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Belgium - Televic Conference has entered into a licence agreement with Audinate for the Dante audio networking solution. uniCOS, Televic's new multimedia conferencing system, will be the first platform to have a Dante interface.

"We see a growing need with our customers to interface their conference system digitally with third party equipment" says Bart Deschodt, general manager of Televic Conference. "We are excited to integrate Dante in our new products, not only because of its performance but also because Dante has become the standard in digital audio networking."

"Televic Conference is recognised in the industry as the leading supplier of audio communication solutions in the conferencing market," remarks Steve Greenall, director of sales EMEA at

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USA - Global Truss America has named Kenneth Kahn president of the company, which sells products in North America under the DuraTruss and Global Truss brands. Kahn has been with the company since its inception in 2000 and has played a key role in building it into a major supplier of trussing and accessories for the stage, concert, club, house of worship, exhibit and retail display markets.

"Ken has been involved in every aspect of this business, from sales and marketing to research and product development," said Global Truss America CEO Chuck Davies. "He's excelled at every position he's held here, so we're very confident that he'll be able to guide our company to even more outstanding success in the future."

Kahn was instrumental in creating Global Truss America's dual branding strategy in 2012. Under this plan, the company markets DJ truss in the US under

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UK - Lighting and visuals rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and LED screens to Vodafone UK's annual conference staged at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel at the National Exhibition Centre.

It was the first year that CSE has been involved in the event, where they were working for producers, The Red Lodge Agency.

Three main areas needed technical production - the conference sessions in the hotel's Monarch Suite; a gala dinner and awards ceremony in the Palace Suite and then the after-show in the Kings Suite.

Colour Sound's project manager Fletch created a production lighting and visuals design for all three rooms and led a team of 11 technicians and engineers who worked closely on site with Rhys Sion from Red Lodge.

"The main challenges were the scale of the event and a short timescale - as is often the case," explains Fletch. "H

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Czech Republic - In 2013, the Showlight Conference was staged in the Czech Republic for the first time, at Cesky Krumlov and with Robe Lighting as the main sponsor.

Nearly 400 visitors embraced the mediaeval town for the three days to enjoy a lively mix of presentations by industry professionals working in all areas of lighting and visuals plus networking opportunities as well as getting a taste of life in and around Cesky Krumlov.

Various fact-finding and sightseeing visits were an integral part of the conference itinerary, allowing delegates to see some of the local commerce and business activities first hand.

This included a tour of the city's famous Baroque Theatre complete with original wooden and rope stage machinery, and other specially arranged visits encompassed pencil and cosmetics factories and a graphite mine.The visit programme also took in the Mestske Theatre,

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USA - Liberty AV Solutions has named Nick Buscemi as its new Great Lakes strategic accounts manager. Now giving direction to Central US territories including Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, Buscemi's reach will extend to Kentucky as well.

"This opportunity at Liberty comes at the right time, and I definitely feel in the right place," Buscemi says of his new role. "Being part of a sales team built upon principles of maintaining a positive customer culture and growth through building better business relationships offers end-to-end solutions within which everyone comes out a winner."

Based in Metro Chicagoland, Buscemi comes to Liberty from Central Marketing, Inc., an independent manufacturer's rep firm based in Crystal Lake, Illinois. While with Central Marketing for the past 11 years, he represented manufacturers including Sanyo, LG Electronics, Elmo,

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UK - 13 May saw 12,000 people pack into Manchester's Albert Square and thousands more line the streets as Premier League winners Manchester United travelled from the football club's Old Trafford stadium to an enthusiastic city centre reception. A Yamaha CL5 helped to deliver a free show by local band The Courteneers, as well as speeches by United team members and staff.

The event was heightened by the unexpected announcement, a week earlier, that United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was retiring after 26 years at the helm - transforming a football club that had under-achieved for many years into one of the world's most successful. As the open-topped bus made its way from Old Trafford, The Courteneers entertained the Albert Square crowd with a set that included Not Nineteen Forever - a song adopted by many supporters to celebrate the team's record 20th league winning season.

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UK - OMC has announced the launch of its ProfiLED Lightbar product family, which reduce cost and offer an improved appearance, especially in low and medium volume applications.

Unless production volumes are very high, the cost of developing a custom lightbar is prohibitive for most applications. Instead, designers often use several standard square or rectangular units in combination. However, this approach gives rise to high materials and assembly costs, and the finished product has unsightly dark lines where the arrays join.

Using the same approach as it adopts in its ProfiLED Backlight range of LCD backlights, which employ LED edge-lighting and an acrylic lightguide to achieve uniform, consistent illumination, OMC can now offer alternatives to lightbars in a vast range of colours. Devices can vary from 2mm to 7mm in height and can be produced in a huge range of bespoke shape

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UK - AED Distribution is the UK Master Distributor for High End Systems and is running a HOG4 training session on 11 and 12 June. There are a few places still available for what will be the first HOG4 Training in the UK run by Frank Schotman AED Distribution lighting specialist.

It is a free course and will provide an essential introduction to the new Family of HOG4 Consoles for all Lighting Professionals. It will be held at the AED Distribution UK Facility in High Wycombe. Those that are interested should contact Sarah Van Havere at sarah.van.havere@aeddistribution.be.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - For a fast-applied, comfortable and decorative vinyl flooring system for virtually every temporary and short life application - Harlequin Showfloor offers the lightweight, stable and reusable solution.

Harlequin Showfloor is a loose-lay floor designed for any temporary event - from trade stands at exhibitions to display areas in shops, fashion catwalks and many more. It can be laid on any hard and smooth surface including plywood, chipboard, hardboard, tiles or concrete, and comes in a black, grey, white or red finish.

Mineral fibre reinforced with a thin cellular backing, Showfloor is just 2.8mm thick and weighs only 1.5kg/m². It quickly lays flat, stays flat and has an embossed display surface that helps to prevent scuff marks, whilst its cellular foam backing not only provides comfort under foot but helps to reduce noise pollution.

(Jim Evans)

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems and OpenClear have announced the release of Clarity software version 2. This much anticipated version includes a wide array of enhancements, bug fixes as well as updates for full compatibility with the latest versions of the Mac and Windows operating systems.

This release also brings the software in line with the recently released LX range of consoles so that features are common across the software and hardware platforms. The latest software also includes virtual consoles enabling users to operate their software as a virtual LX300, LX600 or LX900.

The software for Mac or PC can be downloaded and tried for free at LSC's website www.lsclighting.com.

(Jim Evans)

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Iceland - In the three years since Of Monsters and Men first reached out from Iceland's shores and found an enthusiastic global audience, the quintet have rarely stopped touring. A package of Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitors helps the band to deliver performances that are meant, as they say, "to be fun to sing along to".

The band's break came when they won Músiktilraunir, an annual Icelandic battle of the bands competition. "We just kind of...won. We weren't expecting it at all," says co-vocalist and guitarist Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, with disarming honesty. The worldwide release of debut album My Head Is an Animal followed in 2012, propelling the band to success.

Front of House engineer Richie Dempsey has been working with Of Monsters and Men for almost a year. Already having toured Europe, Japan, the USA and Asia, Sennheiser

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UK - SES/Tempower supplied all the main power distribution equipment , cable and cable protection at Twickenham Stadium, for Chime for Change on 1 June.

The featured acts included Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding, Florence + The Machine, Iggy Azalea and Jennifer Lopez.

Tempower's client wasMike Ellen of MPE Power Solutions who installed all the production power and sub rented in the generator package which consisted of two 300 kva sets for broadcast power and six 500 kva sets for main stage power, all synchronised. These were supplied by Powerhire part of TGC International Ltd.

Tempower supplied the cabling and distribution for all the production and broadcast power including nine 400 amp 5-wire sets of power locks feeds for the main stage alone, one of these supplies splits out to the follow spot towers either side of stage with two 250 amp power locks supplies.

The equipme

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Germany - Over 100 Robe moving lights are in action for the sixth series of the popular reality TV show Let's Dance produced by ITV Germany, which is being recorded in Studio 32 of the MMC Film & TV Studios in Cologne

The production lighting designer is Manfred Ollie Olma, one of Germany's best known LDs.

His company, mo2 design GmbH, is also based in Köln, and has executive lighting designer & director of photography David Kreileman taking care of the week-to-week running of the show's lighting. He's working alongside mo2 project managers Sebastian Kirsch and Matthias Allhoff.

They are using 40 x Robe ColorSpot 2500E AT fixtures and 70 x ColorWash 2500E ATs, together with a large generic and white light rig including some 270 x 1K fresnels hung around the side walls for a special tungsten 'starlight' effect.

An important aspect of the lighting is to make the coupl

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USA - Using 12 of GLP's versatile impression X4 LED fixtures, Washington DC-based Pulse Lighting recently provided lighting for Slightly Stoopid's special one-off 'Hot Box' show at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado. The show, which also featured Cypress Hill, was scheduled for broadcast live on AXS TV the same evening.

Set up by brothers Paul and Preston Hoffman in 2005, Pulse Lighting were asked to light the Californian-based 'fusion' band in their own right for the first time. "The management knew we had experience of the venue, and in running concert lights for broadcast," said Preston.

The day of the event - 20 April 20- was also significant since it is the day when counter-culturists celebrate the love of cannabis, as Preston explains. "With cannabis legalised in the state in 2013, the 4/20 show was historic for everyone involved in that c

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USA - Fleetwood Mac is back on the road and Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330 fixtures have joined the iconic band on the Fleetwood Mac Live 2013 World Tour.

The new tour, which began in Columbus on 4 April and will wrap in Scandinavia in October, marks the first for the band since 2009's sold-out Unleashed tour. This year is also the 35th anniversary of their Rumours album, one of the most successful in recording history.

Lighting designer Paul 'Arlo' Guthrie of Minneapolis-based Toss Film + Design is Fleetwood Mac's long-time lighting designer. "I have to cater to four different personalities (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks) and bring them together as one team," he explains. "For this show we have four big LCD panels and 32 Sharpy Washes on curved lighting pipes, some of them on the floor, some on the rigs and some

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UK - Unusual Rigging is broadening its service offering in the installation and capital projects sector with a new range of automation systems, which will be seen for the first time in the UK at this year's ABTT show (stand 34, Blue Hall).

The development gives the UK market another option in terms of power flying, says Mark Priestley, capital projects manager at Unusual: "The system, which has a real pedigree in control technology, can be tailored to suit the specific requirements of each client and each installation, bringing the Unusual magic to even more elements of theatre engineering."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Visitors to the Doughty Engineering, stand 130 in the Orange Hall, at this year's ABTT show will be introduced to a product that "is set to take the conference and events industries by storm".

The Doughty motorised lectern is fully DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliant and will be in operation on the stand. Mark Chorley, design engineer at Doughty Engineering said, "We believe this lectern is unique - it will certainly be a real crowd-pleaser! It's been developed on the basis that not everyone who has to speak in front of a crowd is the same height, while enabling those who are unable to stand for long periods, or are wheelchair bound, to give their presentations while sitting down. All will be revealed at ABTT!"

Riggers who visit Doughty's stand will be able to discuss their specific needs with a member of the team while also viewing the new r

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UK - ETC is looking forward to demonstrating a wide range of new and updated products at this year's ABTT show in London.

Star of the console area will be Eos Titanium (aka Ti), which takes its place as the company's flagship Eos line desk, with new Eos v2.0 software featuring Magic Sheets installed. Eos Ti incorporates new hardware and features that make designing and programming even easier.

Over in the fixtures area of the stand will be the Source Four LED, which comes in a range of models, depending on its intended use, from the powerhouse full colour Lustr+ to the white light specialists Tungsten, Daylight and the new Studio HD version. Staff will be available to show them to visitors, and explaining how they can fit into a mixed rig with conventional fixtures.

Another new addition to the range, and available for a special preview at ABTT, is the Source Four LED Cyc, wh

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Germany - Recently, the event location Güterbahnhof (goods station) in Bad Homburg, Germany, invited the Nachtexpress (night train) show to dinner! Five courses of the menu were joined by show acts that fitted the destinations to which the night train was travelling. The night train was a construction that served as a stage as well as a projection area for the virtual journey.

Four MA VPU plus (Video Processing Unit) together with a grandMA2 replay unit and two grandMA2 light consoles were used for lighting and video control.

MedienReich - Gesellschaft für professionelle Eventtechnik mbH was responsible for the technical realisation of the event. Holger Turban worked as lighting technician and programmer, while Chris Pauli worked as video technician and programmer and created the video content.

Pauli commented on his choice of the MA system, "The MA system convinced u

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UK - MilTec (UK) Ltd (Stand 60 in the Blue Hall) will be showing a range of audio and lighting products bearing the proud label "Made in Britain".

The successful TP speaker range has now been replaced by the Blakite range, consisting of three mid/tops and four subs. The new range is being built in the UK using high quality materials with custom drivers supplied by Fane.. The new range offers increased build quality, efficiency, power handling, frequency range and a marked improvement in sound quality, says the company.

On the lighting side, the Mini-Map LED screen will be the first MilTec lighting product to be made in the UK. The Mini-Map is a miniature LED screen with 36 tricolour pixels and in a break with convention is controlled via DMX512. It measures just 155mm square and is designed to be mounted individually or in clusters to provide stunning video and graph

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UK - Few names carry more weight in theatre circles than the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, UK, whose renowned stagings of The Bard's works tend to set the global benchmark for how it should be done.

The main Royal Shakespeare Theatre auditorium and smaller adjacent Swan Theatre were re-opened in late 2010 following extensive re-modelling, accompanied by a substantial and ongoing investment in new production technologies. Just prior to the re-build, the nearby Courtyard Theatre was created as a temporary home for the RSC's productions. It is also the prototype for the new one-room theatre format proposed for the RST and Swan to create a more traditional Shakespearean performance area, characterised by a deep thrust stage surrounded by audience on three sides.

A recent purchase for the Courtyard's audio infrastructure has been a 48x48 TiMax2 SoundHub matrix with MADI o

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