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The goal of lighting the DVD was to provide an upbeat, theatrical, yet calm atmosphere to the living room set where Grant performed. "It had a very 'MTV Unplugged' feel," says lighting programmer Demfis Fyssicopulos of New York City and Florida. "Lighting designer Sparky Anderson had to light for the concert audience as well as for the film cameras. In addition Anderson accentuated the breath-taking architecture of The Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, TX, where the shoot took place."

Gemini Productions supplied the lighting complement which had grandMA controlling 20 Vari*Lite VL2500 spots, 10 Vari*Lite VL3000 spots, five Vari*Lite VL3000 washes,

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Luminar Leisure's CEO, Steve Thomas had been investigating the idea with Eminence Leisure CEO Martin King, sole suppliers of acts to the company, for the past 18 months. Into the equation came the Connecta Group, whose subsidiary Tactectic Ltd had acquired a five-year exclusive license for Wonderworks Media Ltd's radical Eyeliner® Foil System technology for live entertainment venues in the UK, Channel Islands and Eire.

The Eyeliner Foil System provides the virtual 3D imaging which can be choreographed to incorporate, and integrate with

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Hangar 2 at Berlin Tempelhof airport, with a cantilevered main hall of about 5,000sq.m (55m wide, 98m long and 21m high) and an additional gallery (660sq.m) provided an appropriate location for the 3,000 invited guests. Claus Breidert and Martin Steinfels of Multisound set up the main sound reinforcement for the event, choosing K.M.E.'s PANO line array systems.

As the main stage was on the long side of the Hangar, the pre-planning made a separate PA for the side area necessary. In the following simulation with PANO Focus, the number of K.M.

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The hotel is owned by Per Gessle, of Swedish pop duo Roxette fame, and his business partner Björn Nordstrand. The pair have taken what was an old beach hotel and invested millions of Swedish Kronor to create an exclusive property that provides the best spa experience in Sweden.

With a musician at the helm, the audio installation was an extremely important part of the mix and, as equipment supplier New Musik's sales manager Håkan Sjöö explains, was based around a Turbosound loudspeaker system.

"While the hotel industry is not a new end-customer

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The company says that their ConTour Array bridges the gap between conventional PA systems and large touring line arrays. Whereas full-on line array rigs for smaller applications are not a cost-effective proposition, ConTour Array is the first of its kind to put the technology to more efficient use, and is applicable to a variety of sound reinforcement situations, including such medium-sized club gig

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With a choice of music heavily influenced by the UK club scene, the audio system needed to be versatile and high quality, in order to complement the rest of the facilities, and XTA's DP series processors were the choice of local audio specialists Reference Audio.

"The décor features heavy drapes and furniture everywhere," says Reference Audio's Brent Davenport. "Our brief was that we could not fly any loudspeakers above the dance floor. Everything had to be in a place th

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One of the attractions of the evening was the colour-changing floor. Located at the entrance and surrounded by three video walls, the floor was comprised of different panels that changed colours as a "Bond girl" danced on them.

The chameleon-like

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For the South American leg of the tour, twin Digidesign Venue boards for FOH and Monitor mixes, effects, in-ear monitoring and microphones were supplied directly by Clair Bros. At the FOH console was engineer Brad Madix who has worked with bands such as Psychedelic Furs, Def Leppard, Queensryche and Marilyn Manson. For monitor engineer Vish Wadi, this was his second tour with Shakira after previously having worked with Sting, Mariah Carey, and Madonna. Buenos Aires based sound reinforcement company Teddy Goldman supplied the PA composed of 48 Aero 38A along with 18 Aero 28A powered line

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To light the new casino, architect Patrick Cotter was appointed with a brief to rejuvenate the pavilion. The pavilion's glass structure meant Cotter had the added challenge of making the inside dark enough for a casino while taking care not to ruin the appeal of a the renowned glass building.

To achieve the desired effect, Cotter chose to create a second environment within the glass structure. This created a housing suitable for the internal casino lighting, while enabling the exterior to be lit in a way that attracts strong visual interest

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London Luton Airport generally has a 'silent terminal' policy and discourages excessive paging calls in its buildings. ADC's brief was therefore to supply and install a powerful but localised paging facility, situated within the specified area of the airport's main check-in hall. Additionally the Airport's own public address and voice alarm had to maintain priority over this paging system.

ADC chose the highly efficient Community R.25-94TX loudspeakers for their power and tightly controlled dispersion characteristics. Four units were installed at high level, set for 100V line usage and driven by a TOA amplifier with a TOA paging panel. The TOA amplifier is also interfa

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Located in Mechelen, M-Pro BeNeLux has been appointed exclusive distributor for Belgium and Luxembourg. Currently handling Community, Quad Industrial, Symetrix, MIPRO, KV2 Audio, Kind Audio, Australian Monitor, Xilica, Astatic, InOut and Violet Audio, M-Pro managing director, Mario Clabots, commented: "We are very happy to be appointed distributor for Audica Professional and feel this will be very complementary to our existing brands. The unique design and outstanding audio quality of MICROseries is perfect for our AV and BGM-focussed business where aesthetics, flexibility and ease of use are really important."

For distribution throughout the Russian Federation, Audica Professional has appointed Arsenal

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Pagliocca wanted to embrace good production values and was prepared to allocate a decent budget on lighting and sound. O'Neill was given a blank canvass in terms of design, and has produced an elegant lighting design to match and complement the contemporary interior created by Burns Design, also based in Glasgow.

The Classic Grand is located in Jamaica Street and houses two spaces (250 downstairs/550 upstairs), which present live music and club nights. The site has

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Associate lighting designer is Daniel Walker with Kristina Kloss as assistant lighting designer and Rob Halliday handling the lighting programming. "Generally, we were very pleased with the decision to use the MAC 700s," says Walker, "Especially once we put them in 'studio mode', which made them much quieter."

Rob Halliday, who has worked on both the London and Broadway productions, say

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The original installation took place in 2004 when Eden first launchedthe Time of Gifts concept, a series of seasonal events, which includedmusical performance and the creation of an ice rink for visitors toenjoy. An iDR-8 digital mixing processor was selected for its ability toprovide both sophisticated processing and mixing capabilities.

"The rink is a semi open air structure which posed two problems,"explains Steve Yelland from SPS Systems, who assists Eden with its soundand light requirements. "Firstly, the acoustics are difficult to manageas audio bounces off the ice and the sides of the dome. Secondly, therewere restrictions on the position of the speaker

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The show is an assembled choir of 5,000 school children (and 8,000 in Manchester) who are celebrating music in schools; concerts were staged at the NIA Birmingham, Sheffield Arena, MEN Manchester, Belfast Odyssey and ended at The Royal Albert Hall in London.

System technicians were Davide Lombardi and Adam Smith, who say: "This system never [fails] to amaze us, we are really putting it through its paces from rock and Roll with artists such as the Foo Fighters to 5,000 kids in the Royal Albert Hall assembled as a choir, the dynamics are absolutely fabulous."

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Located directly on Junction 5 of the M6, the ease and speed of transport to the local venues and beyond to the motorway network was a major factor determining the choice of site.

Director Paul Fulcher states: "The re-location was an inevitable and overdue requirement for the Midlands branch which is an excellent local service provider but will also prove to be a 'hub' location for further planned Rigging Services branches in the NW and SW of the UK, complementing the main office in London."

The new contact details are: Rigging Services, Unit E

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Bandit UK's executive officer, Lester Cobrin says: "DJ Shadow was an interesting show that involved great teamwork between lighting and video crews, which is becoming increasingly common. It was one of the very diverse selection of tours that closed a tremendous 2006 for us."

Hyne has been lighting DJ Shadow since June of 2006 when The Outsider was released, with the touring schedule ramped up for the second half of the year. The show is heavily visual-based. Hyne's lighting was thus designed to let the visuals have their place, while simultaneously complimenting and illuminating both artist and the stage set.

"The visuals are unique and extremely we

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This year's Technical Grammy Award presentation to Yamaha Corporation recognizes the company's long tradition of highly-successful recording products, including the REV series digital reverbs; the NS-10M studio reference monitors and recently launched HS monitors, as well the Yamaha DMP7, DMC1000, ProMix01, 02R and DM2000 digital mixing consoles.

"Yamaha has been

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Install @ PALME will be staging the inaugural Middle East Lighting Design Awards (MELDA), which represents a unique opportunity for the region to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the world's leading lighting designers. Winners of MELDA (which includes the Middle East Lighting Designer of the Year), will be presented at an extravagant Gala dinner held at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel in Dubai on May 21.

MELDA is endorsed by the world ren

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BSR E1.22 - 200x, Entertainment Technology - Fire Safety Curtain Systems, describes the materials, fabrication, installation, operation, testing,

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The Catalyst was specified by Neil Breakwell, the show's executive producer. He sought a flexible, cost-effective method to giving the show high production values and a contemporary, feel that provided an interesting background. He also wanted to be able to quickly introduce light, shade or other visual moods to the show whilst integrating with the music bed. Catalyst was initially recommended to him by TV LD Chris Rigby.

Breakwell approached PID to advise on and supply the Catalyst software, and they also provided a customised Macintosh compu

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Contracted by Clarion Events, PSL's Birmingham team, based at the NEC itself, provided all of the technical production for three main stages, from creating the specification for the stage areas and building them, to designing and providing all lighting, sound, and projection.

In the Bollywood Cinema area, which was run by BAFTA, some of Bollywood's leading stars were appearing, and PSL set up a 20ft x 15ft screen, using twin projection producing 24,000 lumens of brightness. In the vast space of the NEC's Hall 3a, capable of housing crowds of 5,000, PSL also fl

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The ground-breaking collection of atmospheric and provocative images are produced by a US-based team of visual artists led by Ben Coles. They are stored on DVDs and replayed live by Shadow via two Pioneer DVJX1's DVD decks, output to screen via an Edirol v 4 mixer.

XL supplied nine Barco RLM G5i projectors, complete with Barco 0.8:1 wide angle lenses to rear project onto the 24 ft wide set/projection area, which consisted of a top and a bottom screen - the top measuring 6ft high and the bottom 12 ft. The set and the screen surfaces were custom built and sourced via Litestructures.

Three projectors were positioned on the floor, and the other six each rigged in threes on the top and bottom rails of a truss upstage of the screen a

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With a completely new format and arena-style seating, the event was designed by Imagination with lighting designer Gurdip Mahal for BBC Television. The BBC's production managers, Karen Dorling, Jon Sweeney and John King, along with Imagination production manager Lee Wateridge, called in Vertigo Rigging to design and rig the enormous lighting grid required to cover both stage and audience.

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