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Romania - ARX Systems has announced the appointment of Constanta based Graffitti Pro Audio as its distributor for Romania.

ARX managing director Colin Park comments: "Mircea Dante, general manager of Graffitti told me he is especially excited by the prospects of introducing our USB DI Series products and the new USB I/O Universal Transformer Isolated USB Interface to their Pro Audio clients and market, as well as the MSX series of Signal Distribution products, the AudiBox series of audio toolbox essentials, and the rest of the ARX signal processing range."

Alongside ARX, Graffitti currently represents a select collection of other high end pro audio manufacturers including Funktion One and Mc2 Audio.

(Jim Evans)

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USA / UK - Magenta Research has announced a newly established pan-European alliance with Maverick to distribute its Cyan extension range.

Maverick is currently constructing the a wide range of digital signage products, as well as a team of dedicated support specialists located in the UK, Spain, and Portugal. Full roll out to 16 countries throughout Europe will take place over the next 12 months.

Jon Sidwick, director of Maverick Europe, states, "It is a great boom for us to be able to add Magenta's Cyan video extension range to our product offering, we have been looking for cutting edge products that address changing technology and Magenta brings that to the table. Our companies are mutually aligned to offer customers the best solution and service."

Bob Michaels, president of Magenta Research adds, "In the year following the opening of our office in the UK, th

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Canada - The 2010 Winter Olympics, which opened in Vancouver on 12 February, combine leading edge technology in the three divisions of live, broadcast and recording production; and Optocore is the network of choice for the service providers responsible for making the audio transmission a success.

As the host broadcaster supporting 14 international networks, CTV's Olympic post sound supervisor Mike Nunan has continued his use of Optocore in critical International Broadcast Centre applications by creating a 100-plus channel routing network at the International Broadcast Centre between his edit suites and his post sound control room, utilising DD4ME MADI interfaces, DD32E AES network devices, X Series remote preamp/converters and YG/YS interface cards. Additional signal transport and remote control via Optocore is the interfacing of numerous Neumann Solution D digital microphones.<

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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 - Lighting director/operator Sam Walters selected LSC Clarity as his main lighting controller for the IGA Lord Mayor's Christmas Carols held at the Brisbane Riverstage in December.

Walters commented, "I chose the new LSC Clarity system due to the efficiency in the way it handles Moving lights and LED programming. This was my first real outing with Clarity and although the software is extremely powerful, I didn't find it complicated at all. Actually I would have only looked at the manual 3 tm 4 times during the whole programming session."

Christmas Carols events, held each year in Australia's major cities during the summer month of December, are generally performed on outdoor stages. The events are televised nationally and attract large audiences, both at the venue and at home. Brisbane's event attracted some of the cream of Australia's talent

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France - The organiser of the SIEL show, one of France's leading exhibitions for the entertainment technology markets, has announced that the show is to return to its original timeline for 2011, taking place from 30 January to 1 February at a new Paris location, the Grande Halle de la Villette. The show was scheduled to take place from 19-21 October 2010 at the Porte de Versailles, Paris.

Reed Expositions says it is offering a new formula for SIEL in order to to re-establish its place as an annual gathering for trade professionals in the live entertainment and events market. The new venue, The Grande Halle de la Villette, is a key venue for culture and live entertainment, is home

throughout the year to numerous events including concerts, exhibitions and shows of various kinds.

The organisers say the primary objective of the new format is to gather together the live entertain

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USA - Rihanna is currently promoting her fourth album, Rated R, with high-profile live and televised performances in the United States and Europe, taking her longtime favourite combination Sennheiser SKM 5200 handheld microphone with MD 5235 capsule wherever she goes.

Rihanna has been using the SKM 5200 since adopting it for her first headlining tour at the end of 2007. According to monitor engineer Brian Evans, on this tour her two background vocalists are also using the SKM 5200/ MD 5235 combination. The wireless vocal mics are being used together with Sennheiser's EM 3732 twin receivers.

Rihanna's music has long had a rock sensibility, but the music on her new album and the current live band line-up really brings that harder edge to the fore. "It's a serious bunch of players," says Evans, "We have the all-time classic, Sennheiser MD 421 II on our lead

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The Brits 2010 - Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Florence and the Machine and Pixie Lott go head-to-head at the Brits tonight, leading the shortlist with three nominations each. X Factor runners-up JLS are also up for a possible hat-trick.

Performers at the UK's biggest music awards include Lady Gaga, Kasabian, Cheryl Cole, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. Prince Harry has recorded a message for the live show, as the ceremony celebrates its 30th anniversary. The awards themselves began in 1977. Comedian Peter Kay will host the event, at London's Earls Court, which will include a duet between Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine and rapper Dizzee Rascal. Robbie Williams will receive the honorary award for outstanding contribution to music, ending the show with a live performance. Two special categories have been created to celebrate the best of the Brits over the past 30 years - the best Brit

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Sweden/UK - Wireless Solution Sweden has announced Core Lighting of the UK as the latest OEM partner to build W-DMX into their products. The technology will be installed directly at their London facility.

Core has developed a range of rugged battery-powered LED lighting products for the 'temporary events' market - both for indoor and outdoor use. With the addition of W-DMX, these compact, battery-driven fixtures are completely cable free.

"We are extremely pleased with this partnership," says Phil Ion, president of Core Lighting, "Wireless Solution is the leading manufacturer of wireless DMX tools and the products are widely used in Europe and the USA. We consider ourselves as manufacturers of high quality products and we received nothing but positive comments from our clients on our decision to go with W-DMX."

"This is a particularly interesting par

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UK - Hawthorn, working for Shine Television, has recently supplied two of their high resolution 6mm LED walls to Sky TV for the live shows of Got to Dance on Sky 1 HD.

The set, designed by Chris Webster, incorporated two of Hawthorn's LED screens each measuring 4.6m x 2.3m (678Px by 384Px).

Hawthorn worked with LD Mark Kenyon on this project, having worked together on the last series of Strictly Come Dancing for the BBC.

Simon Deary of Poison LED, the leading LED consultants to television commented, "Hawthorn's screen, with its RGB based high resolution, has looked great on HD, it is such a good price and Hawthorn's crew have been fantastic."

2009 saw a continual investment by Hawthorn in their indoor and outdoor LED wall, as well as their new video curtain called Media Surge.

Hawthorn's Media Surge has proved so popular with their customers that

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UK - When the Ministry of Sound London commissioned a bespoke Martin Audio stack two years ago it was just one step away from standardising on the brand throughout.

Standing in the way were the old 'Bertha' sub enclosures, whose heritage dates right back to Richard Long's epochal system at New York's legendary Paradise Garage in the late '70s.

Although the subs had been loaded with Martin Audio 18in drivers during that last upgrade, the end game - according to Martin Audio R&D director, Jason Baird - was to provide a complete active low-end enclosure.

Meanwhile, the Ministry's technical manager Alex Barrand was aware of development work taking place at Martin Audio HQ on a prototype - largely to provide low-end extension for Prodigy front of house engineer Jon Burton - but his interest really went into overdrive when he learnt that an active product would be commercially ava

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Germany - The Madrix 2.8 will be officially launched at Prolight + Sound 2010. The upcoming version of the LED control software includes many new features.

Two fresh and creative effects called SCE Metaballs and SCE Drops as well as the much-improved Sound2Light effect S2L Equalizer extend the possibilities. In addition, reorganizing effects by using drag & drop is now possible.

Combining effects has been enhanced by adding new features to layers, such as Copy, Paste, and Insert. The Patch was completely rebuilt and is as user-friendly and fast as never before, says the company.

(Jim Evans)

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Canada - To facilitate fail-safe emergency response communication during high-profile events, and on an ongoing basis, Applied Electronics of Vancouver has completed a significant installation featuring Christie visual display solutions for the City of Vancouver's Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) in the E-Comm building.

The Vancouver EOC coordinates emergency response teams from Vancouver's police and RCMP, fire and rescue, traffic management, city engineering services, health authority and more. Staffed by personnel from city departments and trained volunteers, it supports all response activities in the field and provides overall direction to responders in emergency situations. The 24/7 hub is critical to the safety of visitors, athletes, spectators and residents of Vancouver.

Powered by Christie HD405 single-chip DLP high definition projectors and the Christie TVC-1210 disp

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UK - Over 150 Robe moving lights, including the new ColorBeam 700E ATs, feature extensively on the rig for the current UK arena tour of the hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing Live.

The lighting design is by Mark Kenyon - who also does the TV series, and the lighting equipment is being supplied by Welsh-based Sonalyst. The touring show was programmed onto a grandMA2 light during production rehearsals in Manchester Arena by David Bishop, Roger Williams was the assistant LD, and the touring console operator and lighting director is Alex Murphy.

Sonalyst purchased 31 chrome finished Robe ColorBeam 700E ATs specially for the tour, 28 of which are deployed around the perimeter of the dancefloor. The chrome colour was deliberately chosen to bring a special televisual feel to the live show, which features eight couples shimmying, jiving, tangoing and strutting their stuff, four

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France - The aim of the Capellia Cultural Centre is to enable the town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre to work every day to promote artistic and cultural education for all, allowing people of all generations to take, renew and revive their talents in harmony with each other.

To achieve this, the Cultural Centre's entertainments team creates demanding programmes and spectacles in a number of disciplines - song, dance, circus, choreography, comedy, music and theatre (including for young audiences).

"With such a wide range of events, we needed a digital console that could be easily and quickly adapted to a number of configurations, and at the same time be able to offer a high level of audio quality," explains Yann Vaslin, technical director of Capellia. "At the same time it needed to offer a fast and intuitive experience for the sound engineer.

"When I discovered t

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UK - PASMA, the trade association for the mobile access tower industry, has published a new information DVD/CD called Accidents can happen even at low level. Aimed at owners and users of low level access equipment - which PASMA defines as having a maximum platform height of 2.5m - it provides information and guidance on how to use folding step units and folding tower units safely and productively.

With an estimated 50,000 of these versatile units in daily use, the DVD covers everything from undertaking the initial risk assessment, checking the components prior to assembly and following the manufacturer's instructions, to assembling the unit, checking it before use and completing the necessary inspection record.

With a running time of 16 minutes and intended to complement the association's existing low level access training course, the DVD also highlights some of the mos

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UK - DB Systems will help stage London Fashion Week's first ever Digital Schedule.

This new initiative involves the live streaming of fashion shows and a selection of digitally presented fashion films, which have been created by a number of innovative London designers.

Following a two-way pitch, DB was awarded the contract by creative event company Blonstein & Associates to be the official supplier of the audio visual elements in the show's digital presentation theatre. This will include providing networking solutions that allow video content to be sent to various screens and projectors around the site, as well as preparing and installing a number of screens, which will be supplied by LG.

Oliver Richardson, DB sales director, commented: "Since this is the first time London Fashion Week will have a Digital Schedule there is a degree of pressure for everythi

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New Zealand - Auckland War Memorial Museum celebrated its 80th birthday by turning on its new exterior lighting installation at the end of 2009. The venerable building on Auckland's skyline is made of creamy Oamaru stone and was a perfect subject for François Roupinian's subtle lighting design.

Roupinian had lit some projects in the interior of the museum and was engaged to design and implement the exterior lighting project. Having used Martin Professional fixtures on a number of projects in his native Canada, he was keen to integrate them into this project.

In the end he used a number of Martin Inground 200 full colour mixing fixtures to uplight the main northern portico and also the east and west fountains on the corners of the building. The Inground 200 is a discreet, programmable 150W buried luminaire.

In addition, he used a number of pole mounted Martin Exterior 200 co

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UK - The winners of the 2010 Whatsonstage.com Awards were announced at a star-studded awards ceremony held at London's Prince of Wales Theatre last Sunday, 14 February. Run by theatre news website WhatsOnStage and covering all the shows to open in London's West End and beyond over the last 12 months, the awards represent the voice of the theatre-going audience: nominations in all categories come from members of the public, and the public then vote for the winners.

White Light is the sponsor of the Best Lighting Designer award, which was presented to Natasha Katz for her work on the hit musical Sister Act at the London Palladium. Her fellow nominees in the category were Johanna Town for Speaking In Tongues, Mark Henderson for Enron, Mike Robertson for On The Waterfront and Neil Austin for Life Is A Dream and Madame de Sade.<

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The Netherlands - Audio specialist manufacturer, TOA received the esteemed Most InAVative Audio Product for Commercial Use (non loudspeaker) InAVation Award for its D-2000 series all-in-one digital mixing system at the prestigious InAVation Awards Ceremony.

he ceremony was held in the Diamond Lounge at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Center during Integrated Systems Europe (ISE 2010). The award category was sponsored by ProAudio Middle East Magazine.

The D-2000 was previewed on the TOA stand at ISE and combines the functions of auto mixing, matrix switching, and signal processing. "Receiving such an esteemed EMEA award is a true success for one of our most exciting products to be launched in the EMEA market and we're delighted that the industry has recognised it for its innovation and functionality and sends a big thank you to all who had voted," says Brett

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The Netherlands - Alcons has introduced a reference-quality sound reproduction system with fully matched loudspeaker, processing and amplifier components. It is designed to offer the most realistic (surround) sound-for-picture reproduction possible, making it the ideal choice for high-end home theatre theatres, Digital Cinema mix/screening rooms, post-production facilities, dubbing stages and quality-conscious cinemas with less than 100 seats or room depth less than 15m/45ft.

The CRMS, Cinema Ribbon Monitor System is a hybrid three-way main- /two-way surround-system.

Each system consists of a separate mid-high frequency (MHF) section, featuring one RBN401 pro-ribbon driver HF with non-vented 8" MF and a low frequency 15" (LF) section, with low power-compression 4" voice-coil.

The MHF section is specifically designed to act both as MHF section for the main/fron

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USA - As the principal performance venue for the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theatre regularly hosts classical music concerts by the conservatory's celebrated orchestras and ensembles. With the recent installation of a new Meyer Sound MIca line array loudspeaker system, the 2,326-seat hall is now much better equipped to support another musical genre - jazz.

"In addition to the school's own jazz events, the hall hosts the headline concerts for the Rochester International Jazz Festival each summer," says system designer Anthony Nittoli of consulting firm Akustiks LLC of South Norwalk, Conn. "With the old system, coverage was spotty at best, and it simply didn't have enough power for louder contemporary jazz. The festival had to bring in temporary systems, and they were often not well matched to the room.&quo

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