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USA - Milos was chosen as support structure supplier for the largest Ninja Warrior course in the United States. Located in Peachtree Corners (a metro area of Atlanta, Georgia), the 12,000 m2 course is part of the Slingshot facility and was designed by American Ninja Warrior contestant, Jason Huewe.

The course uses Milos QTL/QTV truss to support 24 challenging obstacles for different ability levels. Areas of the course include a peg board, slack bridge, gecko wall, disk slide, ropes and ramps.

Asked about Slingshot's decision to use Milos, Jason replied, "Some of the main deciding factors which made us go with them instead of some of the other brands out there was the strength of their product, the quickness that it could actually be assembled together by a limited number of

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Germany - Since joining the Laserworld Group at the beginning of 2016, a lot of development has happened at tarm: Not only have several new laser systems been developed and released, but processes have been streamlined and optimized.

With the launch of their new website (www.tarm.com), tarm clearly focuses on their core products and services. The products section provides technical details on the new show laser systems and the laser show section provides details on the laser show services tarm and partners within the Laserworld Group can offer.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Belgium-based automations, engineering and scenic construction specialist WIcreations was asked by staging experts StageCo, working for Insomniac the production company, to produce key scenic elements of the main circuitGROUNDS stage at the 2016 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) dance extravaganza in Las Vegas.

Staged at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway over three days, EDC is one of the largest and EDM events worldwide.

Dutch design company Jora Entertainment has worked on the event for many years and EDC's stage environments are known for their awesome high-impact visual appearance and intricate attention to detail - an area in which WI also excels.

With the scale of the staging projects being so enormous, and following a highly successfully collaboration on the Beyoncé Formation tour a few months previously the WI team, project managed by Yves Vervloet, worked

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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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UK - Following continuous year-on-year growth, UK music technology and pro audio distributor Source Distribution has announced completion of a major relocation of its warehousing, sales, marketing and administrative premises to a significantly larger facility in Park Royal, London NW10.

Founded in 2007, Source Distribution has experienced rapid expansion, asserting itself as a significant force in music technology and pro audio distribution, with a diverse portfolio of distributed brands that includes API Audio, Arturia, Eventide, Genelec, iOgrapher, Lynx, Moog, PreSonus and R°DE Microphones.

The management, sales and logistics functions of Source Distribution have been overseen by an ever expanding team, housed since 2008 in Cumberland Business Park, Scrubs Lane, with sales administration and warehousing working side-by-side. As both the portfolio and popularity of So

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USA - Felix Lighting helped Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) celebrate its 20th anniversary with a large complement of Clay Paky lighting fixtures at its flagship Las Vegas Motor Speedway venue.

EDC is one of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in the world. The June 2016 Las Vegas event drew more than 400,000 revellers to three days of the top EDM DJs, carnival rides, art and circus-style performances.

La Mirada, California-based Felix Lighting was the lighting vendor for EDC's Kinetic Field, North America's largest scenic stage, for the third consecutive year. Felix Lighting has participated in EDC almost since its inception.

Felix Lighting hung 96 Clay Paky Sharpys onstage. "There were eight wings on the set piece, four to each side, and Sharpys were on the edge of every wing in quantities from seven to eleven," Karol says. "We also had some Sharpys on the flo

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USA - Beauty is big business in Florida, a state that follows pageants with a level of interest that is unmatched in all but a few places in the US. This year's edition of the Miss Florida pageant generated over $1m for host city Fort Lauderdale.

Recognizing the significance of the event, Abbas Ritscher of cross rental house The Design Oasis and lighting designer Charles Brennan wanted to create new and extra dynamic looks for the 2017 Miss Florida Pageant, which drew a sold-out crowd to the 1,167-seat Parker Playhouse. At the same time, they had to be mindful of budget and the relatively small size of the stage where the televised pageant took place. Taken together, these factors led to the selection of the Rogue R1 FX-B as a central fixture in their rig.

"We had 10 of the Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures in the rig, but to look at the lightshow, you would have thought there were m

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USA - The 2016 annual high school graduation ceremony for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) - an online public community school- was staged at the Schottenstein Centre in Columbus, Ohio, where around 12,000 people watched more than 1,300 students graduate.

Lighting the event was Zachary Durban, who used 80 x Robe BMFL WashBeams and 28 Pointes supplied by Cincinnati area based Loud and Clear which delivered the event's technical production.

Zach regularly works with Loud and Clear as an LD and programmer, bringing his vast experience working on rock shows, theatre productions and corporates to a crossover event like ECOT. Shane Fisher, production and sales manager from Loud and Clear pitched an initial concept for the ECOT event, which he and Zach jointly developed into the production design for the show.

Loud and Clear produced the show for the first time las

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Chart Topper - The debut album from Viola Beach - the British band killed in a car crash in February - looks set to reach number one in the album chart. All four members of the band and their manager Craig Tarry died when their car plunged into a canal in Sweden. The Official Charts Company said Viola Beach's self-titled album was leading the chart by around 6,000 sales.

In June, Coldplay paid tribute to Viola Beach at Glastonbury by performing the band's song Boys That Sing as part of their headline slot on the Pyramid Stage. This week's official chart will be revealed on Friday.

Cats Criticised - British singer Leona Lewis has failed to impress critics in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway revival of Cats. The former X Factor winner was given the leading role of Grizabella after Nicole Scherzinger pulled out days before rehearsals were due to star

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USA - City Theatrical has announced the launch of a new RGBI QolorFlex LED tape developed for professional lighting designers who often need deeper blue accents, backgrounds, and shadings in set lighting. City Theatrical's RGBI LED tape alternates a 5050 RGB chip with a 450nm indigo chip, giving extra powerful, deep blue output.

The QolorFlex RGBI strip gives designers the blue that is typically found in an RGB or RGBX (RGB + Amber, RGB +White, etc.) strip, plus an additional even brighter and deeper indigo circuit.

Standard RGB LED chips contain one emitter each of red, green, and blue. In QolorFlex RGBI LED tape, the indigo chip contains three indigo emitters for extra powerful, bright, deep indigo output.

City Theatrical's RGBI QolorFlex LED tape was created for Tony Award winning lighting designer Ken Posner's upcoming Broadway show War Paint, which utilizes

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USA - The Audio Engineering Society will celebrate the rich history of professional audio through a series of Historical Track presentations at the 141st International AES Convention in Los Angeles. Taking place Thursday, 29 September 29 - Sunday, 2 October 2, 2016, at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, AES Los Angeles will offer sessions covering the innovative and interesting histories of iconic recording studios, acoustics and technology design, sound reinforcement of historical events and more, curated by Historical Events chair Mark Gander of Hrman Professional Solutions..

AES Los Angeles Historical Events sessions are slated to include:

Political Audio: Sound for Past and Recent Presidential Debates and Conventions - A panel of industry professionals with first-hand experience working on past and present presidential events will come together to discuss the so

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USA - Held on the eve of the Kentucky Derby, Unbridled Eve pairs a VIP cocktail reception and dinner with live entertainment provided by celebrity musical artists. Located annually inside the Galt House Hotel Grand Ballroom, Marcus Cambron and his team at Visual Productions have been creating the evening's production design over the last 18 years working with a number of event sponsors. Knowing this year the organizers wanted to capitalize on the performance capabilities of LED video, Cambron turned to Nashville-based PixelFLEX who provided him with FLEXCurtain HD LED video technology to create an energetic and dynamic visual experience.

"Every year at this event our production design changes a little bit to keep the show engaging for the guests, and so this year we really wanted to use LED video to give the show a new look," says Cambron. "I first used the PixelFLEX technolog

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USA - Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza, located on Moapa Paiute tribal land less than an hour from the Las Vegas strip, has a 10,000sq.ft tent housing one of the largest collections of fireworks in the western US. It is also home to a "launch pad" located on a broad expanse of remote desert land, where customers can engage in pyrotechnic pursuits.

This Fourth of July, the plaza's fireworks were not the only things illuminating the sky at this unique plaza. Along with marvelling at the glare of multi-coloured rockets, the more than 70,000 fans who attended the Moapa Madness festival got to witness an intensely bright lightshow that included a collection of Chauvet Professional LED fixtures supplied by Kilroy's Lighting & Production.

Lighting designer Steven Brody used these fixtures to wash the stage at Moapa Madness, a two-day Fourth of July celebration that featured a nonstop pr

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World - Ovation of the Seas took its maiden voyage in April as the third Quantum class luxury cruise liner from Royal Caribbean International to feature an onboard Elation Professional lighting and video system. It follows the successful launch of Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the Seas, both of which sail with a full complement of energy-efficient Elation Professional products.

Ovation of the Seas boasts the same lighting and video package template as the previous two Quantum class ships, says Christopher Vlassopulos, superintendent SLVR & architectural lighting for Royal Caribbean International. Christopher coordinated the design and specification for all the entertainment equipment in all three Quantum class ships' public spaces, including the entertainment lighting systems.

Christopher specified and designed lighting for the entertainment spaces on Ovation of the Se

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Norway - Stormen Concert House, the new home of the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, has added a d:facto Vocal Microphone to its extensive stock of DPA microphones - all of which are regularly used for both recording and amplification purposes.

The new d:facto Vocal Microphone, which was supplied with a handle and an adapter to fit the concert hall's Shure wireless system, is proving so popular with visiting singers that Stormen is hoping to add more in the near future.

Located in the Norwegian town of Bod°, Stormen Concert Hall was designed by British architects DRDH and officially opened in November 2014. It replaces an older venue that was only ever intended as a temporary solution, although it actually stood for 23 years before the new building was commissioned. The concert hall has three different auditoria - a main hall with 940 seats, a small hall with 240 seats a

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Peru - The new Clay Paky Scenius Spot has landed in South America for the first time and is dubbed 'fixture of choice' by prolific lighting designer Mario Raez in the Peruvian staging of jukebox classic Mamma Mia! at the Teatro Peruano Japones in Lima.

Raez is the first lighting designer in South America to put the Scenius Spot through its paces, employing six of the units in his show. "These are great fixtures," says Raez, "Once I became familiar with their features and what they could do most of my design rested on them."

Raez was particularly impressed with the fixture's linear CTO filter, using it to recreate the light of the Adriatic coast where the production is set. "I have been a lighting designer for 30 years and the CTO in the Clay Paky Scenius Spot is one of the best I have ever seen," he states.

"The brief was to keep the lighting and stage design as

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UK - If you own an sE Reflexion Filter Pro, you can now purchase a hardware upgrade to simplify its ease of use, increase stability, and provide better overall performance and durability.

In 2006, sE Electronics released the original Reflexion Filter Pro and created a whole new market of portable acoustic treatment devices. Ten years and six different sE Reflexion Filter products later, the company has sold over 120,000 units worldwide. In May of this year, sE introduced a special 10th Anniversary Reflexion Filter Pro, limited to 1000 pieces worldwide. This commemorative RF Pro included completely redesigned mounting hardware, which has now been made commercially available due to popular demand.

The new Reflexion Filter Pro Mounting Bracket Upgrade Kit is now available for purchase through authorized sE distributors worldwide. Customers who have purchased a Reflexion Filte

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USA - Kinesys automation customers have a new choice in chain hoists for their systems. After successful testing of several models, Total Structures is has announced that Pointman Electric Chain Hoists have been approved for use with the Elevation drive system.

Currently hoists are available in

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USA - API reports that Loyola Marymount University is the most recent higher education facility to commission an API Legacy Plus console.

The custom 32 channel Legacy Plus will feature in LMU's Recording Arts programme, which focuses on production, post production, live sound, and music recording. The new console will familiarize LMU Recording Arts students with analog signal flow, preparing them for world class recording environments they are likely to encounter after they graduate. LMU students will be able to utilize the Legacy Plus this coming fall semester.

"We're proud to play a role in LMU's Recording Arts program," said API managing director Gordon Smart. "We're convinced that truly understanding signal flow while working with top quality analogue audio is an unbeatable combination."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Blue Man Group, the performance company that has won an Obie, a Drama Desk and a Grammy Award nomination for its eccentric, percussive ruminations on the human condition, has popular productions in New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Berlin and Orlando. One of the most highly attended has been in Orlando, where the production has been performing at the Blue Man Group Theatre at CityWalk at the Universal Orlando Resort since 2007.

Most recently, that venue upgraded its sound system to an L-Acoustics Kara system, provided by Clearwing Productions' Phoenix office. The system upgrade in Orlando follows one in Las Vegas, which saw an L-Acoustics K2 rig installed at Blue Man Group's new home at the Luxor Hotel and Casino.

"The Kara system has been an excellent move for Orlando," says Blue Man Group sound supervisor Marcus Ross, who is responsible for Blue Man Group's aud

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USA - Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas is the holy grail of EDM events and America's largest dance music festival. This year, Insomniac Events organized a spectacular 20th anniversary celebration that included a newly designed and expanded Circuit Grounds stage lit with a lighting package that incorporated nearly 850 Elation Professional LED luminaires.

Held June 17-19 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the larger Circuit Ground Stage featured a massive 240,000 square foot arena-style stage with surrounding structures and accommodated twice as many people as previous years.

The 360-degree immersive design featured huge LED screen-topped structures, towers and bridges, along with the lighting and video to support it, the creation of production and lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting.

Hundreds of Elation Professional Colour Chorus 72 LED batten wash lights

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USA - When the two National Conventions were held to select the Presidential candidates for the Republican and Democratic parties, Powersoft was on hand to electrify the events.

First of all, 84 of Powersoft's K10 amplifiers occupied prime position in Cleveland during a whirlwind four-day event which saw Donald Trump formally capture the Republican party presidential nomination.

A little more than a week later, and across the country in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic party's nomination to run for President and again Powersoft was on hand to amplify proceedings in front of 4,700 delegates, who cast their ballots at the Democratic National Convention. This time 104 K10's were deployed.

These events marked the start of the U.S. general election, and for such historically and legally significant events, audio intelligibility was the paramount technic

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