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France - Digigram, the digital audio network solutions specialist, has appointed Joe Tan to the position of regional sales manager for the Asia/Pacific region. Based in the offices of Digigram's sales subsidiary in Singapore, Digigram Asia Pte Ltd, Joe's mission is to further develop Digigram's sales throughout the region.

Tan has over 10 years' experience in the broadcast sector, having spent the last three years as regional sales manager for Asia Pacific with UK-based intercom manufacturer, Drake Electronics. Prior to that he occupied different sales and engineering positions with Transmarco H. Warte, Panasonic, and Techmen Communications. He also has a degree in Electronics and Communications.

Digigram managing director Philippe Delacroix is pleased to welcome Joe on board.

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UK - Bandit Lites UK supplied lighting equipment for the spectacular stage and catwalk show at the centre of the 2004 Erotica exhibition in London's Olympia. Bandit's Lester Cobrin project managed, working closely with the show's technical production supplier Derek Halliday Productions and lighting designer Ben Fox. It was Bandit's second Erotica show - the first being in Manchester back in March - and Derek Halliday has been involved since the exhibition's inception in 1997.

The action packed 50 minute, four-times-a-day stage show, produced and choreographed by Torture Garden, was the exhibition's central attraction and featured aerial performance, dancing - including with fire and water - and a catwalk parade. Lighting had to be highly versatile and also had to contend with daylight for two shows a day, courtesy of Olympia's glass ceiling.

Ben Fox has lit Erotica's stage sho

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USA - Community has added new Cloud 4 and Cloud 6 models to the existing Cloud 12, providing a range of ceiling loudspeakers for high quality speech and music installations. Long-term reliability, sound quality and ease of installation were the core considerations in the design of all three models. To provide optimum performance and consistent coverage with minimal diameter the Cloud 4 and 6 use a coaxial drive unit design and bass-reflex loading. 4 and 6-inch cast aluminium frame mid/bass units respectively are coupled to a three-quarter-inch aluminium HF unit via a high-grade crossover. Both units employ Community's proprietary Air Gap Technology (AGT) cooling for increased long-term high output and reduced power compression.

The Cloud 4 has a nominal dispersion of 140° conical and the integral 30W 70/100V line transformer offers 4-tappings and a bypass setting

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UK - Scottish audio sales and rental company, GB Audio, has supplied a 16 channel Allen & Heath GL2200 multi-purpose console to Queen Margaret University College (QMUC) in Edinburgh.

The GL2200 has been installed in QMUC's Gateway Studio Theatre, and is an upgrade for the College's Drama Department, which was looking for a compact, yet fully-featured desk for training students to be theatre technicians. The mixer will also be used to manage audio for the College's productions, as the Theatre also hosts performances by students and professional theatre companies throughout the year.

GB Audio's Graham Bodenham comments: "Allen & Heath is renowned for designing consoles with the best build and sound quality, and the GL2200 mixing console ensures a comprehensive, quiet and reliable front end of the audio system. The College was also looking for a mixer with flexible output ro

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UK - Showsec has signed a new two-and-a-half year contract to supply London's Earls Court venue with crowd-management services. The contract builds on two successful years with Earls Court, where Showsec has managed the front of house security and stewarding operation, across events including The Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival, Madonna and Justin Timberlake concerts, Coldplay and Paul McCartney. This new agreement extends Showsec's relationship with the venue.

Showsec's Earls Court team, along with the rest of its London staff, is continuing its programme of the NCFE event stewarding qualifications, SIA door supervisor training and event supervisor courses to ensure high standards of customer care. Over the next year Showsec and Earls Court will also be ensuring the new SIA regulations are adhered to as they are introduced in London.

Showsec southern regional manager Simo

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USA - Bose introduced an enhanced and expanded family of Panaray LT loudspeakers. The five-product line includes two new loudspeakers: the Panaray LT 9402 loudspeaker and the Panaray LT MB24 modular bass loudspeaker. These new options, along with improvements to the Panaray LT 9702, 4402 and 3202 mid/high loudspeakers, create a product family that delivers a variety of sound pressure levels (SPLs) and dispersion patterns to meet the demands of large and medium-sized venues - including long-throw speaker-to-listener distances, challenging room acoustics, and high SPL requirements.

"The improved performance and visual appeal of the Panaray LT loudspeakers provide more options for consultants, system designers and contractors," said Frank Van Heyghen, business director, professional systems division Europe. "This line accommodates venues where quality sound, intelli

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UK - Geoff Hoon MP recently sang the praises of a local music firm when he visited their factory. The Ashfield MP, who is known for his passion for music, had a tour of Carlsbro Electronics in Kirkby and met a number of apprentices. Carlsbro, which manufactures amplification for bands and musicians, was established in 1959 is one of the few remaining of its kind in the country and continues to go from strength to strength.

In a recent high-profile project, the company created a live music venue in Westminster for 220 MPs. The event was organized to raise the profile of live music and featured live acts such as MP4 - Parliament's first pop band!

Geoff Hoon's visit to Carlsbro was made to coincide with the first ever 'National Enterprise Week' (15-21 November), a government-backed initiative to help foster a more dynamic enterprise culture in the UK. Hoon commented: "The

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Austria - HK Audio's Cohedra (Coherent Dynamic Response Array) system has been used by theatrical PA rental company Showtime in Austria for a large-scale musical production, Coming Home. "Cohedra is now gaining a good reputation in Austria as it's been used for many corporate shows such as 100 Years of Kleine Zeitung in Graz, the Gackern culinary event in St Andrä, as well as for the leading TV show Wetten Das," says Roman Wieser from HK Audio's Austrian distribution company, eXact. "Showtime's production manager Christian Polster had heard a lot of good things about Cohedra and wanted to test the system. This wasn't going to be an easy project as the show featured more than 130 artists, an orchestra, band and vocalists, so they decided that it would be the perfect challenge for Cohedra. He was very satisfied with the results, both for the ease with w

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Australia - Coemar DeSisti Australia (CDA) has supplied Channel 7 with 26 4-bank and nine 2-bank De Sisti Delux fluorescents for the new studio they have just completed at Martin Place in Sydney. After successful use of the fluorescents with Channels 7's Melbourne Broadcast centre, plus for Channel 7s coverage of the tennis, golf and racing (Channel 7 has an extensive stock of De Sisti fluorescents, which are used on all these outside broadcasts) the De Sisti product was a natural pick for the new studio in Sydney, say the company.

The Sydney studio is quite a challenge for the lighting people with two sides of the studio being glass walls; therefore, they have to contend with changing light levels and colour temperature throughout the days, keeping in mind the studio is in use from 6am in the morning to the late hours of the evening. The extremely high output and possibilities

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Estonia - Estonian audio company MuMix Inc has installed a KV2 Audio system at the Bonnie & Clyde nightclub, in Tallinn, Estonia. The club, which is located on the first floor of Reval Hotel Olympia was looking to completely upgrade its sound and lighting systems. Having done his research, MuMix's Kaupo Uibo had no doubt in specifying a KV2 Audio, ES system. Alex Pagliani of KV2 Audio says: "Once we had demonstrated the ES system to Mr. Uibo he was convinced that the system would work at Bonnie & Clyde. We already new that the club featured both live and recorded music, which made the ES system a perfect match."

MuMix installed installed four ES 1.0 (two per side) with four ES 2.5 subwoofers. The newly installed audio system was commissioned in early October and has immediately attracted huge crowds to the club.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Computers Unlimited have teamed up with the Central School of Speech & Drama in London to stage the first ever UK VectorWorks Spotlight event. VectorWorks Spotlight is an entertainment and lighting design software, which merges sophisticated 2D drafting and powerful 3D modelling with advanced lighting design and production tools. The organizer says the event will provide an opportunity to see some outstanding projects created using VectorWorks Spotlight.

Mark Stephens, director of The Design Division (a specialist VectorWorks reseller and producer of the new VectorWorks Spotlight Training CD), will start the event with an overview of VectorWorks. He will then demonstrate the specific Spotlight features, and will also show the new VectorWorks training CD which now includes specific movies on Spotlight. Alex Wardle, a lighting designer and technical manager, will cover setti

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Spain - This marks seventh industry award for HES' Digital Lighting fixture High End Systems' DL1 Digital Light fixture won Best Product of the Year at the Pro-Audio and Lighting Awards in Spain. The honor was presented 11 November at the Broadcast 2004 trade show in Madrid. Produccion Profesional magazine sponsored the awards.

Ramon Setien of Pro-Lighting, a High End Systems distributor in Spain, accepted the award. Pro-Lighting was also in the running for lighting company of the year. The jury was comprised of professional lighting designers. Says Carlos Martinez-Iturralde of Pro-Lighting, "The judges said the DL1 deserved the award because it was the best lighting product for its innovative technology in the lighting market."

This is DL1's seventh industry award since its introduction in 2003.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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Spain - LT-light has announced the appointment of Lightronics Inc. as its new distributor for the Hydra Range of lighting controllers for the USA and Canada. The well-known American company will provide full sales assistance, extensive technical support and service as well as customer training and specialist seminars.

International sales manager Fernando Krijer commented: "We are pleased and very much looking forward to working together with Lightronics Inc. They are a tremendous complement to our existing portfolio."

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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The results of this year's elections for places on the PLASA executive committee came through just as L&SI was going to press.

Seven candidates put their names forward to contest the four available seats which had arisen from the natural rotation of committee members and the resignation of John Jones (PCM) earlier in the year. The 2004 Treasurer David Hopkins OBE (Audio Design Services) and Chairman Diane Grant (DHA Lighting) were joined on the list of candidates by Stuart Gibbons (Le Mark), Iain Price-Smith (Light Engineering - Multiform), Siobhan Hitchen (Rope Assemblies), Linda Moore (Stage Electrics) and Duncan Smith (Roscolab).

Voting closed at 5pm on Monday 6 December with Diane Grant securing the most votes, followed by David Hopkins, Linda Moore and Siobhan Hitchen. Those four will now serve on PLASA's executive body - the first three serving three-year terms, whilst Siobhan

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Greece - Cadac supplied two J-Type Live Production Consoles to one of Europe's largest cultural centres, Megaron - the Athens Concert Hall Complex. The J-Type consoles, comprising one 60-input and one 56-input frame plus a flexible 24-input sub frame, are installed in two new multi-functional halls at the Athens Concert Hall, and were supplied and installed by Cadac's Greek distributor, Telmaco SA, after a two-year bid process.

Athens Concert Hall opened in 1991, some 35 years after the Greek government originally donated the site for its construction. The venue is jointly governed by the Athens Concert Hall Organisation, the Friends of Music Society, and the state, and hosts an extensive schedule of musical productions and events.

The two new halls, the 1800-seat Alexandra Triandi Hall and the 400-seat Nikos Skalkotas Hall, were opened at the end of 2003, complete with new so

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Denmark - Martin Professional, which offers a variety of tailored financing options to its customers, has announced that in the past seven years, it has secured financing of more than US$100,000,000 for its customers, either through its own internal resources or in some cases in partnership with external financing firms. In so doing, Martin says, it has helped countless businesses stay competitive while creating extensive product availability worldwide.

Begun in 1997 and unique to the industry, Martin's finance options are inclusive plans that offer flexible financing to its entire customer base from small installations to large rental companies. The company says it is committed to offering the products and services that support customers' growth by working with them to meet their financing objectives.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Lighting designer Al Gurdon specified 78 James Thomas PixelLine battens as part of his lighting rig for ITV's current top-rating series of the X-Factor. 32 PixelLines are rigged inside the main scenic 'X' set piece hung above centre stage. The fixtures are behind a diffused polycarbonate covering.

On the floor below, the centre 'X' PixelLine configuration is mirrored using another 32 battens, this time set below a frosted Perspex floor. These 64 battens are being driven by video images created specially for the show by lighting operators/programmers Svend Pedersen and Ross Williams and graphic artist Chris Plant, designed to compliment the geometry of the stage and Christopher George's set. The images are stored and manipulated in a computer running PixelMAD software, and output via the WholeHog II lighting console used to run the show's lights.

The 'X' PixelLine fixtures

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UK - Loud Technologies Inc. recently announced the appointment Steve Badham to the position of UK sales manager for the EAW and EAW Commercial brands. Badham has a long history in the professional audio industry, and in particular with EAW, and is also an associate member of the Institute of Acoustics.

Badham's association with EAW began in the late '90s when he held the position of European technical sales engineer for EAW International, as they were known then, and formed part of the commissioning team for Barcelona Camp Nou Stadium. After that he went to EAW's UK distributor, Sound Department, where he commissioned EAW's first UK multiplex cinemas in Epsom and Bradford. More recently he has been running his own audio/acoustics company before rejoining EAW in October.

Loud Technologies' Martin Warr commented: "We are delighted to welcome Steve to the UK sales team. He i

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PLASA has negotiated funding for five key trade shows taking place in 2005. If you are considering exhibiting at any of the five events listed below, your first move should be to call PLASA.

Companies can receive up to 50% of their net expenses up to a maximum of £2,500. Stand space, construction, freight costs and literature can all be claimed for, although the grants do not extend to travel and accommodation.Because the funding is sourced from the UK government, it only applies to UK organizations. Eligible companies must be registered in the UK, fit the European Union definition of an SME and export from the UK.

An information pack with further details on how to apply for funding, travel and hotel packages, together with background information on the show and country, is available for each funded event.

ISE in Amsterdam (26-28 January)

PALME in Dubai (24-26 April)

CALM in

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For the first time in the Association's history, the number of members has shot past the 500 mark. If you're interested in joining PLASA and taking advantage of a range of benefits and services tailored to your needs, call us on +44 (0)1323 410335. For 2005, Full and EU member fees will be £470 per year; corporate fees will be £160 per year; Associate fees will range from £80-£470 and Student fees remain fixed at £30.

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USA - Arizona-based Sunbelt Scenic Studios has taken delivery of 14 of Clay Paky's new Alpha Spot HPE and Alpha Wash fixtures. Concentrating mostly on corporate productions, Sunbelt Scenic Studios added the new Clay Paky fixtures to their lighting rental inventory based on trust - trust in the Clay Paky brand and trust in the people behind the brand in the US. "I have enjoyed the Clay Paky 1200 Zooms for many years now," said David Renshaw, lighting rental manager for Sunbelt. "PJ Turpin, the general manager of Clay Paky America, and I also go way back - I trust him. When PJ told me he had these new units, and that I could rely on them, I knew that I could. I normally do not buy the first round of any new moving light."

Renshaw immediately committed his new Alpha Spot HPE and Wash fixtures to a number of large-and small-scale industrial productions. The fee

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