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Produced by Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar - responsible for the long running eponymous musical and numerous other shows along Gran Via Madrid's main theatrical artery AKA 'Spanish Broadway' - this show staged at the off Gran Via Rialto Theatre, and has been lit by award-winning lighting designer Felipe Ramos.

The overall theme of the show - inspired by some of the grand cabarets of Paris but with a definitely space age twist - gave him plenty of scope for imaginative lighting design - and he chose 12 Robe Pointes to be right at the core of the lighting rig.

A Marte Cabaret is his first collaboration with the producers, alth

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Appelt's design is an eye-opener, with the German lighting designer rigging a mix of over 100 x Clay Paky Sharpys, 26 x Alpha Spot HPE 1500s and 12 x Alpha Beam 1500s supplied by PRG Hamburg, in strict configurations across huge fingers of truss that reach out across the audience.

"The concept behind the design was not to worry too much about the stage and really play out to the audience," explains Appelt. "We built four vertical columns upstage upon which we rigged the Clay Paky beam fixtures. These columns then lead out into four 'fingers' of curved truss heavily rigged with Sharpys. The fingers are designed to reach out above the audience creating an all encompass

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Allen & Heath's distributor, Teleponto, supplied the consoles, designed the systems, and managed the live performances and global transmission of the carnival. Six teams and a total of 70 staff were required to ensure the successful operation of 6 straight days of transmission and 72 hours of live broadcasts.

The GLD-80 consoles were used to handle audio feeds sent from several remote locations spanning over 2km. In addition, four AR2412 and eight AR84 audio racks and over 7km of optical fibre cable were used.

"With more than 2m people in attendance and simul

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14 March 2016

Estadio Mineirao was the first of three 2014 World Cup stadia to be completed using Community loudspeaker systems. Soundvision Engineering, the largest professional audio and video contract integrator in Brazil, was commissioned to design and install the audio systems by Emílio Miranda of Johnson Controls Brazil, the contract holder for Estadio Mineirao.

Soundvision's CEO, Antonio Tadeu Torquato, and new business manager, Leandro Freire, carried out an extensive evaluation of loudspeaker systems that would provide the best solution for the arena. They concluded that the first choice was Community, proven for all-weather reliability, well-defined coverage and high intelligibility.

After installation, performance a

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14 March 2016

Trade In Trade Up, which runs for three months until the end of August, offers a £100 discount against any new Sennheiser evolution wireless microphone system or IEM for anyone trading in any old, out of date or unwanted wireless system, working or not.

"Since the move from Channel 69 to Channel 38 for general wireless microphone use across the UK, Sennheiser has been working hard to make sure that everyone who uses a wireless microphone, from the biggest tour to the smallest pub band, theatres and concert halls, corporate events and television and radio reporters, has the correct equipment," says Simon Beesley, Sennheiser UK product management. "This is vitally important as C

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14 March 2016

Onyeabor's distinctive rhythmic, funkadelic, spacey synthesiser-orientated grooves were composed in the 1970s and 1980s when he was a prolific composer / performer, highly original and forward thinking. Since then he has gained a cult following amidst musicians and music aficionados.

An anthology of his old work Who is William Onyeabor? was released by David Byrne's Luaka Bop record label last year, and this was recently followed by a live concert tour to bring the Onyeabor experience to an inquisitive public.

Gray was approached directly by Luaka Bop who had seen his lighting

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Those gaining their Gold Circle certification include: Theresa Bartlett of Virginia Hearing Consultants in Norfolk, VA; Helene Levenfus of Cedar Audiology in Lyndhurst, OH; independent audiologist Analise Ludwig of Minneapolis, MN; Eric Nelson of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York; and Dale Radke of Hearing Consultants in Kittery, Maine.

The Gold Circle seminar teaches audiologists the specific skills required to successfully assist musicians and sound engineers, an outlook that includes

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Supplied by Sacramento Production & Lighting, the Elation lighting package was chosen for several reasons including durability and price point, a major consideration these days for the touring market, according to Dion Cook, Sacramento Production & Lighting's CEO.

Dion explains the concept behind the show. "The concept for the past five years has been to give the audience more than just a run-of-the-mill comedy show with a guy in front of a curtain," he says. "And by that I mean it needed to be an experi

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14 March 2016

Temple of Tune comprises four studios, all connected by a network of hard disks, so that several can work on the same project at once, files can be quickly moved around, sound effects quickly accessed and so on. Working on major projects in Dutch, French and English, a regular part of the facility's work is in Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR).

All four studios have used Steinberg Nuendo for many years, which Fredo is happy to continue doing. But, as a company which is always trying to do make its workflow easier, quicker and more efficient, Nuage has solved one of Nuendo's

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14 March 2016

C&C Lightway has worked with Robert Juliat for over 20 years, promoting the brand in a strongly competitive market.

"We are up against strong competition from long-established, premium-brand Japanese manufacturers, particularly for conventional fixtures like Fresnels and ellipsoidals," says C&C Lightway's Hwan-Soo Chung. "However, we have worked to raise awareness of Robert Juliat's great reputation to the same level it experiences in the followspot market where we have enjoyed a good market share for several years."

C&C Lightway, which has established long-term working relationships with all of its clients, has recently supplied Robert Juliat lanterns and followspots to Seogwipo Culture & Arts Centre,

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Managing director of Kinoton Korea, Inc., Mr Chris Bae comments on the partnership with the British manufacturer, "We, Kinoton Korea, Inc. are pleased to work with Audient and are very ambitious to promote the high-quality products to the Korean market and look forward to having great success and feedback from the market very soon."

Audient's sales & marketing director Luke Baldry confirms, "Audient's focus is on quality, which is supported by a proud heritage. Chris Bae and his team have a strong knowledge of the South Korean market, and we have every confidence that they will handle Audient sales, support and service at exactly the right level."

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Denmark based Lange worked with Eurovision's creative director Per Zachariassen to create a huge, structural lighting design that complemented the show's titanic 'diamond' stage. Lange crafted a clean, architectural lighting look that allowed the angular stage to 'open and close' creating a dynamic mix of open and intimate lighting looks.

"The brief for the show can be summed up in two words - big and simple," explains Lange. "The contest was open to almost 40 different nations and each nation's set needed a different lighting look. The challenge for us was to make each song look unique but also to introduce an organic flow throughout the show and not create a 'mash

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14 March 2016

Phoebus S.P.A. is an established high-end electronics company based in Milan that has always operated in the electronic systems sector supplying conference equipment, audio-video communication and management systems. Now they are starting with NEXT-proaudio for the professional audio segment.

"I met Mr. Luciano and Mr. Tommaso at prolight+sound 2014 and I understood that they were the perfect choice to be the NEXT-proaudio distributors in Italy because They are a very well-known company in that market and they always worked with high-end products. All the team of Next-proaudio is very happy to star with Phoebus," says Andre Correia, NEXT-proaudio assistant manager

"We are very happy to start this distribution. We believe that the distrib

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Sennheiser Streaming Technologies combines the German family-run company's 70 years of experience in the field of audio technology with future-oriented development in the area of streaming. The subsidiary is based in Hamburg and is initially focusing on low-latency streaming to cellular devices.

Jörn Erkau has been appointed managing director of the new company. The 47-year-old has considerable experience in the production of visitor information and audio guide systems. He has collaborated with Sennheiser in the past. He will be supported by Peter Claussen, president of the Integrated Systems Division at Sennheiser, who will also be an SST managing director.

"We will create hardware and software solutions that make life more pleasurab

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But to ensure the venue could play host to the spectacular musical phenomenon, it needed a little assistance from the team at Unusual Rigging, specifically to make the grid of the King's compatible with the magnitude and distribution of suspension points required for the show.

Gavin Snelling, project manager at Unusual Rigging, said, "The main problem in staging Wicked at the King's Theatre was the overall weight of the show. The King's grid was not strong enough to provide the suspension points required and so Unusual was brought on board by Mike Jackson, ATG's external consulting engineer, to install an array of ste

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Vicky Brennan recently programmed the lighting for Stephen Ward: The Musical at the Aldwych Theatre on a Ti desk. The show's set was complicated and required custom circular lighting trusses for the lighting fixtures. That created a challenge for the lighting team, who had to devise a plan to number the rig so the lighting designer, programmer, production electricians and show crew could all understand it.

Ti's Magic Sheets function wa

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"For production issues, Jennifer Lopez, one of the artists of the official song We Are One, will not be able to perform at the Fifa World Cup opening ceremony," said a statement. The 25-minute ceremony in Sao Paulo will feature 600 artists, including acrobatic gymnasts, trampolinists, martial arts-style performers and stilt walkers.

Fringe Matters - The Edinbur

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PSAV's product management of audio and IT, Mark Consiglio, has been an advocate of ArKaos PRO media servers since he was introduced to the brand at InfoComm 2012. "When ArKaos PRO was brought to my attention, I knew this technology would be something that our team and customers would be interested in," stated Consiglio. "Media servers are normally large scale installations so we were excited to learn about this product. The ArKaos Stage Server demo - just a small scale display that mapped video extr

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Dierson, who worked alongside ARE Productions show producer Antony Randall and creative director Ted Lovett, and designer/programmer Davy Sherwin, created a multi-layered design, which carved up the stage with constantly moving, bold, sweeping looks that swung from the intimate to the epic. To achieve this diverse and exciting concept, the show designers turned to the cutting-edge SL Nitro 510C, which adds RGB & W LED capabilities to the original SL Nitro 510 luminaire, delivering intense bursts of coloured and white light and dynamic effects.

Inspired by the artwork of Tempah's latest album Demonstration, Dierson says, &quo

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"Like a lot of engineers, I've been developing a rental side to what I do," says Duncan. "I had a few Senneheiser mics and various bits of outboard, and over time you think, 'actually, if I had this bit of kit it would be really useful'. A couple of years ago I was on a particular tour and I thought just that, so I bought a DiGiCo SD8 24 because it was what I needed and I knew there was enough work out there for it."

Since then, Duncan has added to his inventory with an SD11, which he used on the European leg of Rebecca Ferguson's tour. He is now deploying his SD8 with Sophie Ellis Bextor.

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Following the success of Fiddler on the Roof, sound designer Richard Brooker, along with his associate sound designer Ross Portway, chose a system based around the KV2 Audio EX 12 active two way theatre box the main front of house multi level solution.

In all a total of 38 KV2 Audio EX active boxes, including fills and subwoofers were deployed on the project and supplied through Orbital Sound, as their first UK KV2 Audio purchase.

The show featured a 12-piece live band which according to Ross Portway, "from the very first rehearsals sounded amazing through the KV2 system"

The success of this debut tour means that the next stop is a 10-week slot in the We

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For this nine-hour event (running from afternoon to midnight), packed with a strong lineup of DJs and live acts, production manager and show designer Christian Byriel from CeeBRIGHTER had some specific venue challenges to overcome. "Though being challenged with large window façades, an unusual location and an outdoor venue from daylight to dusk, I feel I achieved my vision and maintained the aesthetic look required by the customer," he says. It became apparent to him that the G-Spot was to play a large role in his achiev

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Asked about the company's criteria for choosing a new speaker system as part of an equipment upgrade, manager of audio services John Caswell said, "We've been using another system for about 11 years and wanted to take it up several notches to offer our customers a high end solution that could stay on the cutting-edge of technology for years to come.

"We demoed many of the top lines before talking to some of our freelancers who'd used the Martin Audio MLA System and had a lot of good things to say about it. Tom Alford spoke with Mario Educate, CEO and founder of On Stage Audio, who strongly recommended that we listen to the system before making a final decision.

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They presented a three-sided open booth - measuring the same size (270 sq.m) and occupying in the same location as last year. PR Lighting's trademark purple logo was easily visible as the main colour as visitors arrived at the exhibition hall and sat proudly above a special products display platform containing a large '30' - denoting the company's landmark birthday - making it both elegant and hospitable.

Although visitor levels were down by almost 16% from last year - a symptom of the world economic recession - competition in the lighting and sound sector has intensified, with more and more Chinese manufacturers fighting for market share by creating more innovative and cost effective products.

Now one of the C