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14 March 2016

Commercial electronic systems integrators were encouraged by the overwhelming sense of community they experienced during this year's event. At a time when negative news and concerns surrounding economic stability consume staff at every level from business managers to technicians, conference attendees discovered staffing strategies, financial fixes and creative marketing methods at the event held last week in Phoenix, Arizona.

In addition to general sessions, a variety of networking events and social opportunities allowed attendees to discuss first hand their daily challenges and what works for them. Special guest, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), shared in

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The event will feature a packed two-day seminar programme in a purpose built auditorium which will cover a broad array of topics, including advice for freelancers, how to produce sustainable events and the issues facing regional theatres in the economic downturn.

Seminars are to be presented by leading industry associations including ISCE, Theatres Trust, ABTT, PLASA and the Sustainable Events Group.

As many seminars are close to selling out it is important to register now to secure your seat.

With pre-registered visitor figures now at 1,400, the first PLASA Focus event looks set to be a major success for all inv

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Also a major rental house, supplying lighting solutions to tours such as Lee Evans, Live @ The Apollo, Will Young and the forthcoming Michael McIntyre tour just to name a few, the company has direct accounts with some of the world's leading brands in all areas of the entertainment business and aims to supply "leading products at competitive prices,"

"We stock the latest in intelligent lighting technology from Martin Professional, industry standard lighting desks from Avolites coupled with an extensive range of generic lighting and effects. We also stock an extensive range of trussing, rigging and staging, again using industry standard names such as James Thomas and Tomcat," say the compa

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Prolyte Space Roof is a a modular roof system; Prolyft Mark IIIis the latest version of the Prolyft hoist; Prolyft Controllers are a new range of high-end but affordable controllers, and there will also be more in the Prolyft Rigging hardware line.

Also on display will be established Prolyte trussing products and Stage DEX.

(Jim Evans)

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The onboard engine then processes this information in real time in order to instruct the projector to map projected light back on to the performer or object - even while the performer is moving. Additionally, the Spotlesslight can function in the reverse mode (projecting only around the object or performer), or a combination of both modes. The light projected back on to the performer can be white light or it can be from Spotlesseffects - hologram-like special effect

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Billed as "the next generation of LED lighting effect", Fusion 672 is a rugged, lightweight batten - just over 1m long and weighing just over 3kg - each Fusion 672 contains 432 (72x6) individually controllable tri-colour LEDs with an ultra-wide viewing angle. Battens can be arranged in any pattern with the units oriented horizontally or vertically, packed tightly together or spaced apart to allow lighting through the array. Fusion 672 can serve as a video display, a lighting fixture, a light sculpture or anything in-between, say White Light.

Setup of even the most complex systems is easy: units are daisy-chained together by standard Cat5e cable. The layout of the units is specified

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Products on display will include SHoW DMX, the wireless DMX system, and two new LED lighting fixtures: the iW Blast TR Lighting Kit (a variable colour temperature white LED lighting kit for film, video, and photography), and the MasterBlast (an RGB LED party and event light equipped with battery power and wireless data).

Also on display will be the AutoYoke, a professional quality automated yoke for the ETC Source Four and other lighting fixtures, along with a range of lighting accessories. Representatives from City Theatrical will be on hand to demonstrate Lightwright, the lighting paperwork tool, and all the other City Theatrical products.

(Jim Evans)

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Julie's Bicycle have partnered with the Knowledge Connect programme on the initiative, which will provide support worth £3,000 or £10,000 to London-wide music businesses with between 4 and 50 employees. The aim is to enable them to access the knowledge, skills and expertise required to develop greener businesses and develop innovative ideas for a low carbon creative economy.

The grants will be of particular interest to businesses operating in the live sector, which is believed to account for the vast majority of music industry CO2 emissions.

The initiative will be launched during the MusicTank debate: Can The M

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The new studio microphones in the 20 and 40 Series comprise the affordable AT2035 and AT2050 large diaphragm condensers and the high-performing AT4021 cardioid and AT4022 omnidirectional condensers.

The 20 Series are both side-address models, with the cardioid AT2035 designed to isolate sound sources while the switchable pickup pattern of the AT2050 allows omni, cardioid and figure-of-eight operation. The 40 Series microphones - which carry a lifetime warranty - are ideally suited to deliver sensitivity and natural response, and are perfect for use with acoustic string and percussion instruments.

In the Broadcast & Production range the new models are the BP4071 (also

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New to the US manufacturer's COLORado series is the 2, 3, or 6-channel COLORado 1VW wash, producing variable shades of white from its 18 warm white and 18 cool white LEDs. An IP66 rating makes it ideal for both indoor and outdoor use, whilst colour temperature mixing and custom program recall can be done with or without DMX controller.

The compact LED Pinspot gives a 9° beam angle from its single high-power white LED, perfect for a variety of applications where powerful and highly directional illumination is required.

Introducing LED to the range of spots in the Q-Series are the Q-Spot 250-LED and Q-Spot 150-LED DMX-512 moving yokes. Features include a three-facet prism an

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ARX's Managing Director Colin Park says: "This year, ARX has moved across to Hall 8.0 where we are exhibiting in conjunction with our new German Distributor E.A.S GmbH. We're looking forward to spending the show working with Helmut Beermann and his team, showing his customers and our international visitors our new and existing products, and explaining why investing in ARX Signal Processing makes good business sense in the current challenging economic environment."

(Jim Evans)

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WWF are attempting to reach a target of 1 billion "votes for Earth", which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

In London, the famous Coca Cola sign in Piccadilly Circus will be switched off for only the third time since the Second World War. Other famous London

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After the success of last year's Ableton Live tour, Ableton and Novation have teamed up again to showcase Live 8 at select venues. With a new schedule of demonstrations and workshops, the organisers say there will be something for everyone - from beginners taking their first steps to seasoned power-users wanting to check out the new features. This time the focus will be on Scotland and the North of England.

An Ableton specialist will be on hand to introduce the software to those who haven't yet seen Live in action. The workshops will also give existing Live users a chance to explore some of its more advanced features and participate in question and answer sessions.

There will also be various Ableton goodies to give away,

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Two grandMA full-size, one as a back-up, and six MA NSPs, (Network Signal Processor) including two spares, form the heart of the lighting control for a rig that comprises 80 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300s, 64 Vari*Lite VL 3000 spots, eight VL3500 washes as well as Coemar, Syncrolite and Martin fixtures. In total, the lighting consumes 16 DMX universes.

Lighting designer Baz Halpin explains his design, "The show is a recap of the last 50 years of the career of one of the most stunning female artists in history. We tried to create a system that was versatile enough to cope with not only the stylistic changes

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It was 1979 when the first Trace Elliot amplifiers became available and these quickly revolutionised the way the industry perceived bass amplification. Coincidentally it is also 20 years since this was repeated for acoustic players with the launch of Trace Acoustic in 1989.

With both ranges again generating much interest, these milestones are being celebrated with the imminent release of an entertaining and insightful video. This refers to the continuity of the origin of the brand's design and also reveals some of the reasons that make these brands different.

The five and a half minute video will be officially released on the first day of the 2009 Frankfurt Musikmesse, 1 Aprilt, and will be freely available in

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Woodstock Reprise - Michael Lang, the co-founder of the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival, is reportedly seeking sponsors for a 40th anniversary reprise in New York City. "The chances that something will happen are probable," he told the Times. "But I don't really have the answer yet as to what that will be." Central Park has been suggested as a possible location for the event. The Who were among the acts who played at the original concert, which took place in Bethel, New York State. A 30th anniversary concert

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Barix held two successful workshops alongside Infocomm Asia and the Digital Signage Expo conventions in Hong Kong and Las Vegas, and included hands-on demonstrations of how the products are used in real-world applications. The next three workshops will take place on the following dates, with locations to be announced: NAB Workshop: 23 April in Las Vegas, Infocomm Workshop: 16 June in Orlando and IBC Workshop: 10 September 10 in Amsterdam.

"The initial success of our early training sessio

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First prize is an opportunity to attend, free of charge, the one-year Professional Diploma in Songwriting course at the ICMP, worth over £5,000.

Amy MacDonald says: "I'm really pleased to be working with the ICMP by judging entries to the Shure Creative Award. I think it's great that this competition exists to encourage and support the talent of developing singer/songwriters and I'm looking forward to hearing the entries over the coming months."

Paul Crognale, marketing manager, Shure Distribution UK says, "Last year was an unprec

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New control panels are being fitted to allow on-board; AMF, sequencing and synchronised load-sharing, on all machines from 60kva - 275kva. This negates the need for any separate remote AMF/Synch panels and makes for very quick and very simple deployment on site, says the company.

The new machines complement the existing stock of similarly specified machines all of which have on-board synch panels and have proved popular in the event power market, particularly where 100% redundancy is required for power-critical applications.

(Jim Evans)

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Blackpool Pleasure Beach approached A.C. to specify and supply a powerful, durable sound system for the water show. The system needed to be able to withstand both the wet environment and high ambient noise levels emanating from the surrounding restaurant district. Knowing KV2 Audio had previously manufactured loudspeakers to such high levels of durability, A.C. Audio sales manager Peter Butler turned to KV2 with the brief.

"The reliability o

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Wonderworks was contracted by design consultancy, Designmap, who created the exhibition for English Heritage. The Darwin hologram is set in faithful recreation of his cabin on the Beagle. MDM Props (Designmap's build partner on the project) realised the cabin interior. Having partnered Wonderworks many times in the past, Paradigm AV was brought in to work on the elaborate fabrication.

It was at Down House that Darwin lived with his devoted family for 40 years, and it was here that he researched and wrote his most famous and seminal work, On the Origin of Species.

The new exhibition cha

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Engel stated, "These challenging economic times require both imaginative solutions -- and compassion for those in need. That's one of the reasons Rosco is so pleased to be involved in The ESTA Foundation's Behind The Scenes programme. We contribute a part of the proceeds from sales of one of the most popular colours in Roscolux, 359 Medium Violet, to Behind The Scenes. More and more people throughout the industries we serve are choosing this colour both for m

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The Point Series incorporates Adamson's Advanced Cone Architecture in all 12" and 15"cabinets. These low-mid transducers have Kevlar cone geometries that reduce modal behaviour, providing an improved and linearised pass-band.

The Point 8, Point 12 and Point 15 are all available in both, active and passive versions. The Point 15 and Point 12 are equipped with either a 40 x 20, 60 x 40 or 90 x 60 rotatable Waveguide, for maximum flexibility. The smaller Point 8 is available with a 90 x 60 rot

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The BBC will open the PLASA Focus seminar programme at 10.30am on Tuesday 28 April with a look at the UK's first Media City, opening in 2010 at Salford Quays.

The inspirational new Media City will cover two hundred acres and establish a new state-of-the-art media enterprise zone for the North. The new iconic building will hold a custom-built recording studio for the BBC Philharmonic, floating stages for theatre and concert venues, studio and technical facilities and a number of other offerings for media industries

During the seminar, Jim Brown (Portfolio Director, Production Studio and Technical Facilities in BBC Workplace) will explain what will be in Phase 1 of the project, what first attracted the