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UK - Synthe FX has announced the immediate availability of Luminair for iPad nv2, the next generation of the popular touch-based DMX lighting control app for live entertainment, film and TV production, architecture, and for anyone else who works with creative lighting.

Luminair is a full-featured mobile lighting control platform, capable of controlling all DMX compliant gear including LED fixtures, conventional lighting, dimmers, media servers, and more, using any Art-Net or sACN to DMX interface.

v2's new project architecture was rewritten from the ground up to take full advantage of iCloud, making it the first lighting controller on the market to offer seamless syncing of project files across multiple devices via the cloud. The new version also adds a new layer-based cue mergi

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USA - High End Systems reports that it will be showcasing a broad spectrum of product offerings at the 2012 PLASA Focus Austin tradeshow held 22-23 February in Austin, Texas. This year's event will serve are the launch pad for several new lighting products designed to enhance live events with creative lighting solutions. In addition, show attendees will have the opportunity to visit the High End Systems factory to see products as they are manufactured.

Continuing the development of digital lighting, High End Systems is launching the new DLV Digital Light. This addition to the largest digital lighting portfolio in the industry represents the next evolution in creative, video-based lighting, says the company. Built on the same industry standard software as the DL.3 Digital Light and Axon Media Server, the DLV brings digital lighting abilities to any stage, club, or application in

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UK / USA - A visual production company new to the UK, Chaos Visual, are making their mark in the UK events market, following in the footsteps of their big brother, Chaos Visual Productions USA. Chaos Visual were responsible for LED screens on the water platforms and the Excalibur roof, and illuminations at the golf target, of the latest Callaway Golf Co. advert; the first with singer and actor Justin Timberlake at the helm as Creative Director.

Nick Jackson, CEO said: "It was a tough job and a tough schedule over 5 days but we pulled it off very successfully," and Chaos UK are working on more exciting projects due to take place over the summer.

Gary White, MD of Chaos Visual UK, said: "To be involved in projects like this is really exciting for us, our core business is concert touring events and golf is something we carve out time for on a personal level or to c

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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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USA - When the movie industry gathers in Arizona for the 18th Sedona International Film Festival on 18-26 February, 2012, a Meyer Sound EXP cinema loudspeaker system will help transform the intimate Mary D. Fisher Theatre into a stunning 120-seat, DCI-compliant cinema. Converted from a former bank building, this new screening venue will present Sedona International Film Festival films throughout the year.

The 7.1 surround installation comprises Acheron Studio screen channel loudspeakers, X-800C high-power cinema subwoofers, HMS-10 cinema surround and UP-4XP loudspeakers, and a Galileo loudspeaker management system with a direct digital connection to a Dolby CP650 cinema processor.

"We wanted a sound experience that was like no other," says Patrick Schweiss, the festival's executive director. "When we found out that Meyer Sound was custom-designing a system just

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Germany - What the four Grand Slam tournaments are to tennis, and the four Majors to golf, the Four Hills Tournament is to ski jumping. The four legs (Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen) of the Vierschanzentournee, as it's known in the vernacular, are the competitions that are the most keenly contested, the most widely watched, and in which victory carries the most prestige. Such has long been the case. In fact, this winter's was the sixtieth edition of the tournament, so the level of interest among spectators and in the media was especially high.

Despite adverse weather conditions, over 18,000 fans made their way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen on New Year's Day to watch the tournament's second leg. To ensure spectators were kept abreast of the unfolding competition and their spirits maintained during lulls in the action, for the fourteenth year running t

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USA - J. R. Clancy has announced the return of Andrew J. McArthur to the company in the position of sales manager.

McArthur brings extensive project management and sales experience in his return to J. R. Clancy, where he served as a senior project manager in the 1990s. For the last 11 years, he has been the president of ECCS, Inc., in Las Vegas, where he served as principal consultant on projects including the showroom at Beau Rivage Hotel & Casino in Biloxi, MS; Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego; MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in LasVegas, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Roman Catholic Church in Las Vegas, Val A.Browning Center for the Performing Arts in Ogden, UT, and many other projects.

His professional experience also includes sales and consulting with Pelton Marsh Kinsella, Trizart Alliance US, Inc., and Mountain Productions, Inc., a major touring concert staging contractor. McArthur

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UK - SSE Audio Group has announced the recent completion of two more installation projects for Novus Leisure, one is a Kanaloa at Tiger Tiger, Croydon, and the second is a conference centre in the basement of one of Balls Brothers' sites in the City, Minster Exchange.

Minster Exchange is SSE's first project using the Crestron range of AV control systems. Mark Hatfield, SSE Installation project manager said, "We used the Crestron system to link a variety of audio and video inputs, including projectors, laptops, mics, radio mic, iPod docks, three conference audio systems and a DJ audio system, so it could be operated through one simple control interface, in this case a wireless, proprietary touchscreen."

He continued, "The touchscreen can be used from any of the three conference rooms and it also allows the user to link the systems in rooms together for larger mee

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UK - Bristol and West Midlands based video and AV specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL), provided a multi-screen projection design and equipment including media server control for Regeneration, a seasonal party event created by a leading technology company for over 1000 guests.

The event was staged in the edgy but charismatic Hangar 92, one of a number of decommissioned aircraft hangars on the former RAF Hullavington airbase near Chippenham, Wiltshire, which dates back to the second World War.

CPL's Nick Diacre was asked to design and specify a high impact projection system by Bristol based production company Bright, The initial sense of anticipation started as guests trekked through the bleak and uninviting landscape of the disused airfield to reach this exceptionally discreet location.

On entering the hangar, they were immediately confronted with a latter day A

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USA - Mountain Light Company again partnered with the Breckenridge Resort Chamber (GoBreck.com) to develop, design and install a temporary site lighting system for the 22nd Annual Budweiser Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge, Colorado 21 January through 5 February 2012.

The challenges associated with working in the high alpine environment particularly during the occasional snowstorm kept the MLC crew on its toes. Carl Olson, director of operations said, "The client was thrilled because they didn't have to touch the lighting for 3 weeks! In the past generators needed fueling nightly. With the new power distribution and LED lighting, we've delivered to the client a peaceful, visually stunning environment in the snow." New this year are strategically placed power outlets throughout site.

Mountain Light Company also redesigned their towers to allow for cable pa

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USA - UK-based digital console manufacturer, DiGiCo, was the live music console of choice at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, as specified by longtime show production partner ATK AudioTek. The music celebration and ceremony garnered the second highest ratings of any Grammy airing with approximately 41m viewers.

A combination of five of DiGiCo's newer SD10 consoles along with one of its larger format SD7s handled FOH and monitor duties - for a total of 400+ I/O's and 256 mic preamps distributed between six SD Racks - among four engineers in three locations within the Staples Center arena.

The entire PA system was powered by a versatile Opticore fibre optic network, which made it possible for the consoles to tie together seamlessly and also allowing the signal path to stay 100% digital from mic preamps to amplifiers. Additionally, the Opticore network cut t

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UK - Visitors to the ABTT 2012 Theatre Show can now register online for free entrance to the event which is moving to its new home at the Old Truman Brewery, 13 and 14 June.

The Association of British Theatre Technicians' new show website at www.abtttheatreshow.org.uk is now live and the ABTT 2012 Theatre Show is open for business with visitors encouraged to register as soon as possible. A slightly tongue in cheek show director Roger Fox explained, "It's a simple process. When you visit our new web site you just move your mouse to pull the beer pump marked 'visitor registration'. Then click on the empty pint glass, fill in your details and you are registered."

Website graphic designer Mark Harrison took inspiration from the venue's beer legacy as the theme for show's iconic website and advertising design. As he explained, "When I visited the venue, its proximity

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USA - A pair of grandMA2 lighting consoles was recently installed by Miami Stagecraft at the Adrienne Arsht Centre for the Performing Arts - one for the John S. and one for the James L. Knight Concert Hall. Miami Stagecraft also upgraded the hall's entire network to 1Gbit to promote fast, high-speed response time.

"The space is designed to host everything from symphony orchestras to Willie Nelson, Cindy Lauper and BB King," says Tony Tur, head electrician at the Knight Concert Hall. "We were running another console, and a lot of people were asking for the grandMA2. I attended a grandMA2 training course and really liked the console's features and versatility. It was the kind of technology we needed, capable of accommodating a rock show, a symphony or a musical comedy, and meeting the needs of their designers."

Steve Welsh, vice president of Miami Stagecraft,

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UK - Venue IT, the permanent infrastructure division of Etherlive, has strengthened its ties to the hotel industry with its appointment by The Cumberland hotel, The Tower and Marble Arch.

The landmark London hotel has chosen Venue IT as its technology provider for meetings & events. The appointment follows discussions looking at the longer term conferencing needs for the award winning hotel.

Following a £95m refurbishment, The Cumberland is now looking to assert itself in the lucrative corporate events market set to be stimulated by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.

Venue IT will provide high-speed Internet connectivity which can be accessed throughout the hotel's 26 meeting & event spaces, including the ultra modern Ocean Room, which has a capacity of up to 350 people. The enhanced communications infrastructure will support innovations such as dedicated

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The Netherlands - Royal Nedalco, a leading producer of ethyl alcohol, is a member company of the Dutch agro-industrial group Royal Cosun.

All that remains of the old factory that the company (at that time called Zuid-Nederlandse Spiritus Fabriek) built in Bergen op Zoom, in southern Holland, is the 75m tall chimney, erected in 1938.

The restoration project is the result of the cooperation of two organizations, BOEI and Monumentenfonds Brabant, both committed to conserving monuments of the industrial age for the future, and safeguarding the town's rich historical heritage.

The construction recently underwent preservation and restoration work, during which structural weakening was found at the summit.

The 15m top section was therefore dismantled and replaced with a metal structure with the same dimensions, which restored the chimney to its original height of 75m, making it o

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Denmark - With his first major label release Behold, Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer is now breaking through as an international artist. Bringing his guitar-based ballads to a wider audience, DiGiCo SD11 consoles and Neumann digital microphones were a feature of Langer's end-of-year European tour.

Sound company for the tour was Victory Tour Production, a long-term DiGiCo rental house that provided a pair of SD11s and shared SD racks for the tour purchased via DiGiCo's Danish distributor Soundware, with DiGiCo supplying AES42 interfaces.

"We wanted to use Neumann digital microphones and DiGiCo is one of only two manufacturers who currently offer the right interface, allowing us to have digital audio all the way from the microphone capsules to the loudspeakers," says Front of House engineer Jacob Navne.

"We were on a very tight budget and I needed so

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USA - For nearly two decades, the organisers of the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival have been attracting world music fans to Boonville, California for an event that emphasises community, social and environmental responsibility and the unifying power of music. While they've always held the conviction that music has the power to move mountains, this year, with their main FOH powered exclusively by Lab.gruppen PLM 20000Q amplifiers, they came a fair bit closer to being able to do so literally.

Although Sacramento Production Services has been providing audio for the three-day festival for 16 years, 2011's SNWMF was the first time they've used Lab.gruppen amplifiers. "It's our first year using the Labs and the first time we used Lake Processing on this PA. We built it and sent it out specifically for this gig," says Sacramento Production Services' FOH engineer and system

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USA - Moving to provide its consolidated international distributor network with a new level of training support, The AVC Group has announced the roll out of a comprehensive 2012 training programme that combines trade show, internet, and field based classes into one comprehensive global training initiative.

According to Ken Johnsen, international training manager at The AVC Group, the new programme was rolled out last month at ISE 2012 and featured brand specific training on the ELAN, Niles, Xantech, Sunfire, and ATON brands. "Over a five day period we trained a large percentage of our European distributor partners and their trainers on every aspect of each brand's product line," Johnsen stated. "We are now taking this same integrated approach and bringing it to every part of the world."

The entire focus of The AVC Group's international education effort, Joh

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UAE - Melody House, distributors of HK Audio speakers have recently supplied an Elements system to complement the PA inventory of Dubai based rental firm Abacus Rentals. The complete system includes the EF435 Mid/Top, EP1 Poles and the EA600 Active Subwoofers.

"After purchasing a ConTour Array system from Melody House in June last year, the company has seen a return on its investment and reinforced their trust in HK by purchasing the Elements system," commented Amrith Verghese, HK Audio product specialist at Melody House.

"Now with the Elements system, the company can fulfill both small to medium requirements for corporate events, small to medium band setups and other such applications where clear sound is obtained at a very cost effective manner."

(Jim Evans)

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Serbia - ShowTex supplied all new stage curtains for Studio Berar's total upgrade at Palilula Cultural Centre and theatre in Belgrade.

Studio Berar is the region's exclusive dealer for some of the most trusted brands of professional audio, lighting, video projection, LED, staging construction, and trussing systems equipment. ShowTex partnered with Studio Berar for the custom manufacture of durable black flameproof stage Molton backdrops, borders, and legs for masking the stage at the Palilula venue.

The backdrop, measuring nearly 200m2 is certified M1 according to the strictest European flame retardant standard. Molton theatre fabric is one of the most common materials used for fixed theatre installations and temporary staging applications. Manufactured from an opaque, brushed cotton cloth, stage Molton is an economical alternative to wool. High quality in house sewing, quick

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Mexico - Mexico City's Condesa neighbourhood is the centre of nightlife for the area's upwardly mobile residents, much like New York's East Village. Over the past six years, Condesa's music tastemakers and club-goers have flocked to a cluster of five chic nightspots where Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems have proven a key ingredient in a successful formula. Completed in 2005, the AM club was the first to install Meyer Sound products and has recently added MM-4XP miniature self-powered loudspeakers and a UMS-1P subwoofer as part of a remodeling project.

The five Meyer Sound-equipped Condesa clubs and restaurants - AM, PM, Rexo, Artic Bar, and Bar La Capital - all are owned by hospitality entrepreneur Carlos Alvarez, and sound system design for all was entrusted to freelance audio engineer Ramon Salazar. The runaway success of the first install at the AM club - pulsating nightly wi

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UK - Paradigm AV used the recent ISE Show in Amsterdam to confirm several new UK distributorships, largely designed to improve their screens range. This includes the Da-Lite and Projecta product ranges, along with Chief mounts - all part of Milestone AV Technologies portfolio.

"This will not only enable us to extend into the low-cost end of the screens market, but along with dnp, enable us to provide a solution for every market application, whatever the budget," said Paradigm AV sales director, Mick Perrone.

Perrone, who says the search to create a balanced portfolio of complementary products remains ongoing, says he is thrilled by these latest acquisitions. "We have long been known for operating in the specialist end of the market yet our customers are constantly telling us that were we able to offer more mainstream products then they would buy from us."

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