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Lithuania - The current reconstruction and expansion of the famous Lithuanian National Drama Theater (LNDT) in Vilnius includes a complete sound system makeover, masterminded by Sonus Exsertus.
This €19m euro upgrade of a building founded in 1940 is its largest in 40 years. Last year a New Hall was opened, followed by a Small Hall for experimental and small-scale productions. With the existing newly refurbished Great Hall, the LNDT - which is one of the country’s foremost publicly funded cultural institutions - this will provide an overall seating capacity of 1,200.
Once fully commissioned by the end of summer 2024, the three separate spaces will have their audio interconnected through an Optocore AutoRouter smart fibre patchbay, which will provide enormous routing f

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Austria - For its global premiere on the stage of Vienna's Ronacher Theater, the musical Rock me Amadeus - The Falco Musicalwas illuminated using Prolights' Astra Wash.
This musical, with evocative scenes, intricate choreography, and dazzling costumes, demanded an extraordinary lighting setup to properly showcase the spectacle and celebrate the life of the musician Falco.
The design, crafted by the lighting designer Howard Harrison and musical lighting supervisor Lucas Berger, featured various mobile wash lights from Prolights' Astra Wash series - specifically, the Astra Wash19Pix and Astra Wash7Pix.
Harrison's choice to incorporate the Astra Wash19Pix into the lighting rig on both the ceiling and side walls was not only for their versatile light effects but also for their decorative potential, thanks to the integrated pixel ring.
Meanwhile, the Ast

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UK - This week, Celestial’s epic drone light show, Evolution, was showcased for the first time ever at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in Bristol to a select audience in preparation for launching the show to the general public in December. Drone light technology is being used to tell ‘the greatest story of all time’ - The story of our evolution.
The story, narrated by Tara Fitzgerald, starts with the Big Bang, the explosive inception of the universe and journeys into the emergence of the sun, our solar system and the planets that inhabit it.
The cosmic voyage accompanied by a cinematic soundtrack, guides viewers through the origins of conscious life on Earth, from the humble beginnings of single-cell organisms to the awe-inspiring reign of the dinosaurs and culminates in a celebration of the diverse tapestry of life on Earth today.
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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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USA - LIT Lighting in Tempe, Arizona recently specified, designed, sold and installed new lighting and production equipment in the Footprint Centre, home arena of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. The installation, which comprised a new entertainment lighting solution, included Ayrton, MA Lighting, MDG and RapcoHorizon brands, all exclusively distributed in North America by ACT Entertainment.
“Pro basketball is not just a game anymore, it showcases elements promoting crowd activation and interaction, which at the Footprint Centre include a dance team, half-time performances often by A-list artists, and a dunk team with trampolines and the team mascot,” says LIT Lighting project manager Casey Jones. “There are a ton of moving pieces that now require entertainment lighting solutions to guarantee that fans have a better experience at games in every po

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USA - Front-of-house engineer Stanley Soares (known for his work with Sepultura, Devin Townsend, Motörhead, and Meshuggah) and producer/monitor engineer Chris Rakestraw (who produced/engineered the last two Megadeth albums) have chosen to mix Megadeth’s recent stadium tour with Waves plugins via the Waves SuperRack plugin host, seamlessly integrated in their DiGiCo Quantum 338 and Avid Venue S6L consoles.
Soares’ current setup when mixing Megadeth includes a DiGiCo Quantum 338 in conjunction with Waves SuperRack, Waves’ Mercury, the Studio Classics Collection and Abbey Road Collection bundles, all powered by two Waves Extreme SoundGrid Servers.
His setup involves three dedicated computers: the first hosts Waves SuperRack, the second manages recordings and virtual soundcheck through a DiGiGrid MGB interface, and the third handles Smaart and walk-in music duties.

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Italy - Siena’s Concerto per l'Italia is an annual classical music event that takes place in the city’s Piazza del Campo each July. With its 102m-tall bell tower, and 2,500 seat-capacity, Piazza del Campo hosts various events, from seasonal initiatives to music festivals, throughout the year.
The Piazza is an essential cultural hub in Siena and the wider Tuscan region, attracting visitors from all over the world who come to enjoy the square’s historical and architectural beauty, and to experience the vibrant energy of the city's public life.
Over the course of three consecutive summers, the square has been the chosen outdoor setting for the Concerto per l'Italia, featuring classical orchestras and soloists from around the world. In 2023, the concert was directed by Daniele Gatti, and featured renowned musicians such as pianist Lilya Zilberstein, and the Orchest

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Zambia - The Adam Hall Group is further expanding its international sales network. With Zirbo Zambia, the event technology provider headquartered in Neu-Anspach, Hesse, has gained an experienced sales partner in Zambia. Zirbo Zambia is one of the largest AV and event technology providers in Zambia and is now the exclusive distributor for solutions from the Adam Hall Group brands LD Systems and Gravity.
Zirbo Zambia's long-standing success is based on three service pillars: consultancy and planning, rental and installation. Founded in 2004 by Italian pro audio veteran Alessandro Borzi and based in the Zambian capital Lusaka, the company regularly works for government institutions, international artists, places of worship and local events and also offers its customers its own AV studio for extended content production.
"We are very pleased to be able to represent two stro

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Europe - Audio-Technica has launched the latest in its Engineered Sound series of installation microphones - the ES964 compact boundary model, designed for small-group online conferencing and shared-use or permanent conference spaces.
Simple to install and designed to provide clear, highly intelligible speech, the ES964 has one omnidirectional capsule and two bidirectional capsules that can be matrixed into discrete directions and varying polar patterns.
Designed to work with compatible mixers such as Audio-Technica’s ATDM-0604a or ATDM-1012 digital smartmixers or with an open-architecture DSP, the microphone provides 360-degree hypercardioid and cardioid polar patterns for simultaneous pickup of all participants seated at the table. The low-profile design ensures that the table-top ES964 remains discreet at 22mm in height and 88mm in diameter.
The ES964 offer

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Europe - DAP’s new NRG series consists of passive and active speakers and subwoofers that combine quality sound with a lightweight design. The passive models are suitable for permanent installations, while the active models are designed for mobile applications. Both versions offer speakers with 8”, 10”, 12” and 15” woofers, while the subs have 12”, 15” and 18” woofers to choose between.
All of the models in the NRG series benefit from lightweight plywood cabinets that make them easy to transport and install. The cabinets have been carefully constructed to ensure durability and strength with a professional-grade polyurea coating offering additional protection.
Each speaker cabinet has two 35 mm pole mounts, one set at 0° and one set at 5°, making it easy to position the speaker at the best speaker angle for your situation. In addition to pole mounting,

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Germany - Astera has announced the launch of their new White Remote - a pocket-sized tool that allows for instant point-and-click control of the full Astera lighting ecosystem.
The remote is designed to act as a counterpart to the existing IR ‘FX Remote’, which allows for colour, strobing and effect control at the click of a button. With both the FX and White Remote in-hand, a lighting engineer can execute precise lighting changes in seconds.
The White Remote can turn single or grouped sets of lights off and on instantly and from a distance and can also be used to quickly add lights to a control group (initially configured through the app), which then allows for lighting changes to be disseminated over the full group simultaneously.
The remote has a number of preconfigured buttons for light temperature, running through 12 preset values from 2400 to 10,000 ke

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USA - Brompton Technology will demonstrate its latest technology at LDI. Exhibiting in booth #903, Brompton will show its award-winning TrueLight technology, which delivers quality lighting from LED panels with extra emitters - offering accurate, calibrated RGBW colours and unparalleled control over spectral output from RGB panels.
TrueLight is powered by Brompton’s new Tessera G1 receiver card, and it builds upon Brompton’s Dynamic Calibration technology. TrueLight ensures that colorimetric precision and full colour and luminance correction are applied on a per-pixel basis, allowing for intelligent RGB to RGBW conversion that gives a broader spectral output for better lighting quality, while also maintaining precise colour accuracy.
Brompton will offer TrueLight presentations twice daily at their booth. The booth will also feature an interactive RGBW tunnel, powe

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UK - Treetop Adventure Golf recently announced the opening of a new site in Gateshead. Treetop have taken the idea of adventure golf and brought it up to date, with imaginative set designs and interactive features that whisk players away to far-off and mystical lands during the course of its 18-hole games.
To power this story-driven experience, Gateshead required a complete audio system that could handle the demands of a busy visitor attraction whilst providing clear and consistent sound over two floors and two carefully designed courses. A system based around EM Acoustic’s EMS series proved the solution.
Lighting, sound and visual providers Full Production led the integration of the project, having previously worked successfully on the Birmingham branch of Treetop Adventure Golf. AV designer Dan Roncoroni was invited to work on the project after being approached by

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USA - Since investing in Martin Audio’s small-format WPM line array, shortly followed by the larger WPS PA last year, New Jersey-based Audio Incorporated has rarely looked back, taking full advantage of the optimised series’ breakthrough scalable resolution. While the two-way WPM houses 2 x 6.5” drivers, the slightly larger WPS is a 2 x 8” 3-way array.
The two 16-element rigs, complemented respectively by eight SX118 and eight SXCF118 subwoofers, provided them with the capacity to handle a myriad of different events across the tri-state area, but specifically some very challenging art gallery spaces. By this time, they had already boosted their rental fleet after investing in 16 of Martin Audio’s powerful XE500 floor monitors, and some auxiliary XE300s.
Head of audio systems, Stephan Wojtecki, recalls the day the WPMs arrived. “They came off the delivery pa

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USA - Behind the Scenes has announced that AC Power Distribution (ACPD), a brand of ACT Entertainment, has joined the Pledge-of-Support Programme. ACPD will contribute a portion of the profits from their new LunchBoxPD data and power distribution system to the charity.
ACT Entertainment is a leading supplier of entertainment industry products across six different end markets, including professional lighting and control equipment; audio, video, fibre and power distribution; cables; connectivity; metalwork; custom manufacturing; and design.
ACPD’s LunchBoxPD integrates power and data distribution into one device without compromising either. The LunchBoxPD nodes offer four DMX ports to break out from an Ethernet data network, while still allowing data to pass through. In doing so, it delivers CRMX wireless DMX data directly to a traditional lunchbox power solution, pro

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USA - Following the opening of the new Pixera UK office in London last month, Austria-based AV Stumpfl has announced that Pixera, its real-time media server platform, is expanding its physical presence in North America as well.
With continuing growth across all target markets in the US, as well as the company’s strategic priority to provide more responsive support and active participation with current customers, prospects and key industry partners, it has added a west coast office in Santa Monica, CA, to complement its eastern presence in Atlanta, GA.
The high concentration of users and industry partners made opening an office in Los Angeles a natural choice, says the company.
The expansion coincides with the promotion of Conor McGill to director, Pixera USA. Having overseen the highly successful growth of Pixera from its introduction in the US market to its c

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Italy - Pliant Technologies has announced a distribution partnership with MediaPower, expanding its reach to the Italian market. For 30 years, MediaPower has provided its clients with design, distribution, and the implementation of AV services and IT workflows. MediaPower will now offer Pliant Technologies’ wireless intercom solutions throughout Italy.
"Pliant's product range has a long history of providing intercom solutions for both the broadcast and production markets,” says Gary Rosen, vice president of global sales at Pliant Technologies. “This new partnership with the renowned MediaPower in Italy will enable us to expand into very promising markets, given its strong presence and experience with major broadcasters, regional media, digital media, and the entertainment industry, areas where our wireless intercommunication technologies are crucial for professionals.

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UK - Shure has joined the Q-SYS Technology Partner Programme. This programme enables software and hardware technology partners to create market-ready solutions that integrate seamlessly with Q-SYS, a cloud-manageable audio, video, and control platform.
As part of the programme, Shure has worked closely with Q-SYS, which has fully vetted and endorsed Shure’s MXA920 Ceiling Array Microphone Plugin integration with a Q-SYS certified badge (developed with Q-SYS and supported by Shure and Q-SYS).
“Joining the Q-SYS Technology Partner Programme is a phenomenal milestone that ensures AV integrators and IT professionals benefit from streamlined deployment and scalability, making it easier than ever to deliver outstanding performance in collaborative, modern conferencing environments,” said Jose Rivas, VP global sales at Shure. “Moreover, this certification enables easi

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France - ChamSys has announced that, starting 1 December, its entire product line will be distributed in France by Chauvet France, a wholly owned subsidiary of ChamSys’ parent company Chauvet.
In its new home, Chauvet France will sell, service, and provide training for the full line of ChamSys consoles, including the popular Stadium series, which has been used at major concerts, festivals, and theatrical productions throughout France. The new distribution arrangement will also allow ChamSys to broaden its French language training programmes.
Concurrent with this development, lighting programmer and designer, Rémy Rouvoy has joined Chauvet France as the ChamSys business development and support manager. Rouvoy brings considerable experience to his new position, not only through the many shows he has worked on personally, but also as a result of the key posi

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UK - Global investment group CDPQ has acquired a minority stake in Solotech. The goal of this transaction, which represents the largest investment in the company since 2013, is to support Solotech’s acquisition and organic growth strategy to expand its presence in various markets and create more value for its customers.
“With this investment - the largest in the last decade for Solotech - CDPQ will support the company in its next growth stage. Aligned with CDPQ’s priorities, this means not only shifting activities into high gear, but also facilitating the company’s global expansion and promoting its audiovisual and technological know-how,” said Kim Thomassin, executive vice-president and head of Québec at CDPQ.
“CDPQ’s commitment is a gauge of confidence in our business model, and their financial investment will allow us to seize new business

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Germany - Dr. Raphael Kiesel takes over the management of ARRI’s lighting division on 1 December 2023. In this role, he is responsible for the entire business unit.
Dr. Kiesel reports directly to Dr. Matthias Erb, chairman of the executive board at ARRI. Dr. Kiesel is currently responsible for global quality management at ARRI. In this role, he has systematically refined quality management at the company. The focus of further development is on the structured transfer of customer requirements into the film technology company’s products and services.
Dr. Erb, chairman of the ARRI executive board, remarks: “We are extremely pleased that we have been able to win Dr. Kiesel for this position. As the new head of the division, he will continue to drive the development of ARRI Lighting. I wish Raphael the best of luck and success in this exciting and challenging task.

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Singapore - Clear-Com has appointed Dennis Low to its Singapore-based team as a technical support associate.
Over the past two decades, Dennis has worked in a wide variety of roles in the audio industry, as a sales engineer/technical support for SMX Electronics, an entrepreneur and distributor (as co-founder of Big Knob, Malaysia), and as a House of Worship AV technician at St Andrew's Cathedral, and the Full Gospel Assembly in Singapore.
“Having taken on the role of AV department head and leading teams of volunteers in my previous roles, I believe in empowering people with the right skill sets so they do not feel overwhelmed by the technicalities of a product. That allows them to focus on what’s important, which is to use the tools necessary to support their business goals. Intercom is a powerful tool when properly implemented, and I look forward to sharing my kn
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