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Australia - Held at North Melbourne Townhall, Black Sequin of Madeleine was written and directed by Jenny Kemp. Madeleine is an exploration of schizophrenia and its effect on a young woman and her family.

The Lighting designer for this sensitive production was Ben Cobham of Bluebottle, a design firm that worked collaboratively to achieve the best results.

"Whilst I was the lead designer I had a whole team of talented people working with me including Tom Rogers as assistant designer and he produced plans, concept drawings and looked after technical bump in," says Cobham. "Jen Hector looked after the design realization plotting the show - she is a long time friend and although not a full time employee, she comes to play from time to time. Frog Peck was

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Columbia - Sound recordist Martin Abell has returned from the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias in Colombia with an order for two of Roland's R-4 Pro audio field recorders, after a successful recording and teaching mission.

One of the most important literary events in the Hispanic world, this was the sixth edition of the Hay Festival Cartagena, but the first time that a technical specialist from the UK office had attended to train local engineers in the art of archiving. "We were seeing too much material coming back in a variety of different formats, often low quality recordings, which in turn restricted what we could do with it," says Martin Abell.

The Hay Festival organisation currently offers access to an extensive archive of recordings, and is discussing other applications such as commercial podcasts. "The better the quality of the recording, th

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UK - Systems integrator IVC Media, has announced it has supplied and installed new sound and lighting systems in the Savoy Hotel as part of what has been described as 'one of the most ambitious' restoration projects undertaken in the hospitality industry.

The two year refurbishment programme of the top London venue, cost an estimated £220m and saw the hotel re-open to the public in October. IVC Media's sound systems have been installed in the Riverside, Lower Thames and Lincoln rooms, the Riverside Restaurant and Lancaster Ballroom. Some of the rooms have featured in blockbuster films such as Notting Hill in the past.

As well as providing audio for major events such as live stage performances, the sound systems are also set up to provide background music, voice evacuation and audio for corporate conferences and events. IVC also supplied and installed RGB lighting in the

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Senegal - ETC has supplied a range of lighting, dimming and control equipment for the third Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures) in Dakar, Senegal.

Says Jean Louis Pernette, sales director at ETC's French distributor, Avab, "The brief was to supply all the equipment they need, with an emphasis on high spec and ease of use. We were also told that they needed the equipment fast - in fact, we only had a couple of weeks from the time we received the quote request to the delivery date."

Because ETC keeps all its major products in stock in Europe, Pernette was confident the delivery schedule wouldn't be difficult - the entire 42 pallets making up the delivery could come straight out of the warehouse.

"We supplied two Congo and two Congo jr control desks across the three festival venues, to make sure they had enough backup. Ea

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Hong Kong - Lighthouse Technologies has announced that with effect from 1 February 2011, Singapore-based TubeFlexL (Asia) will be its exclusive distributor for Southeast Asia.

"TubeFlexL (Asia) is well-established in the Southeast Asia market and, as such, the company is in the ideal position to help us continue to expand our reach into the region," says Lighthouse's general manager, Mr Peter Chan. "We are extremely pleased to be working with TubeFlexL (Asia). They are a highly experienced and professional company and we are sure that our partnership will help us towards fully implementing our global growth and development strategy for the coming year."

"We are very excited about representing Lighthouse in the Southeast Asia market," says Mr James Lim, managing director of TubeFlexL (Asia). "Lighthouse's reputation precedes it and we know the

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Belgium - Meyer Sound has announced Audio Connect as a new dealer for the company's line of loudspeaker and digital audio solutions for live sound and install applications. Based in the Belgian city of Moeskroen, Audio Connect will provide service and support to the professional AV community in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Spearheaded by managing director François Veys and technical manager Maarten Peeters, Audio Connect will work closely with Meyer Sound to support client projects that demand high-performance sound systems. Veys and Peeters will also team with Meyer Sound's education department to bring its audio expertise and training resources to local professionals. The first Meyer Sound seminar supported by Audio Connect, Fundamentals of System Design, Implementation and Optimizationwill be held in Heist-op-den-Berg on 1-2 March 1 - 2, with Mauricio Ramirez as the instru

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Sydney - For four nights only, the Sydney Festival transformed Sydney Town Hall into a swing-dancing heaven - featuring a huge dance floor and floorshow, with swing music played by Sydney's all-girl Sirens Big Band, just as in the venue's halcyon days - but with plenty of 2011 edge. Sydney's original Trocadero had its heyday in the 1940s and 50s but was demolished in the 70s. Today, its spirit lives on in the re-imagined nightclub named the Trocadero Dance Palace.

The lighting in the venue, designed by Matthew Marshall and including around 50 moving lights and a collection of LED fixtures along with generic theatrical lights, was programmed and operated by Peter Rubie who opted to use a Vista T4 running the V2 Byron software for control. "After beta testing Vista Byron in its early stages I was impressed by its feature set and vast improvements on Vista 1," remarked Pe

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Ballet News - Sir Paul McCartney is to write his first original orchestral score for a ballet performance. The former Beatle is collaborating with the New York City Ballet company (NYCB) on Ocean's Kingdom. "I am always interested in new directions that I haven't worked in before, so I became very excited about the idea," Sir Paul said. The production's world premiere will take place on 22 September. More performances will be announced later. In an interview with The New York Times, Sir Paul said the show was a love story based in two fantastic worlds - the "pure" ocean kingdom, and the earth kingdom with its "sort of baddies". In 1991, Sir Paul wrote the Liverpool Oratorio with Carl Davis for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's 150th anniversary.

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Russia - The Dynacord Road Show recently visited four Russian cities, the first, the nation's capital, Moscow, being followed by Rostov on Don, Samara and St Petersburg in that order, with some 200 dealers and pro audio professionals participating.

In addition to detailed product demonstrations - featuring, inter alia, the Corus Evolution loudspeaker series and the PowerMate3 - the Russian Dynacord partner Dealer Centre conducted seminars offering tips and tricks designed to simplify and enhance the day-to-day work of those in the industry. Opportunities for discussion are another important element of the Road Show concept, so time was set aside for detailed consideration of the needs of, and questions posed by, individuals attending the events.

"The tour was highly successful," reports Natalia Petrukhina, Dealer Centre's marketing manager. "In view of the fact

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Belgium - ADB Lighting will host the worldwide launch of Freedom and Liberty, two "highly advanced lighting control desks", at ProLight&Sound 2011 in Frankfurt (6-9 April 2011). The consoles are based on the powerful new Hathor software platform, which was previewed in 2010.

Freedom is designed to offer a solution where large numbers of multi-parameter instruments need to be controlled with "ultra-fast access". The desk allows users to control multiple LED fittings, intelligent lights and media servers as well as standard generic dimming systems, say ADB.

Liberty is aimed at space-challenging environments and any cost-conscious venue seeking a fully integrated solution to control conventional and moving lights, LED sources and other modern equipment. It all comes in a compact and portable console with the capacity of much larger and more expensive lighting

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UK - Projected Image's new printed catalogue has been produced to showcase the company's extensive gobo collection. Produced as a flip out swatch, the handy guide is printed on high quality 300gsm Satin Art paper.

Containing over 2200 contemporary and new designs, split over 16 categories from abstract to halftone and circles to linear, and everything in between. Each gobo's identity number can be used to place orders via the full online shop, ready for despatch same-day.

The catalogue can be delivered free of charge by following the link - http://blog.projectedimage.com. Projected Image will also showing the new catalogue at the Black Light open day in Edinburgh on 18 and 19 March and also at PLASA Focus Leeds on 19-20 April.

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UK - The LD Systems Powered by Eminence series has been extended by five passive & active multifunctional loudspeakers and all models are now equipped with BMS compression drivers.

Andrew Richardson, managing director of Adam Hall UK says, "The Stinger Series has been further expanded with the LDEB212 added for high power live applications. The LD Stinger 2 x 12" is a passive bass reflex multifunctional loudspeaker equipped with 2 x 12" speaker chassis, and a 1" compression driver. The LD Stinger 2 x 12" provides a whopping power of 600 W and a very high sound pressure level of 128 dB max. This is most certainly loud and very proud.

"Powerful performances, easy handling and high pressure levels qualify these speakers for all types of full range applications, making them perfect for stage usage. The housing is built from high quality Birch Plywood

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UK - Hippotizer has introduced HippoDoctor - a component which identifies and reports current and potential software issues and generates detailed logs resulting in much faster problem resolution and subsequent dissemination of known issues, says the company.

HippoDoctor is a stand-alone application which can be run outside Hippotizer and is also beneficial on the rare occasions that software issues prevent Hippotizer from running. The user can make changes to the configuration without running either the Hippotizer or ZooKeeper applications.

It is also able to troubleshoot common operating system, networking and even non Green Hippo related issues which are often time consuming and laborious for customers and Green Hippo staff alike when providing support.

Features include: full reporting of software and OS related issues; compilation of logs and compression into Zip format

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The Netherlands - Sound Projects has introduced the self powered SPX-65 to augment the SPX-series of identical, yet acoustically complementary loudspeaker systems.

Within the SPX family, each model is optimised for a specific coverage or function. In those situations where one point source cabinet will not deliver the necessary SPL or coverage, the SPX-65's neatly fills the gap, says the company.

Because of its constant horizontal coverage angle of 65 degrees and semi curved wide 15 degrees vertical radiation, it will deliver a flat slice of audio in the mid and higher frequencies. Wide enough to be used as a single in-fill or narrow enough to be used in multiples, a column or as a traditional sized line array module. The pragmatic fly frame and greatly simplified rigging hardware help the technician to quickly find the proper angles.

For system designers and architects the

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Belgium - Martin Professional has ended its long time distributor relationship with EVDV Trade of Belgium due to the Belgian company's recent insolvency. As a consequence, effective immediately, Martin Professional will serve its Belgian customers directly via a local sales and service network administered by Martin Professional EMEA, Martin's headquarter-based regional sales organization.

Martin EMEA Vice President Villads Thomsen commented on the change, "It is unfortunate that a highly valuable partner like EVDV could not overcome the economic challenges, however I am confident that with our new sales structure for Belgium we will be able to develop the Belgian market further and grow business together with our customers."

Taking over sales responsibilities in the Belgian market is Martin Professional South Europe commercial director Martin Fournier, who will work

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Germany - Lift Turn Move (LTM) will once again be exhibiting with their German partners COW Lifting Technology (COW) at Prolight+Sound this year.

Combined, the two companies offer a spread of solutions for lifting and control applications within the entertainment industry - from a theatre hand winch to an automated BGV C1 C-Force hoist and control solution with variable speed, positional control and load monitoring.

COW Lifting Technology will show the C-Force range of electric chain hoists, winches and control systems. C-Force products specialise in fixed or variable speed hoist and control systems to BGV C1 and up to SIL 3 performance standards.

LTM will show the popular LoadGuard electric chain hoists in capacities from 250kg to 5 tonnes as standard rigging hoists and to all current European entertainment standards such as the British Hoisting Entertainment Standard BS 79

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UK - Exhibiting its growing range of stage lighting control products at Frankfurt's ProLight&Sound exhibition (6-9 April 2011) alongside its German distributor Trendco, Avolites will introduce the Sapphire Touch control console and preview the Titan V5. Also in place will be the Titan Mobile, a firm LD favourite since its production launch.

The Sapphire Touch is targeted for full production launch from PLASA 2011 along withV6 of Avolites' signature Titan operating system. As the next generation in the Titan brand it is equipped with the latest technology and numerous special features that make it fit for festivals, theatre and show touring. The Sapphire Touch harnesses the power of 45 motorised and automated faders, massive dual touch wide screens, tricolour tracker ball with Z axis control, plus the Avo 'Quicksketch' tool to create custom palettes.

Avolites' sales director St

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Germany - Hamburg Airport claims to be the world's oldest airport still at its original location, with its first flights taking off in January, 1911. Exactly 100 years later, the airport celebrated by hosting live music and presentations on five stages. Carrying the festivities to 3,500 attendees were Meyer Sound systems featuring the new MIna line array loudspeaker provided by Blue Noise of Hamburg.

Staged in the airport's cavernous (6,200 m2) Terminal 1, the event featured a 30-minute show on airport history along with performances by artists hailing from the airport's far-flung destinations. According to Blue Noise managing director Hendrik Rogel, the combination of a highly reverberant space and simultaneous programmes on multiple stages presented an extraordinary challenge. "The terminal is made of metal, glass, and marble," he notes, "so we had to avoid send

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USA - The chimes that ring out every 15 minutes across the campus of Penn State Schuylkill in east-central Pennsylvania create a soothing environment for the staff and 1,000-plus-strong student body. The Technomad Schedulon playback and recording system is responsible for this atmosphere, acting as an audio master control unit for the university's public address system.

The Schedulon playback and recording system gives PA system operators the freedom to schedule automatic playback of audio files while maintaining a high level of manual control. According to Vince Mitchell, IT support specialist at Penn State Schuylkill, the unit's networking capabilities and automatic playback of user-defined schedules were a perfect fit for the university's needs, while the inclusion of manual playback options added a special touch.

"The Schedulon allows me to build schedules and upload

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UK - Ross Ashton's The Projection Studio has moved to a new purpose built office in Greenwich, East London.The office is adjacent to Greenwich mainline railway station and well placed for easy access to central London and London City Airport.

The new details are: The Projection Studio, 13 Tarves Way, Greenwich, London SE10 9JP; Tel: +44 (0) 20 8293 4270.

The new space features substantial office, administration and meeting facilities as well as an artwork production studio for both video and PIGI slide/film projections, together with a visualisation suite to demonstrate ideas and evolving projects to clients and other interested parties.

Steve Larkins continues to work alongside Ashton as graphics manager, and upcoming work includes the Edinburgh Tattoo and several high profile projects for various illuminated cities.

(Jim Evans)

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USA / UK - Lighting&Sound International magazine (LSi) welcomes Richard Cadena as its new technical editor. Richard, a respected lighting designer and entertainment technology journalist, will be based in the United States and will contribute to the technical content of all PLASA Media titles, including Lighting&Sound America, and Protocol magazine.

Richard will take over as technical editor of LSi from James Eade, who has helped the PLASA Media team steer the technical content of LSI for the past nine years. Although Richard officially started with PLASA Media on 1 March, there will be a longer hand-over of duties with James. Both the March and April 2011 issues of LSi will see James's input as technical editor, and Richard's first contribution to the magazine will appear in the May issue.

Lee Baldock, editor of LSi since 2004, said: "James has made a huge contribution t

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