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UK - The International Outdoor Event Expo (IOEX) is launching a 'speed-networking' event giving landowners looking to expand their estate's potential the chance to meet event agencies and organisers searching for unique or never before used space for their event.

IOEX is taking place at ExCeL London from 6-8 March alongside International Confex. The speed-networking event is on Wednesday 7 March and will involve quick fire networking between estate owners and organisers, lasting no longer than five minutes. This will give both estate owners and organisers the chance to meet everyone in the room, giving an overview of the space or event opportunities on offer and making invaluable connections for future business collaborations.

Mark Gordon, sales director for IOEX commented: &quo

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UK - AKG and its UK distributor Sound Technology Ltd have announced the UK shipping of its recently launched WMS40 MINI 2 dual-channel compact wireless systems.

The AKG WMS 40 MINI 2 Dual wireless systems, launched at Winter NAMM, offers high-definition audio performance, with efficient body pack and cardioid mic transmitters, ensuring advanced, reliable and quality sound for performances.

The WMS 40 MINI 2 Dual Package is available in three sets - the Vocal, Instrumental and Mix sets.

The Vocal set features two HT 40 MINI dynamic handheld cardioid microphone transmitters and the SR 40 MINI 2 dual receiver. The Instrumental set includes two PT 40 MINI body packs - the smallest transmitters in their class that last up to 30 hours on a single AA battery -the SR 40 MINI 2 dual receiver and two guitar cables.

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UK - Big Screen specialists PSCo Rental has launched the new NanoFlex screen to the UK rental market. The screens are third generation technology, offering 6mm flexible LED solution which enables organisers to flex and suspend these 112" screens with very little infrastructure required.

The NanoFlex screen is designed in the US by NanoLumens and PSCo is the only rental company with them available for use at events in the UK. The screen is designed for quick and easy installation, which makes it perfect for rental applications where a big screen suspended at height is required.

The 6mm pixel pitch enables the screen to display "stunning graphics and full motion video, while the bend radius of 48" in both convex and concave formations allows it to be manipulated into curves for stunning design features at events".

Stuart Holmes, managing director of PSCo co

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USA - Chauvet has announced that its "ultra-bright and versatile" wash luminaire COLORado 2 Zoom Tour is now shipping. The fixture employs 61 3W Cree LEDs (RGBW) for high output and colour mixing capabilities, from intense hues to subtle pastels. A 6-35° flexible zoom precisely sizes the beam, while built-in colour temperature presets from 3,200K to 10,000K provide predictable colour. This is a silent and flicker-free fixture suited for noise-sensitive environments and on camera, the company says.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - J. R. Clancy has announced the promotion of Marilyn Larsen, a 25-year veteran of the company, to Marketing Services.

Larsen came to Clancy in 1987 as a receptionist, and quickly moved up to office manager. In 2001, she went to work for Mike Murphy in engineering and project management, and most recently, she added marketing services to her responsibilities, supervising all advertising, public relations, and marketing activities for the company. She is also the principal liaison with Wenger Corporation, Clancy's parent company for marketing needs.

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Jamaica - In the beginning the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival was targeted at jazz and blues enthusiasts and was held in November each year. Various factors, including heavy rains at that time of the year, encouraged the organisers to move the festival to the end of January.

Over the years the festival has become very successful, attracting crowds of over 30,000 and is now a three-day event. It encompasses a range of musical genres, including jazz, R&B, blues, Latin, Reggae, Soca, and various types of musical fusion.

For the 2012 edition lighting designer, lighting director and programmer John Dacosta voted for two grandMA2 light consoles to control more than 140 Martin Professional and Vari*Lite moving lights, two media servers and multiple LED-screens.

"It was simply the best solution for the job because of the seamless integration of lighting and video", said D

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UK - Off-road running's answer to the Iron Man triathlon, the Hell Down South event in the Brooks HellRunner drew around 6,500 competitors to the Longmoor Military Training Camp near Bordon in Hampshire, with a sell-out crowd of 5,000 spectators cheering them on.

The inhospitable conditions, however, posed a challenge not only to the men and women taking part but also to the loudspeakers and amplifiers deployed by the Surrey-based public address and communication hire specialists,. Show Hire. Although the company has been active in the pro audio business for some 30 years, overcoming many production challenges in the process, those posed by the HellRunner series are particularly severe.

"The area to be covered is very, very extensive," explains managing director Nick Chubb, "and the weather here in November is anything but equipment friendly." The Show Hire

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Belgium - The popular Belgian children's television shows Piet Piraat and Mega Mindy were recently turned into hugely successful stage productions involving state-of-the-art 3D projection technology.

Studio 100, one of Belgium's most important TV production companies, had to face the challenge of trying to do justice to the excitement of the series' popular characters' adventures. In the case of the super heroine Mega Mindy and the charming Pirate Piet, the actors were able to interact with a combination of traditional set pieces and 3D projections live on stage.

coolux Pandoras Box's brand new Version 5 Broadcast Servers proved to be the ideal tool for the production, due to the available HD SDI outputs. The coolux Widget Designer was an essential component when it came to creating interaction between the audience and the animation on display. The combination of

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Czech Republic - The 130-year old Mahen Theatre in the Czech Republic has recently installed a full Yamaha DME-based Ethersound network, complementing its existing Yamaha digital mixing consoles.

One of the cultural hubs of Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, on its opening in 1882 the Mahen Theatre was one of the first public buildings in the world to be lit entirely by electric light. This was in response to a spate of fires in gas-lit theatres across Europe.

Installed by Prague-based Audiopro, the latest upgrade adds an Ethersound audio network which features four Yamaha SB168-ES stage boxes, four DME4io-ES digital mixing engines and an NAI48-ES Ethersound interface to work with the theatre's twoM7CL-48 and 01V96V2 digital mixing consoles.

"The theatre's main auditorium uses the two M7CL consoles and a second, smaller stage which uses the 01V96V2,&qu

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South Africa - Promoting the album Journey Through The Shadows, The Parlotones have been playing a series venues including The Lyric Theatre, Emperor's Palace and Barnyard Theatre (Cresta & Menlyn).

LD Travis Yeatman programmes on his Avolites Tiger Touch. "Everything is still fine," he said. "The new software is nice, the desk travels well and as a whole is good. I also don't have hardware hassles. I'm still having fun and the gigs fill up most of my months."

Something the fans may not know is that the band is training in the hope of climbing Kilimanjaro in March this year. They are joining celebrities, civil society and public sectors as well as the media from 54 African countries to highlight the Africa-UNiTE Speak out Climb up to end Violence against Women and Girls campaign.

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UK - Lighting Technology Projects (LTP), under its current service provider role to Philips, has installed a high-resolution 'vidiwall' to the Westfield Stratford City urban retail mall in London, UK.

Adjacent to the Olympic Park, the outdoor LED-based screen, which is used for in-house advertising, features at the main entrance of the new shopping centre and is one of the first digital displays to seen by customers upon arrival.

Energy-efficient and offering optimum image quality, the screen provides an instant connection with consumers, and is anticipated to see more than seven million passersby during the 2012 Olympic Games.

The project follows on from previous collaborations between LTP and Philips, which have included reinstating and illuminating video cylinders at the O2 Arena and the current ceiling mediascape at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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UK - Officials at Lord's Cricket Ground have announced that three new audio visual providers - Aztec Event Services, Smyle and Fisher Productions - have been added to the ground's exclusive AV supplier list. Eclipse Presentations, who have worked at Lord's for eight years, will continue to offer onsite AV support throughout the ground, with a resident venue manager overseeing operations.

Lord's - the Home of Cricket - has hosted a range of external events over the past 12 months, including the International Wine Challenge, British Swimming Awards Dinner, and the LTI Taxi launch, in addition to the internationally acclaimed MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture in July last year.

Nick Kenton, meetings & events sales manager at Lord's Cricket Ground, said, "Aztec Event Services, Smyle, and Fisher Productions are three of the leading lights in the audio visual industry, and

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UK - Located in one of the city's most exclusive areas, the Sofitel London St James is one of the UK capital's leading five-star hotels, combining traditional British design with a French contemporary style. When one of the hotel's most elegant areas needed a new audio system, a K-array loudspeaker system and Sennheiser G3 radio microphones were chosen to meet the strict criteria.

Sofitel London St James is housed in the sympathetically renovated, Grade II-listed former Cox's and King's bank building. A flexible, high quality audio installation was required to cover the grand brasserie, The Balcon, the Champagne Balcony and the St James Bar where the décor is inspired by the 1920's Paris apartment of Coco Chanel. With interiors designed by the Russell Sage Studio, a quality sound system that would be invisible to the eye was a necessity.

"The hotel delivers a stand

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France - Radio France has just invested in their third Eclipse digital console from Innovason. The national broadcaster already owns seven Innovason desks including two Eclipses, one of which is installed in Radio France's legendary Studio 106 which, amongst other things, broadcasts the daily show on France Inter, Les Affranchis, hosted by Isabelle Giordano.

Head of sound reinforcement at Radio France, Bruno Lompech, explained why he decided to go for another Eclipse. "I felt it was important that we have a back-up console that could be available quickly for the studios that are broadcasting every day, in particular Studio 106. Not that we expect to have problems - on the contrary, all of our Innovason consoles and especially Eclipse have proved to be extremely reliable, but it's good practice to have a spare.

"By the same token, we also needed a spare for the

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UK - Creative agency Knifedge has created animated visuals for four songs featured in Snow Patrol's spectacular 2012 world tour, including one of the band's biggest hits, Chasing Cars.

Knifedge is one of a number of creative agencies commissioned to work on the tour, working closely alongside Snow Patrol's lighting designer Davy Sherwin.

The staging for the new tour features a striking new look and feel, created by Davy Sherwin, with initial concept input from Knifedge. Inspired by the band's snowflake logo, six floating LED screens hang above the stage, each shaped like single crystals from a snowflake.

Animated graphics and live video footage of both the band and audience members are projected onto these floating 'pods', which also move in three dimensions to create different atmospheres for individual songs. A giant LED screen behind the stage completes the look.

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Canada - CAST has announced the addition of over 25 of the latest fixtures from the most popular manufacturers in the lighting industry to the wysiwyg library, complementing the December release of wysiwyg R28.

Over the last 20 years, the CAST Library has grown to over 24,000 fixtures and accessories available in the industry and it continues to grow with the advent of every new product available. Before any object goes into the Library, each and every piece is tested, measured and certified in-house to ensure 100% reliability so that what happens with a light in the virtual world happens exactly the same on the stage. The brightness and colour of a particular light are exact and moving heads will move like they would when controlled by the actual motors and servos in a live situation.

The latest fixtures available to current wysiwyg Members include the High End Intellaspot XT

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UK - The new Westfield Stratford City retail and leisure destination in East London, which opened its doors to the public last September, is the largest urban shopping centre in Europe. Boasting over 250 shops, 70 places to eat and drink, three hotels, a 14-lane bowling alley, and a 17-screen all-digital Vue cinema, not to mention the UK's largest casino. Westfield Stratford City is also the prestigious gateway to London's Olympic Park for the forthcoming 2012 Games.

Systems integration and project management company, Media Powerhouse were the elected contractors for the supply and installation of all the audio systems throughout Westfield Stratford City's Events Spaces, which included two systems from UK loudspeaker company EM Acoustics.

In fact, Westfield used the successful audio installations at the Westfield London site as the blueprint for Westfield Stratford City. Follo

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Australia - Ross Video has announced today the grand opening of their new corporate office in Melbourne, Australia on 15 February 2012. To celebrate, Ross Australia will be hosting a SMPTE section night out.

The new facility will be home to the Ross Routing Systems manufacturing team, while also housing inventory for openGear and other Ross products. The new office will also include Research and Development for Ross Routing Systems, as well as technical support across all Ross products for Australia & New Zealand.

"In addition to developing and assembling routers to support Ross world-wide, the new Australian operations will support the full range of Ross Video product lines at a local level," said Dae Choe, director of sales, Asia Pacific, Ross Video. "Over the past year, we've dramatically scaled up in Australia, hiring a local sales manager, Spencer Preece; p

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UK - Crestron has announced the grand opening of its new Design and Experience Centre in Leeds. This site provides local dealers a space in which to demonstrate the many benefits of Crestron's product range to its customers, says the company.

The new centre, which will be officially unveiled at an opening event on Thursday 1March 2012, provides a space for dealers to bring their customers, whether architects, contractors, developers, end users, or interior designers; to experience Crestron technology and give them an understanding of how it can transform their projects.

"We are incredibly excited about the new centre in Leeds and what it will mean for our dealers and their customers" says Phil Breitschadel, Crestron UK's sales manager "The Design and Experience Centre has moved to a prime location, making it more accessible for clients and easier for them to mee

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USA - W-DMX by Wireless Solution Sweden AB will be showing the latest products in the W-DMX G4 range during PLASA Focus in Austin, Texas, February 22-23 on the A.C.T. Lighting booth 123. New products on display include the ProBox F-2500 G4, the BlackBox G4 MK2 and the BlueBox RDM Controller.

The ProBox F-2500 G4 is the flagship of the W-DMX range of products and is a transceiver solution with three functions in one. It is capable of transmitting or receiving two DMX universes with support of RDM and Ethernet protocols like Art-Net II/III and s/ACN. In addition, the unit is also a one DMX universe repeater with a built-in RDM controller that supports one universe with RDM over DMX or Ethernet. In addition, the ProBox F-2500 G4 also contains a built in RDM controller (BlueBox), all packed inside a 19" rack unit that supports both three-pin and five-pin XLR, Powercon and Ether

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Grammy Awards - Adele was the big winner at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, winning six prizes including record, song and album of the year. She also made her live comeback at the ceremony, performing for the first time since having throat surgery last year. Rock band Foo Fighters won five prizes, while rapper Kanye West scooped four. The event saw heartfelt tributes to pop star Whitney Houston, who died on Saturday, while Amy Winehouse received a posthumous award.

Accepting the trophy for best pop solo performance for her song Someone Like You, Adele said, "Seeing as it's a vocal performance, I need to thank my doctors, I suppose, who brought my voice back."

Theatre Opening - A replacement for the old Westminster Theatre will finally open this autumn. The St James Theatre will launch at the end of September, housed in a residential development near t

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