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The NSDF is a week long celebration of theatre, live performance, discussion and special events covering all aspects of theatrical performance including technical topics.

Stage Electrics - a regular LTM customer - initiated LTM's invitation to participate. The seminar was attended by technical theatre students and some who had recently left college and are now working in theatre after completing a variety of different courses, many of them geared towards sound and lighting.

NSDF technical director Anna Cole comments, "This year the technical workshop programme was the strongest yet. It was really fantastic for LTM to come to the festival, and feedback indicates that the workshop was interesting, and that it was encoura

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On the main stage, Russ Tite mixed The Kooks set on one of SSE Audio's four flagship Vi6 digital consoles, while another of their boards was on monitor duty with Kasabian's sound engineer, Mark 'Yogi' Novissimo.

SSE Audio's Pete Russell comments, "Sound engineers like Russ Tite really like the sound of the desk," he says. "One of the real plus points is that it has its own plug-in FX card with its own Lexicon DSP, so you can't run out of processing power. This is not the case with other digital desks, which can run out of DSP if you have lots of idle plug-ins."

He continued, "Bo

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The Prince Consort Rooms have been built in the shell of a Victorian drill hall. PSL has been chosen as a preferred supplier of AV and Production, and has already produced custom-designed sets for the venue. The Prince Consort Rooms have an inbuilt pinspot lighting scheme and audio visual infrastructure which will be augmented by PSL's high-tech inventory of display screens, digital sound reinforcement and state-of-the-art media servers and playback devices.

Diane Waldron, head of marketing and events at the HAC, says, "The City is short of flexible, large-capacity venues that can accommodate 300-pl

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The event's second year saw it expand to a capacity of 35,000 over two days, set against the backdrop of one of Scotland's best known natural attractions - Loch Ness. The line-up included the Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, The Manic Street Preachers and Daft Punk.

HSL's crew chief Howard Dean led a team of 22, and they once again worked closely with event producer Jim King of Loud Sound Events and production manager Lee Charteris. HSL also sub-contracted ML Executives to supply audio to these two principal arenas.

Mike Oates, HSL's overall project manager comments, "The first thing we did was get two world class lighting designers onboard to look after the two stages - Andy Liddle on the main stage and Dave Byars in the Clash Arena."

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"Green lasers are what everyone wants right now - their shorter wavelength makes them appear much brighter than red laser beams and they travel farther," said Scott Davies, general manager of the American DJ Group of Companies. "But unfortunately green lasers are also harder to make than red lasers and require a special diode, which has often put them out of reach price-wise for DJs and smaller clubs.

"American DJ has been constantly working to bring down the cost of green lasers," added Davies. "These new additions to our Emerald series make it more affordable than ever to put on a dazzling green laser show."

Emerald Sky is a twin green laser effect with dual 4.9mW

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The awards are open to entrants actively involved in architecture, civil engineering, construction or quantity surveying. The Future Star Award is aimed at individuals aged between 21 and 30 who have demonstrated significant personal achievement and have the ability to be role models of the future.

Martin Lupton, head of BDP's lighting group says: "The key to Laura's success is her personality - she works collaboratively with all around her bringing out the best in others in a leadership style which is natural, sensitive and nurturing. She absolutely deserves this award and we are all extremely proud of her."

(Jim Evans)

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Jack De Keyser, area sales manager for DIS Europe, comments: "CUK Audio has shown an excellent track record for developing business and, most importantly, they share our principles of strong technical support and customer service."

CUK Audio managing director Stuart Thomson says: "Our philosophy at CUK Audio, is to provide complete audio solutions for the market sectors in which we operate. Over the past two years we have supplied an increasing amount of product into the conference sector, but only in the areas of sound reinforcement and audio networking - we needed a core conference product to become a complete provider."

(Jim Evans)

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One of the resort's most renowned features is its impressive spa with indoor heated pools, 10 treatment rooms, gym and thermal suite, while other features include outdoor heated swimming pools, heated plunge pools on the villas, library, tennis, Wi-Fi and a business centre, as well as a selection of bars and restaurants.

Harman Pro's Portuguese distributors Custodio Cardoso Pereira (CCP) were awarded the contract to supply an integrated sound system, which could be networked using Soundweb London DSP devices from BSS Audio.

Design consultant on the project was Roland Hemming, with Miguel Mendes managing the project for Passion of Music (PoM). Installation contractors were

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Acha-Orbea says: "Avolites is a perfect compliment to our existing product range, and it's also an industry standard and extremely well respected, so I see a great future ahead."

Avolites' sales director Steve Warren says: "We're delighted to welcome Nacho and his team to the Avolites family. EES is an extremely efficiently run operation with a great enthusiasm for the industry and a strong culture of wanting to provide the very best products and services."

In the short time since EES has taken on the Avo dealership, the order book has already clocked up 24 Pearl Expert consoles, some of which have be

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Built in 1985, the theatre is the largest performing arts venue in Norway, with three multidisciplinary spaces offering a diverse programme of both in-house and outside productions. Increases in the technical complexity of shows and the changing nature of lighting design have demanded that the theatre replace its entire entertainment, house and work lighting systems with a more flexible network.

ETC's Norwegian distributor Bright AS was responsible for both the equipment supply and the installation. Project manager Geir Sire says: "The theatre was looking to replace all its existing dimmers like for like,

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According to the terms of the acquisition, the Christie and Vista transition plan ensures no disruption to employees, customers or business partners, many of which are already shared by both companies.

"Christie's acquisition of Vista Controls Systems significantly increases our opportunities for deeper market penetration and reflects Christie's core strategic goal of establishing solid leadership in markets for professional display solutions," remarked Jack Kline, president and COO, Christie Digital Systems USA.

"Vista offers advancements in technology that no other image processing company has been able to achieve, making our two companies an ideal fit. We already share many of the same channel partners, philosophies and commitment

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Named in honour of the late Tony Gottelier, the industry innovator and commentator who passed away in 2006, the Gottelier Award is aimed at those members of our industry who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the advancement of entertainment, presentation or installation technology - whether in audio, lighting, rigging, staging, or any other related field.

Once the deadline for nominations passes this Friday (13 July), a shortlist will be drawn up of the most widely nominated people, and their names will be put forward, along with a brief summary of their achievements, to the Gotte

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Based in Milton Keynes, IMS Technical Publications is able to offer a range of document services from simple text generation to full layout, graphic design and publication to print and electronic media. IMS Technical Publications claim that their many years of industry experience allow them to "provide a user's viewpoint of a product, something that many manufacturers have a problem with, especially after a long R&D phase".

According to Lovell and Boggis, the motivation for the new venture comes from what they see as a need to provide manufacturers with an alternative and more effective solution to generating technical documentation. "A manufacturer will frequently spend much time and effor

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Formerly The Zodiac on Cowley Road, AMG is investing £2m into the refurbishment programme and increasing the overall building capacity to 1,350, creating three, production-complete performance spaces.

Marquee Audio carried out a site survey and identified where they could overhaul and upgrade some of the existing equipment, re-cabling each room to allow them to be used as part of a site-wide network, for which they are designing an advanced control system.

Marquee Audio's project manager Scott Wakelin said that this installation was not only about what the integrators were able to achieve, but also the forward-thinking approach of Academy Music Group.

"Aside fr

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The lasers are used specifically to reproduce the cover artwork of Dark Side Of The Moon. The effect was conceptualised by Marc Brickman, ETG's Kelly Sticksel, and Lightwave International's George Dodworth. Design was executed by Chris Nyfield of Hindsight Studios and Brickman, along with Sticksel and Dodworth.

The base structure was fabricated by ShowRig, headed by Eric Pierce. Final assembly was a joint effort between ShowRig, ETG, Lightwave International, Hindsight Studios, Stack Technical Services, and GCN Technologies.

(Jim Evans)

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As the LC units are semi-transparent, they can be used in an array of applications and allow the seamless integration of moving images, lighting and set design, says the company. The panels can move through a range of intensity, from a solid wall of images and colour to near-invisibility and allow light, air, and effects to pass through.

The variety and depth of achievable colours in the LC series, combined with a brilliant output, allows the accurate broadcast of digital media, which remains true to the source formatting and the colour and intensity of other lights in the design.

Although useful in a wide variety of applications, the LC series is specially prepared for video and TV ap

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Performing at Live Earth, the original members of Spinal Tap - singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) - scorched the stage, startled the horses clear across town in Buckingham Palace's Royal Mews, and shattered eardrums with a set list including the incendiary hit Big Bottom, cult favourite Stonehenge, and a new single written especially for the occasion, Warmer Than Hell. As longstanding Shure endorsers, Tap relied upon a bevy of the company's products

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"This was a terrific CEDIA Expo," says CEDIA chairman, Simon Williams. " The event was bigger than ever, and looked more professional than ever. Exhibitors really stepped up to the plate, putting together some fantastic stands. And the education programme was again a top attraction for delegates.

"With mandatory certification on the horizon, the designer and installer examinations proved especially popular. CEDIA Expo continues to grow and we look forward to another great event in 2008."

(Jim Evans)

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Around 3000 attended the event, with estimated television audiences of 800 million in China and two billion worldwide. Promoter for the event was Live Nation in partnership with OPG.

A 15m Orbit Flexidome was chosen as the appropriate stage system, as the site has a shopping mall beneath and no other structure could provide the rigging capacity combined with low self weight and point loads. Working on the roof of the shopping mall also meant the use of any cranes, pickers or forklifts was not allowed, so the whole system had to be hand

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Actor Dei is based on the history of Saint Pio from Pietrelcina, an Italian priest who became famous for his piety as well as alleged supernatural events including the appearance of stigmata. The systems have been provided by Italy's leading PA rental company Agora which purchased them from local Midas distributor Texim.

Long-time Midas aficionado Claudio Venturelli is sound designer and chief sound engineer for the show. "As soon as I was told about the availability of two complete systems from Agora, I immediately migrated to the new Midas platform," he explains. "There was only one reason for my choice: I had absolute confidence in its sound quality, and the XL8 didn't disappoint me.

."The POP and VCA gr