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Brazil - The 2013 Brazilian Lollapalooza Festival staged at São Paulo's Jockey Club featured a selection of Robe moving lights on the main two stages, Cidade Jardim and Butantã.

These were integral to the respective lighting rigs used to illuminate a truly stellar line up of international and local artists, enjoyed by around 60,000 people a day who flocked to see the action across the event's four performance stages.

The Butantã stage lighting rig included 27 x Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs and 10 Robin 600 LEDWashes, while on the Cidade Jardim stage were 34 x ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 19 x ColorWash 2500E ATs and 10 Robin 600 LEDWashes. Additional units were located above the side IMAG screens on both stages.

The principal lighting contractor was São Paulo based LPL Professional Li

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Croatia - All hours night clubs, warm summer evenings, and long Adriatic beaches are a potent combination, throw in high octane musical entertainment and the cake is baked. The Noa Beach Club at Zr?e on the island of Pag is just such a place; owners Ivan Joki? and Zlatko Balaško have worked hard to make the club stand out amongst the many others clamouring for attention along the northern Croatian coastline. "Noa is quite young, 2013 is our third year. What we have learned is that there is no substitute for good sound when you're trying to attract international status DJs."

Joki? and Balaško approached Tomislav Koran (informally known as Kuki) from Sunflower, a well known audio dealer based in Rijeka, one hundred kilometres west of Zagreb, on the coast, "They had taken advice from several sources and had a good idea of what they needed to achieve. This is a typi

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USA - City Theatrical is inviting visitors to explore its new website (www.citytheatrical.com). The new website has been designed to provide the ultimate user-friendly experience with improved navigation and functionality throughout, allowing customers to access detailed product information and videos with the option to share information across all major social networking sites.

The new site includes extensive product information to help customers understand City Theatrical's complete range of products for theatrical and architectural lighting. Technical data, videos, and case studies work together to provide a detailed overview of City Theatrical's capabilities over a wide range of sectors, including custom manufacturing.

The new website means that customers can now benefit from richer online content that is easier to navigate and share with others, says the company. All of t

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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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Sweden - Södra Teatern (Southern Theatre) located in Stockholm's lively and creative Söder district, is one of Sweden's best known privately run theatres and the oldest such venue in Stockholm, established in 1859.

A Robe LEDWash installation is another facility that can be offered in addition to its seven stages, two restaurants, outdoor terrace and fabulous panoramic views across the city.

The theatre's action-packed programme of events focuses on live music and performance and stages up to 1000 events over an average year.

The newest Robe fixtures in the house are six LEDWash 600s and four LEDWash 300s, which were specified by Head of Lighting Lars Ekdahl, as part of a general lighting upgrade.

The first Robe fixtures in the venue were ColorSpot and ColorWash 575E ATs, purchased ten years ago - and still working well today - so they already knew from experience that t

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Mexico - The first Nexo STM Series modular line array system has arrived in Mexico, the property of Tecno Son Espectaculos, the well-known rental company based in Mexico City, and its CEO Sergio Zenteno. The substantial inventory includes 36 sets of STM cabinets; a total of 108x Main M46, Bass B112 and Sub S118 cabinets, together with the NUAR NEXO Universal Amp Rack power and management system.

Zenteno has a long association with Nexo, introducing the brand into Mexico in 2003. Over the years, Tecno Son has acquired 24x Geo S and 32x Geo D10 line array cabinets, 24x CD18 Sub and 8x Alpha eM/B118. With the support of Nexo's Mexican distributor Representaciones de Audio (REPSA), he has built Nexo into one of the two dominant loudspeaker brands in Mexico, with Tecno Son itself becoming one of the largest sound rental providers in the country.

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UAE - Melody House, distributors of Primacoustics have recently supplied Mizany with 16 Control columns, 24 Scatter blocks and four Broadband panels. All of which form two sets of the industry known London 12 Kit. The Kit contains Broadway panels that tackle problems affecting any room, such as primary reflections, flutter echo, standing waves and excessive bass.

Mizany is the first compare and review site based in the MENA region to offer comprehensive coverage for the latest technology and consumer gadgets in both Arabic and English through videos and originally written content.

Commenting on the acoustic solution, Ramin Qadir of the Mizany team said, "We wanted a quick acoustic solution that not only made the room well treated but look aesthetically pleasing as well. Everything was put up within a few hours and we were ready to record by evening."

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UAE - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors of Roland Professional in the Middle East have recently supplied four V-800HD vision mixers to Dubai based Production Technology (Protec). Production Technology works on a number of high profile events in the region. Production Technology purchased the Roland V-800HD after a demonstration by NMK's Roland specialist Moswain Antao.

"The V-800HD is the new Live video switcher from Roland. It accepts high-end 3G/SD/HD-SDI DVI-A/DVI-D/HDMI, RGB, component, and composite formats video sources making it the ideal choice for any live video production," commented Moswain Antao, Roland product specialist at NMK.

He adds, "The mixer also features 4:4:4/10-bit processing on outputs up to 1080/60p resolution. Operating two V-800HD units in tandem makes it possible to perform switching for 3D Video split into left

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Czech Republic - Technical production solutions provider Smart Production SRO from Prague, Czech Republic has invested in substantial quantities of Milos's M390L Quatro truss.

The Czech Republic headquartered Milos Group is the largest global aluminium trussing manufacturer offering the most diverse portfolio of trussing and related products worldwide.

Smart Productions' new trussing went directly into use in a large structure built for the current Tutankhamen - His Tomb and Treasures exhibition, staged at the Holesovice Exhibition Centre in Prague.

The impressive trussing structure - measuring 97m long by 32m deep in total - is 4.9m high and joined together by a series of Milos M390 multi-cube junctions. It is supported on 40 legs constructed from the same type of trussing.

The structure forms the framework for several viewing sections of the experience in the main

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UK - The congregation of Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace in Kilwee, in the suburbs of Belfast, has been presented with something of a phenomenon.

Through the unusual omega-shaped sculpture - suspended from the ultra-high vaulted ceiling and hovering over the sanctuary - four JBL CBT70J column loudspeaker arrays now appear to float, as if defying the laws of gravity.

Not the miracle they were perhaps hoping for since these are hung on near imperceptible steel wire pairs - an ingenious solution conceived by Martin Grainger, of Co. Tyrone based Grainger Communication Ltd to give extra design swagger to a modern church which was only built at the turn of the millennium.

The acoustician has been involved with the unusual conical-shaped church, with its extraordinarily high ceiling for many years and is entirely familiar with its acoustic quirks and reverberant interior.

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Norway - Amas Produksjon is the latest distributor to join the Adamson team. They announced their new partnership while at Prolight and Sound this year. The Norwegian company started as a booking agent in the early 90's but quickly grew to include equipment rental, and in 2004 they began sales and distribution of top brands in the pro audio world. Amas specializes in turn-key pro audio solutions in both the sales and rental markets. These services include everything from rental to full sound design, installation and 24hr service to their clients in installation and live touring markets.

CEO, Morten Paulsen says, "Our main focus is always to create good complete, turn-key solutions for our customers, combining different products to suit each customer's specific need." The addition of Adamson products to their 'line card' paired with Powersoft Audio amplifiers will give

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Mexico - Wireless Solution Sweden AB and RED Lighting, W-DMX distributor in Mexico, recently transformed the exclusive Grupo Vidanta resort, Santuario into a stunning light display.

Grupo Vidanta is one of the leading South American hotel chains, with several resorts including Grand Luxxe, Grand Bliss, Grand Mayan and Mayan Palace. Grupo Vidanta approached RED Lighting to manage the installations for all the chain's new hotels.

Santuario is a luxury hotel and entertainment resort, complete with a large lounge, bars, discotheques, theatre and live entertainment. For these areas, RED Lighting installed 200 of their own brand Quadro 10 and Quadro 24 fixed projectors. The fixtures chosen have an IP65 protection rating, which permits outdoor use - essential for a facility like Santuario with open air sections.

Several Classe S700 moving head projectors are used as well, each with

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India - Martin Audio has appointed Integrated Entertainment Solutions (IES) as its new exclusive distributor for India. The agreement was formalised at this month's Prolight+Sound Show in Frankfurt.

The Mumbai-based sound and lighting company had previously been operating as a dealer, and has been working with the Martin Audio brand since 2006, both in a rental and installation capacity. During that time it has fitted out many auditoriums and specified a vast range of systems, from Blackline+ and AQ series, up to the W8L Longbow, W8LC Compact and W8LM Mini line arrays.

IES set out primarily as a distributor/dealer for multinational companies, manufacturing intelligent lighting, control and sound equipment, and has been steadily growing its distribution portfolio, adding lighting brands such as Robe.

Said director Kekul Sheth, "We are delighted to be handling the Martin

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UK - Highlite International (Stand N-E7) will this year be launching a whole range of new products at PLASA Focus, of the back of a very successful Pro Light & Sound Show, Frankfurt.

Highlite International will be showing the New Range of LED Theatre Luminaires, The Performer Range, Including the Performer 1000 Led Fresnel (with manual focus) Performer 2000 Led Fresnel (with on-board dmx focus), Performer 600 Led Profile (with a 24 degree beam), Performer 5000 LED theatre flood (with wide electric zoom & adjustable colour temperatures).

The Showtec Expression 1800 Battery Uplighter (now with Q4 led chip RGBW & lithium battery making it much lighter at only 5.5kg in weight). The Showtec XS-6 Led Centrepiece, which incorporates six 10w led dichroic colours and nine metal gobos' in each moving head, big room filler).

Showtec will be showing some of the new COB (chip on Board) r

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UK - Interspace Industries will be presenting a number of new products at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2013.

The USB Bal Box provides high quality balanced audio on XLR. The unit requires no drivers for current USB devices and ensures clean audio from your system with selectable Stereo/Mono and Ground lift switching.

The USB AiO has an output stage similar to the Bal Box but includes an output level control and an input consisting of 2x XLRs with Mic/Line selection and a level control on each input. A Clip LED provides visual indication to the technician if the level is too high.

The SoundConnect is a passive audio balancing unit designed to fit in to a standard XLR fixing; ideal for wall & lecterns and has a simple connection for computers and iPads alike.

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UK - ETC is getting ready to show a range of new and updated products at this year's PLASA Focus in Leeds.

The newly released Eos v2.0 software, which introduces a new Magic Sheet function, will be available for demonstration. Designed to make programming even easier with Eos-line control desks, Magic Sheets allow users to set up customised, interactive live/blind displays organise and work with channels in ETC's traditional tombstone view or via channel symbols.

Eos v2.0 software is released simultaneously with the latest addition to the Eos control desk line, the Eos Titanium, which was first seen at Prolight + Sound in April and which uses new hardware and features to make designing and programming even easier.

Also on the stand and available for demonstration will be the new 50W ETC Source Four Mini; and Source Four LED Studio HD.

At 23cm long and weighing just 740g, t

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UK - Visual Productions will be attending PLASA Focus in Leeds next week. Although regular attendees to PLASA Focus this is the first time that Visual Productions take their own stand, RA-A15.

Following on from the successful launch of two new products at Prolight+Sound, Visual Productions now bring these direct to the UK market: CueluxPro software lighting control and the B-Station, networked button interface. These two new products really complement and enhance the current Visual Productions product line.

CueluxPro is an advanced and scalable software lighting control application. The software is designed to control medium to large lighting installations, for both architectural and live entertainment situations. CueluxPro works in combination with the CueCore and IoCore as its DMX and IO interfaces and with the new B-Station user-interface.

As with the popular Cuelux softw

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UK - Software provider Stardraw.com has announced a significant enhancement to their most sophisticated design/documentation product yet, the award-winning Stardraw Design 7 software package. The upgrade follows a period of intense beta testing by a select group of Stardraw Design 7 'Power Users'.

The principal object of the beta was to test a new version of SD7 with optimized memory handling for a noticeably faster, smoother and better overall experience, particularly when working with very large project files. The new version offers all the same features and functionality as before but a huge amount of low-level work has been carried out with the result that file operations are faster, file sizes are generally smaller and overall memory usage is significantly reduced.

Rob Robinson, CEO at Stardraw.com, commented, "As always happens with software, Power Users emerge that

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Germany - Intelligent LED lighting manufacturer, Chroma-Q unveiled their new Inspire LED house light at this year's Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.

The new Chroma-Q Inspire LED house light is a powerful multi-purpose creative lighting tool that utilises some of the innovative core technologies found in the popular Chroma-Q Color Force range. Providing a choice of beautiful whites, soft pastels and bold saturates, the Inspire incorporates industry standard DMX-512 control, fully homogenised colour mixing, a high CRI of 90, a powerful 4,000 hot lumens output and an adjustable CCT.

Featuring a compact, energy-efficient LED design, the Inspire house light has an incredibly low power consumption of 110W - which will show you a significant return on your investment with its high energy efficiency.

The Inspire's custom optical design provides a smooth, uniform output, mat

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Juno Awards - Carly Rae Jepsen has won three Junos at the annual Canadian music awards, including album of the year, pop album of the year and single of the year for her hit Call Me Maybe. The 27-year-old's album Kiss beat Justin Bieber and Celine Dion. Bieber took home his fourth Juno in the fan choice category with Mumford & Sons winning best international album. k.d. Lang was inducted into the Canadian music hall of fame. Leonard Cohen, who started his music career in the 1960s, won two Junos for songwriter of the year for the album Old Ideas and artist of the year.

Opera Awards - Tenor Jonas Kaufmann has won best male singer and the readers' award at the inaugural International Opera awards. Known as the "new king of tenors", Kaufmann debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2006. The reader's award was voted for by readers of

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UK - TV Lighting specialists Aurora Lighting Hire, based in Greenford, has announced that Samantha Wiseman (formally Dean) has recently joined their team.

Samantha has been appointed as Business Coordinator and commented: "I am very excited to join Aurora in their rapidly growing business and happy to be back in the lighting industry. I have had time out getting married and becoming a mum and now my boys are at school, I felt ready to get back into work and was thrilled when this opportunity came up."

She started her career at Brilliant Stages just out of college and then moved onto Vari Lite/VLPS for many years and has nearly 10 years' experience working in the lighting industry.

Nick Edwards, Managing Director added: "I am delighting to welcome Samantha to Aurora. We have known each other for many years working together at VLPS/PRG. Samantha has a lot of kno

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UK - The London-based audio consulting firm, RH Consulting, has recently welcomed two new members to the team. Stuart Gillan is an audio professional with over 30 years' experience in live touring, location music recording, location tv/film and broadcast post-production. He will be focusing mainly on system design, while Henny Schuett, a native German speaker, will be joining RH Consulting on a part-time basis, concentrating mainly on projects in the German market.

Gillan has an impressive CV demonstrating a thorough knowledge of the industry and a flexible approach to his work. Since 1997 he has moved gradually towards consulting and audio design work, focusing exclusively on those activities for the last few years. His past experience in outside broadcast, audio engineering and sound recording combines an understanding of operational requirements and logistics with technical k

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