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UK - One weekend in the middle of August saw WE Audio's Aspect system adorning not one, but two of London's parks for three new festivals: Victoria Park in East London saw the first ever Field Day and Underage Festival; and central London's Regents Park played host to those very nice people at Innocent Smoothies' Village Fete, the new version of their Fruitstock festival.

Field Day brought together the best of London's alternative live music and club promoters for a day of music and dancing, with bands such as Mystery Jets, The Aliens, 1990s, Bat For Lashes, Pull Tiger Tail and James Yorkston, and DJ's Andrew Weatherall, Erol Alkan and Jo Jo De Freq, as well as those village fete favourites such as hog roasts, tugs of war, tombola, barn dancing, hoedown tent and a largest marrow c

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USA - The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has denied Epistar's request to stay enforcement of the US International Trade Commission's (ITC's) limited exclusion order prohibiting importation of Epistar's OMA, MB, and GB products into the United States. The ITC earlier denied a similar request by Epistar.

The Federal Circuit's decision clears the way for US Customs and Border Enforcement to enforce the limited exclusion order. The exclusion order prohibits importation of Epistar's infringing OMA I, OMA II, MB I, MB II, GB I, and GB II LEDs, as well as any other Epistar LEDs that infringe Philips Lumileds' US Patent No. 5,008,718.

The exclusion order also prohibits the importation of packaged LEDs containing the infringing Epistar LEDs and boards consisting primarily of arrays of such packaged LEDs. Companies that use, import, or sell these unlicensed infri

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UK - Following the installation of audio systems for Carluccio's in Manchester's Trafford Centre, Kingston-upon-Thames' Bentall Centre and Walton-on-Thames, ADC has recently completed the installation of a Community loudspeaker-based system in the group's new flagship restaurant in Covent Garden.

Carluccio's aim is to provide great quality and authentic Italian food at sensible prices, and now has over thirty locations nationwide. They have just returned to Covent Garden. Good quality audio and specially selected music is a feature of the Carluccio's experience.

ADC designed and installed the system, which is divided into four zones covering each of the main areas; ground floor café, ground floor shop, first floor restaurant and first floor private dining. Centrally supplied from multi-CD and media-player sources, each zone has separate Toa amplification driving a total

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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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UK - Stage Electrics is using the Showman's Show to launch its new 'Ice Bumper Cars' to the UK market together with new portable staging products smartStage 45 and smartStand 122.

A full size rink will showcase the battery powered Ice Bumper Cars and visitors to the company's stand will be able to experience the new family entertainment on ice. The responsive joystick controlled cars are suitable for drivers ages four and up. Cars can spin 360 degrees to go in all directions to pursue their targets, backwards and forwards and cannot be boxed into a corner. Ice Bumper Cars are exclusive to Stage Electrics in the UK and are available for rental or sales.

Part of the demonstration ice rink will be covered by one of Stage Electrics own Arc Roof structures in case of inclement weather.

Also previewing at the show will be the smartStage 45 and smartStand 122. The smartStage 45 is

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Ireland - TSM, a company based in Galway, provided the sound for the Ballina Mardi Gras night held earlier this summer. TSM are specialists in providing theatre and concert sound and have been advocates of using K.M.E. equipment since K.M.E. was first introduced to Ireland by Joe O'Neill Ltd.

Liam Feeney, managing director of TSM (The Sound Man), commented: "We were contracted to provide a sound re-enforcement system for up to 60,000 people, which is fine for a normal arena/stadium with sufficient equipment and the right people, but when we saw the venue and the circumstances we knew it would require something very special, so we turned to K.M.E."

Feeney added, "We made contact with Kerst Glass of K.M.E. and discussed specifications. We were aware of the difficulties involved including the audience area being merely the width of the street (approximately 10m), t

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Singapore - MA Lighting recently opened its new office and training facilities in Singapore. By doing this MA Lighting continues its strategy to be closer to the market and strengthens its position in the Asia Pacific region, says the company. In addition MA Lighting has its own competence and support centres in the UK, North America, Latin America and Middle East/India.

"We are very committed because we're not just talking about lighting desks anymore - our products have grown into highly sophisticated control systems, and for a user to fully grasp their potential, they need good quality training from our experts. This is something we're keen to develop here," says MA Lighting managing director Michael Althaus.

The new office, MA lighting Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, is located in Block 10 Ubi Crescent, #06-28 Ubi Techpark (Lobby B) Singapore 408564. Jens Poehlker takes ov

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Croatia - NBA stars, friends, teammates, coaches and adoring fans, all gathered at a farewell concert held in Vlade Divac's honour, marking his retirement from basketball. A giant digiLED d11R screen, supplied and installed by Atman, Croatia's leading AV rental company, provided the backdrop for the celebrations.

The giant digiLED screen featured performances from both international and regional artists, all celebrating Divac's career and contribution to international basketball.

Further, a short movie in which several of Divac's friends and colleagues, including NBA stars Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Bobby Jackson, Yao Ming, coach Phil Jackson, rapper Snoop Dog, Red Hot Chili Peppers, actor Billy Crystal and many others, praising his efforts and career, was show on the huge screen.

A total of 128 modules created a giant 99.12m©˜ screen. Measuring 14.08m high x 7.04

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USA - GE Consumer & Industrial has announced that it intends to restructure its lighting business "to become more competitive and better positioned for global growth in the dramatically changing lighting industry".

The company says that this restructuring proposal, which would impact plants in Mexico, Brazil and the US, is a continuation of structural changes that have occurred over the last year and included facility closures, work transfers, employee reductions and the sale of operations at GE sites in Europe, China, Indonesia, the US, Latin America, and India that have impacted more than 3,000 positions.

The objective of the proposed restructuring is, GE says, to help the business better respond to customer and industry demands - particularly the global market move to more energy-efficient products - and invest in, and deliver, the high-tech lighting products incr

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Europe - In 2006, The Red Hot Chili Peppers began an international world tour alternating between Europe, North America, and Oceania, in support of the Grammy Award-winning album Stadium Arcadium, which became the best-selling CD of 2006 with over seven million units sold.

As a continuation of the tour, the band returned to Europe this year, taking in shows from late June to late August and making stops at various cities and summer festivals along the way. In July they performed three shows in three different cities (Paris, London, Copenhagen) in just 24 hours.

As for their previous world tours the sound specification revolved exclusively around L-acoustics equipment. Long time RHCP FOH Engineer Dave Rat, founder and President of Rat Sound Systems, relied on the European V-Dosc Network to provide V-Dosc systems for the majority of their run.

Dave Rat comments, "I

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The Netherlands - One of south Holland's major theatres, the Schouburg Heerlen, has undergone a large-scale refurbishment, transforming it into a multi-purpose venue with three different areas - a large theatre, pop hall and small theatre) - with the addition of a café, enabling the venue to host anything from opera to stand-up comedy, board meetings to rock concerts.

TM Audio was responsible for the new audio requirements, selecting a 24-channel Allen & Heath GL2400 multi-function mixer for FOH and monitor sound reinforcement in the small theatre hall. The console feeds a Martin Audio speaker system. Audio distribution and processing is provided by Allen & Heath's iDR-4 16x16 DSP mixer, installed in the FOH rack.

"The GL2400 will easily fulfill the requirements of the wide variety of performers that the theatre expects to host," explains TM Audio's sales & ma

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USA - TransAudio Group has been appointed the exclusive US distributor for Paul Wolff's Tonelux Designs Limited discrete audio products for recording and live production, and ShadowMix motorised fader automation for DAWs. Tonelux manufactures a broad range of mic preamp, EQ, signal processing and master modules that may be combined in the new V8 portable rack or the 19" VRack and configured with the FRack fader package to create a custom console.

Noted Brad Lunde, president of TransAudio Group, says: "Paul knows how to design and build product that sounds better, we all know that. Combine that with the unique Tonelux solution of changeable, configurable, customisable modules to create exactly what you need to complete the analogue side of your DAW-based studio and you have a clear winner."

(Jim Evans)

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Brazil - Lang Brothers, with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, has acquired Adamson True Line Source arrays and complete systems solutions as spec'ed by Adamson's Brazilian distributor, Sotex. Lang Brothers director Marcelo Ferreira took delivery of 24 Adamson Y-10s, 8 T-21 Subs, 12 Lab.Gruppen FP+ 7000 and FP+10000 amplifiers, Dolby LAKE processors and Reference Lab cabling at the end of August. This sale marks the fourth major Adamson sale into the Brazilian market since Sotex took over the distribution just over a year ago.

The entire Lang Brothers audio team attended a week long training seminar. Fabrício Neiva, technical coordinator at Sotex comments: "There are no advantages of having a high tech system, without having a thorough understanding of how it works and how to best operate it. These are resources we can provide them. We accompany new Sotex clients to a series

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UK - White Light has announced details of the autumn and winter courses offered by its Training Initiative training and education programme. Between now and Spring 2008, courses are offered covering everything from moving lights to rigging to many types of lighting control consoles.

The autumn training schedule kicked off last month with White Light's popular Level 1 and Level 2 Moving Light courses, Level 1 offering an introduction to the equipment with first-level troubleshooting, with Level 2 offering a more detailed analysis of troubleshooting and repair. These courses will also be run on 19 and 20 March 2008.

For those looking to programme lighting, White Light will offer courses covering the ever-popular Whole Hog 2, the Whole Hog 3, MA Lighting's grandMA, Zero88's LeapFrog and Strand's 500-series console ranges. The Hog 2 courses will be held on 23 October 23 and 5 Febr

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Sweden / Australia - Wireless Solution Sweden has appointed ULA Group as exclusive distributors for W-DMX in Australia and New Zealand.

ULA is an industry leading import and wholesale company for specialist lighting products in the retail, professional and architectural markets. In addition, the company offers support services for design, installation, programming, commissioning and ongoing programmed maintenance.

"ULA Group was a perfect distribution partner for W-DMX," says Niclas Arvidsson, international sales manager for Wireless Solution. "They are the undisputed market leader in Australia and New Zealand and we're very excited about the opportunities this provides."

Cuono Biviano, MD of ULA, states: "The ULA Group is very excited to be joining forces with the market leaders - Wireless Solution. ULA are proud to continue bringing tomorrow's tech

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Australia - Over 100 Robe moving lights supplied by Clifton Productions were used to light the 2007 Brownlow Medal event. Awarded to the 'best and fairest' player of the season, it is the most prestigious annual accolade on the Australian sporting calendar.

It was the first time that lighting designer Robert Coia had used Robe's new ColorWash and ColorSpot 700E AT fixtures on a major show, and also the first event in Australia to utilise Robe's powerful new ColorSpot 2500E AT units.

Staged in The Palladium at Melbourne's Crown Casino complex, the 2007 Brownlow Medal dinner was attended by 1500 sporting celebrities and VIPs. It was broadcast live on the country's Channel Seven TV station, topping the evening's ratings with an audience of over 1.5 million people.

Coia worked closely with scenic designer/art director Mal Nichols to develop the room's aesthetics and look for the

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Germany - In the southern Westphalian town of Siegen, the newly-refurbished Siegerlandhalle has re-opened after a year-long revamp. Now the region's largest events venue, the Siegerlandhalle has a 1,800 m² Great Hall, with a new gallery that has capacity for 2,500 sitting or 4,300 standing audiences, encouraging big-name artists and groups to book the venue.

When it came to choosing the sound reinforcement equipment, the essential criteria were very good sound quality and very good value for money. Clear transmission of the spoken word was also an important feature, as the Siegerlandhalle not only hosts musical events but also conferences, congresses and trade fairs.

The bid-winning design was proposed by the Siegen company Trendco, which also provided and installed the stage mechanics and lighting system. In charge of the project was Jens Schmidt, who drew up the design toge

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USA - Elation Professional has entered the architectural lighting market with the introduction of two IP-rated LED products for indoor-outdoor use. The Elar EXFlood and the Elar EXPar, an LED floodlight and LED par can respectively, are the first of as many as 50 new products that will be offered in the new Elation Architectural series by early 2008 at price points never seen before, the company says.

The move into the architectural market is a natural expansion for the company, which has focused heavily on advanced LED technology in recent times, said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional. The emergence of LED lighting and RGB colour-mixing have changed the nature of architectural lighting, making it a more dynamic concept, according to Loader. Elation's product development expertise in this area fits in well with this growing trend.

"Our new Elation Ar

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USA - Belmont University is now offering courses in Tour Production Management and Production Design, compliments of Bandit lighting designer Chris Lisle. An experienced tour manager and lighting designer, Lisle is currently the lighting designer for country music superstars, Sara Evans and Phil Vassar.

Lisle was brought on board as an instructor at Belmont after doing the 2006 Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business Showcase Series, a student production put on by Belmont University students.

Bandit business development officer, Brent Barrett commented on Chris' involvement: "When we were looking for someone to design the 06/07 Concert Series, Chris very graciously gave of his time to do so without hesitation. Chris Lisle has the talent, knowledge, attitude and approachability to serve as a very positive role model in our industry as well as an instructor at Belm

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EMEA - Entry for the EMEA InAVation Awards 2008 technology and project categories are now open, the organizers have announced.

Finalists this year will be decided by a judging panel of editors from the leading international and regional industry media resources, whilst the winners of the technology categories will once more be decided by the region's industry professionals, via online voting on the dedicated awards website. The 2007 event generated 7,639 individual technology votes from over 60 countries.

This year's awards programme sees the introduction of French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish portals whilst the prestigious gala awards dinner will be held in the grand ballrooms at The Hotel Okura, Amsterdam on Monday 28 January, prior to the first day of the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) exhibition.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - Leading communication company Imagination today announced it has been awarded the contract for Shell's global exhibition programme, after an intense pitch process which involved five eminent design and event agencies.

Imagination will be responsible for ensuring brand consistency, design and content management and the implementation of all Shell exhibitions and trade shows worldwide.

The appointment is a significant win for Imagination, which operates a network of 10 offices worldwide. It has delivered the global autoshow programme for Ford Motor Company since 1999.

Founder and CEO of Imagination Gary Withers said: "This is a very important client for us to secure. We look forward to supporting Shell worldwide, drawing on the resources of our network to deliver a wide range of communication."

Danny Van Otterdyk, Shell's manager for Visual Media, added: "

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Germany - A four hoist Martin lighting rig totaling 40 MAC TW1 tungsten wash luminaires (80 V) and 16 MAC 2000 Performances graces the Saxon State Opera House in Dresden, Germany, better known as Semperoper.

Built in 1878 by the famous German architect Gottfried Semper, the building excels in its magnificent architecture. Destroyed in 1945, Semperoper was rebuilt in its original form complete with four balconies and a lavish interior abundantly adorned with paintings and stuccowork. Reopened in 1985, the Opera seats nearly 1300.

Theater-Architekturlicht (TAL) Chemnitz supplied the Martin lighting systems with installation by Semperoper technicians in cooperation with TAL. Jan Seeger, lighting crew chief at Semperoper, and Mathias Meyer, manager of TAL Chemnitz, first saw the TW1 at the Pro Light and Sound exhibition in Frankfurt and agreed on the luminaire's potential to open

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