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USA - The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona describes itself as 'the world's first global musical instrument museum' with an impressive array of instruments from nearly 250 countries and territories. Integrated audio and video experiences enable audiences to appreciate the sounds of these instruments, as well as to see them played in their cultural context.

The building, a 190,000sq.ft structure located on a 20-acre campus, was designed by award-winning architect Rich Varda, along with RSP Architects. The architecture evokes the topography of the American Southwest with a richly textured Indian limestone façade. Interior galleries are linked by an undulating central corridor known as 'El Rio'.

Stage Technologies Las Vegas installed an automation system in the museum

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Hungary - Opened in November 2009, the Allee Shopping Centre in Budapest features 47,000m2 of retail space, with outlets ranging from global giants like Marks & Spencer and Vodaphone to local, specialist retailers; a multi-screen cinema, fitness club and a wide range of food outlets. Enticing shoppers to make the most of the facilities are two Lighthouse screens.

Budapest-based AV Control won a competitive tender to secure the contract for supplying an internal and external LED screen for advertising, choosing Lighthouse panels to maximise the effectiveness of the two sites.

The exterior screen consists of 4 x 4 panels of Lighthouse P12-ER panels and is located next to the main entrance, while the internal screen is positioned close to a central circulation area and meeting point, comprising 8 x 6 panels of P10-FA. Both are controlled by a Crestron Control System via Lighthous

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UK - Designer Baz Halpin and show producer William Baker have created a new, sophisticated set for Westlife's Where We Are arena tour. No fewer than 80 GLP Impression moving LED's have been incorporated into the set - positioned on ladders above the video screens to accentuate the height of the overall backdrop.

Halpin has become a devotee of the Impressions, specifying them on Alicia Keys' recent Freedom Tour. "I was impressed with their power, flexibility and reliability," he stated. "Given their compact size and speed they can be placed in areas where most traditional fixtures cannot."

Explaining the design rationale, he added, "For the Westlife tour, William was keen to create a feeling of height akin to city skyscrapers. The Impressions were the obvious choice and I constructed a series of 10ft and 20ft custom ladders to peer over th

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

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!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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UK - DB Systems is putting the final touches to an intensive six-month IT & Telephony work programme in preparation for the Farnborough International Airshow.

DB's technicians have been at the Hampshire site since January preparing the internet and telecommunications systems and services that will be available for all exhibitors at upcoming event (19 - 25 July).

The massive task involves DB supplying 600 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones and over 400mb of internet bandwidth. These will be serviced via a Cisco controlled network incorporating over 100 network switches, 20km of fibre optics and 10km of cabling.

The project is being overseen by DB's Internet & Telecommunications Division, which was set up earlier this year after the company expanded into the internet and telecommunications market.

Grahame Jones, Operations Director for Farnborough International,

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USA - Hollowell Church had to make some tough financial choices when faced with a major capital expenditure. The Pennsylvania congregation had outgrown its main worship facility and needed more space. But the expense of constructing a new, larger facility would have seriously cut into the church's budget for its all-important community outreach programs and other essential activities.

Thanks to some help from Maryland-based Gadget Media and Elation Professional lighting, Hollowell Church was able to convert its existing gymnasium into an adequately-sized part-time worship centre at a fraction of the cost of constructing a new facility.

"The church had initially drawn up plans to build a larger worship facility, and it would have been a very nice building, but construction costs were skyrocketing at the time. What they conveyed to me was that if they built it, they wouldn'

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USA - The ESTA Foundation has announced details of the 2010 Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards, created by some of the industry's most talented designers - David Gallo, Christine Jones, Jeremy Railton, and Andrew Hefter.

David Gallo won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for The Drowsy Chaperone. His recent Broadway credits include Memphis, Xanadu, Company, Reasons to be Pretty, and August Wilson's Radio Golfand Gem of the Ocean.

Christine Jones' work includes American Idiot, for which she has received a 2010 Tony nomination, Julie Taymor's The Green Bird, her 2007 Tony Award-winning Best Scene Design of a Musical for Spring Awakening, as well as work Off-Broadway, in opera and regional theatre.

Jeremy Railton has worked around the world on architectural projects, themed attractions, theatre, film, TV, live c

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UK - Since its launch as an independent UK company at ABTT 2009, Goboland UK has seen increasing business and flourishing sales in both custom and catalogue gobos. The company's award-winning Black Steel gobos, glass gobos and custom and Credit Crunch gobos will all be on Stand 125 in the Lawrence Hall of ABTT next month (June 16 -17, Royal Horticultural Halls, London).

Vicky Fairall comments: "Our Credit Crunch Gobo, which we launched last year to celebrate the formation of Goboland UK, has been so successful that we have decided to continue the offer indefinitely."

(Claire Beeson)

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Germany - Nicknamed 'The Green Hell' by Jackie Stewart, Germany's Nürburgring motor racing circuit has now added the new 15,000sq.m, multi-million euro Ring°Werk motorsport-themed visitor attraction to the site.

Featured at Ring°Werk are a variety of multimedia attractions, exhibitions and dining/retail experiences, including the Ring°Racer rollercoaster; Grüne Hölle multimedia theatre; 24hr Race in 4D; Motor Mania dark ride; Truck Grand Prix simulator attraction, and Nürbus Eifel Tour, a simulator-based tour through the Eifel Forest. Finally, Test°Center is an interactive exhibition revealing the secrets of the car industry.

Tasked with design and project managing were specialist visitor attraction consultants, Design Vision, who in turn contracted DJW as the AV project manager and systems integrator on behalf of the client. DJW were responsible for the de

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UK - London-based control, lighting and test equipment manufacturer, Artistic Licence, exhibited for the first time at PLASA Focus in Leeds with very favourable results.

Artistic Licence managing director Simon Hobday reports, "It was our first time at PLASA Focus and I was very impressed with the organisation, venue staff and general atmosphere of the show. We met a lot of new customers and discovered the potential for many more. We also gained very valuable feedback, not only about our products but what is missing in the industry.

"The new DALI products, Rail-DALI-DMX and Rail-DMX-DALI, generated a good deal of interest. The received customer feedback has already given rise to another new product which we will release within the next six months."

Artistic Licence also showed products across the Art-Net and DMX Distribution range. This gave the customers nort

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China - Martin Professional and the Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI) at Aarhus University, Denmark, in collaboration with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) architects, have designed, developed and installed the façade and auxiliary areas for the Danish Pavilion at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

The Pavilion is a spiral-shaped structure that curls the exhibition space in a double loop, with pedestrian and cycling lanes and a central harbour bath as the main features. A colour-changing architecture that pulsates with life as art, the media facade gives a new form of expression and experience for the visitor as a communicative and interactive facade.

More than 3500 full-colour LED lamps have been installed in holes in the Pavilion's perforated external walls. The lamps are controlled by day lighting and temperature sensors installed in the Pavilion, which combined

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UK - With the conference line-up for the Audio Engineering Society's 128th Convention in London now confirmed, some distinguished guests are beginning to make their way to London for the associated conferences (22-25 May) and exhibition (23-25 May), both of which are taking place this year at the Novotel Convention Centre in Hammersmith.

Japanese music technology research scientist and gifted public speaker Masataka Goto has now been confirmed as the Keynote Speaker at the Convention's opening ceremony on 22 May, and the Convention's final day will be graced by an appearance from Sir George Martin CBE, who will be accepting an Honorary Membership from the AES before introducing one of the afternoon seminars on the final day of the Convention.

"The AES is delighted to present George Martin with this award," comments AES executive director Roger Furness. "The rank

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UK - Clear-Com will announce the European debut of HelixNet, a unified intercom platform at AES 2010 in London this month.

HelixNet simplifies the setup, management and use of intercom systems often required in today's multiplatform production workflows, including those of local broadcast facilities, houses of worship and intimate live venues. Based on Clear-Com's award-winning I.V.Core technology, HelixNet breaks down the silos of separate intercoms and allows operators to effortlessly and seamlessly connect and control multiple system connections on a single communications platform ? whether it's a main station, portable beltpack, digital panel, wall-speaker unit or software-based client.

HelixNet offers flexible and simple cabling and networking. All systems on the platform are designed to work on common, standard cabling, such as microphone cables, Cat 5 and fibre. In addi

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UK - Green hippo has begun shipping all Hippotizer HDs with extensive hardware revisions enabling radical performance gains for the media server range. Based around Intel's i7 processors the revisions harness the processors power and work in conjunction with version 3.0.14's new software Playback Engine from the London based company. The i7-based servers are significantly faster and allow for more video playback layers. Previous machines ran between 2-5 layers depending on the specification and the age of the unit whilst the new i7 based units are capable of eight layers of full HD playback simultaneously.

"We've always implemented hardware revisions unannounced as a matter of course but the gains from i7 are too significant to be seen as a progression ; it's more of a milestone" says James Ross Heron from Green hippo. "Several other revisions have coincided with

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UK - When Mercedes-Benz had the rather unusual request of needing to get its E-Class Cabriolet inside the Anglican Liverpool Cathedral, the company turned to its events logistics partner Mobile Promotions who managed all the planning and movements around the sensitive site.

The car was placed inside the Cathedral in support of Everton Football Club's end of season Players' Awards, which Mercedes-Benz, as the club's official car supplier, has supported for the previous five years.

The team at Mobile Promotions provided Mercedes-Benz's product awareness branding as well as managing the logistics for cars both inside and outside the Cathedral.

Mobile Promotions managing director Robin Carlisle comments, "Owing to the event taking place in such a spectacular, beautiful building and yet also a vibrant living church, it was essential that the correct and respectful approach w

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South Africa - The Fugard Theatre, with performances by the Isango Portobello theatre company recently opened in the District Six area in Cape Town. The theatre has been named in honour of Athol Fugard. The Train Driver, written and directed by Fugard, had its opening night at The Fugard on 24 March, and is being met by sell-out houses and standing ovations.

Thanks to UK based producer Eric Abraham, who established Isango Portobello in 2006, The Fugard Theatre is equipped with some of the best possible equipment and DWR Distribution, MA Lighting's distributor in South Africa, were privileged to contribute a grandMA2 ultra-light console along with backup support.

Mannie Manim, executive director at The Fugard and formerly the CEO at the Baxter Theatre has lit shows across the globe. "grandMA is the state of the art lighting board of this time," he said. "T

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China - Loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies' DVA line array series has been chosen for use in the Venezuela area, one of 240 countries' and organisations' exhibitions at the six-month long World Expo in Shanghai this year, expected to attracted some 70m visitors.

"A powerful, yet small system, the DVA range was just right for the Venezuela Pavilion theatre," explains Shelly Xiao, general manager of dBTechnologies distributor, Sharp Dragon. "The digital self powered line array fitted the bill perfectly: lightweight, not too obtrusive and it sounds excellent."

The system comprises 12 flown T4 full range cabinets arrayed six on each side within the arc-shaped ceiling, two ground-stacked S10 powered subwoofers fitted with onboard SDD delay modules, two dBTechnologies Arena 15 passive cabinets to support the centre sound and a DSX 2040 controller, providing

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Switzerland / USA - Barix AG announces that NJ Transit, the public transportation corporation for the state of New Jersey, has standardized on Barix Audio over IP equipment for IP-based distribution of public address (PA) announcements at rail and bus stations across the state.

NJ Transit is in the process of building out an IP-based PA and digital display network that will disseminate audio and visual passenger information from one to many points. NJ Transit and consultant Baran Design Associates specified Barix Exstreamers to receive and decode PA messages at every NJ Transit location. The devices are currently operational across the River Line light rail system and Northeast Corridor rail lines, as well as a number of bus stations.

Audio messages with relevant passenger information are continuously updated and streamed to pre-assigned, IP-addressable Exstreamers to ensure t

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UK - Hip hop trio N-Dubz have recently been promoting the platinum-selling album Against All Odds with a major April UK tour. Accompanying the band have been their Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitors.

The tour's schedule was relentless, with very few non-show days as the band played gigs from Folkestone to Glasgow and all points between. Reliability was essential, but monitor engineer Chris 'Bronski' Jablonski is just as impressed with the hi-fidelity sound of the Sennheiser equipment.

The band's three vocalists - Dino 'Dappy' Contostavlos, Tula 'Tulisa' Contostavlos and Richard 'Fazer' Rawson were all using SKM 935 G3 microphones and ew 300 G3 in-ear monitors, with a three-piece backing band and Chris also using ew 300 G3 IEMs.

"I've been using Sennheiser for the last six or so years for a wide variety of projects, the 500 series for live vocals, and the

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Argentina - Seventeen years after their last Argentinian concert, some 45,000 fans attended , Guns N' Roses' recent Buenos Aires concert - part of the Chinese Democracy World Tour 2010.

Buenos Aires Live Show was responsible for the technical staging of the event, and chose Proel Edge15CXPB coaxial monitors.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Lighting industry veteran Guy Merchant has returned to Multi-Lite (UK) after a short period of time working for a Scottish lighting distributor. In his new position as sales manager he is now responsible for acquisitions, customer relationship and customer service to lighting professionals not only but emphasized in the entertainment industry.

Guy Merchant and his team will be at the at ABTT show in London next month (Lindley Hall Stand 7.)

(Jim Evans)

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Taiwan - GlacialTech is launching the T8 low-power Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting tubes under the GlacialLight brand. The T8 LED tubes are an improvement as well as innovation of the existing models, says the company. The main advantage is that the tubes are extremely low in power consumption with under 10W for a 2ft tube, and under 20W for a 4ft tube.

The T8 features an inbuilt Over Temperature Protection (OTP) that automatically shuts down the tube at a relatively high temperature as well as starting up the tube at a relatively low temperature. When the input voltage does not fall within its specified range, the OTP shall be triggered. The T8 LED tubes are designed to replace the equivalent Cathode Fluorescent Tubes (CFT) currently available in markets. Using a relatively lower wattage, the T8 has the same structure and style of traditional CFTs but delivers a brighter pe

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