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"It's wonderful to be able to run a great event like the CEDIA Awards which highlights our industry's hard work and excellence, and at the same time show how the sector can pull together and contribute to a very important and worthy cause," says Wendy Griffiths, CEDIA's region 1 executive director. "Macmillan is a great place to direct our efforts, as they provide support not only for the sufferers of cancer, but their loved ones who also fall victim to the disease. We are really pleased to have generated more than £4,000 in revenue from the event for the charity."

CEDIA organised a raffle on behalf of Macmillan which was very well supported by over 300

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It was the first time Blackburn UK based HSL had worked with the veteran British rock band who have sold over 70m albums worldwide in a career spanning six decades. They are pulling in enthusiastic crowds crossing several generations of music fans.

Mick Thornton has worked for the Moody Blues for the last 12 years and for this tour he wanted a lighting contractor who could also supply the LED elements as well as a company with "a friendly, people-orientated approach who were big enough to offer the service levels we required and without a large and complex management hierarchy," he explains.

HSL's project manager Mike Oates comments, "It was a great privilege for us to work with Mick and the band. The lighting design

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"Their versatility makes them a really cost effective investment as they spend very little time sitting in the warehouse and secondly, clients have confidence in the brand - they know they are getting a very high quality bit of kit. There are always customers who aspire to have more than their budget allows but we find that the flexibility of the Clay Pakys makes them such a valuable item that if equipme

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Audio Plus worked closely with Funktion-One to design an audio spec for Sonic, which presented some unusual challenges. Audio Funktion made sure that the aural spectacle matched the visual extravaganza at Arcadia. And Audio X supplied the sound to WOW, which, like Sonic, formed part of the Silver Hayes area.

Sonic was built by Silver Stage, using its SaddleSpan modular truss framework. Structured in a three-pronged-shape - essentially a Y with a short stem - it presented an intriguing space for festival goers and a rather challenging environment for the audio specialists. Tony Andrews worked with Audio Plus' owner Stefan Imhof and project mana

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Erikson Commercial distributes products covering audio and video solutions as well as system control and automation throughout Canada. Erikson Commercial is a division of JAM Industries, which has been distributing audio, lighting, and music equipment in Canada for over 40 years.

In addition to office and warehouse space in Montreal, QC, Erikson Commercial has a dedicated sales rep force calling on retailers and commercial sound installers as well as multimedia system integrators across Canada. With in-house marketing, sales, service and parts departments, Erikson Commercial's strategy is to offer dealers and system contractors products and services above and beyond current market efforts.

"We are excited to be part of the Community

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Electrosonic SA cc, a leading supplier of stage, theatre and entertainment lighting for over 21 years, has similar ideals and the same passion as Green Hippo, says the company. It sees this partnership as an exciting extension to the range of world class brands that it represents, such as Martin Professional, CM Loadstar, ADB, Compulite Litec and Milos Structural Systems.

Entertainment lighting manager Bruce Schwartz says, "We are really honoured to represent Green Hippo, and see the tighter integration between video and lighting growing even further with this partnership. We look forward to offering the backup, service and knowledge that Electrosonic is renowned for, on the entire range of Green Hippo products and growing the world-wide rental network."

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One of the versatile features of the impression X4 is that users can create their own pixel designs on the fly and store them directly into their control console. The new iPad app makes the process fast and easy by bringing up a mimic of the fixtures front lens layout. Users can tap individual lenses on and off to design the output that they would like. Simultaneously the app displays the corresponding DMX channels and values to be input to the controller for the physical fixture.

An additional feature of the app is the colour picker allowing you to see colour selection on top of any pattern for a real feel of how a final pattern will appear.

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Taking pride of place at most front of house positions was either an Avolites ultrafast Sapphire Touch, Tiger Touch, Tiger Touch Pro or Expert Pro. Meanwhile quietly operating backstage Avolites T4 Dimmers kept lighting control running smoothly.

In addition, and increasingly present year on year, Avolites Media's Ai Media consoles, Infinity 8 and T8 Media Servers delivered stunning visuals and special effects for a number of world class acts at stages including: The Other Stage, Arcadia, Dance and Shangrila.

Glastonbury's famous Pyramid Stage, where lighting was provided by Neg Earth and was overseen by Andy (Fraggle) Porter saw LD Andy Rowe use an Expert Pro for English

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It is an original event lit by the staff of Concept-K, whose young lighting designer Thomas Déchandon put together an unusual lighting design with a special place for Clay Paky's A.Leda Wash K20s. Their LED rings are arranged in a circular array, which is a clear reference to the tour's visual impact and recalls the oval light on the poster. The project is entirely in keeping with the times and, at the Elispace in Beauvais, it merged Clay Paky's traditional features with its brand new washlights.

The very special set of lights used was chosen from the Dushow stock for their visual effects, with the aim of p

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Held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, in front of 2,400 of the country's leading A-list VIPs, celebrities and socialities, Osho himself based much of his lighting design around PR Lighting effects - using six each of the XR200 Beam and XLED 1037 to create the impact, along with four XLED 336 and 12 PR348.

Working within a set designed by Bolaji Durojaiye of Equally Diverse Solutions, the fixtures were mounted on three sided trussing, measuring 5m (H) x 9m (W) x 13m (L) and mixed with discharge and other LED bars, helped deliver a vibrant colour canvas of blue and purple. The show itself was run from an Avolite Pearl Tiger 2010 console.

Mark Osho says it was the e

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George Studnicky III, president of Creative Stage Lighting comments, The Hog 4 Series is the end result of a very attentive and industrious High End Systems. While Creative Stage Lighting has a very gratifying and a decades old relationship with HES, we are overjoyed to be taking on the responsibilities of a major Hog Controls reseller. Our readily available sales and rental inventories of Hog 4 is something we are extremely committed to sustaining and growing."

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Historically dogged by offsite noise pollution, this led to neighbourhood complaints and the need to reduce sound levels on site - meaning that the audience couldn't hear the performances. And so new tenants AEG/Loud Sound adopted Martin Audio's Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) system to help solve the problem.

Knowing that its advance level of control would be the only scientifically proven system capable of maintaining an offsite level beneath the stipulated 75dB(A) threshold, there was the equal confidence of being able to raise the levels up by as much as 6dB from previous years to around 100dB(A) within the audience area, ensuring that the entir

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Warren has been working with the band for the last four and a half years and the starting point for this instalment of the on-going tour was "Let's kick some serious festival ass with true tungsten power".

For at least the past 12 months, Warren's lighting rig for the band has contained continual evolutions based on different variants of tungsten lighting. He is a big fan of its softness, subtleties and specific qualities.

For this latest Canadian / US section he incorporated 16 Robe Robin 600 LEDWashes and 14 Robe Robin 1200 LEDWashes into the design, which were supplied by lighting and soun

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This new partnership began during the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt earlier this year, when senior vice president Bingo Tso and business manager Dicky Ling visited the Visual Productions' stand. Seeing the range of innovative and smart lighting control solutions available from Visual Productions, a product demonstration was arranged for all the ACE team available at the show.

Director of Visual Productions, Maarten Engels, talked them through the controllers including the new B-Station and CueluxPro software. In agreement about the market opportunities available with both the Live controllers and the solid-state range on the Chinese market, both ACE and Visual Productions have not stopped since.

With stock and demo items in place, Engels j

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Taking pride of place and following its popular debut earlier in the year at Frankfurt ProLight and Sound, Philips Showline will be promoting the SL NITRO 510 LED strobe.

Sister company Philips Vari-Lite will be demo'ing the recently released Indy software for the VLX Wash luminaire, which enables individual control of the fixture's seven 120-watt RGBW LED engines. This facilitates a multitude of stunning looks and original chases to be programmed on the face of the luminaire, further enhancing the

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The most popular Proms in terms of ticket sales included the First Night of the Proms, conducted by Sakari Oramo in his inaugural performance as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, on 12 July, plus two Doctor Who Proms on 13 and 14 July and both Proms by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Mariss Jansons on 8 and 9 August. Wright, who is also the controller of BBC Radio 3, added that there were still tickets available for the "vast majority of events" and that "you can always come and Prom on the day&

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"The CMT Music Awards is a huge event on the music calendar and gets bigger and bigger every year. It outshines every other awards show," says Kenny.

Kenny partnered with production designer Ann Brahic, who marked her fifth year with the show. "She designed a set that was a very modern scape. It went along with the theme of the show: a cross-cultural look at country music," he explains. "People loved it. Ann really understands lighting, and we have a great relationship."

VER supplied Kenny with 140 Clay Paky Sharpys for inside and outside the arena. Two grandMA2 consoles

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Using the x7 Color System, which combines up to seven LED colours in one unit, Source Four LED luminaires can provide a nearly limitless range of colours, from pure whites to refined pastels and vibrant, saturated hues.

With the introduction of the Source Four LED CYC accessory, that colour flexibility can now be applied to cycloramas. "The Source Four LED CYC can really jazz up monochromatic cloths,

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In Lights, Camera, Tracking! Paul Braile, a representative from CAST, will demonstrate BlackTrax, a revolutionary technology solution which takes production into the twenty-first century. By integrating lighting, audio, multimedia and video with one comprehensive tracking solution, BlackTrax delivers precise 3D and 6D positioning in real time. This session will take place at 1.30pm on both Tuesday, September 10 and Wednesday 11 September.

De-Mystifying Audio will be presented by d&b audiotechnik on Tuesday, 10 September at 2pm. No matter how well designed your electrical signal path, the acoustic signa

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The upgraded WPS line can manufacture boards up to 1.3m long x 0.6m wide, for the growing opportunity in LED lighting, retail displays and digital signage. It is the first line in the country that can manufacture such long boards fully automatically, including the critical screen printing stage. According to WPS, the line will also be used to manufacture boards of more standard dimensions. The investment increases WPS assembly capacity to 140,000 components per hour.

Commenting, joint managing director Tim Wilson said, "This investment supports our continuing growth. Customers find that we can m