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Italy - Martin Professional A/S has announces that, as of late April of this year, Pio Nahum, managing director of Martin's Italian subsidiary, will be seeking new challenges outside of the Martin Professional organization. Nahum joined Martin in 1996 and, since that time, has held a variety of key positions at the company's Danish headquarters and subsidiary offices.

As a long-time lighting veteran, Nahum is a well-known personality in the industry and he was an important player in Martin's rise to the top of the intelligent lighting market. Pio's contribution to the success of the Martin Professional organization is greatly appreciated, say Martin Pro, and the company wishes him success in his new endeavor.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - After three years working in California for Total Structures Inc, Peter Hind has returned to the UK to join consulting structural and civil engineers, Anthony Ward Partnership Ltd working from their offices near Winchester in Hampshire. However, his return to consulting engineering will not mean the end of his involvement with the design and use of aluminium structures in the entertainment and associated industries which stretches back over 20 years.

Anthony Ward Partnership Ltd has a reputation for providing innovative design solutions for projects within the building construction industry and now offers a range of structural engineering services relevant to the entertainment industry including concept design, preparation of engineering calculations and drawings, inspections and third party reviews. Hind will also continue his work with ESTA Technical Standards in America

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The Netherlands - HK Audio's Dutch Concert Sound distributor, Audio Insight, supplied an HK Audio Cohedra (Coherent Dynamic Response Array) system for a six-day indoor cycle tournament at the Rotterdam Ahoy club in early January.

The system was set up as a flown centre cluster in the middle of the venue, to cover the audience of 7,500. The cluster consisted of two arrays of 12 Cohedra CDR208 mid/high cabinets, each with six CDR 210 F flyable subwoofers, to cover either side of the hall where the audience was seated. This small 2 x 12 setup covered almost all the audience area around the cycle track, while four sets of two VT115X multi-functional two-way speakers covered small areas in the four corners of the venue, flown closer to the audience and delayed as necessary.

Two hangs of eight CDR 108C Cohedra Compact cabinets, each with two CDR 210 C compact subs, were used for co

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UK - Software provider Stardraw.com will formally launch its latest application, Stardraw Control, at NSCA 2005. Previewed at PLASA in London, the application has already generated a huge amount of excitement amongst manufacturers and systems specialists who have welcomed Stardraw's new approach to solving the problem of controlling heterogeneous systems.

Stardraw Control generates standalone, customized control programs that can manage any type of addressable equipment from any manufacturer over any communications infrastructure. Instead of being locked into closed architectures wherever system control, monitoring or signal routing has been required, Stardraw Control offers systems integrators an open, software-based, unified control framework that can manage the entire system with a single application, regardless of system complexity.

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UK - Lighting and sound rental house HSL kicked off 2005 as it means to continue, purchasing a large quantity of Vari lite VL1000TS framing units for hire stock. This is in response to the steady and continuing growth of HSL's hire division and to service several immediately up-coming productions.

Other recent lighting purchases include Avolites dimming and control - with more Pearl 2004 consoles and rack mount optical splitters joining the inventory. Additional WholeHog II and Hog 1000 consoles have also been added to HSL's stock, plus a series of power distribution units from SES Ltd.

Blackburn-based HSL also continues to invest heavily in LED technology, and the number of James Thomas Pixel LED units continues to increase. HSL now offers access to over 250 JTE 1044 PixelLine battens and 150 PixelPAR 90 units - making HSL the largest European supplier of LED lighting.

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UK - A.C. Lighting's Special Projects division programmed BT's Tower logo with Olympic colours for a London 2012 Olympic Bid launch event held last November and preparations for the IOC's official visit to London this month to review the Capital's Bid plans. BT is a premier partner of the London 2012 Bid and is playing an integral part in the campaign to promote the Bid to the UK public and International Olympic Committee. As a follow-up to this event, the Olympic colours scheme will again light up the London skyline this week to commemorate the IOC's short visit to London.

London creative agency Rufus Leonard designed the original BT "connected world" globe logo lighting concept last April and also provided the new Olympic colours scheme. Design and events company Imagination developed and implemented the original design of the lighting system. A key requirement of t

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UK - Hadley vs. Fry & ABC (starring 1980s superstars Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet and Martin Fry from ABC) are using Robe ColorSpot 250 XTs on their four-month UK theatre tour which kicked off last week. The fixtures were specified and highly recommended by lighting designer Dave Gibbon, who also used them on last year's marathon Hadley vs. Cox (Go West) tour.

"Robe is the most reliable and value-for-money moving light on the market" he states, "I've used Robe fixtures on numerous occasions - both on tour and on one-offs and special events, and they have always just worked and worked whatever the conditions and however hard". He adds that when it came to specifying kit for the Hadley vs Fry tour, he had no hesitation in again choosing Robe.

Gibbon is using the eight Robe ColorSpot250 XT's on the tour as his main 'specials'. Each day they are rigged on

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UK - The fourth annual Total Production International Awards event attracted a sell-out audience of 800 industry people at the Novotel London West in Hammersmith on Monday 31 January.

The event was hosted by the broadcaster, author and 'Professor of Pop', Paul Gambaccini. As well as a number of cameo presentations by a wide range of industry personalities, including DiGiCo's Bob Doyle, PR guru Jerry Gilbert, Martin Professional's David Caulfield, plus Adrian Forbes-Black and Andy Lenthall of the PSA, the event was crowned by special guest appearances by Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour, ex-Undertone Feargal Sharkey (now Chairman of the government's Live Music Forum) and former BRIT Awards producer Lisa Anderson.

Of the winners, catering firm Eat To The Beat celebrated its third consecutive award and XL Video and the Star Events Group both won their third award to date, while mo

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USA - Richmond Sound Design Ltd (RSD) of Vancouver, Canada, and London, England, has appointed Merv Buchanan to the newly created position of market development manager for North America. Buchanan brings a wealth of experience to RSD, having worked as a music producer, systems designer, college instructor and marketing executive with organizations as diverse as Videomax, Trend Records, Toa Electronics, Fanshawe College and MuchMusic. A native of Cape Breton, Buchanan began in the entertainment business in 1963, while attending DeVry Technical Institute, an electronics college in Toronto.

During the sixties, Buchanan operated his own record label and recording studio in Toronto. Trend Records was Canada's first independent, fully integrated record company. In 1969 he produced the landmark 'Sussex' by Bent Wind, the most collectable album ever produced in Canada. In the 70s he ra

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UK - Sound design and installation company CP Sound has completed an eye-catching integrated audio system at Cocoon in Regent Street - an elegant, classy sushi bar and Japanese restaurant. CP Sound encountered many challenges throughout the project, the major one being the design and build of 18 custom spherical speakers: these contain JBL components, and were designed and produced by CP Sound's in-house team. CP Sound won the contract on the strength of previous successful one-off projects for Cocoon's owners and operators, Ignite.

The entire geometry, design and individual ambience of Cocoon - created by the renowned New York-based Stephan Dupoux - revolves around a spatially lavish series of interlocking circles and spheres. This specific environment required highly precise audio: "The only way to achieve exactly what they wanted was to start from scratch, producing a s

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UK - The Spring Term at Reading University began in 2005 with a bit of a party which was also the opening night for its new AD Systems sound installation. The university Nightclub - 3sixty - opened in January 2001 with a capacity of 1200 and holds events up to four times a week so quickly established itself as one of the best Student Union venues in the country.

As well as catering for the clubbers in the university, there has been a number of major acts making an appearance on the 3sixty stage including Supergrass, Miss Dynamite, Lisa Mafia, Reef, Dannii Minogue, The Bluetones and Judge Jules! The new sound system had to ensure it did not infringe on the stage or floor area, remained within the aesthetics' of the existing décor, provides a system that will cope with play back and touring bands and finally be cost effective, reliable and low maintenance. Ian MacDonald, Readings

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Denmark - Stage Cyclo, a full colour mixing luminaire from Martin Professional for the stage, studio and event lighting market. An adapted version of Martin Architectural's successful Cyclo luminaire, Stage Cyclo is specially designed for installation in theatres and television studios with the flexibility to be hung and re-hung on a regular basis.

The Stage Cyclo features four 54W high output fluorescent tubes in red, green, blue and white with full colour mixing capabilities. It also features a double parabolic louver reflector for maximum output and even illumination coverage. In its standard finish the beam angle is approximately 55 degrees.

With the Stage Cyclo, subtle colour changing effects can be achieved on a piece of set or scenery and its rugged construction makes it suitable for touring purposes. In order to integrate with any set piece, fixtures are available in

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UK / Czech Republic / Australia - Anolis Lighting is a new LED manufacturing and sales company, formed in a collaboration between Robe Show Lighting of the Czech Republic and ULA of Australia. The company has been established to design, manufacture and distribute a top-end range of LED products worldwide.

Anolis UK, run by John Saunders, will represent the brand across the UK and Ireland. Anolis was officially launched this week at the ARC 05 trade show at London's Business Design Centre, complete with a whole new range of LED lighting fixtures aimed at applications in architectural, retail, transport, leisure and entertainment markets. Anolis (Latin for Chameleon) is the brainchild of Robe Show Lighting's Josef Valchar and ULA's Con Biviano, who first formed the idea at PLASA 2004. "We've followed the recent trends in LED lighting closely," says Valchar. "There'

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USA - Chauvet's new addition to the Legend Series of moving yokes improves upon its predecessors with an intense 575W discharge lamp, two gobo wheels, a second colour wheel equipped with a mechanical iris, and a user selectable pan/tilt resolution of 16-bit or 8-bit.

Features also include 14 or 16 DMX-512 channels, motorized focus, a mechanical dimmer, indexing gobos, a three-facet high-speed bi-directional rotating prism, remote channel reset, variable shutter/strobe (seven flashes/sec), automatic pan/tilt correction, a removable air filter and remote on/off lamp control. Multiple gobo, colour, prism and effects can be layered to produce impressive scenic effects.

One colour wheel has 11 solid colours plus white. The other one consists of one CT filter, four solid colours, four split colours and two quad-colours plus white. Both wheels can effectuate a bi-directional rainbow

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Belgium - Barco recently announced the introduction of several new LED and projection products, launched to its key European Rental Partners at the company's annual European Rental Partner Meeting, held in Faro, Portugal from 6 - 8 Feb.

Bringing together over 120 key commercial and technical representatives from over 70 Rental Partners throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the annual meeting has become the rental and staging industry's official launch pad for Barco's latest products. This year was no exception, Barco launched its OLite 510, a multi-purpose high-resolution indoor/outdoor SMD LED platform, as well as several new projectors, including the RLM R6+ and RLM R5i. The company also anticipated the ever-growing trend of convergence between lighting and video by launching its brand new MiPIX rental structure as well as a first showing of the MiPIX Creativity Pack

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UK - Fineline, an event supply company based in the South West of England, was named Lighting Company of the Year at the Total Production International Awards, which celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals and companies working within the live event production industry. Fineline is owned and run by Darren Wring and is divided into two operations. The company's hire business houses a substantial range of lighting and rigging equipment which has lit up stars such as Jet, Blue, Busted, Status Quo, Westlife, Donny Osmond and Tom Jones. The company offer professional design and installation services for events of all descriptions both in the UK and internationally and is a major player in outdoor summer festivals like Glastonbury and the Powderham Castle Concerts.

The company also has a manufacturing facility where it has the capability to cater for all of its cl

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UK - White Light recently completed the installation of a new lighting grid and dimming system for LAMDA, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. LAMDA, which dates back to 1861, recently moved to a new home in West London, the former headquarters of the Royal Ballet School. As part of this move, one of the building's ballet rooms has been converted into a black-box drama studio, named the Linbury Studio for former Royal Ballet ballerina Anya Linden Sainsbury.

As part of the conversion, the room required the installation of a technical infrastructure which would be used to rig and control lanterns from LAMDA's existing stock. White Light's Roger Hennigan worked with Claire Cooper, LAMDA's buildings administrator, and Paul Rowland, the college's head of lighting, to specify the system. This provides a 6m x 11.5m fixed overhead lighting grid with 60 15A sockets on internall

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Canada - The first-ever World Stage Design will be held from 12-19 March 2005 in the Canadian Hall at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The exhibition and catalogue of set, costume, lighting, and sound design will present work from designers around the world. An international jury has selected 188 works from a total of 951 submissions to be presented in the gallery exhibition, representing designers from 35 nations. All the submitted designs will be presented in the digital exhibit section and included in the print and digital catalogues available for sale at the event.

The exhibition is co-produced by three prominent theatre associations: United States Institute for Theatre Technology Inc (USITT), the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology/l'Institut Canadien des Technologies Scenographiques (CITT), and the International Organization of Scenographer

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USA - The televised pre-game entertainment from Super Bowl XXXIX (that's 39 for non-Romans), held at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, used a variety of Sennheiser equipment. "The entire pre-game entertainment was all Sennheiser," confirms James Stoffo, an RF expert who works on many major sports and entertainment events. "There were Sennheiser 3000 in-ears and Sennheiser EM1046 receivers and Sennheiser 5000 handhelds with Neumann heads."

Stoffo, whose Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound company, is based in Orlando, Florida, supplied the RF microphones, receivers and antennas, while sound production company ATK AudioTek supplied the 3000 Series personal monitor systems. Every handheld comprised a Sennheiser/Neumann hybrid RF mic, which combines a Sennheiser 5000 Series wireless transmitter with Neumann's KK105 capsule.

"But the cool th

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UK - A new guide to electricity in buildings is now available from CIBSE. The publication will be invaluable to lighting engineers, technicians and designers who require easy access to information on electrical services.

There is specific information on the different elements of electricity that relate to lighting and lighting circuits, such as: harmonics, loads, miniature circuit breakers, cables and prefabricated wiring systems. Each clearly-written section has been produced by experts in their respective fields from leading consultants, contractors and manufacturers. Areas covered are: regulations and standards; load assessment; power supplies; high voltage distribution, transformers, low voltage switchgear and distribution, building wiring systems; earthing and bonding; uninterruptible power supplies; electromagnetic compatibility; inspection, testing, operation and maintena

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France - Daslight's Virtual Controller software program now includes a new tool for CMY and RGB fixtures under Matrix Manager. It can be used as easily as any drawing software and it makes programming quite simple, say the company. It is also possible to download videos and images and scroll text.

A new USB interface has been included in the Daslight range of products. This interface works in DMX IN on 512 channels and is fully compatible with all consoles available on the market, say the company. Using the DMX 512 IN interface and Virtual Controller, users can transfer and save previous shows onto a computer. The software can be controlled via a console, and users can add a 3D view in real time on any console. The new 3D visualizing tool displays all fixture effects as well as texture and video on objects. All the above Daslight products will be demonstrated at the Pro Light &

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