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Meeting this audio challenge at the recent Classic Incantations concerts - presented by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg across five Indian cities - were Sound.Com.

The Orchestra, conducted by Matt Dunkley, performed original scores and film music written by the Indian maestro - accompanied by the choir and soloists from his own KM Music Conservatory in Chennai.

Once again the sound crew relied on their Optocore network to transmit pristine signals. Sound.Com's Sunil Karanjikar and Joel Dcruz toured the country with FOH mixing engineer Holger Schwark (on a DiGiCo SD10), playing back to back shows, while Sound.Com's MD, Warren Dsouza acted as stand-in systems engineer for th

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The figure skating extravaganza features a roster of American Olympic medalists, including Nancy Kerrigan, Tara Lipinksi and Sarah Hughes as well as an international contingent, among them current world champion Miki Ando. The event, held at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, comes on the heels of last year's figure skating tribute for which Methot handled production design.

Methot devised a circular motif for the show using three circular video screens and a circular main stage with clean, simple lines. He mounted a circular truss above the ice with 16 Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures suspended o

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When the veil was removed, the fog gently dissipated to unveil Genghis Khan seated pensively on his horse. The figure celebrated 850 years since the legendary warrior was born, and the artist wanted to portray his spirituality as part of the London City of Sculpture festival.

The statue will remain in place at Marble Arch for six months and has been reported worldwide across countries linked to the Mongolian warrior and Russian artist.

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Stage façades came to life under the vivid colours of 58 Chauvet Professional COLORado 1-Tri Tour static wash lights and 40 COLORdash Batten Tri linear wash lights.

"Technicolor at Paramount wanted something very colourful and vibrant, and naturally, COLORdash Batten Tri and COLORado 1-Tri Tour lights were the perfect choice to complement the opening of the building, with smooth colourful splashes of colour," said Foxton Lewyn, lighting designer for the temporary installation and employee of Blue Haze Entertainment rental company that specified the lights.

Aligned along a low artesian fountain delineating the street from a terrace, the COLORado 1-Tri Tour

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DWR is not entirely new to the Prolyte network, over the last years they have gained much knowledge of both Prolyte products and the working philosophy of the Prolyte organisation, re-selling the products in South Africa.

"It's the people who make our industry happen and investing in long-term professional relations builds a fruitful business" states Paul-Erik Haseloop, director group sales for Prolyte Group. "Prolyte Group is delighted to have DWR Distribution on board as distributors, the combination of a great drive, enthusiasm and professionalism makes this team a pleasure to work with."

"DWR Distribution is privileged to be given this opportunity," commentsDuncan Riley, founder of DWR. "Robert

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Ampetronic's partnership with Listen Technologies will bring "high quality hearing loop solutions and unrivalled support across the USA for the first time". The partnership will give Listen Technologies a full portfolio of assistive listening solutions, in addition to their class leading Infra-Red and FM products.

Commenting on the partnership, Julian Pieters, Ampetronic managing director said, "We are thrilled to partner with Listen Technologies, a company that shares our strong commitment to improving the lives of hard of hearing people. Listen understands the need to deliver a complete assistive listening solution in the Americas, and are excited about the unique role that loop technology

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The bar has been reincarnated with a 'back to nature' vibe following five months of preening. It's now a stylish meeting place with cosy nooks, mood lighting and faux animal hides on the floor and covering the low stools.

The Constant Group were responsible for the audio design in the venue opting for a JBL speaker package that includes the new JBL Control 62P satellite pendant speakers. The speakers are powered by two Crown XLS1000 amplifiers, two Crown CDi1000 amplifiers and a Crown 280A amplifier.

"The idea was to have a great restaurant feel with high quality sound in the background," explained Con Constantinou, managing director of The Constant Group. "However, the venue needed to easily adapt to a chic bar with a relaxed feel as the evening progresse

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Adlib was contracted by Liverpool City Council's events department, Liverpool Vision to provide PA systems in the three key gathering points for the colossal promenade performance, featuring the Little Girl Giant and her Giant Uncle. Adlib also installed a sound system on the 'Brocklebank' Band Boat which accompanied the waterborne part of the show.

Adlib's Phil Stoker was the project manager and co-ordinated all of the equipment and crew needed and dealt with the logistics. He coll

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Gaskell was delighted to be working with Colour Sound again, "Their kit and the attitude is great," he enthuses, "Nice people and I get premium service every time."

His design - which will also feature at festivals played by the band throughout the summer - featured an intricate video set up and so to contrast this, the lighting was relatively straightforward - bold, in-the-face and in true Orbital style.

Gaskell chose 13 GLP Impression Spot Ones as his main profile lights and 24 Impression Zooms as the wash fixtures. As a layer of specials, he added Clay Paky Sharpies, plus strobes and blinders.

The lighting rig comprised thr

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The A Flash Flood of Colour tour started in Europe where it played slightly smaller venues, so the lighting rig was designed to be flexible enough to expand and contract to cover these, plus both an A and a B configuration for the UK, again based on the size of venue, the largest of which was Hammersmith Apollo. Mike Oates project managed for HSL.

The European leg featured a floor package from HSL, all based around five LED edged triangles. The fixtures chosen to make these were Chroma-Q Color Forces - three Color Force 72s for the large central triangle in Europe and 4 sets of three Chroma-Q 48s for the four smaller ones. These were all fitted into custom flying frames fabricated by HSL from special pre-rigged trussing, and flown off the house trusses.

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CPL was working for production company, Twofour. The event covered eight different independent areas - Reception, Tunnel, The Hub, Leaders, People, Fans, Business and Car Showroom - in ExCel, and was one of CPL's largest projects to date in terms of total equipment supply.

Over 60 moving lights, 150 generic fixtures, 80 LED PARcans and one and a half artic's worth of trussing were deployed.

Smaller breakout rooms featured a quantity of 85" HD plasmas; Business and the Hub utilised HD Panasonic PT-DZ110X projection and over 60 d&b speakers; The Car Showroom had an NEC HD 4x4 46" flown plasma wa

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The event was staged in the Nokia Concert Hall in Tallinn. Presented by high profile comedians Tiit Sukk and Taavi Teplenkov, it was broadcast live nationwide on the Estonian public broadcasting channel ETV1 and also enjoyed by a live audience of 1800 who saw the 20 finalists battle it out.

It was Jõhve and Meelis's first time designing lighting and set for the event, winning the project after presenting imaginative and fresh ideas.

Using previous Eesti Laul competitions as their creative starting point, they took all the classic requirements of the TV show / competition, and combined these with a set of new and different visu

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People were particularly interested in the new MT Pro Acoustics products. New speakers on show included a three-way horn loaded cabinet and a 2x5" mid/high cabinet with a ribbon tweeter. Also featuring highly were the range of 1U mixers and the DNP26 processor.

These items were seen alongside the MA86 amplifier. This lightweight unit has eight channels, each rated at 260WRMS into 4Ohms.

Another product attracting great interest was the new Cyclorama Wash system. This consists of the powerful LED 'Batten2' c/w a specially designed barn door system. This gives a very even wash of light on cycloramas up to 4.5m high. The quadcolor LEDs allow for pastel colours as well as the usu

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White Light's hire & technical director Dave Isherwood bought in the extra-bright Selador D60 Lustr+ fixtures following a number of requests from lighting designers, and in response to a growing push for brighter, but more energy efficient, lighting.

The first 12 have already been installed at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester for Miss Julie, lit by Johanna Town, where they are being used in combination with more traditional types of lighting, in order to boost light levels without breaking the budget.

Desire's Lustr+ array uses the premise of the x7 Color System to create lush white and subtly tinted light that can be adjusted to naturally illuminate on stage talent or scenery.

White Light was also on

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"My goal was to give the touring crew a system with a lot of flexibility, so they could adjust coverage angles for theatres of all shapes and sizes," explains Harada. "With the M'elodie centre cluster and MICA side arrays, they have all the power they need for bigger houses, along with reliable consistency of sound-a quality at which Meyer systems always excel."

Inspired by a 1956 recording studio jam session by Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Million Dollar Quartet captures

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As Audiobahn's Tony Hersch explains, the new sound system design called for versatility. "Unlike some of the more traditional Catholic churches, St. Bede offers a mix of traditional and semi-contemporary services, with a choral and live musical accompaniment, as well as traditional organ and choir," he says. "So ultimately we had to design a system that offered more than simply spoken word intelligibility - it had to offer good musicality as well."

The distributed audio system includes 1

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Chequer Mead Theatre, a 320-seat performance venue, frequently hosts Ariel Company Theatre's productions. Joshua Attwood, lighting designer for Musicality4, placed two Q-Spot 560-LED fixtures at the front of the house, two on the balcony bars and four on the upstage bar to highlight performers, provide backlighting and project effects during the production. The addition of Hurricane Haze 2D enhanced the lighting effects by highlighting beams.

Musicality4 is a musical review of the latest West End and Broadway musicals performed by a cast of 28 adult and 28 junior actors. Neil Hopson, artistic and drama academy director at Ariel Company Theatre,

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Soundhead Company MD and FOH engineer Tim Ehrenfried, who only recently added the PRO2 to his inventory, explains, "In the past I have had excellent experiences working with XL8 and PRO6 consoles, and I knew I wanted that great warm Midas sound for the event in recognition of the calibre of international acts performing. But the PRO2 at FOH gave me the added advantage of all the features of the big consoles in

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Grammy award winning artist Imogen Heap performed a new Heapsong that she wrote during the course of the event. The song titled Me the Machine was written and then performed live using just her hands through musical gloves. The gloves are a prototype musical interface that Imogen has been developing over the last two years with her team of engineers. With them, Imogen can directly interact and control a virtual orchestra by "utilising tens of thousands of unique motions".

Working with Julies Bicycle, Firefly Solar, Bluman Associates, Gaianova Geodesic Domes, Silent Gig and Sennheiser, Fruit Pi

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Taking place every four years, each time at a different location, Showlight is organised by lighting professionals for lighting professionals. In 2009, with some 40 exhibitors, over 365 delegates from the world of entertainment lighting passed through Showlight's doors.

Showlight places emphasis on debate stimulated by papers from respected industry experts and provides a gathering ground for like-minded people. Both exhibitors and visitors fully participate in the conference programme.

Showlight 2013 is

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The show consisted of a 40 minute audio-visual performance, featuring a challenging series of projections mapped to the building's surface synchronised to pyrotechnics and a bespoke sound design. The show was a collaboration between seeper.com, who created the projections, and specialist pyrotechnics company The World Famous, with the project produced by Culture Creative and the technical aspects production managed by White Light.

Evan Grant, founder of seeper.com, explains, "The show was the first time that intense 3D motion graphics have been combined with synchronised py

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Hugh Jones, managing director at HPSS, said, "The PRO2 is intuitive and accessible and in the smaller venues where the support has to be mixed on our boards it takes just 10 to 15 minutes to get the house engineer working comfortably with it. In acoustic scenarios in particular the set-up is so simple...you only need to do about six things with it and you're ready.

"Feedback has been very good", he continues. "We recently held a demo day at the HPSS warehouse and invited some engineers to come and try out the console. One of the engineers turned up with a show file that he had previously engineered on a

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The new partnership was announced at PALME Middle East 2012, and Alan Thomson, managing partner for Unusual Rigging & Engineering, said, "I am delighted to add Prolyte products to our inventory. The high quality trussing systems will ensure that we continue to provide first class equipment alongside first class service."

Set up in 2008 under the management of Alan Thomson, Unusual Rigging & Engineering LLC is highly regarded in the region. With a long history of supplying both equipment and services to the Royal families of the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the governments of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Oman, Unusual Rigging & Engineering will be pivotal in developing sales for Prolyte in the Middle East regio

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Royal Rock - Robbie Williams has been added to the line-up for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace on 4 June. "If this doesn't get me a knighthood, nothing will," the star joked on his website. "I can't wait for the show." His Take That bandmat