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The Swan Award is presented to a member who has put forth exceptional efforts in time, expertise and personal resources, and has been instrumental in shaping the strategic direction and contributing to the realization of the association's mission. Dinna Myers has gone above and beyond this criteria to create a stronger, better industry for all. Please join us in honouring her.

Dinna, the director of sales & marketing at Musson Theatrical, has made a significant impact on the Assoc

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14 March 2016

The award to Bill Ellis, owner of Candela Controls, will be presented by Mike Lay, chair of the CPWG. Bill Ellis spends many volunteer hours on work for the CPWG and the ad-hoc TMG, which promotes the work of the Technical Standards Programme. He has put in an extraordinary amount of work in the preparation, set up and running of the Technical Standards portion of the PLASA booth at LDI, first with the Control Protocols Pavilion and most recently with Standards on the Stage.

Bill's contributions also include presentations on DMX512 and RDM at various trade shows and conferences. Recently, he assisted in completing assembly of an equipment

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Six years on, and with Foreigner and Styx embarking on a joint headline tour, LED technology has evolved a long way. For Foreigner's UK dates earlier in the year he deployed impression RZ120 Zoom to light the 'Foreigner' sign. This allowed him to make visual comparisons with his favoured conventional pars on his way to moving up to the impression X4 series - GLP's current touring workhorse.

All the impression X4 fixtures used on the recent Fore

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14 March 2016

In the words of the PLASA Innovation Awards Judges Panel: "Power-Check is not a sexy product but it's one which ensures the safety of everything that is connected to mains power. Just like the crew who makes a show happen, it's easy to overlook the importance of these behind-the-scenes products. We at PLASA wish to recognize those who toil to ensure the safety of our work force."

Power-Check is an add-on for Data Strategy's market-leading QC-Check PAT & Cable Test automation and logging software. It generates and logs comprehensive safety tests for all e

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14 March 2016

According to director and show producer, Oeng Sokly, this is the first series of the popular global programme to screen in the country, Hang Meas HDTV having purchased the licence from Talpa Global. Viewers tune in every Sunday to see who is voted through, while the show itself is in HMHDTV Studio at 4th floor, Aeon Mall, Phnom Penh - the first and biggest mall in Cambodia.

As the first high definition TV station in the country, the station has been a regular user of PR Lighting's catalogue, having featured their fixtures on other live entertainment programmes such as Dream Palace, Teen Zone, Water Music, and Special Concert after sourcing the pieces from Phnom Penh-based LP Pro

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Craig Chartier will fill Ed Stamm's previous position, taking over ARRI Rental Miami as General Manager. Chartier will focus on strengthening ARRI Rental's strategy and operations, as well as growing the business in Florida and the South American market.

Ed Stamm's extensive experience spans 35 years in the professional production equipment rental business. After his graduation in film production at the Columbia College Chicago, Stamm served as rental manager for Victor Duncan (VDI), a film camera and lighting rental house in Dallas, Texas.

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Working closely with CEO John Meyer and executive vice president Helen Meyer, McMahon will oversee the broad-based strategic planning for new products, product management, and multi-product solutions across various vertical markets.

McMahon's new Solutions and Strategy Division aligns product management, design services, technical support, and education under one umbrella with a goal of creating a common understanding of strategic initiatives amongst Meyer Sound's renowned technical and customer support teams. In addition, McMahon will continue to spearhead the digital product concept group in accelerating new digital solutions into the market.

A high point of McMahon's leadership at Meyer Sound is his work on the Constellation acoustic system, which has be

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Based at Tannoy's headquarters in Scotland, Andy has assumed the lead role in the marketing of the Install and Tour verticals, the managing of the core I&T marketing team at Coatbridge, as well as the delivery of the marketing strategy and co-ordination of other marketing teams within TC Group offices in North America, Japan and China.

In congratulating Andy on his new role, Andrzej Sosna, CEO of TC Group's Install and Tour verticals, said: "Andy has a wealth of experience of marketing and the audio industry having spent 13 years at Peavey and the last nine of those as their European marketing manager. His diverse experi

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Two elegant aluminium heatsink plates, both equipped with PowerCon input and output, are available to accommodate even the most recent DigiMod PFC models. The customer is able to choose between two different DSP solutions including interface panels with I/O connectors, LEDs, programming and networking connections.

Part of the DigiMod IK platform is Armonía ProManager, a new dedicated software tool which will configure any IK combination

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The 65,000 sq ft venue features both indoor and outdoor areas, including a rooftop party porch and all the VIP amenities you would expect from a club of this stature. The club embodies the attention to detail we've come to expect from nightlife mogul Victor Drai as well as Steve Lieberman, who has surrounded clubbers in an adrenalin-producing immersive lighting atmosphere.

A flexible Elation lighting package integrates with video throughout the 4,500-capacity v

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The stage was composed of four LED screens surrounding the singer to display graphics and content. To feed the screens, Barry Otto, owner of Colonel Tom Touring (CT Touring), selected Analog Way's NeXtage 16 (Ref. NTX1604), a powerful seamless video processor.

"My client needed to be able to manage multiple screen destinations with a small and powerful system. We looked at the show design, technical specifications and equipment space, and decided that the NeXtage 16 was the best solution for the show", comments Otto.

Sources for the NeXtage 16 included 4 x CamBall 3 remote cameras, plus the festivals' FOH camera. The NeXtage 16 served to

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Optimising their potential as specific solutions in an integrated systems' design, the PAX ProAV Group will position dedicated sales and support teams targeting the brands' individual market sectors.

Romano M. Cunsolo explains: "This was a strategic move to make it easy for our customers and internal staff alike to focus on the technologies and products in our portfolio needed for each individual project. Our sales and technical people have a wealth of experience in

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So when lighting designer Philip Lyons of Lyons Photography & Lighting Design Installation was appointed to install a pack generator system into two of the museum's new photographic studios, he brought Doughty Engineering on board. Having worked with the company on various other photographic studio installations, Philip knew he could count on Doughty to supply a range of equipment that would ensure the studio was kitted out to the highest specification, making it the perfect environment for photographing and cataloguing the museum's wonderful and ever increasing catalogue

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Leaver, who was appointed by Tate Modern to oversee the construction of the exhibit, brought Unusual Rigging on board to help develop a solution and to fulfil Tuttle's idea that those visiting the exhibition should "...feel like they're in heaven".

Leon Ingram, production rigger at Unusual, said, "This was cer

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The Palais 12 gig was the opening concert for Guetta's forthcoming world tour, so the technological wow-factor was set at the highest level. Setting up the sound systems for FOH engineer Hassane Es Siahi was Arto system tech Pierre-Laurent Babuine, who is a regular Guetta man.

For main PA, Babuine called on left and right arrays of 15 sets of Nexo STM, comprising 15x M46 Main and 15x B112 Bass Cabinets, together with 32x S118 subbass units. Flown in adjacent lines of main and bass modules, the arrays were completed by two diminuit

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14 March 2016

The Cobalt desk was designed to make busking in live concert environments a breeze. For Car-Fest, head lighting designer Evgeniy Toma used the desk to control a rig of moving lights, LED par cans, strobes and strip lights. Toma could programme swiftly, thanks to Cobalt's full colour master-playback displays, which show the current state of the masters and allow the ability to quickly switch from page to page.

One feature that Toma especially enjoyed is Cobalt's ability for customisation. He assigned the de

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14 March 2016

Algam, the leading distributor of MI and audio products in Europe, will take care of the supply chain, while Music Distribucion, a well-established distributor based in Barcelona, Spain, will be in charge of the sales and marketing activities.

"We're delighted that Music Distribucion has teamed with Algam," declared PreSonus Europe managing director, Michelle Lynch. "Algam is absolutely amazing; they're consummate professionals who know the market extremely well. In a relatively short period, they have already greatly improved our sales in France. We are confident that this new alliance will do won

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14 March 2016

Double Act - TV duo Ant and Dec are to host the 2015 Brit awards, 14 years since the last time they presented the ceremony. The hosts of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talen

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"With Kongsted in Koncert we are creating an experience for the crowd that is different from my other shows," the artist explains. "Here we can control more parameters - light, sound, visuals, production design, décor etc. - in a way that is not possible on my more standard live shows. This gives us the opportunity to create a special experience linking together my music and playing style in perfect harmony."

To match his vision of creating an

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Best known for transformative projection mapping spectaculars, Danny Rose creates, directs, produces and animates artistic content.

The company's growth is stimulated by recent project successes including the Play Me! interactive projection mapping installation onto Customs House at Vivid Sydney 2014.

"Over the past 20 years we've firmly established ourselves with a solid foundation in creating a catalogue of shows, that can be localized according to size and requirements," said Sergio Carrubba, creative director and projection designer at Danny Rose. "Our content brings messages to life in a big way."

The Danny Rose team comprises experienced proj