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France - Christie has entered into an exclusive partnership with Crystal CG, a leading digital media company, to supply innovative visual display solutions for the new Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) multimedia exhibition and information centre in Paris.

The Centre, a collaboration between Crystal CG and BIE and 100 percent funded by Crystal CG, will be dedicated to the history of world expos. It will house a permanent exhibition highlighting BIE's accomplishments, presented on the latest multimedia technologies from Christie. It will also feature meeting rooms to discuss expositions, large-scale events and a comprehensive digital research library for delegates, scholars, students and future Expo organisers. The Centreheld its official grand opening on 27 July 2012.

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France - Faith No More, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother, Machine Head and variety of other rock and metal acts hit the stage in France on 7-8 July 7th with Adamson's Energia e15 system. All audio equipment was provided by Energia Beta partners MPM and Waveform Audio.

Chief Audio designer, Waveform's, Julien Poirot comments, "The E15 is just a perfect PA. There is amazing headroom and precision in the low frequency with a very powerful and clean mid/high section. This is just the Adamson touch." Julien's design was executed with Adamson's new software suite, Blueprint AV.

Machine Head FOH Engineer Craig Porter commented, "I'm really interested in the E15 now, I love the Y18's with the T-21's (Subs), but the E15 with the T21's is the best Adamson rig I've heard." Porter had some time to evaluate and test the E15's - "I got to feel it out and make some changes

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UK - Offering a wall to wall, high load bearing sprung floor, Le Mark's new Woodland Spring "has wowed students and dancing professionals after its recent installation at the award winning Edge Hill University", says the company.

Le Mark's Dave Cartwright says, "The need to offer outstanding levels of dancing support and comfort, whilst at the same time being able to withstand the weight of heavy, powered access equipment being driven over the floor is just what Woodland Spring has been developed to offer. Traditional void sprung floors are incapable of accepting the weights involved in the powered access equipment and no other flooring company could give Edge Hill the assurances that they needed."

Edge Hill's performing arts technician Thom Harrison says, "Le Mark helped us through the process of choosing and installing the floor in our Studio Theatre

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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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South Africa - The Clay Paky Roadshow kicked off to an overwhelming response in Johannesburg on Monday, 30 July 2012 and then went to Durban and Cape Town.

Demonstrations were presented by Massimo Bolandrina and Gianluca Breda from ClayPaky. "The open day was very, very good and I am really happy," said Massimo. "There were a lot of people, more than expected, and they were very interested in the products, involved and aware of what was happening. DWR has a very good team from a professional and personal point of view."

Gianluca has presented demos and open days across the world and was also impressed with the outcome.

"I was blown away by everyone who arrived," said Duncan Riley from DWR. "It never stopped but it was amazing. Thank you to everyone who came, you are amazing and it was good to see you."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - At a recent performance with Sarah McLachlan at Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Centre, acclaimed drummer Curt Bisquera (Josh Groban, Mick Jagger, Seal, Elton John, The Beach Boys) employed a wide arsenal of microphones from Audio-Technica.

Bisquera used the AE2500 Dual-element cardioid instrument microphone on kick drum; AE3000 cardioid condenser instrument microphones on toms; ATM650 hypercardioid dynamic instrument microphones on top and bottom of snare; AT4050 Mmlti-pattern condenser microphone for overheads; and AE5100 cardioid condenser instrument microphone for ride cymbal and hi-hat.

(Jim Evans)

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Spain - Space Club in Ibiza recently held its summer season opening night, installing three of Allen & Heath's Xone:92 mixers in the main room to fulfil the rider request of a majority of the performing DJs.

Unofficially regarded as the kick-off to Ibiza's summer season, around 20,000 punters attended the event, enjoying 20 hours of non-stop music from a line-up which included Wally Lopez, Juanjo Martín, Carl Cox, Dubfire, plus legendary live bands Orbital, and Rumanos Premiesky who performed a world premiere of their live show.

"Most DJs and producers performing at Space demand an Allen & Heath mixer, as they appreciate the Xone sound quality that Allen & Heath is renowned for," comments Eva Thullen from Spanish distributor, Lexon.

Recently at Space, other Xone products have been spotted, including John Digweed and the Xone:DB4 FX mixer at Carl Cox's Revolution p

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USA - The number of Broadway productions relying on DiGiCo technology continues to grow, the company reports. This June, two of the newest productions and their respective sound designers took home coveted 2012 Tony Awards for sound design: Clive Goodwin for Once and Darron L. West for Peter and the Starcatcher. They each found DiGiCo desks critical to the creation and design process of their shows.

Once is based on the 2006 Academy Award-winning film about an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music. In transitioning the show to the larger theatre, Goodwin chose a DiGiCo SD7T after consulting with Scott Kalata at Masque Sound, a leading theatrical sound reinforcement, installation and design company, who'd been helping in the design process.

"We needed something with a lot of busses and a high input/output cou

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UK - Sparks flew when the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay came to Chelmsford recently.

In the finale of a day-long series of events (collectively known as Sparks Will Fly: Essex) the action moved to Hyland Park where local sound company Event Sound & Light (ESL) fielded the largest combined RCF TT+ PA system yet seen in the UK. The company was working alongside Chelmsford City Council, who were responsible for staging the event, and their production company, Walk The Plank, who devised the concept for the pageant, closing event and street theatre style performance.

ESL director Paul Galley confirms that to equip a main stage measuring 50m wide, 2m deep and 2m high they supplied a pair of 7.5m high V-mast towers to hang six active TTL55-A line array elements per side, with three RCF TTS56-A double 21in subwoofers. In addition the company featured centre fill ground stack

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UK - At PLASA 2012, Spotlight will be exhibiting its new LED products from the Green Line range. These fixtures are characterized by high optical performances and energy saving, lower heat emission, long life of the LED source and no generation of dangerous infrared and ultraviolet rays.

In Hall 1, Booth H5, Spotlight will present the new products of this series dedicated to the entertainment sector. For the first time at PLASA, they will show ProfiLED 100 RGBW, ProfiLED 180 RGB and FresneLED 200 White (CW, NW, WW). Also on preview will be the ProfiLED 200 White (CW, NW, WW) and FresneLED 250 White (Tunable).

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Demonstrating that the show lighting documentation system FocusTrack is not just for the biggest, most complex shows, the system is currently helping lighting designer Neil Austin re-create his Tony Award-winning design for the play Red in Los Angeles.

This acclaimed production opened at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2009, then transferred to Broadway in early 2010. The show collected six Tony Awards - Best Play, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Eddie Redmayne, Best Direction of a Play for Michael Grandage, Best Scenic Design of a Play for Christopher Oram, Best Sound Design of a Play for Adam Cork as well as Best Lighting Design of a Play for Neil Austin. The play became renowned on Broadway for achieving its lighting using an all-conventional rig that featured some fixtures dating back to the 1950s.

Despite the lack of moving lights, FocusTrack was used to preci

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South Africa - After the success of the lively dancing competition, Step Up or Step Out, Blond Productions were once again commissioned by their client Endemol South Africa, to supply the lighting, sound, screen and design for the second season of the show. The television broadcast for e-TV was shot over a two-week period and returning for a live finale at Sasani Studios, stage five, in Johannesburg.

Christiaan Ballot, Peter Riek and Ryan Lombard from Blond used ESP Vision to come up with a concept and then asked Dreamsets to assist with the final set design. Dreamsets came to the party and produced an exceptional dance floor which incorporated LED strips.

Lombard programmed on a grandMA full-size. For pre-production he asked for the music and content of the show and then plotted on ESP to give the client an idea of the final product and to ensure both client and suppli

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UK - Northern Light recently provided a range of services for the newly refurbished Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh's New Town.

The completion of a £9.3m refurbishment project saw the period features of the 18th century, A-listed building carefully restored and a dramatic enhancement to the sound and lighting systems within the venue.

Northern Light Direct assisted with this upgrade via the provision of a wide range of equipment that will enhance the installed systems to create a state-of-the-art events venue.

A variety of ETC product was provided, including ten Source Four LED Lustr+ zoom profiles, 24 Selador Desire Lustr+ D40s, an ETC Element 40 console for the production lighting control and a SmartFade as a pre-set control desk. The idea behind using the ETC Lustr+ range is to provide versatile, controllable lighting with minimal maintenance requirements. Additional li

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South Africa - Prosound has sold their first Eurotruss 10 x 8 ARC Roof to SoundWave, Zambia. SoundWave Zambia is a new age music company that provides a rental and hiring division along with a music festival management service.

SoundWave Zambia was established 13 years ago by three music enthusiasts who met on the South African music scene. Founding members Arnold 'Ringman' Sibalwa and Dave Ter Steege were at Prosound to see the setup of the Eurotruss ARC Roof. Arnold runs the Sound Wave Zambia branch and is regarded as one of the top sound engineers in Zambia. Dave Ter Steege is a legend on the music scene in South Africa because of his skills and ability to get the best possible sound in live arenas.

This is the first Eurotruss aluminium structure to be imported into Zambia which will make its debut appearance at the Saliet Keita show followed by a gig for Sean Paul from Jam

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An explanation of the new and exciting opportunities are now available with a range of LED products that will allow vast expanses to be quickly and cost effectively transformed into the world's largest video screens, as seen at the Opening Ceremony of the World Asian Games in Doha 2011 and & The London 2012 Games.

Learning objectives:

• How to deliver projects of this scale to the market - hardware, content, creation, logistics of installation etc.

• How LED can be used to incorporate the audience into the event rather than them being a passive spectator

• The unlimited scope for the use of this technology in live events and architectural environments

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Carol Scott (Director of Sales & Marketing at Tait Technologies), Stef Vanbesien (TAIT), Dave Green (Technical Director at Immersive Ltd), Will Case (Creative Director at Crystal CG International) and

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UK - A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) has launched a new social media initiative to enable the company to network with its customer base - including providing immediate updates on breaking installations news, tradeshow-related activities, training sessions and open day events.

ACSP's sister company, A.C. Entertainment Technologies launched their own social media campaign last year with great success, enabling them to communicate with their customers in a new way.

ACSP's dedicated Twitter account (@ACSpecProj) will allow clients, customers and industry colleagues to stay in touch via a medium which fits in with their increasingly busy lifestyles, as well as those of tomorrow's industry newcomers, says the company.

Says ACSP, "We understand that many of our customers 'live and breathe' their industry commitments 24/7, so social media is the perfect platform to hold a dialogue

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USA - Tri-Ed / Northern Video Distribution reports that it is expanding its partnership with Bosch Security Systems to now include pro audio and intercom products from the company's Communications Systems brands Electro-Voice and RTS, along with Bosch public address products.

"Tri-Ed/Northern Video is one of our most established partners in the security products marketplace," says Shawn Dahya, key account manager with Bosch Security Systems, "and expanding their portfolio to include Bosch Public Address, Electro-Voice pro audio, and RTS intercom products makes it easy for our customers to add a communications component to their purchase, and all with the high level of support and service that Tri-Ed/Northern Video is known for. We are very pleased to take this important partnership to the next level, and look forward to passing the advantages on to our customers.&

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Australia - Audio-visual staging company AVCorp has recently supplied audio systems for several large events held at Sydney's Allphones Arena where they are a preferred supplier. Each gig required a completely different PA set up but due to the flexibility of their JBL VRX and PRX speakers that was not an issue for AVCorp.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme rally, with the Prime Minister as a guest speaker, saw the stage positioned in typical fashion at one end of the arena. The PA system comprised of two hangs of five JBL VRX 932LAP speakers and some VRX subs.

"The system was actually too loud," commented Michael Papas, managing director of AVCorp. "You could hear low frequency reflections from the roof which muddied up our sound. We dropped the level a little and it gave us very good speech intelligibility with good coverage. I knew we would get the cove

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South Africa - Cosmic Gate have been coming to South Africa since 2002 and were welcomed again by a passionate audience when entertaining at Sky Raiders, Johannesburg. This was the final leg of their three city Wake Up Your Mind SA tour, accompanied by vocalist Emma Hewitt.

South African rental company, XGX Productions were commissioned by NuWave Entertainment to supply the sound, lighting, AV, structures and special effects to the venue.

Working on an Avolites Tiger Touch console, the lighting designer and operation was by Gert Smit of XGX. His team included Mpho Kgobe, lighting technician and rigger, Zee Mabasa and Petri Smit, lighting & sound technicians.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Marquee Installations has recently completed the design and installation of the audio system for the Wahaca Southbank Mexican restaurant at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Designed by renowned architects Softroom, the innovative Wahaca Southbank Experiment is a new two-storey temporary installation, constructed from eight recycled shipping containers on the outdoor terrace of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre.

The audio system for Wahaca Southbank is divided into four zones covering ground and first floors, walkways and outside areas. To provide simple but flexible control and power, Marquee chose the Cloud Electronics 46/50 4-zone integrated mixer/amp with the optional 100V line module. APart MASK4T and MASK6T loudspeakers were used throughout.

"We chose the MASK loudspeakers for their discreet styling, audio quality and price, which fitted a real

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Slovenia - The Red Summer Party was enjoyed by 12,000 dance enthusiasts who had the house rocked for them by the likes of Dutch house guru Tiesto and the super-hot Calvin Harris at the Arena Stožice in Ljubljana.

Lighting rental company Event Lighting ensured that the whole experience was made extra special for all involved, with Robe moving lights filling up most of the rig and a production design by LD Uroš Vovk

The Robe count of over 75 units included 18 Robin 600 LEDWashes, 30 ColorSpot 1200E ATs, 12 ColorSpot 700E ATs and 16 ColorSpot 575E ATs. These were positioned all around the venue on a series of over-stage trusses and a box truss over the crowd. The LEDWash 600s were all on the stage floor.

Event Lighting has been investing in Robe for the last eight years, and continues to do so because of the reliability and performance of the brand.

Their original fixtures

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USA - Iluminarc, the architectural and architainment lighting division of Chauvet that specialises in efficient dynamic lighting, has announced the release of a new powerful interior/exterior wash light, Ilumipanel 40 IP. Designed as a mid-range architectural wash light, Ilumipanel 40 IP is suitable for uplighting walls, trees or statues. Featuring a slim structure, this fixture blends with the environment and fits in areas with tight tolerances, says the company.

Ilumipanel 40 IP is a LED wash light panel equipped with 40 3-watt RGB LEDs and 30-degree lenses. Reliable in the harshest of environments, this wash light features an impact-resistant glass lens cover and a GORE valve. Ilumipanel 40 IP has built-in automated programmes and 11 customisable colour temperature presets.

The fixture's dimensions and light weight (18.25 lbs / 8.28 kg) make it a suitable choice for buildin

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