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14 March 2016

The combining of Harman and Martin will result in operational efficiencies, including the closure of Martin's operations in Sunrise, Florida. The company will maintain a strong sales and product support presence in the Fort Lauderdale area and all staff from the facility have been offered positions within the Harman Professional organization, says the company.

"Today, we met with our team in Florida to announce our decision to integrate operations. This move will bring many long-term advantages to our customers and other stakeholders and will help sustain Martin's position as the industry's most innovative, best supported, best integrated lighting manufacturer," Brian Friborg, Harman Professional USA vice president of sale

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14 March 2016

At ExCel, Pioneer introduced its new GS-Wave and XY series club loudspeakers in the AudioLab Arena - controlled and optimised by Powersoft's advanced electronics

Developed in conjunction with Gary Stewart Audio (GSA), the winning combination of Pioneer's new dance floor stack and Powersoft's flagship K-series amplifiers, with built-in DSP and presets optimised by Pioneer, made an impressive debut in Ibiza - the heartland of serious clubbing - during the recent season in Balearic dance capital.

The landmark installation of four GS-Wave stacks in Booom! Ibiza, powered by Powersoft, has been joined on the island by installations of Pioneer's XY systems at the Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel five-star party

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Amongst the symbolic locations selected for the 2013 editon of the festival - which includes the Loujniki Olympic complex, the Tsaritsyno Park and the Manege - there is a particularly iconic one that evokes all the cultural influence from the Russian capital: The Bolshoi Theatre.

Cosmo AV was tasked with elaborating the content projected on the façade of this building, which acted as a screen, playing the audiovisual creations from the Cosmo AV teams.

Onlookers witnessed two dream-like shows which lasted for a total of 12 minutes, with mixed video and computer generated images, supported by a soundtrack revisiting masterpieces from some of the world famous classical music comp

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14 March 2016

The Hong Kong Academy School, which teaches age groups ranging from kindergarten to high school, opened a new site in Sai Kung in August 2013. The new site incorporates a 350-seat, multi-configurable auditorium with professional grade lighting and sound equipment, a 600-seat gymnasium with retractable seating capable of housing the entire school and an 80-seat studio theatre.

Hugh Chinnick, director of Pacific Lighting (HK), proposed the RJ Topaze 1200W MSD followspots within

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14 March 2016

About the new ExCel exhibition centre, Pio Nahum, Clay Paky commercial and marketing manager, says, "The location is beautiful and modern, suitable to our needs, as exhibitors. In addition for the first time we were able to organise the Knight of Illumination Awards in the same location of the show, with the many benefits in terms of logistics, for us, and in terms of accessibility for the attendees. Our booth, inside the Ambersphere village, has been very popular, thanks in particular to our new B-E

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14 March 2016

Pearce Hire has made a significant number of investments in equipment over recent months, with purchases ranging from Robe 1200 LED Wash Fixtures and an L'Acoustics Kara Line Array alongside a major investment in generators and power distribution.

The investment in power distribution and supply equipment includes Stephill 25 kVA silenced diesel generators ideal for small outdoor events and FG Wilson XD fuel-efficient diesel generator sets - 60 kVA and 100 kVA generators, all with full synchronisation and know

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14 March 2016

The iW7025 was developed by Dialog's Power Conversion Business Group (formerly iWatt Inc.) and extends Dialog's addressable market into the LCD TV backlighting power management space.

A key challenge for LED TV designers is how to easily reduce motion blur and deliver a high contrast ratio. With conventional LED drive

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Never Mind The Buzzcocks which is now being filmed from Riverside Studios. The BBC2 show continues its obviously successful formula with guest competitors from the world of entertainment, regular team leaders Phil Jupitus and Noel Fielding, and a guest judge. Lighting designer Chris Kempton uses what he previously admitted as 'nothing exotic' to complement the industrial and urban design of the set.

Skavlan - Award winning journalist Fredrik Skavlan hosts the most seen talk show in Scandinavia with over 3m viewers. Since the TV talk show was premiered back in 2009, there has been a constant stream of international guests. Filming extra shows in London has meant that they have access to more stars who a

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"Although Austria is a relatively small country the two companies will work together to ensure the Austrian customer base has expedient access to one of the most comprehensive portfolios of Entertainment Lighting equipment available today," says Philips Entertainment Sales Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Czech Republic, Rainer Weggen."Philips Entertainment has added these market leading distributors to our list of partners to ensure that

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14 March 2016

Andre bought his first Robe products in 2004 and has been a loyal and keen supporter of the brand ever since, continuing to invest regularly in Robe over the years. His most recent purchase - from Robe's Benelux distributor Controllux - has been 16 Pointes and eight MMX Spots.

These were in fact the very first Pointes in Holland - delivered after Andre saw them at Prolight+Sound Frankfurt and was extremely impressed. Being a man of action, he put his money straight where his mouth was ... and placed the order there and then.

As soon as Purple Haze's Pointes were delivered, they went straight

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The new compact six colour cyclorama was selected for a PLASA Award for Innovation thanks to its function and many advantages which it brings for the users. The luminary is specially designed for TV studios, concerts, theatres for back stage lighting or soft front lighting with high CRI (>95).

"During the exhibition the feedback about the product was superb. LL stage CYC contains six colours - red, green, blue, amber, white at 5600K and white at 3200K which is a really big benefit,", said managing director Julius Szaraz.

LL stage CYC 6C provides uniform light distribution, dynamic colour changing and its lifetime is 75.000 hours.

The next exhibition where you can meet with Leader Light is LDI SHOW in Las Vegas (22. - 24. Novemb

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The awards which were celebrating their 15th year were open to any company involved in the AV industry across Europe, from media production companies to manufacturers of any kind of equipment or software used in AV communication; so for this small firm from the North East this is an amazing achievement.

The Live event of the year category was awarded for utilising the newest technical ideas and was open to a wide range of corporate events, awards ceremonies, experiential events, sponsored events, sales conferences, product launches, exhibition events and more. Judges were looking for examples of absolute excellence in lighting, sound, project

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14 March 2016

Out of the more than 140 groups performing at this year's ACL Music Festival, AMD/Lady Bird hosted some of the biggest headliners, including Depeche Mode, The Cure, Vampire Weekend, fun., The National, Passion Pit and Atoms For Peace, featuring members of Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beck.

According to LD Systems director of production services Robert Ausmus, the stage was equipped with a total of

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14 March 2016

JSM's portfolio includes some of India's most successful and well-known independent restaurants. Prime examples are luxury lounge Shiro, with its signature high ceilings, grand statues and award winning Oriental cuisine, and the Hard Rock Café in Mumbai.

JSM, through its subsidiaries, is the exclusive master franchisee for Hard Rock Café, California Pizza Kitchen and Trader Vic's across India and the restaurants are known for their unique designs and uncompromising standards.

The two Mumbai restaurants are centrally located, surrounded by a variety of corporations and movie production houses and, with the suburbs being home to the Bollywood mov

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14 March 2016

The Phoenix Zoo initially hired Clearwing Productions to increase the production value of the annual lighting show, though the two teams quickly determined that the audio system was underperforming ­- not to mention falling apart.

"The Phoenix area is inundated with sun and UV rays, which is very tough on outdoor products," said Nick Pitman, service and systems engineer,

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14 March 2016

The location of the building was the main reason for a media façade solution, as it sits in Copenhagen at Rådhuspladsen, where outdoor advertising has been an integral part of the area for more than 100 years.

Transform architect Lars Bendrup said, "This LED media façade was the next logical step. It's an entirely new way of communicating through the language of light. Confederation of Danish Industry is showing a new face - one that reflects dynamism and change."

The media façade incorporates 4,000m of Martin Professional's VC-Strip in a customised outdoor soluti

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14 March 2016

Live Red, presented by Ilary Blasi and Claudio Bisio, brought together an exceptional cast, including Albertino, Elio e le Storie Tese, and Fabri Fibra, with the participation of the international guest Bob Sinclar.

The show was organised with the utmost professionalism, thanks to the quality of the technical staff: director of photography - Marcello Iazzetti, and lighting operator - Marco De Nardi, one of the best Italian console operators. The rental company was DiBi Technology, noted for its work with major productions.

D.T.S. contributed massively to the success of Live Red Vodafone. The lighting system - installed by DiBi Technology - included more than 100 moving heads by D.T.S: 64 x NRG 1201 hanging on the four arch

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Established by pastor Kim Sam-Hwan in 1980, Myoungseong is one of the best known churches in South Korea. Services are broadcast in real time to a number of other church buildings throughout the country and are also broadcast on the internet, Christian radio and television stations in other territories. This means that, while around 100,000 attend the main church building annually, it is reputed to have a million followers globally.

Key to the process are the two DiGiCo SD7s, installed as part of the project to build the new sanctuary. One is located at the Front of House pos

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Continuess Rieck, "My sentiment with regard to the overall number of visitors is highly positive - due to our location directly opposite the entrance we were able to keep a weather eye on this. I felt that Monday and Tuesday were the days with the highest attendance figures; we've booked again for next year already. Meet'n'Greet has priority at PLASA, so we coul

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14 March 2016

"The ceilings in the main room are over eight meters high at some points, and the dance floor is under a dome," notes Magued Makram, president of Modern Touch. "It was very hard to generate the high SPLs we wanted without hitting reflective walls and the ceiling. Fortunately, the Meyer Sound JM-1P had exactly the right combination of high power, superb sonic quality, and the precise directional pattern we needed."

The club's main system targets the dance floor and adjacent seating areas with twin-flown clusters of three-each JM-1P loudspeakers, with four 600-HP subwoofers floo

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14 March 2016

Made in Sud showcases the very best cutting-edge and emerging young comedy talent in the south of Italy, with the final episodes in each run of programmes recorded live.

Carotenuto - who has worked for RAI for 30 years and currently lights shows and events for their OB Unit all over Italy - used 35 LEDWash 1200s to illuminate the audience in this instance.

The 30 x LEDBeam 100s were used in two 6x9 matrixes either side of the upstage LED screens. They provided intense back-beam effects for certain camera shots - for which they were highly effective.

The Robe fixtures for this show were supp

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14 March 2016

Exhibiting for the first time with Ambersphere Solutions, its new UK exclusive distributor, Robert Juliat revealed a bright, new-look stand design, complete with a range of startling pink TIBO fixtures. "The pink TIBOs succeeded in drawing a lot of visitors to the stand and generated much excited chat on th

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During the facility tour, guests were given an exclusive look at the processes involved in making a DPA Microphones product. Culminating in a live, hands-on workshop at the Nørrebro Theatre in Copenhagen, attendees were presented with demonstrations by a singer/actor and a band of DPA's collection of microphones.

"The conference was a huge success as it allowed those attending to really get to know the DPA Microphones," says Christian Poulsen, CEO of DPA Microphones. "The company has changed a great deal in rece

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14 March 2016

Ellie Goulding's engineers are Oz Bagnall (FOH) and James Neale (Monitors). Oz specified the Coda Audio system, which once again proved to be a flexible solution for the wide variety of theatre and town hall venues.

It was the first time that Adlib has worked with Bagnall and also with tour/production manager Derek Fudge, proving a very positive experience all round. Adlib's crew - systems engineer George Puttock and stage monitor technician Alan Harrison - were also a big part of ensuring that Ellie Goulding's performance had the best possible live sound.

The system comprised 24 x Coda LA12, 16 x ViRay and 16 x SCPF spea