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UK - PixelRange has expanded its range of intelligent and fully programmable LED luminaires to include a batten fixture, SmartLine 6. The "powerful yet aesthetically slimline" batten can be stacked either horizontally or vertically with no change to the pitch of the CREE MCE high intensity quad LEDs in any direction.

Measuring a slender 6ft by 50mm, the SmartLine 6 LED wash fixture assures instantaneous colour mixing across its length, via the 36 high intensity Quad emitters - each of which provides red, blue, green or white sources. SmartLine is fitted with a 20 degree beam angle as standard, though other light-shaping diffusing lenses are available to vary the output beam, says the company.

SmartLine is manufactured in heavy duty, machined billet with an external hea

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USA - J. R. Clancy has added two people to its design and mechanical engineering staff.

Hee Yeon Jeong joins the Clancy staff as a mechanical engineer. In her new position, she will design submittal and shop drawings for projects involving dealers of J. R. Clancy products. A native of Busan, South Korea, Jeong most recently was a mechanical engineer at JASStech Corp., the largest theatre rigging firm in South Korea, where she was involved in many international projects. "I wanted to work on a larger market in this field," she said. "I think J.R. Clancy is a perfect choice."

Brandon Welsh is a new design engineer at Clancy, where he will be involved in system design for clients' rigging projects. A recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering technology, Welsh worked for Beck Studios, a theatre e

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USA - Clay Paky lighting has featured prominently at the world's largest festival of electronic music held in Miami, Florida.

The 13th Ultra Music Festival drew well over 100,000 techno fans to Miami's Bicentennial Park in late March, expanding to a three-day format for the first time. The event, which has developed a huge following among techno and electronic music fans, featured more than 300 DJs and numerous bands performing on six stages. Headliners on the main stage included The Chemical Brothers, Duran Duran and Tiësto.

Other stages included the Live Stage, Carl Cox & Friends, UMF Korea, Root Society and the Heineken Dome.

Steve Lieberman from SJ Lighting Inc. was the lighting designer for the main stage and festival at large. He selected an array of Clay Paky fixtures, supplied by AG Light and Sound Inc., and worked alongside Patrick Dierson to program the Carl Cox A

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France - Christie has announced the appointment of Dominique Denis to the position of market development manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Nitro Solutions.

While maintaining his role as events sales manager for France, Denis will also be responsible in his new role for developing Christie's Nitro Solutions range of moving yokes for video projection and LED and Xenon lighting systems, for the EMEA market.

"Dominique's appointment is an affirmation of the substantive work he's done in the events market since he joined the company in September 2006 and reflects Christie's determination to work toward the convergence of the lighting and video projection businesses," says regional director Pascal Gervais.

"The ProLight + Sound trade fair in Frankfurt confirmed the potential for the growth of Christie's Nitro Solutions products in a high-demand mark

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USA - Xantech has expanded its line of IR products with the introduction of the new CIRP (Projector IR Control), CIRS (Conference Room/Classroom Control) and CIRV (Large Venue IR Control) kits. The announcement was made by Rick Seegull, Xantech director of business development.

Developed with direct input from leading contractors and system integrators, Xantech's new IR systems are specifically designed to address typical challenges facing installers today, including IR operation with plasma or LCD TV's; interference from CFL (compact fluorescent lighting) and sunlight; and distance limitations within a single kit. These kits are specifically geared for use in classrooms, conference rooms and houses of worship and engineered for the utmost in reliability, says the company.

Two of the systems come with an amplified connecting block, which allows the connection of Xantech IR rec

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET)'s lighting division has supplied over 30 new GLP Impression Spot One LED fixtures to London rental company Colour Sound Experiment. These were delivered for the start of their mega busy summer festival season, which included lighting several stages at last weekend's Glastonbury 2011.

Recently shown at PLASA Focus by AC-ET (the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for GLP) the latest addition to the r Impression LED range is a high powered, fully featured, moving head spot fixture which uses a potent 400 Watt RGB LED chipset for the lightsource.

This latest sale marks Colour Sound's third major investment via AC-ET in fixtures from the GLP Impression range, boosting its inventory to now include the Spot One, 120 RZ Zoom and original Impression 90 LED fixtures.

The company's Haydn Cruickshank explains that with clients' numerous fes

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UK - Black Light reports that, thanks to investment in new stock, it can now provide an even better service to both its hire and events customers. At the same time, the company's latest hire price list can now be downloaded from its website.

Among the new items in stock are products such as the Tiger Touch and Powercubes, both from Avolites. The Tiger Touch is a lightweight and powerful lighting controller. Powercubes are a complete dimming, mains and data distribution solution in one box.

"When you look at all the new products we have added to our stock it shows that we are committed to providing our customers with the hire technology they need at the right price," says Calder Sibbald, Black Light's events manager.

Among Black Light's other new hire stock are Strand 3 Packs. These provide 5KW dimming and complement the company's 5KW lantern stock. Black Light has

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Italy The Wind Music Awards 2011 - featuring the major stars of Italian music, were held in the evenings of 27, 28 and 29 May in the Arena di Verona.

The director of photography Carlo Valagussa, along with F&P Group production, placed a long line of Coemar Infinity ACL S on the stage to create background lighting effects.

The Infinity ACL S were chosen for their power and have a high light output which is equal to that of a 1200 W projector, with low power consumption (300W). Equipped with a rotating and indexable 'aerial effect' and a beam ranging from 1.7° to 6°, they are also suitable for backlighting effects and strobe, wood light, moon flower effects.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Adlib's specialist sales division - also a 'certified provider' for L-Acoustics - has sold a Kara PA system, fully flight-cased and complete with LA8 amplifiers, to Newcastle based sound, lighting and AV rental company Nitelites.

The sale comprised 24 Kara loudspeakers, eight SB18 subs, eight SB28 subs, eight LA8 amplifiers and a full set of Adlib designed flight cases for the Kara, bumps (flying cradles) and amp racks, plus all the associated rigging and accessories to enable the system to be flown or ground stacked as required.

Nitelites is a well established and leading North East rental operation, and the deal cements a long standing and very positive relationship between the two companies. This has developed in particular over the last seven years and seen healthy cross rental traffic in equipment as well as the exchange of resources and knowledge.

The Kara deal wa

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UK - London's latest new musical offering, the new show Betty Blue Eyes, is using lighting documentation tools FocusTrack andSpotTrack to accurately record every part of the production lighting.

Based on the film A Private Function, and starring a remarkable pig called Betty, Betty Blue Eyes is produced byCameron Mackintosh, directed by Richard Eyre with musical staging by Stephen Mear and designs by Tim Hatley. The show's lighting is by Neil Austin, Tony and Drama Desk-award winner last year for Red on Broadway, and Olivier-award winner this year for The White Guard at the National Theatre.

Left with little room for lighting by the scenery, Austin designed a versatile rig based around a core of moving lights: 11 Vari-LiteVL3500Q framing spotlights, 24 ETC Revolution tungsten framing spots,13 VL2500 Wash washlights, and 10 DHA Digital Light C

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UK / Netherlands - Prolyte Group has announced that Unusual Group has signed up to be a dealer for the full range of Prolyte Group theatre products in the UK.

"The range of theatre products that Prolyte Group supplies is the perfect addition to the range of products we already offer," states Denis Bramhall of Unusual. "The fact that these products have been tried and tested in many theatre productions worldwide, combined with the knowhow and expertise that Prolyte can support us with is very important to us. We strive for optimum reliabilty".

ProLyft brand manager, Michiel van der Zijde, adds, "We started talking about this cooperation more than a year ago. Being able to provide Unusual with the right products for the field they excel in is just what Prolyte Group is all about."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Following the success of the Yamaha Commercial Audio open days, hosted by Stage Electrics at its Bermondsey premises in January, the company has organised three further events across the country.

The additional open days will allow a wider range of engineers to get 'hands-on' with Yamaha's digital audio products, with experienced Yamaha and Stage Electrics staff on hand to demonstrate and answer questions.

The new dates are: 6 July at Stage Electrics Tyneside (Gateshead); 7 July at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham; 29 September at Stage Electrics Bristol headquarters.

Each event takes place from 10pm to 5pm and will provide demonstrations and tuition on a range of Yamaha audio products, including the M7CL and LS9 digital mixing consoles, the SB168-ES stage box, Ethersound and Dante networking protocols.

Designed to give both prospective and existing users a focused

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France - On the occasion of its television debut on TNT and to mark its new positioning within France, the financial information radio station, BFM Business (NextRadioTV group), was outfitted with an ultra modern set. A core part of the decor, the Christie MicroTiles video wall reinforces the visual experience that focuses on financial information.

After 10 years on the FM band, BFM became BFM Radio in order to minimize any confusion with BFM TV, a continuous news channel that is also part of the NextRadioTV group. At the end of the first half of 2010, BFM Radio was broadcasting on some 30 frequencies in France. In November of that year, BFM Radio became BFM Business, a "media outlet unlike any other in the world" according to its CEO Alain Weil. BFM Business is distributed via all ADSL TV packages and on TNT in Paris. The channel targets high-level professionals, part

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Honduras - Latin America has long been a strong market for Adamson touring systems. Recently a wave of permanent installations have been taking place, and the very first for the tiny Central American country of Honduras was installed recently. The Caribbean paradise's capital city of Tegucigalpa lies 3248ft above sea level, thus moderating temperatures in this city founded on top of a native Mayan settlement in 1578.

CEAD (Centro Evangelista de las Asambleas de Dios/Evangelistic Centre of the Assemblies of God). is a church which was founded 14 years ago, and it has set-out a mission to change lives. Today that vision is pursued by Pastor Miguel Montoya and his wife Jacky, in their church which seats 2600 and holds up to 5000 people, who gather at two weekly services. The pastor is someone who has taught them to dream big, and to fight for them. One of those dreams was to get to

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Czech Republic - Projection Partnership turned to its hire fleet of Christie HD10K-M projectors, when asked to support global pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck A/S on its recent International sales & marketing meeting at the Prague Hilton.

Working alongside Lundbeck A/S' above the line advertising agencies and content providers, the 1920 X 1080 high-definition projectors met the complex multimedia challenges, under the direction of Graham Grimshaw, director of g2-Live Ltd, to give the audience a 360 degree visual experience in an enclosed oval environment.

Projection Partnership's brief was to supply a system capable of projecting onto a 5:1 aspect ratio curved three-screen centre display. Measuring 13.75 x 2.75m and edge-blended to provide a resolution of 5400 x 1080, the addition of a further two 1920 x 1080 side screens provided a total resolution of 9240 x 1080.

These two

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UK - Theatre professionals, technicians and stars of the future were introduced to The Backstage Academy at the ABTT show in London, exhibiting together with partner LS-Live for the first time at the show.

The launch of the Academy's new fast-track foundation degree in Live Events Production, produced in partnership with the University of Bolton, caught the eye of many prospective students looking to start their studies this September.

Based at the LS-Live headquarters in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Backstage Academy will offer students a state-of-the-art learning environment in which to study short courses in backstage skills and all manner of technical and creative arts, as well as the one-year foundation degree.

The course (currently subject to validation) is a ombination of newly written material produced in line with industry experts and existing courses by manufacturers

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Australia - Lighting designer Dave Jackson of Phaseshift Productions specified over 40 Robe moving lights - including 24 of the new Robin 600 LEDWash 'wonder lights' for the 11th Annual Bruce Lynton BMW Charity Ball - a major event on Australia's Gold Coast social calendar.

The event was held at RACV Royal Pines Resort, the look and feel of which was boosted for the occasion by the illumination of the building's massive main foyer by six Anolis ArcPad Xtremes, positioned inside, on the mezzanine above the main foyer, covering an area of about 600 square metres, and creating a special festive atmosphere. All lighting equipment was supplied by Phaseshift Productions.

The night began with a spectacular fireworks display to welcome over 600 guests including special invitees, naturalist Terri Irwin and Senator Mark Furner.

The 24 Robin 600 LEDWash fixtures were lighting the main

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UK - The Components Co has released the first glimpse of the Smart-e compact wireless LED fixture, measuring just 154 x 115 x 104mm and weighing in at a mere 1.2kg. It is billed as the first wireless LED product to scale down the size without compromising the performance, the whole unit is only round the size and weight of a standard bag of sugar.

The lithium polymer battery drives three groups of Luxeon Rebel RGB+W emitters using the latest Quad Lens form Carclo Optics, lasting up to eight hours on full output and in excess of 12 hours on colour scroll. The unit has two power modes to further increase battery life with output selected via the digital LCD address interface to either 350mA or 600mA.

The fixture supports W-DMX and has a 5pin XLR DMX output to supply other DMX fixtures that you may wish to rig in its vicinity. With the head detached the Smart-e can be used as a b

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Greece - ARX Systems, the Australian based designer and manufacturer has announced the appointment of Athens based Audio & Vision as their new distributor for Greece.

ARX managing director Colin Park said, "We're excited to be working with the Audio Vision team in Greece, they're enthusiastic about the possibilities for ARX and our products amongst their extensive client base.

"Audio Vision are an expanding force within the Greek Pro Audio Industry and are in close contact with Greek Audio Professionals across the installation, live sound and broadcast market sectors."

After more than 12 years servicing the professional audio industry Audio Vision now distribute product ranges including DPA Microphones, Nagra, Switchcraft, Tasker, Audac, Coolux, CM Columbus McKinnon and Swefog.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The ABTT Lighting Product of the Year Award went to ArcSystem, GDS's new LED house-light system. The award was presented to Richard Cuthbert, director of engineering for GDS. The judges were impressed by the wireless dimming performance of ArcSystem, a bespoke fitting manufactured for new build and retrofit existing tungsten lighting in auditoria and front of house locations.

ArcSystem from GDS is a new concept that provides a low energy future proofing solution for auditoria house lighting, says the company. ArcSystem is a LED based, fully dimmable unit with a warm white tungsten colour output. The system is designed to emulate a filament fitting in its dimming response and is one of the first LED products to be dimmed to zero without snapping.

Richard Cuthbert commented, "We are honoured to receive this recognition from ABTT. The R&D department continually strive t

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UK - Manchester based lighting rental company DBN supplied the city's new Parklife live music festival for the second year running - this time co-ordinating equipment for all four stages within the main arena. DBN was working for their regular client, Ear To The Ground, who also production manage regular, locally based dance party phenomena, Warehouse Project.

Parklife was again staged in PlattFields Park Manchester, and this year, the main headliners were Two Door Cinema Club on Saturday and Chase & Status on Sunday, plus an impressive array of others including Mark Ronson (DJ set), Annie Mac, Kelis, Katie B and numerous others.

The project was managed for DBN by Nick Walton, who also created a production design for all the stages with which DBN was involved, based around accommodating the specific requirements of headliners and visiting LDs.

Both headline bands on the Main

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