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UK - In a landmark building at the heart of South East London's thriving arts community is the largest purpose-built contemporary dance centre in the world. Laban is the UK's first conservatoire for music and dance. Electro-Voice ZX Series loudspeakers have been installed throughout the faculty.

Laban's remarkable modern building, situated on a two-acre site beside Deptford Creek, has won many prizes for architects Herzog and de Meuron, who also designed the Tate Modern and the National Stadium for Beijing's Olympic Games. Dedicated to dance, it is probably the largest and best-equipped contemporary facility in Europe, with 13 purpose-built studios, fitted with the latest sprung flooring and large windows for natural light.

The Deptford facility opened in 2002, but the student e

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Italy - The Baladì Disco has turned the once sleepy Italian town of Torre San Patrizio into a rallying point for people from the entire Marche region. After an extensive and lavish renovation by architect and designer Massimo Cadamuro, the disco now boasts a restaurant, four differently equipped dance floors designed to cater to a variety of musical tastes, and a spacious lounge. One of the Baladì Disco's key feature is its new sound system from Dynacord.

With help from Milan-based specialists dSound PRO, the Baladì management put its faith in equipment from Dynacord - a balanced spread of Alpha Concept loudspeakers, Pl-one, and D-Lite cabinets, and power amplifiers from Dynacord's LX and CL series.

(Jim Evans)

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Italy - On 8 May, a large delegation from the British association of directors of photography (STLD) visited the Italian Public television (RAI) studios, for an interesting exchange of experiences with the company management and their professional counterparts.

The STLD (Society of Television Lighting and Design) visit was made possible by Clay Paky, which has been profitably working for years with the British association and, most recently, has partnered with it in organising the annual competition called The Clay Paky Knight of Illumination. The competition gives awards to the best British LDs in the TV, theatre and live event sectors.

The professional relationship between Clay Paky and RAI is equally well consolidated. It is based on mutual respect that has built up over the years, during which the Bergamo-based company has supplied RAI with the most modern TV studio

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Channel Islands - Since its inception in 1985, the Guernsey Awards for Achievement has focused on celebrating corporate and personal success. Now in its 23rd year, the initiative continues to attract the interest and support of companies and individuals island-wide.

This year's event reached its climax recently at a glittering Awards gala evening, held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre; attended by close on 800 people it again proved to be the highlight of the Island's corporate calendar.

Production company Joy's were brought in to provide the spectacular projection backdrop. The company fielded Christie's high-definition projectors and Vista Spyder dynamic processing as part of a purpose-designed show, created and produced in Joy's own '3DLive' graphics system.

Joy's supplied an impressive 20m widescreen, centred on the landscape side of the room, and constructed from floor to

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UK - MTFX expanded in to additional new premises earlier this year in order to improve the storage facilities for its extensive range of equipment.

The new unit has meant that all the storage and customer areas have been re-arranged so that they now have a demonstration area for their Aquagraphics water screen where it can be viewed by potential clients, together with storage and a demonstration area for the new high voltage special effects equipment.

There are also larger storage and maintenance areas for the ranges of confetti and special effects equipment enabling them to carry an increased stock holding. All contact details remain the same.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Technomad LLC reports that the local government for Coweta County Georgia in suburban Atlanta is using three Technomad Turnkey PA systems within its Fairgrounds and Conference Centre. The organisation recently installed two 70-volt Turnkey systems inside the Conference Centre for events covering 6,000sq.ft of meeting and exhibit space, delivering intelligible voice and high-quality musical audio to attendees.

According to Tom Corker, administrative and operations director for Coweta County Georgia, the new Technomad 70-volt systems replaced a poor quality in-ceiling audio system. The decision to upgrade to Technomad was partially based on the longevity of the outdoor Turnkey PA system in operation since 2004 at the W.C. Adamson Horse Arena, an uncovered horse arena show ring with large spectator and concessions areas.

"The outdoor system has been untouched since ins

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Canada - Ross Video has officially announced Blackmagic Design's partnership to expand the openGear terminal equipment platform.

Blackmagic Design manufactures video editing products, converters, and routers for the post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic introduced eight new converters that support the openGear platform at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) that will be shipping July 2009.

"We are excited to be part of the openGear platform," said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. "Our high quality converters fully support the openGear rackframe standard, making us compatible with a wide range of third party equipment from openGear partners worldwide."

"We are pleased with the addition of Blackmagic Design to the openGear platform," said Stephane Gauthier, marketing product manager - openGear Platform, Ross Vi

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USA - Medialon has been selected to go on tour with Tina Turner, the eight-time Grammy Award winner. The star has recently made her long-awaited return to arenas with more than 80 dates scheduled throughout North America and across Europe.

The mission for Nocturne Productions - the production crew - was simple and challenging at the same time: make the stage show as powerful and exciting as the performer herself.

Tina's Production selected Geodezik - a video content designer and producer company - who put their trust in Nocturne Productions and Medialon to be part of the project for the video installation.

On stage, a large, 27ft high and 36ft wide LSI-Saco V9 LED wall has been specially designed with motion control to split into eight movable sections. An array of 80 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300 fixtures appears when the LED wall splits.

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Egypt - The Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, as well as being one of Egypt's top tourist destinations, hosts the region's most sophisticated conference facilities, in the shape of the Maritim Sharm El Sheikh International Congress Center, whose 2,000 main conference hall been equipped with a Renkus-Heinz Iconyx Digitally Steerable Array loudspeaker system.

Since its opening, the Congress Center has hosted numerous glittering occasions, including the International Conference of Foreign Ministers on Iraq Security and the World Economic Forum Conference. At the heart of this gathering place for politicians and power brokers, operated by the German Maritim Hotel Company, is its 2,000 seat main hall, fully equipped for world-wide broadcast and teleconferencing.

With a demand for high speech intelligibility and clear sightlines for TV cameras, its main stage has been equipped with

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UK - The new M-48 personal monitor systems from RSS by Roland have made their debut in the UK, providing direct mix control for band musicians of the Life Church in Folkestone, Kent, and playing a key role in an extensive AV refurbishment being implemented by installer Midas ProSound.

The dynamic Life Church ministry regularly reaches capacity with nearly 800 people attending every Sunday. Growing congregation sizes, and an increasing focus on music and performance in its services, led the Church into consultation with Midas ProSound, the Salisbury-based installation specialists, who helped them draw up an extensive upgrade schedule for all audio and video facilities.

Midas ProSound was able to provide the team from Life Church with system designs and in-situ demonstrations of all the main components save for one: the M-48 personal monitor mixers from RSS which, together with

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France - Richard McHardy has joined Innovision as business development director and becomes part of the Innovision senior management team.

Richard's key responsibility will be to further develop and implement Innovison's new business strategy domestically and internationally.

Andrew Douglass, chief executive, Innovision said: "Richard has had a very successful career to date and worked with some of the best agencies in the industry. I believe he is one of the best and very much at the top of his game. I am just delighted to welcome him to Innovision, where I know he will thrive."

"I am really impressed and excited by the culture and vision at Innovision, which are very much in tune with my own aspirations" said McHardy. "The breadth and quality of work the company is producing is genuinely exciting and I believe the new business potential is exponent

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UK - 5 Star cases has supplied a flight case solution for the 2009 BBC's Blast on Tour outreach project, which is undertaking a 7 month tour visiting 27 cities around the UK.

Blast on Tour is a programme of workshops and activities supporting the development of creative skills in 13 to 19-year-olds which takes place in and around the BBC Blast Truck and performance marquee 'village' which is established at each new site.

The flightcase project included a selection of standard and custom cases from 5 Star to cover a number of areas in the whole physical Blast On Tour set up, including the first-point-of-contact registration and reception area.

"We needed a special set of cases for this," explains Tony Kavanagh, operations manager for Blast On Tour. "They needed to look good and accommodate all the necessary equipment, tools and mater

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The Netherlands - The recently launched Prolyte Space Roof saw its first use during the Liberation day concerts in Zwolle, the Netherlands.

"Setting up a new roof system with these huge dimensions within four days, without even a trial build, is a daring accomplishment! We would not have taken this risk with any other company than Prolyte," explained the owner of the Prolyte Space roof, Gino Spijkerman of Interstage, shortly before the concert started.

Prolyte engineers Marc Hendriks and Ruud de Deugd were responsible for getting the roof ready for the show. "Ideas and negotiations for this roof started a couple of months back, but coming close to the final building and seeing it all come together, still is a thrill. Even though you are 100% certain of the design and the materials and every detail is calculated through and through, with a roof with these dimensi

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