The designs must be based on one of three digital format songs available from the Martin US website. The most creative design will win $5000 dollars’ worth of Martin gear and a trip to Denmark to tour the new Martin factory. The runner-up will also receive a trip to Denmark. Other prizes will also be available.
The deadline for entries is September 30, 2003, and the winning entries will be announced at the 2003 LDI show in Orlando.
(Ruth Rossington)
The Open Day at the MacOwan Theatre, Earls Court, was staged in conjunction with High End Systems, whose Catalyst system has proved ideal for replaying Scene Change’s video footage, and Flying Pig Systems, who provided control of the lighting and projection through the new Wholehog III. It took place o
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
(Lee Baldock)
Osram also announced the average life of the HSD 150/70 metal halide lamp operated with electronic control gear (ECG) is now 3000 hours - a 50% improvement. The HSD 150/70 is up to three times brighter than comparable lamps of the same power consumption in spotlights with optical paths, say Osram, and has a colour temperature of 7000K.
Finally, Osram re-launched the single-ended HTI 705 W/SE short-arc lamp, now with a colour temperature of 5500K. With a rated output of 700W and an initial luminous flux of 59,000 lumens, the lamp is particularly suitable for use in effect lighting for th
Launching two wall-mount units and two ceiling mount speakers at the recent 2003 NSCA Expo, Tim Dorwart, vice president of the Commercial Division, said the new line represented an opportunity for affiliates to provide customers with a more comprehensive range of speaker options and added that DMX Music would continue to work with third-party loudspeaker manufacturers wherever the customer requirements dictated.
The new line includes two surface-mount loudspeakers, the SM104 and SM105, and two flush-mount speakers, the CM1525 and CM1525R. The SM104 is a wall-mountable loudspeaker featuring a 2-way design consisting of a 4-inch woof
According to the Opera House’s artistic directors Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, the passage of time and millions of visitors have taken their toll on a building that has received no major repairs to either its mechanical, technical or performance spaces since the late 1920s. The new 2,890-seat auditorium has been redesigned to be an aesthetically stunning and state-of-the-art performance hall worthy of housing Seattle’s world-class performances for years to come.
JR Clancy, specialists in the
He continues: "Whilst wishing Bose (UK) Ltd every success, Leisuretec Distribution will actively be promoting alternative solutions from a comprehensive portfolio of products which include the JBL, KEF, Mission Pro, Electro-Voice, RCF, Mackie, DAS, Yamaha, Nexo & Tannoy brands."
(Lee Baldock)
The company reports a busy year in which it has supplied equipment to a string of prestigious events such as the XVII Commonwealth Games, The Queen's Golden Jubilee Celebrations, theatre productions such as Bombay Dreams, Utopia and The Bachai at the Royal National Theatre and, more recently, The Brit Awards 20
In another development, Stardraw has made Online Libraries available for use with its family of design and documentation tools (Stardraw Audio, Stardraw AV, Stardraw Lighting 2D and Stardraw Radio packages). The new libraries, which are introduced as par
All of the products in Stardraw applications now have at least one link, to the manufacturer's homepage, while other product ranges within Stardraw - BSS for example - already have links to dynamic pages on the manufacturer’s website that use a script to give users instant and sp
Designed to offer inst
The fixture uses a powerful Phillips 1200W short arc discharge lamp, further boosted by a high quality optical system. Major ColorSpot 1200 features include a versatile CMY colour mixing system, variable CTO plus an additional colour wheel, 12 rotating dichroic glass gobos (indexable and replaceable) on two wheels offering 48 gobo combinations, iris, four rotating prisms and effects, variable frost, an incredibly flexible 13° - 42° linear zoom, remote focus, dimmer and shutter.
The Wholehog III was also being demonstrated
