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USA - Lighting designer Jeff Maker (All Time Low, The Dresden Dolls) turned to an Elation LED lighting package for American rock band Pierce the Veil's recent Made to Destroy tour, his second year with the band, and was delighted with the results. "Elation continues to impress me and many of my LD colleagues, which is no surprise," he said. "We were on tour for seven weeks (32 shows total) and I didn't have one issue with any of the units."

The Made to Destroy tour played dates across the US with lighting vendor JR Lighting Design, Inc. supplying an Elation rig made up of ACL 360 Bar LED battens, SixBar 1000 LED battens, SixPar 100 LED Par lights, and Protron 3K LED strobes along with Antari Z-350 Fazers.

"Recently we have added more Elation Professional equipment into our p

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Mexico - Chauvet has named Carlos Zamora de Martino general manager of Chauvet Mexico. Prior to joining Chauvet's rapidly growing Mexican operation, Zamora held senior executive positions at a number of global companies. He was also the co-founder and CEO of Geo Lite LED Lighting. In his new position, he will be responsible for managing all facets of the Chauvet Professional, Chauvet DJ, Iluminarc and Trusst business in Mexico.

"We're very excited to have someone of Carlos' calibre and experience join our team," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "Although we have been selling products in Mexico for 25 years, our business in the country increased dramatically when we opened Chauvet Mexico in 2013 and began distributing directly. Our goal now is to build on this success, which is why we recently opened an expanded showroom in Lerma outside Mexico City, and why we are committe

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Sweden - Dataton has appointed Lars Sandlund as chief executive officer, effective October 2016. In this newly created position, Sandlund will be responsible for implementing the strategic expansion of the well-known AV manufacturer.

Lars Sandlund is no newcomer to the company or the industry, having worked at Dataton for seven years. His most recent position was as COO, responsible for the daily operation of the company.

"I'm looking forward to leading and developing Dataton, with its admirable reputation for innovation, great products and proud 43-year history. My goal is to ensure that Dataton maintains and reinforces its top position in the market for at least the next 43 years," comments Sandlund.

Dataton has expanded significantly over the last five years - appointing new sales partners, moving to purpose-built headquarters and doubling the number of staff on the

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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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Europe - The latest catalogue from EXE Technology has just been released and is available for download at http://ow.ly/jaua3064WUI. Safety of its products has increased, while the legendary quality, precision and reliability you've come to rely on remains unchanged, says the company.

The complete offer from EXE Technology consists of the EXE-Rise range of chain hoists, EXE-Cell load cell interface, EXE-Drive controllers and EXE-DST dynamic stack tracks.

New in 2017: The D8 range now features an 8:1 safety factor as standard with new load capacities of 250 kg / 500 kg /1000 kg / 2000 kg.

The D8+ range has new load capacities of 150 kg / 300 kg / 600 kg / 1200 kg.

All EXE-Rise hoists feature a double brake, updated identification labelling and black plugs and sockets. A new 8 x 24mm chain brings added safety to 1000 - 2000 kg hoists.

Dynamic Stack Tracks from the

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USA - Elation Professional's Emotion moving head digital light has won a WFX New Product Award in the Moving Light category at the recent WFX Show in Louisville, Kentucky.

The award recognizes the best new technology products for the church market and was chosen by an independent panel made up of individuals who currently work in a tech leader role at a church, along with Worship Facilities tech director Andres Caamano. Products were individually judged on multiple criteria including innovation, functionality, cost-effectiveness, competitive advantages, benefits to the end user and benefits to the integrator.

"We're thrilled that the Emotion has been acknowledged for its unique innovation," stated Elation sales director Eric Loader on the award. "Because it is easier to use than previous digital lights and is extremely flexible and creative, designers have really taken to

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USA - As LDI 2016 got underway inside the Las Vegas Convention Centre, LED video manufacturer PixelFLEX debuted its new AR-LED technology. The AR-LED video design received an overwhelmingly positive response, and the technology is now preparing for its initial launch into the world of entertainment and commercial LED video design.

"We could not be more pleased with the response we received from the performance of our new AR-LED video technology," said David Venus, PixelFLEX director of marketing. "There were many times where viewers simply sat in amazement, mesmerized by what they were seeing. After such a positive response, we are very excited about launching the AR-LED into the market to see just how creative designers can truly be."

Utilizing the patented lensing found in the FLEXLite series if LED panels, the new AR-LED has a 6mm pixel pitch with a broad viewing angle

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India - Xiaomi, a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, recently launched its new smartphone Mi Max with a big event in New Delhi's Nehru Stadium, India. The company sold over 60m smartphones in 2014 and has over 8,000 employees, mainly in mainland China, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Lighting designer Dinesh Verma used one grandMA2 light for the event in New Delhi. "My design idea was to reflect the brand and its image and create a buzz for the new smartphone by combining the LED wall, lighting and sound to get a whole experience for the audience."

Sahil Wadhwa, owner of Modern Stage Service, MA's exclusive distributor in India, who provided the lighting and truss equipment for the event, commented, "Modern Stage Service has been a pioneer in the field of lighting and designing stagecraft equipment.

"Because of the intrinsic quality an

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Germany - Award-winning production designer Tobias Rylander has created a dynamic and versatile light show for long-standing Texas post-rock five-piece, Explosions in the Sky - entirely from 16 of GLP's innovative X4 Bar 20 battens.

Knowing these could be used to create big fields of light from an economical package, the designer sourced the fixtures from vendors, VER.

The design and scenography evolved only after a number of conversations with the band, who specialise in elaborate guitar-oriented instrumentals, which they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies".

Tobias explains, "I visited them rehearsing in Austin many times and presented a couple of different versions of set designs that we all really liked. But we ended up agreeing that just the fields of colours and light created by the X4 Bar 20s and Solaris LED flares would carry the show and enhance the music p

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UK - Illuminating York, supported by Arts Council England, is an annual event which sees a variety of designers create light installations across the historic city.

Across four evenings in late October, indoor and outdoor venues around York were transformed with light installations created by artists and designers including David Ogle, Helen Maurer, Studio PSK; and for the centrepiece at York Minster, Jason Bruges Studio.

For this year's Illuminating York, London-based Jason Bruges Studio created Light Masonry, a choreographed light work for York Minster. To provide the necessary lighting and rigging technology, Jason Bruges contacted PRG XL Video account director, Andrew Strachan.

With the brief that the lights needed to supply high brightness white beams and have moving heads, Andrew Strachan suggested PRG's own Icon Beam fixtures, 50 of which were used for th

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USA - Electronic Theatre Control (ETC) is launching four new ETCP Recognized Courses that can be taken to provide points towards the continuing education requirement for ETCP renewals.

Each class takes about an hour to complete and one credit will be issued per course. "We're excited to offer a new set of resources to our growing number of customers," says ETC class creator, David Fox.

The classes include:

DMX Theory Operation and Troubleshooting - This intermediate level course covers the history of the DMX standard, signal architecture, and troubleshooting techniques. These six video chapters are for people with a fundamental knowledge of DMX as it relates to basic wire connections and data paths, as well as patching and addressing of devices.

Networking Fundamentals - An introduction to computer networking for entertainment and architectural lighti

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India - Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing system was employed on the main stage of the recent Bacardi NH7 Weekender, held in RBDSA Sports Complex in Shillong, India. The annual multi-city festival is one of the largest music festivals in India, hosting emerging local artists alongside major international acts, and attracting 12,000 visitors.

PA company, Sound & Light Professionals (SNL), has managed sound reinforcement for the main stage since the event's inception. This year, acts included Steven Wilson, Vertical Horizon, Farhan Akhtar, Dossier's Urge, Vir Das Allen Chutney, Fossils, Undying Inc, and Aberrant.

To meet the technically diverse demands for monitoring on stage, SNL deployed its recently purchased dLive S7000 Surface and DM64 MixRack, supplied by Allen & Heath's Delhi-based distributor, Sun Infonet.

One of the most anticipated performances of the festiv

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South Africa - A Prolyte Campus Workshop, presented by Date Jonkman and Ruud De Deugd was hosted at DWR Distribution in Johannesburg from 1-4 November.

The course presented intricate information to assist riggers to comply with safety regulations practised throughout the world. The topics were covered in detail and delegates were given information on the types of loading and the effect on truss, building a safe MPT or ST Tower, slinging of truss, the process of calculating applied forces and predicting the effects of environmental influences and the basic preconditions to safely build a roof structure.

"The South African delegates are not behind in rigging. World-wide we are all at the same level... we are all consistently incompetent," commented Date Jonkman. "We don't know what we don't know and that's the main thing in our business, wherever you are. The delegates were

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Germany - To make people aware of the achievements of those working behind the stage and of their creativity, the Karlsruhe Chamber of Industry and Commerce has set up an award to honour Germany's most creative trainees.

Taking place for the eighth time, the Baden Baden Awards 2016 will be honouring outstanding final papers by recently graduated stage set artists and stage set sculptors, make-up artists, sound and image media designers, event representatives, event technicians and property masters.

Juliane Trempler, project manager of Stage|Set|Scenery, comments, "We are sponsoring the awards for the fourth time and look forward to supporting the next generation. The Baden-Baden Awards are extremely important for the cultural sector, which like many others is being impacted by demographic change."

A lack of young people taking up technically skilled and administrative

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Japan - Robert Juliat's award-winning Dalis 860 cyclorama washlights were chosen by lighting designer Scott Zielinski, to light the backdrops for the inspired theatre production of Richard Sandaime, a co-production between the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and the Singapore International Festival of Arts, which premiered at the Shizuoka Arts Theatre in Japan as part of its World Theatre Festival 2016.

Directed by one of Asia's leading theatre directors, Ong Keng Sen, Richard Sandaime is an international collaboration performed in Japanese, English and Indonesian with Japanese and English subtitles. It uses top actors from Singapore, Indonesia and Japan, and a Balinese puppeteer. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Richard III, this innovative and rarely performed production - the first since Japanese playwright and director Noda Hideki's original 1990 production -

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Iraq - The recently opened Karbala Olympic Stadium in Iraq is a 30,000-seat venue designed to host major sports, music, religious and youth events.

Audio for the project was provided by Baghdad-based APCO Electronics, which provided acoustics design and participated in the actual installation as well. The company chose a sound system from Electro-Voice, creating a multi-zone digital audio system based around the IRIS-Net system control and supervising software and Electro-Voice EVH-1152 horn-loaded loudspeakers. In addition, Electro-Voice amplifiers, microphones and wireless systems were also utilized.

The primary system requirement was that the sound system would meet FIFA football standards, which require 92 percent direct coverage and high intelligibility, with a Speech Transmission Index (STI) of 0.50 or higher. The installed system exceeds those standards, delivering

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South Korea / USA - Samsung Electronics and Harman International Industries Inc have entered into a definitive agreement under which Samsung will acquire Harman for $112.00 per share in cash, or total equity value of approximately $8.0 billion (£6.4bn). Samsung says the transaction will immediately give them "a significant presence in the large and rapidly growing market for connected technologies, particularly automotive electronics, which has been a strategic priority for Samsung, and is expected to grow to more than $100 billion by 2025". Harman is the market leader in connected car solutions, with more than 30 million vehicles currently equipped with its connected car and audio systems, including embedded infotainment, telematics, connected safety and security.

Oh-Hyun Kwon, vice-chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics comments: "Harman perfectly complements Samsung

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UK - Following a strong period of growth, Audient has announced the arrival of the three newest team members: Harry Lewis, Jack Flower & Ryan Ellis. Augmenting the company with their diverse skills in marketing, music technology and general zest for life, these chaps certainly have a lot to offer.

Two extra members are added to Andy Allen's marketing team, with a view to raising product and brand awareness. Harry Lewis re-joins the company as product specialist; his main role is to create educational and promotional videos, for sales and end-users alike. Marketing assistant, Jack Flower is helping to spread the word (and Harry's videos) by boosting Audient's e-marketing using social media and digital mailouts.

As the new technical support agent, Ryan Ellis is on hand to answer any pre and post sales questions. He's also crazy about product engineering, which means whilst h

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UK - Natural History Museum has bolstered its event team with the appointment of Robert Wetherell as head of venue hire. Wetherell brings over 17 years of experience having previously worked at other venues in London.

Overseeing the Museum's sales and operations team, Wetherell will be responsible for the development of spaces for evening event opportunities, daytime conferences and whole venue takeovers for filming and events.

Robert Wetherell comments, "This is a time of exciting change and redevelopment for the museum and I'm so proud to be a part of helping shape its future. It's vital for me that guests can engage with our collections and it is fantastic we can tell our clients that they are directly supporting the incredible research the Museum carries out exploring the rich biodiversity of Earth.

"The upcoming launch of the new-look Hintze Hall, with the vast bl

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UK - Al Mouat - or Big Al as he is universally known - has joined the Adlib sales team in the company's Liverpool HQ.

This is part of a planned expansion of Adlib's sales division that also includes the recent addition of Harry Brown who will be assisting with all levels of sales support and aftercare.

Adlib director John Hughes states, "We intend to raise the profile of the sales division, expand the client base and generally make people more aware of the many services that Adlib can offer for installations and other sales related projects - from complete turnkey solutions to specialist audio, lighting and AV designs. We're extremely excited to have someone of Al's calibre on-board. His can-do personality is a perfect match for us."

Adlib Sales has grown steadily and successfully in recent years explains John, and the time is right to consolidate this and actively sta

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Italy - Outline has announced the new position of worldwide technical support, application engineer and GTO network manager, to be held by Vincent 'Vinnie' Perreux.

Starting his professional career in France as a theatre sound technician, Vinnie, embarked on almost 20 years of worldwide touring, supporting major PA companies.

Outline's Board of Directors decided to invest on this new position to enable audio pros worldwide to count on the support and advice of a person with in-depth hands-on experience in the multi-faceted world of sound reinforcement - somebody who speaks their language.

Vincent has an impressive track record, having worked in many roles with some of the world's top touring companies and their world-famous clients, including U2, Muse, Justin Timberlake, Smashing Pumpkins, Leonard Cohen, Gloria Estefan, Beyoncé, Green Day, Michael Jackson, Elton

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Finland - Media server specialists Picturall has announced the release of their major new software version 2.3.0 which is available for download with immediate effect. The new release, which is compatible with all Picturall server products, includes a host of improvements and enhancements, but most importantly two essential new features: support for Apple Inc.'s ProRes video codec, and a new web configuration tool.

The 2.3.0 update adds a Web Configurator for each Picturall product which replaces the previous configuration tool, Console Configurator. The Web Configurator includes the familiar features of Console Configurator plus lots of brand new functionality and enhancements including import and export of an existing configuration; a license update tool; system diagnostics; and support for viewing and editing configuration parameters whilst the server is running. The whole

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