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UK - It's always nice to meet up with Martin Hawthorn, Managing Director of recently re-branded Hawthorn as it usually means an informal chat over a cup of coffee and some of his wife Lynn's excellent baking. This time was no different and gave us an opportunity to talk about recent developments within the business.

A recent re-brand was part of a consolidation of Hawthorn's business interests following the purchase of Anagram Production Services and Rex Howard Drapes, both now firmly under the new banner of Hawthorn and has allowed them to simplify the company structure ahead of their 30th anniversary in the events industry, in February of 2017.

"PLASA is a good show for us to reach a multitude of different sectors and we catch up with an amazing number of people over the 3

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UK - Sponsored by Velta, the 2016 PLASA Awards for Innovation took place in the Apex Room at the end of an extremely busy Monday at this year's PLASA Show. Hosted by PLASA's new managing director Peter Heath and presented by PLASA Chairman Ed Pagett, the awards aim to recognise and reward outstanding new product ideas.

The Awards garner a huge amount of respect because they are independently and impartially judged by an invited team of industry experts.

To win an Award for Innovation, a nominated product had to satisfy the chairman of judges that it met the criteria for Innovation by clearly showing that it demonstrates a new style of thinking; improves technical practice; introduces new technology, new materials or new techniques; includes patents or unique intellectual property; offers a new commercial advantage, or improves safety.

The judges awarded all eight troph

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UK - Rycote, the UK manufacturer of advanced microphone windshields and suspension systems, has announced the appointment of Gerry Forde as their chief commercial officer.

Rycote operates a global distributor network and, building upon a strong platform of established sales and market share, is targeting further national and international growth opportunities.

Gerry joins existing Rycote Board members, Simon Davies (CEO), David Ransome (CFO), Odette Davies (COO) and Paul Whiting (Non Exec), having previously run his own Pro Audio & MI distribution business in Ireland, and more recently holding a series of senior positions at Sennheiser, including sales & marketing director at Sennheiser UK and business strategist for the Global Pro Division.

Speaking of the new appointment, Simon Davies said, "We are very pleased to welcome Gerry to the Rycote team, and his role will i

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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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South Africa - Wild & Marr, the South African distributor for Clearone will be hosting ClearOne Voice and Visual Communication Solution Workshops in September. Various technical specialist courses will be held over four days from 26 to 29 September 2016.

"It is vital that as communication methods evolve, the tools to support voice and visual communications advances," says Wild & Marr's marketing manager Andrew Sorrill. "ClearOne endeavours to provide leading products in their product offering and we would like to empower our integrators and users with these technical specialist courses."

The training will take place at Wild & Marr's Head office in Johannesburg and will be presented by Mario Rimini and Ron Lynch from ClearOne.

The target audience for the workshops would primarily be dealers, AV programmers and systems integrators as well as audio industry professionals

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USA - A towering abstract structure called Vessel was revealed at a ceremony in New York's Hudson Yards.

Providing the gathered crowd with a better view of the proceedings and adding visual impact to special exhibitions at the reveal event were two large LED video walls created by Image Production Services, using Chauvet Professional PVP and MVP tiles.

Vessel seems destined to become a universally recognized landmark once it opens officially in 2018. Fanning out from a relatively small base, the reflective glossy copper-coloured edifice will become wider and wider as it stretches out 15 stories high.

Visitors will be able to walk into and up the structure's 2,500 steps to enjoy breathtaking views of the Hudson River. But that treat lies two years in the future. For now, invited guests at the A-list reveal event were happy to see very realistic renditions of V

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UK - Tech LED Ltd, UK-based supply and design company for LED lighting equipment and UK distributor for Acclaim Lighting, has moved to Production Park, the complete pre-production and live events centre for the UK, and home to Backstage Academy's primary campus.

Launched in 2011, Tech LED has moved into The Glass Room office space in Production Park's rehearsal studio one, which accommodates the company's expanding needs. Tech LED Ltd joins existing customers Perry Scenic Creative, Brilliant Stages and Litestructures, bringing them within reach for easy project collaboration.

The move coincides with the announcement that Tech LED Ltd has secured a sales manager for the Northern region, specialising in installation sales. Nick Tetlow, who has quickly secured successful projects, will maintain the buoyant installation side of Tech LED's business, operating in the field.

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Australia - PA company, Biggsounds Productions, has invested in two dLive digital mixing systems from Allen & Heath to add to its hire stock for live touring and festival work.

"We committed to dLive for a number of reasons - confidence in the brand from many years of successful touring and return on investment with iLive and Qu series boards; Allen & Heath's responsiveness to their professional users' requirements and willingness to adapt the technology to the market; a need to stand out in a competitive market with a board which meets and exceeds rider requirements - 96k Waves and Dante integration with the new system cards is a game changer; and a belief that we are mixing on one of the world's best sounding consoles without over-capitalising in a regional market," explains Adam Biggs at Biggsounds Productions.

Based in New South Wales, Biggsounds is a highly regarded l

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UK - Meadow-fresh from its debut at the UK Milan Expo 2015 pavilion, an impressive and immersive art installation dubbed 'The Hive' opened this summer at London's Kew Gardens controlled, of course, by bees and also a TiMax SoundHub playback server and audio showcontroller.

The 17m-high abstract aluminium lattice structure has been wowing visitors with its unique multisensory experience as it responds, with the help of TiMax, to the activity of real bees in a beehive located behind the scenes at Kew.

The intent of this walk-in figurative beehive installation is to help highlight the significance and plight of bees in our food-chain and ecology. Inside The Hive, multichannel dynamic lighting and audio effects are driven by special software, developed by freelance developer Andy Coates to provide realtime showcontrol data based on the activity of Kew's bee colony. Live data i

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UK - Reproduced Sound (RS) takes residence in November 2016 at Southampton, home to not one but two universities involved in acoustics teaching and research. Dates for the diary are Tuesday 15 to Thursday 17 November, with two full days of papers and presentations on the Wednesday and Thursday and a workshop on virtual audio on the Tuesday evening. The conference venue and hotel will be the Holiday Inn, right on the Southampton waterfront.

Keith Holland, RS chairman, said, "We are again keeping with the ever popular residential format familiar with RS conferences, which encourages valuable and sociable networking between attendees. We have taken RS to Manchester in the past, which resulted in excellent contributions from Salford and Manchester Universities, among others, and this time we are hoping for something similar from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR)

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UK - Lighting and video content design ceremony Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) announced the winners of the 9th edition during a prestigious ceremony at London's Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on Sunday 18 September.

The well-attended ceremony saw almost 500 professionals come together to celebrate the achievements of lighting and video designers working on shows across the UK.

The event was hosted by Australian actor, television presenter and comedian Mark Little. The winners have been revealed as:

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The ETC Award for Dance: Michael Hulls for Conceal | Reveal, Russell Maliphant Company, Sadler's Wells

The Hawthorn Award for Musicals: Mark Henderson for Sunset Boulevard, English National Opera

The Robert Juliat Award for Opera: Joachim Klein for Saul, Glyndebourne Festival

The Elation Professional Award for Plays: Jan

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Challenges & Opportunities - MPs have launched an inquiry into the impact Brexit is likely to have on the arts. The culture, media and sport committee said its inquiry would examine the "challenges and opportunities" that leaving the European Union would bring. In particular, it is looking at whether the creative sector will be able to "attract and retain talent" across the world when the UK leaves the EU as a result of June's referendum, and whether "onerous visa requirements" could see a drop in the number of people coming to the UK after Brexit.

The inquiry will also examine what impact the loss of EU funding could have on the sector and whether the government would replace these funds. News of the inquiry follows concerns raised within the arts that Brexit will have negative consequences for the sector.

Last week, former Ambassador Theatre Group chief executive Rosemar

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The Netherlands - At this year's IBC 2016, BroaMan found the perfect platform from which to springboard its new Route66 family of routers into the broadcast markets and associated sectors.

The German company carried on where they left off at this year's NAB Show, where the new Route66 AutoRouter picked up a prestigious award. Supporting DiGiCo, as well as standalone Optocore systems it closes the ring automatically once a mobile stagebox is added or removed from the system

"Many clients and distributors were talking about this product," said managing director, Tine Helmle. "They love the device and the stand was buzzing."

Also shown for the very first time was the new Route66 40/40, and a highly successful press launch formed the hub of the five-day show. Presented by BroaMan technical director Marc Brunke, the international press audience was enrapt as he explained th

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USA - Tom Danley and his team have engineered the newest member of its massive Jericho Horn Series - the J3-94 Jericho Horn.

Designed for the demanding requirements of stadiums and concert venues, where high impact, high fidelity, and high SPLs are all needed, the Danley J3-94 delivers 142dB of continuous output using eighteen drivers that combine using Danley's patented technologies to produce a single phase-coherent signal with "home hi-fi quality" intelligibility and musical impact.

Like the original J1-94, the J3-94 produces a 90deg horizontal by 40deg vertical beam width (with Danley's characteristically steep drop-off outside that beam). However, the new J3-94 is nearly half the J1-94's weight, with slightly less bass output as the compromise.

"The new Danley J3-94 Jericho Horn can be used in every circumstance where line arrays could be used, but with vastly bet

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USA - Focusrite hosted a fun and informative event on its RedNet line of products and Audinate's Dante protocol on 15 September, at Belmont University Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, Nashville, TN.

Belmont provided a perfect location for this event, as the university has over 25 RedNet units in operation for connecting production rooms, recording spaces, classrooms, two theatres and other critical educational spaces in the R. Milton and Denice Johnson Centre.

RedNet is the premier audio-over-IP solution, based around Audinate's industry standard Dante protocol. It comprises a suite of top-notch, modular network audio interfaces, combining Focusrite audio quality with the internet-age flexibility of audio-over-IP.

Audinate senior technical sales engineer Barnie Farkus helped lead a Dante training session. Following that, Ron Romano, Belmont Univer

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USA - From the first serve to the final championship match, tennis fans were able to enjoy coverage worldwide from the 2016 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in Flushing Meadows, NY. While the commentators and analysts, as well as interview subjects, were discussing every volley and ace they were lit by the television lighting design firm Ferri Lighting Design & Associates (FLDA), led by sr. designer and founder, Bruce Ferri.

Since 1997 Ferri has been lighting the commentators at the US Open and continually advancing the technology used at the event. This year FLDA also brought their expertise to re-lighting the USTA's permanent Press Room at the tennis centre.

For the press interview room, FLDA brought in a completely new lighting system to address the current needs of the USTA. "The room had a pipe with tungsten Fresnels for the interview area,"

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USA - People who go to a moe. concert thinking they know what to expect, have probably never been to a moe. concert before. The quintet from upstate New York epitomizes the freewheeling improvisational unpredictability of jam band music, as it reels off 10-minute riffs with casual ease and seamlessly moves from song to song with nary a break in between. No two moe. performances are ever alike, which is why so many dedicated fans (aka "moe.rons") have been to 30...40...50... or more of the group's concerts.

A show by band that's original enough to incorporate a xylophone into its tunes requires a lightshow that's unique, varied and very flexible. This is exactly what Justin Casey of Pulse Lighting has been serving up on the current US moe. tour with help from 12 Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures, supplied by Main Light Industries.

Casey positions the 360° rota

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USA - Founded in 1831, New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. Located in New York City's Greenwich Village, NYU Law is a venue where leaders from government, business, and the legal community deliver speeches and participate in panel discussions.

In each of these events, styling performance and clear sound are of utmost importance for speech intelligibility and hearing. When searching for a conference microphone system, Kevin Fox, associate director of media services at the law school, chose to install a portable Shure DDS 5900 Digital Discussion System with 40 channels. This all-in-one sound system enables the staff at NYU Law to tailor audio performance to different sized meetings based on several factors that impact performance, including room acoustics, table dimensions, and seating arrangement.

The

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UK - Liverpool based technical production specialist Adlib supplied lighting, sound and rigging to two main arenas - CF03, hosted by Armada, Cream and Smash The House; CF 05 aka 'The Curve' due to the spherical shape of the tent and the production space - plus CF10, the VIP hospitality area - at the 2016 Creamfields Festival.

The annual EDM extravaganza, one of the most popular in Europe and well known for its awesome line-ups, was staged at Daresbury Estate near Warrington, UK.

Working for creative production specialists LarMac LIVE - with production manager Ian Greenway assisted by Matt Smith and Molly Iredale -.Adlib renewed their long and fruitful working relationship with Cream.

Leading Adlib's team on site were project managers Kevin Byatt and Ian Tomlinson, with Ian also designing lighting for the three spaces alongside Ian Greenway from LarMac Live. They worked

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Sweden - An Allen & Heath's GLD-80 digital mixing system has been installed in the chapel at the Royal Palace of Stockholm in Sweden replacing the incumbent analogue mixer.

The Chapel hosts a weekly mass for the Royal Parish, consisting of members of the Royal family and employees of the Court, as well as a regular music programme featuring organ and classical music concerts. There are also frequent media broadcasts of Royal events, such as baptisms and weddings, at the venue.

"We choose the GLD because of its flexibility. It's a powerful tool for the experienced mix engineer, but also easy to use by novices. It's great to be able to lock out inexperienced users from the more integral settings," explains Christoffer Wetterstr

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Denmark - The Danish T°nder Festival has been one of the most important folk music events since the mid-1970s. The festival's 42nd edition will likely go down as one of the most successful in history: In summer temperatures, more than 11,000 music fans from across Europe enjoyed shows by the folk and Americana music scene's elite. These included acts such as The Avett Brothers, Jason Isbell, The Blind Boys of Alabama and Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal.

Also contributing to the event's success were the stands from Gravity. Ashley Cooke, production manager and responsible for T°nder Festival's lighting and sound production, relied on the Adam Hall Group's new brand for the first time - and was very enthusiastic about the outcome: "We are very satisfied with the Gravity stands," he says.

"They are very light, but nonetheless stable. The musicians thought they were g

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