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UK - W E Audio, based in North Oxfordshire, has taken delivery of two Midas Pro 2 consoles, purchased from LMC Audio.

With a pair of 'always-in-demand' Heritage H3000s already in stock, which have been used on all of the festivals they have supplied this year, Wayne Barker, MD of W E Audio, and his team are familiar with the audio quality of Midas products.

"We have always loved what Midas put into their consoles, especially the XL3 & XL4 and of course the H3000", explains Rylan Machin, project manager at W E Audio. "So when we saw what Midas had done with the Pro 2, bringing out a console with a small footprint, a respectable channel count, and the same Midas quality and attention to detail, we knew there would be high demand for hire on this console again."

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UK - Integrated communications firm Imagination, based in London, has a reputation for producing experiential and effective brand marketing using the latest in digital lighting technology and recently turned to Martin Professional's Exterior 400 Range of LED luminaires to illuminate its own headquarter façade.

Imagination's headquarter building lies in the heart of London's West End. It is a multi-use, award-winning facility with a visually attractive façade that has been illuminated for years in a pleasing shade of blue, a colour scheme that the company wished to keep. Yet an upgrade to more dynamic and energy-efficient luminaires was called for.

"We wanted to maintain the previous classic blue lighting scheme on the building, which was HMI lighting and which we've had for quite some time, but we also wanted the ability to do different lighting schemes, for example at

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The Netherlands - The KWF (Dutch Cancer Society) has over 120,000 volunteers who help it to raise awareness of cancer and funds towards patient support and furthering cancer research. One of its annual highlights is the Alped' HuZes, which sees thousands of cyclists climb the French mountain Alpe d'Huez. Concluding with a live concert at the resort on top of the mountain, Yamaha equipment helped this latest event to raise a record amount of money.

As well as being a major ski resort, Alpe d'Huez is famous as a stage in the Tour de France, the fastest ascent taking 37 minutes and 35 seconds. This year's Alpe d'HuZes saw 4,661 of the volunteer amateur, professional and celebrity cyclists reach the 1,860m(6,102ft) summit in considerably slower times, but raising over €20m for KWF's work in the process.

The event's grand finale took place in the Palais de Sport on top of the moun

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USA - Two illustrious high school stadiums in the Tacoma Public Schools system enjoyed vastly improved sound for the 2011 football season, thanks to comprehensive distributed audio system upgrades at both locations.

Lynwood, Washington-based systems integration firm Electrocom managed the upgrades, installing Technomad advanced audio loudspeakers and high-powered amplifiers among other components at Stadium High School and Lincoln High School. Electrocom handpicked the systems to replace aging horn components that were in disrepair and bleeding into adjacent neighbourhoods - prompting a flurry of complaints.

The stadiums' long, rich histories are evident in their grandeur: large, bowl-shaped venue designs with concrete bleachers and expansive sideline space. This made sound improvements - especially even, venue-wide coverage - unusually challenging.

"These are not typic

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The Netherlands - Crestron's new Fusion EM software is a complete energy management solution for organisations of any size from schools and universities to corporate enterprises, says the company.

The Crestron Fusion platform is a scalable framework which provides the basis on which to monitor and manage lighting, energy, and AV, while providing the tools for remote help desk, room scheduling and asset tracking. Fusion expands upon the established Crestron RoomView Server Edition (SE) platform by upping the ante with its scalable redundant architecture and multiple front-end components: Fusion RV and Fusion EM.

Fusion RV software, which provides AV, help desk, meeting scheduling and technology management, is the upgrade path from RoomView SE. The all-new Fusion EM provides energy management and tracking. Both front-end components coexist on the same server platform and share t

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UK - As part of their 50th Anniversary celebrations, The Association of Lighting Designers has announced a new international award which honours practitioners who have made a sustained and significant contribution to the art and esteem of theatre and live performance lighting design.

The recipient of the Anniversary Medal for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design for Live Performance is Jennifer Tipton, who has been at the top of her profession for a number of years and engenders a philosophy and practice which has inspired generations of theatre makers, especially in the world of contemporary dance, says the organisation.

Chair of the ALD, lighting designer PeterMumford, gave his view of her work. "When I first came across the work of Jennifer Tipton, it was at a time when there were not so many lighting designers in the world and the art form was relatively new and un

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USA - Milestone AV Technologies has announced that Steve Durkee has been promoted to the newly created position of president - commercial products. Durkee will now oversee both the Chief and Da-Lite brands at Milestone and all associated sales, marketing, and product development efforts. Most recently, Durkee served as president - Chief & Sanus products for Milestone.

Durkee's's new role is coupled with Milestone's alignment into separate commercial and consumer customer-oriented global product groups. This alignment will allow the organisation to focus on the specific customer needs of these two distinct market segments. Supporting both of these new product groups are unified finance, supply chain, and manufacturing organizations.

"We're very excited to unite two of the best market-segment-leading brands in the commercial AV market under one experienced leader," sai

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UK - Following lengthy negotiations, CPS Group has confirmed the purchase of the Stagecraft brand together with a significant proportion of assets, after the recent voluntary liquidation of Stagecraft Technical Services Ltd. The newly acquired assets have strengthened CPS' stock of industry standard brands such as ETC, Avolites, Shure, Steeldeck & Prolyte.

Richard Colegate, director, comments, "Stagecraft has been a well-respected name in the industry for over 30 years and CPS is delighted to pick up the torch and lead the Stagecraft brand into the next decade."

Colegate continues, "We look forward to working with Stagecraft customers in 2012. Combining CPS' excellence in modern lighting, audio and video with Stagecraft's expertise in stage production and outdoor structures provides exciting new possibilities. Bringing on-board Stagecraft's expertise in stage co

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Sweden - W-DMX by Wireless Solution Sweden delivered the lighting to TeliaSonera's Stockholm headquarters for the holiday season. TeliaSonera AB is Europe's fifth largest telecom operator with operations in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Spain, with a total of over 150m mobile customers. The company headquarters are located at Stureplan in the centre of Stockholm, one of the highest wireless traffic locations in the world.

The design idea seemed simple enough: display lit Blachere snowflakes in the windows of the front of the building facing the main square downtown and put on a nightly light display every evening from mid-November through 27 December. Ola Melzig of M & M Production Management was contracted by DDB Stockholm to come up with the design and logistics surrounding the concept.

The first idea was to hang the lighting on the exterior of the building belo

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USA - Brad Paisley entertained more than one million fans during his H2O II: Wetter & Wilder World Tour. During each show, 25 Chauvet Professional SparkliteLED drapes created a luminous backdrop behind the country music superstar.

Lighting designer Dean Spurlock, of Dean Spurlock Lighting and Design, specified the use of SparkliteLED drape for the tour. Designed for large-scale installations like Paisley's arena performances, SparkliteLED drape measures 20 x13ft and includes built-in effects. The drapes, which are powered by 128 tri-colored LEDs and divided into eight controllable sections, gave Spurlock the flexibility to customise and control all 3,200 LEDs in the backdrop at his discretion.

Interlocked using hook-and-loop fasteners, the 25 drapes created a star-field backdrop that twinkled brightly during select song performances adding dimension to the stage.

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China - The elaborate Ordos epic, Holy Heimori, produced by the Etuoke Qianqi people of Inner Mongolia in China, premiered in September on the Grassland Stage of the Shanghai Temple in Inner Mongolia.The legendry tale, a play about drawing tribal conflict to a close and seeking lasting peace on the grassland, came to life with the aid of an elaborate set and stage design that incorporated mood-generating and decorate effects from Martin MAC 401 Dual RGB Zoom luminaires and MAC 2000 Wash moving heads. Lighting design is by Sha Xiao Lan, lighting designer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Traditional song, dance, and art, as well as ethnic customs and values are expressed on stage with the help of dynamic lighting technology to give the audience a better understanding of Mongolian Ordos culture.For example, Ordos folk songs are melodious, like the sounds o

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UK - The annual UK Festival Awards found a new home at London's Roundhouse in November where the event reached new levels of prestige with the help of a bespoke in the round stage by LS-Live.

With the awards event in its eighth year, Managing director James Drury wanted to take the festival industry's annual celebration to a new level. Moving from the IndigO2 at the O2 Arena in Greenwich to the Roundhouse in Camden meant a new format for the awards, which was hosted this year by The Cuban Brothers.

The UK Festival Awards saw 16 winners collect their trophies, following seven awards at the Conference during the day. Folk music and dance promoter Steve Heap received the prestigious 'Lifetime Achievement Award' for his continued dedication to the festival industry.

Rob Da Bank took home the new 'Fan's Favourite Festival Award' for the sold-out Bestival, whilst a panel of judges

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UK - Nick Gray of UK based visual design practice Renegade, designed lighting for rockers Kasabian's live You Tube Re:Wired performance, streamed direct from London's O2 Arena, to welcome in 2012 with a big bang.

Challenges included only having eight hours on show-day to get in, rig and complete show programming before handing the rig over to Chase & Status' LD Neil Carson, so he could also squeeze in some programming time for their set. This feat was accomplished with some astute teamwork between Renegade and the crew from London-based lighting contractor, Neg Earth.

The band have just finished the first UK leg arena of their new Velociraptor! tour, and some visual elements of this show were adapted for the New Year's Eve event. Says Nick Gray, "It was great to be able to work on another technically ground breaking gig with the band, who are always up for c

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USA - The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College is a historic landmark in the heart of Boston's theatre district. Built as an opera house in 1903, this intimate venue serves student, community and professional theatrical productions.

In 1999, AV systems integrator Boston Light & Sound was brought in to design and install a PA system utilising a pair of EAW MQ1364 MF/HF Array Loudspeakers on either side of an MQTD412 LF Array Loudspeaker with a single MQ1394 below and JF290zs for L&R Orchestra-fill. At the time, with the theatre's balcony closed, the system provided complete coverage of the venue's main-floor and mezzanine seating areas. In 2003, when the balcony was reopened after extensive reconstruction as part of the theatre's 100th anniversary, additional EAW AS690e fill speakers were added for balcony coverage, based on a consultant's design.

Over the summer of 2011,

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UK - For 2012, the ABTT Theatre Show is moving to the 'Old Truman Brewery' a new venue for the event, located in the heart of a thriving and booming creative community in East London. The organisers say: "The move is in keeping with the creative and artistic roots of theatre and the ethos of the annual ABTT Theatre Show."

The 'Old Truman Brewery' where the ABTT Theatre Show 2012 will be staged on 13-14 June, is already home to art, design and fashion shows. It was created from the regeneration of 10 acres of once vacant and derelict buildings on the former brewery site and is also placed central to one of London's most exuberant and eclectic shopping and dining districts.

Event organiser Roger Fox explains: "Theatre people need to communicate face-to-face in a relaxed environment. In fact, the convivial atmosphere became so successful in the early days of the Th

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Qatar - Continuing its success with rental companies in the Middle East, Unique Sound based in Doha, Qatar has recently acquired an HK Audio Elements system from Melody House. Distributors for the Middle East, Melody House have sold two complete systems that include the EF435 Mid/Top, EP1 Poles and the EA600 Active Subwoofers.

"The Elements is very successful with rental firms as it is a compact system that is also versatile to meet various kind of applications without compromising on the quality of audio," commented Amrith Verghese, HK Audio product specialist at Melody House. "In addition, the fact that the system is scalable allows Unique Sound to grow the system ad their business grows making it a great return on investment."

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Canada - wysiwyg software suite from CAST Software of Toronto was a winner at the 99th Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League's championship football game between the East Division champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the West Division champion BC Lions. The game was held on Sunday, 27 November 2011 at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver in front of a live audience of 54,313 and broadcast live to over 4.5m viewers.

The popular Vancouver-based rock band Nickelback performed for the Pepsi Max Halftime Show. Production designer for the halftime show was Robert Sondergaard and TV lighting director was Jason McKinnon, both of Electric Aura in Vancouver.

Sondergaard used wysiwyg R27 Perform during the whole design process to communicate the design look to the show producer, Patrick Roberge Productions as well as Nickelback. He explains, "In the lead up to the Grey Cup, there were a num

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Spain - Lasting 1395 days, the siege of Sarajevo was one of the darkest episodes witnessed by mainland Europe since the Second World War. Revisited in a major exhibition at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Yamaha audio technology is helping to bring a powerful depiction of the siege to life.

The exhibition comprises a film, 1395 Days Without Red, by Sarajevo-born artist Šejla Kameri? and his wife, Anri Sala. Designed to be shown in adjacent rooms, each version of the film features the same events and narrative, but shot from different camera angles.

Throughout every day the 1992-96 siege, thousands of citizens had to cross a myriad of streets threatened by snipers and mortar rounds. The films bring the past and present together by following a woman - played by Spanish actress Maribel Verdú - as she follows her daily route through Sarajevo to a rehear

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China The hit musical Mamma Mia! has recently broken new ground as the first western musical to be performed in Mandarin with a Chinese cast. After runs in Shanghai and Beijing, the show is currently playing in Guangzhou, with a DiGiCo SD8 at the helm.

Although western musicals have previously toured China, this is the first time that one has been performed by a local cast, with a translated script.

Mamma Mia! in China is produced by United Asia Live Entertainment Co by arrangement with Judy Craymer, Richard East and Bjorn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal. Technically the approach for the audio was the same as it has been for all other recent productions of the show, including the DiGiCo SD8 mixing console. But a few hurdles had to be cleared regarding the supply of equipment.

"Because of China's import laws, we realised that it would b

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UK / Spain - Cadac Holdings has announced the appointment of Adagio.pro as exclusive distributor of its new range of analogue and digital compact consoles in Spain and Portugal.

Headquartered outside of Barcelona, Adagio.pro is the pro-audio distribution arm of Grupo Adagio, which also incorporates an extensive MI distribution division and owns a chain of music and pro-audio stores throughout Spain and Portugal; including the Music Gallery stores within the leading El Corte Ingles chain of department stores in Spain. The company owns exclusive distribution rights to some of the leading pro audio brands in the region.

Commenting on the agreement, international sales development manager Vincenzo Borrelli stated, "Adagio.pro is an ideal distribution partner for our new line up of analogue and digital consoles, which are aimed at the general pro audio and live sound sectors,

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Europe - Pixled has been appointed as the official distributor for LED display manufacturer Radiant's Linx range of products in key European countries as of 1 January 2012.

For almost two years, Pixled and Radiant have been involved in an on-going 'co-development' agreement, with Pixled selling Radiant's 'L-Series' Linx products badged as Pixled F-37L / F-30L, etc.

For continuity, Pixled has now renamed its four current L-Series products to carry the same name. The Pixled Linx-18 / Pixled Linx-25 / Pixled Linx-30 and Pixled Linx-37 all have the suffix 'by Radiant'.

Pixled's general manager Bart Van der Beken says, "We're delighted with this official appointment which recognises that Pixled has the right contacts, resources, infrastructure and mind-set to take the Linx brand forward. In the past 12 months we have sold high volumes of this very lightweight, ultra-flexible

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