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E/T/C London created a projection concept and suggested that they harness the flexibility and power of video for the first time on this event, on which E/T/C has worked for producers Jack Morton Worldwide for the last five years. With LG Electronics coming onboard as a new sponsor, they wanted to up the production values, making the show something extra special and more spectacular this year.

E/T/C's Ross Ashton says: "It was another milestone in giant video projection for E/T/C London, and probably the UK's largest New Year video installation to date as well as a great opportunity for us to move the company forward."

E/T/C's Richard Porter designed the technical instal

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Having first heard the system at the 2008 ABTT Show, Nicholson had been keeping a keen eye on the product's early success in the installation market and felt there was great potential for VQ as a world class live system. Following some informal discussion of the possibilities, Tannoy welcomed Nicholson's extensive expertise to the table and he began consulting with their engineering team on adapting the existing VQ Series to suit the touring market.

Within a very short period of time Tannoy had responded to Nicholson's ideas, resulting in a new and radical departure for the co

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ARX managing director Colin Park commented: " I have been discussing the possibilities of working with Sennberg in Sweden with them for some time, their sales team felt our range of signal processing products was a very complementary fit with the other lines they currently represent, especially our newer USB and analogue interface and dynamics products.

"Sweden has always been important for ARX, it's one of northern Europe's trend setting markets. We're looking forward to working with Stephan Segermark and his team at Sennberg to consolidate ARX's position in the Swedish market and to reinforce to their customers the state of the art performance that ARX products can offer them."

(Jim Evans)

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Bintliff states, "It's always a pleasure to work with HSL - their kit, crew and service is second to none, and they also came up with a very good deal."

The trussing structure comprised of four 5m pre-rigged 'fingers', each fully loaded with 24 PARs, and each length also forming an integral architectural element of the design. The fingers fanned out from a central point at the back, and in between them were three triangular pods. Each pod was rigged with four Robe ColorSpot 575E AT moving lights, four JTE PixelLine LED battens and a string of ACLs.

The impact of the pods was maximised by being moved in an

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The new facility includes three identically kitted out broadcast studios, using Soundcraft mixing consoles - these house the College's 'Synergy FM' radio station, operating with an RSL over a restricted ten-mile radius. Meanwhile, on the top floor, two high-end studios for recording and mixing and a flagship commercial studio still to be specified will join four heavily-used project studios (also equipped with Soundcraft). All support a wide range of industry standard software, available on both Mac and PC.

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The 30,000sq.ft facility celebrated its grand opening with a slate of activities last month, the culmination of The Recording Academy's and the Grammy Awards' milestone 50th anniversary year.

"We are thrilled to be working with Audio-Technica," said Robert Santelli, executive director of The Grammy Museum. "The ATH-M30 Headphones will allow visitors to the museum to experience our exhibits in a richer and more exciting way."

(Jim Evans)

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This is the fourth year Stage Electrics has worked on behalf of the Greater London Authority to mark the New Year. Stage Electrics supplied MAC 2000 Wash moving lights in each of the 32 pods of the London Eye, search lights on floating pontoons (eight each side) and a wireless DMX control system. Lighting designer for the event was Durham Marenghi, who has previously worked on the lighting of the London Eye at New Year.

As with previous years, the importance of installing lighting units into all 32 pods quickly and efficiently was paramount to the succe

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The Morning Line's unique structure, outwardly resembling the blackened remains of a cathedral or historic monument, contains a combination of sensors, intelligent cameras, and digital controllers, along with some 41 Meyer Sound MM-4XP self-powered miniature loudspeakers to form a multichannel, interactive sound system. The

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Sennheiser's Mark Saunders, Dave Hawker and Sam Davison were all at the O2, offering RF equipment and technical support to the audio team from Wigwam Hire and the show's production company, Production North.

Nearly all of the performers on the night used Sennheiser ew 300 IEM G2 monitors, with The Script, Will Young and Alphabeat using wired evolution vocal mics and the Pussycat Dolls, Sugababes, Anastacia, Lemar and The Saturdays all using Evolution SKM 935 radio mics.

Rihanna used her own decorated Sennheiser SKM 5200 handheld mic with MD 5235 capsule, while the Capital Radio presenters all employed SKM 5200s with Neumann KK 105 heads.

Geoff Muir from Wigwam Hire says, "After t

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"SAE is the world leader in audio and creative media training, and we are very excited to have our MC Control and MC Mix chosen for their state-of-the-art institutes," stated Martin Kloiber, Euphonix CEO. "The power and flexibility of the Artist Series is the perfect match for SAE's innovative teaching approach, and provides students with cutting-edge media controllers that can be used with virtually any audio or video application."

"We are delighted to be installing Euphonix MC Control and MC Mix media controllers in so many of our campuses around the w

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Kev Harris of HD Promotions comments, "Our main aim with every event at the Live Nation venue is to push the limits with all lighting equipment and production. Martin was a pleasure to have on board with the Gatecrasher event."

Richard Bishop, MD of Gravesend Sound & Light adds: "This has been one of the most spectacular light shows we have done for a while. It was fantastic to work with HD Promotions and Martin and we definitely look forward to more of the same in the future."

24 of the Martin products were used in the trussin

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In The Money - Madonna's Sticky and Sweet show was the highest-earning tour of 2008, taking $281.6m (£193m) worldwide, according to music trade publication Pollstar. It also became the eighth highest-grossing tour of all time in North America, Pollstar said.

Celine Dion's

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This two-day course is designed for entertainment technicians at a basic to intermediate level. The session will be held 16 and 17 March at the Duke Energy Convention Centre. Training will cover current control protocols including Remote Device Management over USITT DMX512-A and Architecture for Control Networks. This course qualifies for ETCP Certification Renewal Credits for ETCP Certified Entertainment Electricians.

The Control Protocols course will be taught by ETCP Certified Electrician and ETCP Recognized Trainer Milton Davis, of Doug Fleenor Design. Davis is a member of the Control

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As its name suggests, The Byre Theatre started life as a semi-derelict cow-shed, cleaned out and set up by a local theatre group, whose audiences sat on cushions on the floor. With the support of donations and local authority funds, a permanent theatre opened in 1970. Its latest incarnation, built by architects Nicoll Russell Studios of Broughty Ferry, was completed in 2001.

Named after its founder, the main theatre in The Byre is the A.B.Paterson auditorium, with a seated capacity of 220. Stage Electrics has installed the M-400 front-of-house console at the rear of the auditorium, with two S-16

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To date, this is the most of either type of Robe's new generation of digital moving lights to be used on a single show.

When Gearhouse South Africa won the contract to supply full technical production for Miss World and Dunn was asked to design lighting and visuals for the show, the opportunity also presented itself for him to incorporate some of the new Robe fixtures in his design.

He worked closely with set designer Dewet Meyer to develop a big visual picture that stamped a contemporary African flavour on the performance space. The resulting elegant 40m wide, multi layered spherical set was based on an African jewel and

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On 1 November 2008, in collaboration with the Garden's landscape gardener, an illumination programme, Garden Play with Light commenced. Two concepts define this Japanese style of illumination: 'Static Vision' in which the Garden radiates a dreamy atmosphere, and 'Dynamic Vision', a series of colour changing programmes that shift with the season. Some programmes are synchronised to music and offered as an optional service to customers on special occasions like weddings or birthdays.

Lighting design is by Reiko Chikada of Reiko Chikada Lighting Design. Chikada and her team chose I

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Until now, rental projects have been the focus of G-LEC's business in the UK, but Lars Wolf, managing director of G-LEC Europe, wants to begin to put more emphasis on the company's new architectural products, saying, "Chimera, which we launched at PLASA this year, is a strong product for us. We already have 700sq.m installed in the BMW Museum in Munich, and we are getting a lot of enquiries. We need a full time sales office in England and, as we have other partner companies in Europe and the Americas, it made sense to form G-LEC UK."

As well as managing sales, G-LEC UK will also support the company's existing UK rental partner, Creative Technol

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At the 2008 ETC/ABTT Christmas party, held at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 15 December 15, Light Relief Trustee John Simpson accepted a cheque for £5,000 from ETC's general manager, Matthew Brookfield - part of a £12,500 commitment made this time last year. Thanking ETC for its continuing generous support, Simpson, who is also chairman of White Light, said: "There is no doubt that the economic downturn will affect our industry, magnifying the problems that can be triggered by illness or injury. While Light Relief's funds cannot be used as unemployment benefit, I am sure that the calls on our resources will increase in 2009."

For ETC, M

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XL Events' Rich Rowley says: "This is the fourth year that I have been involved in this project and every year brings a new set of challenges. This year we were looking at big rear projected images with the addition of a 'lifesize' giraffe and elephant to contend with. As you can imagine some pretty creative keystoning was needed to allow the beasts to move around backstage."

Ade Moore is looking after the video for XL Events, which consists of a 32 by 24ft centre stage projection screen being fed by a triple stack of rear-projecting Barco ELM R18 'Director' machines fitted with 1.2 wide angle lenses.

These receive content programmed into two Coolux Pandora's Box digital m

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The building is under new management of the Sabatini Group and home to the Virtus Bologna A Series basketball team, who play all their home games there. The Sabatini Group also plans to expand the general use of the venue - which can hold up to 13000 people using mobile grandstands - to host major concerts, shows, conferences and other live sporting events. This necessitated the need for a flexible all-purpose trussing system from which to hang sound, lighting and AV equipment.

As this was such a high profile project, Bologna-based Decima Italia designed, supplied and installed the three trussing grids themselves. The main one measures 22 x 20m and has a weight loading of 40 tons, while the two side grids each measure 12 by 4

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"Although we only took delivery of the ORB very recently, we have already arranged for it to be used at the closing ceremony of Dubai Film Festival and at the Shakira concert in Abu Dhabi," says Nick de Fay, sales manager LED Products for IBS Decor.

"We feel the potential in this market for ORB is excellent," he continues. "In addition to Dubai Shopping Festival and Summer Surprises, the region hosts a large volume of concerts, exhibitions, promotions and corporate events. There is a high demand for sponsorship for these events and this is where we see ORB coming into its own.

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Folene, a graduate of Adelphi University and most recently the inside sales manager for Strand Lighting's New York representative, will join Pete Borchetta (North East regional manager) and Bobby Harrell (lighting designer and controls specialist) in the new facility.

The Strand Lighting NYC office is located at: Fourth Floor, 267 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016. Telephone: +1 212-213-8219. Fax: + 1 212-532-2843.

The new office will feature a training area and a collection of equipment for hands on use of its products. Pete Borchetta comments: "I am excited to be in our new location and to be sharing an office with another Philips company Color Kinetics. T

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Dave Rat, founder of Rat Sound Systems Inc, spoke about the decision to acquire the system: "Over a decade ago, I went down and listened to the L'Acoustics V-DOSC and heard something entirely unique. It's amazing sound clarity and line source configuration changed the industry. Through my work as sound engineer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I have mixed on every sound system on the market, and the K1 is the first time I have heard

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This follows the confirmation by Royal Parks that Live Nation successfully retained the contract which extends their 10-year history there. Over the years Showsec has supplied a range of event security services for live events including the Wireless and Hard Rock Calling series of festivals.

Showsec operations director Simon Battersby comments: "We are delighted to be returning to Hyde Park. It is the jewel in the crown of London's outdoor event spaces, attracting prestigious events with high profile artists and visitors. I enjoy the challenge of delivering a consistent high standard security service at a range of very different events, working alongside the best production teams in our industry."

Live Nation's festival director