This technological and aesthetic transformation will take Novel Hall's production values to a new level. Stage manager Fang Lu Yun says that they chose ETC lighting systems based on the company's established international reputation and product quality: "With years of experience in this field, ETC is widely recognised for the excellent scalability and
Business Minister Michael Fallon said, "From today [Monday] businesses are freed from the red tape that holds them back." The change was introduced through a private member's bill, introduced by Liberal Democrat Don Foster, in order to amend some of the bureaucracy imposed on gigs by the 2003 Licensing Act. The success is a relatively rare example of a House of Lords private member's bill making it i
The month-long ballot will decide places on PLASA's European and North American Regional Boards, together with a single seat on its over-arching Governing Body.
The role of the Regional Boards is to represent the interests of members affiliated to those regions, ensuring that PLASA offers strong on the ground support to members. Both the North American and European Regional Boards are looking to fill a number of places for 2013.
For the European Regional Board, Martin Hawthorn of Hawthorn's has put his name forward for a second term as Treasurer, Chris Parry-Jones of Gallowglass and Mark Surtees (incumbent) of Outback Rigging have put their names forward to represent Production Services members, Gerry Francke of Creative Technology and Noreen O'Riordan of Entec So
R29 was released to members only earlier this month and quickly received widespread commendation for the variety of new features that expand the software's potential. Particular attention has paid to the breakthrough Six Degrees of Freedom Camera and Shaded View Selection - next gen functionality acknowledged as having the power to help WYSIWYG professionals 'raise their game'.
The addition of another three degrees of freedom to the WYSIWYG cameras is of importance because it means the orientation of the camera is no longer restricted to a slightly robotic three dimensions. Users are now able to position the camera absolutely any way they cho
The latest addition to ALE's Rack Pack range, dVnet is aimed squarely at retail and architectural applications in which a media facade or light sculpture is to be controlled by video, and the complexity of a media server is not required.
dVnet is all a light artist needs to convert a video creation to light. The digital video input is in HDMI format. Configuration is simplicity itself, with less than ten mouse-clicks required to render video to a media wall.
dVnet can also playback any video clip manually loaded onto its internal hard drive, or via the incorporated pla
The event is staged amidst the stunning environs of the Ferropolis peninsula, Gräfenhainichen, an open air museum featuring a selection of giant 20th century industrial machines, like coal mining diggers, that provide a unique skyline.
Lighting equipment for the Main and Gemini stages was supplied by Berlin based TSE AG.
Their brief for the production lighting design was to create rigs that were very flexible and could cater for the vast array of bands and DJs performing over the three days, many of which brought their own lighting designers and specials packages and also hooked in to the 'house' rigs.
TSE AG decided to spec Robe as it is one of the premium brands in their rental inventory, and b
Lighting designer Lyndon Buckley has been a user of LSC Lighting's Clarity software control for four years now and chose to use it for this production.
"I'm very comfortable with Clarity and it was particularly ideal for this production," he said. "I purchased Arkaos Media Master Pro to use alongside Clarity as it integrates seamlessly."
Lyndon also used Clarity to trigger audio cues explaining that the production ha
Nadja works from ADJ's European Headquarters in Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
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The mega popular one day event was staged at the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, an exceptionally atmospheric location dating back to the first century AD.
Studio Berar provided full technical production for the Festival which also included the 'Take Me To The Hospital' stage and the 'Invaders Must Die' stage .... All featuring a stellar line up of international and national artists to sate anyone with a serious dance music habit.
Andy Hurst has been using LEDBeam 100's for Prodigy's 2012 summer festival world tour wherever possible, which kicked off at Download in the UK back in May, where the
The programme will give visitors a unique opportunity to broaden their specialist knowledge and take part in discussions about innovative projects and cutting edge techniques.
Technical editor, Richard Cadena comments, "It's always been a dream to host a show like this in the Tri-state area, and with so much talent on our doorstep we've literally been spoiled for choice when putting this seminar series together."
Media, sales & marketing director, Jackie Tien adds, "Sharing knowledge and expertise is vitally important to the development of technology, techniques and talent. We wanted to produce a program that features current, h
Stops in Guangzhou, Beijing and Hong Kong have already been held successfully with upcoming stops planned for the Prolight + Sound exhibition in Shanghai 11-14 October 11, and Chengdu and Wuhan in late October.
The Guangzhou seminar was held at the Guangdong Drama Troupe on 10 August with about 100 people attending from the entertainment, engineering, broadcasting and performance sectors. The emphasis was on two of Martin's award-winning lights - the MAC Viper Profile and MAC Aura LED wash light- along with the M2GO and M2PC lighting consoles. Dozens of Martin moving heads were installed on the Drama Troupe stage with a brilliant light show and music entertaining betwe
During this year's PLASA show at Earl's Court in September, 47 products were judged, 'live' in front of show visitors, as an independent panel of expert judges toured the show floor, camera crew in tow, to view presentations about each product.
"Nominees are asked to demonstrate a new style of thinking, an improvement in technical practice, an aid to safety, energy-saving or sustainability benefits, or new technology, materials or techniques," explains one of the judges.
Designed and manufactured in the UK, Avolites Media's Sapphire Media Infinity represents the next exciting step in Media Server technology, says Steve Warren, managing director of Avolites Media. "The powerful unit contains an incredible 8 Full HD outputs and conven
Attendees can see a wide variety of gear, suited for multiple applications. Fixtures on exhibit are: Chauvet Professional Q-Wash 436Z-LED and Q-Spot 360-LED moving heads, COLORado 1-Quad Tour, COLORdash Batten-Quad 6, COLORado Déco Quad-1 Tour and COLORado 2 Zoom Tour static wash lights, Ovation E-190WW and Ovation F-165WW LED-fitted theatrical fixtures, PiXPar 24 pixel mapping wash and LED Followspot 75ST. Additionally shown is the new trussing line, TRUSST.
The technical focus of the exhibitions allows manufacturers to show product that attendees can get their hands on and have their technical questions answered. The variety of products includes the latest technology in lighting, audio, video and trussing equipment for schools, theatres, broad
"I had heard about the Auras from other designers and programmers and speced them sight unseen," Sasic says, who uses them as floor fixtures set along the downstage edge of the stage as footlights, audience blinders, and to cast shadows of the performers on an upstage scrim and backdrop. "With a scant six fixtures the wide zoom creates a beautiful even field of color that fills the stage and covers all of the pe
Located in the heart of Hong Kong's central district, Mella Club is the newest resident in the city's busy Lan Kwai Fong nightlife scene. Opened in July, the club's focus is on design with an impressive dance floor light show courtesy of MAC 101 and MAC 350 Entour fixtures supplied by Martin Professional Hong Kong.
In a raised VIP room at one end of the club, customers overlook a spacious dance floor lined with compact MAC 101 wash lights.
Encircling the club's streamline bar counter, MAC 350 Entour LED profiles splash gobos and ever-changing colour onto adjacent walls and floor with the occasional pr
The rig involved a selection of Robe moving lights including Robin 600 LEDWashes and ColorSpot 575 and 1200E ATs, chosen by Llewellyn who was LD/operator for the event for the second year running.
He needed to make the stage as versatile as possible as a performance space for the popular boutique festival, offering the wide variety of emerging and established artists playing throughout the event their own distinctive looks.
So the lighting concept needed to be as dynamic as possible for the budget.
The lights were arranged across three trusses and on the floor. The back truss had four T-shaped bars
Comments Shaun Pearce, MD of Pearce Hire, "The Showman's Show is ideally timed as it offers a platform for us to catch up with our customers at the end of the hectic summer season. The challenges and successes of the season are still fresh in everyone's minds and it allows an opportunity for us to sit down and plan for next year. We can review what has happened over the past few months and then act upon it and build on those experiences in order to produce even better events in 2013."
It has been a non-stop summer
"We wanted a fixture that was robust and really an industry standard," explained Phil Haddy, head lighting technician. "The ETC brand is well known and respected which is why we looked to them first. Plus the Selador Lustr has the seven colours and is more theatre-orientated without sacrificing the energy efficiency and long life you expect from LEDs."
According to Haddy, the Selador Desire D40 Lustr+ fixtures have been performing well and responding beautifully.
"I really like that they offer a lot more colours than other units do and their output is really good," Phil added
"We cho
Lighting designer Shaun Moore adapted his smaller music hall inspired lighting design for the Wembley Arena show. However this one-off gig presented a number of challenges as Moore explains, "The show was a one off, so it was load in at 5am and doors at 6pm. Programming was done over two days at Terminal Studios via the Avolites console using WYSIWYG. We also had a couple hours tweaking over night in my hotel room! Obviously I could have done with a production day, especially as the show was filmed for DVD. On the day itself we had just a few hours tweaking positions and programming."
Frank Turner, the Winchester based, folk/punk singer and guitarist, has been touring almost consistently
Originally the headquarters of the Cunard Steamship Company, the architecturally dramatic building was completed in 1917, and also served as the main passenger terminal for both Cunard and White Star Line liners.
Now the classic interior has been sympathetically enhanced and reconfigured to become one of the most upmarket office buildings in Liverpool.
LED lighting manufacturer Tryka LED of Royston, worked hand in hand with main contractor on the project, Jennor UK Ltd of St Helen's, to specify and supply its Flexistrip linear strip to illuminate all the public areas of the building. The six refurbished floors were installed with more than 1000m of Warm White Flexistrip 30 IP67 l
The event was staged at Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) in Johannesburg over two days, and included two evenings of entertainment spectacular and Award presentations starring Lindiwe Bungane of Dream Girls, among other vocalists plus a full dance troupe.
Lighting was designed by TechRig's Robert Grobler, and the very stylish set created by Michael Gill. The two separate evening's programmes were enjoyed by over 1000 people.
A large trussing system was installed over the 30m wide stage, based on three concentric circles with a series of trussing spines coming off the largest circle on the outside of the two smaller one
Kirkup, working until recently for Zero 88 and Cooper Controls, brings with him extensive experience and has been a particularly strong supporter of the PLASA RDM technologies and initiatives. He is the designer and administrator of the recently revamped rdmprotocol.org website; the leading industry resource and forum for RDM related matters.
"Having worked with LumenRadio as a customer for several years, I can attest to their professionalism, capability to deliver on time, and to provide comprehensive support and backup when required", says Peter Kirkup, "Our work together on several complex projects exemplified just that - last minute purchase orders, technical challenges due to the constraints on site,
Over the last few months they have purchased 16 Robin 600 fixtures comprising of four Robin 600 Washes, four Robin 600 Spots, four Robin 600 LEDs and four Robin 600 Beams.
"The purchasing of new sound equipment has been put on hold while we focus all our energy and resources on lighting and audio visual," commented Kagiso 'Daystar' Moima, owner of Blackmotion. "Over the years we split our resources way to thin and growth was limited. Now we will head towards modular screens and mapping integrated with lighting."
Blackmotion provides all the necessary services from visual rendering to lighting design. While the company has sound in their warehouse, their l
