Details
Germany - More than 25,000 clubbers attending the 15-hour Mayday techno party at Dortmund's Westfalenhalle were immersed in a lightning fast colour-change environment, created by 90 of SGM's new X-5 and XC-5 LED strobes. The 50 white lights and 40 RGB strobes, specified by LD Thomas Gerdon and supplied by production company, schoko pro, were in constant action throughout the marathon.

The LD had first used these strobes at a club event in Nuremburg. Two months later, at Prolight and Sound in Frankfurt, he was able to take a closer look and decided to use them for Mayday.

Although the festival is staged annually by major rave promoters I-Motion GmbH it was the first time Thomas Gerdon had been asked to design the lighting. He was brought in after working on another

Details
UK - Exeter-based sound, lighting, video & event production company Puxley Ltd have been engineering for the recent Show of Hands UK and German tours using a Midas PRO2C, purchased from LMC Audio. The band recently played the Royal Albert Hall, where Chris Puxley, MD of Puxley mixed FOH on a PRO2C and monitor engineer Rob Waite used a PRO2 for monitors.

Puxley comments, "The Midas PRO2C produces excellent audio quality and stability, and the interface is very user friendly. I've had very positive feedback from other engineers, who have shown immediate interest in and acceptance of the console, especially those who are familiar with Midas products or other consoles from the Midas Digital range."

JP Cavaco, sales manager at LMC London comments, "PRO2C represents the perfect choice for Puxley. Chris has a no compromise attitude, and with the PRO2C he doesn't need t

Details
USA - Expendables and production equipment outfitters Wits End are the latest to join the Dirty Rigger retail & distribution team.

With 10,000sq.ft of distribution space spread across two NYC locations, Wits End offer an outstanding step forward in Dirty Rigger's expansion into the US market, says the company.

Wits End's CEO Keith Guliner says, "The products that we were finding here in the US for gloves and accessories were just not up to par. When we saw Dirty Rigger gloves, tool pouches and accessories for the first time....well...the products stood up and spoke on their own. The product is pure quality, and they are priced right. I believe that the Dirty Rigger brand will be a product line that we can count on as a quality product, and that Dirty Rigger as a company will stand behind its products."

Le Mark's export manager Matt Every says, "Wits End are a

featured content

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

Details
Australia - Recently the Victorian Opera presented a new production of Cinderella, the traditional pantomime. Based on the fable, Cinderella's adventures were given a special treatment by Victorian Opera music director Richard Gill, who has written both the story and songs. This production saw pantomime return to the surrounds of Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne. Cinderella featured a stellar line-up of artists from Victorian Opera and the world of music theatre.

Lighting designer for the production was Richard Vabre with Resolution X supplying the equipment. This production gave Victorian Opera's head electrician and programmer Peter Darby an opportunity to spec a grandMA2 control package.

"The grandMA2 light is a fantastic console to program with", says Darby. "We got some fantastic support from Show Technology. I love the grandMA2 light as it's so flex

Details
Sweden - LumenRadio's CRMX technology was recently part of one of the world's largest indoor equestrian sports events; the Gothenburg Horse Show.

The show draws competitors and spectators from all over the world and is held every year in the multi-functional Scandinavium arena. This vast facility has hosted World and European championships in sports as different as ice hockey and swimming. The venue is also a frequent stage for major international concert, entertainment, and broadcast productions like the Eurovision Song Contest.

The televised horse show is not without challenges when it comes to lighting. The horses, not unlike some people, are easily startled and can get out of control if blinded by the lights. Lighting positions must therefore be selected with the safety of the horses and riders in mind rather than ease of accessibility and cabling. DMX cabling on the groun

Details
UK - Stage Crew, the Belfast based crewing company, have been kept exceptionally busy recently with a whole host of Titanic related events in Northern Ireland.

The Titanic Festival kicked off in early April with a spectacular light and pyrotechnic show, using the Titanic Building to project onto and illuminate. StageCrew worked alongside Seeper, Whitelight and Culture Creative to create a truly awesome display.

The next week was packed with events, culminating in the MTV Titanic Sounds concert. Back in November 2011 Stage Crew had worked closely with MTV production teams as a preferred supplier on the EMA events, so when it came to MTV's outdoor concert on the Titanic Slipways they were the obvious choice for the supply of all local crew. The gig was attended by over 16,000 people. Olly Murs headlined, with support from Katy B, Sean Paul, Rizzle Kicks and Pixie Lott.

Stage C

Details
UK - Clay Paky's lighting fixtures are Dancing on Ice at Britain's biggest arenas this spring as the hit ITV show goes on tour. With skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean headlining, the sixth live UK tour of Dancing On Ice is a sell out.

Lighting designer Durham Marenghi has chosen to use Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE and Profile 1500s, Alpha Spot HPE 300s and Alpha Beam 700s to create a dramatically dynamic light show for each skater while a single Sharpy lights the Winner's Trophy throughout.

"Dancing on Ice is always a demanding tour," explains Marenghi. "This year was no different. We have a tight 'get in' schedule and, on the request of technical manager Andy Gibbs, we've had to streamline the set up. One of the first things we did was dispense with the projection over the ice. Instead we now look to the lighting to provide the

Details
USA - Three new sessions have been added to an already stellar line up of speakers due to take the stage at PLASA Focus: Nashville, a new style of regional event taking place, for the first time, at The Nashville Municipal Auditorium, on 11-12 July 2012.

Joining other exhibitors, such as Clay Paky, Barbizon Lighting, Robe, and Martin Professional, PLASA Focus: Nashville is proud to announce the recent additions of 4Wall, Drape Kings, The Light Source, Interspace, IATSE, SeaChanger, Techni-Lux, and ZFX, to its growing floor plan.

As well as the raft of exhibitors on show at PLASA Focus: Nashville 2012, visitors can also learn, first hand, about how those new products are best put into practice. Kicking-off the exhibitor demo sessions is Niclas Arvidsson, of Wireless Solutions with a unique introduction to the world of wireless lighting control, including Wireless DMX, RDM and m

Details
UK - Prolyte Group has created a new website for its Litestructures brand as part of a new marketing initiative to increase awareness of the creative project work undertaken by the company.

In the two years since the merger with Prolyte Group, the Litestructures brand has evolved into a special projects division of the Group.

The website is focused on providing ways for new and existing clients to engage with the Litestructures brand and learn about the innovative solutions it offers. There is a facility to view and download case studies, and the opportunity to interact with the Litestructures team by registering to receive the newsletter, viewing the Twitter feed or signing up to the Facebook page. The site can be viewed at www.litestructures.com

Prolyte Group's website - www.prolyte.com - will continue to provide a wealth of information about the company's other brands - P

Details
USA - Faced with audio issues ranging from sound quality to interference, Central Seventh Day Adventist Church in Albuquerque decided to switch from conventional wireless microphones to Line 6 XD-V digital wireless. As Pastor Don Gibson recalls, "Our systems were pretty old, and we started having issues, especially after the FCC rules changed. Then the Line 6 systems solved all our problems."

Tony McKenzie, a member of the congregation and an AV professional, helped research the change. "Having been an audio-visual technician for over 30 years, I support the church by helping them make proper decisions for their audio-visual needs," he says. "I was aware of the Line 6 product through my company, Action Audio Visual, so we set up a demo. The difference was so dramatic, it made the decision easy."

Initially, the church purchased four XD-V70 systems,

Details
UK - In the far south-west of Cornwall, within a deep valley, lies a large white building and a small concrete hut - an incongruous setting for a site of historical national importance. Now forming the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, this is the point from which Cable & Wireless Communications ran its undersea cables across the world, linking Britain with countries as far flung as Australia, China, Africa and South America.

The myriad mobile phone calls that occur globally, 24 hours a day, travel via slender, fibre optic threads. A new permanent exhibition, Mobile Magic, at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, sponsored by Cable & Wireless Communications and curated by David Dawson, uses Artistic Licence Engineering technology to illustrate how this works.

The exhibition features an interactive table constructed from layers of plexi-glass, suspended from marine rigging and illuminated by

Details
UK - Roland Systems Group (RSG) is joining with some of their biggest dealers to put on a series of one day training events across the UK - starting on 20 June at Wigwam Acoustics. The events, which are free to attend, give those present unlimited access to the RSG audio product range and the chance for some 'one to one' training with RSG experts.

The core functionality of the V-Mixing System will be the main focus of the training - with a spotlight on the M-480 and M-300 Digital Live Mixing Consoles, as well as the range of Digital Snakes. The day will also include an overview of the key features of each of the current RSG products and will cover using their use individually as well as in a modular set up or installation. Each event will provide a great 'hands on' training opportunity for all attendees and is packed with information, expert tips and real world advice.

The eve

Details
UK - West London based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) renewed its long standing and highly successful working relationship with one of the UK's best loved dance artists, Leftfield, who headlined a recent War Child benefit gig at London's Brixton Academy.

CSE has worked with the band on and off since they burst gloriously onto the house scene in the mid 1990s.

The War Child gig was the first Leftfield performance of 2012, and CSE was asked to supply lighting equipment by their live / touring production manager Chris Taplin.

The lighting was programmed and operated by Chris Steel, who has been with the band since the end of 2010. The design was based around three trusses - front, mid and back.

The upstage truss was used to hang three columns of Martin Professional EC 10 LED screen, with flexible ladders in between providing the rear lightin

Details
Europe - Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May is just coming to the end of a run of British and European shows, before taking a well-earned break to have her first child. For her vocal microphone she uses a Sennheiser e 965.

Trevor Gilligan took over front of house mixing duties for Imelda and her band around 15 months ago and soon started the quest for a vocal mic that would really suit her voice.

"After a couple of shows, I realised that the dynamics in her incredible voice really needed a microphone that would make the best of them," he says. "We tried microphones from a range of other manufacturers, but none of them were quite right. She found most of them too clinical.

"As she likes to sing at a good distance from the mic, both when she's giving it some power and also when singing softly, I thought a condenser would suit her style as they have a better

Details
UK - Scottish sound equipment hire company The Warehouse has become the first pro audio rental supplier in the UK to receive stock of the new Axient systems from Shure, the company's latest generation of wireless microphone products, and to be certified as a trained Axient dealer.

The Shure Axient Wireless Management System was announced in early 2011, and offers the latest in wireless microphone technology and a host of new-to-the-world features, including the ability to detect RF interference and automatically select another, interference-free operational frequency in the blink of an eye.

Axient systems began shipping around the world in early 2012; however, companies offering the system have to be trained in its use before they can offer it for hire or sale, and the first UK-based outlets have only obtained their Axient certification in recent weeks. Of these, Glasgow and E

Details
USA - At this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Southern California, over 150,000 people enjoyed an eclectic line-up of performers, including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Radiohead, The Black Keys, and a special holographic appearance by the Lazarus of Rap, 2Pac.

Spanning six days over two weekends, the total event experience was enhanced by the dramatic lighting of the festival grounds, made possible with LumenRadio's CRMX Nova wireless control. Two LumenRadio TX2 RDM transmitters controlled three DMX universes of 20 SyncroLite 7K searchlights, and 260 ColorKinetics ColorBlaze fixtures. Seventeen LumenRadio receivers were placed on remote lighting towers up to three-quarters of a mile from the control centre.

Installed by Felix Lighting of La Mirada, CA, the LumenRadio units performed flawlessly, linking multiple universes of DMX in a wireless environment unusually full of

Details
Malaysia - Malaysian rental company Digital Aid, more popularly known as D8, has become an L-Acoustics Rental Network Agent, with the purchase of a Kudo WST line source system with SB28 subwoofers from local distributor, Sennheiser Electronic Asia.

D8's system has already been used on several festivals and events including Future Music Festival Asia and Zouk@Sepang, both held at the Sepang International Circuit Formula One track outside Kuala Lumpur. These one-day events transform the Formula One track into an outdoor party for thousands of air-punching ravers, with emphasis on the best sound, lighting and production to showcase the live international and local dance acts.

(Jim Evans)

Details
UK - PRG is supplied a comprehensive lighting and rigging package for this year's Royal Windsor Horse show, which included a glittering Diamond Jubilee pageant in the presence of Her Majesty to celebrate 60 years of her reign. The show included over 550 horses and more than 1000 dancers, musicians and performers representing countries from around the world.

PRG's account director Mick Healey worked with lighting designers Jon Pope for Horse Power and Al Gurdon for ITV who later handed over to Nick Collier, to deliver a plan that would satisfy the requirements of lighting the arena and also to illuminate the Pageant show stage and three satellite stages for TV transmission by night. The show was programmed and run by Phil Cole for the arena and Sam MacLaren for television using Chamsys and GrandMa Lighting Consoles.

PRG's Brixton Atkinson-Banner specified a bespoke SmarTmast to

Details
UK - RG Jones Sound Engineering LTD, one of the UK's leading sound engineering companies will be providing Martin Audio MLA loudspeaker systems for the London 2012 Coca Cola Olympic torch relay concerts; due to kick off this week in Cardiff and taking place across the UK. "Thanks to swift competitive finance from Azule Finance, RG Jones was able to purchase the highly-specialised audio equipment and provide a tailored system for the pre-Olympic events," says the company.

The company enlisted the services of Azule Finance ahead of an especially busy year. The industry-first MLA speaker system is the first large scale concert PA system with the ability to generate a wave-front that can focus the output on particular areas of the crowd. Radically reducing noise levels outside of those spaces, the MLA system enables RG Jones to provide a solution that delivers the ultimate

Details
UK - After four successful years in DiGiCo's R&D department, Dan Page has become a sales application specialist with the company.

Page will be supporting the existing sales team of Ian Staddon, Tim Shaxson and James 'Digger' Bradley. Whilst building relationships with the company's distributors to help further expand DiGiCo sales into existing and emerging markets, he will be providing technical seminars, workshops, and systems design.

"Dan has proved himself to be an invaluable member of the DiGiCo team," says managing director James Gordon. "This new role recognises his considerable skills and adds yet another dimension to what we can offer our customers."

"I'm very excited about this new opportunity," adds Page. "I have an extensive product knowledge and I'm looking forward to being able to use that to help DiGiCo and its customers achie

Details
UK - Trade AV rental specialist PSCo Rental has launched the omniSHAPES from manufacturer eyevis to the UK. omniSHAPES features seven high resolution tile shapes, including rectangular, arrows and hexagonal tiles, which fit together seamlessly to create walls or any shape or size. The modules have been designed with front and back access for operation and maintenance with a simple and robust mounting system.

Stuart Holmes, PSCo Group CEO explained, "At PSCo, our ethos is to invest in and bring new technologies to the UK market, making them available to our trade partners in compelling rental packages. The introduction of omniSHAPES will give customers more flexibility to be creative with the confidence of the latest German engineering supporting the product.

"omniSHAPES is believed to be a real game changer and the next generation of display and is the most technical

Page 2836 of 3465

Latest Issue. . .