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Germany - From 15 to 17 June Stage|Set|Scenery will be represented at the Stage Technology Conference (BTT), which is organised by Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft (DTHG) and will be taking place in Bremen.

The BTT is the most important advanced training event organised by the theatre and event technology industry in German-speaking countries. A total of 80 companies will be represented there, including established family-run firms and innovative enterprises, ranging from small start-ups to major market leaders. The Stage Technology Conference can look back on a history that spans more than 100 years and this year will be taking place for the fifty-eighth time.

The extensive programme of supporting events comprises around 70 lectures, seminars, round table discussions

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USA - Celebrating 30 years in 2016, the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) is a six-day event held every March in Austin, Texas (USA). Allen & Heath's digital mixers from across its dLive, GLD and Qu ranges were employed this year in many of the particpating venues.

Two dLive systems managed the popular British Music Embassy Showcase, hosted by Austin's Latitude 30 club and featuring 10 to 12 bands each day of the festival. A GLD-80 was installed at the Threadgills venue to manage their roster, plus local PA company, Rock 'n Roll Rentals, supplied Qu mixers to various smaller venues.

dLive was requested for broadcast duties at the SPIN magazine party at Stubbs, where Chvrches, Deftones, and Vince Staples played, and a GLD-80 Chrome system with Waves was used by Tommy Williams mixing Ry-X for his key performance at St David's Episcopal Church.

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Philippines - One of the biggest boy bands in K-pop, EXO, have played their first two concerts outside of Korea with a high-impact lighting design by Moon Won Jun of Lite Factory using over 200 Clay Paky fixtures in Manila, Philippines.

PMX Trading and Technical Services supplied a full technical package to the two consecutive dates, including 130 x Clay Paky Sharpys, 50 x Sharpy Wash 330s, 16 x A.leda B-EYE K20s and a mix of 42 Stormy CC and Stormy LED strobes. The sold-out concerts took place at Manila's 20,000-capacity SM Mall of Asia arena.

"In my experience, Korean productions are all about having the latest technology and the most spectacular lighting designs," says technical director Dwight Carvajal of Beatbox DJ Store & Launch Pad Events, which operates under Launch Pad Consultancy Ventures Inc. "This is why Mr Moon Wun Jun specified such a large amount of Clay Pak

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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!

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The Netherlands - Wowing crowds of 17,000, Dutch superstar Marco Borsato's Symphonica in Rosso is one of the most spectacular series of performances. Held at Amsterdam Ziggodome Arena during 2016, 12 sold-out concerts broke boundaries in terms of technical creativity, innovation and wizardry.

Jo Pauly, d3 operator and programmer from Belgium-based Visual Solutions was brought in to consult and design all video during the preplanning process.

Another first for BlackTrax, the motion tracking solution was used to track key performer, Marco Borsato on stage and on a guitar shaped interactive LED video catwalk throughout the performance.

BlackTrax was seamlessly integrated with d3 technologies 4by4pro media servers to manage content for the entire concert including main stage LED wall, two IMAG LED walls and two rows of LED video banners throughout the whole venue.

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Austria - Broadwick Live partnered with Intellitix for the second consecutive year to deploy its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to enable cashless payments and smoother access control at Snowbombing 2016, April 4-9.

Dubbed 'the greatest show on snow', Snowbombing takes place in the Austrian town of Mayrhofen and welcomes over 6,000 festival-goers for a week of music and snow sports. Following on from last year's success of taking Snowbombing fully cashless for the first time, Intellitix once again deployed a bespoke system across the entire festival site, which included installing the system's antenna 1,500ft above Mayrhofen.

Intellitix's RFID system was implemented across the festival's main venues including Europahaus, Bruck 'N Stadl, The Racket Club and The Arena to enable secure Cashless Payments and speed up transaction times at key locations with a

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UK - HD Pro Audio is holding a day of demonstration and evaluation sessions for the KLANG:technologies 3D IEM system at John Henry's rehearsal studios in London N7 on 13 May, 2016.

KLANG:technologies takes stage monitoring to the next level, allowing engineers to create a much more spatial and natural-sounding IEM mix, combined with the option of simple wired or wireless multiple simultaneous user control via the KLANG:app, says the company.

The sessions will also introduce KOS2.1 to the UK market. Founder and chief marketing officer of KLANG:technologies, Dr. Pascal Dietrich, commented, "We are excited to present major improvements and additional features in our software after recently showcasing upcoming products such as our motion sensor KLANG:vector."

Dr. Dietrich continued, "Our new firmware KOS V2.1 has just been released for KLANG:fabrik and KLANG:vier. As well

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Italy - The first edition of Music Inside Rimini (7-9 May - Rimini Fiera) sees a heavy involvement from loudspeaker specialist Outline.

Outline's participation is two-fold: a stand of over 100sq.m (Hall A5C5 017) and the Music Inside Festival: 36 hours of music with 30 top-grade DJs, whose sounds will be amplified by three distinct GTO (Grand Touring Outline) systems supplied by Angelo Catoni's rental company Emporio On Stage with the support of Federico Rotondo's Sound Tech.

Outline will present the Vegas series, designed for installation and amplification in various vertical markets. The range includes a super-compact model with the very specific function of image shifter, and three coaxial systems with unique features for this type of speaker. The Vegas 24, 8 CX, 12 CX and 15 CX models are designed and manufactured to the same stringent quality standards as the Grand To

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China - David Dohrmann, Adamson's technical director Asia Pacific, has teamed up with their Chinese distributor, Real Music, to take the new S10 line array on the road. Real Music and Adamson will host technical seminars and S-Series product demonstrations in four Chinese cities in May 2016.

Consulting firms, integrators and sound engineers are invited to attend any of the four Adamson events held in Beijing (9 May), Shanghai (11 May), Chengdu (13 May) and Guangzhou (15 May). During each seminar, Dohrmann will provide a product demonstration of the S-Series S10 line arrays supported by the newly introduced S119 compact subwoofers. He will also provide a live demo of the accompanying Blueprint AV simulation suite software and review available E-Rack solutions.

The new S-Series represents a milestone in Adamson history. "The S10 line array offers a very attractive blend of p

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UK - Visual production expert FIX8Group is expanding its dry hire division with the addition of a wealth of new products under the direction of the company's technical director, Nick Charalampidis.

Charalampidis, who has been with FIX8Group since early 2013, is now responsible for enhancing the division's dry hire inventory with industry-leading products, carefully selected to suit almost all requirements.

"Before joining FIX8Group I worked with Green Hippo for five years, so my knowledge of Hippotizer servers and software is second to none," says Charalampidis. "I am adding an array of Green Hippo kit to our stock, including the Boreal, Karst and Amba servers, with the new, powerful, v4 software."

FIX8Group's technical mission is to always give the best service possible - to supply servers set up in the correct way and loaded with the right software to suit the user's

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UK - Music Group has today announced that it "proposes to dismiss as redundant" around 70 staff at its Tannoy manufacturing and office facility in Coatbridge, Scotland.

The company's statement says it is about to enter into a process of collective consultation with all affected employees, but in the event that the redundancies are confirmed following consultation, the Coatbridge facility would cease operations completely.

In this event, say Music Group, the Tannoy loudspeaker production would be transferred to Music Group's manufacturing plant in Zhongshan, China, with its R&D and marketing activities being relocated to the Group's Innovation centre in Manchester, UK.

The announcement was made to employees today by senior vice-president, Lifestyle & Home, Peter Sommer: "Following an extensive evaluation of our operational and financial structure, we have taken the diff

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UK - Television and entertainment lighting rental specialist Aurora has appointed Gemma Oldfield to the position of office manager at their West London operation.

Graduating with a degree in Business and Marketing, Gemma began her career at Neg Earth. Moving to the role of marketing co-ordinator at Richard Martin Lighting, Gemma became a well-known face of the company, further extending her knowledge, customer and colleague base to encompass the world of television.

Commenting on her new role, Gemma says, "I was extremely flattered to be asked to join the Aurora team. With their fantastic reputation and recent acquisition by industry giants VER, now seems like the perfect time to join the company - I am very excited to be a part of it all."

VER European sales director Adrian Offord concludes, "We are extremely fortunate to have someone of Gemma's calibre join the Auror

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UK - Elation Professional invites lighting professionals to Stand N-D32 at PLASA Focus Leeds for an up-close look at an impressive line-up of new lighting solutions that includes three all-new product series.

On display May 10-11 at the Royal Armouries in Leeds will be Elation's new Fuze Series, a dynamic range of LED wash luminaires with single-lens RGBW COB LEDs for a wide choice of colours and extremely homogenized field of light. Available in moving head or IP65-rated PAR versions, all Fuze Series fixtures (Fuze PAR Z60, Fuze PAR Z120, Fuze Wash Z120, Fuze Wash Z350) house a wide 5-50-degree zoom.

Also showing will be the DTW Series, a new variable white LED series of products designed specifically for the broadcast and video market. DTW Series fixtures are color temperature adjustable and can emulate the "dim to warm" look of conventional tungsten / halogen fixtures.

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UK - Audio-Technica is set to showcase a wide range of products from its microphone and headphone ranges and the latest offerings from distributed brands Allen & Heath and Apart Audio at PLASA Focus 2016 at The Royal Armouries in Leeds on 10-11 May.

In addition, Rodrigo Thomaz (Audio-Technica senior technical product specialist) will be hosting a seminar entitled Exploring The Advantages Of 100 Volt Line Audio Systems on Wednesday 11 May at 2pm in The Royal Armouries' Wellington Room. Presented in conjunction with The Institute of Sound and Communication Engineers, the session will look at the difference between low impedance and 100 Volt Line speakers, tackling the myths of installing 100V Line systems to make installations easier and quicker.

The recently launched Audio-Technica ATM350a clip-on condenser microphone - with its exemplary range of instrument mounts (

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Korea - Renowned new age pianists, Kevin Kern and Daydream, recently held a joint concert at KEPCO Art Centre in Seoul, Korea, managed by an Allen & Heath Qu-32 compact digital mixer with AB168 remote IO audio rack.

Kevin Kern and Daydream are well known for writing sound tracks for many popular TV dramas, such as the popular Korean TV dramas, Autumn in My Heart and Winter Sonata, as well as documentaries and radio broadcastings.

Technically, the focus of the concert was to capture a live recording for TV broadcast, and also use the recording to mix down a live album, as well as provide live sound reinforcement.

The project was managed by director, Jaehoon Um, who has a distinguished career in recording and mixing more than 6,000 pieces of K-POP, and Film and TV drama sound tracks.

Each microphone was connected to the AB168, which was installed on sta

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USA - The most watched event of the year, Super Bowl 50 starts not at kickoff, but about a week prior with a media circus that must be seen to be believed.

Alcons Audio, best known for their high frequency Pro Ribbon technology, provided the loudspeakers and amplifiers for the large media spaces within the media centre in downtown San Francisco.

Freeman Audio Visual Solutions, the staging company, and the NFL itself, selected and approved various Alcons Audio Pro Ribbon systems to fill the bill in the vast media centre. The man behind the controls was Martin Reeves of MDR Productions.

Alcons Pro Ribbon Loudspeakers were deployed as follows:

In the main Room 1, nine LR7 (6.5"+ RBN401 pro-ribbon) were used for left and right, with three LR7 as centre cluster; two BQ211 21" subs for low-frequency extension. The system was driven by two Sentinel10 four-channel amplifie

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UK - One of the UK's hottest rising pop stars is singer / songwriter Foxes (Louisa Rose Allen) who recently toured the UK with a fresh, inventive and contemporary lighting design to match which was based around Robe moving lights and created by Jake Vernum.

Jake has worked with the band for two years. He landed the gig after Foxes played a student union May Ball he was lighting. As they were headlining, he designed a bespoke rig and added some specials for their slot, as well as programming and operating, all of which impressed the artist and tour management enough to offer him the gig as lighting director / operator on the road, a task for which he collaborated with LD Cate Carter of Bryte Design. He's worked for Foxes ever since

Jake, Cate and Mike Smith from Bryte Design discussed adding some classic theatrical effects like a starcloth / voile backdrop plus more set ele

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UK - When Thor André from Technical Sales at Ambersphere Solutions visited the Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) to chat to technical stage manager, Simon Bagnall, the choice for a new replacement lighting console had already been decided and the order placed with the installers, Complete Production Solutions Group (CPS).

"The BIC is in the process of making a significant investment in lighting and AV equipment," opens Bagnall, "And without really exploring our options we were just intending to purchase a lighting console from the same manufacturer as our old large theatre desk. But after a chat with Thor, we took a close look at the MA dot2; the OnPC facility was of great interest to us and with four venues within the centre the 'pick up and go' attraction of the dot2 was obvious. We booked a training session with Thor and he came down the following week.

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UK - A symphony of Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, Alpha Spot HPE 1500 and Alpha Spot HPE 700 fixtures created a dynamic lighting show designed by Durham Marenghi for the annual Classical Spectacular at London's Royal Albert Hall in March.

Billed as 'the UK's most popular classic music show', the performance features not only the aural beauty of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Rigby, but also state of the art lighting and laser technology to create a visual feast as well.

Put on by classic music promoter Raymond Gubbay, the dramatic overtures were complemented by cannons, guns and 2,000 indoor fireworks, which brought the show to its famous thundering finale.

To achieve the bombastic looks, Marenghi carefully selected a rig of Clay Paky fixtures which were suitable for the splendour of the Royal Albert Hall but also produced the latest effec

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USA - After a three-year expansion, the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) opens on 14 May with nearly triple the gallery space, 45,000sq.ft of free public access areas, and an unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art on view.

Committed to an extraordinary visitor experience on every level, SFMOMA partnered with Meyer Sound to provide sound solutions throughout the transformed museum.

A highlight of the collaboration is the redesigned Phyllis Wattis Theatre, located at the heart of the museum where the original Mario Botta-designed building seamlessly integrates with the Sn°hetta-designed, 10-story addition. According to San Francisco-based EHDD, the architects tasked with the theatre renovation, a Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic system was the perfect solution to complex architectural and acoustic challenges.

Together with Meyer Sound

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UAE - Home to the world's tallest building, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is accustomed to doing things big. The extensive festivities marking the 44th UAE National Day were no exception. The official National Day event at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi was a high-end production featuring grandMA2 consoles.

UAE National Day commemorated the Emirates' 44-year union with fireworks, concerts, heritage attractions, regattas, and art and theatre festivals across the Emirates. The official National Day show at Zayed Sports City celebrated the spirit of the union and the Emirates' national pride.

Produced by Five Current with lighting and video design by 4U2C, the show flashed back to the creation of the UAE by the region's seven kings. "The main challenge was the size of the stage - 300ft wide," notes Karl Gaudreau, associate lighting designer at 4U2C, a Montreal-based one-stop

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Europe - ImageCue, the manufacturer of the compact, easy-to-use image server of the same name, has opened an office near Zurich, Switzerland to support its expansion into the European market.

ImageCue has been establishing distribution partners in Europe since the beginning of the year. So far they have entered into partnerships with Gobo & Highlight in the Nordic countries, White Light in the UK, FACE in the Benelux, and Lightpower in Germany and Austria.

Bill Hewlett, CEO of ImageCue LLC says, "In order to better serve our European distributors and dealers we felt that a European base was necessary. ImageCue units for Europe, the Middle-East, and Africa will be assembled at our new facility outside of Zurich."

ImageCue GmbH is a subsidiary company of ImageCue LLC based in the USA. The European branch will be managed by Norbert Schenkel who performed his practical ele

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