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USA - Motion control systems manufacturer Kinesys again welcomes guests to its dedicated training facility in Atlanta, Georgia with a combined Open Days / Training Workshop event running from 21-24 February 2017.

The emphasis is on both product awareness and providing fee-free training for those who want to increase their knowledge and understanding of automated rigging for the entertainment industry.

Subjects will include the operation and implementation of Kinesys automation products as well as the application of load cell systems for increased safety in multi-hoist lifting operations and the invitation is open to designers, operators, rental suppliers and rigging service providers - anyone with an interest in this dynamic element of modern show production.

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Finland - Organized for the first time this year, Slush Music took place in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. Its aim was to enhance the dialogue between tech entrepreneurs and music, with its exciting setting being an additional draw. Part of this event's offering was its Silent Disco, where Sennheiser's MobileConnect technology provided a very personal experience.

Held on 30 November and 1 December, Slush Music is the music and tech exclusive vertical of Slush, which started in 2015 and has been described as 'Burning Man meets TED'. It gathered 1,500 industry professionals, including over 80 speakers, for an exchange of thoughts about exceptional ways to push music forward with technology.

The intense agenda of Slush Music featured topics including global music consumption, the revenue distribution of streaming and the revolutionary aspect of using blockchain technologies

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Ireland - Award-winning Irish singer-songwriter Gavin James has played one of the biggest shows of his young life, at the 3 Arena in Dublin. It was also one of the biggest indoor shows of the year for Irish rental company Sound Design, using its new Nexo STM Series modular line array systems for the first time on an arena-sized live music event.

This was in fact the first deployment of Sound Design's newly-purchased STM system with M28 omnipurpose cabinets, purchased after a successful pilot event in Croke Park stadium, a multimedia spectacular for the 1916/2016 commemoration, and the RTE Centenary show in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin.

With 12,000 people attending Dublin's 3 Arena, high production values were in place for the Gavin James show. At FOH was well-known live sound engineer Marc Carolan, supported by Eddie O'Brien, one of his regular techs who is also sy

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Singapore - Lighting designer Adrian Tan from Light Project is using Robe's CycBar 15 fixtures to light the cyc on W!LD RICE's award winning Monkey Goes West production, which is playing a limited holiday season run at the Drama Centre Theatre in Singapore.

The production first premiered in 2014 and Adrian recalls that in the initial creative discussions they didn't want it to be "just another pantomime", so instead looked at more unconventional ways of lighting the cyc, which was a fundamental to creating 'another world' onstage to which the audience could relate.

Additional creative considerations included the need for a strong Asian culture influenced primary saturated colour scheme to run throughout the performance, and the fact that the overhead lighting rig also needed to be flexible due to the venue's expedient stage and overhead rigging space.

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USA - The Historic Masonic Theatre is an architectural treasure nestled in the Allegheny Mountains in Virginia. Since opening in 1905, the historic venue has boasted eclectic billings over the last century, including Roy Rogers (and of course Trigger), Gene Autry, Count Basie, and even political blunderbuss William Jennings Bryan ("What has been will be again"). Now a performing arts, education, and community facility, a recent renovation includes the new, redesigned Intelligent Marquee Systems (IMS Mk2) LED marquee/festoon lighting system.

Specified by Theatrical Consultants Collaborative (TCC) of North Carolina and installed by Productions Unlimited, Inc. of South Carolina, IMS V12 "Filament" lamps were the perfect way to achieve programmable marquee lighting with the warm, golden look of traditional incandescent lamps, plus the benefits of individual DMX control and LED tec

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Italy - Claypaky is part of the impressive lighting plot that characterizes the 2016 edition of X-Factor Italy. The tenth edition of the popular talent show, which started in the UK, is richer and more dazzling than ever. Work on it started a good five months before the recordings since the lights and scenic effects are essential components for the success of the show.

Lighting director Massimo Pascucci explained that X-Factor Italy is not just a television show, but is also a real "live event filmed with cameras, where the artists are free to roam the stage and even put on their shows in the corridors and theatre galleries." Other components typical of live events include the large number of LED walls that accompany the performances and the use of purpose-built scenery. The lighting equipment and filming covers every corner of the theatre, including a dolly hang

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UK - Solid State Logic has announced three key new appointments to its product management team as part of its strategy to accelerate the development of new products and updates for current ones.

John Hourihane is the new director of product management for SSL and becomes part of the senior management team. He has extensive experience in product management with Harman Professional, Gibson Brands, Stanton Group, and iZotope. Hourihane will oversee product management for all three of SSL's primary markets - studio, broadcast, and live.

Richard Ferriday joins SSL as product manager, live. Previously with LMC, Midas Klark Teknik, and Cadac, Ferriday is well known as an innovator in live sound technology and will continue to develop SSL's growing Live product range. Ferriday teams up with Nathan Hernando who, as business development manager, has done much to develop SSL's Live b

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Europe - Peerless-AV has announced the appointment of Thomas Ast as area manager - partnerships for DACH to the growing export sales team. In his role, Thomas will report to Stefan Kr

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USA - MUSIC has implemented the first of its many plans to win the installed sound market. The company has appointed Jason Bethune as director of business development USA, and Stephan Grawe to the position of director of business development EMEA.

Bethune and Grawe will work directly with Van Williamson, who was most recently appointed as MUSIC's VP of installed sound. Together they will be working with business partners to ensure MUSIC are as customer centric as possible.

"I love MUSIC's obsession for customer experience, innovation and dedication to make a difference! We are laying the foundations for MUSIC to develop the most outstanding product solutions by involving users at every stage of product development, "comments Bethune

Grawe adds: "As well as our focus on customer engagement we will be strengthening MUSIC's market expansion and to do this we will continue

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UK - NEC Display Solutions Europe has launched five updated XGA, WXGA and WUXGA resolution LCD projectors in its PA Series professional range. These latest innovative projectors in the PA Series range deliver a wealth of enhancements to image brightness and contrast, rich colour space conversion with HDR, connectivity support and operational lifespan, says the company.

The compact PA Series installation projectors are designed for customers looking for larger bright pictures in fantastic quality, with suitability for large venue and installed applications.

The new models in the PA Series incorporate the latest iteration of NEC's unique Scaler Chip. This integrated picture processor can simultaneously manage 4K/60p input, as well as sharing signal output with multiple daisy-chained connected projectors. It represents an enormous leap forward in picture processing, with true

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) will be exclusively showcasing the new addition to Datapath's Fx4 HD creative video wall splitter range - the Fx4-SDI - on their stand at PLASA Focus Glasgow 2017, SECC, Glasgow, UK, stand B1, this week.

With the increasing popularity of multi-display video configurations demanding greater freedom in creating and deploying scalable video mapping products, Datapath's Fx4 range of 4K resolution wall splitters / controllers provides four HD outputs from one box, for millions of display possibilities.

The new Fx4-SDI connection model joins existing DisplayPort and HDMI versions to offer users support for all popular professional HD video data cable connections.

The Fx4-SDI model is aimed at users with existing HD-SDI transmission infrastructures, eliminating the need for additional converters at either end of the system. In addi

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UK - The Tourflex Cabling brand will be showcasing its bespoke cable assembly service for the professional entertainment industry at PLASA Focus Glasgow 2017, SECC, Glasgow, UK, stand A7, this week.

Knowing how critical cables and connections are to the entertainment sector, Tourflex Cabling prides itself on providing the best connections, for a faultless performance.

Although recently re-branded, the service has over 40 years of experience and has earnt an enviable reputation for quality, reliability and a very fast delivery turnaround, as it understands when 'the show must go on' - often turning around emergency orders in 24 hours, including during weekends.

Last year alone, Tourflex Cabling made over 100,000 cable assemblies, including more than half a million metres of exceptional quality cabling. It holds a vast level of stock and choice of raw cables & connectors

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UK - Doughty Engineering is set debut a new adaptable, three-position Tank Trap at this year's PLASA Focus, Glasgow. Visitors to stand B6 will be able to find out more about the prototype product which has been devised to answer customer demand for a Tank Trap which would allow rigging close to a wall, in the corner of a room or near to an obstruction.

It has a detachable receiver suitable for 48mm barrel, which may be fitted to any of the three mounting points. These mounting points are located in the centre as per a standard Tank Trap, at the edge and in the corner.

Dan Phillips, project sales coordinator at Doughty said, "The Adaptable Tank Trap's mounting points consist of a welded socket which the receiver slots into.The receiver is held in place with a 12mm stainless steel pin, which is in turn secured by a pair of lynch pins. The mounting points and receiver are CNC

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Canada - Allen & Heath's dLive S Class and ME mixing systems have been installed in Southview Alliance Church, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, as part of a major audio refit.

The new, combined FOH and monitor system was designed, supplied and installed by Sapphire Sound, which specified a dLive S5000 Surface with a DM48 MixRack for FOH, and a ME personal monitoring system for the musicians on stage, starting with the drummer in the initial roll out.

"dLive has many advantages," explains Ben Burrell at Sapphire Sound. "The high channel count and number of output busses was a major factor for this project. On top of that, the seamless integration with the ME-1 system, plus the dLive OneMix and MixPad apps for remote control, made the system particularly attractive.

"Additionally, the ease of use for volunteers was a big selling feature. Finally, the number of network expans

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USA - Founded in 1987, 12Stone Church has grown to include eight campuses throughout Georgia serving the communities in Gwinnett, Hall, and Barrow counties. In their most recent expansion, the congregation completed a full renovation of a large retail location in Snellville, GA, and in doing so they needed to create a full worship environment.

Working with Cason Cleveland Productions, 12Stone Church had a specific vision for the LED video elements in the new auditorium, so together they enlisted the assistance of Nashville-based PixelFLEX and installed FLEXLite NXG 2.6mm LED video technology.

"For our new Snellville campus, we were moving into what used to be a Best Buy retail location, so we really needed to create all of the production elements from scratch for our worship environment," began Dustin Whitt, production ministry lead.

"When looking specifically at the L

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USA - 2017 started with a bang as Georgian rockers Widespread Panic rang in the New Year with an epic three set blowout at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.

Lighting designer Paul Hoffman utilized a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites for the two night, sold-out event, where the first evening featured selections from Widespread Panic's albums played in chronological order, while the second evening boasted guest appearances by Love Sponge String Quartet, MegaBlasters Horns and McCrary Sisters.

With the band's annual Tunes for Tots benefit concert taking place on 29 December in Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium, and the arena not being available for a production day prior to the first show at the arena, Hoffman used the framework of the existing fall touring system with many additions.

"There's always a time crunch on these end-of-year shows," said Hoffman. "Lots

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USA - Point Source Audio (PSA) an audio equipment manufacturer specializing in the development of miniature microphones and headsets has completed its move into a new corporate headquarters in Petaluma, California. The new office will be just a mile away from the previous location, but is 50 percent larger and offers a more efficient layout to support the company's administrative and operational functions as well as product development, sales and marketing, and assembly staff.

The move comes as a result of the company's "phenomenal growth" attributed to the adoption of its miniature performance microphones and audio headsets. In 2016, the company celebrated its 10th year in business and also received a granted patent for design of the world's first modular in-ear audio headset known as the CM-i3.

It currently has another innovation, the customizable fitted Embrace Micropho

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Germany - The first Landesjazzfestival Bayern (jazz festival Bavaria) took place in Regensburg from 21-23 October, 2016. The event, which received prominent support - the patron was Bavaria's Premier Horst Seehofer - presented a top-class and diverse programme on all three festival days. Among the highlights were the shows of Grammy winners Ron Carter and John Scofield as well as the concert of Dusko Goykovich.

During their celebrated performances, the jazz legends shared the stage with equipment newcomers - the new Gravity stands, an Adam Hall Group brand. Once again the accessories showed off their qualities: easy handling, stability and an appealing design.

Winni Freisleben, head of the board of the Jazzclub Regensburg and co-initiator of the first Landesjazzfestival Bayern, noted, "We received positive feedback regarding the Gravity stands from several musicians. The s

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UK - Talking with lighting control operator Adam Power before the Manchester show of Bring Me the Horizon's recent tour, their biggest to date, he described the show lighting as "intense". Over 180 lighting fixtures hung on numerous trusses and were built into a technology-laden set.

Adam reports, "James and Louis created a wide vista which used the full width of the arenas, we even put five lights each side of the stage in unallocated seating to stretch the design even wider. The band were passionate about having an intense show with lots of strobing and really big looks, James and Louis did a great job of keeping it classy and refined with so much going on."

James Scott explained, "The initial brief given to us by the band was that they wanted a big rock show, something that made a huge statement and filled as much of the arena space as possible. One word which kept bein

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USA - Enchanted: Forest of Light in Descanso Gardens in LA, California, was a beautiful display of nature and light intertwining to create an experience that visitors of all ages could appreciate. This walk-through art piece was installed for a limited time during the holiday season from 25 November 2016 to January 8, 2017.

Lighting designer, Chris Medvitz, chose to install SGM's G-Spot fixtures in order to create the drama and saturated colour quality he desired for this project. Medvitz praised the G-spot for its reliability and durability.

Enchanted: Forest of Light is a complete outdoor installation and keeping this in mind, it was important to find a fixture that could handle all of the California weather elements. SGM is known for its IP65 and IP66-rated products, so for Medvitz the G-Spot was an obvious choice:

"This is the first robust, full-featured moving hea

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Bosnia & Herzegovina - If you look closely, you'll see one of each of Audient's 8-channel mic preamps ASP800 and ASP880 on YouTube videos from Jam With Friends, a weekly music session recorded live, set up by four skilled friends in Bosnia & Herzegovina and broadcast on YouTube.

"We are basically group of volunteers who've got together with the desire to discover all the music genres, sub-genres and subcultures wandering through the city of Mostar," says Gabrijel Prusina, one of the founding four, and owner of Studio Groove, which provided the gear for the recordings.

"I was recommended Audient's ASP880 some time ago as I needed more channels. So I read up about it, then watched a lot of reviews and blind shootouts against much more expensive preamps, and I bought one," Prusina explains. "One day I compared it with my existing preamp - and the ASP880 sounded way bet

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