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24 October 2025

Ukraine - The National Opera of Ukraine – officially known as the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine, named after Taras Shevchenko – in capital city Kyiv, has invested in a new Avolites D9 lighting console, replacing the old Diamond 4 that had been in residence since 2002!

Known for its elaborate architecture, rich performance history, and leading role in Ukrainian culture and arts, the current National Opera building was designed by architect Victor Schröter in Neo-Renaissance style and opened in 1901.

The new D9 console was delivered by Avolites’ Ukrainian distributor – MegaShow – who also supplied the D4 23 years ago.

The new console was purchased with funding from Japan and officially presented to the Opera by the Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine, Masashi Nakagome, in a press briefing that included Ukraine’s

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24 October 2025

USA - ADJ Lighting is celebrating four decades of entertainment lighting. At LDI 2025 in Las Vegas, ADJ will showcase a range of performance-ready lighting solutions. The booth will unveil a collection of new products and invite visitors to experience a time-coded lightshow that pays tribute to each decade of the company’s history.

Anchoring ADJ’s presence at LDI 2025 will be a lightshow programmed by Steve Kosiba of Squeek Lights. It will be time-coded to a soundtrack that will pay homage to the decades of ADJ’s evolution – celebrating each era from its early DJ and club roots to the professional touring and installation markets it serves today. The synchronised display will highlight the versatility and output of ADJ’s latest IP65-rated and indoor fixtures, demonstrating their real-world performance potential in a tightly integr

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24 October 2025

Turkey - Bedri Rahmi Bay, not far from Gocek in Mugla Province on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, is a location accessible only by sea and one of the first anchor points on the Blue Voyage. Catering for the many visitors who arrive by boat is Miori, a collection of six ‘culinary journeys’, which opened earlier this year. As well as the opportunity to eat and drink in its six distinct eating areas, Miori also offers live music performances and DJ sets.

Miori’s owners engaged leading Turkish audio specialists MEK1 Sound to design, supply, and install systems to cover each different area. Specialising in bespoke installations across the commercial and professional audio sectors, MEK1 Sound also distributes a number of leading international brands across Turkey. These include Funktion-One loudspeakers and MC² amplifiers, with the two brands front

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24 October 2025

Italy - Panorama Festival is a hotspot for electronic music. The multi-day event takes place in the Cave Del Duca in Lecce, a former limestone quarry. From 14 to 16 August 2025, 15,000 fans celebrated to techno beats – accompanied by a lighting design featuring more than 220 GLP fixtures.

Responsible for both stage and lighting design was Roberto Colabufo. All lighting equipment was supplied by Lucidiscena, which had just recently invested in 200 GLP Creos along with 150 JDC Burst 1 and 150 WildBar 16. The technical implementation was handled by Punto Musica under the direction of Claudio Carulli. Programmer and operator was Jerry Roberto Romani, one of Italy’s most experienced MA operators with more than 35 years at the top level of international productions.

On the Main Stage, 64 Creos, 68 WildBar 16 and 96 JDC Burst 1 were deployed.

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24 October 2025

Serbia - Zvezdara Theatre in downtown Belgrade is the first theatre in Serbia to take delivery of Robe lights since Light and Sound Design (LSD) took on distributorship of the brand in late 2023.

The 300-capacity space is now the owner of four Robe LEDBeam 350 moving lights and four T11 Profiles, taking the concept of ‘small is beautiful’ to heart in the process of producing great theatre.

Zvezdara Theatre was opened in 1984 and quickly became a prominent cultural hub, renowned for promoting contemporary (then) Yugoslav writers and their works. It gained recognition for championing innovative and thought-provoking drama, comedy, and music.

Lighting designer Aleksa Cosic, who has been working there for just over a year, is one of four regular LDs who work on lighting the theatre’s many productions, and they all collectively attended open

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24 October 2025

Japan - Audio engineer Krzysztof Borowicz from Commercial Audio, DirectOut’s distributor in Poland, flew out to Expo 2025 in Osaka to programme two Prodigy.MPs at the heart of both the Netherlands and Philippines Pavilions, overseen by one of the Expo’s turnkey partners, BeWunder.

“I was in Frankfurt meeting other DirectOut partners and doing some training when a friend called and asked what I was up to next week. A week later, I was sitting on a flight to Japan,” Borowicz recalls. “It was all very quick, but thanks to the flexibility of the globcon software, many things can be programmed in advance – even remotely. That helped me work more efficiently and avoid surprises on-site. Both Pavilions were a real multi-media experience, with many conversions between different formats, networks, computers and loudspeaker systems.”

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24 October 2025

USA - On 20 September, the Magik Theatre in San Antonio hosted its annual fundraiser, A Night of Magik. The venue was transformed into a Hollywood-style premiere, complete with a red-carpet entrance, themed décor and photo spot opportunities that welcomed guests to a night under the stars.

The lighting design for the event was led by Thaddeus Morris, who also served as the lighting supervisor and programmer. His approach to the lighting design was to merge the elegance of Hollywood with the excitement of modern production, using a variety of Mega-Lite fixtures throughout the theatre, courtyard and lobby.

Inside the theatre, the setup featured 10 MW1s, one Framebot, four MS1s, and a Mega Node. The MW1s were used as front and back light for podiums and stage areas, creating balanced coverage and depth. The Framebot served as a flexible front

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24 October 2025

USA - Follow-Me has announced that technical applications specialist Henk-jan Blok will lead a comprehensive Follow-Me 3D Fundamentals training workshop at LDI 2025, supported by Chris Lose, designer relations liaison North America. The workshop will take place on Friday, 5 December 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM. The training will feature at LDI 2025 as part of the LDInstitute Courses, taking place from 3-9 December in Las Vegas. The company invites industry professionals to register (see below) for this hands-on learning experience, and visit booth #2329 in partnership with AC Americas.

The training workshop will provide participants with practical, hands-on experience with the Follow-Me 3D manual performer tracking system. Attendees will learn how to prepare, set up, calibrate, fine-tune and integrate a Follow-Me 3D system, while also exploring real

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24 October 2025

Europe - Harman Professional Solutions has announced leadership appointments across its global sales organisation.

Amar Subash has been appointed to lead the Professional Solutions sales organisation across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, while continuing to oversee sales leadership responsibilities for India. In this expanded role, Amar will set a strategic direction for both regions, focusing on ‘accelerating growth and delivering on Harman’s commitments to customers’.

Over the past nine years at Harman, Amar has held a variety of leadership roles. Most recently, he led Harman Professional sales efforts across the APAC region and India. Prior to that, Amar served solely as director of sales and operations for the Asia Pacific region (APAC) from 2019 to 2021, and as finance director for APAC from 2017 to 2018. Amar will be b

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23 October 2025

UK - PLASA and The Headliner Group are joining forces to launch CRE8, a new flagship event for DJs, producers and self-producing artists, in partnership with Tileyard and supported by Sonical, Bop DJ, SoundOn and TikTok LIVE.

Tileyard North, located opposite The Hepworth in Wakefield, is one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative clusters and the northern home of Tileyard London, Europe’s largest creative community and music industry hub. The venue will host CRE8 on 7 March 2026, welcoming internationally renowned DJs, artists, and producers for a full day of performances and educational panels. It will also showcase the latest equipment from leading brands, giving attendees the opportunity to get hands-on with professional gear, and aims to put Wakefield and the wider northern music scene firmly on the national stage.

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23 October 2025

UK - East London venue Troxy has begun its ‘most ambitious transformation in decades’, designed to ‘revive hidden heritage, boost the fan experience and increase the venue’s capacity to 3,600’.

The ambitious restoration of Troxy continues, with the intention to redefine what promoters and punters can expect from a night out at the Art Deco venue by improving fan comfort, accessibility, operational flow, and high-impact production potential.

At the heart of the works is the revival of Troxy’s long-sealed basement, which is being completely reimagined to include a permanent cloakroom, a new high-capacity toilet block, and structural upgrades to fire escapes that unlock more standing room in the main auditorium.

“We are really excited that the next stage of the restoration of Troxy has begun. This phase involves the reactivation of

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23 October 2025

USA - Brown Note Productions in Thornton, Colorado deployed 92 new Claypaky Ultimo Sharpy fixtures at DJ Sammy Virji’s high-energy show in Denver’s Civic Centre Park on 13 September. Set against the neo-classical backdrop of the City and County Building, Virji entertained a crowd that braved inclement weather for a night of electronic dance music.

Virji has ‘exploded’ on the EDM scene since he last played Denver one year ago at the Greek Theatre. He has played Coachella and Tomorrowland, charted hit solo tunes and made notable collaborations in the lead up to one of the biggest shows of his career at Civic Center Park.

Brown Note teamed with Chris Schroeder Productions and lighting designer Erik Mahowald of Bending Light Productions to use 92 Ultimo Sharpys to create a dynamic backdrop of light, which framed both the artist

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23 October 2025

USA - Elation dealer Morgan Sound of Lynnwood, Washington recently completed a full-scale lighting, audio, and video upgrade for the Evangelical Chinese Church of Seattle, integrating an Elation lighting rig and Obsidian NX4 lighting control system. The project, completed in October, marks a major step forward for the 200-seat church as it transitions from a traditional worship style to a more contemporary, dynamic environment designed to engage a younger generation.

Led by Fraser Brearley, sales and systems associate at Morgan Sound, with Art Howard as project manager and Jamey Atkins and Steve Gregory as lead installers, the Morgan Sound team designed and implemented a fully-integrated AV system. The upgrade included a new PA line array, video wall, and lighting positions for front, stage and side areas.

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23 October 2025

Canada - For Glass Life – a multi-screen video installation by artist Sara Cwynar – Branch Audiovisual partnered with 1 Sound to design an audio system that matched the depth and scale of the artwork. The exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, which examines how images influence perception and value, immerses viewers through layered moving visuals, text, and sound.

The installation features a Cannon C8i, three C5is, two Tower LCC44s, and a SUB310, powered by Powersoft amplifiers. Each speaker was mounted and aimed using custom colour C-Clamps for Cannons, allowing precise positioning that blended with the exhibition’s visual composition.

Branch AV built the audio and video rack, outfitted with an Allen & Heath AH-AHM-16 Processing Matrix, Powersoft Q2404 and Q4804 amplifiers, and Blackmagic Design broadcast decks and convert

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23 October 2025

UK - For more than three decades Chalset Sound has been an event production and installation specialist across the UK, Europe and Turkey, supplying PA systems, stage lighting, and special effects. For the last 10 years, Midas consoles have been a mainstay of the business, with the Midas M32 and Midas Pro1 prominent in much of its work.

Recently, Chalset decided to invest in the brand’s flagship HD96. Belchin Sirakov of Chalset Sound comments: “We invested in the HD96 last year and, as with our other Midas consoles, have been happy from the off. It’s a robust feature-rich unit with great pre-amps, and is extremely user-friendly. The console has already seen a lot of use, including on a number of high-profile shows across Europe.”

One such recent prestigious show saw Chalset Sound deploy the HD96 on monitors at the Royal Albert Hall for Turkish

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23 October 2025

USA - Zach Scott has developed a captivating design for punk rock icons The Academy Is… on the 12-city fall leg of their Almost Here tour.

The band kicked off their tour at the 20th annual Chicago Riot Fest on 21 September. Running his show on a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium Console, Scott mixes richly saturated colours, a stark blend of intense brightness and dark space and some artfully placed silhouettes to captivate attention while supporting his client’s performance.

“The role of silhouettes, brightness and intensity in this show stems from my deep-rooted programming style of theatrics with impact,” said Scott. “It is heavily influenced by one of my mentors, Gigi Padron. I prefer to use dark space as my dynamic rather than video, and the band was on that exact same thought process.

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23 October 2025

Europe/USA - Green Hippo recently integrated Stage Precision’s SPNet protocol into its Hippotizer media server products, expanding the capabilities of both hardware and software offerings.

“Together with the product manager, we determine the direction of the product: what to add and why,” explains Zep Mouris, Hippotizer product architect at Green Hippo. “The product manager focuses on the user point of view, whilst I focus on the tech point of view and help the developers implement the features we need to offer the most value. I see my role as a bridge between the product manager and development, making sure we deliver features effectively.”

Hippotizer supports both 2D and 3D workflows, with SPNet integrated into the 3D workflow tool Shape, which is used for designing, previsualising and executing project mapping activations.

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23 October 2025

Germany - After more than a decade of shared responsibility as co-CEOs, Daniel and Dr. Andreas Sennheiser will take on different roles within the Sennheiser Group. Effective 1 January, 2026, Daniel Sennheiser will become chairman of the board of directors, while his brother Andreas Sennheiser will continue as CEO, overseeing the operational business of the family-owned company.

In his new role, Daniel Sennheiser will focus on the strategic direction of the Sennheiser Group. "By joining the board of directors, I will concentrate more on the long-term development of the company and on continuously strengthening key customer relationships. I will continue to work closely with my brother Andreas in his role as CEO and with the existing executive management board," says Daniel Sennheiser.

Andreas Sennheiser will continue to lead the company as CEO and, to

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23 October 2025

UK - Lang UK has announced Tom Allott as technical sales manager – LED. Allott brings his extensive experience in the LED rental market, having held senior roles for more than a decade. As Lang continues to incorporate innovative new LED products into its rental fleet, Allott’s appointment will allow the company to broaden its audience and continue to focus on showcasing the latest technology.

“We’re delighted that Tom is bringing his knowledge and passion to Lang. He will be a key member of a dedicated a team who connect our ground-breaking products with our creative customers,” says Lang MD, John Hooker. “As the LED rental market continues to grow, Tom will be vital to ensuring that we reach new audiences and offer them the best technology for achieving their goals.”

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22 October 2025

UK - The Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) has announced the fourth edition of its proactive annual event the Make A Difference Conference, returning in 2026 with a focus on bridging the gap between formal training and ongoing professional development in the theatre and live performance industry. The day’s theme will be Continuing to Learn Beyond Education.

The 2026 conference will be held on Thursday 16 April 2026 at Bathway Theatre, University of Greenwich.

“This year’s theme will focus on the employment sector as we explore how we can improve learning and development outside our formal higher education training schemes,” say the organisers. “By bringing together both sides of our industry, those that teach and train, together with employers we will break down the discourse between the two sides, and work together