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"All the discharge lighting is Clay Paky exclusive this season," says Bowles. "The fixtures are performing perfectly on camera, whilst also impressing everyone in the studio. In fact many of the guest artists have been overheard commenting on how good the lighting looks."

Filming so far has seen performances from the likes of Django Django, Gaz Coombes from Supergrass and The Vaccines, with not only each act requiring significantly different lighting looks but also each of their tracks. Supplied by Richard Martin Lighting (RML), Bowles chose the 12 Mythos, ei

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Every day dealers, manufacturers, specifiers and end-users need to work through this channel to acquire products in systems integration and theatrical systems. Often times this channel is overwhelming and confusing. Our panel of experts will break down the pieces and explain how the system can successfully work together for all participants in the channel.

The panel is made up of industry veterans from all points in the channel. Bill Groener, general manager of systems at 4Wall Entertainment will serve as moderator. Dealers will be represented by Bill Price, director of systems at Barbizon Lighting Company and Paul Vincent, founder and president of Vincent Lighting Systems. Brian Coddington, control

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The Awards recognise and celebrate the achievements of lighting and, as of last year, video designers working on shows in the UK.

The Concert Touring and Events judging panel, who were joined this year by new recruits Financial Times arts pages journalist David Cheal and editor of live event technology publication Total Production International Kelly Murray, deliberated over what they described as an 'incredibly high standard' of entries this year before reaching a decision.

The Concert Touring and Events shortlist is as follows:

Arena - Jamie Thompson for The Script, LeRoy Bennett for Lady Gaga and Rob Sinclair for Kylie Minogue

Club - Liam Tully for James Bay, S

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PLASA Show 2015 takes place at London's ExCel from 4th - 6th October. From 1st September to 3rd October visitors can pre-register for £10, meaning doing so before the end of the free period can make a significant saving. On site entry will cost £25.

"The show will feature over 300 brands, covering all production di

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Founded by ringleader and athlete Travis Pastrana, the Sydney based Nitro Circus Live tour features more than 40 of the world's best action sports athletes performing daring and record-breaking tricks in freestyle motocross, BMX and skateboarding, aided by stunts and accessories involving water coolers, rocking horses, a lazy boy couch and more. The lighting has to be equal to the challenge of placing this into a rock 'n' roll, stadium context.

Brought in by production manager, Brendan Maher, with whom he had worked previously Calvi was hardly fazed.

Although these events follow a typical rock concert model, with build-up day, and the infrastructure built and ready for rehearsals by 3p

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Over 27m unique viewers watched the tournament on Twitch for almost 34m hours (nearly 3,879 years!) between them, and at its peak the event was being followed on-line by over 1.3m concurrent viewers - an increase of more than 30% on the last ESL One Counter-Strike event five months previously and a new record for both ESL and the game itself.

ARAM was responsible for set design and technical production, including rental of latest video , lighting technology and camera jib's.

The equipment list included CP Mythos, Sharpy, GM2, Fourlight LED light

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Providing the PA system from the very beginning has been Capital Sound. But while the sites to the north have been problem free in terms of sound propagation, the Henley location at Temple Island Meadows, Remenham Farm, has always been noise sensitive, and until 2013 elicited complaints from the local gentry.

2013 proved to be the watershed year, when acoustics consultants Vanguardia were brought in by the promoter, Impresario Festivals' David Heartfield, and suggested a guaranteed means of curing the problem was to deploy Martin Audio's award winning MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array solution.

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"The markets in Asia and Oceania are growing fast and the appointment of Alfonso Zarate Takano is a strategic move to ensure a constant fixed local presence," said Alberico D'Amato. "It will now be easier for Clay Paky to visit customers in the region and provide top-class timely technical and commercial support."

Alfonso Zarate Takano was born in Peru, but has lived for many years in Japan and in Singapore and speaks English, Spanish and Japanese. He has excellent technical experience in the industry, having worked for important manufacturers of stage and architecture lighting, a

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The company's main draw for the show, which is geared towards professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content, are set to be the Source Four LED Series 2 Tungsten HD and Daylight HD fixtures. Specially designed to produce the best quality white light in cool (4000-6500K) or warm (2700-4500K) ranges, each is tuned for high definition use, eliminating any on-camera flicker. They have already been installed at a range of studios worldwide, including Israel's Channel 1 news studio in Jerusalem, where the technical staff and presenters were impressed by the flicker-free performance, low heat and impressive light output.

Alongside the two white light engines on the stand, the full-colour, high pow

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The production needed to be delivered to a set budget, be innovative, colourful, reflect the branding identity and develop from the previous year.

Requirements included live streaming, interactive voting and the recording of all plenary sessions which were then to be made available for post conference viewing.

The annual conference and exhibition is one of the most high profile healthcare gatherings in the UK, bringing together senior leaders from across the whole of the health and social care system.

The team devised its Bring Your Own Device system for interactive voting. Innovative interactive online platforms were

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The motel's previous audio system had poor coverage and music quality and had deteriorated from years of exposure to the New Jersey shore's winter weather. Its new audio system improves both music quality and coverage and uses Community loudspeakers designed to perform in extreme weather conditions.

Moyer Electronics of Pottsville, PA, designed and installed the new system beginning with four Community R.15 COAX loudspeakers to cover the pool. Paul Moyer of Moyer Electronics explains, "By placing all four of the R.15 loudspeakers on one side of the pool, we were able to get very good covera

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The Los Angeles-based singer songwriter appeared at the Palace Hall - before an audience of 3,000 and performing under a lighting rig dominated by PR Lighting pieces.

These were provided to lighting designer Cristian Simon by Romanian distributors (and event specialists) Temple Media - part of an impressive concert spec sound and lighting package.

Simon, who has worked with PR Lighting fixtures at many high profile performances in the past, chose 20 fully featured XR 200 Beams, with the impressive 189W Philips MSD Platinum 5R lamp), 10 XLED 1061, housing an incredible 61 4-in-1 bright linear colour mix LEDs, 20 high output XR 230 Spots, with their variable linear zoom, and 24 ultra compact XLED 2007 B

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The move reflects the growth and success of both companies over the last year which has seen an expansion in the company, the product range and business generally which meant that they outgrew their previous site. The new workspace boasts a 10,000sq.ft building, along with extensive yard space.

Tony Dickson, director of Hoist UK & Truss UK comments, "Our new Moreton facility consists of ample office space for an ever growing sales / admin team, substantial customer meeting areas, plus extensive warehousing with a lifting equipment testing bay, that should sup

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In speaking about the expansion, Tobias Stumpfl, CEO at AV Stumpfl GmbH says, "Over the past few years, we've established ourselves with a solid foundation in creating a wide range of robust projection screens, in-house warp, blend and auto calibration technologies and projectors. With a reputation for excellence in engineering, our systems are backed by an experienced team of visual display professionals with direct experience in the simulation and training sector ranging from civil aviation to aerospace, education, military, security and operations."

All products are custom engineered for their intended application and manufactured in Austria.

All screens are custom made to measure in

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The LEDView530 performs screen processing for high-profile projects that Euroscreens works on. As an all-in-one solution, the LEDView530 has optimal operating modes and can be used on either LED video walls, projection or for scan conversion.

Euroscreens has deployed LEDView530 in a number of different scenarios, from edge-blending of projectors at corporate conferences to LED screen processing for live broadcast events.

Most recently the LEDView530's were used to process LED screen content for Matchroom Sports Boxing, shown live on Sky Sports HD. For this event 4 LED screens that were

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Event production house Audile supplied 12 Mythos, 16 Stormy CC strobes, 96 Sharpys, 12 Alpha Spot HPE 700 and eight Alpha Beam 700 fixtures to the event, which takes place in Manchester's 600-acre Heaton Park.

The fixtures were rigged on The Temple outdoor stage and several of the Big Top arenas; lighting artists such as hip hop giant Nas and Brit and NME 2015 award-winner FKA Twigs.

"As so many lighting designers are familiar with Clay Paky fixtures they were very happy to find them in the rig as they knew they'd be able to achieve the looks they wanted," says Rob Leach, director of Audile. "The Mythos was extremely popular on accoun

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Lange, amongst whose credits is the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in 2014, specified 65 MagicBlade-R units which were supplied by Ayrton's Danish distributor, Bico Professionel A/S, to LiteCom A/S, the contracted supplier of lighting and video for this revival tour.

Kasper Lange explained why he chose to use the MagicBlade fixtures. "I have been following Ayrton for some years, as they are a company that always seem to make innovative and interesting lighting products, with a design factor that really makes them sta

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The installation was designed by Studio Lux Nova and Marjut Kauppinen. Studiotec supplied the Martin VC-Dots for the media surface and the reActor Media server. The Invisible developed the interactive digital content and installed the IP camera motion tracking.

After developing the initial design, Marjut Kauppinen and Studio Lux Nova brought in Studiote

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Lighting - almost entirely Robe, a mix of Pointes, MMX Spots, LEDWash 600s and 300s, LEDBeam 100s and PARFect 100s - was designed and operated by Magz Schoeman, head of lighting at the busy venue.

Magz was very excited when the opportunity arose to light such a high profile event, and put substantial energy and detail into designing the rig for the occasion.

A pre-production meeting revealed who was in the band. Magz had already worked with some of the individual bands involved, and learned that the set would be three hours long and be a mix of the greatest and best loved hits of the key bands

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Now in its 16th year, this year's Under the Stars was the biggest one yet. The line-up featured chart-toppers Maxi Priest, Aswad and Hot Chocolate along with children from Newham's Every Child a Musician programme who took to the stage to entertain the crowd. There was also a performance by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra who performed a classical music set. Over 60,000 attended t