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The Sapphire Touch has undergone significant aesthetic enhancements and employs the newest technology available. It combines twin multi-touch screens with 45 motorized touch sensitive faders and an Optical trackball with Z axis ring, affording designers faster control of complex fixtures.

In addition, the company adds, the Titan Mobile "heralds a new dawn of compact world-class lighting control consoles". Ideal for designers on the move, this lightweight console brings all the Avolites experience and quality to an affordable level and has been used on tour with the likes of Fat Boy Slim and Groove Armada.

These latest innovations incorporate Avolites' fully integrated Titan Operating System, which feature

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BA (Hons) Performance Sound reflects the growing importance of sound in every field of performance - from theatre to music concerts, from sports events to dance, and from site-specific installation to radio drama. The programme combines sound design, technology and operation, with a strong emphasis on live production, and has recently attracted the support of key players in the audio industry, including sponsorship by Harman Pro Group UK in the shape of a Soundcraft VI-1 digital mixer.

BA (Hons) Creative Lighting Control has been created in response to rapidly growing industry demand for s

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The fixture is available in Cool, Warm and Natural white versions, and the company underlines the quality of the materials used and its pursuit of simplicity, design efficiency and optimisation of the internal airflow.

A very wide 9°-85° zoom also suits the fixture to floodlight lighting, a feature that broadens its appeal to TV studios. Like its companions at the top end of the Sintesi range the unit is completely noiseless, and features both a built-in DMX dimmer and manual light adjustment through a potentiometer.

Supplied accessories include a colour frame, barn-doors which provide a perfect cut and a solid but lightweight sus

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Featuring a 300-watt Quad Color LED system and built on Elation's space-saving Platinum base, the Platinum Wash LED Zoom offers brilliant RGBW colors in a trimmed-down fixture that the company says is as ideal for concerts and stages as it is for churches and theatrical applications.

Powered by 30 x 10-watt RGBW CREE LEDs, the Platinum Wash LED Zoom, says Elation, produces an output comparable to a 575-watt discharge moving head, yet drawing only 360W at maximum use, offering notable energy savings over fixtures with conventional lamps. The LED source emits 1,672 lux / 155 foot-candles at 16 feet (4.8m) - for a bold, bright wash in any color. Elation adds t

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Featuring the same award-winning, lightweight and cable-free design for rapid deployment, the EC-10 is 100% compatible with the EC-20 in terms of color, setup, curving, and control and processing, even accessories, allowing for seamless, mixed resolution visuals in one system.

Using high efficiency Nichia LEDs, the EC-10 offers visual performance at the highest level. Pinpoint 48-bit color processing ensures uncompromised color depth at any brightness setting. Each pixel is color and brightness calibrated for maximum color and brightness uniformity and consistency from pixel to pixel and panel to panel.

High brightn

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FocusTrack was specified by production electrician Michael Pitzer to document Tony Award-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz's work on the show. Pitzer has previously used the software on The Addams Family and the Broadway revival of Les Misérables. On Sister Act, the software took the information from the show's grandMA console, programmed by Hillary Knox, and identified more than 1600 lamp-focus positions across the show's 125 moving lights - an average of over 12 positions per light.

With the lighting complete, Pitzer organised a focus plot session where he connected FocusTrack t

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Head of lighting at Mannheim National Theatre is Nicole Berry who has recently overseen the installation of new Martin MAC III Performance moving head fixtures, an innovative high-output luminaire with interleaved framing system.

Used as downlights and front lights in both the 1200-seat opera house and 640-seat theatre, Berry lists a number of features of the MAC luminaire as outstanding, not least the fixture's framing system and sharp projection quality over all four framing blades.

The MAC III Performances were purchased for the National Theatre Mannheim via Werning Theatertechnik of Recklinghausen with service

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The lighting rig includes Stage Colour 300, Mac 500 and Mac 600.

The industry standard MAC 600 is a powerful wash light with a CMY colour mixing system, 440° of pan and 306° of tilt and a fast and smooth movement.

Each show, two teams of five family members (headed up by a celebrity captain) go head to head trying to guess the top answers in a series of open ended survey questions given to 100 members of the general public.

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Chauvet's Q-Wash 260-LED joins the Q-Series of moving heads which have always stood for quality, value and groundbreaking LED technology. Chauvet's Q-Wash 260-LED is no different. It is an incredibly punchy, fast and compact moving head wash light with RGB colour mixing. This lightweight, easy-to-install unit has 37 three-watt, RGB LEDs, a six-degree beam angle, and nine or 12 channels of DMX control. Q-Wash 260-LED is an economical fixture which can be used in larger dynamic arrays or groups, and has an effect similar to a colour-changing ACL fixture.

Chauvet joins other leading manufacturers in a shoot-out of LED lighting fixtures, led by L

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The company says that Capture Polar version 2.6 features significant improvements in the aesthetic qualities of the visualisation, with "new and stunning" smoke and intensity effects. Further steps have been taken, it adds, to ensure that Capture utilizes the power of the designer's computer better, creating "the smoothest design experience ever".

Capture will also be demonstrating the powerful video and material mapping features of Capture Polar version 2.5, which made it possible to integrate the visualisation of virtually any video surfaces or projections with a lighting design.

PLASA 2011 2-R5

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The Year of the Forest initiative is supported by prominent German celebrities, and the launch featured a media conference the day after the installation went live. The lit work became a local and international talking point, as well as a popular attraction enjoyed by press, public and passers by.

The temporary installation - which was in place on the steps of the Konzerthaus in Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt square - featured 26 tree sculptures measuring up to six metres in height, each carefully crafted by Pommerehn usi

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In addition to issues surrounding the build and stability of the structure itself, the question of why the event was not stopped and the audience evacuated far sooner will surely form a major part of the investigation.

It is reported that organisers had urged audience members to seek shelter just minutes before the sudden winds hit the stage structure - far too late, as it turned out, for an effective evacuation. With news reports claiming that forecasters at the National Weather Service had predicted the strong winds of 60-70mph up to t

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Vontobel has been with GDS since February 2009 and has been instrumental in setting-up GDS's USA office and sales network. He feels that he is "unable to give all that is required to the position at this time and has decided to move on".

"I have decided that now is the right time for me to spend more time with my young family and I am planning to find my next opportunity closer to home," he says. "I felt it would be best for the company to find someone who can devote more time to developing the USA operations and moving the company forward. Global Design Solutions is a great company with innovative products, I wish Matt and Richard every success for the future, they are a fantastic bunch guys with great products and v

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Supplied and installed by Philips Entertainment's Finnish Distributor Hedcom, the key challenge in this modern concert hall was to ensure that all lighting fixtures operated silently and efficiently with minimum heat output so as not to interfere with the listening experience of the audience.

Pekka Rytilahti, product manager for Hedcom reports: "We installed over 150 Philips Entertainment luminaires into the 1700-seat main auditorium and five additional, smaller spaces. The specification included Philips Selecon SPX, Arena, Rama and Pacific fixtures alongside a number of Vari-Lite VL1100AS.

Rytilahti worked closely with the client project manager Antti Rehtijärvi from ISS Proko, theatre consultant Tapio Ilomäki from Akukon Co

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The EC-10 is a high performance, true 10 mm pixel pitch LED display panel that teams with Martin's EC-20 to form a fully compatible EC family of LED displays that can be mixed and matched for ultimate design creativity.

Featuring the same award-winning, lightweight and cable-free design for rapid deployment, the EC-10 is 100% compatible with the EC-20 in terms of colour, setup, curving, and control and processing, even accessories, allowing for seamless, mixed resolutio

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All are in keeping with the company's ongoing "Think of the Future - Consider Nature" commitment to producing genuinely more sustainable technology.

The mega-bright ROBIN 1200 LEDWash utilises the same multichip LEDs as the Award-winning ROBIN 600 LEDWash and smaller ROBIN 300 LEDWash, in an intensely bright package featuring 61 x LEDs in total, in four concentric rings. It has all advantages of fabulously smooth mixing, the true whites and the homogenised light engines of the LEDWash 300 and 600, along with light weight, full functionality and low power consumption.

The ROBIN DLX Spot is the world's first LED based spot moving head wi

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The three sold out performances were staged at the 500 capacity New Century Hall in central Manchester. Eclipse told the story of the duo's work and life together, featuring a collection of songs - a fusion of pop, blues and Malian music - spanning their career which started over 25 years ago when they met at the Mali Institute for the Young Blind.

Amadou and Mariam specifically wanted the audience to experience the show in total darkness, so they could appreciate the psychological and sensory shifts involved in perception and experience that take

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"Neo-Neon lighting can be seen enhancing the visual lives of millions of people around the world for the past 33 years," says the company. "Neo-Neon UK PLC is a subsidiary of Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd, and was the first to market with a complete range of SSL White LED based General and Commercial and Consumer Retail DIY products. For many years Neo-Neon has been at the forefront of LED Technology to cover all market sectors from Architectural to General task Lighting and extensively caters for the Entertainment lighting market also, with thousands of products to cater for all requ

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Since the CRMX line of products was launched back in 2009 LumenRadio has supported a wide variety of Ethernet protocols including industry standard protocols like Streaming ACN (ANSI E1.31), manufacturer proprietary protocols such as ETCNet 2 & 3 and ShowNet, and protocols available in the public domain like Art-Net 1, 2, & 3.

"By being the first company to officially announce Art-Net 3 support we continue to be one of the most network and user friendly, as well as proactive, companies in the industry," says LumenRadio's CTO Niclas Norlén.

Michael Karlsson, senior R&D Engineer at LumenRadio, adds, "The engineering team

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Products premiering at PLASA include the Cygnus Incite 375W Profile, the latest addition to the Cygnus range of LED fixtures by Wybron - exclusively distributed in the UK by TMB. Incite offers unprecedented lumens-per-Watt efficiency, with a CRI up to 92 (5x the brightness of competing fixtures). The quiet, advanced thermal management system ensures optimal output and consistent colour for many years. Proprietary in-lens colour-mixing technology provides smooth, virtually rainbow-free shadows. Advanced electronics provide step-free dimming over the longest fades, and Incite is fully RDM capable. The Cygnus family also includes the super-bright LED Wash and Studio Series.

Exclusively distributed worldwide, new products in the ProPlex DDD - Data Distr

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"In return, Rosco will send you one of the most interesting pieces of swag we've ever created. It's a coffee mug, artfully coloured in a Roscolux colour, complete with the SED curve. (You'll receive one of the 10 different Roscolu

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Ghost associate LD, Tim Lutkin, got his first glimpse of the SMART:e whilst chatting to one of the product's designers recently and offered to give them their first real test.

"They're a fantastic bit of kit," says Lutkin. "I just can't get over how small and light they are, the battery life is great, the colour mix is brilliant, especially all the pastel shades you can get by adding the white in. But the best bit for me is their look, they are just so smart, they don't look like a marquee up-lighter and for me that is the deal clincher."

The SMART:e is the fir

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While the concert has raised the doubts of Randy and Jermaine Jackson, it has the full support of the star's mother and other siblings. British acts Leona Lewis, Craig David and JLS have also been lined up to perform at the gig. Several of Jackson's brothers will also perform, along with 3T, which consists of Tito Jackson's three sons. "We're delighted that such exciting and globally recognised acts have joined the line-up to pay tribute to a music legend," said Chris Hunt, president of concert promoter Glob

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Borrowing a phrase found in Chinese literature referring to material reality, Ten Thousand Things offers sales and support for a wide range of lighting products.

"We offer our own growing range of consumable items - lamps, power and data cables, gaffer tape, gels, connecters - basically all the everyday lighting industry essentials," says Alderamin Group co-owner, Simon Fraser."Our Ten Thousand Things branded range is complemented by three internationally respected franchises. We are the distributor for City Theatrical and Green Hippo in Hong Kong and Macau, and we also sell Artistic Licenc