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UK - The Haunch of Venison is one of Salisbury's oldest pubs and features small intimate dining areas amongst oak beams and winding stairwells. Owner Rupert Willcocks wanted to enhance the ambiance within the building's unique structure, adding to the overall dining experience for his guests.

As part of the electrical refurbishment led by electrical consultant Kevin Flynn, Zero 88 supplied a ChilliNet control system to the historic tavern. Six Chilli 410's and three 5 Button Brass control panels were used throughout the three levels of public space including the bar, separate drinking areas and the dining rooms. The system allows for the levels of each space to be individually controlled, with preset scenes easily accessed by staff using the push button control panels.

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China - Turbosound reports that over 50 of its products - including some 32 QLight systems - have been installed in the People's Great Hall at Wenzhou in eastern China. Handled by Turbosound's exclusive distributor for the Chinese territories, Hong Kong-based Phoenix Audio and Lighting Technology, the project was designed by Mac Lo, the company's technical director.

Housing five separate conference spaces, the Wenzhou People's Great Hall is a new purpose-built and highly prestigious venue, and the first of several government projects planned for the region. Bordering the East China Sea, the city of Wenzhou represents the economic, cultural and political centre in the southern part of Zhejiang Province. Principally used for high-profile government-level conferences, requiring clear, intelligible speech reinforcement, the Great Hall is also utilized for live music events, particul

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USA - Color Kinetics Incorporated (CKI) and HoMedics has announced a strategic patent licensing agreement through which HoMedics will develop and market a new line of intelligent LED-based color light products designed for sensory therapy. The innovative Color Cube product line was recently unveiled at the International Home & Housewares Show in Chicago, Ill., and will be sold via HoMedics' major consumer distribution channels.

The new Color Cube products feature illumination panels, which display colour and light and react to sound, producing varying light patterns for mood-enhancing benefits. "This is an exciting agreement for Color Kinetics that extends our reach in the market for LED-based consumer products," said Bill Sims, president and chief operating officer of Color Kinetics. "We're pleased to work with HoMedics, whose expertize in sensory therapy product

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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!

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Germany - Frankfurt's ProLight&Sound exhibition closed its doors on 3 April after registering a 30 % increase in visitor numbers, say the organizers. This is the largest number of visitors ever recorded in the 10 years since it was launched. Over the four days of the fair, 26,735 trade visitors - including more than 9,000 industry professionals from outside Germany.

"The fair was very well attended, business people have been able to make the contacts they want and, with the innovative segments of media technology and systems integration, a new, future-oriented growth market is opening up for the sector," said Florian von Hofen, chief executive of Germany's Association for Professional Light, Sound and Event Technology (VPLT), summing up the fair.

The mood of the exhibition appeared to be indicative of a new upswing in the sector: according to the organizers' research

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UK / USA - According to acoustic specialist Arup, it is now possible for the first time to 'hear' a building even before the foundations have been laid. The company's Arup SoundLab is an immersive listening environment used as a new acoustic design tool to allow the auralization of any building, whether existing or virtual. With listening rooms in London and New York and shortly in Melbourne, it has already had an impact, say Arup, on the design of concert venues, opera houses, studios, airports, railway stations, offices, museums and galleries.

Created by measuring more than 70 prestigious concert halls and opera houses and using over 15 years' research to calibrate 3D models and validate the accuracy of a predicted sound environment, the SoundLab enables the listener to experience the sound of a space or potential space as never before. Listeners can compare the same orchestr

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UK - The Museum and Heritage Show (12-13 May) is set for its biggest and best show yet. Taking place from at its new home at Earls Court, London, the event brings together the world's leading suppliers and contractors to museums, galleries and heritage visitor attractions, along with the latest services.

Supporting Museums & Galleries Month's objectives of attracting new visitors to the UK's wealth of museums, galleries, and visitor attractions, this year's show will see and extensive programme of seminars, showcases and technical presentations all designed to provide industry professionals with the information and inspiration needed to enhance their visitors' experience.

Andrew McIntyre, chair of the Visitor Studies Group, will offer an insight into the reasons visitors visit and, perhaps more importantly, why non-visitors stay away, whilst the Museum Trading Association will

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USA - Foam Masters and Snow Masters, one of the leaders in manufacturing, sales, and rentals of "fun products" for parties, nightclubs, shows and entertainers, now offers its latest foam generating machine: The Foam Cannon X-Stream. Combining the results of thousands of test hours, Foam Masters has developed a sleek, high-powered foam-maker that teams with a precisely formulated solution to create fluffy, dry foam that builds up walls of foam at any event.

Resting on mobile casters, the Foam Cannon X-Stream is versatile and easy to operate. The cannon can be angled up and down to shoot up to 480 cubic feet of foam per minute from 10 - 25ft distance. The self-contained foam cannon has a 25-gallon reservoir; a pumping system and a one touch control (On/Off Switch).

The foam generated by the Foam Cannon X-Stream is biodegradable, hypoallergenic, non-toxic, fire retardan

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Germany / International - The current Metallica world tour kicked off at the Fillmore in San Francisco on 18 May, 2003, and the celebrated heavy metal band has been touring the globe - from America to Europe, Japan and Australia - with only a few short breaks and occasional days off ever since. The final curtain will fall on the 10 October, 2004, in the HSBC Center in Buffalo, New York.

The lifting gear used for this epic has been provided by ChainMaster of Eilenburg, Germany, and plays a pivotal role at the end of the show, when the precise lifting and lowering of trusses, accompanied by dramatic sound and pyrotechnic effects, is used to simulate the collapse of the entire grid. The Metallica production involves the use of 30 VarioLifts (22 x 500 kg, 8 x 250kg) among other hoists, and two computer systems supplied by Show Distribution, the North American ChainMaster distributor

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The Netherlands - Dutch dimming manufacturer IES has led the way in sine wave Ethernet-networked dimming systems in Europe with several recent major projects having high-capacity Ethernet networks for dimming, automated lighting, effects and dimmer status reporting. The company says it saw an obvious requirement for a dedicated product range of Ethernet nodes tailored to the needs of a new generation of lighting network, and in response has introduced the iNode.

The new iNode is a small, self-contained unit which operates with power-over-LAN and can be located anywhere within the lighting rig using Cat 5 cable or wi-fi. The range comprises iNode2 in cable, 19" rack-mounting or wi-fi versions with Ethernet in and 2 DMX-in and 2 DMX-out and iNode4 (Ethernet in and either 4 DMX-in or 4 DMX-out). The innovative design, which also includes a merge function, may also be integrat

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Germany - The Fun Company, a new Germany-based venture aimed at bringing new show control solutoions to the market, launched its E.GO show control system at the recent Frankfurt ProLight&Sound exhibition. The E.GO system offers control of lights, video and sound in professional theatrical or event environments, and follows a fully modular concept which allows the user to add and combine any number of modules to one console.

In addition, each module can work as a stand-alone unit, so it can function as a full desk on its own. There are three modules available, each being tailored towards a specific use: the Designer module for direct access, the Performer for playing back complex shows and the Fader module for flexible device mixing.

Technologies such as the easy to use ColorTarget and the ShowDrive make the E.GO show control system one of the most versatile and easy to use s

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UK / Germany - At the recent Frankfurt MusikMesse, UK pro audio and MI distributor, John Hornby Skewes & Co Ltd received HK Audio's award for 'Best Distributor Concert Sound' for 2003.

Exclusive UK and Eire HK Audio distributor JHS says that HK Audio's innovative range of pro audio systems managed to achieve a hugely impressive 40% sales increase overall last year. This result, the company says, was spearheaded by the profile achieved following the introduction of the compact and innovative HK Audio Cohedra compact line array concert system. Dennis Drumm, JHS MD commented: "The UK and Eire pro audio market has demonstrated great interest in the potential offered by the Cohedra system. Sales of this system are accelerating, in addition to ongoing sales figures achieved by HK Audio's existing, established high-performance concert systems, the R-Series, T-Series and M-Series o

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The Netherlands - Dutch hire company A.J. Kooijmans Audio is the first European company to place an order for 16 Linex systems, Sound Projects' new line-array. The company already had long experience with the Sound Projects 4 (SP-4) hybrid line array system, and after a comprehensive market analysis and several live gigs with different FOH technicians, Kooijmans was ready to opt for the Linex. A first order was placed for a medium-sized rig of 16 Linex systems. Kooijmans already owns over 120 self-powered Sound Projects systems including a major SP-4 rig and is one of the fastest growing rental companies in the Netherlands.

Second in line is rental company Spot & Speaker, located in Utrecht. House supplier of the European Darts Championships and specialising in major events, Spot & Speaker also placed an order for 16 Linex systems. Dennis Bos, managing director, said: "Init

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Australia - Enttec's latest product, the Datagate, is essentially a DMX Splitter, a DMX Merger, and a DMX-to-Ethernet node in one package. It has an Ethernet port, which acts as an input or an output, as well as eight 1500V opto-isolated DMX ports, any of which can be configured as an input or an output. This allows the Datagate to be configured to distribute up to eight DMX Universes from its Ethernet input, or to take a common application, accept four Universes via Ethernet and distribute each to two optically isolated DMX outputs.

The Datagate can also accept standard DMX inputs and merge or copy them to the other 5-pin DMX outputs, or the Ethernet port. Merging can be configured as HTP for LTP, and the configuration can vary from port to port. Some of the other features of the Datagate are easy wireless DMX links (using third party wireless LAN access points), opto-isolatio

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USA - Studer - the US manufacturer of digital and analogue mixing consoles, tape recorders, and other high-end products for broadcast and recording applications - has appointed Clayton Blick as national sales manager, reporting to Kim Templeman-Holmes, Harman Pro North America (HPNA) general manager and vice president.

Based just outside of New York City, Blick is now overseeing all aspects of Studer's domestic sales efforts on a daily operations basis, and HPNA is actively recruiting further members for the Studer USA sales team. Blick will initially focus his main sales activities on the eastern half of the country, with a western region sales manager to be appointed shortly.

Blick comes to Studer from Sony Electronics Inc, where he spent 17 years in various sales and marketing capacities including, most notably, a seven-year stint as national sales manager for the company'

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UK - Drapes and rigging specialist Blackout has appointed Ken Nock as senior project manager, to work closely with managing director Steve Tuck and existing project managers, Chris Brain and Kevin Monks to deliver creative solutions to Blackout's expanding global client base.

With over 30 years' experience handling complex large-scale rigging projects across corporate and entertainment sectors, he brings a wealth of industry knowledge to the Blackout team. Well known for his work with Unusual Rigging in the nineties, Nock was before that Head of Rigging at the NEC and has a prestigious history in project safety management. His most significant and lasting impact has been felt in the area of rigging safety at large venues, not least getting a proper, movable rigging grid into Wembley Arena.

In his new position he will lead Blackout's growth in exhibitions and corporate events

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USA - The Kansas and Missouri departments of transportation began operating the Kansas City Scout traffic congestion management and traveler information system in January this year. Designed to provide freeway travelers with the latest in technology and communication to help make their drive safer, faster and more manageable, the system's elements include traffic sensors, surveillance cameras, electronic message boards, and a highway advisory radio system.

Traffic information from these elements feeds into Scout's Operations Center located in Lee's Summit, MO. Operations staff monitor traffic on 75 miles of Kansas City's most congested freeways; and respond to freeway incidents by notifying the appropriate authorities to clear the roadway and keep traffic flowing as freely as possible.

Scout's traffic operations staff use information from its cameras and sensors to launch a co

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USA - Thommy Hall of Barbizon Phoenix describes the outdoor lighting system at the city's new America West Arena as "the ultimate mega-rig of all time." Integral components of the "mega-rig" are 16 Vari*Lite automated lighting fixtures - eight VL3000 Spot luminaires and eight VL1000Arc units.

The luminaires are located outside the arena in the Paseo, a 400ft x 65ft area where visitors gather before and after events. A perforated steel canopy above the area serves as a projection surface: four 12ft x 9ft glass kiosks suspended 10ft off the ground each house two VL3000 Spot luminaires, two VL1000 fixtures and a video projection system. Each kiosk also has its own enclosed three-ton air conditioning unit. Barbizon provided the Vari*Lite automated fixtures to Genesis Audio Systems for the project.

Jim Jorgensen, owner of Genesis Audio Systems, was originally br

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Australia - The organizers of Entech 2004 (5-7 April 2004), Australia's biennial entertainment technology exhibition, have reported a successful show, which offered visitors access to over 500 of the latest brands in the professional audio, vision, lighting, and staging industries. The new demo rooms were well received and in full flight allowing audio companies to turn on and turn up their products. Visitors truly got a hands-on experience both in the demo rooms and on the show floor.

Says ULA's Con Biviano: "We expected a great response - it's been two years since the last Entech, and there is so much new technology and product to show - but this is fantastic. It's fantastic not only for ULA, but also for the industry to get hands-on with the products. Many people, especially end users don't normally have that opportunity to see it all in one place."

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UK - When the acclaimed lighting designer Willie Williams was asked to contribute to a major new series of exhibitions to celebrate 150 years of Christian charity BibleLands' ministry in the Middle East, he turned to Fourth Phase London to supply the lighting rig.

Featuring contemporary interpretations on the theme Presence - Images of Christ for the Third Millennium, events are taking place in six cathedrals throughout Britain, with Williams' piece, Vigil, on display at Canterbury over the Easter period.

At Canterbury the exhibition featured two contrasting pieces of art. Antony Gormley's sculpture Rise, rests in the Trinity Chapel in the place where Thomas Becket's bones lay in a shrine until it was destroyed during the Reformation, while Williams' newly commissioned light installation went on display from dusk on Palm Sunday, 4 April 2004.

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UK - Projected Image Digital, specialist supplier of digital media server hardware, video and lighting control solutions and digital content for the entertainment industry, was established to develop and bring new products to the market that highlight the increasing convergence between lighting and video mediums.

At the Production Show 04, PID will launch PixelMAD, a revolutionary matrix control system that loads digital images and plays them back as Quicktime movies via DMX-controlled lighting fixtures. PID is the worldwide distributor of this new product, which was first used on Radiohead's 2003 Hail To The Thief world tour 2003, to generate dynamic and organic lighting effects across a wall of James Thomas Pixelline fixtures - saving hours of laborious programming.

PixelMAD utilizes software that runs on a Macintosh in a very similar way to the Catalyst digital media

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