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Italy - Newly open for business in the town of Brescia, just an hour from Milan, La Nave di Harlock is a houseful of creative musical opportunity that defies description, including a recording studio, video editing facilities, gelateria, restaurant, live music venue and even an ice rink.

Owner Gianluca Renna has just opened the restaurant and live music venue at the Harlock, which has been equipped with a JBL PA system, Crown amplifiers, and a Soundcraft GB8 for front-of-house audio control. The venue is hosting live music four nights a week, and plans are in place to double its capacity by utilising the upper floor, which has a gallery overlooking the stage.

Renna already operates a tour sound rental company, which carries JBL Vertec line array in its inventory. His businesses

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Norway - Clear-Com, a Vitec Group Communications brand, has recently completed an installation at the renowned National Theatre in Oslo, Norway. The installation of a FreeSpeak 10 digital wireless intercom system, with 10 FreeSpeak beltpacks extends the capacity of the other Clear-Com equipment already in use at the theatre. The installation was managed and completed with the support of Clear-Com's Norwegian distributor, Danmon and its managing director, Oivind Iversen.

FreeSpeak 10 brings the power of matrix communications to the wireless environment, combined with the coverage flexibility of a local cellular network. Up to 10 beltpacks can operate from a single 1-RU base station via individually located Antennae, and users can talk beltpack-to-beltpack or in small groups. Each beltpack is registered with a User ID that the base station will recognise. This prevents interferenc

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Italy The Congress Palace in Bologna is using Cayin Technology digital signage to offer a flexible information platform for congress' participants and visitors. The Congress currently offers the use of five venues and more than thirty meeting rooms throughout the city.

Ten SMP-WEB players and 2 CMS-MINI servers are used together with large plasma displays of 42" and 50". Those screens are positioned at the reception, in conference rooms and in the congress cafeteria to deliver live information about hosting companies, meeting schedules and rooms usage. Due to the limited capacity of the auditorium, the platform is also used to transmit live streaming video from the main auditorium to other conference rooms to increase the number of viewers.

SMP-WEB is a scalable web-based networked digital signage system. It allows event hosting companies to display a variety of mult

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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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Australia - Coemar De Sisti Australia is celebrating 15 years in the architectural and entertainment lighting industry with a move to larger premises in the Melbourne suburb of Thomastown.

The company has been quietly building a formidable reputation in the local and international arena with several high-profile projects under its belt. Locally, they've been involved in the refurbishment of Channel 9 Sydney's Studio 1, the turnkey outfitting of the Channel 7 Melbourne Broadcast Centre, supplying a range of equipment for Foxtel's new Sydney studios and lighting the mast at 120 Collins Street in Melbourne. Much of the work follows on from the internationally prominent lighting of the Sydney Opera House during the Sydney Olympics. The company has also been involved internationally with huge projects such as the Hong Kong Harbour, working in collaboration with one of Australia's mos

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UK - The ABTT Theatre Show's organisers - The Association of British Theatre Technicians - have announced that its 29th edition is set to take place in six months time. With space already at a premium, the Show will again fill London's Royal Horticultural Halls to capacity on 13 and 14 June.

In 2006 the record-breaking show boasted a record attendance representing a 5% growth, and packed the venue's three halls to capacity with over 100 exhibiting companies. Over 2400 visitors including theatre and venue managers, technical directors, technicians, technical managers, heads of drama departments, architects, consultants, designers, and building services managers attended.

To maintain this level of growth, the organisers are committed to focussing time and money into an expanded PR and marketing campaign that will raise awareness of the show and have a drive into both the educati

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UK - The famous ITV 'Audience With' brand really shone on 2 December thanks to PRG Europe, when Take That appeared for the show's first ever live broadcast. An Audience with Take That Live saw Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald perform a selection of their greatest hits plus some exclusive tracks from their new album.

The show's lighting designer Al Gurdon has worked with PRG Europe account managers Mick Healey and Jon Cadbury on several live broadcast events recently, including the MTV Europe Music Awards in Copenhagen and the UK Music Hall of Fame at Alexandra Palace in north London. The Take That set included some 100 Vari-Lite luminaires, which PRG Europe supplied along with a Wholehog II and expansion wing.

"The concept of the show is to introduce the band to a celebrity-packed audience," says Cadbury. "In between major production

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USA - Located in downtown Chicago's busy River North district, Spy Bar is a smaller venue that stands out from the crowd by offering patrons an intimate club experience that is big on style and sound quality - using a Dynacord Cobra line array system installed by Audiolines.

"Spy Bar's owners chose the Cobra as their new main room system after the DJ booth was renovated earlier this year," says Eric Dahl of Audiolines. "The Cobra has a small footprint, yet pumps out huge sound into the 30ft by 30ft room. Two stacks of two Cobra Tops and two Cobra PWH subs are ground stacked either side of the booth, standing about nine feet high, tucked in nicely under the 12ft basement ceiling. The Cobra hardly takes up any space, but it's taken the sound Spy Bar to another level."

"The Cobra is simply a great club system," Dahl continued, "one that opens up

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UK - This Bedford club needed a face-lift - so the whole club was torn to bits and restarted from the ground up.

Designer Craig Trotter specified all the lighting for the venue - including the two main dance floors, the bar lighting, the VIP room, the ambient lighting, the lights on the outside of the building and even the lights in the toilets. An enormous amount of LED lighting was used to provide the ambient lights in each of the areas with LED fixtures utilised on every pillar.

Control of the lighting in the club is realised entirely using ChamSys MagicQ software and ChamSys MagicQ control wings. ChamSys MagicQ is a complete network system enabling multiple lighting and media systems to be interconnected via standard networks, Ethernet cables and routers. This makes a very low cost solution (network equipment is readily available from computer stores) with the significant

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USA - In the decade since Trans Siberian Orchestra (TSO) debuted, this is the first year that they incorporated a video element into their tour and they turned to XL Touring Video to implement it. TSO runs two identical tours simultaneously and XL provided each tour with 88 Element Labs 1m VersaTubes which illuminated and accented four pieces of truss that were used overhead. Lighting designer Brian Hartley says: "I knew I wanted Versa Tubes from the beginning, they are the coolest things."

John Wiseman, President of XL, says: "I've been watching from afar as the TSO phenomenon continues to explode onto the scene. From a few theatre dates to two simultaneous sold-out arena tours. When the chance came up to support the design for Brian Hartley, and support Craig Redden at Q-1, we jumped at it. This tour(s) will do nothing but continue to gather steam as it becomes

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UK - Adlib Audio has supplied lighting and sound equipment the brand new music and drama building at Maricourt Catholic School in Maghull, Liverpool. Lighting equipment has been supplied to two identical drama workshop/studios on the first floor, and full audio to a full sound recording and studio set up on the ground floor.

Adlib has worked on many educational and schools projects over the years, gaining a great reputation for supplying appropriate kit that's practical for students and their teachers to use. The company is renowned for its policy of not over-specifying.

The overall installation project was overseen by Adlib's Roger Kirby. He also drew up the recording studio spec with Mark Burnley, while Adlib's head of lighting Pete Abraham, sorted out the visual elements. The Adlib team worked closely with Sean Back, Maricourt's head of music who also runs the recording stu

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UK - FOH sound engineer Giles Woodhead has turned to the Digidesign Venue to mix recent one-off broadcast spectaculars by the currently double chart-topping Take That.

Replacing Gary Bradshaw, who piloted the band's European live tour from the front-of-house position this Summer, Woodhead set up the sound on Venue for the band's exclusive concert at Abbey Road Studios (for a Radio 2 taped broadcast), followed by a one-hour live television recording on London's South Bank for the ITV 1 show An Audience With Take That Live! the following week.

In the first ever live An Audience With, Take That performed hits from their back catalogue - including Relight My Fire - and latest single Patience before a host of celebrity guests.

The sound engineer had first been introduced to Digidesign's live sound environment by one of the system's early adopters, award-winning soun

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USA - Thousands of people flocked and flew into the island of St.Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Island's, to attend Tempo's one year birthday bash. The Caribbean lifestyle TV channel from MTV Networks, prides itself on exploring the Caribbean culture and is dedicated to music, culture, food, and social awareness; a true celebration of Caribbean life beyond entertainment. Its musical programming is mainly Caribbean music including Calypso, Dancehall, Punta rock, Soca and Reggae.

Tempo celebrated with a birthday concert named Tempo Turns One on 4 November, which started at 4 p.m. Saturday and continued well into Sunday morning. Tempo's Founder, senior vice president and general manager, Frederick Morton chose his home island of St. Croix to host the concert, at the Cramer's Park Beach on the east end of the island. The concert was headlined by The Royal Family of Reg

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Egypt - Forming the highlight of a year-long series of worldwide celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, October saw the Great Pyramids of Giza form the backdrop to a remarkable production of Peer Gynt, one of Ibsen's most famous works.

Coordinated by Ibsen 2006 in cooperation with the Egyptian Tourism Authority and the Eqyptian Ministry of Culture, the event featured a large cast plus the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Opera Acapella Choir and singers from The Norwegian National Opera.

For the two 3000-capacity performances, the show's live audio designer Per Ola Holden brought in three DiGiCo consoles to ensure that the complex mixing requirements would be as easy as possible to handle. "I did three research trips down to Egypt, in February, in March and in April," says Per Ola, of DiGiCo's Norwegian

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UK - SPS, one of the UK's leading live event companies has appointed Peter Mankowski to the role of production manager for its Solutions division.

Mankowski has had a diverse career history to date, which has seen him working across many unusual projects; ranging from overseeing the entire audio-visual installation of the new Parliament in Kabul, to being a founder and head of creative for online magazine, Roadieworld.

The Solutions division within SPS provides creative services for events through the innovative use of technology and the latest production techniques for digital video and graphics, says the company. Their focus is on delivering clients messages effectively, with creative solutions which look great and engage the audience.

In his new role Mankowski will be working closely with SPS event producers to ensure that the technical solutions work seamlessly with the

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UK - RF specialist Trantec is pleased to announce that OB expert Roll To Record has deployed its award-winning S6000 radio mic system on Brighter Picture's (part of Endemol UK) latest reality TV series - Celebrity Scissor Hands. Screened on BBC3, the show raised funds for Children in Need through a public voting system.

Starring nine celebrities including Eighties pop icon, Steve Strange, actress and Dynasty star, Emma Samms and Right Said Fred frontman, Richard Fairbrass, the show was hosted by Presenter and XFM DJ, Alex Zane.

Lee Stafford - Britain's most creative celebrity hairdresser and his team managed the would-be snippers in the Celebrity Scissor Hands Academy, which was located at the heart of BBC Television Centre. Roll To Record's sound supervisor, Peter Vasey, has deployed Trantec for many years for the brand's reliability and flexibility and ease of operation. For

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Portugal - At the recent international Herbalife conference held at the Convento do Beato, one of Lisbon's most historical sites, RCF's TT+ made it's first live performance in Portugal. More than 3000 people gathered to hear the Portuguese string quartet Os Corvos play. The group, which uses a combination electric violins and cellos, were followed by three hours of thumping disco sounds.

Nuno Vinhas of Garrett SA, RCF's Portuguese distributor, explained: "We have been working hard with the new TT+ system and have received very good technical coverage from the press. But this was the first time we had an opportunity to show the system live."

The event was done in conjunction with sound rental company Janita Sound using eight TTL33 and two TTS 28S subs. Vinhas again: "Janita Sound had already purchased 10 RCF 4PRO 3002SM monitors which they used at the event. I'm

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UK - Projected Image Digital presented a special Light As Art seminar at BAFTA, in central London, attended by over 120 industry proffessionals from the world of design and architectural lighting. The event was a collaboration between PID, leading interior designers and architects Cadmium Design and lighting design collective The Creative Mix.

It kicked off with a lively presentation in the Princess Anna Theatre aimed at raising awareness of the ever-growing convergence of video and lighting technologies in the entertainment world, and how this is filtering into architectural environments and applications.

Chris Barlow from The Creative Mix started with a talk entitled 'Branding Buildings' highlighting some of the many ways in which light can be applied to buildings, structures and spaces of all types in all locations. He included urban regeneration projects and the pos

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USA - The ETCP Council has announced the electrical, arena rigging, and theatre rigging examinations will be offered at the USITT Conference and Stage Expo on March 17, 2007 in Phoenix, AZ. Those who pass these tests will become ETCP. Employers have already begun seeing the benefits of ETCP Certification in reduced insurance rates as well as attaining more work because their services are being performed by certified personnel.

If you would like to take the arena rigging, theatre rigging, or electrical examination at USITT, please submit your completed application, including all supporting documents and fee, postmarked on or before 1 February, 2007.

For more information, eligibility requirements or applications, please contact Katie Geraghty, ETCP certification director at the e-mail address below.

If you are unable to attend USITT, you can apply to take an examination at a t

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UK - Orbital Sound has provided BECTU with an especially designed course for its members wishing to develop their skills-sets in audio applications. Entitled 'Sound Fundamentals' the 2-day course was attended by fourteen BECTU members and staged at Orbital's Brixton-based HQ.

As an independent union BECTU represents those working in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure, interactive media and allied areas. Primarily based in the UK. Featuring as part of the union's on-going services to its members, the course was tailored to their requirements, offering their members application based training.

Designed and presented by Simon Whitehorn for Orbital, 'Sound Fundamentals' dealt specifically with sound systems for theatre and the live entertainment industries. Covering a basic introduction to sound theory, the course was concentrated on giving the delegates as much h

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UK - Harman Pro UK, distributors for processorcompany dbx in the United Kingdom and Ireland, have recently staged three moredbx University training days in different venues throughout the British Islesfor dealers and end-users of dbx's ZonePro and DriveRack products.

Both the ZonePro and DriveRack product ranges consist of user configurable DSPprocessing engines that are controllable via Harman Pro's proprietary HiQnetprotocol and can be customised to route and process audio for use in a widevariety of environments. The ZonePro range is designed to drive commercial audiosystems typical of retail outlets, art galleries and bars, as well as smallentertainment venues. The professional DriveRack range is aimed at larger toursound or installed venues, and is designed to provide all the professionalprocessing and routing options live sound engineers need to apply between avenue's mixe

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Germany - More than 200 visitors attended the first info days for entertainment technology in St. Wendel. The event supplied both impressions of current trends and products as well as work-shops about specific topics. The exhibiting companies MegaAudio, JB-lighting, Klotz ais, Protonic Software, ppv-medien and HK Audio were available for any questions from the participants.

Beside the lectures of each manufacturer and product demos, there were also seminars of free-lance lecturers like Dipl. Ing. Matthias Domke about the regulation DIN 15905-5 or Chris Böttger, author of the reference book Praxis des Riggings about the topic "safety aspects for the system choice".

"We are very happy about the optimistic mood we experienced during the info days. The excellent feedback shows us that with the info days for entertainment technology, we have succeeded in crea

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