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UK - At PLASA London 2013 at ExCel, London, the Solaris LED Flare lighting and effects fixture was honoured with the coveted PLASA Sustainability Award. The eco-friendly concept behind the Flare's design was recognized by the PLASA Innovation Award judges, who asserted, "This multi-purpose, energy efficient product will save loads of energy by replacing and eliminating the massive power consumption of existing fixtures including strobes, audience blinders, and wash lights." The PLASA Sustainability Award is awarded at the judges' discretion for significant achievements in environmental excellence which will benefit this generation and the next.

The Solaris LED Flare is a super-bright, 1000W, high-performance RGBW wash, strobe, and blinder - in one fixture! A single multi

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UK - Projection and digital art specialist Ross Ashton of London based The Projection Studio created two spectacular projection works in Wolverhampton, west Midlands for the inaugural Wolverhampton Enchanted City event, which attracted up to 8000 people each evening into the city centre

Ashton was commissioned to produce the works by Wolverhampton City Council following his work at the first ever Enchanted City 'pilot' event at Horncastle, Lincolnshire earlier in the year. Ashton is developing this event concept together with Brighton based Robin Morley of Magnetic Events, who also produced this show.

The giant 15m tall images were beamed onto two well-known local landmarks - the 1920s style Barclays Bank building in St Peter's Square, and the Wulfrana Street entrance to the University of Wolverhampton around 100 metres away.

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UK - Trade associations PASMA and SELECT have entered into a new partnership agreement, bringing together their respective members in the work at height and electrical contracting industries.

The agreement between PASMA, the leading trade association for mobile access towers, and Scotland's trade association for the electrical industry, SELECT, will ensure that PASMA training is more accessible to SELECT members.

Delegates who take this route will receive a joint-badged PASMA card with the SELECT logo as a sign of their competence to work at height. With falls from height the leading cause of death in the workplace, it is a legal requirement for workers to prove their competence before carrying out this type of work.

PASMA's managing drector, Peter Bennett, said, "Electrical contractors of course regularly work at height. We are delighted that this agreement will benefi

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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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USA - Madison Square Garden - New York's iconic indoor arena - has unveiled its new state-of-the-art centre-hung multi-media display. The display serves as the centrepiece of The Garden's new LED video display system, known as GardenVision, which debuted 25 October, as part of the third and final phase of The Garden's unprecedented, E7.2m, three-year transformation.

This cutting-edge system, manufactured by video display specialist Daktronics, includes more than 20 individually produced LED displays and provides attending fans with an enhanced visual experience.

Hank Ratner, president and ceo, The Madison Square Garden Company said, "With the completion of our historic Madison Square Garden transformation, 'the world's most famous arena' has also now become the world's most state-of-the-art arena, ensuring that we continue our tradition of providing fans with the very bes

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USA - When the Samuel H. Scripps Mainstage at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Centre opens this week, at 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, well-travelled theatre-goers may get a sense of deja vu.

The 299-seat theatre's two galleries, steep orchestra seating rake, and modest capacity create a closeness between the actors and audience that will remind some of a groundbreaking theatre 3,500 miles across the Atlantic. A theatre that through its innovative physical flexibility, intimacy, and dedication to experimentation helped revive the form of the courtyard theatre: The Cottesloe Theatre at the National Theatre in London.

The similarities are not an accident. In the 36 years since it opened, the Cottesloe Theatre has exerted an immeasurable influence over the theatrical world, not only in nurturing legions of actors, directors, writers, and theatre professionals, bu

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UAE - In a move that enabled it to engage with its existing and potential customers in the Middle East to spread brand awareness and highlight the capabilities of its ultra-compact audio solutions, K-Array, together with its distribution partner, the Sennheiser Group, successfully hosted a two day seminar at the Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.

Attended by over 35 A/V installation and consultancy professionals, the event featured presentations, delivered by Francesco Maffei, product specialist manager at K-array, on both live and installed sound elements. These were complimented by live demos of products which included the Anakonda KAN200 flexible array element speaker and the ultra-miniaturized KZ10 line-array element.

Commenting on his company's support of such customer engagement platforms, Mig Cardamone, sales and marketing manager, Sennheiser Middle East said, "Because K-

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Australia - Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour is a production that combines Michael Jackson's music and choreography with Cirque du Soleil creativity to give fans worldwide a view into the spirit, passion and heart of Jackson.

Lighting designer Martin Labrecque was required to design a rig that provided a decent amount of front and side light, as sometimes the stage can have forty-nine people on it, and that could also compete with the extensive use of LED video screens.

Another challenge was weight allowance with the space above the performance area already crammed with video walls, scenic elements and acrobatic machinery.

Originally Labrecque planned to use all VL3500 Wash and VL3000 Spot fixtures but was advised that he needed to scale back considerably due to weight restrictions. Rather than cut back the amount of fixtures, he turned to some of Vari-Lite's newer an

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UK - In 2009 XL Video started XL Events as a specialist division to focus on supplying the corporate and events industry with its technical AV equipment and services.

Since that time XL Video and XL Events have seen continual growth in the corporate video solutions market.

With this success in mind, and with XL Video's renewed focus on innovative video technologies and providing excellent customer service, the parent company has decided to re-brand XL Events, bringing it in line with the corporate identity across the entire XL Video group of companies. This change is effective from 1st November 2013.

Rich Rowley director of XL Video commented, "It has been an incredible journey over the last four years building a Corporate division for XL. The reason for the XL Events name in the first place was to show the industry we weren't just Rock 'n' Roll. I believe it has now se

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Russia - A new sports and concert centre has opened in the city of Kursk. This project has been enabled through the joint efforts of building companies and technology contractors.

Participating in this project, Light.Sound.Contractor, NEXT-proaudio's distributor in Russia, was in charge of the comprehensive design to fit Kursk arena with sport lighting, art-lighting, sound equipment, truss constructions, hoist mechanisms (winches), and a state-of-the-art sound control system.

The opening was attended by Deputy Minister of Sports of Russia Pavel Novikov. Along with the governor and other executives of the region, he examined the new venue and concluded:

"I've seen a lot of similar venues, but this sports and concert centre is wonderful and functional, it will serve both the elite sport and the local community, because it is a beautiful concert venue," said Pavel Nov

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UK - A new work-friendly part-time option of its Live Sound Technology course will be offered by Britannia Row Productions Training starting in January 2014. With classes taking place on one weekday evening plus one weekend day per week, the course becomes accessible for those who work full-time or have other commitments.

While contents and learning outcomes of the course remain essentially unchanged from the full-time version of the training programme, the curriculum will be delivered in three sections: 1. Live Sound Fundamentals, 2. System Engineering and 3. Mix Engineering. This structure allows for holiday breaks between the sections as another feature to make it feasible for people in full-time employment to take this course. The 13-week sections are delivered over a 47-week period with eight holiday weeks allowing for spring and summer breaks.

This expansion of course op

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UK - The AED UK businesses including AED Rent, AED Distribution, AED Store and AED Second-hand are opening their doors on Tuesday 5 November for a Guy Fawkes themed Open Day. From 10.30 am to 6 pm, all visitors are welcome to meet the AED UK Team and have a look around their facility.

AED Distribution which enjoyed a busy inaugural PLASA, will be showing products from all of its partner brands including High End Systems automated luminaires, digital lighting and the HOG4 Family of consoles. Also, other brands such as SRS, Swisson, Prolyte, CM, GLP and MediaLas will be in action with many brands having their own product specialists on-hand for one-to-one demos.

David March, managing director of AED Distribution says, "We really hope that people will drop in for a visit to see first-hand the AED UK Operation and importantly meet the team here along with our colleagues from

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France / Slovakia - After meeting at PLASA London, Leader Light has announced a new French distributor, Dimatec. From 1 November 2013, Dimatec will be strategic distributor of the full range of Leader Light's professional and architectural lighting.

"The deal is the next forward step for the company," said managing director Julius Szaraz. "We would like to increase the sales and after the meeting I was immediately persuaded that this is a good choice."

Dimatec distributes leading brands of lighting equipment and accessories for the film, television, video, photo and performing sectors.

"Leader Light's products are top quality and we believe that they will be a great supplement to our product portfolio," said Olivier Bordini from Dimatec. "The next exhibition where you can meet with Leader Light's products will be JTSE on Dimatec's stand (82

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China - China's Handan Culture and Arts Centre is a green architectural dream, strongly characterised by its stunning hybrid concrete and steel ellipsoid structure, which is also built to withstand substantial seismic pressures.With such a focus on the structure itself - groundbreaking, though not ground-shaking, as it is - the aural niceties of grand theatre design were not left wanting - with a multichannel distributed speaker system installation controlled by TiMax, to meet world-class performance and event sound reinforcement standards.Working together with system integrator, Beijing Rangl Audio Co., Ltd, TiMax distributor Sound Works & Supplies Ltd. was well placed to propose a solution best suited to the particular demands and challenges the venue presented. For the building's expansive Grand Theatre space a d&b loudspeaker system was specified in conjunction with a 16x16 Ti

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UK - Front of house engineer Giles Stocks has recently been using Allen & Heath's new GLD-112 digital desk with a variety of artists in venues and at festivals across the UK and Europe.

Among the acts powered by Stocks and the GLD-112 were Pulled Apart By Horses at Leeds First Direct Arena, Zico Chain (supporting Iron Maiden at London's O2 Arena) and Hawk Eyes, during the band's System Of A Down support slot in Europe.

The Allen & Heath GLD-112 is a larger version of the popular GLD-80 mixer, with eight additional control strips, taking the channel count to 28 fader strips in four layers. The new console provides 48 input processing channels, eight stereo FX returns, 30 configurable busses and 20 mix processing channels.

Stocks says of the new GLD-112, "It's by far the best-sounding console in its price range, it's a very dynamic board and the CPU is fantastically quick

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Spain - D.A.S. Audio's new Aero Series 2 systems were one of the highlights at this year's Low Cost Festival: combined with sun, sand, and three days of live music the systems were the perfect ingredient to ensure a successful festival experience.

Celebrated five years running at Benidorm's Guillermo Amor Stadium, over 75,000 spectators flocked to the concert grounds to see a line-up of some of the world's best artists, including Two Door Cinema Club, Portishead, Glasvegas, Love of Lesbian and Lori Meyers.

Two stages were set up on the venue's grounds to handle the massive influx of performers and fans and both were configured with an army of systems from D.A.S. Aero Series 2 product range. Local company Acústica PAE was called in to supply and set up the festival's sound system, collaborating closely with D.A.S. Audio's Sound Project Department on system design and installat

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UK - Britannia Row Productions is no stranger to London Fashion Week but every year is different. The show is renowned for using some of the capital's most individual settings to show off designers' collections, each with their own idiosyncratic acoustic profile or challenge for the audio supplier.

This year the prize for the most unusual conundrum must go to The Dairy in Bloomsbury where a swimming pool, complete with a synchronised swimming team, provided the centre piece for Stella McCartney's collection. As project manager, Tom Brown explains: "This was something of a one-off creative challenge: we had to provide monitoring for them underwater as well as provide audio feeds out of sight and keep our solution safe with the water."

Elsewhere around the capital, venues offered a varied array of acoustic challenges. Take the Farmiloe Building in Clerkenwell, a Victor

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UK - XL Video's new Hybrid 18mm LED screen made its touring debut on the recent UK leg of Ellie Goulding's Halcyon Days tour, where it was specified by lighting and visuals designer Cate Carter of Bryte Design and integrated into her vibrant production design for the tour.

The Hybrid 18 screen panel features a standard medium 18mm pitch comprising 32 x 32 pixels per panel, with 4 x 4 higher brightness (7700nit) low-resolution pixels also embedded in the same panel.

For the Ellie Goulding tour, 19 TAIT produced touring frames to make up a rear video screen. Each frame contained 2 x 2 panels of Hybrid 18 (four in total) giving a surface of 64 x 64 medium resolution pixels and 8 x 8 low resolution pixels per touring frame. The touring frames were flown at 45 degree angles so they were an attractive diamond shape mosaic surface upstage.

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Arts Funding - Funding for English museums, galleries and theatres is heavily slanted towards London, a report has said. Central government spending on arts and culture in the capital amounted to £69 per resident in 2012/13, compared with £4.60 per person elsewhere in England.

Arts Council England chair Sir Peter Bazalgette admitted an imbalance existed, adding: "More should be done." He told the the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "There is an imbalance, there's no question. I've only been at the Arts Council for a few months. I'm absolutely passionate about funding arts and culture in the regions... We need to do more...I would say judge us in two years time. The trend is towards more spending in the regions and that's what we'll be doing."

Net News - The first YouTube awards have been held in New York. The event featured Eminem, La

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Australia - The Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review symbolised 100 years since Australia welcomed their first Naval Fleet into Sydney Harbour. It was Imagination Australia's job to celebrate that milestone in a way the entire city and the world would take notice of. The spectacular was created in seven acts, from introducing the original fleet, through 100 years of service to Australia, current capabilities, a moment of reflection for the fallen and a finale to rival Sydney New Year's Eve.

Imagination conceived, wrote, designed and produced every element of the show. For the first time ever, fireworks were launched from seven warships, combining with a light show from 28 land and ship locations, a 30 minute projection show, live action on-board ships plus aerial flyovers from the Navy and Air Force. This was all choreographed to a soundtrack taking the viewer on a 1

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UK - Creative Technology (CT) has formed a new creative team within its London business. The Media Solutions team will focus on managing the increasing demand for specialist media management and delivery systems. Media Solutions will be responsible for the development and promotion of ideas and innovation whilst enabling the Company to engage further with clients and creative partners in a more pro-active manner at the earlier stages of project development, the company says.

Mainly comprised of existing CT personnel that already have a rich experience and skill set in media technology and services, CT has also appointed David Mulcahy as Media Consultant. Mulcahy, who joins the company as a full-time employee this month, brings with him extensive experience of working with clients and creative teams in the media and visual world. With a background in theatre, corporate and music

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Canada - To further strengthen its support for Canadian customers, Meyer Sound has assumed distribution responsibilities for Canada and appointed Franck-Olivier Fabry as the new sales manager. Working closely with the Berkeley, Calif. headquarters, Fabry is tasked with supporting the Canadian customer network by facilitating sales, technical assistance, and design services.

Fluent in both English and French, Fabry comes to his new post with over 14 years of experience in pro audio sales, much of it in the Canadian market. For 12 years, he held top-level sales positions at Bosch Security Systems (previously Telex Communications), where he handled sales for lines such as Electro-Voice, Dynacord, Midas, Klark Technik, and Bosch in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Fabry also directed global sales efforts at Williams Sound.

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