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With a set designed by Dewet Meyer and a lighting design by André Rossouw of SABC and Francois van der Merwe of MJ Event Gear, a grandMA full-size was chosen to control all the lighting. This is supplied by MJ and was also programmed by van der Merwe, who is sharing operating duties with Theo Roodt due to the demanding schedule, which includes the accommodation of several regular SABC programmes as well as comprehensive match coverage.

The rig includes Robe and Martin Professional moving lights, LED fixtures, generics, scrollers and Robe Media Spinners.

The m

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Relay operation is dependent upon the channel mode as set by the operator. Additionally the appropriate relay/s will operate if the dimmer drive level is at full or off for more than one minute, maximising system efficiency and safety. You can now connect a dimmer per outlet in your stage lighting system and without the need for patching and be able to deliver high quality dimmed power or clean mains from each socket as required, says the company. The adaptability of the HPC series is not limited to the output mode however as it is fully capab

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There are over 43 new exhibitors who weren't at the show last year, including Ateis, Baldwin Boxall, Bosch, Bose, Christie, Chroma-Q, EAW, Electro-Voice, Intertek, Korg, Lighthouse Technologies, Line 6, Mackie, Martin Audio, M Studio, Penton, Turbosound, Stageco, Sundrax, Taiden, Tomcat, Wasp and Zero 88.

These will add to an already comprehensive line-up of leading manufacturers and industry specialists underscoring PLASA's position as the place to see new products and major industry brands.

The PLASA Innovation Gallery, which profiles all the launch products nominated for a PLASA Innovation Award, will showcase a new format on Sunday 12 September, when entrants will publicly demonstrate their products to the Awards judg

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The Mobile Showroom presents a survey of Wybron's stable of products, including the new Cygnus LED Wash Light, in a environment more intimate than a trade show.

"The challenge of this industry is to actually get information to the people who will benefit from it," said Wybron CEO Keny Whitright. "A trade show is terrific, sure, but you're often lacking time to connect with all the folks you would like to."

(Jim Evans)

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With a musical score based on Green Day's album of the same name, American Idiot debuted on Broadway in April under the direction of Michael Mayer. Mayer led a creative team that included scenic design by Christine Jones, lighting design by Kevin Adams, and video and projection design by Darrel Maloney. SenovvA implemented the designers' vision, and provided the show's custom video system.

Twelve of the Hippotizer HDs on American Idiot are specially configured machines, outputting up to four 720p video feeds to

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Lighting designer Frank Schotman created the special lighting and chose to work with Martin Professional's MAC 301 Wash, MAC 401 Dual and MAC 2000 range luminaires, as well as Martin LC Plus LED panels. The lighting equipment was supplied by Eclipse and acquired from Martin Middle East.

Schotman placed most of the MAC gear on five finger trusses that covered most of the event centre hall, allowing him to envelope the audience in color. He also placed Atomic strobes and other lighting on five truss towers for special effects.

Guetta's show was enhanced by an LED backdrop displaying a multitude of graphics and images. To crea

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Selected by local partner Nova Superscreen, Lighthouse Technologies provided three LED display screens, one on the main stage and two at the Botanical Garden's Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage and Palm Valley.

"The YTL Concert of Celebration is one of Singapore's most acclaimed and highly regarded events, and with the Singapore Premier and dozens of international guests on hand, we were confident that Lighthouse products would deliver a world-class viewing experience," said Nik Ahmad Huznee, chief executive officer at Nova Superscreen.

"The R16 screens performed stunningly, delivering perfect colour and excellent clarity, just as we expected. Lighthouse really makes the entire process, from

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Lite Alternative's Paul Normandale has designed the six floor-mounted impression XL LED heads into an elaborate motion controlled set.

His company also fielded a further nine impression 120RZ Zooms from their inventory - adding to the fixtures they first incorporated into the set design for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs earlier in the year (all fixtures supplied by AC Entertainment Technologies). Like the XL's these were mounted at the back of the stage, and blasted their light through four 8 x 8 sections of spinning aluminium louvre shutters, lifted on a Kinesys K2 motion control section.

After a three-year break, the New York-based Scissor Sisters were clearly seeking something more sophisticated than a disco lighting set - b

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DBN was asked to light the dance/indie/crossover by event organisers The Warehouse Project and Ear To The Ground - with whom they have worked on many other projects.

Ian Brown headlined the main stage on the Friday night and Friendly Fires on the Saturday, and the project was managed for DBN by Nick Walton.

Walton also did the production design for the main stage, which was largely based around the lighting spec and design for Ian Brown by LD Fletch from Colour Sound Experiment. The rig also incorporated the flexibility to be morphed into a completely different l

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Named in honour of the late designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, this award aims to recognise the product developers who have made a significant contribution to the development of the equipment and tools that enable our entertainment technology practitioners to continually push the boundaries of event production, presentation and installation.

Once the shortlist of nominees is decided, the Voting Phase will begin. This year, to help ensure that only legitimate industry professionals can cast a vote, voting for the n

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Working in the main Concert Hall, which holds over 1,000 people, Bico installed a Unison Paradigm system with 24 ways of dimming to control the house and rehearsal lights, along with an sACN network system, all connected both to a new Ion control desk and several wall mounted fader stations. Two 48-way Sensor dimming racks and five gateways were also fitted for show light.

Søren Jørgensen, sales project manager at Bico, comments, "This year, we were tasked with updating all their old dimmers with streaming ACN (sACN) and integrating the house and stage lighting. After doing on site tests with the Ion and another manufacturer's desk, the Ion was specified because it operates sile

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The Victors - the first to enter South Africa - are installed in the largest of the venue's three auditoria, the 1487-seat main Opera Theatre, where upcoming shows include Le Grand Cirque Fantazie, African Songbook, the Cape Town International Ballet Competition and Mamma Mia!.

Senior lighting operator, Nicolas Tilney comments, "Robert Juliat has fantastic equipment with superb R&D. Their followspots are extremely user-friendly with the placements of their controls. The followspots have a general feeling of high quality. From what I had read and seen I knew what I wanted and what I would get from RJ. There was no reason to compare them with any other products."

Robbi Nassi from Electrosonic add

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The lighting designer of this event, Liufeng Shu, renowned for having realized several shows of international significance, including the Singapore International Cantonese Opera Festival and the Qingdao Austria Sail, has chosen the iSpot Extreme 6000, the iSpot Flex and the CF 7 Hard Edge X, which are all Coemar products.

The iSpot Flex, launched in 2002 at the LDI in Las Vegas, boast three patents. They are the first moving heads made with 2000 W discharge lamps, featuring a carbon fibre body.

The iSpot Extreme 6000, created for the Winter Olympics of 2006 in Turin, are the first moving heads with a 1450 W lamp.

The CF 7 Hard Edge X won the Award for Innovation in 2000, are

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Melvin Benn, who runs the Reading, Leeds and Latitude festivals, described it as "blatant money-grabbing". He told BBC News, "The quantum leap in what the PRS are being paid by live music promoters is very, very substantial compared to what it was 10 years ago. Live music is so much stronger than it was, and therefore the receipts the PRS are getting are substantially more than they were. Instead of being ple

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14 March 2016

Investors in People is a national standard which helps organisations transform their business performance. Preparing for the IIP assessment (which took over a year) has involved all of the Black Light team and has led to a business-wide rebranding, improvements in its business systems and a number of changes in staff roles and responsibilities. Together, these have streamlined the company's operations and improved customer service.

"IIP has helped me, as the business owner, focus on what is important for Black Light and start rolling that out," says Gavin Stewart, Black Light's managing director. "I hope tha

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With its external chairlift, the Swiss Pavilion is an eye-catching element of during the Expo. The chairlift takes visitors up to the flower beds of the green roof, as a symbol of the natural environment. In contrast, the interior area stands for the urban part, where 21 Barco CLM HD8 projectors are used to create a 360° projection showing visitors images of the cities Zürich, Basel and Geneva.

Winkler VST is responisble for the planning and technical realisation of all AV equipment. "We have experience with Barco's CLM HD8 projectors and have learned that they are ideal to use in multi-p

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In the five years since the company's creation, i-Pix's products have proved popular with lighting designers for concerts and live events - including forming the core of the design for Radiohead's 2008 world tour, and more recently as a key element of the Kick Off Celebration Concert for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The current i-Pix product line-up includes the BB1 'building block' modular LED light-source, the BB4 LED washlight, the BB7 beamlight/washlight fixture, and the versatile Satellite.

"In our five year history, we have doubled our revenues year on year, and both our product range and expertise have increased," notes i-Pix founder Chris Ewington. "We have worked directly with l

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The extra touch screen panel of MADRIX is one of the most used features. From now on, the special user interface can be adjusted more easily to the users' needs. You can choose from 3, 12, 24, 40, or 60 Storage Place buttons per side (A and B). The software automatically scales the user interface to its optimal size and according to the screen resolution.

MADRIX supports a lot of well-known industry standards, such as DMX512, Art-Net II, Streaming ACN, DVI, T9, and the Philips Color Kinetics and Insta/ROBE protocols. The application supports pixel mapping and is both an effect generator and media server with ca

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Walker, who started in the position on 4 May, working from Martin UK's new London office, brings a wealth of AV industry experience with him. After working at the video rental company Creative Technology for 14 years, the last five as sales director, he operated his own independent audiovisual consultancy the past two years. His experience spans all segments of the entertainment and live event sectors.

Commenting on his hiring, Walker stated, "It is an exciting time to join the industry and one of the most important manufacturers in it. This is a time of great product development and innovation, including the convergence with video.

"It feels like a natural and logical career progression from video into the lighting and visual solutions business a

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On air since 1996, Storytellers is a programme that bases its popularity on the intimate meetings between the stars and the audience who can ask their favourite stars questions. Over the years the programme has had guests such as Sting, Elton John, Alanis Morissette and Coldplay.

On 13 June it was the turn of Christina Aguilera, with lighting designer Tom Kenny opting for 16 Infinity ACL, 24 Infinity Wash XL and some 50 ParLite LEDs.

(Jim Evans)

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The events which took place over a two-week period in June, saw some of the UK music scene's hottest and developing talent take centre stage at Regents Park- London, Stanley Park-Liverpool, Castle Park- Bristol and the Vale, Birmingham.

The four events were project managed by Stage Electrics' Andrew Siddon who used EAW KF965 loudspeakers and a Yamaha M7CL console to mix the live bands. Stage Electrics also provided all

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Brandon Siemion, Lumenpulse's executive vice-president for worldwide sales, comments, "Fibre Optic Systems is well-placed to distribute Lumenpulse as the company has experience in the LED field and knows the best use applications for Interior and exterior projects. The company works closely with many lighting designers, engineers and architects in the region.

"The timing for us to choose a partner in the UK is not only to develop new projects, but also support projects specified from North America. FOS has great experience supporting LED projects in the UK and other countries in Europe and the Middle East.""

Gordon Addison, FOS technical director, adds, "We

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The Bradley Centre, home of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, will soon set the standard for LED center-hung integrated displays. Featuring over 1,000sq.ft of 6mm pitch LED video distributed across four main screens, over 91m of 10mm entertainment strips and scoring matrix, and a customised underside display, the Bradley Centre's centre-hung display will blaze with over 232sq.m and nearly 2m pixels of LED video.

"We are very excited about partnering with the Bradley Centre for their LED renovations," said Matt Ritter, TS Sports VP of sales. "The new centre hung will consist of customized radius corners making it one of the most dynamic LED systems in professional sports.&quo

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Cubehenge, the brainchild of Cubes Concept, was conceived last autumn with Glastonbury Festival in mind. Constructed using IBCs (1000 litre containers usually employed in the transportation of liquids), each cube was fitted with an LED colour changing unit supplied by UK distributor Batmink Ltd and was individually controlled via DMX using ChamSys MagicQ software and Mini Wing controller.

The 40m diameter installation cons