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UK - Nottingham-based E-luminate were contacted by Architainment Lighting, Philips SSL Value Added Resellers (VAR), to work with the developers of TRMNL, a new dance club located in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham.

They planned to redevelop a partially derelict, old Victorian factory into a top dance venue. The plan was to keep as many of the existing features as possible and combine this with an LED-based lighting system to create something special.

The brief for the LED lighting was to recreate the lighting system and atmosphere of the Watergate Club in Berlin.

The lighting system created consists of a 14m x 2.7m light box which runs 12m along the ceiling and 2m down the wall at the back of the DJ booth. The lighting is provided by 910 Philips icolor Flex SLX nodes suppl

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Monaco - Moods nightclub boasts an audio system that includes a DiGiCo D1 Live and XTA DP448 digital signal processing. It is a multi-layered venue which, despite having acoustics that were carefully taken in to consideration during its construction, has proved challenging to provide full audio coverage for.

Philippe Barguirdjian of French sales and rental company Arpège Son Lumiere carried out the specification and installation of the system. "We specified the D1 because it is a great sounding console, because the space it has to fit into is very tight so the small footprint of the D1 is good and because of the price," says Barguirdjian.

Another factor in Barguirdjian's console decision was that the engineers at Monaco SBM (Société des Bains de Mer) were already familiar with DiGiCo consoles.

"During the summer, an SD7 and a D5 were used at Mon

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USA - Shure endorser Juanes was the big winner at this year's Latin Grammy Awards, bowing five times as the recipient of awards for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Album, and Short Form Music Video. Joined by R&B singer John Legend, the Colombian rocker additionally opened the ninth annual gala with Legend's If You're Out There. Both sang completely in Spanish, using Shure UR2/KSM9 wireless.

Another Shure endorser, Julieta Venegas, also took to the stage with UR2/KSM9 wireless and her accordion to perform El Presente. Making la noche that much more complete, the Mexican singer/songwriter bagged two trophies as well, one for Best Alternative Music Album, and the other for Best Music Video - Expanded Version.

Coming to the event with the Grammys and Latin Billboards already under his belt, Eric Schilling of Norfolk Music

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UK - An L-Acoustics V-Dosc line source array system was used by Britannia Row for the MTV Europe Music Awards featuring Beyonce, Duffy, Kid Rock, Pink, The Killers, Take That, Kanye West and The Wombats, held at the Liverpool Echo Arena.

As the show was being broadcast on MTV, the system needed to be concealed as far as possible, so it couldn't be too large or obtrusive. Despite these constraints, it also needed to be powerful, provide good dispersion and be able to work with different types of rock and pop music.

Ten V-Dosc line source and three dV-Dosc compact line source cabinets were used per side for the main hangs, with eight SB218 subwoofers per side, 12 dV-Doscs per side as side-hangs, three dV-SUB compact subwoofer hangs per side, four SB218s per side as side sub-hangs, six V-DOSC per side for rear-hangs, a rear sub stack of four SB218s and 12 MTD108s around the stage

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South Africa - Gearhouse South Africa supplied rigging, lighting, sound and video equipment and crew for Rod Stewart's recent South African tour, plus staging for the Cape Town and Durban stadium shows.

LD Mark Payne supplied two different plots for the tour - one for the outdoor shows in Durban's Absa Stadium and Cape Town's Newlands Cricket Ground and one for the indoor show at the Dome in Johannesburg, where the tour concluded in two sold out nights.

The Dome show consisted of three trusses, with a total of 24 Martin Professional MAC 2K Profiles and 24 MAC 2K wash fixtures spread between them, plus four Robe 700w fixtures on the floor for band illumination. The front truss also featured seven 4-lite Molefays for audience lighting.

Gearhouse supplied a total of 10 follow spots - eight front-of-house (new 2K Supertroupers) and two on the upstage truss. Three scenic trusses

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The Netherlands - Visual Productions has released a new USB device: the Duple is a dual DMX Input & Output interface, compatible with both the Canvix matrix control software and VisualDMX software lighting control programmes, available from the company.

The Duple enables both VisualDMX and Canvix to send and receive DMX Signal merging the functions of the Input and Output in order to supply customers with a cost efficient and smart solution - in essence an In and Out for the price of a current Output and still in the handy pocket sized unit, says the company.

The Duple hosts two DMX ports designed in compliance with the new DMX512A specifications; featuring a grounded bi-directional Output with RDM talkback and an optically isolated DMX Input. Multiple Duples can be connected to your computer to create a large multi-universe system.

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UK - Three dual output Catalyst G5 HD digital media servers formed a fast, flexible control hub driving all the digital lightsources and video surfaces on the set of the new ITV prime time games show, The Colour of Money, presented by Chris Tarrant.

The lighting design developed for the show by Tom Kinane and Svend Pedersen didn't contain a single moving light, and was styled to compliment Patrick Doherty's media-based stage set, and to offer a dramatic presentation departure from previous Chris Tarrant shows.

The Catalysts were supplied by Ross Williams and operated by Pedersen using a WholeHog 3 console, running 16 DMX universes and controlling up to 2060 individual fixtures around Studio 1 at the London Weekend Television HQ on London's South Bank.

Pedersen created approximately 200 custom video clips for the show, many of them involving turning the set into the id

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Germany - All preparations for the second international Professional Lighting Design Convention (from 28. to 31 October 2009) in Berlin are going according to plan. The organisers are more than satisfied with the results and response to date, and are already predicting that the number of attendees will surpass the 1100 who registered for PLDC in London.

A number of organisations have confirmed their support as Partner Associations now one year in advance and many universities will once again be represented at the international event. The organisers are especially delighted to announce that Lighting Urban Community International, LUCI will be using the time and space around PLDC to promote bringing public clients together with professional lighting designers with the goal of developing concrete contacts between the interested parties.

In the last few weeks more than 160 entries

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Spain - Dreams 2, Reflections of the Soul, brought together 12,000 people at the Palacio de los Deportes of the Madrid Autonomous Community. The sound reinforcement featured D.A.S. Aero line array powered systems. This spectacle of water, light and sound, produced by Global Dreams, was entirely designed and produced in Spain.

A team of professionals from the scenic arts field designed this ambitious project under the direction of Fermín Pérez. The sound reinforcement needed to cover the requirements of quantity as well as those of quality. Global Dreams relied on D.A.S. Audio systems under the direction of Jesús Puerto, of Jesús Puerto Audioprofesional who was in charge of the sound design and operation, supported by Víctor Catalá, D.A.S. Audio Systems engineer, as technical advisor.

Puerto deployed six Aero line array clusters along the main pavilion's per

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The Netherlands - Martin Professional's Dutch distributor, Fairlight, took delivery of some of the first MAC III Profiles to roll off the production line in northern Denmark and promptly delivered them to Rent-All BV, one of the largest rental companies in Holland.

Rent-All in turn delivered the units via Chain, a Dutch lighting services company for television, film and entertainment events, to the set of So You Think You Can Dance reality show.

Produced by Kanakna Produkties and broadcast on RTL5 from Studio Baarn, a total of 19 MAC III Profiles are used to light the dance spectacle. Lighting Designer for the show is HenkJan van Beek of Light-H-Art who has placed the majority of the MAC III units in a truss above the set with two units located on the floor. Also used on the show are 23 Martin MAC 250 Washes and several conventional lighting units.

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USA - The LA Coliseum has installed a Meyer Sound point-source system featuring the first permanent installation of the SB-3F sound field synthesis loudspeaker, a technology designed to address the common challenge of intelligibility in large-scale sound reinforcement.

Over the past 85 years, the LA Coliseum has hosted the Olympics games twice, and is the only venue to stage both a World Series and two Super Bowls, as well as countless sports games, concerts and other events. Jon Lee, director of marketing of the LA Coliseum, reports that the Meyer Sound installation has made a dramatic improvement on the audience experience at the stadium.

"It's hard to overstate what a difference this new sound system makes," says Lee. "Spoken announcements are more intelligible; music is more powerful. The fans in the seats have a feeling of really being in touch with what's

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Russia - Sir Elton John, performed recently in a new concert hall opened in Barvikha Luxury Village outside Moscow The concert was presented by Chopard Company.

Belgrade-based theatre specialists Svetlost Teatar was closely involved with stage, lighting and sound systems design and integration during the Concert Hall Project. Alexandr Vorosilo, concert hall general manager said; ""We are very proud to introduce to the public a very interesting multipurpose venue, ingenious seating arrangements and associated facilities."

(Jim Evans)

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China - d&b audiotechnik has been represented in China since 2004 when the first d&b audiotechnik China office was established in Hong Kong by Freddie To and Daniel Chan. While the headquarters still remain in Hong Kong, the operation has gradually expanded to include satellite representative offices in Beijing, Guang Zhou and Nanjing with staff numbers of around sixteen. The next stop planned being Shanghai.

Following these developments and with the Chinese now being the World's leading country in terms of broadband connections, d&b audiotechnik has responded to this voracious appetite for knowledge by adding simplified Chinese to the languages on the menu of its website.

Ralf Sauter, d&b's webmaster, worked closely with marketing manager Megan Li from d&b's Guang Zhou office to create and translate the website into a Chinese version. This was no easy matter, as many of the t

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Germany - QSC Audio has appointed Hartmut Reichert as its new sales manager for the European, Africa & Middle East (EAME) territories.

Between 1991 and 1999 Reichart set up and led the European sales and marketing office for Shure Inc in Chicago, establishing a European sales and marketing office from the company's European base in Heilbronn, Germany.

He subsequently worked for beyerdynamic, setting up an international sales, marketing and distribution programme (with responsibility for adding many companies to the German company's distribution portfolio).

"I am certain I will be able to use the good relationships I have created with distributors, dealers and system integrators to QSC's advantage," he says "In recent years I have followed the company's development in the market and have been enormously impressed by how they have developed from being a well-kn

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May the force be with you - Star Wars fans are to feel the force of the seminal sci-fi films and their iconic soundtracks on stage in a major new show, which will launch next year. In Star Wars: A Musical Journey, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will play a live score as excerpts from the six films are shown on a cinema screen.

The show has been put together by director George Lucas' company Lucasfilm and composer John Williams. It will premiere at the O2 Arena in London in April before a European tour. It will not be a traditional musical with actors playing characters from the films, but will feature live narrators. The six Star Wars films have been edited down to two hours for the show, and Williams has "painstakingly rewritten" the music he wrote for the movies, a statement said.

The Royal Philharmonic will use an 86-piece orchestra and an a

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UK - The British Society of Cinematographers honoured Stan Miller of Rosco with the Bert Easy Technical Award for his contribution to lighting technology, at the BSC Operators Night at Elstree Film Studios on 14 December.

Stan Miller, who has owned the Rosco company since 1958 was travelling in Asia and asked Michael Hall to accept the Award on his behalf. Hall was introduced by Joe Dunton, executive vice president of Panavision, who spoke of new Rosco products being widely used in film today.

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UK - At JVC Professional, Yash Patel now becomes executive director, new business development, focusing on pan-European product category management for all professional products. Patel's 25 years in the security industry have given him extensive experience, knowledge and contacts, which will help develop JVC's opportunities for forming key business partnerships, says the company. These include working with Kenwood subsidiary, Zetron. Lee Elliott will continue his role as pan-European product manager for CCTV Products and will report to Patel.

Ian Scott, director and general manager, UK will take on direct responsibility for CCTV business functions as well as the professional video product ranges in the UK.

"With these changes we believe we are using the experience and skills we have to best advantage. We expect to benefit from the broader revenue opportunities available f

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Sweden - 2008 has been a year of rich pickings for Swedish professional audio equipment manufacturer, Lab.gruppen following the launch of its PLM 10000Q Powered Loudspeaker Management system 12 months ago. Since then, the product has been honoured with three separate technology awards in the US, France and Spain.

The first of those was the WFX New Product Awards, which recognises the newest and most innovative building, management, and technology products, applicable to worship facilities, and launched within the past year. PLM 10000Q emerged as the winner in the Audio Amplification category.

At the recent SIEL-SATIS-RADIO show in Paris, PLM 10000Q was named the winner of the 'Trophée de l'Iinnovation' in the PA/broadcast category. And, most recently in Spain, the PLM 10000Q was voted Best PA Product by the readers of Producción Audio magazine.

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USA - Billy Elliot - The Musical, which is enjoying success in both the UK and Australia, is now repeating that success on Broadway. And with Rick Fisher at the lighting design helm, the lighting is getting bigger. Fisher - who won Theatre Lighting Designer of the Year at this year's LDI Awards - has been using the automated ETC Source Four Revolution on the show since it first started in London, and has just finished work on the US show with one of the largest installations of Revolutions in town.

Across the rig, Rick specified over 100 moving lights - of which 50 are Revolutions. He explains, "I like to be able to light the performers with a good quality tungsten light - and the Revolution fits perfectly. With space in the rig always at a premium, it's good to have the versatility of moving lights, and so, wherever we had a good rigging position, I placed both a Re

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UK - For some time there has been advice from the HSE to Local Authorities to serve a Prohibition Notice on theatres found to be moving technicians whilst on Tallescopes focussing luminaires.

At a meeting with the ABTT held on the 3 December, the HSE explained that research that they have carried out indicated there were potential occasions when such a practice could cause the Tallescope to topple and thereby seriously injure the technician in the cage or those on the stage. This research follows on from similar, but not exactly the same, research, carried out on behalf of the ABTT. Therefore, the HSE considered that they would not change their position or advice until such time that it could be shown that their research had produced an erroneous conclusion or the statistical risk of an accident could be reassessed.

Having seen the confidential report, the ABTT is content that

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UK - Kramer Electronics, has introduced its SPK Series speakers comprised of six models for various AV applications. The SPK Series is designed for use in professional AV environments or other multimedia applications. Their addition to Kramer's full line up of professional A/V signal management equipment allows dealers and customers to experience an even more complete one-stop shopping experience for all their projects with Kramer Electronics, says the company.

The SPK Series includes closed-back models with can backs and open-back models with round grilles for ceiling mounting. The line also includes an open-back model with a rectangular grille for wall mounting and an enclosed rectangular model for indoor/outdoor surface mounting.

The SPK-CO608 model speakers are round ceiling mount speakers and the SPK-IO608 are rectangular wall mount speakers. The SPK-IO608 wall-mounted sp

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