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Færch's considerable experience encompasses a background in electrical engineering, project and department management including work with integration of hardware, software and mechanics, electronic design and product platforms.

Færch comes to Martin from a project management position at Danish firm TC Electronic and held a similar position at wind turbine manufacturer Vestas. He started his career as a design engineer at companies Crisplans and Terma.

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This will be the third Gottelier Award - named in memory of the former designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, who died in 2006. The Award (sponsored by Lighting&Sound International magazine for which Tony Gottelier was a regular contributor for many years), aims to recognise those who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the development of entertainment technology. Former winners are Tony Andrews of Funktion One (2007) and John Stadius of Soundtracs/DiGiCo (2008).

The seven nominees this year include four notable figures from the lighting world and three from pro audio. This year's nominees are, in alphabetical

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Jonathan (Speedy) Cole who was LD for the show, reports: "This Concert was a result of over a year of planning. The producer, Danny Kaizler from Israevents paid attention to every musical detail in the show, so I had to come up with a Lighting rig to allow a reaction of lighting to each and every musical point.

"We had rehearsals in the venue on the Friday, followed by a get in time of 05:00 on the day, having the ability to use the Vector PC, meant that I was able to programme each and every cue off site, using Wysiwyg. As we got in, whilst the crew off loaded the trucks, we ran 130m of n

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Pearce Hire MD Shaun Pearce commented: "We've been waiting for the right time to make a significant investment in LED products. With the rapid development of LED fixtures over the last few years we've seen fixtures going out of fashion (and so becoming obsolete) very quickly, so we have found it more cost effective to sub-rent, enabling us to provide clients with exactly the right tool for the job.

"With the i-Pix BB4 we feel we've finally found a well designed fixture that will last. It has excellent output and a variety of lens and mounting options which mean it's adaptable to a large number of applications; as a hire company that is an essential feature

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The regular Scott Mills Show is currently broadcasting live to Radio 1 listeners from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Scott Mills and his team are attempting to stage Scott Mills The Musical.

Stage Electrics is supplying a variety of equipment to the production including Martin MAC moving lights, Source Fours, Martin Mania Oil Effect Units, Teclumen Follow Spot Kits and all associated cabling, dimming and distribution units. Nic Holdridge is the lighting designer for the show.

Paul Roughton, business development manager and part of the 'Edinburgh Support Team' at Stage Electrics comments: "We are del

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Bocelli, together with conductor Marcello Rota and the Symphonic Orchestra of Abruzzo put on a spectacular and emotional 90-minute concert, broadcast live across Europe.

The concert was produced and organised by Four One Music & Events in collaboration with Comune di Roma and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of the Capital. Bocelli sang 12 arias and Neapolitan songs to an audience of several hundred people who paid 1,000 euros ($1,400) a ticket to witness the historical event. The proceeds of the evening were given in support of Abruzzo, to help rebuild the music con

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Specialists from A.C., as well as manufacturer representatives, were on hand to discuss how the two technologies are increasingly converging to provide innovative backdrops, set pieces and other video-based elements. The showcase included video projection and associated equipment, creative LED surfaces and LED lighting products from Christie, Chroma-Q, Element Labs, GLP, Green Hippo, GTEK, Kramer, Martin, Robe and TV One.

Lighting designer Bernie Davis commented: "I was delighted that the A.C. event was on a day I could go as I find these meetings are a good way to get a closer look at all that is new. The eq

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Production designer, Ben M Rogers, chose the ORB to control the opening ceremony after receiving a product demonstration at the ProLight&Sound show held earlier this year in Frankfurt. "I have used the ZerOS based consoles for many years now with the Frog 2 making regular appearances in Cyprus for large scale events," reports Rogers. "What was significant about the ORB was the re-structuring of the control surface into a more theatrical style and the numerous updates and enhancements to the already strong operating system."

These recent developments include a colour picker and a full tracking back-up solution. "The track

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Product launches will encompass the full spectrum of lighting equipment: Clarity, a new modular control system with powerful support for media servers from LSC, the re-designed Horus cyclight from Robert Juliat (as well as the comprehensive new Robert Juliat product catalogue), the LedCyc9 LED cyc lighting system from LDDE, and a newly upgraded version of the popular Viper smoke machine from Look Solutions.

Two new members of the White Light family, JB Lighti

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S°ren Jørgensen, sales director at ETC's Danish dealer Bico says: "The venue had a short time period in which to swap out its old equipment and install the new, which consisted of an Eos control desk, remote focus unit (RFU) and three racks of Sensor dimming. In all, we installed 280 ways of dimming and four gateways around the building.

"We only had six weeks from getting the request for quotation to completing the installation and training the staff. But because the venue's previous desk was an ETC Expression, which uses the same style of programming syntax, the technical staff quickly got the h

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Despite it being the most ambitious stage set of any band's world tour, topping the likes of Madonna and The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne was not impressed. He slammed the band on his blog and said their world tour costs were "excessive", considering their stance on world hunger. He wrote: "$40 mill

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Cuelux is designed to suit the entry level market; key to this is its intuitive graphical user-interface. It is specially designed to reduce the amount of time required to learn how to operate the software. Great care has been taken to design Cuelux' 100% touch-screen compliant user-interface to reflect the functionality of the industry standard control boards. Programming the lights through Cuelux' cue-list system is identical to the industry's most sophisticated consoles, says the company.

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The manufacturer of a range of transparent LED video systems, including the Phantom frame system and Solaris, which are fully backed by the company's high standards of service and support, G-LEC supports both existing sales outlets and new customers with standard product always available from stock. The company also offers bespoke solutions, such as the media façade installed at Munich's BMW Museum.

(Jim Evans)

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GDS is a UK Manufacturer with a diverse range of technology based products. Based in Bristol with offices in the US, it has six key brands in its product portfolio specialising in lighting and control solutions.

(Jim Evans)

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"I am convinced that there is an abundance of design opportunities and new business in the national and international architectural and display lighting market for a highly creative experienced new company," says Wadsworth.

Lightinc will concentrate its efforts in three main areas: Projects - Independent lighting design and supply projects, including electrical installation, focusing, commissioning and maintenance of the lighting system; Products - The design and development of a range of lighting products. Wadsworth intends to develop these fittings to suit the requirements of the lighting specification market, along with products designed for specific lighting applications; Lect

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The campaign is open to companies from all sectors who want to reduce the amount of carbon emitted from their buildings and to motivate fellow employees to get involved. In return, participants will be able to access an extensive list of carbon saving activities and expert advice.

This is the fourth Carbon Clean Up Campaign run by CIBSE - last year's campaign saw around 600 organisations sign up to cut carbon, including hospitals, museums, consultancies, local authorities and universities. Buildings already signed up for the 2009 campaign include Tate Britain and the Science Museum.

Mike Simpson, CIBSE President, said: "We are now in the fourth year of Carbon Clean up Campaigns and enthusiasm

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E/T/C London's Ross Ashton designed and produced custom artwork for the high impact projections which run for approximately 50% of the show. This is the most that projected images have been used to date since the medium was first introduced into the Tattoo's visual mix in 2005.

Four of E/T/C's PIGI 6K projectors fitted with double rotating scro

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The report describes a difficult first half of 2009, in which the group's consolidated revenue has fallen 13.1% from H1 2008, while the company's earnings before income tax (EBIT) fell by DKK 138 million to DKK 12 million, which the report says "is not considered to be satisfactory".

Furthermore, Schouw says that its earnings difficulties are "predominantly attributable to Martin".

"Revenue failed to meet expectations, and Martin continues to be hard hit by the knock-on effects of the global financial crisis. Geographically, the recession is broadly founded, and investments in large parts of the events

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The support of Supply2.gov.uk underlines PLASA09's role as a focus for business within the sector. Supply2Gov is the first major initiative to unite both buyers and suppliers in a single location, making it easier for business and government to work together. Suppliers can access UK-wide contracts for free via an online Contract Search, and can also sign up for a daily e-mail alert.Since its launch, the portal has provided small businesses throughout the UK wit

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Hosted by Steve Schirripa of Sopranos fame, contestants choose a professional poker player (the Ace) to match wits against from among four doors. Filmed at Cin City Studios in Las Vegas, Face the Ace uses a complement of Martin Professional lighting gear to dress the set in colour and beam effects, including the new MAC 301 Wash luminaire.

Innovative Show Design (ISD) of Lake Mary, Florida handled all scenic and lighting design, production and installation for client Poker Production. Lighting design is by ISD's lighting director/associate artistic director Justin Garrone.

The set design is based on a fashionable, contemporary hotel suite. "We were inspired by the look an

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The culmination of Liverpool's 2009 Art On The Waterfront event also produced by Walk The Plank for Liverpool City Council, LuminoCity was produced in conjunction with Tate Liverpool, which ran a week of colourful summer events for all ages inspired by their exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today.

Stephen Page of DBN designed the light show which illuminated the 50m tall building. Page used over 200 assorted LED fixtures, primarily Chroma-Q Colorblock mk2s, dotted all over the bu

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The Edinburgh International Conference Centre used a grandMA2 light console for their main Pentland auditorium, a 600 - 1200 capacity flexible space. This hosted two dance shows in rep and several comedy performances including Jimmy Carr and Jason Byrne, during the festival.

The console supply was instigated by freelance lighting designer Dave Elcome, who created the production design for most of the shows staged in the venue, and Kenneth Boak, the EICC's technical production manager.

Over in the Music Hall venue within the Assembly Rooms on George Street, another grandMA2 light was in action with a grandMA pico for the duration. The grandMA2 light was specified by Assembly Rooms' head of lighting Paul Lim, and operated primarily by Dave Evans and Steve Sanders, who ran it in 'series 1

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To keep pace with modern tour riders, and the growing move by the medium-sized venue market to offer bands the opportunity to leave their production in the truck, visiting sound engineers can now mix their acts through Soundcraft 64-channel Vi6 at front-of-house and 48-channel Vi4 at the monitor position.

The desks were chosen by the venue's technical manager Dave McVea, and installed by the SSE Audio Group installation project team, led by Alex Penn and Steve Dando.

Rock City is owned by DHP (Daybrook House Promotions) who went through a long process of consideration before it made its final choice of an audio supplier. Managing director David Dav

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This Channel 4 eight part-series sees Brooker dissecting the week's TV shows along with three guests.

Production designer Cath Pater-Lancucki is the creator of the towering set of back-lit stacked TV sets crowned with satellite dishes. Lighting Designer, Will Charles wanted it to feel like an 'over the top' version of Telly Addicts.

Charles enlisted the services of Richard Martin Lighting to provide the lighting fixtures for the show which consists of 20 GLP Chrome Impressions as a ceiling of light above the set , seven VL3500 and four VL3000 Spots for searchlight beams behind the set , two Mac 500's as backlights and eight VL1000TS as tungsten key lights.

Charles has been working alongside moving li