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Germany - Design, programming, and lighting/video direction experts Einstein & Sons has chosen to boost its arsenal of innovative visuals engines by investing in Avolites Media's industry-leading Ai Media Servers.

Einstein & Sons, which was founded in 2013 by lighting designers Roland Greil and Michael Kuehbandner, offers design and consulting, programming, lighting and video direction, media server programming and hire alongside pre-production services, to a wide range of clients.

Recent projects include supplying media server services to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, design work for Sony and Samsung Booths 2009-2013, design work at the FIS Ski World Cup Munich 2010-2012, as well as associate design work for internationally successful designers like Patrick Woodroffe.

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USA - Being in advertising, members of The Ad Club know all about the importance of creating sizzle for a ceremony. So it's not surprising that this Boston-based trade group asked Derek Iorfida (JDI Productions) and Chris Hubbard (EPAV) to do something special for its 53rd annual Hatch Awards, a ceremony honouring the best in New England advertising.

Iorfida and Hubbard gave the advertising group the excitement they were looking for and more with some help from 16 Legend 230 SR Beams and 56 PVP S7 high definition video panels from Chauvet Professional.

"The organizers of the Hatch Awards wanted to create something special on stage to reflect the importance of this event," said Iorfida. "They were seeking a Grammy-style look in terms of the excitement and energy that was generated on stage. We relied on the Legend 230 SR Beams and PVP S7 panels to create this loo

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UK - Following discussions with Dylan Mills, technical manager at the Haverhill Arts Centre, Ben Payne, director of Colchester-based Illuminate Design provided a range of desks for the technical team at the arts centre to try to find a replacement for an aging control desk.

The Arts centre caters for a wide variety of shows and events and therefore the desk needed to give the technical team the flexibility to handle both the demands for touring shows as well as one night events.

The venue's staff have a good understanding of Zero 88 control desks so it naturally came down to either a Solution XL or a Orb XF as their upgrade options.

After much discussion about the benefits of both desks, the greater capability of the Zero 88 Orb XF was the overriding factor and the Arts Centre asked Illuminate Design to provide them with the desk and a pair of touch screen monitors.

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UK - The owner of specialist screen consultancy Display Knowledge, Jon Perkins, has joined international video solutions provider displayLED as group technical sales manager.

Perkins, whose 25 year career in the video industry includes 12 years with Sony, latterly as its European commercial manager, has worked with the world's largest corporations and sporting events in all areas of screen sales and service. He specialises in screen purchase consultancy, installation, project management, product modification, technical investigation, maintenance and repair

Since his Sony days, through Display Knowledge, Perkins sold in excess of US$15m of screen equipment, largely into the rental market on behalf of Toshiba, and was instrumental in setting up their US LED sales operation, also running their European installation and repair function.

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UK - Martin Locket has joined TSL Lighting as a business strategist. Martin, through his company Visible Spectrum, will be supporting MD Sam Tamplin and his team in developing and growing the range of services offered by TSL and the market sectors they are active in.

Martin commented, "I am really looking forward to working with TSL Lighting, as it is an exciting new approach to the lighting rental industry and a strong team behind a high quality emerging brand. There are lots of opportunities available to the company and I am looking forward to a long term involvement with the whole TSL team."

Sam Tamplin added: "Martin brings years of leadership and commercial experience to assist us with managing the growth of a dynamic and rapidly expanding business. We have just invested heavily in a PAT Test system and cutting edge operational procedures with the company.

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Brazil - Japan, Italy and Brazil are located away one from each other but linked together from the same passion for motors and thanks to Gobos Do Brazil , distributor of the Italian brand Luci Della Ribalta - LDR - in Brazil , for the same passion for lighting.

Salaoduasrodas, the largest show for the two wheelers in south America, was the occasion to see them all together in what resulted to be a perfect a mix.

"It was a challenging installation," commented Esteban Risso from Gobos Do Brazil. The customer would like to reduce the total stand power consumption without decreasing the quality of the light."

Ivo Moura, owner of the Brazilian rental lighting company Prisma Eventos was responsible for the installation.

"We came up with solution of using a mix of conventional tungsten halogen light and 200W LED Profile from LDR. The perfect colour matching wi

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UK - For the second year in a row, entertainment lighting specialist White Light was chosen to supply lighting equipment and production services for the Prince's Trust Invest in Futures gala dinner, held on 6 February in Central London. The event welcomed about 200 guests including HRH The Prince of Wales, Joanna Lumley OBE, Rob Brydon, Jerry Hall and Tom Hardy to the Savoy Hotel for a dinner reception and performance from Bryan Ferry.

Funds raised from the event will go to support the work of the Prince's Trust, which helps disadvantaged young people get their lives on track. This year, the charity aims to support 58,000 young people gain the skills and confidence they need to find work.

White Light became involved with the project through creative events agency Massive Productions, which managed production elements for the event. To put everything together, White Light proje

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Malaysia - Next Integration Engineering, the Next-proaudio distributor in Malaysia, recently designed the sound system for Q-BAR, located in Sibu, an island town in Sarawak, east Malaysia.

The sound system needed to achieve high sound pressure levels, high quality sound to join the concept of Q-BAR, inspired in New York style lounge club with a diverse range of themed nights and with great resident DJs, some international DJs and live acts playing each month in a luxurious nightlife experience, complemented by suitable decor and a comfortable space.

The Next Integration Engineering's team designed the system using the X-line, LA Series and MA series, comprising 4-X15, 2-X12, 2-XS118, 4 -LAS218. The whole system is powered by MA3200 and MA3800. The whole system is controlled by two NSound DP240.

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USA - While awards were presented and world premiere video games showcased in an intimate indoor setting at Spike TV's VGX Video Game Awards in downtown LA in December, rain showers stopped just in time for live performances on an outdoor stage that was outfitted with 40 Elation Platinum Beam 5R moving heads.

"We were looking to get some shafts of light coming from the floor and the rig, something that would bring the audience and stage closer together," commented Gus Dominguez, lighting designer for the event. "We needed some serious beams due to the fact that we were in an exterior venue."

Gus had never used the Platinum Beams before but vendor Visions Lighting suggested he try them. "I wanted to try them and agreed to use them on this event," Gus says. "They did an amazing job and were easy to use. I really enjoyed the amount of colours yo

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UK - Scotland is well known as the 'home of Hogmanay' and its New Year celebrations are among the most high profile in the world. Underlining its long involvement with these prestigious events, Black Light played a key role the 2013/14 Hogmanay celebrations by providing lighting equipment to locations across the country.

"We have been heavily involved in Scotland's Hogmanay celebrations for many years," says Calder Sibbald, Black Light's head of hire and events. "This year was no different and we were delighted to work alongside Unique Events and other service providers such as Paragon Power Services to help Scotland welcome in the New Year in style."

The theme of the 2013/14 celebrations was Homecoming and Black Light supplied the equipment needed to bring this vision to life to the three key locations: Edinburgh, Stirling and Inverness. Working to

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UK - Prominence Production Services has announced it will be showcasing its flagship fabric set solution, LIGHTset at this week's Event Production Show.

Launched in September last year, LIGHTset has been designed and manufactured in the UK to transform the way stage and set backdrops are created, representing substantial savings on crew and transport costs. The 'all in one' solution combines 3D printed images, creative lighting and crisp front or rear projection, and has already been seen at events in The Grove West London, Sandown Park Racecourse and across the UK on two extensive corporate roadshows.

Creative director, Phil Harlow and his team will further highlight LIGHTset's creative capabilities on stand H22 at the Event Production Show, where they plan to showcase a full size LIGHTset performing under "real" show conditions. Demonstrating its unique rear projec

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Bratislava - Getting the razzmatazz right for any show requires imagination, flair and the application of technology - and for the mood setting sequence that precedes the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)'s All Stars exhibition matches, this is almost as important as the actual ice hockey.

That's why leading Slovakian lighting designer Martin Kubanka decided to use 100 Robe Robin Pointes at the heart of his lighting rig for the recent East vs West KHL All Stars match at the Slovnaft Arena in Bratislava.

Kubanka's brief was to highlight the music and various mapped video projections appearing on the ice during the 22 minute pre-show multimedia son et lumiere. He created an atmospheric enhancement to the video that highlighted touches of Slovakian folklore and history while celebrating the firt time that Bratislave has hosted a KHL All Stars event.

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Germany - trust.rental has just increased its rental stock with six MA VPU plus MK2 (Video Processing Unit) and two MA VPU light and thereby enlarged its amount of MA Lighting products. The German service provider for media and control technology also offers service and training for all products in its rental stock. In the recent past the company was involved, together with its holding company trust.event engineering GmbH, in some well-known projects like the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev and X-Factor Pan Arabia in Beirut.

Marcus Plum and Sebastian Huwig, managing directors, decided in 2011 to rely on MA Lighting products. At the beginning of 2012, the company invested in the MA VPU MK1 to be able to offer all the required products for a modern FOH single-handed set up. Besides media servers and consoles, this also includes all additional peripheral media

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Russia - Numerous products from Germany-based ChainMaster have been utilised for the XXIIth Winter Olympics currently being held in the Russian town of Sochi. ChainMaster has been active in Russia and the neighbouring states since 1998, and in 2004 opened ChainMaster Consulting Office Russia.

In addition to several smaller projects, ChainMaster's activities in Sochi have mainly centred on equipping the Bolshoy Ice Dome and the Iceberg Skating Palace, each of which is capable of accommodating up to 12,000 spectators. It is planned to stage the ice hockey matches in the Bolshoy Ice Dome and the artistic and short track ice skating events in the Iceberg Skating Palace.

In each of these arenas, ChainMaster equipment forms part of a variety of installations - most notably the system for raising and lowering the two giant video cubes. Here, safety was the paramount concern governing

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Denmark - Martin Professional is offering global lighting designers a place in the race to become the hottest up-and-coming young lighting designer. To enter, captivated LD's can programme their ultimate show to a music track of their choice and submit a recording to the Martin Facebook contest page.

Apart from instant stardom, the winner will be awarded two prizes: a trip to Prolight+Sound 2014 in Frankfurt and the Martin M2GO controller. A second place winner receives the M2PC. Third place wins the Martin USB Duo DMX Interface.

During the contest friends, colleagues and other Facebook users can vote for their favourite shows. When the contest ends, the three shows with the most votes enter the final stage of the contest. A panel of judges, made up of last year's winner, Brad Helzer and Martin employees with field experience, Theis Wermuth and Paul Pelletier, will deliberate

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Spain / Portugal - Cadac recently appointed Soinua Pro as its new distributor for Spain and Portugal. The appointment sees Cadac switch its distribution to the Basque based sound touring and installation specialist, headquartered precisely between Bilbao and San Sebastián.

Commenting on the decision to switch distribution to Soinua, Cadac brand development manager Richard Ferriday says, "It was a strategic decision in order to more effectively focus our distribution on the live production sector. This is where Soinua is especially strong, being heavily involved with sound touring and live event production throughout Spain."

Commenting for Soinua, general manager Jorge De La Torre states, "The aim of our company is not to carry an expansive range of brands but to have a highly select and complementary portfolio of products, chosen purely on the basis of quality.

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Sweden - Two RedNet 2s are the perfect fit for a custom 27.2 surround sound production at GöteborgsOperan in Gothenburg, Sweden.

RedNet is being used for an increasing number of innovative audio applications where something special in terms of quality or performance is required. RedNet couples Focusrite's legendary conversion expertise - along with superbly transparent mic preamps and other studio-quality audio capabilities - with the tried and tested Dante Ethernet-based audio networking protocol to record, distribute and play back audio over IP.

Most recently RedNet solved a problem for Andreas Renhorn, chief sound engineer at the GöteborgsOperan in Gothenburg, Sweden, when he was tasked with playing back 32 channels of high-quality audio including feeding a custom 27.2 audio system in the Opera's modern riverside performance complex.

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Australia - Soundbay Pty Ltd, trading as Store DJ, is pleased to announce its appointment as the exclusive importer and distributor for Allen & Heath's Xone DJ Series in Australia.

"Allen & Heath's reputation for uncompromising sound quality and innovation has made Xone the "DJ's DJ mixer", so it is natural that Xone should find a home at Store DJ, Australia's leading DJ retailer," comments Store DJ's Xone brand manager, Paul Bridge. "Allen & Heath's Xone DJ mixers are the only choice for many top-shelf DJs, including Richie Hawtin, Pete Tong, Andy C, John Digweed, and Booka Shade. Store DJ's management and staff are extremely excited to have the opportunity to bring these excellent products to Australia's DJ's and performers!"

Store DJ will continue the global development of the Xone brand not only through their own stores but through other key A

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UK - The hit musical Wicked has hit the UK and Ireland touring circuit a sleeker and altogether more agile show with the help of wireless DMX products from RC4 Wireless and LumenRadio. The Wicked UK and Ireland tour is one of the biggest tours of its kind. Crucially, the brief was to retain the same production values and scale as the West End show, while scenically and technically making it easy to transport and more robust than ever before. Part of this particular design process has been to replace the complex cabling that fed moving scenic elements with a range of powerfully compact wireless DMX products from RC4 Wireless and LumenRadio.

Utilizing state-of-the-art LumenRadio CRMX technology, these products include RC4 LumenDim4 4-channel low voltage dimmers, RC4 LumenData receivers and the SuperNova software from LumenRadio.

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USA - In a significant development for users of Audinate's Dante media networking technology, Symetrix has announced that the latest version of its popular SymNet Composer software will enable complete configuration of select Dante-enabled Symetrix, Attero Tech and Stewart Audio products.

Settings affecting I/O levels, routing and more will be defined with SymNet Composer 2.0, which gives customers the ability to consolidate operations on a single platform where three or more were previously required.

"As a result of the release, integrators will no longer need separate software packages for each manufacturer's product as well as Dante Controller," comments Trent Wagner, senior product manager at Symetrix. "Supported Dante-enabled products will appear side-by-side with Symetrix SymNet products in the Composer software and can be managed or configured identically

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UK - London-based event design and production specialist Eclipse Presentations designed, produced, specified and co-ordinated all the technical production elements for a high profile gala dinner and awards event right at the hub of the 2014 Australia Day celebrations ... at the Australia House consulate in London.

Eclipse's team was led by project manager John Gibbons and technical project manager Jonathan Tingle, and the brief included the delivery of an attractive design plus lighting, video, audio, staging and rigging equipment as well as graphics, signage and branding.

One of the most notable challenges working at Australia House is the fact that it is the Australian Embassy in London. Another challenge is working within the constraints of the venue with all of the floors, walls and pillars made of beautiful marble.

The most notable highlight was seeing the project from

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