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UK - On the evening of Saturday 7 April, entertainment lighting specialist White Light helped launch the iconic Titanic Belfast building, the world's largest Titanic visitor experience which has been built on the site of the docks where the famous ship itself was constructed and launched 100 years ago.

The show consisted of a 40 minute audio-visual performance, featuring a challenging series of projections mapped to the building's surface synchronised to pyrotechnics and a bespoke sound design. The show was a collaboration between seeper.com, who created the projections, and specialist pyrotechnics company The World Famous, with the project produced by Culture Creative and the technical aspects production managed by White Light.

Evan Grant, founder of seeper.com, explains, "

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UK - HPSS, the Hull-based sound, lighting and staging equipment hire company, has recently completed a nationwide tour with The South - formed of members of The Beautiful South. LMC Audio visited the HPSS team at the O2 Academy in Birmingham during the tour.

Hugh Jones, managing director at HPSS, said, "The PRO2 is intuitive and accessible and in the smaller venues where the support has to be mixed on our boards it takes just 10 to 15 minutes to get the house engineer working comfortably with it. In acoustic scenarios in particular the set-up is so simple...you only need to do about six things with it and you're ready.

"Feedback has been very good", he continues. "We recently held a demo day at the HPSS warehouse and invited some engineers to come and try out the console. One of the engineers turned up with a show file that he had previously engineered on a

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UAE - The Prolyte Group has announced that Unusual Rigging & Engineering is appointed the company's sales and service partner for the UAE with effect from 1 May 2012.

The new partnership was announced at PALME Middle East 2012, and Alan Thomson, managing partner for Unusual Rigging & Engineering, said, "I am delighted to add Prolyte products to our inventory. The high quality trussing systems will ensure that we continue to provide first class equipment alongside first class service."

Set up in 2008 under the management of Alan Thomson, Unusual Rigging & Engineering LLC is highly regarded in the region. With a long history of supplying both equipment and services to the Royal families of the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the governments of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Oman, Unusual Rigging & Engineering will be pivotal in developing sales for Prolyte in the Middle East regio

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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!

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Olympic Countdown - Duran Duran are to play a concert in London's Hyde Park to mark the start of the Olympic Games. The gig will feature headline acts from all four nations of the UK, with Duran Duran representing England and Snow Patrol appearing for Northern Ireland. Stereophonics will represent Wales and Paolo Nutini will play for Scotland. The concert on 27 July will coincide with the Olympics opening ceremony, which will be broadcast on big screens in the park between performances. Another concert marking the end of the Olympics will be held in Hyde Park on 12 August, headlined by Blur.

Royal Rock - Robbie Williams has been added to the line-up for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace on 4 June. "If this doesn't get me a knighthood, nothing will," the star joked on his website. "I can't wait for the show." His Take That bandmat

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UK - Join 11,000 people who have already signed up to visit PLASA 2012 at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 9 - 12 September 2012. Visitors that pre-register now can gain entry to the entire four-day event for only £10 - a saving of 50% on the full price of £20.

It's Olympic year at last and PLASA is taking the opportunity to celebrate the enormous contribution made by our industry to the extraordinary events in the city this year, including educational sessions exploring some of the most impressive technical aspects.

In addition, a brand new audio professional development programme is being launched this year, with master-classes from the biggest international names in system design, production, recording, mixing and broadcasting.

With over 100 free to attend training sessions, seminars and specialist conferences, there's only one place to be this September!

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USA - FocusTrack congratulates this year's Tony Award nominees for Best Lighting Design in New York.

For Best Lighting Design of a Play, the nominated designers this year are Jeff Croiter (for Peter and the Starcatcher), Peter Kaczorowski (The Road to Mecca), Brian MacDevitt (Death of a Salesman) and Kenneth Posner (Other Desert Cities). For Best Lighting Design of a Musical, the nominees are Christopher Akerlind (for Porgy and Bess), Natasha Katz (nominated twice, for Follies and Once) and Hugh Vanstone (for Ghost the Musical).

FocusTrack also congratulates the nominees in two other recently announced New York theatre awards - Kevin Adams (for Carrie), Neil Austin (Evita), David Lander (One Arm), Brian MacDevitt (Salesman), Kenneth Posner (Death Takes A Holiday) and Paul Pyant (Richa

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UK - Solid State Logic has announced that Mark Davidson has joined the company in the newly created role of global systems and solutions business development manager. Based in Munich, Germany, Davidson will be responsible for the SSL global strategic business development strategies in relation to the SSL integration I/O and workstation partner products (WPP) product portfolio, with a focus on, but not restricted to, the broadcast and system integration markets.

"We searched for a long time to find the right person to represent SSL in the global install and integration markets, so it is simply great to have Mark on the team," says Jim Motley, head of business, workstation partner products for SSL. "With Mark on board, we have someone with a proven track record of establishing new routes to market. This capability is a key element for us and we are confident that he

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UK - Dry Hire Lighting has announced a significant purchase of Clay Paky products from exclusive Clay Paky UK distributor Ambersphere Solutions.

In anticipation of a busy summer for events across the UK and with event planning for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and Olympics gathering pace, Dry Hire Lighting is making sure it is well positioned to serve the expected increase in demand for rental equipment.

States Rob Merrilees, director of Dry Hire Lighting, "At last the industry can boast a dedicated UK based 'dry hire' company. We do what it says on the tin.... offering hire exclusively to rental companies .... but with the added value of exceptional service and top of the range equipment. It goes without saying that Clay Paky needs to feature heavily in our available stock."

Comments Glyn O'Donoghue, MD of Ambersphere, "The premise upon which Dry Hire Lighting

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USA - Located in Jupiter, Florida, Guanabanas is an outdoor bar and restaurant which strives to offer "a unique experience". An integral part of that is its live music, so the owners have employed a combination of Apex Hera and Argos noise limiting.

The waterfront venue aims to provide what it describes as "a true Florida experience", with exotic/local plants and trees, Key West styled structures, hand-built chickee huts and fresh Florida seafood. With the live stage - along with everything else - being in the open air, it is important that Guanabanas not only keeps sound levels down to permitted levels, but can prove it has done so.

"Residents will complain to the police if levels are too loud," says the venue's Matt Cahur. "We chose the Hera/Argos combination because the Argos limiter does a great job of limiting the sound levels to the thr

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USA - Community Professional Loudspeakers has announced the appointment of Loren Robinson to the position of regional manager for Western US and Canada.

Robinson, a veteran pro audio manufacturers' representative and installation team manager, joins Community after many years with Harman Corporation, where he held positions as national sales manager for Selenium and Western regional manager for Crown Audio.

"We're very excited to welcome Loren to Community," said Julia Lee, director of sales and marketing. "His expertise in installed sound and his solid track record in management are ideally suited for the growth Community is presently experiencing."

"I'm thrilled to be working with such a legendary company like Community," added Robinson. "This is an amazing group of people with an amazing history, and they're still breaking new ground tod

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UK - Bristol-based event production company SXS have just finished production for another high profile project - the royal launch of the Cutty Sark, attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The launch took place at the Cutty Sark Gardens in Greenwich and SXS provided sound reinforcement and technical production for the event using their Allen & Heath iLive system, supplied by LMC Audio Systems.

The event included a 90-strong symphony orchestra and a 400-strong choir. Reinforcement was also provided for the Queen's speech and further live feeds from inside the Cutty Sark. Over 50 input channels were used as a well as several groups and matrixes to feed to the four zones around the site. The iLive T112 was used for the main mix and zone matrixes and the iLive T80 was used for a separate live recording mix for later publication.

Johnny Palmer, production manager at SXS co

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UK - Orbital Sound's annual Easter Sound Fundamentals for Theatre training course was fully subscribed, with over 20 students taking part in the four-day programme. Now in its 11th year, Orbital reports that to date it has helped prepare more than 250 theatre sound and technical theatre students for careers in live entertainment, with the latest contingent principally drawn from the UK's leading drama schools, as well as freelancers and the corporate sector.

The course took place at Orbital's purpose-built Brixton training facility, with the students guided through the essentials of theatre sound by course leader Richard Carter, supported by Orbital's technical director, Bill Addison.

Richard Carter explains the course's rationale: "This course is very much about combining a solid grounding in theory with practical skills, aiming to cater for a varied mix of skill

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UAE - Exactly five years after setting up a base in Dubai, Christie has relocated its Middle East offices and showroom to the prestigious Dubai Silicon Oasis integrated technology park.

The new purpose built facility at GulfView provides a showcase for the company's products and incorporates training, state of the art demonstration rooms and warehousing on an enlarged footprint.

Formally opening with a press day on 30 April as a precursor to an Open House week, customers will be afforded an opportunity to see the latest product offerings and experience Christie's wide ranging capabilities in different market segments, which have brought them much success in the Middle East.

Features will include: Warped and blended Mirage 3D projection onto curved screen (with content delivered from a Vista Spyder), as well as simulated control room environments, MicroTiles applications and

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UAE - His Highness Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum performed the official unveiling of this year's PALME Middle East Show at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre in Dubai on 1 May, cutting the ceremonial ribbon to declare the tenth anniversary event open.

He then engaged in animated discussion with a number of exhibitors as he and his entourage undertook their official walkabout.

It was clear that he was familiar with many of the brands on display, confirmed PALME exhibition director, Richard Brook. "When you have someone that takes a real interest, and is as clued up as he is, it really helps from an exhibitor's perspective and adds more value to the show. Brand wise he certainly knew a lot."

And those whose stands he stopped by certainly agreed. At Thomsun Trading, he was already familiar with the Adamson and Optocore brands that

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USA - Free registration is now open for the PLASA Focus: Nashville 2012 Professional Development Programme, a two-day programme of free educational seminars and workshops, running alongside PLASA Focus: Nashville, on 11-12 July 2012.

The programme has been specially curated by some of the industry's leading talents, giving visitors a unique opportunity to broaden their specialist knowledge and take part in discussions about innovative projects and cutting edge techniques.

"One of the benefits of hosting a Focus event in Nashville is the depth of professional industry knowledge that is intrinsic to the area," comments PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths. "Being able to tap into that regional passion for live entertainment and to share it in a common space is something which will not only benefit the local entertainment technology community in Tennessee, but also the surr

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UK - There has been a massive increase in visitor registration for PLASA 2012 at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 9-12 September 2012. Over 11,000 people have already signed up, representing a whopping 40% increase in registrations so far. Visitors that pre-register now can gain entry to the entire four-day event for only £10 - a saving of 50% on the full price of £20.

In this unique year for London and the rest of the UK, PLASA is taking the opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the extraordinary contribution made by the lighting and sound industries to the London 2012 Olympics. As PLASA Events Manager, Sophie Atkinson, comments, "The record breaking surge in pre-registrations for the show this year is enormously encouraging and goes to show that people want to come to PLASA 2012 to reflect on their industry's input in the 2012 Olympic story and experience th

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Belgium - The Parlamentarium, the new visitors' centre at the European Parliament in Brussels, uses a variety of interactive multimedia exhibits to take visitors on a journey into the heart of European Politics. Electrosonic engineered and installed the main exhibition audio-visual hardware for Stuttgart-based designer Atelier Bruckner. The Parlamentarium is the first visitors' centre fully accessible in 23 languages, and to-date has attracted over 120,000 visitors from across the globe.

Guided through exhibitions by a personal electronic multimedia guide, visitors see how policy decisions are made and how they influence Europeans' daily lives. All signage and media is presented in 23 languages, which had an enormous influence on how AV techniques were used throughout the centre.

Electrosonic won the bid for the project in an open Europe-wide competitive tender; the scope of w

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UK - XL Video is supplying curved LED screens and special customised touring frames, video playback control, cameras/PPU, an IMAG projection system and crew for Brit Award winning Il Divo's current Wicked Game world tour which is on its first UK /European leg.

The elegant production design encompassing the three curved over-stage screens was the concept of Il Divo's artistic director, Brian Burke.

This follows on from an initial curved screen idea showcased at the group's high profile one-off shows at London's Coliseum Theatre last year - with XL also supplying video production. Central to the concept is that the screens should appear to be 'floating' in the air - with minimal or no rigging visible - a task with which XL Video was then challenged to recreate in a tourable format by tour director and production manager, Andy Proudfoot.

XL's project manager Paul 'Macca'

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USA - San Antonio-based Spectrum Lighting recently sold 16 Robert Juliat 634 LED Profile Spots for use in the teaching auditorium/conference centre at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas.

Doctors Hospital at Renaissance is a full-service medical and surgical facility providing healthcare to the residents of the Rio Grande Valley. Its teaching auditorium and conference center is the site of continuing education for physicians.

Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon and Williams (WJHW) served as the theatrical consultant, system designer and lighting designer for the space with Texas Scenic the installing contractor. "Every fixture in the facility is an LED, so when we were looking for a fixture for Front of House, Robert Juliat's LED profiles provided a perfect solution over comparable products," says WJHW's Rene Garza. "We were looking for long life, smooth d

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UK - Events, production & communication specialist R&B Group has invested in three new members of staff, having just completed their best first quarter in five years.

Daniel Cave, 18 from Fenham, joined the group late last year on an eight-month NVQ apprenticeship. Recruited to assist the busy warehouse team, he has settled in well and has already won the R&B 'Grafta of the month award' where he received great comments about his attitude from staff.

Also joining the team is Simon Spencer-Harvey. Formerly at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and more recently working for Bezier, Spencer-Harvey has joined R&B Group as creative designer. Working together with the creative team, his knowledge will bring a new dimension to 3D visualisation and motion graphic projects.

Finally, Steve Brown accepted a new role as assistant project manager. Having worked on many projects with R&B G

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UK - Stage Electrics has chosen a DiGiCo SD9 console to control an all-new audio system, designed for both live performance and digital cinema, at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells.

Built in the mid 19th century, the Holy Trinity was Tunbridge Wells' first parish church. After its final religious service in 1972 its Grade 1 listed status ensured safety from demolition, and by 1975 a public petition had secured permission from the Church Commissioners to produce a plan for community or public use. An appeal committee raised £50,000 and five years later it reopened as The Trinity Theatre arts centre complete with a raked-seating auditorium: growing popularity soon saw an art gallery, licensed bar and computerised box office added.

Its latest upgrade sees the venerable space take on the very modern mantle of digital cinema, although a cursory gaze at the vaulted balcon

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