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Based in Knoxville Tennessee the office will be headed up by well-known industry icon Rob Steel. "Most people will know Rob from his days running Avolites America and his industry knowledge and experience as well as his impeccable reputation are widely known," says LSC.

Rob commented, "I am so excited to be involved with LSC. I have had dealings with them in the past and have found them to be a great bunch of guys with a fantastic product range. They have been manufacturing products for the industry for the last 30+ years and selling those products worldwide. That experience shows in their product designs a

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This was staged at the Bassline, downtown Johannesburg's hottest live music venue, right in the heart of the City's buzzing Newtown district, with eight top dance crews battling it out for the title, and Robe LEDBeam 100s providing a perfect lightweight lighting effects solution.

Several challenges faced the technical production. One was a very low weight loading in the venue's roof - and another was delivering the high show production values demanded by one of the world's leading brands - in a relatively tight space.

Robe's new Robin 100 LEDBeams were a complete winner with their ultra light weight, power, intensity and wide array of eye-catching effects.

AV Unlimited's technical production m

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VCL will be relocating to share office and workshop space at Mainstage Ltd, cementing its long-standing relationship with the firm, one of the UK's foremost suppliers of stage equipment and effects.

The two companies have already worked together extensively, collaborating on projects for existing VCL clients, with Mainstage engineers building bespoke equipment to VCL specifications for cruise client Holland America Line. With VCL's move, the two firms look forward to working on future projects where clients can benefit fro

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Blinding Light Ltd, based in Reading, was chosen to supply lighting for both events. Part of the requirement was to light the huge windows in the Proms set. For this, they used 32 of MilTec's LEDHead Batten2 units (two mounted in the base of each window). Fitted with 18x 8W quadcolour LEDs and Powercon mains connectors and weighing only 6kg each, they proved a very effective yet lightweight and low powered solution.

Tony Hall, Blinding Lights' lighting designer commented, "The MilTec battens have proved to be extremely reliable, and pack a great punch for their size. I was extremely p

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Eclipse is the first in the Middle East to purchase the Vipers and are confident they will become a sought after item by event organisers and promoters.

The purchase of the Vipers increases the already large range of Martin lighting stocked by Eclipse which includes the MAC Aura, MAC 2000 Profile and Wash, MAC 301 Wash, MAC 401, MAC 700 Profile and Wash, Atomic 3000 strobes, Atomic Colors scrollers and popular Martin LC Plus LED screens.

Nour Assafiri, CEO of Martin Professional Middle East, says: "Martin Professional UAE LLC started collaborating with Eclipse since it was first launched in the UAE. The Eclipse team is known for

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The event was staged at Matterley Bowl near Winchester - a location kept secret until the last possible minute - all part of the boutique style festival's aura of anticipation and surprise.

The Lion's Den was a large tented arena with a capacity of nearly 5300, supplied by A&J Big tops. Line up wise, it featured the very best of reggae, roots dancehall and dub music and culture all under one roof.

The eye-catching lighting for Lion's Den was designed by Rob Barnaville together with CPL's project managers Nick Diacre and Jimmy Smith. It was based around maximising all the available stage space and the variable headroom, providing eye-catching and 'buskable' lighting.

The look and style

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Chauvet Professional showcased Ovation, a new line of theatrical fixtures, Legend 230SR Beam compact and bright moving spot, Q-Wash 436Z-LED powerful zooming LED wash, COLORdash Par Quad-18 and COLORdash nPar Quad-7 LED PAR-style fixtures, COLORdash Batten Quad-6 linear light and COLORado Deco Quad-1 Tour accent fixture, all of which are soon to be available.

The Chauvet stand featured a lighting design created by Knight of Illumination award nominee Tom Sutherland, and the Chauvet Professional team hosted a panel discussion on LED lighting with Richard Pilbrow, Rick Fisher, Fred Foster and Jeremy Hoare. Additionally, Chauvet was one of the sponsors for the fifth annual Knight of Illumination Awards, organized by STLD, ALD.

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Says Lightfactor's Peter Coles, "It was another good show for us. Lightfactor specialises in offering a variety of different high quality products, and there is definitely a market demand right now for 'quality'. Other than that, we saw many existing and a good selection of potential new customers."

Lightfactor chose the show to launch its new exclusive distribution partnership with soundlight.de, German manufacturers of a whole range of neat and handy DMX tools. This generated a real buzz and attendees were impressed with the RDM and systems relay widgets in particular.

There was also serious interest in innovative Italian lighting manufacturer DTS, for whom Lightfactor

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Lionel Garraud, sales director at Chromlech says, "I have never experienced such a reception for a new product in my life! The Elidy was an instant hit and many lighting designers and rental companies already want to use or buy it. Elidy has already been specified on some great tours and new television programs for 2013. We took many orders on the stand with the first production run selling out in 3 days!"

Elidy is a matrix of 5 x 5 very high power LEDs, driven by state-of-the-art electronics to provide the world's first LED wall capable of projecting light, says the company. It combines high-output, warm white LEDs with sp

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The artist uses just a single tile of displayLED's flexible LED product digiFLEX to create a futuristic display on a helmet.

The helmet uses the musician's own software to convert sound to graphics, which appear on the visor during the performance and tie in with imagery on the larger screens of the show's backdrop. The artist has toured in the USA, Europe and Brazil and appeared at events including Sonar 2012, Spain, Bloc 2012, London, UK, and Dour Festival, Belgium, this summer.

The helmet was conceived by Squarepusher himself, who commissioned technical project manager Gilbert Roper of Star Acre to create the effect.

"For the last five years Squarepusher has been developing a v

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The new website presents a contemporary look, complete with new navigational tools. It features enhanced resources in a user-friendly format and gives greater emphasis to Robert Juliat's prestigious range of lighting products. Detailed descriptions of the product ranges are included, along with new product pictures and a revamped menu system to provide better functionality.

In addition, a newly enhanced 'Contacts' section affords visitors the ability to find the nearest dealer quickly and easily.

"This new website reflects the thinking and efforts of the Robert Juliat team as well as our commitment to being open and accessible to our customers", says Robert Juliat CEO, François Juliat. "Packed with high

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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