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Serebia - Nexo was flying high in Serbia, when UK-based AV rental company Aventeq called for a Geo S12/CD18 line array system to handle the largest corporate event in Serbian history, marking the purchase of an Airbus A319 for a new national airline.

The Novak Djokovic Airbus, named after Serbian tennis champion, was purchased following an agreement between the Government of Serbia and Etihad Airways to reorganise and rebrand the country's largest air traffic company, Jat Airways, into Air Serbia. Three unveilings of the aircraft were organised in the main hangar of Jat Tehnika. The first was for the company's 900 employees, the second for press, and finally the aircraft was unveiled to members of the government and diplomatic core, as well as local businessmen.

Aventeq, which h

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Mexico - Leading Mexican rental and technical production company Meridian Pro S.A de C.V - based in Iztapalapa in the east of Mexico City - has expanded its lighting stock with the addition of 14 Robe Pointe moving lights.

Meridian is the second Mexican rental operation to invest in Pointes, which will be used for all types of events and concerts across the country.

CEO Germán Sevillano Sánchez explains that these first 14 x Pointes - Meridian is expected to invest in more in the near future - will be used on the new 35 date Mexican leg of popular rock band Zoe's world tour. The band is promoting their new album Prográmaton and Meridian is providing full technical production - lighting, sound and video - for the Mexican shows.

"The Pointe is a highly innovative product and we wanted to use it for the new Zoe show", he says, extremely proud of his first in

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UK - The Great Hall is a stylish, professional-level theatre within the school grounds of one of England's premier independent schools, The Leys in Cambridge.

Designed by local architects Bland, Brown and Cole, with consultation from theatre consultants Charcoalblue, the Great Hall comprises a 337-seat theatre with retractable seating that transforms into a 600-seat Assembly Hall; a Drama Department incorporating three classrooms; a 120sq m drama studio with its own technical gantry, control room and backstage area; a 100sq m dance studio; social areas including a coffee bar and art gallery; and three science laboratories.

Working alongside lighting specialist White Light, Doughty Engineering supplied vital electrical and rigging components including internally wired bars and all facility panels, with the team from White Light overseeing the integration of power distribution a

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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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Brazil - Genelec has announced Quanta as its new distributor in Brazil. Quanta represents over 20 brands in the pro, AV and music industries from its head office in Campinas and was founded in 1990. Offering not only products, but technical support and educational tools to music professionals across Brazil, Quanta offers complete solutions to the professional audio market.

Augusto Gaia, marketing director at Quanta comments, "It gives us great satisfaction here at Quanta to have the opportunity of working with Genelec in the Brazilian market. Genelec is a brand that has always had great admiration and respect. The challenge of adding our value to the Genelec offering is a great motivation and a big responsibility. We believe that the good results of our work will be key to maintaining a long and prosperous relationship."

Miguel Dominguez, area sales manager for Latin

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UK - If you work in the live events industry and are thinking about employing extra help over the Winter season, why not take on a Backstage Academy student?

The students are about to embark on a three-month Advanced Industry Practice module whereby they will be seeking work in the events industry, before they finish the course in March, when they will be free to seek full-time employment.

The Wakefield training centre has a number of students on its FdA Live Events Production course with a range of interests across lighting, live sound, staging, live visuals, set design, artist liaison, production assisting and stage management, to name a few. On top of their core subjects, they have also completed a range of industry-standard certificates to make them competent to work on site, such as the Event Safety Passport (SPA), Manual Handling, Working at Height, Emergency First Aid,

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USA - Cool music and modern art combined at New York's iconic Guggenheim Museum for a special set by electronic music pioneer Richie Hawtin, who swapped his more usual club backdrop to play as Plastikman alongside his brother Matthew, as part of a high profile fundraiser hosted by the Guggenheim's Young Collectors Council.

XL Video was asked to build a striking LED monolith on the ground floor of the Guggenheim Museum's impressive atrium to provide a kinetic sculpture and visual centerpiece for the event which was sponsored by Dior.

The gig was project managed for XL Video by Paul 'Macca' McCauley from the UK office who was asked to produce a video solution for the visual concept created by Ali Demirel & Hawtin. Mark Ward from London-based Proper Productions oversaw the technical design and production for Hawtin's set. XL and Ward have a relationship stretching back many years

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UK - The MMF (Music Managers' Forum) has announced its partnership as Associate Member with JAMES (Joint Audio Media Education Support) to accredit university courses that include Music Management.

It has long been an MMF ambition to evaluate academic courses that follow on from their already successful Induction Days and Management Development programmes. Over the past three years the MMF Education Committee led by Jim Thomas had refined two documents; the 'Managers Code of Practice' and 'A Framework for Education and Training'. When deciding on how to implement this framework, it became apparent that JAMES over recent years, had developed the systems required in this area. As an Associate Member working together with JAMES, the MMF can now ensure that JAMES Accredited Music Management courses offer content to the student that is appropriate, engaging and up to date.

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Germany - The opening ceremony of the new Walldorf Ärztezentrum (Medical Centre) was a true show with an imposing rig. Show management was assigned to Session Pro, which in turn placed its trust in 32 Clay Paky Sharpys, 48 Clay Paky Alpha Spot QWO 800s, 24 Clay Paky A.leda Wash K20s and 24 Clay Paky A.leda Wash K10s.

The lighting designer and operator Benjamin Schleger had this to say, "The town of Walldorf wanted fireworks and we gave them something very similar. The concentrated beams and bright colours of our light and laser show in the town centre left over a thousand spectators speechless! The extremely precise powerful beams of the Clay Paky Sharpys stood out in particular. The Sharpys were undoubtedly the best choice, and that is why we used them from start to finish."

He continued, "In order to project images on the façade and create a beamshow seq

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Germany - Daktronicshas announced the appointments of Reece A. Kurtenbach as Chief Executive Officer and president of Daktronics, and Peter Egart as vice president of Daktronics international regions in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Egart will be at ISE 2014 to talk to visitors and partners and give insight of the company's vision.

Based in Wiesbaden, Germany, Egart is in charge of all sales and service operations for international customers EMEA and Latin America. He is responsible for strategic development of new business, management of Daktronics subsidiary offices, and strengthening international relationships.

Egart began his career at Daktronics in the USA in 1993, after more than fifteen years of experience in network television as a director, producer and manager. He played a key role in establishing the business communications market niche for Daktron

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France - Located on the outskirts of Paris, Dubbing Brothers is a world-leading postproduction centre for adapting major films into foreign languages. Its recently renovated Dolby Atmos mixing stage is now equipped with a Meyer Sound system, which has supported the dubbing and remixing of films including Escape Plan, Saving Mr. Banks and the Dolby Atmos mix of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

"When we decided to update our main 7.1 mixing room to Atmos, we wanted monitoring of the highest quality," says Mathieu Taieb, sales director for Dubbing Brothers. "We knew other major post-production houses were using Meyer Sound for Atmos, so we arranged a session to listen to a Meyer Sound system. We were very impressed with what we heard. The sound was dynamic and precise, warm, and never aggressive. Both bass and high frequencies exhibited very

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Germany - Nexo PS15-R2 stage monitors have found their way onto millions of German TV screens during 2013's The Voice of Germany (TVOG) programme. The monitors were given a starring role in both the adult and children's versions of the reality TV singing competition, appearing loud and proud on stage as contestants battled it out.

Both shows were filmed at Berlin's largest TV studio, which, at around 3,000 square metres, has 1,100 seats for live audience members and enough space for a large stage set. The studio is owned and operated by technical production company Studio Berlin Adlershof (SBA). Exclusive audio supplier for The Voice of Germany is Werner Audio, whose owner, Fried Werner, provided the show with 10x Nexo PS15-R2 monitors and four NXAMP 4x4C amplified controllers in active biamp mode for stage monitoring.

"The Nexo speakers were specified by monitor e

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Austria - Powersoft D-Cell504 IS high power amplifier modules have been specified to drive a 'Wall of Bass' in an Austrian nightclub - as low as 7Hz.

The newly-reconstructed Club SUB, in the city of Wiener Neustadt, set out to integrate a low frequency solution, capable of reproducing a wide range of live and DJ-derived music (Drum 'n' Bass, Dubstep and Techno) and arts presentations, as well as workshops and theatrical performance in a completely revolutionary way.

And since the 300-capacity SUB is located in a heavily populated residential area heavy emphasis needed to be placed on acoustic isolation to avoid noise pollution.

Project managers, Wolfgang Sauter (from pro performance) and Reinhard Nell (from Lambda Labs), were equal to the challenge.

Speaking of the background to the project, Lambda Labs German based director, Steffen Kroschel, said, "The owners' goal

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USA - LDI premier show sponsor Elation Professional enjoyed perhaps its busiest LDI Show ever November 22-24 in Las Vegas as the company continued to raise its profile in the industry with a number of key product launches that included the surprise announcement of a distribution agreement with High End Systems.

The agreement, which allows Elation to distribute High End's new HedgeHog 4 and Nano Hog 4 lighting consoles in the US, Canada, Latin America, South East Asia and India, caused quite a stir on the show floor.

"The distribution announcement started things off with a bang and really set the tone for the rest of the show," said Eric Loader, director of sales at Elation Lighting. "This gives us a powerful and intuitive industry-standard lighting control platform and we're thrilled to be involved with it. Customers were equally excited and interest in it was g

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USA - Barco Lighting Systems and Creative Stage Lighting Co have announced an additional product partnership that will enable Creative Stage Lighting to serve as a major Axon HD reseller of High End Systems' media server products throughout the United States of America. Effective this month, this agreement enables Creative Stage Lighting to make HES' Axon HD products available to their extensive network of local resellers.

George Studnicky III, president of the Creative Stage Lighting comments, "CSL also being a major Axon HD reseller is the perfect complement to our distribution relationship with High End Systems. Like the Hog4 line, we are steadfastly committed to supporting the Axon line with readily available sales and rental inventories.

Craig Burross, Eastern United States regional sales manager, for High End systems, comments, "We have enjoyed such a productiv

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UK - The British Military Tournament is an exhilarating and breathtaking show which pays homage to the British Armed Forces' military prowess, showmanship and skill. This year's show was the most ambitious yet. Taking place in Earls Court in West London, Delta Sound has been the lead audio supplier to this event since its return in 2010 and has delivered its services for this fourth consecutive year.

Celebrating the versatility and dexterity of the British Army, the event is held to raise money for a number of praiseworthy charities, including the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, Walking With The Wounded and ABF the Soldiers Charity.

This year's event was commentated by British Actor Anthony Andrews and paid tribute to the Tournament's traditional aspects, including a field gun run, the White Helmets Motorcycle Display Team and perform

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UK - West London based rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting, LED screen, media servers and LED draping for the recent Major Lazer UK and European tour, working with New York based lighting & visual designer Kyle Kegan from Voyage Productions.

Kegan has designed, programmed and operated all of the popular Major Lazer's shows, tours and festival appearances worldwide since the middle of 2012.

This was his fourth experience working with Colour Sound in the last 18 months and he comments, "H (Haydn Cruickshank, Colour Sound's MD) always treats us great, and as a touring LD himself understands the importance of every detail being correct and all the aspects of what we need being in place."

The creative starting point for the lighting and visual design was the idea of a clean and simple style that could offer those big, beautiful iconic looks and y

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UK - Jay-Z's current Magna Carter world tour has been wowing audiences across the globe since its first gig at Manchester Arena on 3 October. Wakefield's one-stop-shop stage, set and studio rental facility, LS-Live, was therefore a convenient first stop on the schedule for the US superstar.

For his first solo headline tour in almost four years, Jay-Z wanted to pull out all the stops, so his production team led by production manager Bobby Schneider enlisted LS-Live to design and build what was to become one of the company's biggest projects of 2013; an enormous set of internally lit cubes both on a rolling house stage and hung overhead, encompassing 17km of aluminium and 400 Pulsar LED ChromaPanels.

Schneider had worked with LS-Live on the successful production of Jay-Z's one-off show for the BBC Radio One Hackney Weekend in the summer of 2012, so he knew it would be an

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Germany - DVM, the new loudspeakers from German manufacturer Cardinal cover most applications in the daily installation business. A special emphasis was placed on high-grade wooden cabinets, an optimised driver selection and crossover design plus good accessories. All loudspeakers can be used directly on the amplifier without a controller. With only three different performance types a very large range of applications can be covered, no matter if for retail or catering installations, community halls or lecture theatres, school halls, a live club or conference and seminar rooms.

All models are 100% made in Germany and meet the Cardinal DVM typical high quality standards.

Owing to the compact enclosures with its multitude of integrated mounting points, the available accessories and the optional lacquer finish in the required custom RAL colour a trouble-free and unobtrusive mounti

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Italy - The 17th century parish church of St. Alexander is a centre of the community in Villongo, an Italian municipality located in the foothills of Lombardy's Alpine region. When the church recently needed to upgrade its audio system, a seamless combination of Yamaha's Commercial Installation Solutions (CIS) series products and the DUGAN-MY16 auto mixing card provided an elegant solution.

Designed and installed by Brescia-based Sil Sound, a main requirement was that the system could handle a 25-piece choir and live band, with the audio being routed to the speakers in the nave, monitors, a pair of exterior horn loudspeakers and to a codec for broadcasting Mass on live radio.

"The system needed to be versatile, reliable and deliver great sound quality, but it also needed to be user friendly so it could be used by church staff who are not audio professionals," says Si

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Thailand - Laserworld and its subsidiary RTI implemented a huge permanent laser show installation on Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok. The project was set up by Lighting & Equipment Bangkok. The major challenge was to handle the high humidity, the extreme temperatures and the permanent vibrations from traffic on the bridge. That's why special professional laser show equipment was necessary.

Laser show systems, one RTI NANO 4 RYGB 22 with around 20W power and two RTI PIKO G10, with around 10W power each, were chosen. All systems were mounted inside a RTI COCOON climate housing to protect them against environmental impact and keep the laser systems at correct operating temperature.

The laser installation on the bridge was the central part of an illumination project to provide another attraction to people in Bangkok City and the many tourists coming to the city every year.

The whole

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UK - Southend-on-Sea Leisure and Tennis Centre in Essex boasts a large range of facilities including a 150 station fitness suite, 25m swimming pool, world class diving pool with 10m diving board, teaching pool, eight court sports hall, two court sports hall, dry dive gym, four indoor tennis courts, four outdoor tennis courts and an athletics track.

Hosting a wide range of galas, aqua aerobics and teaching instruction, the centre needed a high intelligibility sound system for the highly reverberant diving area and they commissioned audio specialists Soundtrack (Audio Visual) Ltd to design and install it.

Having previously used Community R-Series loudspeakers, Soundtrack knew they would ideally meet the need for moisture resistance and durability and provide the vocal intelligibility required. The well-defined dispersion was also critical in directing the sound accurately to the

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