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USA - LSC Lighting Systems had a busy and successful exhibition at LDI in Orlando where the prototypes of two new models of the new Clarity LX console range were shown for the first time in the USA.

Following on from the initial preview of the Clarity LX300 console at PLASA in London in September, on show at LDI for the first time anywhere in the world was the Clarity LX900 console and it received wide acclaim.

The Clarity LX range comprises three models, the LX300, LX600 and LX900 all with touch screens, multiple programmers, unlimited undo/redo, Fader Ident TM for playback mode indication, media server integration, LED pixel mapping and innovative Rig Schematic patching, that allows importing of rig or venue images to overlay patched fixtures making fixture selection both quic

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UK - Martin Professional's EMEA sales organisation has announced the hiring of Ritchie Reed as account manager focusing on theatre sales in the UK market.

Reed brings with him extensive experience in the UK theatre lighting market, which includes a detailed understanding of all aspects of lighting design, as well as practical experience in purchasing, inventory and management.

His new position as account manager at Martin UK began on 21 November and encompasses developing and managing business in the theatre lighting segment while maintaining direct contact with lighting designers and companies that supply the theatre production industry.

Reed joins Martin from Selecon Lighting/Philips Entertainment where he held a position in lighting technical sales, providing product training, technical support and lighting installation specification while overseeing the implementation of

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France - SLS is the second company in France to invest in Adamson's Project Energia as a beta partner. SLS's entire loudspeaker inventory is made up exclusively of Adamson products. With 15 full time personnel and 140 freelancers, their Adamson inventory includes Metrix, SpekTrix, Y10, Y18, SX 18, Point Series and M series monitors housed in a 36,000sq.ft building in Ales, with a second location in Montpellier.

Though the French sound company is focused mainly on festivals and corporate events, they do provide sound production for a few tours, their main client since 2007 being the French band Les Ogres Barback (often nicknamed The Ogre). The Ogre are currently on tour with SLS's new Adamson E15 system. The band has released 12 albums since 1997, and their vast repertoire of intricate songs and complex arrangements are "a wonderful showcase for the capabilities E15 system&q

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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 - XL Video UK supplied specialist LED and IMAG projection screens plus control to the 2011 MTV European Music Awards, staged at Belfast Odyssey Arena, Northern Ireland, and broadcast live to 45 countries worldwide.

The live music video production specialist has been involved with this high profile event for several years, and XL's Chris Saunders was project managing for the third year running.

The show included a dynamic, star studded line up of artists performing live, including Lady GaGa, Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Jesse J, Justin Bieber, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Selina Gomez, who was also hosting.

Technical challenges included fitting an ambitious and visually spectacular stage set designed by Es Devlin - complete with integrated screens - into the venue. Also the XL team had to be flexible enough to accommodate specific requests from some artists late on as their ind

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Germany - The Digital Workflow workshop was held at Lawo AG in Rastatt, earlier this month. Entitled Integrated and innovative - from the mixing console to the microphone, the free-of-charge seminar was led by experts from Sennheiser, Neumann and Innovason who presented the latest product developments and their role in the digital workflow. Further, this practical workshop, offered sound engineers the opportunity to try out the digital microphones and mixing consoles in small groups.

The lectures about Neumann digital microphones and Innovason's Eclipse GT digital live mixing console were focused on creating easy workflows; they were followed by explanations from Martin Kaiser of TSE AG who, as technical director of this event, illustrated the successful deployment of these devices at the Classic Open Air classical music festival in Berlin in July.

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UK - Unusual Rigging is enjoying a busy winter season, with both new West End productions and UK tours, including Oliver! which opens on 10 December at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Following the company's involvement in the show's record-breaking West End run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Unusual is providing 30 motors and rigging for lifting the FOH and stage lighting and scenic trusses for the 11 venue tour, which is booking until March 2013.

Unusual is also supplying lighting trusses on the current UK tours of White Christmas, South Pacific, Dirty Dancing and We Will Rock You, and looking forward to starting work on the new touring production of The Phantom of the Opera. Premiering at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in March next year, the Phantom tour will require some 80 chain hoists, putting the total out on hire from Unu

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UK - MTV considered bids from a number of cities before settling Belfast for its annual awards show. Star Events Group provided a VerTech 2015CPL stage system for live performances from local super group Snow Patrol.

The stage type and access features, specified by Duchess Iredale on behalf of MTV Europe, were built over the main gates of Belfast's iconic City Hall facing the main shopping thoroughfare of Donegal Place.

The gates and railings formed integral parts of the completed structure with the stage height set to allow smooth passage of rolling risers between the main gate posts. The construction took place over four days which meant minimal disruption to traffic despite the delivery of some 100t of equipment and use of an 80t crane to assemble the stage.

Ancillary structures including a multilevel front of house and follow spot tower, with an essential cable bridge ac

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Scandinavia - TTA, manufacturer of Stagetracker FX, has strengthened its sales and distribution network across Scandinavia with the appointment of two new distributors; Alfa Audio A/S in Denmark, and Drammen Lyd AS in Norway. The two companies already have a strong working relationship with each other, and also with Arva Trading AB who is TTA's long-established distributor in Sweden.

According to TTA's sales and marketing manager, Flemming S°rensen, the move made sense for all parties concerned. "Scandinavia is a small market, so it's very common for companies to collaborate between countries. Drammen Lyd and Alfa Audio already knew each other very well, and Alfa Audio is in fact owned by Arva Trading in Sweden, so the link there is clear. The result for TTA is a strong foothold in three Scandinavian countries - Denmark, Norway and Sweden - with companies who can suppor

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UK - London-based creative lighting and event design practice Renegade designed all the technical production and co-ordinated equipment supply - including lighting, video and visuals, set and scenic elements plus sound - for the high profile SHINE 2011 Benefit Dinner.

This was staged at Old Billingsgate Market, one of London's premium event venues. The evening featured a gala dinner for 500 guests, complete with charity auction, rounded off by a performance by Chic - headed by guitarist Nile Rogers. The event raised money for the charity, which supports additional educational initiatives encouraging children and young people to raise their achievement levels.

Renegade has worked closely with SHINE for the last eight years, producing all their live events. Each year for this special event, Renegade's Nick Gray comes up with a fresh and inventive visual theme for the evening.

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET)'s specialist rigging division has provided a bespoke Prolyte trussing grid solution for Studio Three at Milton House on the campus of the University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Studio Three is a charismatic Grade II listed space within a former Methodist Church that is now part of The Milton Building, home to the University's Drama, Theatre & Performance department. It is a new area used for training students in lighting and sound on the University's new BA Honours degree course in technical theatre.

AC-ET was one of several companies invited to tender for the project by David Wainwright, senior technician and manager of resources for drama, theatre & performance, having previously supplied equipment to the University.

The Studio Three grid project was co-ordinated for A.C. Rigging by Adam Beaumont, and utilises over 90 custo

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France - The Tree Rings installation on the Champs-Elysées in Paris sees 200 trees each encircled by three specially created rings of LED lighting that add drama, movement and colour to the natural organic form of the tree.

In daylight hours, the inner lights of each ring emit a soft glow of light, and mirror garlands sparkle as they move freely in the breeze. At dusk, vibrant programmed displays begin, using both the inner and outer lights, continuing until 2am. The entire scheme is programmable to create vastly different effects; precise shifts in colour and tempo can be created, to focus on one tree or to create a sequence or group effect, with over 80,000 000 possible combinations of effects per tree.

The Tree Rings installation is scalable, from a lighting effect on individual tree to the orchestration of a light show involving every tree along the entire avenue. C

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Australia - The existing Darra Chapel, was built in the early 1920?s, and its existence has played a significant role for the community of this Brisbane suburb. Recently Cottee Parker Architects renovated the Chapel and added an extension, engaging ASV Audio Visual to design and install the audio requirements.

"The design and architecture of the chapel, being long and narrow, required a particular small frame speaker but they also had some band requirements too," explained Rod Fishwick, managing director of ASV Audio Visual. "That meant I had very few speakers to choose from and the JBL CBT 70J fitted the bill perfectly. It offered both voice intelligibility as well as the fullness to support organs and some light band music."

As well as fulfilling the performance and technical requirements the JBL CBT 70J speakers fit the architectural design of the buildi

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Czech Republic - Wireless Solution Sweden AB was a sponsor for the recent Scenofest event in Prague. Scenofest is the educational project of OISTAT (International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians) and the Prague Quadrennial.

Scenofest, which was held during the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, included workshops in a wide variety of artistic disciplines; more than 70 artists and professional leaders from all over the world; and more than 1500 participants ? both students and professionals from across the globe.

Visitors to the Prague Quadrennial had the opportunity to enjoy the performances entitled Six Acts transforming locations around the city of Prague into spaces for site-specific performances and installations realized by students under the leaderships of Pavel Štoura?, Roma Patel, Louise Ann Wilson, Rolf Abderh

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World - The Red Hot Chili Peppers have embarked on an epic World Tour with four grandMA full-size and a large complement of Clay Paky Sharpy lighting fixtures accompanying the band. The tour comes on the heels of the release of the band's tenth studio album, I'm With You.

Premier Global Production, which serviced the band for their last world tour, has returned as the lighting vendor for the new tour working with lighting designer Scott Holthaus.

Holthaus uses four grandMA full-size, one running video from Catalyst and D3 servers and the other running lighting, two grandMA full-size are back-up. "They are wonderful, powerful machines - I used the grandMA on every tour and they always work great, never a problem," he says. "Of the 275 shows I did on the last tour, I only went to our spare desk once."

He praises the grandMA's "sound operating sy

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UK - Ross Ashton and The Projection Studio's Crown of Light projected artwork on Durham Cathedral- created for the 2009 Lumière - is back by popular demand for this year's four-day festival of light event, which is curated and produced by Artichoke for Durham City Council.

Lumière 2011 features the work of dozens of artists, lighting designers and community groups in 35 installations, bringing a "sparkle of magic" to the medieval city.

Says Ashton, "It's a real testament to the piece and very flattering to be asked back with the same show. It's also extremely rare for the same creation to be requested again in its entirety, offering those who enjoyed the experience the first time around the chance to do so again, a new audience the opportunity to see it for the first time plus real value for the producers."

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UK - Sound rental company, RG Jones has been producing sound reinforcement infrastructure for the Raymond Gubbay Classical Spectaculars at the Royal Albert Hall since 1993.

With production harnessing cannons, pyro and lasers in a festival type 'Proms' atmosphere, it has taken all of FOH engineer Simon Honywill's expertise to keep the show's audio fidelity evolving with each generation of new technology.

Honywill is no stranger to Martin Audio proprietary line array platforms, introducing W8L Longbow systems to the Glastonbury Pyramid stage, and taking the new MLA (Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array) on tour with Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.

Rigging the MLA at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time ever this month, he reports, "We've made a massive leap forward with the MLA ... the results were remarkable."

With MLA-certified systems engineer Mark

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UK - Housed within the modern Radisson Edwardian Guildford Hotel, which recently arrived in the historic Surrey county town, the Market Kitchen & Bar describes itself as an all-day Mediterranean café, offering relaxed local bistro-dining from brunch and lunch, turning into a cosmopolitan evening destination. It also contains a relaxed bar lounge, with soft, colourful furnishing.

To help maintain its chameleon effect, a sound system was required that could provide hi-fi music at low level from an eclectic playlist stored on hard-drive during the day, pumping up the energy into the bar lounge during the evening when a fully-specified DJ front end comes into play.

Meeting the combined requirements of potency and aesthetic (the system needing to blend discreetly with Rabih Hage's interior design), the venue opted for a Martin Audio AQ architectural solution to underpin its

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UK -The Buddah Lounge in Romford has been transformed into a vibrant nightclub. Brett Newton of Pro Effects installed 20 Chauvet fixtures to update the once drab location. Eight MiN Spot RGBW moving heads and four Intimidator Scan LED 200 scanners add energy and movement. Two Circus fill the dance floor with multi-coloured effects, piercing the fog generated by two Hurricane 1800 Flex foggers. SlimPAR 56 wash the stage in saturated hues.

Newton faced challenges often found in smaller clubs-low ceilings, which meant little head room for truss and lighting fixtures that are easily touched-as well as a tight budget. He divided the intimate space into four zones, placing two MiN Spot RGBW movers in each. To fill some awkward corners just off the dance floor, Newton utilized four Intimidator Scan LED 200 scanners. The compactness of these fixtures allowed them to remain discreet and

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Denmark - The provincial city of Herning in the heart of Denmark's Jutland peninsula is home to Jyske Bank Boxen, which, since opening in 2010, has become one of the country's premiere venues for concerts and events. The 15,000 capacity 'Boxen,' Denmark's largest indoor arena, opened with a Lady Gaga show in October of 2010 and hasn't looked back.

A steady stream of national and international stars has added Herning to their touring schedules. Seeking to support the wide variety of performances and special events, arena owners Messe Center Herning A/S (MCH) contacted Martin Professional Scandinavia about a new night-time lighting design.

"The whole idea was to create an arena of international status and capacity and MCH wanted a lighting scheme that would express this while creating a landmark for the entire region," states Anders Birch, sales manager at Martin Profe

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In Harmony - The UK government has announced its first ever national plan for music education in response to Classic FM managing director Darren Henley's review of the sector. Henley's review, published earlier this year, made 36 recommendations for the minimum expectations of what any child going through the English school system should receive in terms of an education in music. One such recommendation was that there should be a comprehensive national plan for music education.

Launching the scheme, Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove claimed it "will deliver a music education system that encourages everyone, whatever their background, to enjoy music and help those with real talent to flourish as brilliant musicians" while culture minister Ed Vaizey said that the new resources would help "provide our fantastic creative industries with the next generation

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UK - The website for the unique event that is Showlight 2013 has gone live. Whether you are a Showlight virgin, or a regular attendee, this is the ideal place to learn more about this three day quadrennial conference and exhibition, say organisers.

"For the first time, the website contains edited highlights of previous papers, capturing both the serious and the humorous side of Showlight. The clips bring the 2009 event to life for those who didn't attend - and are a great reminder of some excellent presentations for those who did. So, if you've thought about presenting a paper at Showlight, but weren't sure how it all worked, now you can see exactly what others have done!"

If you have an idea for a paper, you can register your interest at www.showlight.org/present If you are interested in being an exhibitor at Showlight 2013 and would like to know more, go directly t

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