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Recently held in London at the CocknBull Gallery, Tripping the Light Fantastic was a multi-sensory gallery installation by the artist Rupert Newman. Curated by Aretha Campbell, the exhibition showcased Newman's geometric, kinetic and colourful projection artworks complemented by soundscapes created by Sarah Warne, a film and arts composer signed to Faber Music. The sonic elements of the show were played through a pair of Genelec 8040s.

Rupert Newman is known for his painting and textiles pieces as well as event installations. His work focuses on the relationship between light and surfaces and includes architecture, sculpture and canvas works. This aesthetic approach is frequently from a cross-platform perspective and his shows usually feature a sonic element. Tripping the Light Fantastic

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UK - Avolites has announced a restructuring of the board of directors, with managing director Richard Salzedo stepping back into the role of director, and Steve Warren ascending to the role of Avolites Group MD.

Founder shareholders Steve Warren, Richard Salzedo and financial director Meena Varatharajan purchased Avolites from previous owners Carlton TV in 1991. Since then Richard has worked for Avolites as research engineer and R&D director, overseeing hugely successful projects such as the Sapphire and industry changing Avolites Pearl console before moving on to become managing director. He now hands the reigns of control to Steve who has started with Avolites in 1984 and in his 30 years with the company has been employed as electrical wireman, test engineer, service engineer, technical sales, and ultimately sales director.

Steve's passion for integrating video with lighting

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The Netherlands - With immediate effect, dealers in the Benelux territory can get the full range of Audient products from M Works, from the flagship ASP8024 right through to the latest additions to the range: USB interface - iD22 and 8-channel mic pre and ADC - ASP880.

Sales manager Okke van Dijk is very pleased at the agreement. "Audient is a great brand with passion for designing excellent sounding products. With their expertise and deep understanding of demands in the pro audio market, the people at Audient know how to create the right quality and product mix," he says.

"High quality comes as standard," confirms Luke Baldry, sales and marketing director at Audient, highlighting the fact that "...all products feature the renowned console mic pres designed by the company's co-founder David Dearden." He adds, "I'm delighted that we have Okke

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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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USA - Devoted 311 fans swarmed to New Orleans this year for the ultimate celebratory concert experience on 11March, better known as 311 Day. Showcasing a culmination of eleven albums, including their most recent studio album released earlier this year, titled Stereolithic, Martin Professional Atomic 3000 DMX strobes (10) and M6 lighting console were deployed by Joe Paradise, lighting designer.

311, an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska formed in 1988, created 311 Day in 2000 when the band played 47 songs straight. Since then, the band has consistently increased its set list, including over five-and-a-half hours of music this year.

"The biggest challenge is being able to programme at a high rate of speed and to be able to have most of the songs programmed 'cue to cue'," Paradise said about the M6 console. "I have used Martin consoles since the Maxxyz

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UK - Adlib's busy audio division renewed their working relationship with Las Vegas alt rockers Panic! At The Disco for their recent UK and European live shows. This dates back to 2006 when Adlib hooked up with them for the first time in Manchester. The Liverpool based technical production company have worked with the band on their various UK shows ever since.

Tour manager / tour director Tony Marino, production manager / FOH engineer Spencer Jones and monitor engineer Jeremy "Spud" Groshong returned to the UK to share more stories and good service from Adlib.

They took a Coda Audio sound system from Adlib into their three largest UK shows at Manchester O2 Apollo, London's Eventim Apollo Hammersmith and Wolverhampton Civic Hall. A basic lighting package for LD Alex Specht was also sourced from Adlib to add to their touring lighting and visuals package.

The audio ele

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Australia - The annual Entech & Entech Connect Riggers' Forum has secured Australia's Pollard Productions as a key sponsor for the first time, further enhancing the programme's reputation as the only one of its type in the Asia-Pacific region.

The two day programme, which offers attendees to the opportunity to workshop with key industry leaders whilst exploring and debating this specialist section of the industry, will take place on the 23 -24 July at the at the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Australia.

James D Ring, managing director of Pollard Productions said, "Pollard Productions are very proud and pleased to be the Riggers' Forum Sponsor for Entech Connect. The Forum sessions are important because they help spread the word on safety and share knowledge and experience with others leading to a better and safer industry."

Stephen Dallimore Entech Connect ev

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UK - Relationships that have had a big influence on Gary Barlow's latest tour. Barlow is a master of his genre, as he has amply demonstrated by selling out all 17venues around the UK. His first solo outing onto the arena circuit, show director Kim Gavin along with designer Tim Routledge and production director Chris Vaughan, elected for a minimalist approach to staging, but with an emphatic widescreen approach to video.

Tim Routledge comments, "Gary wanted to keep as close to his audience as he had on last year's theatre outing. At the same time we needed a bigger show to suit the scale of venue. Kim is the show producer, he and Chris Vaughan set the guidelines; the resultant stage design has barely changed from my first renderings. The stage is a neatly defined smooth oval with the band wrapped around one step up behind Gary. An über-wide 100 foot screen forms the back wa

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. has announced that well-known industry figure, Ian Muir has been appointed as TV & film development manager for the company's UK and international sales territories.

Ian brings a wealth of TV & film lighting industry experience to the new role from his previous position at Gekko, where he worked for over six years as business development manager for the LED lighting brand. Prior to this, Ian has also held various sales roles involving managing relationships with customers and suppliers in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Based in AC-ET's High Wycombe head office, Ian will work alongside the sales, marketing and purchasing departments to develop and implement the company's business plan for the TV & film market, to exploit their growing presence and customer base in this sector.

Ian will also be responsible for helping to raise cus

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Austria - The legendary Top of the Mountain concert brought two new stars to the alpine resort of Ischgl this year: Robbie Williams and Nexo STM.

Held each May at an altitude of 2,300m, Top of the Mountain rounds off the ski season in fine style. Robbie and his Big Band scaled the heights this year to perform their entire Swings Both Ways album, marking the event's 20th anniversary.

The STM modular line array PA system had to cope with the biggest-ever audience at the Silvretta Arena, a crowd of 30,000 people, but it also had to score in another crucial area. All equipment is brought into the resort by snow gondola, with snowploughs handling on-site transport and the crew flown in by helicopter. Here, STM's ability to break down into smaller elements proved invaluable, allowing for ease of transport to the arena.

All technical production was supplied by Austria's Fant

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USA - Alternative rock band The Pixies have made quite the comeback after their revival 10 years ago, and are now on a worldwide tour with a full lighting rig from Martin Professional.

Full service lighting, sound and rigging rental company based in New York, See Factor, worked with Myles Mangino, lighting designer for The Pixies, to create a rig featuring 15 MAC Viper Profiles, 12 MAC Auras, four RUSH MH3s and three Jem K1 Hazers.

The Pixies, who recently stopped at the renowned Coachella Music Festival after their reunion tour began nearly 10 years ago, needed a versatile lighting solution designed for different venues, stages and festivals.

"The real challenge was to have a show that could be as closely as possible duplicated in markets across the world," stated Mangino. "Having a kit that was small enough to fit in a container, and also using fixtures that

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UK - Bath City Church, which has recently benefitted from a major audio systems upgrade by Autograph Sales & Installations, has the distinction of being located in a truly unusual venue. The Forum first opened its doors in 1934 as a cinema which operated until 1969, after which it housed a bingo hall and a dance school until Bath City Church took it over in 1989. A gem of art deco architecture and furnishings, the building had fallen into a sad state of disrepair until it was lovingly restored by the church. With a capacity of 1600, today The Forum is not just a church, but also Bath's biggest venue and the third largest seated auditorium in the south west of England.

Now that the fabric of the building had been restored to its former glory, it was the turn of the audio infrastructure to receive a similar overhaul in order to bring the systems up to the high standards demanded b

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Denmark - On 10 May, the final of the 59th Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast live to an audience of approximately 125m in the Eurovision countries and Australia. The world's biggest live music contest was a spectacle, with imaginative introductions for each country that competed and many musical highlights among the 26 songs of the final.

The host broadcaster for the event was Danmarks Radio (DR) which relied on Sennheiser's Digital 9000 for the audio transmission of the show. 96 channels of this digital wireless microphone system were deployed for the contest, the VIP area and the press centre which included part of DR's own 24-channel Digital 9000 system. Then added to this were 28 channels of the 2000 Series for the artists' wireless monitoring.

"Join Us" was this year's motto for the Eurovision Song Contest, which was hosted on Refshaleøen island in th

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UK - DiGiCo has released V685, the latest software upgrade for its range of digital mixing consoles. It is the power of DiGiCo's proprietary Stealth Digital Processing that allows the company to unlock the incredible amount of new features with each new software version for live, broadcast and theatre applications.

For the theatre, the Relative Faders in Cue Groups is now a Macro command, Auxs, Groups and Matrix channels can now be added to channel sets, and Channel Cues now defaults to showing names.

And for broadcast applications, Backstop PFL is now functional on output busses and there is s new option on the SD7B and SD10B for Speaker Mute to do Dim.

"Waves is happy to provide the increasing number of DiGiCo SoundGrid MultiRack users, the added benefit of doubling their rack capacity," comments Mick Olesh, Waves EVP sales & marketing. "Increasing the numbe

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UK - The stars of ETC's stand (number 53) at this year's ABTT show, 11-12 June in London, will be ETC's newest lighting system, Cobalt, along with the Source Four® LED Series 2 luminaire. Stand visitors will also be able to take the opportunity to see a range of other new and improved products that have been designed with theatre users in mind.

The new Cobalt system that will be on display has an all new operating style that allows operators to keep their eyes on the stage and not on the controls. The Cobalt line - which includes Cobalt 20 and its smaller, but no less powerful sibling, Cobalt 10 - has been receiving great reviews from users for its speed of operation, with lighting designer Rob Halliday writing, "once you get yourself into the Cobalt mindset, you can achieve very much very quickly."

Also being shown will be the Source Four LED Series 2 luminaire,

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Belgium - ArKaos PRO has released the 4th generation of its MediaMaster software. MediaMaster 4.0 brings more flexible protection via an optional dongle and many additional features, yet retains the simplicity of operation familiar to its users.

ArKaos PRO has acted upon feedback from its users to produce its latest and ever-more powerful version of this favourite media server software. MediaMaster 4.0 has a wealth of new features yet remains fast and easy-to-use.

New features include: New licensing system with online activation and deactivation for greater flexibility; Optional License Dongle with unique hot swapping ability: New extended fixture profile with over 70 parameters per layer; DMX controllable cropping features; New Video Mapper with grouping; New Hue / Saturation / Lightness control; Per layer Aspect Ratio control; Start Point playback control; Per layer volume

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Sweden - Over 150 Clay Paky fixtures were used on this year's popular Melodifestivalen tour with the Sharpy Wash 330 being singled out as a 'mind-blowing' fixture by lighting designer Fredrik Jönsson.

The Melodifestivalen tour is part of Sweden's national competition to find out who will be representing the country in Europe's annual Eurovision Song Contest. Jönsson had to create a high-spec touring lighting design that captured the imaginations of the contest's live and at-home audiences.

"The brief for the show was to create a visually stunning environment for the performance of the 32 songs," explains Jönsson. "I went for a 'Metal meets Eurovision' look with an old-school 'ACL-look' lighting rig but with ultramodern technology. My first inspiration for the look of the rig was actually an old Def Leppard logo since the first drafts of the stage and set remi

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UK - The Theatres Trust has announced that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed six new board members and reappointed five board members to The Theatres Trust.

New appointments include Dara Ó Briain, Professor Gavin Henderson CBE, Peter Roberts, Simon Ruddick, Ann Skippers and Anna Stapleton. Trustees reappointed for a second term include Nicholas Allott OBE, Ruth Eastwood, Oliver Goodwin, Jerrold Katzman, and Judith Mellor OBE.

All Trustees will be on the board of The Theatres Trust for a term of three years.

(Jim Evans)

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France - Opened at the beginning of the year, the Le Platinium bowling and bar complex in Andrézieux, France, is already a major focal point of the community for both young and old. Yamaha CIS series loudspeakers supply the soundtrack.

The venue's sound reinforcement system needed to deliver high quality background music, but also be loud enough for announcements and for the music to be turned up so that youngsters can enjoy a night of high-spirited fun and dancing as they bowl.

Supplied by local Yamaha dealer Radio2/XL Sono, six pairs of VXC6W full range ceiling loudspeakers plus two VXS10S and two VXS10ST dual coil, floor-mounted subs deliver the audio.

"The venue's owners needed high quality, reliable loudspeakers, but they were on an extremely tight budget," says Stephane Brocard of Yamaha France. "It was exactly the kind of installation that the CI

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China - TC Group has announced that it has appointed Peter Glinvad as managing director of TC Group China.

Originally from Denmark, Peter Glinvad has been working and living in China for 12 years. His in-depth knowledge of the Chinese culture and fluency in the language are a golden opportunity for TC Group China to have the best of both worlds. Drawing from experience in general management and as the chairman of the Danish Wind Energy Group - China, Ginvad brings a wealth of knowledge to the position.

Further, TC Group China has recently been incorporated as a WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Entity) and moved to a new, larger office facility in the Chaoyang District. Along with these changes, as well as the steady release of innovative products and an ongoing improvement of operations, Peter Glinvad will be leading TC Group China onto an accelerated growth path into the future, sa

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Denmark - When Austrian drag act Conchita Wurst was crowned the winner of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, it brought to the end a spectacular show, in which SGM's pioneering LED lighting was a clear highlight of the rig.

In a groundbreaking design, the show's creative director, Per Zachariassen and lighting designer Kasper Lange (with whom he has worked for ten years) ensured that content throughout the 26 artistes performing could be delivered to four different surfaces, allowing the stage to be transformed from act to act. This included the huge, classic SGM LED back wall - measuring 110m wide by 13m high - and it was here that over 350 SixPack blinders were used to such dramatic effect.

Once again, SGM had been appointed an official technical event supplier as the evergreen event arrived in the company's own back yard, tak

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Denmark - 46,320 parameters, 138 universes 1,380 moving lights, 1,500 spot (conventional, LED, effect), 10kms of data cable, 12kms of power multicore cable, 6kms of power cable - numbers like these hint ... that it was Eurovision Song Contest time again.

The 2014 event took place in an old shipyard at Refshaleøen, Copenhagen, Denmark and once again set new standards for production technology and as an eye opener.

Danish lighting designer Kasper Lange relied on seven grandMA2 full-size and two grandMA2 light consoles, 19 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and 9 x MA 8Port Node for control.

Amongst numerous Martin Moving Lights and PRG Bad Boys, 178 x Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330, 32 x Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500, 30 x Philips Vari*Lite VL3500 Spot, 24 x Philips Vari*Lite VL3500 Wash and 212 x Philips Vari*Lite VL5 were in the lighting rig. Furthermore six Robert Juliat Cyra

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