USA - LDI premier show sponsor Elation Professional enjoyed perhaps its busiest LDI Show ever November 22-24 in Las Vegas as the company continued to raise its profile in the industry with a number of key product launches that included the surprise announcement of a distribution agreement with High End Systems.

The agreement, which allows Elation to distribute High End's new HedgeHog 4 and Nano Hog 4 lighting consoles in the US, Canada, Latin America, South East Asia and India, caused quite a stir on the show floor.

"The distribution announcement started things off with a bang and really set the tone for the rest of the show," said Eric Loader, director of sales at Elation Lighting. "This gives us a powerful and intuitive industry-standard lighting control platfor

USA - Barco Lighting Systems and Creative Stage Lighting Co have announced an additional product partnership that will enable Creative Stage Lighting to serve as a major Axon HD reseller of High End Systems' media server products throughout the United States of America. Effective this month, this agreement enables Creative Stage Lighting to make HES' Axon HD products available to their extensive network of local resellers.

George Studnicky III, president of the Creative Stage Lighting comments, "CSL also being a major Axon HD reseller is the perfect complement to our distribution relationship with High End Systems. Like the Hog4 line, we are steadfastly committed to supporting the Axon line with readily available sales and rental inventories.

Craig Burross, Eastern United States regional sales manager, for High End systems, comments, "We have enjoyed such a productiv

UK - The British Military Tournament is an exhilarating and breathtaking show which pays homage to the British Armed Forces' military prowess, showmanship and skill. This year's show was the most ambitious yet. Taking place in Earls Court in West London, Delta Sound has been the lead audio supplier to this event since its return in 2010 and has delivered its services for this fourth consecutive year.

Celebrating the versatility and dexterity of the British Army, the event is held to raise money for a number of praiseworthy charities, including the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, Walking With The Wounded and ABF the Soldiers Charity.

This year's event was commentated by British Actor Anthony Andrews and paid tribute to the Tournament's traditional aspects, including a field gun run, the White Helmets Motorcycle Display Team and perform

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UK - West London based rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting, LED screen, media servers and LED draping for the recent Major Lazer UK and European tour, working with New York based lighting & visual designer Kyle Kegan from Voyage Productions.

Kegan has designed, programmed and operated all of the popular Major Lazer's shows, tours and festival appearances worldwide since the middle of 2012.

This was his fourth experience working with Colour Sound in the last 18 months and he comments, "H (Haydn Cruickshank, Colour Sound's MD) always treats us great, and as a touring LD himself understands the importance of every detail being correct and all the aspects of what we need being in place."

The creative starting point for the lighting and visual design was the idea of a clean and simple style that could offer those big, beautiful iconic looks and y

UK - Jay-Z's current Magna Carter world tour has been wowing audiences across the globe since its first gig at Manchester Arena on 3 October. Wakefield's one-stop-shop stage, set and studio rental facility, LS-Live, was therefore a convenient first stop on the schedule for the US superstar.

For his first solo headline tour in almost four years, Jay-Z wanted to pull out all the stops, so his production team led by production manager Bobby Schneider enlisted LS-Live to design and build what was to become one of the company's biggest projects of 2013; an enormous set of internally lit cubes both on a rolling house stage and hung overhead, encompassing 17km of aluminium and 400 Pulsar LED ChromaPanels.

Schneider had worked with LS-Live on the successful production of Jay-Z's one-off show for the BBC Radio One Hackney Weekend in the summer of 2012, so he knew it would be an

Germany - DVM, the new loudspeakers from German manufacturer Cardinal cover most applications in the daily installation business. A special emphasis was placed on high-grade wooden cabinets, an optimised driver selection and crossover design plus good accessories. All loudspeakers can be used directly on the amplifier without a controller. With only three different performance types a very large range of applications can be covered, no matter if for retail or catering installations, community halls or lecture theatres, school halls, a live club or conference and seminar rooms.

All models are 100% made in Germany and meet the Cardinal DVM typical high quality standards.

Owing to the compact enclosures with its multitude of integrated mounting points, the available accessories and the optional lacquer finish in the required custom RAL colour a trouble-free and unobtrusive mounti

Italy - The 17th century parish church of St. Alexander is a centre of the community in Villongo, an Italian municipality located in the foothills of Lombardy's Alpine region. When the church recently needed to upgrade its audio system, a seamless combination of Yamaha's Commercial Installation Solutions (CIS) series products and the DUGAN-MY16 auto mixing card provided an elegant solution.

Designed and installed by Brescia-based Sil Sound, a main requirement was that the system could handle a 25-piece choir and live band, with the audio being routed to the speakers in the nave, monitors, a pair of exterior horn loudspeakers and to a codec for broadcasting Mass on live radio.

"The system needed to be versatile, reliable and deliver great sound quality, but it also needed to be user friendly so it could be used by church staff who are not audio professionals," says Si

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Thailand - Laserworld and its subsidiary RTI implemented a huge permanent laser show installation on Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok. The project was set up by Lighting & Equipment Bangkok. The major challenge was to handle the high humidity, the extreme temperatures and the permanent vibrations from traffic on the bridge. That's why special professional laser show equipment was necessary.

Laser show systems, one RTI NANO 4 RYGB 22 with around 20W power and two RTI PIKO G10, with around 10W power each, were chosen. All systems were mounted inside a RTI COCOON climate housing to protect them against environmental impact and keep the laser systems at correct operating temperature.

The laser installation on the bridge was the central part of an illumination project to provide another attraction to people in Bangkok City and the many tourists coming to the city every year.

The whole

UK - Southend-on-Sea Leisure and Tennis Centre in Essex boasts a large range of facilities including a 150 station fitness suite, 25m swimming pool, world class diving pool with 10m diving board, teaching pool, eight court sports hall, two court sports hall, dry dive gym, four indoor tennis courts, four outdoor tennis courts and an athletics track.

Hosting a wide range of galas, aqua aerobics and teaching instruction, the centre needed a high intelligibility sound system for the highly reverberant diving area and they commissioned audio specialists Soundtrack (Audio Visual) Ltd to design and install it.

Having previously used Community R-Series loudspeakers, Soundtrack knew they would ideally meet the need for moisture resistance and durability and provide the vocal intelligibility required. The well-defined dispersion was also critical in directing the sound accurately to the

USA - Pearl Jam recently wrapped up a sold-out, two-month sweep of North American arenas in support of its tenth and latest studio album, Lightning Bolt. The outing marked the Seattle-based rock band's first official return to the tour circuit since 2010, and, as it did then, the group carried a full L-AcousticsS K1 system supplied by Rat Sound Systems.

Rat Sound's relationship with Pearl Jam goes back to the band's debut album, Ten (1991), when it opened for one of Rat's other longtime accounts, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Since then, the company has served as the group's primary live production provider.

According to Rat Sound's Kevin McKenzie, who has served as Pearl Jam's system tech for the past decade, the PA deployed at each stop typically featured 14 K1 plus six Kara down-fills per side with adjacent hangs of a dozen K1-SB. Additional left and right side hangs

Sweden - Rocking Around the Christmas Tree ...so the lyrics go. And that's exactly how the Swedes will party at Trädgår'n in Göteborg this winter season.

Lighting designer Henrik 'Henke' Hjälm, who is also production and technical manager at Trädgår'n, was so impressed with SGM's SixPack LED blinder, demonstrated to him by SGM Sweden's Mikael Uddh, that he did not hesitate to add 12 units for the show Rock Around The Christmas Tree - from Elvis to Guns N Roses". This is playing for 15 sold out nights, and will be seen by almost 8,000 people during its run.

"I wanted to step away from the traditional 'blinder effects' for the rock parts of the show and use more stunning colour effects ... as well as brutal blinding in both warm and cold colours," explains Hjälm about his task to create the ideal setting for some

USA - Over 200 customers attended the opening of the new 48,000 sq ft ADJ Group facility in South Florida on December 11th with guests getting a first look at the building's modern amenities and enjoying a light show that featured over 400 products in action.

The new facility, located just 15 minutes north of the Miami International Airport, serves all ADJ Group companies: Elation Professional, Acclaim, ADJ lighting, American Audio, and Global Truss America/DuraTruss. It includes extensive warehousing and shipping areas, a 3,200 sq ft state-of-the-art showroom, training centre, and quality control and service areas.

Established to support US dealers east of the Mississippi, as well as distributors for Latin America, the new Florida facility allows for faster product delivery and service, and will also save on freight costs.

"We had a very successful event and customers

UK - Audio manufacturer Audient received a significant boost in the form of new ownership under audio veteran Simon Blackwood. Taking the helm at Audient this month, Blackwood is already working closely with the Hampshire-based team, using his considerable business experience within the audio industry to further strengthen the Audient brand.

Blackwood is clearly impressed by the current product line and personnel - including recently appointed managing director, Steve Flower, chief technical officer, Tom Waterman and sales and marketing director Luke Baldry. "I have keenly followed Audient's success over the years, so the opportunity to work directly with the team to take the business to the next level was too compelling to turn down," he says.

"The brand has become universally recognised for producing award-winning, innovative products for modern music recordin

Canada - Justin Timberlake kicked off his 20/20 Experience world tour in Montreal a grandMA2 full-size was a key player. True to its name, the tour is "an experience rather than a show," says lighting designer Nick Whitehouse. "It's very visual with lots of projection and lighting and a lot of new technology. We got pretty creative with everything and had fun putting it all together."

The tour is in support of Timberlake's third studio album. The singer will play dates in North America, Europe, Australia and South America.

Whitehouse programmed the tour on a grandMA2 full-size with Jason Gangi, who is also the lighting director. "I like using grandMA2 best," Whitehouse says.

"We did seven weeks of rehearsals," Whitehouse reports. "The gear really got a workout - 20 hours a day." On the tour "the whole rig is hidde

UK - Le Maitre has launched a new range of Comets - Tracer Comets, which are much faster and brighter than conventional comets.

They project a single star to a specified height of 20ft, 30ft or 40ft and leave the image of a coloured streak. Tracer Comets can be shot on various angles with no noticeable variation in direction. They are available in several colours, with and without tail.

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Poland - An Outline sound reinforcement system has been installed in the Kashubian Philharmonic Hall, located in the city of Wejherowo in northern Poland.

As well as the multi-purpose concert hall, the striking venue (which takes its name from the local area's ethnic and linguistic community), designed by Arch-Studio and inaugurated in 2012, also features a culture centre with numerous workshops hosting a wide variety of artistic activities.

Leading Polish designer, manufacturer, and supplier of sound reinforcement systems and system integrator, Gda?sk-based Outline distributor Ambient System was called in by the venue's owners, Wejherowo City Hall, to supply and install the audio equipment, as well as coordinating the hall's AV design.

The company's brief was to provide a system which, as well as ensuring high quality sound and even coverage throughout the 400-seat auditori

USA - Sommer Cable and Hicon have named Danny Woodlief as representative and general distributor for the USA.

Danny is CEO of Wiring Solutions & Interconnect, a successful distributor for electronic components and cable, located in Fuquay-Varina, Wake County, North Carolina. Danny is not only a successful business man but also developer of electronics controls and an enthusiastic musician - the perfect match to Sommer cable and Hicon!

Wiring Solutions & Interconnect has a sales forces of more than 70 agents and has established state-of-the-art cable production. This Know-How will enable Sommer cable and Hicon to develop and produce the best possible products for the US market, says the company.

Danny will be supporting the Sommer Cable team at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, USA, from the 23-26 January 2014. He looks forward to this event meeting active and new Sommer

UK - Jarrod Bischoff returns to the Gallowglass Group as head of training - responsible for the group's stand-alone events industry training company. Having joined events crewing firm Gallowglass in 2004 as senior crew chief, Bischoff moved to a client liaison role between 2009 and 2012, before leaving the company to hone his business development skills with coffee company, CaféPod.

"I've been willingly seduced back to the events industry - and my year's sabbatical has shown me just how far the bar has been raised in expectations of gold-standard event delivery," he said. "Many companies are taking speed, efficiency and safety really seriously nowadays, while others simply want to operate within the law. Either way, training has become an essential, not a luxury."

Gallowglass Training was launched in 2011, to build on the basic on-site induction cour

The Netherlands - Integrated Systems Events reports that Dr Dirk Schlesinger, the global lead for manufacturing industries of Cisco Consulting Services, will present the Opening Keynote Address of ISE 2014.

Titled Kick-Starting the Market for Building Automation, Schlesinger's speech will give attendees an exclusive insight into how a new cross-industry initiative set up by Cisco, ABB, Bosch and LG will transform the world of 'smart' building technology by offering a common standard for data exchange across multiple appliances and disciplines.

"In October 2013, Cisco, ABB, Bosch and LG signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of a common, open and discrimination-free platform to unite diverse services such as lighting control, energy management, security, healthcare and, not least, audiovisual entertainment and communication," Schlesinge

UK - XL Video is supplying a high powered projection system, Pandora's Box mapping and media server control, cameras and PPU to the current #willpower tour by will.i.am, which originated in the US and is currently in Europe.

The tour's all-white stage and production design was created by will.i.am and is heavily video orientated with minimal lighting. The tech savvy artist is involved with all aspects of his visual presentation - overseen by production manager Neil Porter - as well as bringing his innovative musicology and techniques to the stage.

The set features three large inflatable heads - a larger central one which moves on and offstage throughout the show - flanked by two smaller ones. All three have a DJ set up on top and were constructed by All Access, together with three roll-down projection screens upstage of the heads.

The projection system design was crea

USA - The Cambridge University American Stage Tour (CAST) is the largest and most prestigious international touring theatre show from Cambridge University, now in its fourteenth year. Each year, a company of Cambridge's most talented directors, producers, actors and technicians bring one of Shakespeare's plays to Ivy League universities, high schools and professional theatres across the east coast of America. Le Maitre was delighted to provide an MVS Hazer for the tour.

This year CAST attempted to present a highly stylized and timeless version of Measure for Measure. Faced with restrictions on set size, governed by the weight limits of luggage on the flight over, they chose to create a minimalist but highlight adaptive set, consisting primarily of three trucking gauze screens which were inlaid with LED strips controlled through Wireless DMX solutions. The movement of thes

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