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XL Video was asked to build a striking LED monolith on the ground floor of the Guggenheim Museum's impressive atrium to provide a kinetic sculpture and visual centerpiece for the event which was sponsored by Dior.

The gig was project managed for XL Video by Paul 'Macca' McCauley from the UK office who was asked to produce a video solution for the visual concept created by Ali Demirel & Hawtin. Mark Ward from London-based Proper Productions oversaw the technical design and production for Hawtin's set. XL and Ward have a relationship stretching back many years

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It has long been an MMF ambition to evaluate academic courses that follow on from their already successful Induction Days and Management Development programmes. Over the past three years the MMF Education Committee led by Jim Thomas had refined two documents; the 'Managers Code of Practice' and 'A Framework for Education and Training'. When deciding on how to implement this framework, it became apparent that JAMES over recent years, had developed the systems required in this area. As an Associate Member working together with JAMES, the MMF can now ensure that JAMES Accredited Music Management courses offer content to the student that is appropriate, engaging and up to date.

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The lighting designer and operator Benjamin Schleger had this to say, "The town of Walldorf wanted fireworks and we gave them something very similar. The concentrated beams and bright colours of our light and laser show in the town centre left over a thousand spectators speechless! The extremely precise powerful beams of the Clay Paky Sharpys stood out in particular. The Sharpys were undoubtedly the best choice, and that is why we used them from start to finish."

He continued, "In order to project images on the façade and create a beamshow seq

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"When we decided to update our main 7.1 mixing room to Atmos, we wanted monitoring of the highest quality," says Mathieu Taieb, sales director for Dubbing Brothers. "We knew other major post-production houses were using Meyer Sound for Atmos, so we arranged a session to listen to a Meyer Sound system. We were very impressed with what we heard. The sound was dynamic and precise, warm, and never aggressive. Both bass and high frequencies exhibited very

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Both shows were filmed at Berlin's largest TV studio, which, at around 3,000 square metres, has 1,100 seats for live audience members and enough space for a large stage set. The studio is owned and operated by technical production company Studio Berlin Adlershof (SBA). Exclusive audio supplier for The Voice of Germany is Werner Audio, whose owner, Fried Werner, provided the show with 10x Nexo PS15-R2 monitors and four NXAMP 4x4C amplified controllers in active biamp mode for stage monitoring.

"The Nexo speakers were specified by monitor e

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The newly-reconstructed Club SUB, in the city of Wiener Neustadt, set out to integrate a low frequency solution, capable of reproducing a wide range of live and DJ-derived music (Drum 'n' Bass, Dubstep and Techno) and arts presentations, as well as workshops and theatrical performance in a completely revolutionary way.

And since the 300-capacity SUB is located in a heavily populated residential area heavy emphasis needed to be placed on acoustic isolation to avoid noise pollution.

Project managers, Wolfgang Sauter (from pro performance) and Reinhard Nell (from Lambda Labs), were equal to the challenge.

Speaking of the background to the project, Lambda Labs German based director, Steffen Kroschel, said, "The owners' goal

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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 platform and we're thrilled to be involved with it. Customers were equally excited and interest in it was g

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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

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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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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

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14 March 2016

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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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14 March 2016

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

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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

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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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Working with the zoo's events team for the first time, Utopium created an immersive visual spectacle illuminating the rich collection of plants and trees. In the Herbaceous Border Utopium produced a truly magical experience installing a lightshow, which was controlled remotely and featured an array of festive-themed lighting that was timecoded to music.

To create this stunning display, Utopium used mainly LED lights including James Thomas Pixel Par 90, Chauvet ColoRADO Quad IP, i-Pix BB4, James Thomas Pixel Line 1044 and Chauvet 230 SR Beams. The team also utilised over 14 Universes of SGM LB-100 light balls to ensure audiences were wowed. The lighting fixtures were controlled using an Avolites Pearl Expert, with