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A.C.'s Lighting division will be displaying the complete lineup of Chroma-Q LED products.

The new Color Block 2 LED fixture combines its predecessor's core elements of modularity and versatility with new single colour RGBA optics, 530 lumens output (almost double the original model) and theatrical grade dimming to create an exceptional feature set. The stand will also preview two new Chroma-Q products joining the range later this year. The Color Charge is a battery powered, ultra portable LED light source which combines wireless control with an advanced feature set. Also appearing is the Color Force 72, a 12,000 lumen, 1.8m / 6 ft output LED batten for washing large areas with full RGBA extended colour palette.

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On prominent display will be the UglyBox Performance Kit, nominated for a PLASA Innovation Award. The kit includes the new W-DMX UglyBox and Co-Existence Dongle with a wide selection of antennae to provide feedback on all aspects of wireless signal, never before available to lighting technicians. The rugged UglyBox test tool measures the DMX channel data values, the real time signal strength, and the history of signal stability. The Co-Existence Dongle ensures harmony of multiple wireless protocols by enabling custom channel selection and adjustment of output power. Together with the accompanying software for radio spectrum monitoring and antenna calculation, the kit ensures a safe, controlled en

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Capable of high projection, even washes and focused feature lighting - each luminaire can feature one or two robust, stylish housings with a highly flexible variety of LED and circuit formats.

Other new products include the new PixelPar Festival - an outdoor IP65 rated version of the industry standard PixelPar.

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

Richard Cadena (Sunday), the author of Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician and Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light. He is a freelance lighting designer/consultant and an Authorised wysiwyg trainer.

Mikael Berglund (Monday) who has a 30-year career in lighting design in everything from theatre and live concert tours to architectural a

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The 63rd Fringe, which ended on Monday night, was the first with new chief executive Kath Mainland at the helm. She said, "Even in tough economic conditions, festivals chime with people in a way few other events manage to. Over the past three-and-a-half weeks I have seen some amazing work, sometimes perfectly trivial and enormously entertaining, sometimes incredibly challenging and often hugely moving. I have been blown away by the creative energy, artistic vision and drive of the people taking part, from performers and director

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14 March 2016

NewSubstance Creative Agency employed the TAO Group to provide logistics support, production management, CAD planning, health & safety and event consultancy for four shows in Hsinchu and Taipei

To achieve the client brief, head of TAO Andy Cotton flew a crew to Taiwan, including TAO's Ben Price (production), Darren Wring (lighting); Steve Waddington (rigging) and Gareth Lewis (sound).

Now in its 21st year, the Deaflympics, features 20 sports, from athletics to taekwondo. The event was previously known as The World Games of the Deaf, having been granted permission by the IOC to change names in 2001.

The opening ceremonies and parades were produced by Mirag

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14 March 2016

Readers of Lighting&Sound International's digital edition, which has been available worldwide for the past two years, will be familiar with the freely accessible online format.

This is the first time the PLASA Show Guide has been available prior to the show, and will allow those planning on visiting PLASA09 ample opportunity to browse the exhibitors' detailed information and plan their visit in detail. The PLASA09 Guide includes full listings for all exhibitors, with a quick reference A-Z listing and floorplans to make planning your visit as straightforward as possible.

In addition to this, the Guide also features advanced information

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Designed to provide a flexible and intuitive solution for both professionals and novices to use, the "highly price-competitive" Domino combines all the functions of a television studio or theatrical console, allowing fully automated control, required studio and for theatre lighting, in a sleek, lightweight ultra-modern casing whose compact footprint will readily fit into the tightest control rooms.

The four-strong series is available as Domino 24, 48, 48XT and 96XT versions. Aimed squarely at the large mid-range controller market for television and broadcast studies and theatres, medium to large venues, convention centres and more, a major feature of the Domino is a dedicated cro

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Johnson had just been using a grandMA2 light on the Maximo Park tour, and was happy running the version 2 software, while rental company Lite Alternative has also just invested in grandMA2 consoles. So he and Normandale made a joint decision to re-programme the Chapman tour onto grandMA 2.

Johnson did this using a grandMA2 full-size and a visualiser, which was particularly helpful, and it

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14 March 2016

A redesign of the iconic brand logo required new exterior signage for over 3,200 locations. The new signage incorporates energy-efficient, long-life GE Tetra LED lighting systems, which are GE ecomagination certified solutions from Lumination, GE Consumer & Industrial's LED business.

The signage will save Holiday Inn an estimated $4.4 million annually over previous neon and fluorescent lighting ($3 million annual maintenance savings and $1.4 million energy savings). This massive signage project involves more than 20 sign manufacturers creating 9,300 channel letter an

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14 March 2016

The MAC 250 Beam upgrade kit consists of a new front module with micro Fresnel lens and a set of six beam effect gobos/apertures. It converts any standard Martin Professional MAC 250 Wash into a MAC 250 Beam in a matter of minutes, bringing new life and value to existing MAC 250 Wash fixtures for very little cost, says the company.

The MAC 250 Beam's intense light output and tight beam make for a powerful mid air effect. The output is optimised via a glass cold light reflector.

A large diameter micro Fresnel lens produces a distincti

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Martin Professional's new MAC 250 Beam upgrade kit converts any standard Martin MAC 250 Wash into a punchy beam fixture that projects powerful variably sized pencil beams.

Normandale, who serves as production designer handling lights, set and video on the tour, chose to use the MAC 250 Beam because of the outdoor set's 180ft wide span, which allows the 250 Beams to do aerial work as well as cross light.

Located on the stage floor on side wings, the 250 Beams provide an intense light output and tight beam for a powerful mid air effect. The upgrade kit includes a micro Fresnel lens and set of six beam effect gobos/apertures and only tak

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Robe's has also invested 3.5m Euros in building a completely new logistics centre and in doubling its warehouse space to nearly 4000sq.m.

The latest factory expansion project houses a purpose-built plastics moulding centre which covers about 1000sq.m, equipped with all necessary machinery involved in this process.

This has all been achieved by reinvesting the company's profits, supported by a strong operating cashflow, says the company.

Dioflex comes complete with 30 skilled employees, approximately 2000sq.m of premises and all the modern technology and fully automated machining processes ne

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Combining this output with professional features and a sleek black finish, the PROPAR 56 units are designed for theatres, music concerts and stage performances of all types.

The PROPAR 56RGB will "bring a rainbow to any stage with its ability to create thousands of colours through smooth RGB mixing". Equipped with 12 red, 12 green and 12 blue 1-watt LEDs, it can change colours fast or slow, strobe in any colour, and perform gradual fades via 0-100% electronic

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The companies Congo Blue, Black Coffee, Selbys and the AV Alliance were represented at the most recent course and experienced first-hand the functionalities of the grandMA2 console, which had recently landed in South Africa.

"Some guys who attended commented how it opened their eyes," said Nick Britz from DWR who ran the sessions. "They were initially scared thinking it was too involved. Soon they saw just how easy it was once they knew their way around it."

Brandon Bunyan from Black Coffee was accompanied by colleagues Michael Swart and Grant Leonard. "The course was great and very inspirational," said Bunyan. "My guys are psyched, but as we've not taken ownership of our newly purchased g

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Dramatic lighting and the historic setting provide the background for the variety of performances at the festival, entertaining over 40,000 visitors each summer. The 2009 festival highlight was a performance by Deep Purple on the steps of the ancient Courtyard of the Two Temples to an audience of 7000. Roger Bakhos of Lumen Art in Beirut designed the lighting for the 'stage' using an arsenal of Clay Paky fixtures.

32 Alpha Beam 300, 16 Alpha Beam 700,

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The MAC 401 Dual is a versatile LED moving head washlight with an innovative double-sided design that gives it flexible dual functionality, for example as a double washlight or beam reflective mirror. The 401 Dual's colour mixing system fully blends colours at the source before they leave each lens, eliminating the problem of rainbow shadows and the messy multi-colour lens looks of traditional LED fixtures.

The MAC 301 Wash is an LED

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Working from his base in Cobham, Surrey, Merchant will continue to bring his vast experience of the lamp industry to customers across the country.

A fully qualified lighting engineer, he started his career in the industry with Thorn Lighting back in 1977 and since then has worked across the world specifying lighting equipment on some prestigious projects.

Specialising in supplying lamps to the entertainment industry, Merchant has become a well-known name in the business, with many customers in professional broadcast and theatre, as well as some specialist private sector customers.

(Jim Evans)

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The RJ45 Buffer is an RJ 45/DMX serial data distributor. DMX in and through can now be via 5-pin or 3-pin XLR or RJ45 - if this option is chosen at the time of order.

The device offers full 1KV galvanic isolation between input and each of its eight outputs. Each output is fitted with an RJ45 connector, and all 8 output lines have DMX status indicators and are amplified to USITT standards. This product is available in 19" rack and truss mountable formats.

(Jim Evans)

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The Scientists Dr. Bryson Gore and Dr. Frank James will begin the lecture with a talk on the work of the Royal Institution from the times of Faraday, painting a picture of the scientific fervour that led up to the formation of SLL's original incarnation as the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1909. In addition to anecdotes about the pioneers of the past, the talk will include artefacts and demonstrations from the Royal Institution's marvellous collection.

Multiple award-winning designer Jonathan Speirs will postulate in the second talk that architectural lighting design is primarily about creativity, inspiration

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14 March 2016

amBIENT XC from amBX is an ambient lighting control system for the creation and delivery of immersive entertainment experiences.

ProShell - Professional RJ45 housing converts a standard RJ45 connector into a rugged, road-worthy connector with strain relief.

Atex LED flexible, reliable linear lighting systems physically conform to complex architectural contours while maintaining uniform brightness for stage sets of all kinds, or for permanent installations.

ProPlex RMT - Remote Media Transceiver System offers long range DVI video transmission and distribution over Cat 5e cable. Built for the road, in rack mount and portable mount formats, featuring user configurable inputs, outputs and fibre optic options, plus audio and serial data transmission.

ProPlex GBS - Gi

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Two of the leading practitioners in their fields feel this is a topic worthy of debate - and will be holding just such a debate, with the provocative title Video and Lighting Are Destined To Merge, on Sunday 13th September at 3pm, as part of the Education & Learning Programme at PLASA09 at Earls Court in London.

The debate's instigators and hosts are leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light, which through its adoption of a wide range of LED lighting technology increasingly finds itself involved with video content and media servers, and United Visual Artists, a

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14 March 2016

At the show, i-Pix launches its BB1 Building Block system, which offers lighting and visual designers the opportunity to configure lightsources exactly as they wish.

Building upon the BB4 and BB7, the new BB1 Building Block system creates exciting and innovative new opportunities going far beyond the semi-rigid constraints of normal fixture specification.

i-Pix (intelligent pixel) uses a custom high power light engine to provide a superior homogenised colour choice, with very accurate whites and the authentic reproduction of anything from the gentlest of pastel hues to the deepest of saturates.

The BB 1 series is designe

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Users can now map incoming video pixel-for-pixel to twice the horizontal and vertical resolutions of Cobra 16. Major RasterMAPPER and Vizomo updates now allow simplified system setup and centralized control. Single or multiple screens are mapped, addressed, calibrated and operated from one easy-to-use interface.

"Cobra System 2.0 and V8 further reinforce Element Lab's strategy to enhance and broaden the platform; enabling all Cobra and Helix customers