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USA - Creative Technology North America provided high performance display technology for the recent 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, which aired on ABC and was seen in 150 countries around the world. The celebration, thought somewhat subdued, took place at the Kodak Theatre in the Hollywood and Highland Complex and was hosted by comedian and actor, Steve Martin. Presenters included John Travolta, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ben Affleck and Halle Berry, to name a few.

Creative Technology provided 17 Digital Projection Lightning 28sx projectors to project video images onto a variety of projection surfaces throughout the venue. The most interesting surface was a 30ft tall ‘flute’ that sat centre-stage and also served as a scenic element. The flute, a

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UK - SSE Hire has completed a series of highly successful shows in Ireland and Germany with Oasis, using the long-awaited Nexo Geo-T tangent array system, launched at the Frankfurt ProLight&Sound exhibition earlier this month.

SSE has been field testing the system over the past three months, powered by Camco Vortex lightweight amplifiers. It appeared in public for the first time on Tori Amos' Rotterdam Ahoy show during her recent European tour. Following the run of highly successful Oasis shows, FOH engineer Bruce Johnston, who is a long-time Nexo fan and was very keen to be one of the first to use the new Geo-T system, comments: "I'd been to the demo in Frankfurt and couldn't wait to get my hands on the system and try it out. It was fortunate that the Oasis German shows coincided with the launch and that I could be one of the first to get out there with it. I have to say I

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Germany - A number of new products have been introduced by Germany’s GLP: these include the Junior Scan, a stylish scanner unit designed for use in restaurant and entertainment centres, at trade fairs and in shop and architectural lighting. With these installation applications particularly in mind, GLP has opted for a lightweight plastic chassis. The Junior Scan offers a wide range of mirror movement (230° pan and 110° tilt). Other features include 15 dichroic colours (plus white), two multi-colour effects, a rainbow effect, 19 gobos (two exchangeable gobos) and a high-speed shutter.

The unit also features an integrated 4.5mW laser diode. This mini laser beam, which extends the range of available effects, is positioned using the deflecting mirror. The Junior Scan comes in two versions: the Junior Scan 1, with a 24V/250W halogen lamp, and the Junior Scan 2, with a 150W d

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UK - Even while the facilities design branch of Nautilus Entertainment Design steams toward the 2003 launches of Cunard’s ‘Queen Mary 2’, Costa Cruise Line’s ‘Fortune’ and ‘Mediterranea’ and Carnival Cruise Line’s ‘Glory’, Jim Tetlow and the production lighting design arm of NED entered 2003 with a full slate of corporate theatre and special event projects.

January saw the team working on the Porsche exhibit and Cayenne SUV introduction at the Los Angeles Auto Show, on behalf of Jack Morton Productions. Intel had a huge arena show for several thousand of its sales and marketing personnel, produced by John Halloran Associates, while Kaleidoscope Productions oversaw the Glaxo Smith Kline business meeting in Phoenix; both relying on NED for lighting design services. In the spirit of the auto show season, NED designed

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USA - BSR E1.25-200x, Recommended Basic Conditions for Measuring the Photometric Output of Stage and Studio Luminaries by Measuring Illumination Levels Produced on a Planar Surface, is new standards-drafting project intended to help manufacturers collect the data required to be reported in ANSI E1.9 - 2001, Reporting Photometric Performance Data for Luminaires Used in Entertainment Lighting. The adoption of that standard has been slowed by the lack of rules for the basic test conditions for any of the commonly used photometry systems that involve shining the light from a luminaire at a flat screen or wall.

Flat-wall photometry, either using a digital camera photometry system or a simple hand-held meter to measure the illumination levels, is the most common type used by stage and studio luminaire manufacturers, but no standards exist to provide guidance for these me

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UK - Forge Europa has recently expanded the company’s range of LED components to include a comprehensive series of Precision High Performance LED lamps. The new range has been specifically designed to meet the demands of the expanding outdoor display market with a number of different size and wavelength options. Package styles currently available are 3mm and 5mm round, with viewing angles from 15° - 35° and a number of elliptical devices.

The company has also recently introduced an extensive range of square LEDs in domed and flat lens options having 115° viewing angle in two dimensions, making these devices ideally suited to switch top and fascia illumination.

(Ruth Rossington)

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UK - Projected Image Digital showcased a RADlite visual manipulation system with television lighting director Will Charles, who utilized it in a new and innovative way on the Carlton TV series ‘Starfinder’. The show, shot at Black Island Studios, Park Royal, north London for transmission as a series this autumn, is produced by Justin Scroggie and features a spectacular set designed by Richard Drew.

‘Starfinder’ is a children’s games programme, set on a space station, with elements from both Crystal Maze and Big Brother. Each episode sees four ‘astronauts’, aged 12 - 14, who won their places via the internet, engage in a series of games, and battle for popularity with the viewers who vote them on or off the space station. The simulator part of the programme - where the contestants whiz through space, playing games, in their special vehicl

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USA - The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is currently undergoing a $250 million expansion project that will soon add over a thousand new suites and 150,000sq.ft of supplementary meeting space to the already palatial complex.

The new meeting facilities, in particular, are comprised of three large boardrooms, 19 meeting rooms and three 14,000sq.ft. ballrooms, each of which may be split into 14 individual meeting rooms. To accommodate the demanding audio DSP and routing requirements for a project of this magnitude, Michael Naylor, systems design engineer for The Venetian, created a system primarily based around BSS Audio's PS-8810C Prosys processor. "The CobraNet-equipped Prosys units are really the heart of our audio system," says Naylor. "By using The Venetian's Ethernet and fibre backbone, we're able to send audio from any of these new meeting

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Italy - From 13 January to 16 March 2003 the exhibition ‘Renoir and the light of Impressionism’ was opened in the new exhibition rooms of the Musei del Canal Grande of Trieste at the Palazzo Gopcevic. The exhibition, organized by Maïthé Valles-Bled and Vincenzo Sanfo, was conceived and created by New York Masters Exhibitions of Rome and Nuova Tavolozza Eventi of Palermo. The exhibition embraces 30 paintings and another 30 various works institutions and private collections in France, United States, Italy, England and Switzerland.

Allestimenti & Co, jointly with the Altair company, used a Clay Paky V.I.P. 1200 to project the name of the renowned artist on the façade of Palazzo Gopcevic, using a 150mm lens and dichroic gobo - the latter essential for providing the precision required with such a large format projection. The exhibition's logo - showing Renoir’s s

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UK - Visitors to this year’s Daily Mail Ideal Homes Exhibition can’t fail to notice the giant centrepiece of the exhibition, the 16m high ‘Tower of Time’. Commissioned by the exhibition’s organizers, and designed by Andy Johnstone of Johnstone Design Partnership, the four-sided mirrored obelisk showpiece was built by exhibition set construction experts ESS.

"The actual construction was extremely complex," said ESS’s Jeff Burke, "as there’s not a single perpendicular truss or right angle in the entire structure. We used 228m of LT Tower Truss and 24 specially designed and fabricated angled frames to allow the truss sections to interact."

"The outer covering was 700gsm blackout fire retardant pvc, printed on one side to a design by Andy Johnstone," said ESS project manager, Rob Smalldon. "The finished p

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USA - Horizon Control Inc, in conjunction with Entertainment Technology, has announced the release of the much-anticipated ‘furniture’ for the popular Horizon Lighting Control System - the Marquee console. Horizon, the professional Windows-based lighting control system, was released in 1996, and to date has had very limited hardware to accompany it. Most of the work was carried out via the user's PC using a keyboard and a mouse. Horizon found that this user interface, while popular with many users (architectural installations and churches especially), was not well-liked by ‘traditional’ theatre people.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - New Wave truss caught the eye of the judges again in Las Vegas, picking up a Buyers Choice Award for innovation at the Exhibitor 2003 trade show. The small truss with a growing reputation adds this prize to the Debuting Product of the Year award it won at LDI 2002 and the Product of the Year - Rigging and Hardware LDI 2001 award won by the OMNI connector, a variant of which is used in new wave.

The Judges at the Exhibitor Show were impressed with many features of the truss, giving special mention to its pleasing good looks, versatility and branding capabilities. Many positive comments were also made about the weight of the truss (approximately 1lb per linear foot) and the reduced cost of drayage from loading dock to show floor.

In addition to the strong, lightweight and infinitely customizable carbon fiber truss, the acrylic p-wave version is now ready to ship.

(Lee Ba

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UK - London-based Spirit Design & Production recently staged the Headmasters Awards 2003, for client Headmasters, the south London-based hairdressing group, in association with cosmetics giants L’Oreal, at Wimbledon Theatre.

The long-running annual awards event showcases the best work and latest styles from the past year and honours stylists and sales people alike. Spirit were awarded the contract to supply the full production service, including event design, in 2002 and were brought back to infuse the 2003 event with more fresh ideas and a new look. Spirit D&P, owned by Tor Cooper-Evans and Chris Biddulph, has years of collective experience in the events industry but adds a unique combination of cutting-edge ideas and stylistic presentation. "We simply do not believe in offering a client an off-the-shelf idea," comments Biddulph, "even though that might be

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UK - After 32 years at the helm, Iain Price-Smith, MD of Multiform Lighting, has announced the company’s merger with Light Engineering of Walthamstow, London. As a founding member of PLASA, Multiform was one of the companies that pioneered the development of lighting effects controllers for clubs and rock bands from its early beginnings in the industry in 1970. Light Engineering have distributed the Multiform range for many years.

Under the partnership, the existing product range will be manufactured at new premises in Basildon, with sales handled by the Light Engineering sales team. Iain Price-Smith has moved his consultancy and design organization to Hailsham and will continue to operate as Multiform Technology, providing technical support to Light Engineering. New Multiform Lighting products are under development, and are planned for release at PLASA 2003.

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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: Sennheiser UK has announced an exclusive distribution deal with respected Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer Adamson Systems Engineering of Toronto. The agreement, signed at the recent Frankfurt MusikMesse, marks a significant expansion of Sennheiser UK's distribution business and includes Adamson's acclaimed Y-axis Series line array.

Having completed negotiations, started at last year's PLASA 2002 with Guy Vignet, president of DV2 (Adamson Europe), Sennheiser UK's director of sales, Alan Johnson, is looking forward to the new relationship: "Adamson produce one of the most highly regarded new line arrays on the market, so this isn't so much a sales project, as an exercise in managing demand," stated Johnson.

Sennheiser UK's director of marketing John Steven underlines that the agreement with Adamson was entered into after careful deliber

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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: XTA introduced the DP6i Audio Installation Controller. The unit has two inputs and six outputs: both inputs have an eight-band parametric EQ, base delay and gain control. All outputs feature crossover filters, five-band parametric EQ, high and low shelving filters, limiter and delay. Full metering is provided for inputs and outputs, with a mute button for instant system control in emergencies. The four front-panel memory buttons give the installer the chance to offer different system set-ups and make switching between them as simple and fast as possible. A single system mute button (front-panel lockout can be configured as well) also increases user-friendliness, while comprehensive tamper-proof security is also provided. XTA's AudioCore control software enables centralized control of up to 32 DP6i units, with the ability for further units to shadow t

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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: Amptown Cases showed two new hardware products, along with some new designs. After six months of trials, their new carbon-reinforced wheel plate replaces the conventional wooden boards, and all five fixing bolts are secured inside the case. The company's new edge extrusion, manufactured from aircraft quality aluminium, has been redesigned so the rivet head is now recessed safely into the extrusion. Also new is the custom corner with a total of nine rivets per corner, six of which are secured into the aluminium extrusion for extra strength.

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Spain - LA Audio has appointed Lexon S.A. as its new distributor in Spain: the company will take over responsibility for the sales and marketing of the LA Audio brand in this territory.

Lexon S.A. was established in 1977 with offices in Sarriá, Barcelona, and Santibáñez de Béjar, Madrid. Its primary business is the import and distribution of professional audio and video products for fixed installations, rental companies, contractors, consultants and engineering companies. It also supplies specific products to the broadcast sector, in particular radio and TV stations, as well recording and post-production in studios. It operates in the whole of the Spanish territory, including the Canary and Balearic Islands, with over 1300 regular customers.

According to Luke Baldry, director of sales & marketing for Audient and LA Audio, the move will greatly improve the opportunities for

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UK - Massive Attack’s current world tour in support of their new album, 100th Window, has turned out to be a veritable showcase for XTA, whose SiDD digital dynamics processor and the new Series 2 units have been specified throughout the PA system.

GPA Hire is supplying its Funktion One Resolution Series system, comprising 10 mid-high cabinets a side, along with five under-hungs and downfills and up to 12 subwoofers - depending on the venue size - all powered by QSC PL2 and PL4 amplification. TC2290 delays and Lexicon PCM80 and PCM91 reverbs complete the hardware inventory.

Gary Young, mixing front-of-house on a Midas Heritage 3000, specified five DP324 SiDD dynamics processors for compression and dynamic EQ on the low end of the vocals and bass guitar. He comments: "We’re really just grabbing hold of stuff and sorting it out, which you can do easily with a SiD

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UK - Jem’s new rugged ZR 24/7 is a high precision, continuously operating DMX haze generator capable of delivering an optically translucent canvas of light-enhancing haze for long periods. The first in a new range of professional hazers from Jem, the ZR 24/7 uses the latest in digital PCB technology.

A high-velocity radial blower and innovative ECO-Mass vaporizing system, combine with a VGA airflow system, allowing users to adjust the angle of the haze output to produce very small, highly refractive airborne particles - the ideal canvas of haze for today’s intelligent lighting systems. For increased flexibility, the amount of haze dispensed can be adjusted via on-board 3- and 5-pin fan speed and haze output control.

A 3-digit LED user interface and state-of-the-art digital electronics gives users easy access to DMX set-up, haze density and output control. A variab

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Germany - ProLight&Sound 2003: ChainMaster presented the prototype of a multi-bus control board with analogue and digital inputs and outputs, which is aimed at a wide variety of stage uses and complies with all relevant stage safety regulations. One example of the uses of the control board, say ChainMaster, is for calculating the tolerances of the chain hoists being employed. The Control Board is equipped with an onboard computer with a 16-bit processor (16MHz, 12kb RAM) and is therefore capable of intelligent communication with the buss systems Profibus, Interbus, Can-Bus, DeviceNet, RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485. A flash memory with a capacity of 128kb is provided for internal storage of data. This multi-functionality makes the Control Board the logical choice for use in the electrical engineering and automation engineering industries.

Also on show from ChainMaster was a new add-o

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