The ILMC says that the safety guide will provide a tool for concert and festival organizers to assess and manage risks, and will be useful to everyone from the new event organizer to the most established promoters. Scheduled to be ready by late autumn of 2004, it will primarily be accessible via a specially designed website, although a limited number of hard copies will be produced. With its Euro
The Producer Phase 88 features optimized conversion components and circuits, allowing the user to cut clear recordings on up to eight tracks simultaneously and even play back high-resolution 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound. To make the most of the 24-bit converter's dynamic range, the Producer Phase 88 is equipped with an on-board 20-channel hardware mixer with 36-bit internal resolution and 20-in-4 routing. Every input port features a dedicated analogue stage that
Bandit Lites is providing a number of Martin fixtures for the benefit concert, which is the primary fundraiser for the foundation. Lighting designer Chris Barbee says the show is a labour of love: "It's always nice to do something to give back to the childre
"The backdrops are different for every tour," says Chesters. "The audience never sees anything that it's seen before. 'Eddie' is usuall
Local sound company, Showtime Präsentations GmbH, were prepared, fortunately, with two Dynacord Cobra-4 systems, although the stage design meant they could only use one-and-a-half. But as Showtime's managing director, Volker Skopp, explained, even this set-up provided more than adequate coverage. "We received excellent feedback
As the sugar industry in Barbados declined, so too did the Crop Over festival and in the 1940's the festival was terminated completely. However, the festival was revived in 1974 and other elements of Barbadian culture were infused to make the extravaganza that exists today - an event that attracts thousands of people from across the globe.
Quality Sound was on hand to provide sound reinforcement for the numerous events held at the National Stadium including the Pic-O-De-Crop Calypso Finals and the Cohobblopot
The answer was in the form of Harlequin Allegro, a loose lay dance floor designed specifically to protect against hard sub floors. The thickest roll out dance floor currently available anywhere, Allegro comprises a vinyl surface reinforced with a tough fibre interply and backed with firm foam cushioning for resilience, providing a nine
For one night only, on Tuesday 21 October, Carling brought Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson, Phil Rudd and Cliff Williams to London's landmark live venue to thrill a gathering of their most dedicated fans with a live show. The seats were also removed from the venue for the first time in its history, making it the biggest dedicated live music venue in London.
Front-of-house engineer Paul 'Pab' Boothroyd was at the controls of a Midas XL4, while long-time mix partner John Roden mixed monitors. Boothroyd opted for Concert Sound's new EAW KF760 line array system, flown as an impressive 14-a-side rig, "so I could maximize the power and cove
i-Vision's Geoff Jones worked closely with account and project managers Christopher Rowell and Ceri Brown from Architen Landrell. No off-the-shelf product existed that exactly met the brief; LED lighting was the obvious route because of the size, energy efficiency and low maintenance benefits. Rowell commented: "I've worked with I-Vision before, so I knew they were the ideal creative and technical partners for us, we needed a company that could think laterally and imaginatively deal with the entire lighting project, from start to finish".
The entrance features a 5m by 6m barrelled
The 35 minute show was hosted by Jo Guest, Mark Parmeter and Olivia Springer, featured live sounds from up-and-coming Fuel Records DJs The Law Givers and the best of UK stunt driving from the likes of Terry Grant, Russ and Paul Swift and Jason Finn. The show was attended by 17,500 people a day, and directed and produced by Simon Aldridge for PMI Partnership.
It's the fifth year Beat Audio has supplied sound for the event. The intense Cruise Strip live show ran
Star Rigging has also acquired two more of the compact CM12 12-channel controllers for rigging duties on a recent video shoot for Christina Aguilera. Star's Phil Broad once again chose the CM12 for the convenience of its compact size, adding to pre
The Eat to the Beat team arrived on site on 2 December, two days prior to the show, led by crew leader Rachael Collins and head chef Suzie Collins. The team provided three meals on each of the three days, with constant refreshments available all day for the crew on site. The artists were provided with a rolling buffet of hot and cold options when arriving at
All lighting equipment is being supplied by High Wycombe based Siyan, who bought a large quantity of Pixelline this autumn from Lightfactor Sales, and already own eight RADlite digital media servers. PixelDrive is collaboration between James Thomas Engineering's Pixel department and RADlIte developers IRAD. Finch immediately liked the Pixellines after his first demo in the late summer, which happened simultaneous to PixelDrive coming on-stream. As soon as he had the chance to
Unique Systems' project manager, Alan Vickery, collaborated with Sony to design a sophisticated system enabling the confined space to be utilized as two distinct areas - one for fitness machines and the second for aerobic workout classes. Whilst the Trantec PT1 system offers cable-free personalized entertainment, it also allows the in-house gym to remain a discrete facility - where both fitness areas operate independently without any audible background music or visible loudspeakers.
In the fitness zone, the PT1 offers full entertain
2) Counting is not their strong point: a production manager's week bears absolutely no correlation whatever with a real week.
3) They are in your face on the fit-up, in the bar during the show and unavailable when you need to get paid.
4) They never look out of the window in the morning because then there would be nothing left for them to do in the afternoon.
5) On a fit-up, they believe that the centre of the universe shifts slightly with every important step they take.
6) They believe actors are props with dialogue, producers are props with clipboards and if we could all read minds, we wouldn't need headsets.
7) They have no comprehension of national holidays that fall on a Monday.
8) At home, their door mat is gaffered down so no one will trip over it; their furniture has wheels
Managing director Mark Elliott said of the strategic decision to operate as a single entity: "Being able to centralize all our resources into a single building has enabled us to further develop full service capability to provide a wide range of resources. This includes video, lighting, audio, and staging equipment, together with our ever-increasing range of indoor and outdoor LED screens."
A substantial upgrade to CT's hire fleet will see heavy investment, with the company inten
For the next event, which will take place on 13 February, delegates will be able to join L&SI at the Royal Albert Hall and meet with members of the Cirque Du Soleil production team, the Royal Albert Hall's technical crew and representatives of the companies who have supplied lighting, sound and rigging expertise to the production.
The day will include a guided tour of the historic venue and modern produ
Sponsored by SID and Information Display Magazine, the awards are sought after in the international information display industry - the industry responsible for designing and manufacturing the displays that give life to television sets, notebook computers, desktop computer monitors, cell phones, PDAs, DVD players, and many other office-based, home-based, and portable electronic devices.
The award, which was announced in this month's edition of the Information Display Magazine, is voted for by display industry peers made up of distinguished display professionals and influential members of the trade press, making it a significant win for SoundVu technology. SoundVu technology brings sound and v
Autograph's Nick Lidster, together with the company's chairman Andrew Bruce, will be sound designing this famous demon barber's tale. For Bruce this is a happy return to The Royal Opera House, almost 30 years to the day after he left his post as Head of Sound to set up Autograph Sound Recording.
Lidster explains, "We are supplying and installing vocal amplification for this production and have chosen LLW's latest ribbon loudspeaker the LDS800, (Autograph have used previous versions of this loudspeaker on productions of Follies, On Your Toes and Pacific Overtures) their largest cabinet, which is both powerful enough to use just five a side but subtl
French national broadcaster Radio France was behind the entire audio affair, including sound reinforcement. Sound designer Frederic Viricel's ambitious concept involved a mic'd up orchestra and two choirs at the centre of the pitch, with roving vocal soloists on radio mics. The tender was won by Canadian speaker manufacturer Adamson's independent support company in France, DV2.
Spearheaded by DV2's Didier dal Fitto, the practical solution was to feed the programme to a series of small, groundstacked line arrays evenly sp
With its 12 awards including four first prizes, almost one third of all the ILDA Awards for outstanding creative achievements went to Lobo during the glamorous ceremony. This brings the Aalen-based company's total in just 10 years to 69 ILDA awards, including more than 20 first prizes.
Four of Lobo's 3D beam shows were awarded prizes, including two first prizes. All winning beam shows originate from the Lobo's Software Contract - a show subscription service that offers subscribers one beam show per month.
Key to many of Lobo's achievements is its laser and multi
E//T//C UK supplied two 6kW Pigi projectors with double rotating scrollers, and a Barco G10 video projector. All hardware was located 50m away on the green in the middle of the Square, protected by heavy-weather tents. All PIGI artwork was created by E//T//C's Ross Ashton and video artwork by Vin. Vin and Ashton are looking at the possibility of staging Glow Projects in other cities around the UK and Europe.
Read needed a colour changing, water-proof unit that was reliable, punchy and relatively small, as they would have to hang from a 'flambeau' post, in all weathers, for three months, he had s
PRG's New Jersey, Orlando and Las Vegas offices will serve as the company's regional equipment depots. Other PRG offices will continue to maintain local inventories but will draw on the extensive additional stock in the depots when needed. Portions of the inventory
