Titled Requiem Pro Pace, this was a major multimedia production and took its main references from a requiem Mass. Song titles were similar to the Liturgy: Benedictus, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, etc, with the lyrical themes being those which dominated the Polish society 25 years ago - fear, denunciation, censorship, st
The Derbyshire venue is one of Britain's leading receiving theatres, presenting around 350 performances every year. Originally opened in 1903, Buxton Opera House was lovingly restored to its former glory in 2001 and this most recent improvement to the 938 seat theatre will ensure that the latest technology helps make each performance one to remember.
Northern Light's scope of work focused mainly in the backstage area and included the installation of a brand new ETC Sensor dimmer system - incorporating a total of 192 ways of dimming - and rewiring of all the performance lighting circuits.
Security is a key concern for the school, and to upgrade the small paging system in place, it turned to Staines-based installers SDD Sound & Light to provide a campus-wide system, which could be linked together to provide pre-recorded announcement and other advanced security features across the three sites.
SDD chose Bosch Praesideo, the world's first fully digital public address and emergency sound system, because unlike traditional PA systems, which
Digigram's CEO and president Philippe Delacroix is confident that this new partnership will continue to reinforce the company's presence in the fixed installation market in France in addition to providing an avenue into the broadcast market: "A significant part of Digigram's product range is aimed at the broadcast market, therefore it is imperative that our distributor is also operational in that market s
Built at Germany's Meyer shipyard, the 2,400-guest capacity vessel boasts an industry first - a four-lane bowling alley; and two NCL firsts - a rock-climbing wall and two Deluxe Owner's Suites. Norwegian Pearl features all the elements of NCL's dynamic modern Freestyle Cruising fleet including multiple restaurants, bars and lounges, boutiques, luxurious accommodations, family friendly areas and the latest in relaxation and fitness.
Guests enter the foyer with its glimmering icicled motif. In the lobby, across from the reception area is a vast, ceiling-to-floor LED screen - the second largest installa
Tech Event will feature keynote presentations from industry giants such as Cisco who will outline their vision for a converging world; the event will also host an exhibition of over 30 key manufacturers in the AV/IT industry, offering the opportunity to experience the spectrum of products covering all aspects of the displays' market, the organisers say. It will focus on profiling emerging technologies, emphasising the on-going convergence and synergy with the IT sector.
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The show is a roll out of the Dancing On Ice series that took the UK's ITV by storm. A celebrity and a professional skater pair up and hone their dancing skills on the ice, with 14 hopeful couples starting the series. There's a studio-based judging panel to offer their professional opinion, but the winners are actually voted for by the public via SMS. The Slovakian show is staged at the Koliba Studios in Bratislava, directed by Tomá Eibner.
Kubanka, a designer of many high profile Slovak T
ARX signal processing and interface products used included Sixgate 6-Channel Optical Noise Gates, Afterburner dual-channel dual-band compressors and ARX DI Plus and DI Plus 2 direct boxes. For the 400-capacity venue, six Martin Audio W8LM and two WS2Aloudspeakers were driven by Crest Audio power amplifiers with a Crest Audio console out front.
The two sold-out shows featured covers from Jamiroquai, Arcade and Audio Slave, as well as Nira originals.
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Music and sound design are key to creating the conservatory's atmosphere. For each display, sound designer Jason Rauhoff of Goes To Eleven assembles and masters a music programme, as well as sound effects. Original sound designer Jona
Hoare Lea specified the lighting, with the concept of backlighting the wall behind the large text, whilst simultaneously illuminating the wall with LED projectors from across the street. Specialists Architen Landrell were drawn in to carry out the entire installation.
A total of over 100 Tryka Strip Module Optic IP67 in a variety of lengths were used on the project, with 27 Tryka IDS-4s - the Intelligent Drive System capable of running large numbers of LED fixtures w
Andrew Stone from Stagetec Distribution, the Compulite UK distributor for the past 11 years, comments: "After many years of distributing the Compulite range in the UK we have been looking for some time into ways of increasing sales in the UK market. After carefu
The installation consists of seven MA Digital Dimmer Racks, each with 72 circuits, distributed throughout the Concert Hall. This rack distribution went away from the traditional central dimmer room design. A large saving was made with the cabling infrastructure, as the racks are now closer to the outlets. There are four racks with four Network dimmer Processors (NDP's) in the ceiling, two behind the side lighting positions each with a back up NDP and one in the basement with a back up NDP. Each rack has a redundant processor capable of controlling 144 dimmer circuits.
QPAC's lighting ma
Since purchasing Wells Fireworks, the company is now also manufacturing and using Wells Pyrotechnics on all its tours, as well as distributing the Wells range worldwide. The company is looking for more distribution partners around the globe - any enquiries should be directed to the company via the web address below.
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Debuting in the US this year, the Falcon has already featured in high profile events such as the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards, and now, the Oscars. Alpha One of Oyten, Germany, designs, constructs and produces a range of professional high power lighting, specializing in xenon, metal halide and LED products. TMB is the worldwide distributor for Falcon and other Alpha One products.
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Located in the Shibuya district, home to the city's leading music, cultural and arts venues, Shibuya-AX has a long tradition of being on the cutting edge of sound technology. As such, it attracts leading domestic and international artists and is well-known by Japanese PA companies, sound technicians and music industry personnel. Back in 2004 the sound crew at Shibuya-AX began to discuss a future upgrade to digital technology. Head of sound, Mr Tsutomu Hashimoto, drew up a list of criteria, which first and foremost included the traditional Midas sound quality, as well as Ethernet networking capability and analogue-friendly operation - the latter of which wasn't available on any other digital console. Having heard about Midas' pla
Stage Audio Works will be stocking standard pre-built boxes and splitters, custom solutions are also possible. Stage Audio Works will also provide technical support, spare parts and training for Rubber Box products in Southern Africa. The new Powercase from Rubberbox offers industry professionals in Southern Africa a revolutionary design in 19" racking systems.
Stage Audio Works will be showing all the Rubber Box products at the Mediatech Africa tradeshow in Johannesburg in June this year.
Gustav Barnard for Stage Audio Works says: "Rubber Box's products offer revolutionary and high quality power distribution
Traditionally used in bar, club and hotel installations, Design Company KXK, used the fittings to build a high-tech interactive stand using Pulsar Chroma's & Pulsar control - a unique application opening up design opportunities to the exhibition industry.
The brief from Trelleborg, a World-wide industrial manufacturing company producing thousands of components for the automotive and aerospace industries, was to showcase their range of products in a way that people hadn't seen before.
The stand was revealed at Trelleborg's Investors AGM in Stockholm. The key was to be interactive, using LED and innovative technology to bring the stand to life in colour. Eight boxes each containing real products were constructed using tec
Panda Hire Ltd provided and installed the various Martin products that were used to light the event, and included MAC 500s, MAC 600s, MAC 250 Entours, MAC 250 Washes, MX-10s, Atomics Strobes and two Jem smoke machines.
Peter Davies from Panda Hire Ltd, was the lighting designer for the event, he says: "The MAC 500 and MAC 600 units were ideal for the stage lighting for this event and as such were
Briefed to create a glitzy grand entrance to the red carpet evening at London's Royal Opera House, the Vertigo team designed and built a 660sq.m. roof on Bow Street, using Vertigo's UK-exclusive Libera Flat Truss system to create the roof and supported on 68 Thomas Supertruss legs. The structure had to be designed to allow access room for the public to buildings on Bow Street.
The temporary
The video is the second single from the band's number one, million selling album Beautiful World, and sees them performing in an 1920's style musical featuring top hats and tails, and a host of showgirls.
Production design was by Lisa Hall, with direction by Justin Dickel of Streetlight Films. When Hall wanted a unique visual element to provide a 'big look' for the song's uplifting finale, she contacted entertainment technology distributor A.C. Lighting. After reviewing a number of LED solutions at A.C.'s head office, the production team were convinced that the Chroma-Q Color Web 125 offered them the most powerful solution for their creative vision.
With only a single
An exclusive DPA distributor since 2001, Amptec, is well placed to expand its geographical footprint.
"We have enjoyed a long and fruitful business relationship with the very professional TransTec organisation in Holland, and wanted to simplify the distribution by having only one distributor handling the Benelux region," says DPA's director of sales and marketing, Morten Stove.
Amptec managing director Bart Willems, says: "O
"We identified the LS9 as a 'killer product'," says Blitz's Richard Rogers. "It does everything we'd want it to do, it's really well-priced and so versatile, and it fits into our conference market very well indeed. The first four desks we bought more or less entirely on Marquee's recommendation, and, after a few shows, we thought we'd better buy another consignment before they ran out!
"Fortunately, Marquee Audio is always able to source products in time for our demanding needs, even a hot product like the LS9."
Blitz Sound is gradually replacing all i
This major undertaking was funded by Scarborough Borough Council, the Yorkshire Forward regional development agency and the European Regional Development Fund. The 1,924 capacity Grand Hall, at the heart of the Spa Complex, has already reopened for business with brand new production lighting, audio and video systems.
Aside from the new, installed lighting rigs, most of the new production systems have been fligh
The announcement follows on from the original sponsorship agreement between the two parties which saw Trigger using the Formula Sound FF-6000 mixer at the many large-scale dance events it was involved in throughout the UK. Trigger promotes its own individual blend of bass-driven Electro Breaks dance music and rates the quality of the sound reproduction as an absolute priority.
At the time of the original sponsorship deal, Trigger representative DJ Kosmikneil commented that his organisation
