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UK - Hawthorn invited guests to step into virtual Battersea Evolution at the Smart Group's relaunch of London's most unique and versatile event space.

The successful showcase event relaunched Battersea Evolution to the event industry; demonstrating its flexibility and unveiling its new brand. As technical partner to the venue, Hawthorn delivered the full technical production for the event, which included creating and delivering a virtual reality experience for 280 guests.

Hawthorn teamed up with the Smart Group to create a high impact set-up within the venue - designed to demonstrate the size and flexibility of the space whilst retaining an intimate atmosphere.

The production included an elegant lighting design that packed a punch for the 40m kabuki reveal with pyrotechn

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UK - Focusrite, international leader in audio interface design, has announced a major update to its RedNet Control software system that provides remote control for products in the company's RedNet range of Dante-based audio-over-IP systems. RedNet users worldwide are employing and planning ever-larger RedNet systems, and RedNet Control 2.0 was developed in response to this trend, the company says.

Based around a web-browser-like tabbed graphical interface, RedNet Control 2.0 is designed to handle the largest RedNet system, with the ability to control up to 600 RedNet devices in total, representing up to 9600 Dante audio channels. Available units in the system can be dragged and dropped from a sidebar list into a grid on a tab. Each tab can display up to 12 devices, and up to 50 tabs can be defined. Devices can be grouped logically and intuitively on each page: a multi-location

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USA - The 141st AES Convention, taking place from 29 September 29 through 2 October at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, is hosting exclusive demonstrations of L-Acoustics' newly launched Kiva II ultra-compact line source, as well as the KS28 reference subwoofer and X Series of coaxial enclosures.

These demos will also showcase L-Acoustics' latest developments on the open standard Audio Video Bridging/Time Sensitive Networking (AVB/TSN) technology.

Show control for the demos will be managed using an Apple Mac mini equipped with Q-Lab software, playing 20 audio channels at 24-bit/96kHz directly to an Ethernet AVB/TSN Gigabit network via three streams of eight channels each. LA Network Manager 2.5, which implements an AVDECC 1722.1 AVB/TSN controller, will connect the streams to five newly updated LA4X and LA12X amplified controllers, dedicating one audio channel to each am

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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 - VDC Trading has announced the release of a new design and packaging for the Van Damme professional musician range of cables. Available off the shelf from a range of quality outlets, the range consists of top of the range cables for studio, amplification, microphone and guitar applications in a variety of combinations and specifications to suit all needs.

VDC CEO Niall Holden said, "The new blister pack range represents the best of the most popular cables in an easily identifiable format with most of the options an industry professional will need. For custom requirements of course we are always happy to oblige."

As supplied to Abbey Road Studios for over 20 years, the cable available in the new packaging range includes the classic Van Damme mic cable, proven on tours and in studios worldwide, Blue Studio Grade and Black Touring Grade speaker cables and the Starquad mic

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Europe - QSC has introduced the TouchMix-30 Pro, 32-channel digital mixer to customers worldwide, with immediate availability in select markets.

Designed for production professionals, musicians and bands as well as live performance venues, TouchMix-30 Pro is a compact digital mixer with features and functionality that "will satisfy the most demanding professional, while also providing an intuitive workflow that delivers great results, quickly and easily, to users at every level of experience".

With 32 mixing channels (24 Mic/Line, 6 Line, Stereo USB) and 16 outputs, the TouchMix-30 Pro offers considerable signal management flexibility for a wide range of applications. Beyond offering a higher channel count than its predecessors, a host of additional, new 'Pro' features sets TouchMix-30 Pro apart from its smaller TouchMix Series siblings.

"The TouchMix-30 Pro builds on

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UK - Chroma-Q launched their new Color Force II range of professional LED luminaires at PLASA 2016 to much interest from visitors. The product received a special commendation at the show's Awards for Innovation - with judges praising the fixtures' notable evolution from the original Color Force range.

After Color Force revolutionised the lighting market six years ago, the next generation Color Force II range utilises the very latest fully homogenised optics to deliver a superior single colour blend with no unsightly colour mixing shadows, even higher quality saturates and pastels, a purer white, and at least 50% more output.

Designed for shows and events requiring the highest level of technical and artistic performance, other benefits shared across the Chroma-Q lighting portfolio include exceptional colour consistency fixture-to-fixture and batch-to-batch, theatrical grade

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UK - ProLights received a great reception to their latest product line-up showcased on the A.C. Entertainment Technologies stand at PLASA 2016. Highlights included the ArenaCOB LED blinder, as used on Coldplay's recent stadium tour, and the stunning new Stark1000 LED Wash Light.

The ProLights ArenaCOB4 IP65 LED blinder family were supplied to leading rental company Lite Alternative, for the European leg of Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams stadium tour. World-renowned tour lighting designer, Paul Normandale, commented, "I needed an IP-rated wash fixture - as well as a blinder - that would be reliable and crew friendly."

The new ProLights STARK1000 LED Wash Light proved a great hit, with orders being taken at the show. This next generation "workhorse" LED wash features 19 of Osram's new 40W RGBW LEDs with a bespoke optical design, to provide a powerful, smooth output

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UK - PLASA London 2016 proved to be the best UK show yet for Current RMS. The new venue, Olympia, in central London made the event much more accessible, helping play a part in such a busy stand for Current RMS. The team were flat out, providing demos of the online hire management system, on a range of devices, across all three days of the event.

Also helping contribute to a busy stand was the buzz around all of the new features released within the system since last year's show. These included; Free Scan, an easy process to add additional items to a job, a new Costing Module, helping log all job costs and summarise projected profitability, as well as Part Invoicing and an Open API allowing rental businesses to create exciting integrations.

The Current team were thrilled to see so many new faces on the Stand: "We were rushed off our feet the entirety of PLASA, which was fant

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UK - PLASA 2016 has been chalked up as a resounding success by Ambersphere Solutions. The combination of the demo areas that showcased new products from Clay Paky and Ayrton Lighting and the enthusiastic hospitality of the whole Ambersphere team proved a real winner, attracting a constant stream of visitors - customers both old and new.

MD Glyn O'Donoghue reflects on the show: "PLASA London was a real success for Ambersphere. We were excited to feature a whole host of new products from our manufacturing partners. From Clay Paky, we highlighted the Scenuis Profile, which won a PLASA Award for Innovation at the show, plus Hepikos the new beam wash partner for Mythos and Sharbar, which is a new 6 beam mirror-based LED batten from Clay Paky. We put together a demo-show which was very well received."

The opposite side of the demo area was dedicated to Ayrton as O'Donoghue expla

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Finland - Clear Channel Finland has updated their Business Panorama digital network at Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport with the installation of two 8.7sqm Absen N4 LED screens to deliver advertising campaigns from some of the world's best known brands. Chosen by Clear Channel International as a trusted partner for some of the world's biggest airports, Absen is fast emerging as a leading product specialist in the digitisation space.

Completed in 2016, the installation marked another milestone in the relationship between Clear Channel and Absen, with the companies collaborating together for more than three years on projects and product innovations - such as the Absen N Series, developed with airport and retail environments in mind.

Stand-out features such as front installation and service, an ultra slim panel (less than 6cm), noiseless advanced monitoring, image qualit

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Germany - One hundred and fifty years ago the opera Roméo et Juliette was first performed by Charles Gounod on 27 April 1867. It is with this event in mind that an assignment will be given to the contestants of the newly created Weltenbauer.Youngsters.Awards 2017, an international prize to be jointly presented by Messe Berlin and Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft (DTHG).

Trainees, students (ranging from schools to vocational and higher education) from any country specialising in the theatre, films and event technology are invited to submit their designs and works on the subject of Romeo and Juliet. These may be individual or team works focusing on stage design, the theatre stage, costumes, decoration, set design, make-up, lighting concepts, videos or audio installations.

Papers describing the works or designs must be submitted via internet no lat

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South Africa - District Six the Musical, by David Kramer and Taliep Peterson, was brought to life at Pretoria Boys High School at the Desmond Abernethy Hall with the technical supplied by AJR Audio.

AJR's Head of Lighting Marnus Schoeman was responsible for the lighting design, while the school children were the performers and worked as backstage crew. The poignant production included Robe Pointes, miniPointes, Robin 100 LEDBeams and CycFX8s.

Going back in history, District Six was an area in Cape Town named in 1867 and was an ethnically diverse community of former slaves, merchants, artisans and immigrants. While dilapidated District Six had its share of crime and poverty, it had life, a soul, and was a place where music was significant. In the early twentieth century, black South Africans were forcibly removed from District Six. In 1966, a further 60 000 people of

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UK - As the spotlight of the Knight of Illumination awards moves from centre stage for another year, the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) acknowledges the success of its members in the winning line-ups across all the disciplines of live performance lighting.

ALD professional members Michael Hulls and Mark Henderson won awards for their significant works in dance and theatre respectively, and Bernie Davis was awarded for his work on the televised BBC Proms Season 2015/2016. ALD Fellow Patrick Woodroffe won in the Concert Touring category for his use of light on Adele's 2016 live tour.

ALD honorary member John Offord received the Enrico Caironi Award for Lifetime Recognition for his unstinting support of and influence upon the industry.

Since its inception, the Knight of Illumination Awards has raised the awareness, understanding and appreciation of lighting desig

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Norway - Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora Aksnes is currently touring Europe with a full complement of DPA microphones for her vocals, backing vocals and all of the instruments in her band.

Known simply as Aurora, this exceptional artist released her debut EP Running with the Wolves in May 2015. Later the same year she provided the backing track for the John Lewis Christmas advert, singing a cover of the Oasis song Half the World Away.

Capturing the haunting quality of Aurora's voice was top of the list for her FOH engineer Paul Inge Vikingstad and a key reason why he suggested using a d:facto Vocal Microphone for her live performances. Vikingstad, who played bass in several bands before moving into audio production, is renowned for his ability to make live shows sound great.

"I introduced Aurora to the d:facto when I first started working with her near

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USA - Milwaukee's Summerfest - "The World's Largest Music Festival" as certified by Guinness World Records - this year spanned 11 days and hosted upwards of 800,000 people.

To handle the heat of such a massive show, Clearwing Productions deployed a range of VUE loudspeakers, including the new al-12 Large Format Line Array System, to the festival's Briggs and Stratton Big Backyard stage, where attendees enjoyed performances by O.A.R., Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Gavin DeGraw, Matisyahu, Stephen 'Ragga' Marley, Kool and the Gang, and other artists.

With Clearwing Productions' well-established roots in touring and contracting spanning several decades, VUE was eager to start its maiden voyage with the respected full-service company on the right note. Clearwing deployed a system based around VUE's new flagship al-12 Large Format Line Array System, which is designed to delive

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South Africa - TSO Productions is a new company established by well-known South African technician and musician, Kgomotso Malebye. For a company that's three months old, Kgomotso has been busy every week and supplied the technical for the Gsport Awards, an event which encourages women in sport and which was broadcast live for SABC 2, among a number of other events.

"There is a demand to buy more gear because the word has gone out quickly and I'm doing a lot of work," he said. "Sometimes it feels unreal, if I can put it like that. I feel blessed because as you know it's a tough industry, the competition is high and I thank God that I still have the business."

Because it's a small company, Kgomotso is there for every event, from set-up to strike, the first one in and the last one out. "My family give me support", he says, and he will always be grateful for his mom, a nurse,

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Germany - One of Germany's most influential artists of recent years is pop rapper Cro, who is just wrapping up an MTV Unplugged Open Air tour that played dates across the country this summer.

Lighting design was by one of Germany's preeminent designers, Gunther Hecker from CUE Design, who incorporated Elation Professional Platinum FLX hybrid moving heads supplied by German production company satis&fy.

Known for wearing a panda mask when he performs, Cro's music is a catchy fusion of rap and pop, called 'raop', which, based on his audiences, attracts fans of all ages. His popularity is at an all-time high and for the MTV Unplugged Open Air tour he was supported on stage by a 20-member strong orchestra positioned across three tiers and fronting horizontally-tiered LED screens.

Gunther Hecker handled the entire visual design for the tour - lighting, set and video - his fi

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UK - The International Arbitration Charity Ball brings together 600 high profile figures, firms and specialists for an evening of fine dining and spectacular fundraising. The event raises money for Save the Children's Emergency Fund and has raised over £1,300,000 since the first event in 2010.

The ball gives the Arbitration community the chance to come together, network, and support Save the Children. Following its work on other charity fundraisers, White Light was called upon to provide the production support for the evening.

The biennial International Arbitration Charity Ball took place on Thursday 8 September at Guildhall, London. Having previously worked on the event, WL was asked to offer its services once again. Gemma Howell, special events senior manager for Save the Children, comments, "We approached WL as we required a reliable company who would be able to t

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UK - CUK Audio has announced an exclusive partnership with PVS nv of Belgium for the distribution of their three brands, AUDAC, Caymon and Procab, throughout the UK, effective 1 October.

AUDAC offers an extensive range of audio products designed for the fixed installation market, from digital matrix systems to loudspeakers of every type, shape and size, to amplifiers, preamps, microphones, wall plates and much more. Caymon and Procab provide racks, flight casing and cables.

CUK Audio MD Stuart Thomson comments: "As CUK Audio has grown and developed over the years, our mission has always been to provide our clients with a complete solution.

"From the very beginning, our biggest challenge has been to find great audio products at the lower end of the price range. To cater for this highly competitive part of the market, more often than not manufacturers simply buy a Chines

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USA - Audio-Technica has announces the formation of a new subsidiary company, named Alteros, which the company says will allow for a dedicated focus on a wide range of technically advanced solutions that directly address the issues surrounding the ever-shrinking frequency spectrum, affecting the operation of wireless products used in live audio production, broadcast studios, sporting events, theatres and other applications.

The announcement of the formation of Alteros, an Audio-Technica company, was made by Philip Cajka, Audio-Technica US President and CEO, and Jackie Green, Audio-Technica US VP R&D/Engineering and Alteros President and CTO. In addition to Jackie Green, the Alteros management team includes Brian Fair, executive VP of Digital Engineering, and Bob Green, executive VP of Product Engineering.

Capitalising on A-T's years of extensive ultra-wideband (UWB) and RF

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UK - For the launch of KIVA II, the new compact line array from L-Acoustics, the SSE Sales team is going on tour. The tour will visit three different venues across the country, giving attendees the opportunity to hear the brand new KIVA II system for the first time. To further increase the appeal of the days SSE has invited AVID along to demonstrate its flagship S6L digital console, whilst L-Acoustics will also demonstrate the X-Series Co-Axial range.

The free-to-attend tour dates include:

Friday 28th October at Fly By Nite Rehearsal Complex Redditch B98 8YP

Monday 31st October: Theatre Royal Wakefield WF1 2TE

Tuesday 8th November: University of Westminster, Harrow Campus HA1 3UW

KIVA II is a new ultra-compact modular line source adding 6dB of max SPL versus its predecessor, maximised amplifier density with 16 ohm impedance and a new rugged enclosure mat

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