Peter Lerohl achieved this feat in a recent production of 33 Variations with help from a collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures acquired from Monkey Wrench Productions. Lerohl, the technical director of Theatre at Anoka Ramsey Community College, used six Ovation E-910FC colour mixing LED ellipsoidals, position
The production finished its run at the Opera Vlaanderen in Ghent on 30 October, 2016 and subsequently played in Antwerp, Amsterdam and several other European cities.
Aaron, a freelance lighting designer based in New York, was asked to collaborate on Shahrazad by American choreographer Jonah Bokaer, known for his provocative and risk taking work, often utilizing mixed media. The two have worked regularly together, including recently on Rules of the Game at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), a new work with original score by Pharrell Williams for the Dall
"Here in Ottawa we're sandwiched between Toronto and Montreal, which means we face stiff competition from large regional providers on the major events," notes Neil Collier, senior project manager for the company. "Our recent investment in Meyer Sound's Leo Family not only has helped us maintain our major share of the local market but also has helped us grow our business in new directions by securing larger and more prestigious clients. It has taken us up to the next level."
Wall Sound and Lighting supplies sound, lighting and staging services for a broad range of arts/entertainment, corporate and government events throughout the Ottawa region. A
Despite often challenging times under the Soviet regime, the company thrived and Tabakov has just opened a brand new, 400-capacity venue. Located in Moscow's Sukharevskaya Street, The Stage at Sukharevskaya features an L-Acoustics loudspeaker system.
Operating in tandem with the original basement venue (now named The Stage at Chistye Prudy), a key aim of the new venue was to continue the sense of intimacy so familiar in the original venue, yet to allow it the flexibility to stage any kind of performance.
To achieve this, certified provider and distributor of L-Acoustics products, Sonoruss, supplied the L-Acoustics elements
The E.L.M, the Pixelator, the Pixie Driver and the Pixel Link (PLink) line of products let designers focus on their creativity, rather than the technical complexities of working with large numbers of pixels.
"I grew up as a designer with DMX512; it has always been, since the time my professional career was getting off the ground, an essential tool I used," explains ENTTEC Americas general manager, Jeremy Kumin. "It shaped my designs because of the natural stopping points built into it as limitations, like there being only so many 96 way racks I could run off one daisy chain. But when pixel-based produc
TM-30 is a new quality metric that was recently adopted by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to supplement and eventually replace the old CRI (CIE) Metric for measuring fidelity of a light source. Designed to offer the lighting community another option, the new correction filter will allow users of High End's SolaRange fixtures greater flexibility in TM-30/CRI levels and fixture output.
High End Systems' Paul Hancock comments, "Standard White LED engines emit very bright and cool colour temperature light. Generally speaking, 'standard' White LED Engines may have a Colour Rendering Index (CRI) of 70-75. This of course will vary depending on engine manufacturer and quality of the LED Engine.
"There are High CRI LED engin
Harnessing the power from 19 individual 15W LEDs and the versatility of coverage that comes from a wide 5° to 45° zoom, the SixPar Z19 IP and DW Par Z19 IP are olutions anywhere a wash of high-quality coloured or white light is required. Both Par lights are in stock and available now.
The SixPar Z19 IP is a bright and versatile full-colour Par luminaire with 19 x 15W 6-in-1 RGBAW+UV LEDs. The six-colour LED multi-chip provides an expanded pal
Bandit Lites donated lighting for this year's sold out concert which featured an impressive line-up of artists including Haynes and his band, Gov't Mule, Bob Weir, Michael McDonald, Jamey Johnson and Alison Krauss among others. Due to lighting designer Chris Ragan's extensive history working with both Warren Haynes and Dead & Company, he was confident in creating a big rock show that would last from the 6pm doors to the 3am encore.
Bandit provided VL 3000 Spots, Robe Pointes, Robe BMFLs, Clay Paky Sharpys, and Bandit's exclusive GRNLite 8 Lites, GRNLite Par 64s and GRNLi
"The current leg of the tour uses 26 Solaris Flares," says tour LD Stu Dingley. "We use eight on the floor upstage to push color through the stage, and 18 overhead to melt the audience at key moments throughout the set"
Dingley adds, "Flume is an electronic music producer, but the music isn't EDM. We needed fixtures to reflect this, and the Flares offer the power needed for the big drops, yet still provide subtlety and warmth for the softer, intimate moments. We also use glitchy pixel effects as a great way of highlighting the abstract sounds in the music.
"Controlled by an MA2 console, w
In advance of this release, Metallica kicked off a Latin American tour, opening with a 26 October concert at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, followed three days later by a Saturday night concert at the Parque Bicentenario in Quito, Ecuador. Chauvet Professional fixtures added to the excitement at both venues.
At the 18,500-capacity Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, the Metallica rig included 49 Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving heads and
The lighting rig for the main showspace was designed by Darren Russell who needed a flexible and versatile range of fixtures to help deliver the high expectations of everyone involved, so he based this around Robe moving lights - BMFLs, Pointes and LEDWashes - plus a selection of conventional lights.
Darren says that with this many Robes on the rig this year, they could be properly creative with lighting over and above the traditional requirements for fashion events. "The brief was actually to make it more theatrical and edgy this year, so lighting played a much bigger role than previously," he explained.
Fashfest was the vision of founders Clint and Andrea Hutchinson in 2013
The first tranche of speakers was announced at PLASA London with Jeff Ravitz, Mikki Kunttu, Al Gurdon and Luc Peumans named as just some of the illustrious designers who will present papers. A list of speakers to date can be found on the Showlight 2017 website and will grow as others are confirmed. The next selection of speakers will be announced early in the New Year. For the first time this year, all papers will benefit from simultaneous Italian translation.
Always quick to go, exhibitor spaces for Showlight 2017 are now almost sold out. The latest companies to join the fun and take up residence around the Palazzo dei Congressi are Altman Lighting, Ayrton, Ci
Armed with in-depth equipment understanding plus an extensive knowledge of the television and live event markets, Ian joins the VER/Aurora Lighting sales team to further enhance the support and service enjoyed by the company's growing clientele.
An accomplished industry professional with broad experience across all areas of the entertainment lighting business, Ian Charlampowicz has a wealth of understanding of equipment, systems and the entire production process. Ian has a graduate degree in theatre design and has worked in the theatrical lighting field for many years supporting lighting designers and production teams with project management services on a variety of large scale productions.
Head of lighting Europe VER and Au
The ALD Lifetime membership recognises the contribution members have made to the running of the Association. Jason stepped down from his role on the executive committee earlier this year following a 19-year tenure in which he helped shape the association from various committee positions. Jason first joined the association as a student of Rose Bruford College and amongst his ALD executive roles he held the position of deputy chair until 2011.
Rick Fisher, currently the ALD's vice president, held the role of chairman through the 1990s and into the new centur
"Anyone who lights festivals, amphitheatre productions or other outdoor events will find the COLORdash Par Q12 IP to be an invaluable addition to their inventory," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "Outdoor projects have become more common, particularly with the growth of festivals. When you work outdoors, you are going to get bad weather from time to time, but these fixtures are protected against rain damage."
In addition to its IP rating, the COLORdash Par Q12 IP offers designers and production companies multipl
Marcel Dias Vieira, AIDA Cruises entertainment technology supervisor, explained the basic reasoning behind the lighting choices and why they chose Claypaky moving heads. The lighting rig includes Claypaky Alpha Profile 800 STs, as well as many other MALighting products - a grandMA2 full-size desk, two grandMA2 light consoles, two grandMA2 replay units, and one MA Network Processing Unit (NPU).
However, the AIDAprima also boasts professional level technology in all other areas, such as the moving stage elements, LED screens, sound system and ship's TV studio. The effo
John Featherstone, principal at design group Lightswitch, is the lighting director and creative director for Illumination, and often uses Elation Professional fixtures in his designs. This year, he had the opportunity to be the first anywhere to use Elation's new weatherproof Proteus Beam moving head and incorporated several of them into the show as a harsh outdoor winter test for the recent LDI award-winning product.
"We've had a great working relationship with the Elation team and have relied on Elation fixtures as part of our 'secret sa
S+H was again working with BAFTA Award winning set and scenic designer Patrick Doherty - who is a regular client - helping realise his vision for a spectacular magical environment which he creates for the series, featuring some well-known-and-loved classic 'ballroom' visual elements peppered with a touch of the contemporary.
This season, Ilfracombe, Devon based S+H supplied around 2000 Pea-Lights for the regular weekly Strictly episodes which were broadcast from Entree Studios.
These Pea-Light strings were integrated into the set walls of Patrick's design, together with around 1000sq.m of sumptuous red velvet starcloth from S+H's stock
He premiered a large part of his debut album this year during a main stage set at ULTRA Miami which was also the first show to feature a new production design by Michael Fullman, creative director of LA-based design and interactive technology specialist, VT Pro Design.
The lighting specification for this design is based on Robe moving lights, with 28 x BMFL Spots and 68 Pointes topping the rider. Currently, the tour is working as an 'advanced' design, with all kit provided worldwide by local vendors.
The BMFL Spots make up the bulk of the overhead fixtures while the Pointes are mainly located on the multi-tiered deck. Between them, the two sets of lumi
Bandit Lites is not only Garth's lighting vendor of choice since he began touring, but counts him as a cherished member of the Bandit Family. Utilising Mark Carver's design from previous inductions, lighting director David 'Gig' Butlzer was able to craft an evening fit for the musical icons being honoured.
Bandit supplied VL 3500 Spots, VL 3000 Spots, VL 3500 Washes, GLP X4S and a Grand MA 1 full console for control. Additional inductees included the late musician
Nicks's latest tour, in support of her album, 24 Karat Gold - Songs from the Vault, launched in Phoenix and will wrap in Los Angeles. While the singer/songwriter appears as a solo artist, she tapped the Pretenders to open for her - delivering a powerhouse show for ticketholders.
A veteran of Nicks's tours, Guthrie endeavoured to "create something new and a bit more modern" for her new show. "Stevie enjoys using video content so the tour features a lot of video on an LED videowall backdrop and L-shaped scenic pieces," he ex
The studio has been sold to property developers, and sound and vision equipment, lighting, scenery and memorabilia are all being offered in an online sale between 30 January and 7 February. The sale is being organised by auctioneers Charterfields (www.charterfields.com) and a viewing day is being held on 1 February.
Among the broadcast equipment for sale are Sony HDC cameras, pedestals along with various control units and pan and tilt heads; vision mixers; sound desks and microphones; lighting desks and a large quantity of hoists and pantographs.
In addition, there is also a selection of scenery and drapes, dressing room furniture,
Working with Thomasville's S&L Integrated on a complete audio, lighting and LED video renovation, the church wanted to make sure that while the technical systems received an update, the traditional aesthetics of the sanctuary were not affected. Desiring a solution that would enable the use of a dynamic LED video system for the contemporary services while discreetly hiding it for the traditional, S&L Integrated teamed with JR Clancy to create a roll-up LED video system using FLEXCurtain HD from Nashville-based PixelFLEX.
"We've developed a wonderful relationship with First Baptist Church over the years, so when they approached us about conc
Simon Boccanegra is an opera by Verdi based on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, inspired by the play of the same name by Antonio Garc
