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Brunei - Costing over £60m, the new Prime Minister's Office in Brunei is an opulent, state of the art venue which houses the central coordinating body for all of the sultanate's government ministries and agencies. With a theatre and banqueting hall that each seat 1000, a 300-seat conference hall and 13 further conference and meeting rooms, Yamaha digital mixers and amplifiers deliver the requisite optimum audio quality.

Covering 92,000m2, the complex is located in the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Woking-based LSI Projects was invited to work with technology consultants CCW Singapore to fine-tune the plans for the sound, lighting and communications infrastructure. Once finalised LSI, under project director Bob Peill and project manager Jakub Krzeminski, supplied, in

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UK - Once again this summer, entertainment lighting specialist White Light has returned to Minack Theatre on Cornwall's coast with the Shattered Windscreen Theatre Company production of Wild Oats. The show marks another successful production for the theatre company, whose members have been appearing on the Minack outdoor stage for more than a decade.

White Light has supplied lighting equipment and support for this and many other productions with Shattered Windscreen, often working with lighting designer Ken Allford to strike the balance between increasing creative demands and tightening budgets.

With Wild Oats, based on John O'Keeffe's original 1791 play, James McLure has morphed the setting forwards in time to America's Wild West and left no cliché unturned! With scenes reminiscent of Mel Brooks' film classic, Blazing Saddles, the production deligh

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USA - Bandit Lites Inc. has invested in a substantial number of Robe's newest moving lights as specified by creative director and production designer Seth Jackson and lighting designer Nathan W Scheuer for the current Selena Gomez Stars Danceworld tour, which kicked off this week in Canada.

The sale involves 16 x Pointes, 18 x LEDWash 600s, 12 x LEDWash 1200s and 36 x LEDBeam 100s - all from Robe's Robin range of 'smaller-lighter-brighter' luminaires. These were delivered to Bandit by Robe Lighting Inc., coordinated by Eastern region business development manager, Kevin Loretto.

Jackson has worked with Selena Gomez since her first We Own The Night tour in 2011. His very talented creative team for this tour includes Scheuer, video & media designer Brent Sandrock and lighting director David "Fuji" Convertino who will be out on the road with the equipment.<

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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

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Switzerland - TC Group has announced the appointment of Show Supply as the exclusive distributor of Tannoy for Switzerland, as well as sub-distributor for TC Group's other leading install and tour brands, Lab.gruppen and Lake.

The deal will see Show Supply, located in Schöhnbühl, Switzerland, become the primary contact for all three brands in the country, with exclusive access to Tannoy professional loudspeaker products, as well as preferred access to all products from Lab.gruppen and Lake.

Chris Häfliger, Director of Show Supply, commented, "We are extremely happy to begin this new partnership with TC Group's professional install and tour brands. Tannoy is an innovative company with many leading product lines, and one which we are excited about working with. Along with Lab.gruppen and Lake, we are sure that these new additions will help us to continue to deliv

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Serbia - Making its stylish debut this summer was Serbia's latest nightlife spot, Hot Mess, in the capital of Belgrade. Hot Mess opened its doors in July to a crowd of beautiful party people, with a high powered Nexo system keeping the sounds going throughout the day and night.

The 400-capacity club is based around an open-air pool complete with swim-up bar, sun loungers and seating areas. Operating as a restaurant during the day, by nightfall the volume and pace are turned up as Hot Mess moves into club mode, with poolside dancing and drinking providing entertainment into the small hours.

The Nexo system was provided by local distributor Light and Sound Design, who designed and installed a system of six PS10-R2 high power cabinets and four LS600 sub bass units driven by NXAMP 4x4 amplifiers, plus two Yamaha MSR400 active monitors. The PS10-R2s have been positioned around the

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Australia - Criniti's has become an institution since it first launched in 2003, building up a cult following and reputation for lovingly prepared recipes that reflect authentic cuisine from their origins in Southern Italy. With four restaurants already in tow, Criniti's Manly is the latest venue to join the family.

Constant Technology were called upon to design, supply and install an audio system, and fortunately budget was not an issue!

"They wanted a system that would sound great, be well distributed and would offer control of all areas independently," commented Con Constantinou, managing director of Constant Technology. "The venue has eight audio zones, including a main restaurant, pastry area and outdoor areas, which is quite a lot for a venue of 400m²."

The pastry kitchen and reception area has fifteen JBL Control 42C in ceiling speakers plus three

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USA - Founded in 1850 by German immigrants, St. Joseph Fullerton is a Roman Catholic church located just north of Baltimore in Perry Hall, Maryland, USA. St. Joseph's current building, an octagonal structure with around-the-sanctuary seating, and imaginative décor has impressed parishioners and visitors for more than 40 years.

St. Joseph's original sound system used ceiling loudspeakers to cover the sanctuary and had been augmented with loudspeakers in the organ chamber. However, coverage was uneven in many locations and very poor in the back of the church.

Through a referral from another church, St. Joseph's contacted Mike Flaherty of Nelson White Systems in Baltimore. Flaherty recommended a system based on Community's Entasys column line arrays. He had used Entasys in other church sound systems and knew they would provide smooth coverage throughout the sanctuary and p

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USA - The city that never sleeps put on a Fourth of July show that extended well beyond the 37th Annual Macy's Fireworks Spectacular to the Empire State Building (ESB) where a grandMA2 full-size and an MA VPU plus (Video Processing Unit) controlled a dazzling pixel-mapped lighting display on the landmark.

The ESB and Macy's partnered on the 37th annual fireworks show. As part of the celebration the ESB tower light show was created by world-famous lighting design artist Marc Brickman and choreographed to music curated by Usher for the finale of the fireworks. Last year the ESB unveiled its one-of-a-kind new LED tower lights with a show Brickman designed.

For the Independence Day spectacular the light show competed for attention with the fireworks by displaying dramatic and fun bursts of colour, ripples, sweeps and chases on the top tiers and spire of the ESB. More than 3.900 LE

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USA - "Echostage is becoming an epic venue. There's no other site like it near Washington DC," OHM Productions owner Jeff Darby is proud to be providing audio for the newly renovated club. "This team really cares about providing an experience for everyone involved. They wanted to take it to the next level. Part of that was mastering the sound in a very dynamic space."

The largest dedicated indoor concert space in the area, Echostage hosts anywhere between two and five shows per week. Though the converted warehouse attracts a wide range of world class DJ's and is known for electric dance music, the venue is used for various other live music as well, drawing crowds of thousands. Proud of the clear sight lines on the large first floor dance area, and comfortable lounge seating in the balcony, the team strives to provide everything the fans and artists could need

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USA - The Verizon Philadelphia University Evening of Innovation is a great platform for advancing the importance of higher education and innovation and the impact they have on the global economy. The event paid tribute to students, faculty, alumni and friends who contribute their talent, creativity and determination to meeting current and emerging social needs through innovation.

The celebration included the Annual Fashion Show at the Academy of Music, followed by the Spirit of Innovation Gala and Awards Ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt at The Bellevue Hotel.

Lighting Designer Bill Murray of Pro Vision Production Inc. worked with freelance LD/programmer Richard Dunn to create a magical space for the gala, incorporating High End Systems DLVs, TechnoArcs and Hog 4 control.

The most formidable challenges to the design team were time and space. Dunn explains: "Fo

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The Netherlands - Milestone AV Technologies reports that its Europe office in Weert, Netherlands, has a new state-of-the-art product showroom showcasing the latest AV solutions. After joining together the EMEA operations for its Chief, Da-Lite and Projecta brands under the same roof in October 2011, Milestone has made significant enhancements to the facility, including the addition of the state-of-the-art showroom for demonstrations and hands-on training opportunities. More than 40 installed solutions are on display, including mounts, racks, screens and other AV accessories.

The showroom demonstrates a wide range of vertical market applications, including digital signage, education, rental and staging, video conferencing, video walls, workstation, interactive, home entertainment, broadcasting and corporate.

"It has been exciting to connect our brands and bring our compreh

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UK - The Roland R-1000 48 track audio recorder/player has been out on tour with James recently, used by system engineer Mark O'Neill from AudioPlus to record their live performances. The UK tour, which took place earlier this year covered 11 dates in venues of varying sizes, from arenas to academies.

To make the recordings, the inputs from a DiGiCo SD8 desk were fed into a Roland S-MADI REAC Bridge which converted the signal from MADI to REAC (Roland Ethernet Audio Connection) to go into the R-1000. The S-MADI REAC Bridge is a bi-directional signal converter between REAC and MADI enabling connectivity between MADI-equipped digital audio mixers/systems to any REAC-based devices. A Roland S-4000 chassis was custom loaded with SO-DA4 output cards and used as an output device from the R-1000 via REAC to break the signal into analogue lines to feed into the Midas XL4 desk in use at F

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Thanks to its flexibility, Focusrite's RedNet technology is being implemented in an amazingly diverse range of applications. From single-unit laptop recording setups to multi-room studio environments, RedNet is a great-sounding, hassle-free and incredibly versatile audio interface system. One of the most innovative RedNet applications is as part of the digital audio systems that run most front-of-house (FOH) PA systems on large tours the world over. One such implementation is in the FOH rig of The Killers' world tour, where a RedNet 1 eight-channel A-D/D-A and RedNet 4 eight-channel mic preamp perform a number of duties for Systems Engineer Philip Reynolds. He made the decision to use RedNet in order to maintain the audio within the digital domain - A-D conversion takes place side-stage as soon as the mics plug into the stagebox - for as long as possible before conversion to analogue. It

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UK - Robe lighting is showcasing nine exciting and innovative new products on stand L80 in Hall 5 at the PLASA exhibition at ExCeL London, 6-9 October 2013.

Robe is looking forward to the show in its new location at ExCeL London, and will celebrate this with a brand new and enlarged stand design.

Products will include all those launched at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt which include some brand new concepts - all of which embrace Robe's smaller-lighter-brighter and more eco-friendly philosophies . . .

Robe is again a platinum sponsor of PLASA, which brings additional benefits to guests including the Robe Fast Track Entrance and a chance to win one of 12 Apple iPad Mini tablets by completing your PLASA visitor registration through Robe.

Sister architectural LED brand Anolis will be on an adjacent stand, and all of Robe's International team will join the Robe UK crew to ensure th

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USA - Imagine Dragons, the alternative rock band from Las Vegas, has spent the majority of 2013 on their Night Visions tour performing in North America and Europe. Their hit single Radioactive boasts more than 4.0m downloads and counting.

Escondido, California-based Sound Image was chosen to providing sound reinforcement for the US portions of the tour. The Nashville office heads up the production.

"When we received the bid, it came down to determining which system would provide the SPL, flexibility and sonic quality the band required," explains Andrew Dowling, systems engineer for Sound Image. "The band needed the ability to do full size sheds and arenas as well as smaller venues."

FOH Engineer Scott Eisenberg and production manager Eric 'Shakes' Grzybowski ultimately decided that the Adamson Energia E15 line arrays would provide everything

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UK - Live video specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) supplied a full camera, vision mixing and control package to the Lion's Den stage at the 2013 Boomtown Fair - the UK's Maddest City - festival at Matterley Estate near Winchester in Hampshire.

The festival - under the artistic direction of Lak Mitchell and Chris Rutherford - is one of the UK's most and vibrant events and the Lion's Den Stage is acclaimed for its awesome line up of established reggae artists and emerging talent.

Boomtown is the world's biggest pop up city with over 1km of set/scenics and over 40 individual themed venues of which the Lion's Den is the largest.

CPL's Nick Diacre was on-site as production manager for the Lion's Den, coordinating all technical production, site management and related business in this area, including Health & Safety.

The stunning 16m high Aztec temple themed Lion's Den pe

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France - Located in the picturesque Alsace region of France, the Espace Culturel Le Parc in Ribeauvillé is one of the region's primary entertainment centres. A recent technical upgrade has seen an all-digital Yamaha and Nexo audio installation deliver a dramatic improvement to the venue's sound quality and flexibility.

Built in 1997 and run by the local municipality, the 580-seat venue hosts mainly live music and theatre, but also presentations and conferences. After 17 years of near-constant use the audio system needed a significant upgrade because cables, connectors and other components required replacing, plus the PA was no longer sufficient to meet the demands of contemporary shows.

Supplied by French audio specialists Lagoona, the new PA system comprises flown arrays of Nexo Geo S12 and S1230 loudspeakers, plus ground-stacked RS18 subs and PS10 R2 front-fills. The

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UK - Lighting and visuals rental company HSL has been supplying a substantial 'specials' lighting rig - comprising over 160 fixtures - for Chase & Status's 2013 summer festival tour, which drew to a blistering close at the 2013 Reading and Leeds Festivals. This continues an excellent working relationship with the band and lighting designer Neil Carson.

Chase & Status live shows are renowned for their relentless high energy content and innovative use of visuals and lighting and the basis for Carson's design was to ensure that the rig could be wheeled onstage, rigged and wired in 30 minutes - and give the band their own highly distinctive show for each and every one of their incendiary festival performances.

Lighting director Cate Carter also ran the lighting for a section of the tour while Carson was fulfilling other previously booked commitments. HSL project manager Mike Oates

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USA - Hillsong United, the chart-topping worship band that rose out of the youth ministry of Sydney, Australia's Hillsong Church, recently wrapped up a US summer arena tour in support of its 12th and latest full-length album, Zion. The outing, known as Welcomezion, picks back up with a second three-week leg of North American dates in November and will continue to be supported by Greenfield, Indiana-based Mid-America Sound, which has been supplying an L-Acoustics K1 system for the tour.

The group's summer jaunt, which stopped at a dozen cities in June, sold out shows in Phoenix (Grand Canyon University Arena), Dallas (Verizon Theatre), Denver (Red Rocks Amphitheatre) and Chicago (Sears Centre Arena), averaging almost 7,000 people each night. Hillsong United's performance in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl welcomed more than 15,000 fans alone, and the overall ticke

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USA - The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards was another spectacular event held at the year-old Barclays Centre in Brooklyn. Looking to deliver world-class lighting in the state-of-the-art venue, Tom Kenny was contracted to design an equally impressive light show to entertain thousands in attendance and millions watching at home. Martin lighting fixtures, supplied by VER, lined the stage and house, providing a multi-function professional lighting rig.

Kenny, whose illuminating résumé includes lighting design for David Bowie, Eric Clapton and The Who, among others, has been working in and around VMAs production for more than 20 years - designing the lighting for the main show for the better half of a decade. Working with the creative minds of the artists and their own creative production teams, including Brooklyn artist KAWS, who also designed the new MTV Moonman award, Ke

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Germany - The HDMI connection cable series from Sommer Cable and Hicon have seen a complete rework and some additions.

From late summer 2013 the all new HIMM series will be available. It is fitted with a highly flexible and super thin line - only 4mm in diameter - and extremely compact all-metal connectors (only 18.5 x 9 x 15mm). This compactness lets the user experience previously unknown possibilities in the cable management on the desk, at the lectern or in the conference hall. The series is available with a maximum cable length of 10m, whereby the 5 and 10m lines are equipped with an integrated signal repeater.

The updated HD14 series now represents the optimised standard with HDMI connection lines. The cables are available in pure white or black and covered with a nylon mesh which increases the mechanical resilience and gives them a more high-grade look. The connectors ar

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