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14 December 2016

The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter who has sold more than 18m albums toured this summer with a full band, bringing his classics such as Running on Empty and Somebody's Baby to audiences across the country.

Building on Browne's last album, lighting designer Steve Comer made only a few changes to the previous design, including opening up the stage space by cutting side towers and placing the lights on the downstage truss. One important aspect for the lighting design for Browne's tour is the desire for an LED prominent rig such as Bandit's exclusive GRNLite Moving Washes, GRNLite Par 64s, Elation 2 Lite LED and GLP X4S, giving the production a cooler, lower power-consumption look.

"The flexibility the

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14 December 2016

To complement the glitzy flavour of It Takes Two, lighting director Gurdip Mahal and scenic designer Joshua Grace have created a true neon nightclub look, using concentrated violets and blues plus plenty of silver, mirrored sparkle to reflect the show's ballroom dancing heritage.

For additional effect, LED Creative SIGMA 30 wands have been vertically suspended around the stage perimeter. Perfectly placed to allow subtle movements in shape and colour without overpowering the shows content, the 1 metre LED wands allow accurate control of the speed and flow of the LED chase over an almost infinite number of sequences, either pre-programmed or executed live on set.

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This was the first arena-sized music concert for the £27m venue. PA for the event was provided by local Derby company Sound of Music, which drew on its extensive Nexo inventory to supply a STM Series modular line array for main PA, and 45°N-12 line monitors on stage.

Sound of Music's Sash Pochibko notes that "it's great for us to be the first touring PA company to service a big show at the new venue, especially as we are based so locally. The Derby Velodrome is by far the best-sounding arena I've ever heard, as an engineer or as a concert-goer. They've installed black-box draping and it makes a massive difference to the acoustics of the building - the absorbent properties of a good audience completed

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14 December 2016

Once again, the eye-catching lighting was designed by one of Mexico's best known LD's Tiffy (German Castellanos) with over 100 Robe fixtures on the rig, supplied by top rental company LED Project. Both are based in the pulsating capital city, CDMX.

It was Tiffy's ninth year of lighting the event which was broadcast live on four National TV channels Télévisa, Azteca, Channel 22 and Canal Once as well as being streamed live on You Tube.

To create a spectacular televisual and live experience, Tiffy worked closely with the rest

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The scholarship is presented annually based on a student's academic performance in their first year as well as their performance in an interview with Phil Cummings, Sennheiser's marketing projects manager.

Scott Ramsell, 19, was shortlisted among six students and impressed after developing a business plan to go into schools assisting with live sound at productions, as well as educating pupils and students in audio technology.

He said, "The money will help buy professional equipment to take in to schools and provide good quality sound for productions such as Christmas concerts and talent shows.

"I am already working with two schools I attended myself and I am shortly going ove

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14 December 2016

In the belly of the gyrating robot was a DJ booth. Over each shoulder of the robot and along its sides was an asymmetrically arranged collection of Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

Lighting designers Toby Lovegrove and Doug Alan Coppell, along with their team, used the Rogue fixtures to shoot rapidly moving and rotating beams of brightly colored light from behind the techno-beast in every direction. The varying shafts of light from the Ro

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14 December 2016

The Made to Destroy tour played dates across the US with lighting vendor JR Lighting Design, Inc. supplying an Elation rig made up of ACL 360 Bar LED battens, SixBar 1000 LED battens, SixPar 100 LED Par lights, and Protron 3K LED strobes along with Antari Z-350 Fazers.

"Recently we have added more Elation Professional equipment into our production rental inventory as we find that it offers high reliability, great performance, and value

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Lighting designer Dinesh Verma used one grandMA2 light for the event in New Delhi. "My design idea was to reflect the brand and its image and create a buzz for the new smartphone by combining the LED wall, lighting and sound to get a whole experience for the audience."

Sahil Wadhwa, owner of Modern Stage Service, MA's exclusive distributor in India, who provided the lighting and truss equipment for the event, commented, "Modern Stage Service has been a pioneer in the field of lighting and designing stagecraft equipment.

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Knowing these could be used to create big fields of light from an economical package, the designer sourced the fixtures from vendors, VER.

The design and scenography evolved only after a number of conversations with the band, who specialise in elaborate guitar-oriented instrumentals, which they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies".

Tobias explains, "I visited them rehearsing in Austin many times and presented a couple of different versions of set designs that we all really liked. But we ended up agreeing that just the fields of colours and light created by the X4 Bar 20s and Solaris LED flares would carry the show and enhance the music p

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14 December 2016

Across four evenings in late October, indoor and outdoor venues around York were transformed with light installations created by artists and designers including David Ogle, Helen Maurer, Studio PSK; and for the centrepiece at York Minster, Jason Bruges Studio.

For this year's Illuminating York, London-based Jason Bruges Studio created Light Masonry, a choreographed light work for York Minster. To provide the necessary lighting and rigging technology, Jason Bruges contacted PRG XL Video account director, Andrew Strachan.

With the brief that the lights needed to supply high brightness white beams and have moving heads, Andrew Strachan suggested PRG's own Icon Beam fixtures, 50 of which were used for th

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Each class takes about an hour to complete and one credit will be issued per course. "We're excited to offer a new set of resources to our growing number of customers," says ETC class creator, David Fox.

The classes include:

DMX Theory Operation and Troubleshooting - This intermediate level course covers the history of the DMX standard, signal architecture, and troubleshooting techniques. These six video chapters are for people with a fundamental knowledge of DMX as it relates to basic wire connections and data paths, as well as patching and addressing of devices.

Networking Fundamentals - An introduction to computer networking for entertainment and architectural lighti

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PA company, Sound & Light Professionals (SNL), has managed sound reinforcement for the main stage since the event's inception. This year, acts included Steven Wilson, Vertical Horizon, Farhan Akhtar, Dossier's Urge, Vir Das Allen Chutney, Fossils, Undying Inc, and Aberrant.

To meet the technically diverse demands for monitoring on stage, SNL deployed its recently purchased dLive S7000 Surface and DM64 MixRack, supplied by Allen & Heath's Delhi-based distributor, Sun Infonet.

One of the most anticipated performances of the festiv

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The course presented intricate information to assist riggers to comply with safety regulations practised throughout the world. The topics were covered in detail and delegates were given information on the types of loading and the effect on truss, building a safe MPT or ST Tower, slinging of truss, the process of calculating applied forces and predicting the effects of environmental influences and the basic preconditions to safely build a roof structure.

"The South African delegates are not behind in rigging. World-wide we are all at the same level... we are all consistently incompetent," commented Date Jonkman. "We don't know what we don't know and that's the main thing in our business, wherever you are. The delegates were

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14 December 2016

Taking place for the eighth time, the Baden Baden Awards 2016 will be honouring outstanding final papers by recently graduated stage set artists and stage set sculptors, make-up artists, sound and image media designers, event representatives, event technicians and property masters.

Juliane Trempler, project manager of Stage|Set|Scenery, comments, "We are sponsoring the awards for the fourth time and look forward to supporting the next generation. The Baden-Baden Awards are extremely important for the cultural sector, which like many others is being impacted by demographic change."

A lack of young people taking up technically skilled and administrative

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Directed by one of Asia's leading theatre directors, Ong Keng Sen, Richard Sandaime is an international collaboration performed in Japanese, English and Indonesian with Japanese and English subtitles. It uses top actors from Singapore, Indonesia and Japan, and a Balinese puppeteer. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Richard III, this innovative and rarely performed production - the first since Japanese playwright and director Noda Hideki's original 1990 production -

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Audio for the project was provided by Baghdad-based APCO Electronics, which provided acoustics design and participated in the actual installation as well. The company chose a sound system from Electro-Voice, creating a multi-zone digital audio system based around the IRIS-Net system control and supervising software and Electro-Voice EVH-1152 horn-loaded loudspeakers. In addition, Electro-Voice amplifiers, microphones and wireless systems were also utilized.

The primary system requirement was that the sound system would meet FIFA football standards, which require 92 percent direct coverage and high intelligibility, with a Speech Transmission Index (STI) of 0.50 or higher. The installed system exceeds those standards, delivering

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Oh-Hyun Kwon, vice-chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics comments: "Harman perfectly complements Samsung

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Production manager Shaun Weager, who has worked with Noble since 2012, came up with the 16-ft high dream-like design in response to a creative brief Noble ingeniously constructed using his daughter's Play-Doh. Every one of the 59 inflatable bulbs' internal LEDs has its own RGB panel through which Weager powers vibrant chases and isolation effects using the Avolites Titan Mobile.

"Shaun needed a small but powerful and highly portable lighting control solution," says Pete White, sales manager of Stage Electrics that supplied the console. "Stag

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Introduced last year, the Immersive Demonstrator is run by organiser Nineteen Events in association with the Home Office, the CPNI and other government departments.

Themed 'Securing Crowded Places' in 2016, this practical part of the Expo will show how a combination of technology, processes and techniques can be applied, in a variety of operational scenarios, to improve protection from terrorist attack.

Nicola Greenaway-Fuller, managing director of Nineteen Events, comments, "TSG offers a different service from other private security companies. We liked the fact that the resources it uses are trained and managed by police professionals. They can help us bring the scenarios to life through their experi

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14 December 2016

ST Events, which regularly plays host to some of the country's most famous musical performers and acts, decided to replace its previous sound systems for musicians, and invited a number of companies to show them the best solution for the future.

The clear winner for pure acoustic sound was Elements, as ST Events explain, "We tested a lot of different systems in different price categories. HK Audio's Elements was the best - no discussion about this. We loved the 'warm' sound, the styling and the fact that it's a very compact system.

"In particular, the sound of the vocals was the best of all the systems we tested. And that's very important in rehearsal studios. AB Music, HK Audio's Belgian distributor, was very supportive in helpi

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"We chose to use the ZCL 360i because we needed a stand-out lighting element that had a variety of effects and one that could respond to the demanding cadence structure of the song's tempo," said Michael Keeling, vice president of entertainment at SEIBO LLC, a leading production and event company based in Palos Verdes, California.

"For those that know my design work, I like to have an illumination source that provides a simple but dominate statement," Ke

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14 December 2016

At the 66th IAA, held recently in Hanover, Germany, an 11,000sq.m exhibition space was the stage for an impressive presentation from the biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in the world, the Daimler Group. Several brands from Daimler's successful portfolio were represented, including Mercedes-Benz, Fuso and Setra. A carefully selected combination of 650 ETC Source Four fixtures illuminated the dedicated Daimler area, and the 70+ trucks, vans and buses displayed within it.

The Daimler exhibition space incorporated two stages, three distinct brand worlds and a striking 'media ring' that stood a staggering 90m wide by 3.5m high. PRG was appointed as technical service provider, while rgb GmbH was entr

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14 December 2016

This year's annual event, staged at Manchester Central, featured a reception area themed around an ice palace and a breath-taking 50m wide projection screen in the main function area to ensure everyone felt like they had a front row seat. The whole evening was topped off with a performance by the Kaiser Chiefs followed by a late night DJ-hosted after show party elsewhere in the building just for good measure.

Manchester Central has its own particular demands when it comes to staging a prestige corporate show of this dimension, one reason why event specialist Black Arts engaged the se

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The new retail space, filled with eateries and drinking establishments, provided a backdrop for this venue, a space allowing for 2,000 people to come and be entertained by Headline Hosts for Saturday's Eskimo Dance, while for the Sunday NME hosted its latest Future Sounds of London event. Both events were broadcast through VME's premium Martin Audio MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array.

VME and Creation Live had previously worked with We Are The Fair at Gottwood Festival where MLA was also used in 2015, and this was the centrepiece of a fully integrated production provided by the Manchester based specialists for this high profile opening launch. MLA was chosen