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The Netherlands - Pro Media Connect has been appointed by British pro audio manufacturer, Audient as exclusive distribution partner for the Benelux markets. The company will manage all sales, service and marketing for Audient's full product range of mixing consoles, audio interfaces and preamps - with immediate effect.

Leon Padmos heads up the newly created distribution company. He explains, "The people behind Pro Media Connect are well known as successful sales and marketers in the pro audio business. This team was instrumental in the growth of Audient's business in the past and looks forward to continuing on this upward trajectory. In order to be a successful sales team, we need to have outstanding products and with Audient, we see great products with huge potential for the

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Canada - Community has announced the appointment of CM Tech Group as its sales representative for Canada beginning 1 October.

CM Tech Group is a professional collaborative of three well respected Canadian independent manufactures' representatives: Connect West Marketing, covering Western Canada, BG Media Solutions Inc. for Central Canada and MM Technologie, for support of Eastern Canada. With this combination, CM Tech Group provides national coverage for a uniform line card of well-respected professional AV brands across all Canadian provinces.

"CM Tech is extremely pleased to represent Community, a brand with an outstanding reputation for innovation and quality," said Bryan Guidolin of CM Tech Group. "While Community has already enjoyed considerable success in Canada, we believe there remains tremendous potential, particularly in large or acoustically challengi

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Italy - Allen & Heath has devised a new distribution strategy in Italy, recruiting Exhibo S.p.A. to manage the brand's installation, touring, rental and broadcast sales portfolio, and enabling existing partner, EKO Music Group, to focus on growth in the MI and retail sector.

"Allen & Heath's product portfolio is renowned for being diverse, covering the whole spectrum of audio mixers from pro touring to home studio and DJ. The strategic decision to split representation into two channels will enable our partner companies to expand the brand's reach in the specialist areas where they excel, and service our customers comprehensively," comments Allen & Heath's area European business development manager, Fred Cresson.

Based in Milan, Exhibo will offer a selected range of products such as dLive, GLD and Qu to professional users, while EKO, renowned specialists in MI, will b

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UK - The London Club and Bar Awards, an event celebrating the city's nightlife industry, featured an array of fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

Now in its twenty-second year, the awards recognise the biggest achievements by members of the club and nightlife industry within the past twelve months, awarding gongs in 13 categories, including Best Club, Best Bar and Best Party. Having supplied the event for several years previously, London-based Halo was once again tasked with supplying this year's event, which took place at the Intercontinental Hotel. Halo called upon their extensive roster of Chauvet fixtures to create a show worthy of its legacy.

In order to create that classic showbiz look for the event, Halo owner and LD for the awards Yann Guenancia embraced an assortment of Chauvet Professional fixtures, including 10 Legend 330SR Spots, eight Legend 412 moving washes, nin

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UK - Solid State Logic has announced the appointment of Paul Mac to the position of content creator. Based at SSL's UK headquarters, Mac will be responsible for a range of SSL's published content, including user stories, press releases, video content, and sales materials. He will also be the worldwide first point of contact for editorial enquiries across all of SSL's market sectors.

"We are very excited to have Paul join the team," explains SSL's head of marketing Dan Duffell. "Our in-house marketing team has grown significantly in the last couple of years as we address our increasingly diverse channels of communication with our customers. Paul has deep technical knowledge, is an excellent writer, and brings a wealth of experience in presenting creative, technical, and practical aspects of production, performance, and technology to professional users. He will sign

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USA - Syncrolite LLC has announced that Jerry Trojan, current executive vice president, will assume the role of chief executive officer and that Steve Washington, current vice president of operations, will assume the role of chief product officer.

Trojan joined Syncrolite full-time in June 2013. Before becoming CFO and EVP Trojan had been part of the Syncrolite team as a valued consultant since 2004.

Prior to joining Syncrolite, Trojan had served as the CFO for several public and private commercial companies outside the entertainment lighting industry and worked at VLPS Lighting Services International Inc. (formerly known as Vari-Lite International Inc. and Showco Inc.), beginning in May 1995, ultimately serving as Vice President of Finance and CFO until the sale of the company to Production Resource Group (PRG) in 2004. He is a Certified Public Accountant and MBA.

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UK - Elation Professional has added new innovative products to its list of world premiere product launches scheduled for the upcoming PLASA show 4-6 October London at Stand A40.

Joining the world premiere of the Satura Profile LED-based colour-changing moving head will be the world premiere of the ACL 360 Roller, a unique moving head luminaire in Elation's ACL Series of high-output narrow-beam LED effects; and the world premiere of the Platinum HFX, a new mid-sized addition to Elation's hybrid family of beam, spot and wash luminaires.

Also showing at the ExCel exhibition center will be the European debut of the Emotion moving head digital luminaire; Elation's powerful Platinum FLX hybrid moving head; and the high-output ACL Series of narrow-beam LED effect lights.

The new ACL 360 Roller is a unique moving head luminaire in Elation's ACL Series of high-output narrow-beam LED

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UK - Lighting and video control specialist Avolites is going all out for PLASA London this year with a brand new stand designed to echo the coherence of the current Titan and Ai product ranges.

This will feature two specific areas, focusing on Network functionality and Lighting and Video integration. Avolites' stand D10 will promote a compatible family of products which all work intuitively together.

Highlights of on-stand products include the new Arena console with Optical Titan Net Switch, both of which are shipping on the date of the show. In addition, new software in Titan version 9.1, featuring enhanced pixel mapping functionality, fully custom Key Frame Shape engine and fully featured theatre functionality.

"There is much talk about the future of the PLASA London show, but this year Avolites is investing more than ever before," says Avolites sales manager Stephen Ba

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USA - The summer of festivals continues for Bandit Lites with LouFest, St. Louis's two day music festival. With record breaking attendance of 25,000 both days, and a line-up that included Hozier, The Avett Brothers, Ludacris, Young the Giant, Umphrey's McGee and Billy Idol, LouFest continued its rise as one of the can't miss weekends in live music.

Bandit Lites worked with design firm 3SRcreative to provide the festival lighting for all four stages including the main stage which consisted of a Tyler Truss rig containing VL 3000 Spots, VL 3500 Spots, VL 3500 Washes, Martin Atomic 3000 Strobes, Thomas 8 Lite Moles and Clay Paky Sharpys in groups of four.

"The Clay Paky Sharpy groups served as intelligent ACL bars in a way, but provided great eyecandy with their tight beam and high illumination output," said Carter Harris, one of Bandit's crew chiefs at LouFest.

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UK - Arcadia's awesome new immersive spectacular Metamorphosis came alive in a city centre setting for the first time last weekend in Queen Square Bristol, where together with the Lords of Lightening and an array of breath-taking aerial stunts the 30 minute mixed-media show united the energies and experimental spirit of rave and physical theatre with some impressive technical wizardry.

London based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment renewed their excellent working relationship with Arcadia, providing lighting for the 12m high three-legged spider built out of industrial scrap metal. This invigorating project was co-ordinated for Colour Sound by Haydn Cruickshank (H) and Arcadia's technical production manager, Tim Smith, with Stu Barr looking after all the Colour Sound elements on site, working alongside four Arcadia technicians.

Says H: "We

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UK - Hit BBC show Mrs Brown's Boys has spent much of 2015 on a major UK and Ireland arena tour, with residencies in 12 cities. Although the roots of Brendan O'Carroll's sitcom lay in a theatre production as far back as 1999, the size of venues on the current tour has meant that production company Adlib has had to deploy a major Coda Audio system.

Taking in arenas in Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield, the How Now Mrs Brown Cow tour is running from March through to December. Adlib has been working with O'Carroll and his team for many years and has used Coda systems on previous tours, so they knew it was the right choice for the current shows.

The entire production is tailor-made to suit each arena, ensuring that audiences always enjoy the optimum performance. Because of this, the

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USA - They say you can find anything you want in Las Vegas. Adventure Combat Ops, one of the city's newest attractions, falls into that category. Located in a 77,000sq.ft former warehouse just off the famed Strip, this venue serves up a two-hour adrenaline rush of non-stop action by enlisting customers to battle an invading army of zombies in a realistic urban warfare setting.

The experience is, as its promotional literature proclaims, a "full sensory immersion". A big part of that immersive sensation is created by an army of LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional, deftly deployed by Steve Hansel of XS Entertainment LLC.

Hansel has installed eight Strike 882 high-output blinders, three Amhaze II water-based haze machines, four Atmos voluminous fog machines and eight Vesuvio RGBA water based foggers with LED lights throughout the sprawling urban battle zone that makes

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USA - Dedicated to the celebration and preservation of American motorsports, World of Speed in Wilsonville, OR, is an educational museum featuring 53,000sq.ft of historic race cars, racing boats and motorcycles that tell the story of America's motorsports culture.

The museum's many exhibits and hands-on educational programs make good use of modern AV technology. Four 80-inch video screens with racing videos and music greet visitors at the museum entrance. A 150ft by 30ft video wall, entitled Zero to 1000 MPH, presents an exciting AV history of the world land speed records set at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

A Wall of Sound display, featuring classic guitars and vintage phonograph equipment, recalls the rock music songs that accompanied 1960s 'muscle cars'.

Delta AV of Gresham, Oregon designed and installed World of Speed's AV systems. Delta's Dave Garlett says th

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Spain - A three day festival divided into distinct Day and Night programmes, Sónar features much electronic and experimental music, alongside more contemporary offerings from the likes of Duran Duran and the Chemical Brothers, or the current vogue for EDM artists such as Skrillex and DJ Fresh.

The fact that Sónar Day's main stage plays within the confines of what appears to be a fortress, surrounded as it is by high walls, presents a distinct challenge for Barcelona based sound provider Tour Serveis.

"This was why the moment we realized the potential of d&b's new ArrayProcessing tool we wanted to use it here," said system technician Josan Bravo. The technical director of the festival Pedri González supported Bravo's enthusiasm, "The location for our festival is ideal for a city venue in terms of infrastructure, transport, and public comfort and safety, but th

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UK - Capital Sound's big weekend at Hyde Park, which traditionally brings the curtain down on the festival season, saw Proms In the Park link up live with the Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, while similar events took place in Belfast, Swansea and Glasgow.

The sound company has now become accustomed to rigging its flagship Martin Audio MLA at the London site, mitigating its historic problems with offsite noise escape; working for promoters Festival Republic for the second year they were probably anticipating an easy ride following the successful system induction in 2014.

But 48 hours before the event the BBC decided to install two 'interview' tepees in the Guest Hospitality enclosure - a stone's throw from the right PA hangs and out-fills - and requested the sound to be steered away from this area in order that artist interviews between acts could go live to a

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South Korea - The economy in South Korea is growing and so is the demand for entertainment technologies. In response, The Laserworld Group has opened an office there. Based in Daejeon in the centre of South Korea, Laserworld Korea handles sales in the area as well as providing local show laser light services.

"Especially high quality, high power show laser light systems of European manufacturing are in demand" says Peter Jeong, managing director of Laserworld Korea. "We definitely know of the demand for quality products in our country and thus see great potential for products of the Laserworld Group of any product series."

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UK - Singer songwriter Charli XCX has publically stated that she experiences sound-to-colour synaesthesia and 'sees' music in colours - so it was not a complete surprise to show designer Rob Sinclair and lighting designer Greg Hill when she requested coloured smoke for her current tour. Prominent smoke is also in tune with the 'horror prom' theme of the current live show.

Rob immediately knew the solution - Robe Cyclones - having used them very successfully on the Kaiser Chiefs' tour last year.

Greg, who is out on the road LD'ing the tour, has been working with the innovative and interesting Charli XCX since 2014, and Rob came on board in early 2015 as show designer. Some elements of the show look were already in place, including a set of false scenic Orange amps which are up-lit very effectively with LEDs, so Rob then chose lighting fixtures and positions to evolve the aesthe

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UK - Sound for art, entertainment and emergency purposes will be the focus of this year's Reproduced Sound conference. Entitled Playing with Fire: sound for art, entertainment and emergency purposes, it will be held at the Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire from 10-12 November.

Keith Holland, RS chairman, said, "The programme includes a wide variety of interesting papers, from practitioners, consultants and academics, along with a number of workshops and demos.

"We are particularly delighted to welcome Siegfried Linkwitz to the conference to receive the Peter Barnett Award, and look forward to the return of John Watkinson who is speaking after the conference dinner. The papers cover many aspects of sound reinforcement, PAVA systems, sound quality, measurement, modelling and cinema sound and there will be an 'Anti-Workshop' on cautionary ta

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UK - PLASA has announced the first of its nominees for the 2015 Awards for Innovation, which recognise and reward new product ideas. Nominated products should meet at least one of the Awards' criteria for 'Innovation' - to offer a new style of thinking, an improvement in existing technical practice, a new or improved aid to safety, a new commercial advantage, use new patents or unique intellectual property, or introduce new technology, materials or manufacturing techniques.

The final assessment of those claims will take place at the PLASA Show, where an independent panel of industry experts will judge the entries, based on the strength of their innovation alone. Respected for their impartiality, the panel will hear a five-minute presentation from each of the nominees, and have the opportunity for questions and answers, before making their final selections.

There are no product

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UK - Last week, Photograph 51 opened at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End to rave reviews. Marking Nicole Kidman's first appearance on the London stage for more than 17 years, Photograph 51 tells the extraordinary story of Rosalind Franklin, the woman who cracked DNA and the sacrifices she made in the pursuit of her place within scientific history.

The play is being produced by the Michael Grandage Company and this current run marks its UK premiere. White Light was called upon to provide the lighting equipment for this much-anticipated production.

The show was lit by Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer Neil Austin, who has an extensive history of working with WL. He comments: "Photograph 51 is an interesting show as it is told as a posthumous memory by the other scientists around Rosalind. It flicks between character dialogue to di

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UK - Orbital Sound reports that it has supplied Stevenage's 500-seat Gordon Craig Theatre with a new d&b audiotechnik auditorium system, comprising principally T-Series loudspeakers, with B4 Subs and E6 front fills.

The new system also features Yamaha CL5 and QL5 consoles, with Rio stage racks, together with an essential element of show control hardware in the form of a Nemesis Audio UMT-2D USB MIDI Trigger. The Gordon Craig's new system is configured with a hang of six d&b audiotechnik T-10s per side, a further four T-10s in a centre cluster, six E-6 speakers as front fills, plus four B4 Subs, with the system powered by d&b audiotechnik's new 10D and 30D install amps.

The theatre and Orbital Sound has had a close working relationship for more than a decade, as Dave Nott, chief technician at the Gordon Craig Theatre, explained, "We needed to upgrade, as much of our previo

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