance audio system to distribute 'disco style' sound, but work seamlessly with a voice evacuation system, be easily controlled by non-technical personnel and fit within the development budget.

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Riku Kauppinen, MA's director of sales, commented on the cooperation, "Strategic partnership with Total Solution will bring MA Lighting even closer to the MA users in the region. True commercial and technical competence as well as commitment that we can see and feel in the people working at Total Solution are in the very heart of both companies work ethic. We are really thrilled to start a new era in Singapore and Malaysia."

Managing director Glenn Wong said, "We are honoured and very humbled that MA Lighting has cho

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The company recently completed an expansion of its global headquarters and Innovation Centre in Sydney, Australia, doubling the size of the office. The new North America facility is located in the historic Albers Mill Building in Portland, Oregon and triples the size of the previous office. The new facility also features Audinate's new North America training center.

"With Dante now adopted by more than 300 OEMs, and tens of thousands of Dante enabled systems being installed over the next 12 months, the expansion of both offices enables us to scale to meet growing demand," stated Lee Ellison, CEO of Audinate. "We are also excited to start offering

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Key personnel from the company's executive, sales and engineering departments will be on hand at the show to meet with customers, LDs and programmers. In addition to displaying their Hog 4 range of lighting consoles, the company is introducing several new products in their SolaRange and FX lines of LED based automated luminaires.

Unveiled at the recent PLASA show, the SolaWash FX 2000 is the latest addition to the SolaRange family, joining the revolutionary SolaWash FX 1000 and SolaSpot 1000 launched earlier this year. High End is also introducing SolaSpot Frame 2000 to compliment the 2000 Wash and Spot range.

High End will also be displaying their full line of Hog lighting consoles -

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Sorce has been using DPA microphones for over a decade. "The first time I used DPA, I was looking for a solution to use on an acoustic guitar," says Sorce. "Then, I started trying them on many different instruments; on bells, horns, woodwinds and percussion. I've been really pleased with my relationship with DPA. They are my go-to problem solver."

Most recently, Sorce used the d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphone on various instruments in Seattle during the live performance of Howard Shore's composition for Lord of the Rings. At this event, there was a massive symphony orchestra and choir playing live to the film. "It's a symphony concert that plays the original score