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China - The new Mingshan Stadium in the Ya'an City of Sichuan is one of the most significant construction projects to take place following the devastating Lushan earthquake of 2013. The audio installation, incorporating Community R Series loudspeakers, was led by locally-based integrator Chengdu Eagle Huang Technology Co., Ltd., while EZPro Sound & Light Technology Co., Ltd. provided system design services and product supply.

Mingshan Stadium is a truly multi-purpose venue suitable for hosting sports, entertainment, conferences, exhibitions and other events. The stadium covers an area of 4,000sq.m and can accommodate 2,500 people. At its centre is a basketball court with a flexible arrangement of fixed and movable seating stands.

Mr Lian, technical manager of EZPro, explaine

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Belgium - Back in the late '90s, the Flemish all-girl band K3 burst on the scene and quickly became Belgium's answer to the Spice Girls. Now, after almost two decades of countless successful singles, tours and television appearances - including representing Belgium in the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest - the group's members have decided to move on to the next phase of their careers.

Capping off a great run, they have embarked on a farewell tour. Sending them off in spectacular visual style is a dynamic lightshow featuring Chauvet Professional Strike 4 LED fixtures supplied by PRG Belgium.

Luc Peumans of Belgium's Painting With Light created the captivating lightshow. Having worked with K3 for the last decade, Peumans took pride in designing a show that captured the upbeat spirit, daring spirit and high-octane energy level of the beloved girl group.

"During the 10 years i

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USA - In an evening of moving musical tributes and memorable live stage performances, audio manufacturer Sennheiser came through to deliver reliable wireless audio for the duration of the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. With more than 18,000 celebrities and music fans in attendance and a viewership of more than 24 million, featured artists including Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Adele and The Weeknd each delivered performances using Sennheiser wireless microphone technology, with Taylor Swift performing the show's opener Out of the Woods on a Sennheiser Digital 9000 system.

Sennheiser user Ed Sheeran scooped up two Grammy Awards for Thinking Out Loud: one for Song of the Year and another for Best Pop Solo Performance. Meanwhile, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson won Record of the Year and Best Pop/Duo Group Performance for their blockbuster Uptown Funk. Among the evening

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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UK - CIE-Group has entered into a partnership with the HDBaseT Alliance to deliver free accredited training courses for integrators and installers in the UK.

CIE-Group is already well recognised for its provision for AV training, not least its support for the HowtoAV online training channel, and the two organisations will now jointly be delivering the HDBaseT Installer Expert Program at locations across the country. The first dates are already announced with events taking place in London, Leeds and Nottingham during April 2016 with more to follow throughout the year.

The HDBaseT Installer Expert Program was launched by the Alliance in 2014 and almost 2000 delegates throughout the world have completed the course. Almost 4000 AV installers have registered at the Alliance's Installer Zone,

The courses cover HDBaseT technology principles, installation advice and best pract

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UK - West Midlands-based Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) supplied full technical production - video, sound and LED lighting - to the 2016 SEMTA Awards, staged in the Ballroom at the Park Lane Hilton hotel in London.

The Senior Skills Council for Science, Engineering & Manufacturing Technologies (SEMTA) is a not-for-profit organization specializing in engineering training in the UK, and this prestigious annual Awards event recognizes excellence within their various nationwide apprenticeship schemes.

CPL worked for the third consecutive year alongside Redditch based production company Eclipse Communications. The production design was a collaboration by Lee Gruszeckyj from CPL and Dave Bowring from Eclipse. This year's host was business journalist and BBC Breakfast co-presenter Steph McGovern.

"It was great to pool forces and work together with Eclipse," commented Lee.

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Germany - One of Germany's most accomplished lighting designers, JoJo Tillman, has turned to GLP's new X4 Bar 20s for the first time as a vital part of his stage concept for the annual Stunksitzung alternative cabaret at the Cologne E-Werk. This has formed part of the Cologne Festival for more than 30 years, and comprises around 50 shows which run up to the day before Lent begins.

The designer requisitioned 16 of the battens, which have brought about a paradigm shift since their launch last year. This is largely due to the density with which the 20 LEDs are packed into the 40-inch long bar, generating a broad pallet of pastel and saturated colours which allow for subtle graduated fades, and a 7:1 zoom range which enables it to be deployed equally as a narrow angle light curtain or a wide angle back- or wash-light.

Such versatility has allowed JoJo not only to animate the s

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Mexico - A massive, all-Meyer Sound system of more than 600 loudspeakers recently supplied seamless coverage for a festive crowd of over 300,000 that converged near the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec for an open-air Holy Mass with Pope Francis. Held across a sprawling event site temporarily constructed on a vast rain catchment plain known as El Caracol, this was by far the largest event of Pope Francis's five-day visit to Mexico.

"We have had excellent results using Meyer Sound to ensure the best possible listening experience for the public, so we decided to use Meyer Sound speakers exclusively for this event," says José Antonio Ru

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UK - Creative technical event production expert, Hawthorn, has been commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland to supply lighting for the UK tour of its acclaimed production, The James Plays.

Hawthorn is supplying lighting from its extensive hire range to meet the specification of theatre lighting designer, Philip Gladwell. This comes hot on the heels of Hawthorn's appointment to supply lighting and video equipment for the touring production of Hairspray.

Following critical acclaim and box office success in 2014, The James Plays by Rona Munro, and directed by Laurie Sansom, will undertake a major UK and international tour in 2016, visiting 11 venues across England and Scotland, as well as performing at international festivals in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Hawthorn has supplied a variety of different fixtures, including Martin MAC Vipe

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France - Robe's French subsidiary Robe Lighting France SAS finished the year with some strong sales to a range of high profile theatres.

In the theatre world, Robe's highly refined DL series of LED luminaires - built for the theatre and performance sector - bring all the advantages of LED technology combined with the accuracy, finesse and quality that theatre professionals demand.

Leading French installation, rental and sales company D6BL (D6 Bell Light) from Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris is well known as a theatre and performance technical installer and supplier, and recently delivered Robe DL fixtures to three important theatres, all with different but equally challenging needs.

The venues are the 500 capacity Theatre Bernard-Marie Kolt

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UK - Sam Simon-Norris has joined Sound Network as assistant sales manager to help the company keep up with the continuing growth over the last two years. Sam started work at Panic Music studios while studying music performance at university and developed an affinity with the technical side of sound while playing in numerous bands, gigging and recording in studios around London.

After three years at Panic he then joined LMC Audio Systems and applied his energy and enthusiasm to expanding on his audio knowledge. This included a range of interesting installations at universities around the country as well as taking popular east London venue Oval Space from their first digital desk, through to a complete digital Midas FOH/MON setup. Sam joined the DPA Microphones distributor in January and has spent his first two months networking and training, culminating in a visit to the DPA Mi

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Germany - Philips Entertainment Lighting will be unveiling a broad portfolio of new creative tools for lighting designers as part of the group's immersive 'be inspired by light and create great experiences' stand concept at Prolight+Sound 2016.

From Philips Showline comes the SL HYDRUS 350, which will be launching live at the show. The first Platinum lamp-based luminaire in the originally LED product line, the SL HYDRUS 350 is a super bright hybrid moving light that is designed for the live event and TV market because of its small size and speed.

Feature-packed with a wide zoom range in each mode, the SL HYDRUS 350 offers a vibrant colour pallet and is loaded with all the tools a designer needs to create mid-air effects, clear and precise projection as well as seamless blended animated washes.

"We're really looking forward to launching the SL HYDRUS 350 at Prolight," s

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USA - Elation's EPT6IP LED video display panel has become the LED screen panel and cross rental panel of choice in the upper northeast. Used on an increasing variety of events, the latest example was 11-12 February when Boston's Fenway Park hosted a big air snowboarding and freeskiing U.S. Grand Prix Tour and International Ski Federation World Tour event.

The Elation EPT6IP panels were used for portrait walls on each side of a large take-off ramp. East Coast Lighting & Production Services, Inc. (ECLPS) supplied the panels for the event, working with Elation rep firm Healy Sales and ECLPS's client Mission Six.

"We had screens flanking both sides of the jump structure," explains Nate Almeida of ECLPS. "The riders right screen was 25' wide x 14' high and consisted of 84 EPT6IP panels. The riders left screen was 16' wide x 8' high and consisted of 32 panels. Both screens were

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Europe - Genelec has announced that its popular 4000 Series loudspeakers are now available as part of the BIMobject library. This move allows AV designers and architects to include the Genelec loudspeakers in any building information model to help in the design and planning stages of a project. Users will now be able to add the loudspeakers into digitally built models in building design software such as Autodesk Revit, ArchiCAD and Google Sketchup.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a means by which everyone can understand a building through the use of a digital model. By modelling an asset in digital form, it enables those who interact with the building to optimize their actions.

BIM is rapidly becoming an important part of the planning and execution of construction projects. As a result of this new deal, Genelec's 4010, 4020, 4030 and 4040 loudspeakers can be seamle

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South Korea - Pohang city is located in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, about 300km far from Seoul to the southeast. The city is well-known for steel making with three leading manufacturers based there.

In addition, there are some old and very important churches in Pohang. Among these is Pohang First Presbyterian church which is over 110 years, founded in 1905. In the beginning, they had a small space for worship, they moved to the current place, and built a new building in 2007. For preparation of 110th anniversary celebration in 2015, they started the renovation including the sound systems from last September.

The size of the main sanctuary in Pohang church is 37m by 30m and the capacity is 2,500 seats.

Avix, the Korean distributor for Portuguese manufacturer NEXT-proaudio, recently installed a NEXT-proaudio sound system within the church's main sanctuary, th

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World - Mexican rock pop band Mana recently concluded its Cama Incendiada World Tour with a large complement of Clay Paky Mythos, A.leda B-EYE K10 and K20, and Stormy lighting fixtures adding colour and punch to the global production.

The Cama Incendiada World Tour was the eighth concert tour by the band, which hails from Guadalajara. It was in support of Mana's latest studio album, Cama Incendiada (Burning Bed). The band has earned four Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammys, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America and more. No other Latin rock band consistently sells more albums or concert tickets: Mana has sold more than 40m albums worldwide.

Alain Corthout was lighting designer for the tour, which featured 107 Clay Paky Mythos, 54 A.leda B-EYE K10s, 32 A.leda B-EYE K20s and 36 Stormys in the rig.

Two groups of Mythos were on upstage and side cranes. "So

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USA - Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in Burbank, is the largest studio specialising in stop-motion animation in California. Best known for the adult animated character Robot Chicken, the stages also produce Super Mansion, LEGO Scooby-Doo, Bratz and MAD Spy vs. Spy

While stop-motion animation has been around since the silent film era, Stoopid Buddy gives it an irreverent and often R-rated twist. While mainstream Hollywood looks for sources offshore, Stoopid Buddy prides itself on creating everything in house. With its own model making, wardrobe, set construction, lighting, grip and camera departments, the studio operates like a traditional, self-contained studio, but the comparison ends there. The mostly millennial team of directors, camera operators, editors and writers collaborate in ways that blur the historic divisions of labour. With log cabin offices and a Winnebago executive sui

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South Africa - When it came to specifying lighting for the new 3,000 capacity auditorium at Rivers Church's Sandton Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, technical manager Ed Helliwell decided that Robe moving lights were the way to go.

Eighteen LEDWash 1200s, 10 x Pointes, eight DL4S Profiles and eight miniPointes later - together with 26 x LEDBeam 100s purchased a few months earlier from Robe's South African distributor, DWR - they have a dynamic and flexible lighting rig in place which is making a real difference to how they can light their popular worship session and other events.

The new technology is also a good fit with the tasteful and eye-catching proto-industrial design of the new building, complete with coffee shop, large atrium and a collection of bespoke designer artworks made from recycled engineering waste, all created by Senior Pastor Andre Olivier for the

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Italy - Clay Paky lights are co-stars on the stage of Nek's show, Prima di Parlare Live 2015. Radio Italia is the official radio station of the tour which played theatres across the country.

The set, designed by Gi

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UK - Following a competitive tender, Adlib was recently appointed by Glasgow City Council to supply a new loudspeaker system to the Royal Scottish National Symphony Orchestra's new home, the RSNO centre.

The impressive new venue forms part of the Royal Concert Hall complex in the heart of Glasgow's vibrant city centre.

The new auditorium was developed by the Council's in-house design team led by architect Kerr Robertson. It is adjacent to the main Concert Hall (home of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) which opened in 1990 as part of the city's year as European Capital of Culture.

The overall complex features a 600-seater auditorium, a rehearsal space and learning centre, a recital hall and performance space that will be also used for classical and choral recording as well as for folk and other amplified music events.

Following a detailed site survey and subse

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USA - Lumileds today kicks off Mid Power March, a month-long event to introduce a variety of mid power products that feature "breakthrough performance and unmatched product reliability".

"Since we first entered the mid power market in 2012, our focus has been to offer mid power LEDs with a performance edge over our competitors," said Lumileds senior VP of sales & marketing Emmanuel Dieppedalle. "Part of that edge has come from leveraging our leading high power technologies for the mid power market. Mid Power March is all about showcasing the many breakthroughs we've made and are making in application-optimized mid power LED development."

Lumileds will release products during Mid Power March to specifically address different market needs. These new products will join Lumileds already extensive mid power and low power family.

"We know that the mid power LED market is gro

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USA - Lighting designer Jason Liggett turned to the ease of Elation Professional's new Emotion moving head digital light to project organic looks for a 2016 New Year's Eve performance by American rock band Joe Russo's Almost Dead at the Fillmore in Philadelphia.

"It occurred to me that I needed to have more options to create unique textured looks," Jason explains of his decision to use the new generation digital light. "I needed a video element that was not too literal and could be hidden within our stage and set design. I needed a digital moving light projector that I could control from my console. The Emotion was very easy to drive."

The Emotion is Elation's new plug and play DMX moving light with an on-board media server developed in cooperation with High End Systems. Utilizing only 32 DMX channels (54 in extended mode), it houses royalty-free digital art and videos wit

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