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UK - Sound designer Rick Clarke sadly passed away on 10 July 2016 after a prolonged period of complications from cancer.

One of the UK's most prolific and accomplished sound designers, Rick Clarke started out as a roadie and mix engineer for the 1970s band Medicine Head and The Grateful Dead. He went on to enjoy a successful career in theatre, especially musicals.

In 1980, Clarke joined the staff of the National Theatre, under Peter Hall, and worked there for four years. He was fondly remembered by the National's technical coordinator Rob Barnard as "a very capable technician - fearless, self-confident and a lot of fun".

Clarke himself recalled Richard Eyre's 1982 Guys and Dolls as a stand-out National production that helped to make musicals more highly regarded b

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The Netherlands - Philips Lighting has announced the appointment of Philips executive Colin Kavanagh as the company's new head of its entertainment lighting business.

Kavanagh will take on this new role as head of entertainment lighting with immediate effect, which will see him relocating to Dallas, Texas where he is tasked with growing Philips Lighting's presence in the entertainment sector - specifically with lighting for theaters, festivals, experiential retail outlets, theme parks, arts venues, exhibition spaces, leisure venues, holiday destinations and the night club industry.

Kavanagh has extensive commercial and technical experience pertinent to his new role.

"I am developing a sector-specific strategy that will greatly enhance how the Entertainment team works and take the business to the next level," explains Kavanagh. "At Philips Lighting, we have an unparalle

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USA - Chauvet Professional is spreading rich vivid colours to more places. Following up on its popular Ovation E-910FC RGBA-Lime ellipsoidal, the company is raising the bar in colour wash and cyc lighting with the introduction of the first Ovation batten style fixtures. Like their ellipsoidal forbearer, the new Ovation B-2805FC and Ovation B-565FC battens feature an RGBA-Lime LED system that creates bolder, more vivid colours and brighter whites.

"Our original RGBA-Lime fixture met with a very enthusiastic reception, because it opened a whole new realm of colour mixing possibilities for designers," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "The natural thing for us to do was extend this colour mixing capability from the ellipsoidal to the batten category. Our new Ovation battens offer the broadest palette you can find in a batten style fixture."

Aside from putting a rainbow of

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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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Singapore - VYV Photon media servers were used to achieve the world's largest real-time motion-tracked 3D projection mapping, in celebration of Singapore's 51st National Day at the New Singapore National Stadium.

For Singapore's National Day Parade, VYV and partner Hexogon Solution provided a 360-degree real-time tracked 3D projection mapping for two scenes - a large moving boulder that was to be split into eight pieces, and a floating city made up of 15 collapsible fabric towers totalling 99 objects, which stands 20m tall and 60m in diameter.

Hexogon Solution deployed a total of 40 tracking cameras, 66 projectors each producing 30,000 lumens, 250 VYV Copernic tracking emitters and 12 VYV Photon servers for this task.

Accurate tracking, quick and painless automatic calibration and dynamic edge blending were all essential ingredients to the success of this record-shatte

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USA - LMG Touring has supplied a full lighting package including over 200 Elation ACL 360i beam effect fixtures for rappers G-Eazy and Logic's co-headlining The Endless Summer tour.

G-Eazy's production designer Sooner Routhier developed the design concept for G-Eazy's set. She comments, "We needed a small, lightweight fixture that we could use to populate a series of pods upstage. Management wanted to see a wall of lights behind G-Eazy that could create a lot of EDM style effects and the 360i ACL fit the bill perfectly."

Each compact single-beam ACL 360i light houses a single 60W RGBW LED and projects a narrow 4° beam. With the ability to rotate continuously 360-degrees, the large matrix of beam fixtures makes for a creative and eye-catching show of ever-changing rays of light.

The all-star rap tour features 568 lighting fixtures in all. "We wanted to make sure tha

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UK / USA - Hoffend LivePipe hoists - Engineering Product of the Year at the 2016 ABTT Show - are now shipping for installation from Hall Stage dealers.

The innovative approach taken to design and operation has led to a faultless installation in Tennessee, completed by BellaTEX Inc. who sent this independent report.

"I have nothing but good things to say about the LivePipe product," says Ty Prewitt. "It offers significant and unique advantages - and showed us it will work in very difficult situations.

"Live Pipe was not only the best solution in this case, but its cost was on par or lower than other options. I believe its appeal will be broad. It can be exceptionally quick to install. Since it doesn't include hoisting a 150Kg motor, 'quick' actually has some validity.

"The assembly and installation process is significantly simpler than any other products I've encoun

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UK - Event technical production specialist Central Presentations Limited (CPL) has invested in 80sq.m of new ROE Black OnyX 3.4 mm LED screen plus ROE LED strip product - both of which are going directly onto a job in London and will then be available from the west Midlands, UK based company's rental stock.

CPL project manager Simon Haydon explains that this screen was chosen because as a high quality HD indoor product and in keeping with the company's commitment to stocking premium brands, ROE is one of the best known and most widely used brands in the European rental and staging markets, and has gained a great reputation for being practical and innovative.

"We purchased it as a versatile all-round solution that will be perfect for the range of shows and events we service," confirms Simon.

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UK - Temporary power specialist Midas has provided for a record number of Jockey Club Live shows this summer, with Aintree added to the calendar.

In the sophomore year of a three-season contract with Symphotech, which manages production for Jockey Club Live, Midas accommodated the weight of shows with three separate kits of 220 kVA synched generators on the road.

Starting at Aintree in May, with turns from Tom Jones and Deacon Blue in a 10,000 capacity structure, Midas supplied stage and backstage power to a further 21 dates at seven racecourses across the country. Busted, Bryan Adams, Tears For Fears and Jess Glynne were among the performers, a significant number of the shows sold out and the tour is sure to keep growing.

Midas' managing director, Dave Noble, comments, "Jockey Club Live is a demanding schedule with so many dates close together at different venues, but

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UAE - The Lock, Stock & Barrel in Dubai was inspired by the trend of casual, industrial and live music venues all over the world. Spread over two floors and with more than 800sq.m, it focuses on live music events and sports with two bars, a live music stage and eleven screens.

Lighting designer Ben M Rogers of ArchiLX worked alongside the interiors team from mid 2015 to be ready for opening in the first half of 2016. For lighting control he specified an MA Lighting dot2 XL-B console running an Art-Net based network driving all the show and architectural lighting in the venue.

Rogers explained his reason to vote for the dot2: "I have been programming MA consoles for the last nine years. The new software platform and industrial build of the dot2 provided a perfect product for this installations - combining the power and flexibility of the grandMA2 series in an intuitive, acc

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UK - Evans Audio Visual Staging supplied PA systems, video screens and a bespoke 'Bristol' sign to the 2016 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Europe's largest hot air balloon event, 11- 14 August 2016.

The 38th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta took place at Ashton Court Estate and attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and over 100 hot air balloons from across the globe. With mass ascents, Nightglows, Cirque Bijou performances and aerial displays from The Parabatix Flying Display team, it's the largest event of its kind in Europe.

Bristol based Evans Audio Visual Staging was selected by Richmond Event Management (REM) to design, manufacture and install a giant 12m x 3m Bristol sign, which was situated to the west of the balloon launch field. During the nightglows this sign was illuminated by Bristol based Utopium, to showcase the blue and green of the new Bris

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UK - One of the key audio networking protocols, Audinate's Dante, is an essential part of audio solutions ranging from huge, multi-console festival and multi-zone club systems to the simplest of retail background music applications. PLASA 2016 features a unique, free opportunity for audio professionals to learn more about Dante, with a training event hosted by Kieran Walsh, regional manager, global support services at Audinate.

Taking place on Tuesday 20 September in the Apex Room, Olympia London, the seminar is recommended for anyone involved with the installation of networked audio systems; including design consultants, system integrators and live sound engineers. Certified Technology Specialists will earn four RU credits for attending.

The seminar, which will run from 10.00-15.30, is sponsored by a number of leading audio technology companies, including Audinate, Focusr

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USA - Behind the Scenes has announced that lighting designer and theatre consultant Dawn Chiang has accepted an invitation to join its Board of Directors. Upon her acceptance Dawn commented, "Behind the Scenes helps address an important need to technology professionals within the entertainment industry -- issuing grants to those in need due to serious illness or injury. I am honoured to join the board of Behind the Scenes to help support such an important, and often overlooked issue."

Dawn has designed lighting on Broadway, Off Broadway, the New York City Opera, regional theatres across the country, and concert tours. A few highlights include Zoot Suit on Broadway; work at Manhattan Theatre Club, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Guthrie Theatre; and a Paul Anka tour. Dawn has earned two Drama-Logue Critics' Awards and numerous nominations around the cou

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Australia - Situated on Australia's Sunshine Coast, The Events Centre is regarded as the area's premier performing arts and conference centre, and recently underwent an audio upgrade including the installation of Allen & Heath's flagship dLive digital mixing system.

The Events Centre has two theatres and dining spaces for over 1,000 patrons, and is the largest function centre on the coast with fine dining, high tech staging and presentation equipment for large and small dining events, award nights, conferences, theatre and special events, as well as an exciting annual program of entertainment and cultural events.

"The Centre had auditioned most of the big name consoles and we had pretty much decided on the way forward when dLive came into the picture. Once we heard it the whole game changed," explains David Cartledge, senior audio & vision engineer. "dLive has astounding a

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Switzerland - Throughout 2016, Yamaha's flagship RIVAGE PM10 digital mixing console has been seen on an increasing number of events and tours, giving engineers the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the state-of-the-art system. In late July it was specified by Swiss rental company Hyperson SA for Paléo Festival Nyon - Switzerland's biggest music festival - where it was the star of a show which also featured several other Yamaha digital mixers.

Established in 1972, Hyperson SA is one of mainland Europe's major technical production companies. It has been supplying audio equipment to the Paléo Festival since 1978. "Yamaha consoles are suitable for a very wide range of applications and everyone knows them. That's incredibly useful for festivals, because a lot of bands have show files and it's very easy to accommodate guest engineers. For example many artists

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USA - Prior to Major League Baseball's 2016 All-Star Game on 12 July at Petco Park in San Diego, an All-Star Game FanFest took place the week leading up to the annual Midsummer Classic. One of the FanFest's most popular events was the MLB All-Star Bash where top acts Akon, Fall Out Boy and DJ Vice performed beneath a lighting rig that included Platinum Series moving heads, ACL Bar 360 LED effect lights and Colour Chorus Series LED battens from Elation Professional.

Held on 10 July at the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Centre, Aspect Lighting of Southern California, managed by owner Sid Khera, supplied the lighting and truss structure for the event. Lighting design was by Phil Shearer of lighting and production design company Shearer Entertainment with Aspect Lighting's Larry Doerr providing creative design and layout input. Lighting design assistance was from Nick

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USA - Music critics sometimes struggle to describe the sound of CLASSIXX, a production duo made up of childhood friends Michael David and Tyler Blake that achieved widespread acclaim in the early 2000s as remixers for groups like Phoenix and Yacht. Going beyond standard banger-style electronic music, the twosome deliver a blend of house, funk and indie influences into their work - all while managing to sound captivatingly retro without being sentimental.

Lighting designer Noah Sharp captured the intricate spirit of CLASSIXX's music in light at the recent album release show for their much-anticipated second LP Faraway Reach, which was held at the historic 800-seat El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. A key part of Sharp's design was the retro uplighting looks he created with the Rogue R1 Wash from Chauvet Professional.

Sharp used six Rogue R1 Washes in his floor package, c

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USA / China - Making their first visit to China, Meyer Sound co-founders John and Helen Meyer will attend the PALM China 2016 Expo in Beijing this September to emphasize the company's commitment to serving the Asia-Pacific region with leading-edge professional audio technologies. The Meyers will meet with key customers, consultants, experts and the audio trade press. In addition, company CEO John Meyer will address the annual conference of the China Entertainment Technology Association on 31 August.

The two founders' first-time visit to China is in response to increasing demand for the company's advanced technologies as evidenced by high-profile installations throughout the country. "China has become the world leader in creating imaginative, large-scale entertainment spectaculars," observes John Meyer. "These are among the largest and most sophisticated audio systems anywhere,

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UK - Drapes, special effects specialist S+H Technical was asked by creative production design practice Scott Callaghan Art Production, run by Sid Scott & Alison Callaghan in Cardiff to provide large quantities of their RGB LED starcloth to the high profile National Eisteddfod of Wales, this year staged in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.

Set designer Sid Scott worked closely with lighting designer Nigel Catmur on crafting the aesthetic for the main hub of the event, the Pafiliwn, an 1800 capacity theatre space which hosts various live performances, competitions and the main crowning ceremonies held throughout the week-long event.

This year for the first time the Pafiliwn was staged in a new venue - a 60m long by 40m deep pavilion structure from staging specialist Neptunus Structures, based on their fully insulated Evolution II temporary building system and featuring around 9m o

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Singapore - LD Mac Chan was part of the team led by creative director Beatrice Chia who made every Singaporean burst with pride on their 2016 National Day Parade (NDP) and this year, for the first time, the event was staged at the new National Stadium. With a live audience of 50,000, a TV audience of around 5m plus a few more million tuning in to the live internet stream, there was plenty of pressure on everyone to deliver.

Mac needed to fill the vast space of the National Stadium with light and chose 500 of Robe's powerful and versatile BMFL luminaires as the main moving lights - 400 BMFL Blades and 100 BMFL Spots - all rigged on trusses flown in the stadium roof and supplied by leading Singapore rental company, Showtec Communications Pte. Ltd.

The theme of this year's NDP looked forward to the future and the next 50 years of Singapore - having just celebrated the foundat

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Switzerland - After almost 17 years of construction, the grand opening of the Gothard Base Tunnel was celebrated on 1 June with more than 1000 guests.

Winkler Multi Media Events, one of the leading Swiss event service providers, was responsible for equipping the production of theatre director Volker Hesse. Once again, Winkler used Rock Solid Technologies' RockSwitch in order to secure the four light control desks.

"For many years, we have been trustng in our RockSwitches as a backup solution," says Roni Huber, project manager at Winkler. "Being a responsible event service provider, we have to ensure that everything is running as smoothly as possible, not just on stage but also behind the scenes, even in the worst possible case.

"In the light control field, the RockSwitch allows us to obtain the required security. It is definitely a very useful device that should not be

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