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The diverse projects include a major radio station's fifteenth anniversary celebration event in Moscow's Red Square, a music TV awards show, a leading film awards event, and a national ball to acknowledge the country's best students.

ArtStage general producer, Alexey Spaskov, sourced the Color Web at the Prolight&Sound show when he was looking for a cost-effective, flexible LED visual effects system capable of dressing large stage scenic areas of TV shows, concerts and events.

Manufactured by Artistic Licence, the Color Web's lightweight design was a major factor in Spaskov supplying it for the set of Muz TV, Russia's annual music TV awards show. Held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, the Color

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"We manage a lot of festivals and chose to invest in iLive because it has a simple interface for analogue desk users and provides full DSP to every input and output. For instance, it is important that we have a graphic EQ across every output and can still use the onboard effects," commented SRD Group's MD, Stuart Roberts.

The orchestra featured a full complement of instruments including 20 violins, mixed by an iDR10 Mixrack and iLive-112 control surface at FOH, with a second identical system controlling the o

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Lighting for the 10 part series - due for screening in the autumn - is designed by Tom Kinane. The set was designed by Richard Plumb, and Svend Pedersen worked closely with Kinane in programming and operating all the LED, digital lighting and moving lights. Another important element of this visual equation was BBC vision controller Jim Murphy, and HSL's project manager was Sean McGlone.

Hosted by Dale Winton, the show features two teams led by Anton De Beke and Darren Gough. Each team has three lycra-clad celebrities who have seven seconds in which to jump through a tracking wall with variously shaped holes - or end up head-

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In over 30 years of working in the theatre, Alan's clients have included Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh, on productions such as Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Oliver. He was responsible for overseeing the lighting aspects of the VE and VJ celebrations in London in 1995 and in 2002 had a major role in the theatrical lighting support for Her Majesty the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

With many years of experience working in the Middle East, Alan has supplied lighting equipment and services to the Royal families of the United Kingdom, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and

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Mark Damon, director of Cosmic Electronics, comments: "The House and Terrace is a top venue, and one of south London's most up and coming clubs. Closely linked to Space in Ibiza - with monthly Space nights - the club had already experienced Void products, such as the Mycro 8s as DJ monitors in

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High End Systems (a new member of the Belgium-based Barco Group) fielded a total of 110 Axon media servers for the opening ceremony, helping to create the largest ever HD projection: in this instance, one clip covered a screen encircling the stadium, measuring 1,942ft (592m) long by 45ft (14m) high.

All effects were achieved in real time using the Axon media servers and projectors with 78 HES Orbital Heads. Four Wholehog 3 lighting consoles controlled the Axon media servers in the ceremonies, connected with 12 DP2000s. Another Wholehog 3 worked in the TV broadcast booth.

HES products created a number of non-stop visual effects

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Rascal Flatts wanted to get even closer to its fans - literally and figuratively - during its current 2008 The Bob That Head tour. So the group called on All Access Staging & Productions (Torrance, CA) to create a set that would make it easy to interact with the audience. "They basically had a T thrust on their last set, and this year they wanted one that would extend even further out into the audience," said project manager Mike Bell of All Access Staging.

Working with set designer Bruce Rodgers of Tribe Inc. and lighting designer A

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The Main Stage consisted of one of Serious's 15.6m, four-arch Supernovas - their new steel framed heavy load bearing structure launched earlier in the year. The Supernova offered 16m of stage depth, a trim height of 11m and six tonnes of weight loading per arch for sound, lighting and video production.

Serious also supplied all the stage decking for this, plus two 3.6 x 2.4m 'cowshed' extensions stage left and right, to house monitors and dimmer areas. They built 12m high satellite P

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Installed by Odense-based Billed & Lyd ApS, the 8 x 5 panels (5.12m (w) x 2.40m (h)) P10-FA screen is used as a background for the channel's newscasters and shows graphics relevant to the particular story being covered.

This is the first LED screen to be used as a backdrop by any Danish TV station. The installation followed a highly successful test last year, in which TV2 used a similar Lighthouse screen as a backdrop to its coverage of the country's parliamentary elections.

Billed & Lyd ApS has been using Lighthouse screens for two years and specified the P10-FA panels for their visual quality and quiet, fanless design, as well as the ease of front panel access.

"The

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Discussing the purchase, Stage Sound's managing director Phil Hurley said: "We have been using Trantec right from the start and it is a testament to their reliability that systems we bought over 10 years ago are still in use today. We constantly strive to supply the best for our corporate and theatre work, which means using the best audio equipment available. For us, that meant Trantec for quality, reliability, and especially value for money."

Aiming primarily at the corporate and theatre markets, Stage Sound realised they would have to increase their stock levels to keep up with demand. The first outing for

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The night view lighting effects of the Nest were designed in five sections. The main effects focused on the traditional Chinese colour of Red, while the lighting system displayed different dynamic scenes, adding in Gold and Silver.

The opening ceremony of the Beijing Games surpassed that of the previous Olympic Games - both in its high-tech application and the quantity of lighting fixtures used. Large numbers of computerised lighting effects were deployed to meet the needs of the

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Union flags have been flying across the site, and many Japanese fans have got into the spirit with British-themed outfits over the three-day festival. British acts including The Courteeners, Hard-Fi, Primal Scream and headliners Underworld shared the main stage with Japanese performers.

But while the event is unashamedly based on Glastonbury, Fuji Rock is a totally different experience. "It might be inspired by Glastonbury, but done in a Japanese way," says

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The new office, based right next to Old Street will feature a variety of demonstration units including Arcstream's Living Image interactive floor, 3D Plasma and the newest addition to the portfolio, the iBar.

Neil Dickinson of Arcstream AV comments: "We are opening a London base to make it easier for our agency clients to view the whole range at once and to enable them to bring clients to the offices too. This is our second office in the UK, and joins our international partner companies in both Spain and China, bringing the total to four, with another exciting new project also in the pipeline."

(Jim Evans)

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As in previous years, a team of sound specialists led by Ingo Haasch was responsible for the production. The centrepiece of the sound reinforcement design for 2008 was an Electro-Voice XLC 127DVX line-array system, with Electro-Voice TG-7 power amplifiers (equipped with RCM 26 modules) providing the power, and a Midas XL8 console.

Haasch commented: "With many sound engineers still unfamiliar with the XL8, the choice was greeted with some scepticism initially, but effusive approval thereafter. We all agreed that the sound this year was even better than last year."

(Jim Evans)

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Metallica were among the first major acts to specify the 4,500 watt followspot for its shows in Katowice, Poland, and Prague, Czech Republic (where eight units were used in both cities). The company also supplied 2,000 watt Super Troupers for the band's show in Bucharest, Romania.

At the other end of the musical spectrum, a Gladiator IV was used by Dutch television for a promotional video for Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

The major European festival Pinkpop, in Holland, also used eight Gladiator IVs for performances by the likes of Rage Against the Machine, Metallica and the Foo Fighters, as did another Dutch fe

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Selected from 16 European contestants aged no more than 19, the seven finalists from Slovenia, Russia, UK, Finland, Greece, Holland, and Norway performed live during the Gala Final which marked the opening of the annual Vienna Festival. The young musicians were accompanied by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Aleksandar Markovic, which also performed Leonard Bernstein's Candide overture during the interval.

Head of sound for the event was Adolf Toegel who was using the iLive system - comprising an iDR10 Mixrack and iLive-144 control surface - with an EtherSound module to record the whole orchestra live via a 64-cha

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The busy schedule for the evening included a pre-dinner drinks reception with background music, a three course meal, 12 award presentations, a charity presentation, a silent auction and entertainment from comedian Jimmy Carr followed by a live salsa band.

The production presented a number of challenges for Event Concept's head of AV Jamie Corteen and his team. Corteen said: "The venue is long, quite narrow and very tall. Essentially it's a huge Cathedral-like space built from Portl

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"Our staff was given a comprehensive briefing, so they knew what to be aware of and how any occurrence should be handled," explains AP's national sales manager, and head of security for the event, John Phillips. "We had a highly experienced management team on site and with the implementation of certain road closures in the area, the entrances to which were manned by our staff, the likelihood of unwanted factions gaining entry was immediately limited so the public could

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The expanded thirteenth V Festival sold out in hours and the public encountered a new look site, with five stages and a new main stage arena featuring headliners Muse and The Verve. Promoters Maztec worked with production management Nine Yards to reconfigure the event and accommodate the additional 10,000 fans.

Power Logistics has supplied the event since the company started, but this year Project Manager Dave Oxley worked particularly closely with production manager Claire Sampson planning the site months in advance to ensure the increased power requirements were met in all of the new areas.

Oxley managed a team of 14 staff who over the two week build period installed a huge temporary power infrast

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David Bissett-Powell, managing director, said: "Martin Audio felt the timing was absolutely right to reinforce our commitment to the Asian market by providing easy access to local support. He will continue to support DCH in their growth of the Chinese market at a time when they too are strengthening their Pro Audio team."

"Having worked with the product for many years, and being located in Hong Kong, Patrick was the ideal candidate to serve the region in a timely and efficient manner."

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In the business of producing DJ and music-related events since 1999, Bozsan was inspired to create Sunset Thursdays following a visit to Cafe Mambo in Ibiza, Spain, where hundreds of people gather along the coast near the seaside bar to watch the sun go down.

"When the sun disappears into the Mediterranean, the beat drops and the crowd applauds and cheers," Bozsan

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Having earlier worked on the digital conversion of Terminals 1 and 2 - where they specified dnp's 84in New Wide Angle rear-projected optical screens, offering 180° viewing - Pixel Inspiration has managed to overcome the space constraints presented in one of Terminal 3's three-hall check-in areas by specifying 11 front-projected dnp 84in Supernova screens - which are purpose-designed to work in high ambient lighting conditions.

All the dnp screens - now numbering around 200 throughout the airport - were supplied by dnp's UK distributors Paradigm Audio Visual, while Pixel Inspiration has standardised on Panasonic projection, using a

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Held in a luxury marquee erected adjacent to the Members' Clubhouse on the Friday evening of the 2008 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix weekend, the ball has always attracted the crème of the membership, including leading GP drivers and motorsport stars past and present.

This year's event was a special double celebration to mark the 80th anniversary of the BRDC and 60th anniversary of Grand Prix racing at Silverstone. The event was hosted by Martin Brundle and included interviews with top drivers, as well as a speech by BRDC President Damon Hill.

A.C. Special Projects, a sister company of A.C. Lighting, which is a Patron of the BRDC's Rising Stars Programme, was app

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The DP448 meant that Wooster did not have to reconfigure the front of house desk each day, as integrating into the available system was easily done by turning it into a glorified matrix mixer, providing extra EQ and delay settings.

"At one show, there were two front of house consoles and they refused to make mine the main desk," recalls Wooster. "So as a compromise we put both desks into the XTA and