The new creative alliance aims to build on the strengths of both companies in lighting design, video-effects generation and video editing for the performing arts and entertainment industry. The Foundation Design has already created a selection of royalty-free abstract video clips which can be previewed and bought from the Scene Change website.
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Despite the usual problems with the elements, from the technical perspective the show was a great success allowing CAVS the opportunity to demonstrate how they can provide different audio solutions quickly and easily under the most demandin
Visitors to this year’s show will be able to catch up on the latest product innovations, receive hands-on demonstrations and gain expert advice from over 50 of the industry’s leading equipment manufacturers. Running alongside the main exhibition will be a range of free product training workshops and seminars from guest speakers on key industry topics. Visitors will also be able to take advantage of some exclusive ‘show-only’ exhibitor prices on the day for selected product lines.
Jonathan Walters, A.C. Lighting’
"We knew that the Learning Center needed to serve a variety of audiences," said Ned Ludlum, technical training manager. "Our representatives, distributors, systems integrators and contractors - even our sales staff - require periodic updating of our product lines. This is particularly true with a product line as powerful as Audia, which requires certification. We find that people who have been using Audia since its introduction are still surprised at some of the capabilities built into the product. And we continue to enhance the software with added functionality. This Centre serves an important role in ke
UK concert lighting company Neg Earth chose the award-winning grandMA when they needed a fully equipped lighting console to cope with some demanding concert productions. To date, their grandMA has been used for extensive European tours by Avril Lavigne and Sum 41. Similarly, leisure entertainment group Butlins has purchased three consoles from the range, while the multi-purpose Royal Spa Centre in Royal Lemington Spa has purchased a grandMA for its main auditorium.
Vortex Lighting, a lighting specialist in the northern UK rental market, also purchased a grandMA as it was considered the best all-round solution for
The draft standard describes recommended practices for lifting and transporting performers to create the illusion of flying or levitation in theatrical performances. Anyone that has an interest in flying effects with live performers is invited to review it and offer comments. Public review and comment is being sought so that the draft standard may reflect the consensus of informed opinion in the industry.
The standard is a project of the Rigging Working Group, part of the ANSI-accredited standards committee E1, Safety and Compatibility of Entertainment Technical Equipment and Practices.
Dutch company Xilver saw its Droplet LED fixture awarded best new theatrical and entertainment lighting product. The j
To mark the changes, Munro Acoustics Ltd has launched System Z, a completely integrated solution for audio facilities looking to maximize budgets while still adhering to all the international standards of acoustic performance. This new approach to studio building allows rooms to be designed specifically to meet the client’s requirements and to a guaranteed price. The modular concept allows both flexibility and efficiency of manufacture to exacting standards of finish and performance, while also ensuring minimum delivery and installation times.
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Also noteworthy, though attracting less press attention, is the fact that this is the first new opera for both creator/composer Richard Thomas and the National Theatre, chosen by incoming National Theatre director, Nicholas Hytner, to premiere as his first production in the Lyttelton Theatre.
Lighting designer Rick Fisher was first involved with the show when it premiered at Edinburgh last year. The production h
Produced by Bill Kenwright and The Really Useful Theatre Company, directed by Matthew Warchus and designed by Rob Howell, this latest production has been expanded to an evening’s entertainment and features five brand new songs.
Serviced by London-based Orbital Sound, the production features the company’s fifth Yamaha PM1D digital mixing console, which was purchased from dealer Marquee Audio. With three of Orbital’s other PM1Ds specified for other West End musicals - Bombay Dreams, Our House and Joseph - the Yamaha desk has certainly made its mark in top-flight theatre.
"Large format digital desks are
Located in Frederikshavn, in the northern part of Denmark, the facility stands out in the relatively flat landscape around the Knivholt area of the town - it’s an impressive exhibition window for Martin products, particularly its architectural lighting ranges, which are a relatively new, but fast-expanding, part of the Martin business. Its design owes something to the industry it serves - the support infrastructure features 455 tons of roof truss - influenced, no doubt, by the touring and performance systems Martin works with every day of t
The decision to reschedule the exhibition was made following consultation with exhibitors, trade associations and government bodies in light of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in the region. "Ensuring a safe and effective business environment for our attendees is the core objective of change in PALA’s show dates," stated Rosalind Ng-Seah, deputy managing director of IIR Exhibitions.
October's show will take place at the Suntec exhibition venue in Singapore.
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Blink are no strangers to Kylie - the company produced all the insert material for last year’s seminal ‘Fever’ tour, and a specially commissioned video for her Royal Variety performance. They were approached by renowned Rambert choreographer Rafael Bonachela, who devised 21 to provide imagery for the dance piece, which runs in three sections, and lasts 21 minutes. The soundtrack for the performance has been composed by Benjamin Wallfisch and its lighting design conceived by Chris Davey.
Bonachela asked film production designer/video artist Alan Macdonald, and Kylie’s own personal image mak
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According to Sound Division's Chris Baxter who designed the sound system, the brief was fairly straightforward - to provide a compact, yet powerful, sound system with DJ control that would be capable of making itself heard over the noise of 300 people. "We had a slight problem during set-up in the form of a continual earth loop coming from the venue’s power supply. However, once we’d sorted that out, we achieved a tidy, precise install over two floors
Daniel Green, who’s been at FOH for Coldplay for the last four years, feels it can hardly be called work. "The band is a pleasure to work with, and despite their massive success over the last couple of years, they’re still just a bunch of totally normal guys who are passionate about their music." However, Coldplay’s success has meant playing bigger and bigger venues
The company was founded by Mike Henden in Luton in 1990, and having grown consistently year on year, moved to its existing address in Leighton Buzzard in1995, since when the premises have literally trebled in size. The expansion has come from diversity: the company stocks and distributes an extensive range of products catering for many different market applications from pro audio, retail, studio, conference, stage and lighting, to education, pubs and clubs. The stock is vast, and the main emphasis of the business is on customer care and commitment to detail - complemented by experienced staff from a range of backgrounds.
Henden is understandably proud of his company’
Although designed primarily for sporting activities, the College wanted to gain maximum functionality from the new hall by also using it to stage occasional theatrical productions and other high-profile campus activities. With budget and storage playing an important part in the overall design of the system, plans to use a truss and rigging system had to be rejected in favour of finding a more cost-effective and space-saving solution. A.C. Lighting Projects Division opted for PCM’s versatile Unibar electric winch and track system.
As another criteria was that all walls had to be kept free of system equipment for safety reasons, the Unibar track system was susp
More than 1,000 visitors from across the lighting industry visited the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, to participate in the three-day event, the central theme of which was technology and design. To this end, there was a wide array of equipment on show from companies such as Pulsar, Rosco, MA Lighting, Vari-Lite, Osram, Philips, GE, Rainbow, ETC, Clay Paky, Spotlight and Doughty, n
Under contract to Lucas and Roberts, and on behalf of Granada Productions, a team of four specialists from ESS in the UK along with six locals set to work in mid-December last year. The build took place in a tropical rainforest near to the town of Murwillumbah just south of the border between Queensland and New South Wales and was finished by 15 January.
The crew were exposed to snakes, leeches, funnel web spiders and a host of other nasty creatures that never feature in Australian travel brochures. "The first thing that happened when we arrived
To achieve their goal they utilized two of ExCeL’s vast halls - N1, for exhibitions and workshops and N2 as a 1,200 seat auditorium - and asked integrated technology providers MCL to create a flexible production infrastructure. A division of Creative Technology (CT), MCL London equipped the main theatre and five breakout rooms with projection, lighting and sound, with a rapid turnaround to accommodate a gala dinner at the end of the first day.
The main backdrop consisted of a 20m wide cyclorama, backlit top and bottom using Vari*Lite VL
Net revenue from continuing operations for the quarter was $7.5 million compared to $9.2 million in the first quarter of 2002. Gross profit from continuing operations in the quarter was $1.4 million, compared to $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2002. The company reported a net loss from continuing operations of $0.4 million (or $0.03 per share) in the first quarter of 2003, compared to a net loss of $0.1 million ($0.01 per share), in the first quarter of 2002.
John P. Wilmers, president and CEO of Ballantyne, commented: "The theatre exhibition industry is slowly recoveri
Morocco as a country is prolific in terms of local festivals, traditional music, and cultural events, which sit comfortably alongside the growing tourist market sector. Gauthier Dalle, L-Acoustics regional sales manager, comments: "Our collaboration with Encom shows that L-Acoustics has taken an important step forward in Africa, through Magreb."
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The first installation in of ShowMagic in Sweden is at a corporate site - the showroom of GPA-Plast, where ShowMagic is controlling a projector, motorscreen, darkening blinds, DMX-transformers in the roof (nine different channels), and the nine different areas of the company’s product display. The system is controlled via a 15" touchscreen, while a second screen serves as the operator’s monitor.
Managing director of GPA-Plast, PerOlow Jansson, says: "We are very happy with the solution that Fremlab have supplied. We first looked at a Crestron-based system, but the cost felt huge. With ShowMagic we found the same control at a
