Managing director Mark Elliott said of the strategic decision to operate as a single entity: "Being able to centralize all our resources into a single building has enabled us to further develop full service capability to provide a wide range of resources. This includes video, lighting, audio, and staging equipment, together with our ever-increasing range of indoor and outdoor LED screens."
A substantial upgrade to CT's hire fleet will see heavy investment, with the company inten
Vari-Lite will provide a "Q-kit" which includes everything you need to conver
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
Kern took on the role of production manager for the 'Stripped' tour in March when rehearsals began, leading into production rehearsals in June. Taking on the World 'XTina' style began in earnest with 46 shows in the US before her first Arena tour across Europe and the UK, taking in 29 shows, then three nights in Tokyo, before finishing with seven dates in Australia.
In addition to Aguilera there are five musicians, three backing singers and eight dancers on stag
For the next event, which will take place on 13 February, delegates will be able to join L&SI at the Royal Albert Hall and meet with members of the Cirque Du Soleil production team, the Royal Albert Hall's technical crew and representatives of the companies who have supplied lighting, sound and rigging expertise to the production.
The day will include a guided tour of the historic venue and modern produ
Also from this prolific award-winner was Lightwright 4, which picked up the LDI Product of the Year award in the Software category. V4 is the latest version of Lightwright with a host of new features - among them a 62 DMX
Sponsored by SID and Information Display Magazine, the awards are sought after in the international information display industry - the industry responsible for designing and manufacturing the displays that give life to television sets, notebook computers, desktop computer monitors, cell phones, PDAs, DVD players, and many other office-based, home-based, and portable electronic devices.
The award, which was announced in this month's edition of the Information Display Magazine, is voted for by display industry peers made up of distinguished display professionals and influential members of the trade press, making it a significant win for SoundVu technology. SoundVu technology brings sound and v
Strand also introduced a new USB Key drive with its Designer Remote software built in. Plug the new drive into the USB port on a PC or Mac notebook with a wired or wireless Ethernet connection and you'll be able to access displays and controls on any Strand 300 or 500 series console.
ILC also features what ET call a 'Flat' fixture model, presenting all moving lights (of whatever make or model) to the user in the same way, e.g. strobe values are shown in hertz and gobo r
Autograph's Nick Lidster, together with the company's chairman Andrew Bruce, will be sound designing this famous demon barber's tale. For Bruce this is a happy return to The Royal Opera House, almost 30 years to the day after he left his post as Head of Sound to set up Autograph Sound Recording.
Lidster explains, "We are supplying and installing vocal amplification for this production and have chosen LLW's latest ribbon loudspeaker the LDS800, (Autograph have used previous versions of this loudspeaker on productions of Follies, On Your Toes and Pacific Overtures) their largest cabinet, which is both powerful enough to use just five a side but subtl
French national broadcaster Radio France was behind the entire audio affair, including sound reinforcement. Sound designer Frederic Viricel's ambitious concept involved a mic'd up orchestra and two choirs at the centre of the pitch, with roving vocal soloists on radio mics. The tender was won by Canadian speaker manufacturer Adamson's independent support company in France, DV2.
Spearheaded by DV2's Didier dal Fitto, the practical solution was to feed the programme to a series of small, groundstacked line arrays evenly sp
With its 12 awards including four first prizes, almost one third of all the ILDA Awards for outstanding creative achievements went to Lobo during the glamorous ceremony. This brings the Aalen-based company's total in just 10 years to 69 ILDA awards, including more than 20 first prizes.
Four of Lobo's 3D beam shows were awarded prizes, including two first prizes. All winning beam shows originate from the Lobo's Software Contract - a show subscription service that offers subscribers one beam show per month.
Key to many of Lobo's achievements is its laser and multi
E//T//C UK supplied two 6kW Pigi projectors with double rotating scrollers, and a Barco G10 video projector. All hardware was located 50m away on the green in the middle of the Square, protected by heavy-weather tents. All PIGI artwork was created by E//T//C's Ross Ashton and video artwork by Vin. Vin and Ashton are looking at the possibility of staging Glow Projects in other cities around the UK and Europe.
