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UK / Austria - MC2 Audio has announced the appointment of dBLuX Distribution as the company's new distributor in Austria. dBLuX is located in Dornbirn in the west of Austria and was founded in September 2001 to deal exclusively in the business to business sector. In this short time this highly motivated young company has established its name country wide as an important distributor for sound, light and multi-media products.

dBLuX carries a wide selection of products to suit all budgets and customers are supported by a high standard of after sales service.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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China - The official emblem for the 29th Olympic Games, to be held in Beijing in 2008, was presented to the world on Sunday, 3 August at a grand ceremony in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. The highly energetic presentation was a festival of optimistic spirit and a showcase for Chinese culture, staged by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG).

Martin Professional equipment played a central role the ceremony with 88 Martin intelligent lights adding to the celebratory atmosphere. The unveiling occurred before a live audience of over 2,000 VIPs with 400 million television viewers watching the spectacular show, which was broadcast live.

Some 48 MAC 200 Profile and 40 MAC 2000 Wash were used to project colour onto the Olympic emblem, as well as the exterior of the Temple of Heaven. The emblem, titled 'Dancing Beijing', resembles a red Chinese seal enclosing

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UK - Following the successful launch of five new products at PLASA 2002, Australian lighting equipment manufacturer, LSC Lighting Systems, will use PLASA 2003 as a springboard to release two new products and launch the much-anticipated Version 1 software for the maXim control desk. The EKO series of fixed installation digital dimmers will be shown for the first time. This new product continues the innovative design concepts from LSC with a unique mounting installation frame - dramatically reducing installation and commissioning time over standard wiring and set-up methods. Its clever backlit touch screen provides quick and clear access to its many functions. The EKO dimmers are available in 6-, 12- and 24-channel configurations, with choices of output circuit capacity.

The production version of the new Minim will be shown on the stand along side its big brother control desks - t

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UK - TC Electronic announced the EQ Station-8, EQ Station-4, EQ Station-2 and the MotoFader-64. Together with a PC/Mac Editor, they form a high-end equalizer system designed for use in demanding touring Monitor and FOH applications, as well as fixed installations in Theatres and Concert Halls. The EQ Station range sets a new standard for live sound equalization.

Coming in 2-, 4- and 8-channel configurations, the EQ Stations are all 2U units featuring the best TC quality AD/DA conversion and the most powerful DSP processing. Each channel includes simultaneously: 6-band Parametric EQ, 29-band Graphic EQ, 3-band Dynamic EQ, Brickwall Limiter and Delay. Internally, EQ Station uses 48-bit processing for wide headroom, analog EQ modelling and no compromise processing. Building upon the heritage of the award winning TC6032/TC1128 Graphical EQ system, the EQ Station is the new EQ standa

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Ireland - Following an extensive pitch process, design and communications company Imagination has been appointed as the lead design agency to enhance the award winning Guinness Storehouse, based in Dublin. Imagination was originally the lead design agency that helped produce and launch the Guinness Storehouse back in December 2000. Imagination, who won the pitch against stiff competition from a number of design companies, will start work on the second phase of the design work immediately.

The enhancement involves updating existing areas in the Guinness Storehouse as well as designing several new exhibition and hands-on experiences for visitors. Since opening in 2000, Guinness Storehouse has achieved great success, welcoming over 700,000 visitors annually to the Home of Guinness and becoming Ireland's top visitor attraction. Paul Carty, general manager of the Guinness Storehouse,

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Australia - Show Technology, a leading Australian importer and distributor of specialized lighting for entertainment and architectural applications, has announced the launch of its new website www.showtech.com.au.

The new site, developed in-house, delivers up to date information on all of the products that Show Technology distribute through their extensive dealer network. Brand names include market-leaders such as Martin, Clay Paky, MA Lighting, ELC, Studio Due, Geni, Kupo, Pulsar, ADJ and Elektralite. Links to these manufacturers can be found on the Suppliers page. Every item available for purchase, from each of these manufacturers, will be itemized in the Products section of the site. The News section will be updated regularly with features on various projects and productions, as well as company news. The Download section is where you can find useful resources like price lists

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UK - The Lighthouse is the newest waterside bar/restaurant to open in Edinburgh's lively, regenerated Leith docklands area, now a buzzing social hub in the north of the City. Local audio installer SI Sound & Light was asked by the venue's owner, local entrepreneur Robert Orr, to design, specify and install sound throughout. SI's Neil Silver turned to both Arbiter Pro Audio for JBL speakers, and Adlib Audio for their AA enclosures to supply specific equipment to the different areas.

The venue is divided into two totally separate spaces: downstairs is a mezzanine restaurant and different bar areas, and upstairs there's a function room suite available for private hires. Downstairs at the Lighthouse is an open plan design with large windowed frontage onto the street, overlooking the water, with two more secluded rooms with seats and tables at the rear and the restaurant on the mezza

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Ireland - Irelands national broadcaster, Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE) has extended its long relationship with Soundcraft broadcast desks.

Standardizing on the RM105 fully-modular on-air console, it recently purchased its tenth, with the upgrade of the mixing facilities in its North Donegal regional studio. Audio Warehouse, Soundcraft's Southern Ireland distributors, supplied the board as a 20-module frame, with three mic and two Telco input modules - and the remainder stereo. In some of the larger regional studios these desks are interfaced with B400 production desks to allow operation in either compere operated or 'support' mode.

"The decision on desk acquisition is made by a user group, consisting of console users and support engineers," explained Cyril Ryan, head of regional facilities, RTE. "The main reason for selection is functionality and reliability, as t

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USA - Two Renkus-Heinz Reference Point Array (RPA) loudspeaker systems have been chosen by Stony Brook University, NY, located 50 miles from Manhattan and part of the State University system of New York. A new building houses the two main university ballrooms, multi-purpose rooms that will be used for student orientations, performances of both music and spoken plays, concerts, faculty presentations and presentations to university applicants.

Adwar Video, of Plainview, NY, has designed the system and installation has now been completed. Adwar Video founder Mike Adwar comments: "The university needed to be able to provide each with room with its own sound system, both operable independently of each other, but which could also be linked to feed both rooms with the same signal sources."

The two separate rooms seat a total of some 600 people, and the loudspeaker system wa

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UK - Mach Speakers will be giving away a pair of M-Flex speakers each day of the PLASA exhibition (except Wednesday). All visitors have to do is fill out a short questionnaire and they will automatically be entered in the draw, to be held at the Mach Speakers/Martin Professional booth daily at 5:00 pm. Designed to fit into a broad array of applications requiring high quality audio reproduction, M-Flex is a flexible line of compact, lightweight moulded loudspeakers.

Mach can be found on stand G89/G80 at PLASA.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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UK - The expansion plans of Chameleon Audio have recently included the appointment of Gearline Marketing, the newly-styled repping company. An agreement has been reached with Gearline to add the Chameleon product range to the company's portfolio, which already includes Clockaudio, JL Cooper, Connectronics and Leema Acoustics.

Chameleon audio sales director, Martin Capp, commented: "Rod Geary and Chris Collings bring a wealth of knowledge to the newly-formed repping company, as well as a portfolio of quality pro audio products that will benefit existing Chameleon customers. This initiative is to increase the Chameleon UK dealer base, while offering dealers the benefit of their collective sales activity."

Geary, director of Gearline Marketing, added: "We are delighted to have concluded a deal with Chameleon Audio, one of the few independent professional amplifier

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USA - Wybron's new CXI MultiPAR hit the road with REM for the 2003 Tour. From Tivoli in Utrecht, Holland to Nyon, Switzerland, R.E.M. rocked the house on the European leg of their 2003 World Tour.

Lighting designer Willie Williams needed durable, reliable equipment to make the trip - and that meant choosing Wybron. Bandit Lites provided eight of Wybron's new CXI MultiPAR colour mixers, mounted on ETC MultiPARs. The fixtures and changers are being used to light a large scannerchrome painted backdrop on the Tour. The silver scrim is the perfect platform for reflecting the vibrant color produced by the MultiPAR combination. Reporting from the tour, Williams commented: "The units work well and so far seem to be holding up on the road."

Powerful music and creative lighting effects left the crowds asking for more, but the band wrapped up the European portion of their 200

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UK - After a very busy and exciting first six months under 'new' management, following the management buy-out in March, Hall Stage is exhibiting at this year's PLASA Show with a whole host of new products and services on display. After picking up a Product Award at the ABTT show in June, Hall Stage has now announced its exclusive UK distribution of the ASM Band Hoists and Genesis Control systems, which have been developed in Germany under the strictest safety guidelines in operation anywhere in Europe.

Phil Wells, Hall Stage director says: "We've been looking to develop a hoist system that met all of the stringent BGV C1 control stipulations and realized ASM . . . units get around every hurdle en route and perform superbly under our required specifications. They're virtually silent, vibration free and very quick, unlike most chain hoists; they don't need cable changes, like

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UK - UK distributor Fuzion plc will be showing production GEO T2815 cabinets for the first time at the PLASA Show in London, starting this Sunday, 7 September. The T2815 gives the NEXO GEO T Series Tangent Array System a fully integrated and coherent downfill capacity, rarely available from high output line array systems.

It uses passive radiators to achieve the same cardioid pattern as the GEO T4805, the other full-range high-output loudspeaker at the heart of the GEO T Series. As a consequence, the horizontal dispersion is consistent throughout the operating band (although in keeping with its nearfield application, the T2815 produces 120° H compared with the T4805's 90° H). The T2815 downfill box has been used in demanding festival and concert situations in France and the UK.

Featuring a 2" exit compression driver (HF) and two 8" long excursion neodymium cone dri

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UK - PMC, manufacturer of professional monitor and audiophile speaker systems, have announced the appointment of Boxer Systems Limited, as the company's new UK sales dealer for the broadcast, film and post production sectors.

Based in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, with offices in Glasgow and a newly opened Soho showroom in the heart of London's post production community, Boxer Systems specializes in the representation, distribution, and systems integration services of high quality, high performance digital products for the broadcast, film and post-production.

Rapid growth in the Boxer Systems' broadcast and video systems integration business, has led to an increasing requirement to specify suitably high-resolution monitor systems as part of the package. Group marketing and sales director Jon Phillips explains the choice of PMC: "In servicing a large part of the London based p

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UK - Now that Blur has played a final encore in a field in the north of England, it is possible to look back on the remarkable first season for Nexo's GEO T Tangent Array System, which, within its first six months of production, has played its part in front of over 700,000 music fans in Europe alone.

This is an impressive debut for a new stadium sound system and a reflection of the confidence of 'early adopters' like SSE Hire (UK), Melpommen (France), DPA SoundCo (Denmark) and Show Company (Singapore) that they have put GEO T directly into high-profile live situations such as the Glastonbury Festival.

In the UK, the season of large summer festivals has been dominated by SSE Hire and the GEO T system. Over two consecutive weekends in August, the SSE team services four music events, the Virgin-sponsored V2003 held in Weston Park (north England) and Chelmsford (south-east England

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USA - Color Kinetics Inc (CKI) has announced two additions to its patent portfolio, which now comprises 19 issued US and international patents, with more than 100 patent filings in process. The new patents cover innovative methods of controlling LED sources for entertainment and aesthetic purposes, say the company.

US patent number 6,577,080 is a utility patent called 'Lighting Entertainment System' that covers many entertainment and educational applications of Color Kinetics' core technology. The patent covers the use of lighting tracks encoded into any media, including video, radio, CD, broadcasting and networks, as well as the decoding from that media to provide illumination control. For example, a home theatre system might integrate LED-based lights to generate customized effects that correspond with movies or music.

US patent number 6,608,453 is a utility patent called 'M

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UK - The PLASA exhibition has traditionally been the launching pad for the latest in innovative lighting products from Martin Professional and this year's show will be no exception. Martin heads to Earl's Court with an array of new products including three new MAC luminaires, new club effects, and the first light in Martin's new Mania series of DJ products. Also on hand will be Version 1.0 of the new Maxxyz controller and other new control products.

New luminaires include the MAC 550, fully loaded with features to redefine standards for a mid-range, 400W moving head. The 550 features; multiple graphical options including a gobo animation system, two eight-slot colour wheels, motorized 14-30° zoom and a multitude of other features all wrapped within the award-winning design of the MAC 2000. Also on show will be the Entour, Martin's 250W automated profile spot. This unit includes

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UK - Receiving its world premiere at the Royal Opera House on 7 December, the opera of Sophie's Choice presented the opportunity for Triple E to design a new type of system for a travelling projection screen.

Composer Nicholas Maw was first inspired by seeing the movie and intended the opera to have a cinematic effect - fluidity accompanied by a certain realism. When Maw told designer Rob Howell that he had written one note to ring out with every mention of the Holocaust, the Olivier Award-winning designer decided there should also be one element in his treatment of Auschwitz that should be present in every scene, so that by the time the storyline arrives at the infamous camp, the audience sees it at its most complete, though it was there the whole time. He chose an angle - 16°: "I was looking at photos of Brooklyn taken in the '40s and photographs of Auschwitz a

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Uk - Le Mark Group is using new state-of-the-art CO2 Laser Technology linked with a new double-layered, cross-linked polyacrylic film to create a new, hard-wearing road case label which comes with a lifetime guarantee. Manufactured in Germany by the company's industry technology partner BDF Tesa, the new concept road case label is designed to last the life of the case itself.

The labels are highly durable and engineered for high wear applications. The new process uses a Penn Fabrication dish as a platform for a new laser-etched system. Clients can choose from highly durable natural colour process or colour laminate combinations. Tesa polyacrylic film is temperature stable up to 270°C and complete barcode receptive.

Le Mark can be found at PLASA on stand N49.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK/Netherlands - Het Muziektheater is one of the most prestigious theatres in the Netherlands and has an international reputation. The theatre offers residencies to the Netherlands Opera and the Dutch National Ballet and is home to the Holland Symphonic. The venue is both a producing and receiving house.

The Muziektheater has four stages, each one 16.2m by 13.5m in size: one principal stage on which the performance takes place, and three assembly stages, where the scenery can be set up or stored, with approximately 60 percent of the scenery pieces hanging in the fly tower.

Het Muziektheater has 102 fly-bars, each 24m long. Renovation of the venue began in 1997 when a mechanically operated flying system was installed. At that time the type of fly-bar used had several disadvantages, for example they were very heavy, they tended to flex laterally, and diagonal bracing could cause

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UK - Rola-Trac laid 15,200sq.m of ground protection - the largest single system the company has ever laid in the UK - for Massive Attack's 'home town' concert in Bristol's Queen's Square. To mark the 100th date of their current world tour, Massive Attack returned to their home city of Bristol on Bank Holiday Monday, to play to a sell out crowd of 19,000 people in Queen's Square.

Promoters Metropolis Music brought in Nine Yards to manage the production located in one of Bristol's best-known landmarks. The site was obviously not designed for hosting concerts, so the production team liased with Bristol City Council and had to be especially considerate of their environment. Hence it was decided to cover the whole area with Rola-Trac to achieve effective protection.

Guy Wightham, Rola-Trac's project manager, had to plan and execute installation of the system. Site visits two weeks

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UK - CP Sound has completed a new sound and LED lighting installation at the Terraces Bar & Grill in Brighton for Glendola Leisure. The circular building, on the site of the old Seaworld, was originally erected four years ago as part of the Aquarium Terraces project.

Essex-based Pembroke Design was appointed to create the interiors. As a totally separate element to the sound design of the project, CP's Colin Pattenden decided to show their new side-lit, etched substrate LED panel to the designers, who sought an eye-catching form of bar illumination and were suitably impressed to order 10 to go at the rear of the bars.

The CP Sound LED panels are all etched with an attractive montage of pebbles. Four sit behind the upstairs bar and six at the rear of the downstairs bar. They are made from a special 10mm thick white, clear glass with polished edges to allow the passage of light

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UK - Adlib Audio supplied sound systems for all five stages at Liverpool's famous Mathew Street Festival, now the UK's largest free annual outdoor music festival and celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. 300,000 people crowded into Liverpool city centre for the August Bank Holiday Monday.

The festival also merged with the conclusion of the week-long International Beatles Convention, which saw presentations, talks, seminars and markets dedicated to every possible aspect of Liverpool's best known export. Adlib were also responsible for servicing all the sound needs of the Adelphi Hotel, the Royal Court Theatre and the Barcelona Club where hundreds of the Best of Beatles bands from all over the world performed. Adlib employed over 40 crew, working around-the-clock in shifts at the various sites used by the two events.

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