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USA - Established in 1985, Miami's Winter Music Conference is the largest music industry gathering of its kind in the world. Now in its 27th consecutive year, WMF is one of the most publicized annual music gatherings in the world. A pivotal platform for the advancement of the industry, WMC attracts thousands of artists and music industry delegates from 70 countries and over 100,000 event attendees each year for a concentrated schedule of more than 400 events, parties, seminars and workshops.

Audio Formula and CEO Nick Assunto have handled audio production for a portion of WMF and related events since 2002, when Assunto assumed the role of production manager for one of its peripheral shows, the Ultimate Music Festival. This year, Audio Formula took charge of four simultaneous stage

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UK - London- based projection artist Ross Ashton of The Projection Studio had his Face Britain video projection work onto the front of Buckingham Palace officially confirmed as a Guinness World Record for the 'most artists working on the same art installation'.

The work - formatted for the wide-screen canvass of Buckingham Palace - featured 32 animated mosaic portraits of HM The Queen made up form a total of 201,948 self portraits submitted by children from around the UK.

All these portraits have been carefully scrutinised by Guinness World Records and certified as individual artworks.

Ashton designed and created the finished projection portraits working with Moscow-based Boris Glazer, using a bespoke version of his Mazaika software to encode all the photos and compose the 32 images from all the images.

For the show, the component images all 'flew' together to make

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UK - Universal Event Productions (UEP) supplied a full technical production package - lighting, sound, video and staging - to a recent high profile party staged in the Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel in Park Lane, London.

The evening's entertainment was headlined by popular chart-topping alt hip hop / rock artist and musician Tinchy Stryder and also featured a supporting slot by 2011 X-factor star, Kitty Brucknell.

UEP's Steve Butcher, who also production managed the event, comments, "We were recommended to the client by a contact. They wanted very high production values and were open to our ideas about how to make their event memorable and fun in terms of look and presentation, so it was a really good working environment and we were all proud of the resulting show." The party was attended by around 250 invited guests.

Lighting was designed by UEP's James Fickli

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USA - At PLASA Focus Nashville on 11-12 July d&b audiotechnik will gfeature the teenyweeny E4and E5 loudspeakers in booth 109, located at the heart of the action. Able to reach 115dB SPL and 117dB SPL respectively and tailor made for delay, infill and surround sound, these powerful two-way passive loudspeakers pack a massive punch from inside a tiny, unobtrusive frame.

Right alongside, and complementing its little cousin, will be the larger and weightier multifunctional T10 cabinet from the T-Series. Comfortable in either line array or point source configuration and with the capability of transforming into a stand-alone full range cabinet through a simple 90° horn rotation, this loudspeaker is a force to be reckoned with in any live environment.

Want to see more? Want to hear more? Then take a stroll along to room 1 at 11am on Thursday 12 July to watch and listen to Christ

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UK - More than one million people lined the River Thames in London on Sunday, 3 June to catch a glimpse of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as she celebrated her Diamond Jubilee with a River Pageant involving 1000 boats. And in typical British style the weather was dreadful, with heavy rain doing its best to spoil what was supposed to be the highlight of the UK's Diamond Jubilee weekend.

But the cold, the wind and the rain proved no match for the DPA microphones that were the unsung heroes of the event. Even in atrocious conditions they worked perfectly and all of the microphones used to record the orchestras and choirs delivered a seamless performance.

DPA 4088 directional headset microphones were used to mike the Royal College of Music Chamber Choir who performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Symphony, the last of 10 Herald music barges taking part in the pageant.

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UK - A&O Lighting Technology GmbH is exclusive Bar Sponsor for this year's Knight of Illumination Awards. This year's invite only event will be held at Battersea Evolution, London and promises to be a spectacular occasion.

A&O, which prides itself as 'your partner for the latest in light technology - worldwide', announces its support for this year's event as the industry gears up for this September's ceremony.

A&O says it is "delighted" to have the opportunity to sponsor the bar area, which will provide KOI invited guests with an opportunity to network in convivial surroundings, following the more formal dinner and awards.

"We are aware of the importance of the KOI event and therefore delighted to offer the major support for the Get-Together after the Awards," said Marco Niedermeier, CEO, A&O Lighting Technology.

"The Knight of Illumination Awards

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Norway - Clay Paky Sharpys have dazzled up-for-it crowds across Norway during a series of mammoth We Love the 90s concerts. This year, German group Scooter headlined, alongside 90s stalwarts Haddaway, E-Type, and the Vengaboys.

LD Philip Lindhfelt racked the Sharpys up at the rear of the stage and used them to beam directly onto the audience, which provided some spectacular, 1990s scanner-style, mid-air displays.

Playing to packed houses in arenas in the Norwegian cities of Stavanger, Bergen, Ålesund and the capital Oslo, We Love the 90s was a sell out event. Lindhfelt used the Sharpy before but never quite like this, as he explains: "I used them primarily as an effects fixture. Bands such as Scooter are quite progressive in terms of their music. I needed a fixture that was fast to respond. While the speed and the brightness of the Sharpy make it an ideal

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Japan - The recent Big Beach Dance Festival at the Makuhari Seaside Park in Chiba, again saw crowds of around 20,000 people assemble to see an all star line up, including The Chemical Brothers (playing a DJ set), John Digweed, Beardyman, Timo Maas and many more.

Promoted by alife Entertainment, adding to the atmosphere of the legendary beach party was a full RCF rig on each of the three stages. RCF's sales manager for the region, Lars Yoshiyama, reported that the event was a major success.

Contracted to provide the sound was rental company, Comestock, and such was the scale of the PA requirement that they needed to buy a complete new system. After careful consideration they opted for RCF, and placed an order with territorial distributor Ballad Co.

Managed by Norihiro Matsuyama, Comestock chose the TT+ system because of its clarity and its exceptional power handling. The comp

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Asia - Green Hippo's Technical sales manager for Asia, Justin Fitzpatrick, has been busy travelling from tradeshow to tradeshow. He has visited four shows in as many weeks and supporting the company's local distributors, managed to further increase Hippotizer's profile in the region:

He explains, "Green Hippo continues to go from strength to strength in Asia helped by a strong presence at the all trade shows in the region recently. I would like to thank all the visitors at the shows for dropping by and visiting Green Hippo at our distributor's stands and making all these tradeshows such a tremendous success. The future in Asia is looking very exciting."

It all started at the end of May with the 21st Palme Beijing Expo held at the new China International Exhibition Centre (CIEC). Green Hippo exhibited at the stand of their Chinese distributor KUPO, with Fitzpatrick on

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UK - Charcoalblue's projects have swept the board at this year's prestigious RIBA Awards. The Royal Institute of British Architects honoured four separate Charcoalblue projects - Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre, The Hepworth gallery, Wakefield, and Newcastle's Theatre Royal - with six separate awards.

"Huge congratulations go to the design teams from David Chipperfields, Sansome Hall and Keith Williams as worthy winners," says managing director of Charcoalblue, Andy Hayles.

The globally respected RIBA Awards recognise architectural excellence and are judged by a panel of RIBA Chartered Architects and RIBA International Fellows. During the judging process, each UK region appoints a short-listing panel, which visit all the schemes entered. They then produce a list of buildings to be visited by the regional jury.

Charcoalblue alongside Sansome Hall Architects and histori

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USA - Jean Lariviere has rejoined entertainment lighting manufacturer High End Systems (HES), part of the Barco group, in a new role as a regional sales manager. His assignment includes sales development for the Canada region and also select U.S. key business partner accounts. He is based at the Austin, TX headquarters.

For the past seven years, Lariviere worked with equipment brokers SHS Global, where as CTO he was responsible for sourcing product and also client technical services.

Lariviere previously worked at High End Systems from 1994-98 as a product support specialist on the Studio Color automated wash luminaire development team. Lariviere says, "The product innovation developed from HES co-founder and CTO Richard Belliveau's patents motivated me to return when offered the job. When I saw a demo of the recent products - the intellaspot, TechnoArc and TechnoSpot, al

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USA / UK - coolux Pandoras Box 5.1 software release is now available. Building on the success of Pandoras Box Version 5.0 launched at PLASA last fall, over 50 distinct improvements and upgrades have been added, including Media Encryption, 3D Warping, and a new Matrix Patcher. The new user-friendly Version 5.1 software package makes Pandoras Box a yet more powerful creative tool, uniting state-of-the-art rendering technology with intuitive live media and show control.

Features and improvements include:

New Matrix Patcher: Relocate individual pixels for creative setups when working with conventional LED processors, e.g. Barco, Daktronics, Galaxia/Winvision etc. A real time-saver for repositioning pixels, even with unconventional LED fixture shapes.

Timeline Key Presets: Store and recall any amount of timeline keys as presets and update their data in all instances. Significantl

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd has supplied a quantity of LED based lighting fixtures from leading entertainment lighting manufacturers Chroma-Q, PixelRange and GLP to the BBC's Radio Theatre facility at Broadcasting House in central London.

The BBC Radio Theatre is designed to stage recorded and live performances including comedy, radio shows, live music, televised and red button events such as concerts, plus shows broadcast across the BBC's network.

The 'house' lighting rig needed to be extremely flexible to take account of the diverse number of events taking place in the venue, and the need to embrace theatrical, broadcast and multimedia disciplines. It was important that the new LED units were also appropriate to light HD TV and its specific requirements.

Extensive research was carried out into all the LED lighting options and Radio Theatre Events Manag

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UK - Crestron has appointed Simon Clarke to the position of marketing manager for the EMEA region. Covering all aspects of Crestron's commercial and residential activity, Clarke will be working closely with the in-house sales teams and accredited integrators on joint projects and developing new initiatives.

For over 30 years Clarke has been working on brand plans and high-level campaigns at domestic, European and EMEA level, including extensive sponsorship deals and subsequent branding and lead generation for Avaya across both the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups.

"Joining Crestron is a really exciting prospect for me, I'm fully aware of its prowess in the automation world and working with such a premium and prominent brand will be a privilege," says Clarke. "I believe the combination of my marketing experience and Crestron's ambition for continued growth will be a

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UK - 49 theatre buildings across the UK are at real risk of being lost unless owners recognise they are responsible for community assets and work with trusts and local communities to secure their future, says The Theatres Trust.

Publishing its 2012 Theatre Buildings At Risk Register (TBAR) today, changes since 2011 highlight how a lack of care and investment leaves theatres particularly vulnerable to neglect whilst opportunities to harness the social and cultural value of theatres are being lost. It also shows how local champions, with the support of councils, grant making trusts and Lottery distributors are providing a new lease of life for theatres at risk.

The passing of the Localism Act in November 2011 and its emphasis on social well-being means local authorities now have to prepare lists of assets of community value, which include cultural interests such as theatres. The

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UK - Robe Robin MMX Spots and LEDWash 600s were the main moving lights used by LD Phil Shaw for a recent high profile one off show at London's Alexandra Palace by indie rockers, The Maccabees.

The band are currently promoting their third studio album I>Given To The Wild, released in January and hitting the UK album Top 10 Charts.

Shaw has been working for The Maccabees since the start of the year. He brings a fresh and invigorating look to the stage, and for the Ali Pali show, worked in close collaboration with video designer Josh Bagnall to set the aesthetic tones.

Lighting equipment was supplied by Buckinghamshire based Siyan.

Shaw had used Robe's LEDWash 600s before and was keen to incorporate them into the rig for this one. He particularly wanted to use them on a larger stage and experiment with utilising the individual LED ring control for specific effects.

The

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UK / USA - Jands has announced the winners of a high-profile competition celebrating the recent launch of its Vista L5 flagship media and lighting control console - the latest addition to the Vista range.

The competition to win a MacBook Pro running the innovative Vista v2 software was sponsored by Jands' distribution partners for Europe & the Middle East - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. - and North America - A.C. Lighting Inc. - and open to industry professionals in these territories.

The competition proved extremely popular, with an overwhelming response from professionals in many countries and industry sectors. This reflects the high level of interest in the Vista L5, which received its official trade show launch at the Prolight+Sound 2012 exhibition in Frankfurt in March.

The lucky winners, who were selected at random from the entrants who correctly answere

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USA - One of the leading providers of Audio, Video and Lighting technologies in the USA WorldStage have put their trust in Le Mark's PAL Road Case Labels.

Used to visually brand their vast inventory of equipment cases, the PAL Label offers an invaluable aid to logistical tracking and identification of cases and their contents.

"I'm really happy with how the labels turned out and can't wait to start using them," says WorldStage's Jesse Fairbairn.

Catching up with WorldStage on a recent visit to the US, Le Mark's export manager Matt Every says, "Whatever business you're in, keeping track of your equipment, where it's going, technical details and any additional safety information is essential, which is why our road/flight case labels can been seen all over the world. It was so good to hear WorldStage are really pleased with their labels and as a result, we are no

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USA - Acoustic technology group (atg) reports that well known New York engineer and rental company owner David Lile has chosen to upgrade his monitor systems with LS1000M floor monitors, LS1000NF fills, TT124 amplifiers and LS48DX digital controllers. Lile is currently engineering and production managing Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at European festivals over the summer.

He takes delivery of the first of three systems in early August. Each system consists of eight LS1000M, two LS1000NF, two TT124 amplifiers and one LS48DX providing two active fill mixes with four passive floor mixes.

Lile is also changing to the LS1000 line array system later in the year.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - A new sound processor from Bose, designed to make audio processing setup quicker and easier, is being launched in August.

The new Bose ControlSpace SP-24 simplifies audio DSP for 2x4 installed and portable applications by offering two methods of configuration based on user preference and loudspeaker type.

Fast system setup is achieved using front-panel LCD menus and controls, which offer a basic method of configuration for systems using Bose loudspeakers. Factory-installed Bose loudspeaker equalisation curves are selectable, together with common routing configurations. Additional settings, such as gain and delay, are also available from the front panel for basic system tuning.

Using the SP-24 Editor software, additional signal processing parameters are available for system equalisation and optimisation. For unique signal routing and processing configurations, or when us

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France - Parisian company Silence, a leading supplier of AV equipment and services to the TV and live events market in France has chosen to invest in a significant Uniline modular line array system from French manufacturers APG. The news comes shortly after the announcement that the UK's Plus 4 Audio, also TV studio sound specialists, has just taken delivery of their Uniline system.

Silence's CEO, Gilles Hugo, takes up the story. "It's true that until now, we have limited our stock of PA equipment so that we are under no pressure to supply one brand over another. We supply what is best for the job or event concerned. However, having used the Uniline system to great effect on The Voice we started to re-evaluate.

" The Voicewas about as complex as TV shows get these days, and with the added pressure that it absolutely had to sound good in the studio, as

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