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USA - Lightware Visual Engineering is supporting Esports Trade Associations’ (ESTA) inaugural EsportsNext 2022 event, as a gold sponsor. The event takes place in Chicago, USA on 22 – 23 August 2022.
The company’s presence will include demonstrating its AV signal management solutions to the global esports community, and also an opportunity for Lightware to explore and learn more about the ongoing needs of this fast-paced industry.
Lightware joins a list of advocates supporting EsportsNext 2022, including AVI-SPL, Morgan Stanley, Ultimate Gaming Championship (UGC) and more.
Megan Van Petten, ESTA founder and managing director, said: “ESTA is thrilled to have Lightware as part of our community both as a Corporate Member and a Gold sponsor of EsportsNext 202

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UK - Leading specialist display and trade-only rental company, PSCo, will return to PLASA Show at Olympia London on 4-6 September (stand G21) to present its virtual production offering for the live events industry, supported by new ecosystem partners disguise and Brompton Technology as well as new solutions from Absen, Barco, Aluvision and Epson.
PLASA Show is the leading tradeshow for live entertainment technology attracting some 3,000 rental companies and event professionals and 200+ international brands. PSCo will occupy 56 sq.m of floor space, representing the company’s largest presence at the show to reinforce its commitment to supporting the live event and entertainment market.
The star attraction will be a live xR stage to demonstrate the possibilities of extended reality for virtual production; powered by a disguise media server, Absen LED and Brompton LED p

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Europe - MA Lighting has now released the grandMA3 software version 1.8. The upgrade represents “massive workflow improvements and new functionalities”. These include New workflow for symmetrical movements, Selection Grid tools, multipatch, additional store modes and reworked update menu.
In addition, a number of existing features are taken to the next level. The DMX tester gets encoder bar control and the entire grandMA3 system can be set up offline with the help of device configurations. XYZ programming gets more powerful than it ever was. grandMA3 version 1.8 introduces the possibility of fading between MArkers and even between XYZ and Pan/Tilt positions in the same sequence.
The complete list of features and enhancements is documented in the release notes and under: www.malighting.com/grandMA3-software. Tutorials are available.
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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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UK - Sauca Live Light is gearing up for its release at this year's PLASA Show (4-6 September, Olympia London). "Increase audience experience, engagement and loyalty with a low cost, sustainable solution," the company says. "Certainly not too good to be true as Sauca Live Light is the 21st century’s version of the concert lighter that does so much more is released." 
With Sauca Live Light's new technology, audience smart devices such as phones, watches and wearables become a massive, controllable canvas of pixels. "Lighting designers can now control colour effects and dynamic images across the entire crowd. With the ability to generate huge messages that sweep across the audience, Mexican wave camera flashes or the crowd strobing the venue, the possibilities are endless," says Sauca. 
Audiences everywhere can now create “unforgettable and mesmerising experiences un

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France - Visitors to the Palais de la Bourse in Lyon can’t help but admire the white marble statue, near the stairs leading up to this Renaissance revival structure. Graceful and flowing, the sculpture represents the Rivers Saône and Rhône, their arms joining together as they point confidently towards the future. Since it opened on August 25, 1860, it has brought together the forces of commerce, industry, education and art for the betterment of its community.
This heritage made the Palais de la Bourse the ideal setting for a recent event hosted by Vinci, SA, a company that specialises in energy production, concessions and construction.
Lighting designer Romain Plantier, working with lighting technician Loïc Pollet, drew on the stunning architectural features of the building to endow the Vinci dinner gala with added elegance and style, while still conveying a welco

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USA - A mecca for jam band devotees, the Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania is known for presenting a diverse, multi-genre array of artists most known for their free-flowing improvisation and danceable rhythms.
Headliners for 2022 included Billy Strings, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Trey Anastasio Band, and The Black Crowes, with more than 70 bands total on the bill. From an audio standpoint, the 2022 Peach Music Festival was notable as the North American major festival debut of Meyer Sound’s new Panther large-format linear line array loudspeaker.
This year’s Peach Music Festival was also the first for Coatesville, Pennsylvania-based DBS Audio Systems as the principal audio provider. Company president Dave Brotman noted,
“Amphitheatres with tent roofs can generate a vast amount of reflections,” notes Brotman, who served as s

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Germany - Technology service provider, EBV Veranstaltungstechnik, has invested in Martin Audio’s Wavefront Precision technology, with the purchase of a WPM line array from territorial distributors, Audio Technica Deutschland.
Based in Hettenleidelheim in the Rheinland-Palatinate, EBV is a family business with a long tradition. Elmar Breitwieser founded the company over 40 years ago and focused primarily on regional musical events, which he initially equipped with sound and lighting systems before adding stage technology.
In 2018 Christian Breitwieser, son of the founder, took over the company and expanded the business from concert and festival events to corporate functions, conferences and more.
Needing to adapt and upgrade the audio equipment to the new requirement he opted for Martin Audio, stating, "I had already been familiar with the brand for a long time.

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The Netherlands - Wisycom has announced the Wisycom BFL1 RF-over-fibre interface, which will debut at IBC 2022 (Stand 8.D78). A compact, easy-to-set-up module, the BFL1 is billed as ‘an entirely new way for users to support RF coverage and distribution requirements without concern for cable loss’.
Expanding on Wisycom’s existing RF-over-fibre solutions, the BFL1 features selectable filters, expanded dynamic range, and a long-range Bluetooth 5 programming link. Replacing the need for larger devices that historically supported RF-over-fibre, the single-unit BFL offers the same robustness in a more compact and cost-effective package.
“RF-over-fibre systems can be challenging for users in stadiums, events, large facilities and remote productions, but the Wisycom BFL1 module simplifies the process,” explains Leslie Lello, Wisycom’s Support Manager. “The BFL1 c

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UK - Scandinavian flat-pack super chain IKEA’s flagship store in Wembley, North London, is immersing potential buyers into an interactive, projection mapped environment this summer, thanks to an inspired project by Motion Mapping using Hippotizer Karst+ Media Servers.
The popular furniture and houseware brand’s team approached Ipswich-based Motion Mapping, which specialises in video mapping, to realise the project. The initial brief focused on a furniture section of the IKEA store, constructed from an L-shaped wall with large desk, hung cabinets and a series of 12 differing-sized empty photo frames, each one video mapped to synchronise with the back wall projections across all of the cabinets, hung in a portrait and landscape formation to create a wide display canvas. The team wanted to turn this into the immersive environment, using projections and interactive elements.

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USA - With its roots going all the way back to 1847, the LCMS (The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod) is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination with 1.8m members, making it the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States.
Their triennial Youth Gathering is a five-day meeting which has been staged since 1980, providing an opportunity for thousands of young adults to come together as a community of God’s people to learn about the Christian faith and their Lutheran identity.
The 2022 event was held in Houston (Texas) across a number of venues, the largest being Minute Maid Park, a baseball stadium which is normally home to the Houston Astros.
Special Event Services (SES) of Mocksville, NC were contracted to supply a major sound system capable of delivering live music and, most importantly, perfectly intelligible speech to a very large area contai

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Japan - Founded in 1946, Ikegami Tsushinki Co is a manufacturer of high quality professional broadcast equipment, particularly known for their television cameras. Indeed, Ikegami introduced the world’s first portable hand-held TV camera which debuted in the US in 1962 when CBS used it to document the launch of NASA’s Aurora 7 crewed space flight.
In 2022 the company, which is actively working on next-generation broadcasting standards with IP workflows, is celebrating its 75th anniversary – a milestone that has been marked by a comprehensive renovation of its office buildings in Tokyo, including a sophisticated new seminar room equipped with Smart IP loudspeakers from Genelec.
Today the world of broadcasting is in the midst of dramatic change with the advent of Internet broadcasting with IP transmission. Ikegami is actively pursuing its development along these lin

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Thailand - For the eighth season of The Voice of Thailand, the show’s lighting designers used Cameo spotlights for the first time. More than 180 moving lights, spotlights and LED bars were used in the studio and live shows in Bangkok. The lighting solutions were supplied by Cameo’s Thai distributor, L&E Lighting & Equipment PCL.
“Cameo is a relative newcomer to the Thai event technology market,” explains Arocha Kittivittayakul, product manager at L&E. “We are therefore all the more pleased that those responsible – Pat Jareeyatana, managing director of EXIT365 Company Limited, the owner of The Voice All Stars Thailand licence, and the lighting designers Arthorn Luempetch and Junchay Baomaroeng – showed great interest in the spotlights and ultimately decided on Cameo as a brand.”
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USA - Bandit Lites partnered with 46 Entertainment to provide the lighting package for the American sports and comedy group Dude Perfect 2022 summer tour. The group boasts more than 58m subscribers and 14.6bn views.
Production manager/designer Mason Felps of 46 Entertainment crafted a new design based around the core fixtures from the last tour, working with creative producer Lauren Charboneau and Bandit lighting director Chris Noll.
“We knew we needed a ton of key light to cover all of the playable area,” said Felps. “I started there and worked my way backwards.
“With Dude Perfect being social media based, it's really important to keep everything to brand: be it tour branding or artist branding,” said Noll. “This tends to influence colour selection or overall feel of a given segment.”
Noll worked with Gordon Droictcour of Cour Designs (cont

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Canada Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre Theatre (HCT) is the jewel in the crown that is the city’s famed waterfront park. Seating only 350 patrons in its normal configuration, the theatre has impressively hosted intimate performances by A-list musical artists like Celine Dion and Julio Iglesias, top theatrical performances including the musical STOMP, and its own 2001 World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius which featured appearances by Quincy Jones, Frank Gehry, and Stephen Sondheim.
Music, dance, theatre, or spoken word, the HCT hosts it all, and now it has a sound system that can cover every base - a new L-Acoustics A15 system designed by Toronto-based Engineering Harmonics and installed in late-2021 by Solotech.
The venue’s new PA typically comprises 19 L-Acoustics A Series enclosures arranged in a flown LCR configuration - seven A15 Focus for the l

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Denmark - Roskilde, Denmark’s largest and highest profile international music festival, celebrated 50 years this year with a fantastic line-up across multiple stages, with Robe moving lights playing a major role on the famous Orange Stage and in the expansive Arena Stage venue.
The 50th anniversary had been due to take place in 2020 but was delayed two years due to the pandemic, and while a small version of the festival took place in 2021 in one of the barns on its site just south of Copenhagen, this edition had an extra special resonance in addition to guests being able to enjoy the dynamics of live music and real human interaction again.

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Lighting designer Sune Verdier and his team once again ran production lighting for this stage, ensuring that all visiting lighting designers, directors, and operators were well accommodated and that al

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USA - JHS has been appointed as the exclusive UK distributor of Maloney Park StageGear Covers. Founded in 2017 in Wichita, Kansas by ex-musician, performer and writer Natasha Maloney Park, Maloney StageGear Covers are constructed from a high quality, robust, lightweight polyester material with a water repellent acrylic coating.
A suitable solution for protecting vulnerable instruments from dirt, dust and liquid spillage, these protective covers feature a reverse reflective silver and black stylish design. Whilst the black evokes a professional look at home, in the studio, on stage or theatre, the silver side protects vulnerable equipment from heat whilst also reflecting harmful UV rays, helping to prevent fragile instruments from fading, warping and cracking, the company says.
Maloney StageGear Covers are easily folded for storage, corners are reinforced with hemmed

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Eurovision Countdown - The shortlist of UK cities that could host next year's Eurovision Song Contest has been revealed, with seven locations in the running. Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield will vie to stage the event in May. Twenty cities expressed an interest, the BBC said, and those not making the shortlist include London and Belfast.
The BBC said the seven-strong shortlist was based on the cities' ability to show they have "the capacity, capability and experience to host an event of this scale and complexity".
A statement added that the process was "heavily weighted towards demonstrating past experience in hosting major international events, as well as being able to demonstrate their credentials in hosting a celebration of contemporary music".
London would have met those criteria but didn't make the cut, at a time wh

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UK - To facilitate students with a space for drama production and rehearsals, the Wimbledon campus of University of the Arts London has dedicated two large studio spaces to acting and performance. Currently undergoing a major site re-development, the Wimbledon college has high-end rehearsal spaces now fitted with quality audio-visual equipment, thanks to Flipside AV.
Previously built for a Print and Time-Based Media programme, the Wimbledon studio spaces are spread across two floors. The downstairs space, being more enclosed, can split itself into two rooms for workshops and independent rehearsals, while the upstairs room provides an ideal performance hub the with sky light installations to let the room bring in natural light and air and church-like wood panels on the ceiling for acoustical balance.
Being simple, flexible enclosures; the acting and performance students

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Saudi Arabia - The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, referred to colloquially as KAUST, is a science and technology. It takes its name from the former King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who decreed its foundation, intending it to “serve the people of the Kingdom and benefit all the peoples of the world
The Museum of Science & Technology in Islam (MOSTI) was created later, on campus. MOSTI seeks to highlight the plethora of contributions made by Muslim scholars to science and technology during the first Golden Age of Islam (650-1650) and demonstrate how these contributions shaped the world as we know it, laying the groundwork for modern civilisation. Interactive technology leads people through the exhibits, forming an immersive exploration of the various artefacts and relics.
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Germany - As one of Europe’s leading wholesalers of visual presentation technology, Lang is renowned for its passion for innovation and willingness to invest in long-term partnerships that ensure an ample supply of state-of-the-art technology of the highest calibre. The company has invested in Brompton Technology Tessera LED video processors which complement Lang’s stock of Venus and Jupiter LED panels for high-quality and high resolution applications.
“Our goal with Venus and Jupiter has always been to set a benchmark in the LED market,” explains Manuel Müller, director rental at Lang. “With this in mind, two of the things next to resolution that were most important to us were usability and brightness, with Brompton’s leading Tessera LED processors serving a perfect match for those key requirements.”
Thanks to Brompton’s Dynamic Calibration technology

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UK - Long-standing Martin Audio rental partner, Bristol-based SWG Events, has upgraded its pro audio inventory with the acquisition of 24 of the large format Wavefront Precision WPL enclosures.
These form part of a Martin Audio package, along with 12 SXH218 subs and 24 XE500 floor monitors. Powering the WPL in 2-box resolution are Martin Audio iKON iK42 process-controlled, multi-channel amplifiers, part of an order for 17 iK42’s, which will also be assigned to the XE500.
Stated SWG Events’ head of audio, Simon Purse, “Everything came along at the right time, with me joining the company [from Martin Audio]. This coincided with SWG looking to buy a bigger, state-of-the-art system as an upgrade for their trusty W8LC, to put us back at the top end of the touring market, with higher tier acts.”
The acquisition was sanctioned by SWG managing director, Alister P
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