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When lighting designer Travis Shirley was tasked this summer (his fifth year with the festival) with lighting the festival's Main Stage - called the Ranch Arena - he knew he also had an experience mission: to offer an equal opportunity lighting rig for both daytime and nighttime artists. To do this, he designed and specified a lighting rig that would cut through daytime ambience and that would also do justice to light up embellishments of the stage design. Longtime festival vendor Christie Lites (rep Robert Roth) worked closely with

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"Bear is a big presence on stage," said the tour's director Jim Baggott from Harvey Goldsmith's office. "As such every member of the audience needs to feel involved and a properly implemented surround system such as this goes a long way to making that happen. Everything in the production has to come up to that standard."

Britrow has some history in this area, "We were fortunate in that we have done something like this before," confirmed their project manager, Lez Dwight, "Not least the Hans Zimmer tour last year. So I was able to assemble an experienced team. Our system tech' Sergiy Zhytnikov has done a superb job, supported by crew chief Josh Thomas and the rest of the

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A must-stop venue for many of those visitors was the LePlur Stage, epicentre of the festival's EDM centric acts, a stellar group that included The Chainsmokers, Party Favor, Die Antword, DJ Mustard, Black Tiger Sex Machine and Cakes Da Killa, to name a few.

Leaving no doubt that this was a major EDM stage was the eye searing lightshow created by the team at Solomon Group. Their power-packed rig was anchored by a beefy collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures. The production design of the LePlur stage was done by the brother team of Jonathan and Matthew Foucheaux.<

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Organisers, The Enchanted Forest Community Trust, have ensured that for each of its 15 years, a fresh theme using the very latest in technology, has been designed to bring the forest and loch to life.

This year appears to be no exception. Running from 29 September to 30 October, the event has so far scooped awards from the Scottish Events Awards (Best Event Marketing), CIPR Pride Awards Scotland (Best Integrated Campaign & Outstanding Small PR Consultancy) and the Perthshire Chamber of Commerce Business Star Awards (Business Growth Award) to name but a few. For the sixth year, lighting designers Kate Bonney and Simon Hayes joi

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The company was founded by Hans Willems in 2006 to 'tackle all those challenging, crazy and innovative projects that occur in the industry - with style, flair and imagination'.

Back in 2006 Willems had a big dream, which was to work with like-minded people to realise ambitious projects that pushed the technical envelope and required custom solutions.

Now with 14 full time staff, all with multi-disciplinary knowledge, a team of top project managers, an extensive R&D department, an international portfolio of clients and numerous projects, large and small, standard and esoteric on the CV - there's every reason to celebrate the first decade of WIcre

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The festival is an annual event celebrating the diversity of cultural heritages across the world, giving young people a platform on which to showcase songs in their native language, accompanied by ethnic dancing. This year, 160 nations took part as the tour visited Thailand, Brazil, Morocco, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Australia, Senegal, South Africa, USA, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Romania, Germany and Belgium. Around 12,000 people attended at the ISS Dome in Dusseldorf, one

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He also chose Robe BMFL Spots and LEDWash 600s among other lights to assist the process at two of the main sites - Sint-Pietersplein 'past and future' and Citadelpark 'a party for all the senses'.

The Floralien, funded by the Flemish government and the city of Ghent, has been running every four years since 1809, and this was the first time that Thomas - more used to lighting massive EDM events like I Love Techno and a diversity of others from industrials to opera in

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Chris said, "Unusual Rigging are no strangers to me - they're my go-to company for all rigging challenges. The first step was to meet with Simon Stone, Jeremy Featherstone and Mark Davies at Unusual and discuss how on earth we were going to transfer from a non-flying thrust stage into a traditional proscenium arch."

While this was challenging in itself, one of the briefs from Cameron Mackintosh an

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CAMCO has over 25 years of experience developing amplified controller technology and holds several patents in the trade. Based in Wenden, Germany, CAMCO counts 50 employees and distributes its products in 60 countries around the globe, in addition to supplying components to the industry's leading professional sound system manufacturers.

"For over a decade, CAMCO has been a key supply partner of L-Acoustics. Their expertise in electronics for the professional sound industry has contributed to the success of the L-Acoustics amplified controllers", explains Hervé Guillaume, managing director of the holding company. "Welcoming them into the L-Group family of comp

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The survey asked 1,013 organisations how they thought leaving the European Union would affect the arts in the UK. It reveals that, of 267 applicable responses, 75.3% said this would affect their UK productions by having a negative impact on their ability to bring artists and organisations into the UK. A large number of those surveyed were worried that barriers on bringing artists into the UK would result in a dip in artistic quality. Threats highlighted by arts organisations included "less sharing of skills, ideas and prac

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"All my Gary Numan shows are very dynamic," says Edwards. "I find Avolites products allow me to achieve that very easily. The Tiger Touch II's intuitive functionality meant I could create a high-impact show with minimal programming time."

Despite touring to some of the country's more intimate venues such as Nottingham's Rock City and Bristol's Motion nightclub, Edwards did not hold back in creating a series of huge, high-energy looks. To get the most out of his rig, which focused on Martin MAC Aura XB, Ayrton Magic Blade and Robe Pointe fixtures, the designer drew on the updated features of Avolites' latest Titan version 10 software. The full lightin

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This Halloween, the epicentre of the local EDM scene was the venerable downtown Lincoln Theatre, where Pulse brought five of the area's top DJs on stage to throw down some dope bass lines and traps. Revving up the intensity level many times over was a relentless, eye-searing light show that featured 12 Intimidator Scan LED 300 moving fixtures and four Hurricane Haze 2D water-based haze machines from Chauvet DJ.

Designed by Daniel Thiba

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The Neve Genesys Black incorporates the highest quality analogue circuitry with control of the DAW. As a direct result of this sale, engineers from Merging and AMS Neve are making significant improvements to the functionality of the controller and these will be available in the next firmware update.

In this typically all-digital world, reverting to analogue might seem a retrograde step. Not so. The United specialists

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"The number one thing I was shooting for when designing this set was impact," Nohling explains. "I wanted to have a large quantity of fixtures that had the ability to create the impact we were looking for. That meant we needed a fixture that fit a price point that allowed us to have enough across all of our campuses to make an impact and a powerful beam from each fixture. We looked at a lot of different fixtures and the ACL 360 Bars were a great solution for what we needed."

Eagle Brook's six campuses range from large purpose-built facilities to more traditional church buildings to auditoriums. All of Eagle Brook's

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The changes have produced a remarkable body of work and it's a mark of their durability that this autumn BMTH embark on their most ambitious European tour yet. "The show is a complete re-design from what fans saw last year for the launch of 'That's the Spirit'," says the band's production manager Rob Highcroft. "Louis Oliver at Okulus has created a three-dimensional video environment for the band that will startle all who come to see them."

Oliver's design is both radical and huge: "It's a massive commitment of gear and people for us," said Alex Leinster from

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To bring the full design together, Marcario worked with Nashville-based tour provider Elite Multimedia who supplied him with a complete lighting and LED video system that has the ability to be self-triggered through the artists backing tracks.

"Clare's live show is a super high-energy and a fun experience even without touring production," began Marcario. "I'm very happy to have gotten the call to help take the show to the next level with some visual aspects. When we started production meetings, our biggest goals for the

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Taking their place among the lighting rig's static LED and traditional incandescent fixtures are The Joan's four new SolaSpot Pro 2000 LED source moving head spots. With a 600W Bright White Engine kicking out 26,000 lumens, the 2000s also include frost, 5 to 45 degrees zoom range, linear and three-facet prisms, and more.

"They've also got two animation wheels, two rotating gobo wheels

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Isagenix is a worldwide company involved in the health and nutrition industry, with annual global revenues in excess of $500m. For their annual awards and celebration gala - attended by more than 14,000 associates, employees and media personnel -Isagenix demanded the very best in dramatic visual production. They turned to CG Creative who selected Marq Lighting's RezoTubes to create exciting visual effects for both the Gala and the after-party the following day.

CG Creative's technical producer Thomas Isarin reports, "We used Marq's RezoTubes for the Gala/Award event that spanned two different night

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The Last Five Years opened last week to critical acclaim. It stars Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey and is directed by Jason Robert Brown himself. Regarding the production, Howard comments: "The set, which is designed by Derek McLane, is a dark blue brick box with naturalistic set pieces that are brought on throughout for particular numbers. One of the roles of my design was to give a sense of literal location along with reflect the sentiments expressed th

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"We were very happy with the results in La Jolla," remarks Joe Miraglia, ArcLight's director of design, construction and facilities. "We continue to see Meyer Sound as the premium brand for cinema audio, offering a superior level of quality that our guests appreciate."

All four screens feature Dolby Atmos immersive sound.

"The dynamic range of the content coming out now is much more demanding on the audio system," continues Miraglia, "and Meyer Sound provides optimum performance by pairing the amplifiers inside the loudspeakers. We think that is the best solution going for Atmos.

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English lighting designer Mark Wheatley crafted a precise harmonization between the lighting and video, as so much of the narrative performance relies on timing.

"Much of the vocal work is done by characters on the screen, so synchronization between lighting and projection is pretty crucial to the success of the show," Wheatley said. "It is quite a theatrical presentation so far as drawing focus

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Working directly for TV production company, Princess Productions Ltd, the Showforce team was onsite from 11th - 22nd October. Crew numbers fluctuated between 14 and 56 per day in the run up to the event and de-rig, with 222 crew shifts amassed in total. The crew were tasked with unloading and setting up all equipment onsite, this included: lighting, rigging, set building, video, sound and carrying out show calls.

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Hawthorn worked with the show's Lighting Designer Tim Mitchell to provide lighting equipment to supplement The Rep's in-house rig. This included Hawthorn's new-to-stock Vari-lite VL1100TSDs, alongside Martin Mac Viper Performance and Viper Wash DX fixtures.

"There were several challenges on The Exorcist, including maintain the sleight of hand. There were many illusions in the show and the lighting had to distract the audience and conceal the effects" said Lighting Designer Tim Mitchell. "Control of the light was very important. We had