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USA - Stage rigging designer and manufacturer J. R. Clancy has joined the ranks of the fastest growing private companies in the United States, by qualifying for Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 list.

Since its inception in 1982, the Inc. 5000 has become one of the most respected indicators of entrepreneurial success among America's privately held companies.

The list ranks companies by percentage of overall revenue growth over a three-year period. In addition, companies that make the list are ranked by industry, metro area, revenue, and number of employees. J. R. Clancy enters the list at #3891.

"Becoming an Inc. 5000 company is a solid indication that our corporate strategy is working," said Mike Murphy, J. R. Clancy president. "First, we became an ISO 9001-registered company and changed our processes dramatically to do business more effectively. At the same time, we

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Bulgaria - Night Flight is one of the latest additions to Bulgaria's emerging and vibrant nightclub scene, boasting one of the highest specification audio-visual systems yet seen in any club around the country's bustling capital of Sofia. Located in the heart of the city, Night Flight opened in December 2009, with the remit of providing a top class venue for both club nights and special promotion events such as live performance shows, pop music record launches and cabaret shows.

The ultra-modern design extends beyond the decor to an impressive array of AV technology including Tannoy VQ loudspeaker system, powered by Lab.gruppen's amplifiers, as well as a host of lighting, special effects and giant LCD screen.

The 1000-capacity venue is split over two levels, with a VIP balcony overlooking the main floor and performance/stage area below, and a total of four bars between the lev

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Hong Kong - A range of DPA miniature microphones were used at Jacky Cheung's recent Private Corner concert in the Jockey Auditorium, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

The DPA 4099S 4099T instrument clip mics were used at the concert for trombone, trumpet and saxophones, while a grand piano was miked with 4061 miniature omnidirectional microphones.

Mike Wong, Cheung's monitor engineer, chose the cardioid 4099s for their focus on the instrument as well as isolation and rejection from adjacent musicians. "In this concert, we were striving for a natural and uncoloured sound and therefore really appreciated the musical accuracy of the 4099s," he says.

Adds front of house engineer Daniel Kwan, "Besides the superior sound quality, we like DPA microphones for their mounting and positioning possibilities. The 4099 series has mounts and clips for a wide range of

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UK - Visuals designer Neil Trenell used his grandMA2 full-size console and a grandMA2 light for backup to control video at London's Roundhouse venue for the month long iTunes Festival, which ran throughout July.

The Roundhouse shows were produced by W1 Productions. Over 60 artists were performing on 31 consecutive nights, all being recorded and made available on iTunes, offering up a high profile mix of international artists from a mix of musical genres.

The line-up included the Scissor Sisters, Faithless, Ozzy Osbourne, Biffy Clyro, Paloma Faith and Rolando Villazon and many more, all of whom required a distinct look and identity for their shows. The imaginative and intelligent use of video was a large part of creating a unique presentation for each night.

It is the second year that Trenell has been video designer for the event, for which he also supplies the video f

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South Africa - Pretoria-based Blond Productions is supplying lighting - including Robe moving lights - sound and AV to the new Big Brother Africa All Stars series, which sees 14 of the most controversial, popular and interesting housemates from the first four BB Africa series' battle it out for $200,000 and their place in the annuls of reality TV. The BB house and studios is at Sasani Studios in Balfour Park, Johannesburg, South Africa.

It's the third time that Blond has supplied technical services for the Big Brother phenomenon, produced by Endemol South Africa for DSTV Africa, and lighting for the studio that hosts the opening and finale episodes plus the weekly eviction shows is designed by Peter Rieck. The set was designed by Dewet Meyer.

The studio is a small space, narrow and tall, and the lighting was required to be flexible and multifunctional, with every single

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UK - This summer, Four-piece JLS played four UK open air shows, with AP Security ensuring that their excitable fans kept cool heads.

The four shows took place at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, Exeter's Escot Park; Peterborough Embankment and Quex Park.

The first show was part of the Forestry Commission's annual series of live concerts, for which AP's contract for safety and stewarding was recently renewed for a further three years, while the latter three shows were promoted by Beat- up- music, with whom AP also has a long working relationship.

"JLS are the current number one boy band and we're aware that there can be some hysteria from the audience," says AP national sales manager John Phillips. "But we always do extensive planning for any event, we had numerous advisory group meetings with all interested parties and we were 100% confident that we coul

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Germany - The Roth Challenge triathlon in Franconia, an event sponsored by the German radio station Bayern 3, has attained cult status. This year, 2,500 triathletes competing individually and 500 relay squads from over 50 different countries lined up at the start, with more than 120,000 spectators lining the route to cheer them on. DJs, live music, the 'Finish Line' party, and a closing firework display added to the fun, creating a party-like atmosphere among spectators that contrasted strangely with the solid determination of competitors in the throes of the gruelling eight-hour ordeal.

The need to provide spectators with intelligible live commentary and information on the intermediate placing and times of the various teams and athletes, as well as music before, during, and after the competition, meant that the quality of the sound reinforcement was of crucial importance to the

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Singapore - Marina Bay Sands worked with Luminous EMC Singapore to organise an impressive opening celebration event involving 1,100 media and 2,500 VIPs.

The event included a spectacular outdoor concert featuring performances by Grammy-Award winner Kelly Rowland, Broadway's Jersey Boys, regionally acclaimed artiste JJ Lin, and Singapore Idol 2009 first runner-up Sylvia Ratonel.

Working closely with Luminous, JM Rental provided a 127m2 Lighthouse LED screen as the backdrop to the integrated resort's Event Plaza. The screen comprised 15 x 11 panels (15.2m x 8.36m) of Lighthouse R7-ER LED panels, with a pixel resolution of 1920 x 1056, which treated guests to full HD resolution images.

Before the live concert got underway, the celebrations began with the inaugural World Championship Climb to the Sands SkyPark, a competition for seven teams of climbers from

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Slovakia - The popular TV Markiza dance show competitionLet's Dance features a Martin Professional visual solutions package that includes LC Series LED panels and MAC luminaires.

A Martin Maxedia Broadcast media server, complete with video clips, still images and integrated animations and optimised for High Definition playback, supplies graphics to horizontal rows of backdrop LC video panels.

Media content onto the LED panels is driven through Martin's P3-100 System Controller, an advanced video signal processor that allows LED screens to be treated like lighting instruments through direct DMX control of brightness, colour, pixelmapping and more. The LC Series panels used on Let's Dance were upgraded with LC Plus Series electronics, which adds many of the LC Plus features, including P3-100 compatibility.

Projected across the dance floor are powerful beam looks

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UK - 5 Star Cases has invested in another Thermwood Model 40 CNC machining centre to help keep pace with its healthy order book, which has experienced "phenomenal sales" in 2010 following a consistent year in 2009.

Phil Bailey, 5 Star's chief engineer explains: "Once we'd made the decision to invest in a third machine, plans were initiated to ensure the smoothest possible installation with the minimum disruption to production - which took some logistical juggling as we have been absolutely flat out busy throughout the summer."

The existing two machines were moved, along with the necessary electrical and air services, allowing the third Thermwood to be secured in place.

Bailey concludes: "Having completed the installation and commissioning of the latest machine, 5 Star now has even further capacity to produce cases and foam inserts that require CNC ma

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USA - Having laid claim to the moon with a Declaration of Lunar Ownership in 1966, Geneva, Ohio is a small city with a history of thinking big. So it's no surprise that the local GaREAT Sports Complex, operated by the non-profit Geneva Area Recreational, Educational, Athletic Trust, is an ambitious undertaking.

Started just two years ago, the multi-sport recreational facility on a 175-acre campus already encompasses more than 450,000sq.ft of indoor fields, courts, and tracks for year-round practices and competitions, as well as an outdoor stadium with a field and a track. Sound throughout the facility, which also includes dining and meeting rooms, has been handled by Paladin Professional Sound of Valley View, Ohio, working in close cooperation with manufacturers' representatives C. L. Pugh & Associates of Brunswick, Ohio.

With two decades of experience serving clients includin

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UK - Le Mark's heavy duty PAL Road Case Labels fare being utilised by Cambridgeshire-based lighting and support service, Elstree Light & Power.

"We've been using Le Mark's labels on all our kit for more years than I can remember," says ELP's Jon Smith. "They stick to almost anything and they stay there too. Our flight and road cases are transported throughout the world and as with most things in this industry, the labels need to be incredibly heavy duty otherwise they just don't last.

"Being able to re-use them is essential, we just write on the contents of the case and the production they heading for, when we're done Le Mark's Label cleaner wipes away the ink and they're ready to go again."

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UK - White Light teamed up once again with lighting designer Phil Supple and Midas Productions for The Mill Project, which used lighting to bring life to the landmark Tower at Cranfield's Mill in Ipswich in Suffolk.

The Mill Project was part of the Ip-Art 2010 arts festival organised by Ipswich Borough Council. As part of the festival, Midas Productions asked Phil Supple to develop a centrepiece lighting project, building on the collaboration the two have enjoyed over three years of the Northumberland Lights project as well as the Iconic Burns project in Scotland, both of which were also supplied by White Light. Phil Supple comments, "The only parameters offered were a desire by the Council to create a focus of interest on the town and the festival, and on the waterfront in particular."

Supple's proposed scheme involved using lighting to animate and draw attention to

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The Netherlands - The Digital Media Centre (DMC), one of Europe's leading providers of channel playout services, TV distribution and content delivery; has upgraded its intercom system with a comprehensive communications system from Riedel Communications. Riedel installed a Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom installation with seamless VoIP telephone and professional mobile radio integration at the DMC premises in Amsterdam.

The main requirements for the installation were the integration of VoIP telephones and enough connections for the previous system's 4-wire signals. Furthermore, the transition to the new system needed to be completed as fast as possible to prevent downtime.

At the core of the system is a Riedel Artist 128 mainframe providing connections for 40 4-wire signals via Riedel Artist AIO client cards. Due to Artist's modular approach the system can be easily expa

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UK - Lake has announced an upcoming series of online seminars aimed at providing an in-depth insight to their new LM 26 digital audio loudspeaker processor and the Lake Controller software.

On Wednesday 1 September TC Group's VP of international sales, Miguel Hadelich and the Lake team will present a detailed look at the new product. Hadelich will be on hand to field questions and "take you through the ins and outs (literally) of Lake". There will be two webinars on the day, to cater for varying time zones of an international marketplace, one at 11am GMT and the other at 5pm GMT.

Lake was one of the first brands to integrate Dante with its products. The webinars offer an opportunity for professionals working in the concert sound, stage mixing, broadcast or recording studio industries to learn more about using Dante within Lake and in combination with other Dante enab

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USA - Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory, which has educated some of the world's finest musicians and whose curriculum also has an extensive professional audio training component, recently purchased and installed an entire new 5.1 surround monitoring system from Genelec.

The new system consists of an L-C-R array of three Genelec 8260A Tri-Amplified DSP Monitors, and a rear pair of 8250A Bi-Amplified DSP Monitors. All five monitors are mounted on stands surrounding the control room's console. The system is completed with Genelec 7270A Active DSP Subwoofer. The Conservatory also purchased a Genelec AD9200A 192kHz 8-channel converter. The Genelec monitors and converter were sold by Greg Lukens at Washington Professional Systems.

The Peabody Conservatory's director of recording arts and sciences, Scott Metcalfe, comments: "The studio is used for recording, mixing

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UK - Prism Sound and SADiE will be sponsoring this year's Sounding Out conference, which takes place at Bournemouth University from 8-10 September, 2010.

The event, now in its fifth year, provides a forum for discussion and interaction between sound artists of all kinds. This year's theme is Soundworlds - Sonic Arts, Film and Radio, which will bring forward some convergent works and writings in this area.

Conference organisers Professor Seán Street and Dr Alain Renaud said, "Sounding Out is an international event, being held at Bournemouth Unviversity for the first time. As the major forum for discussion and interaction between sound artists of all kinds, it is attracting talent from around the globe, offering perspectives ranging from the world of music, radio, film and sonic arts.

"We are delighted that Prism Sound is on board as one of our key sponsors.

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UK - Mike Kenny's adaptation of the classic children's tale, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame at the York Theatre Royal has proved to be the stage hit of the summer. Basking in the glow of rave reviews from the national press, the spectacular production has been billed (amongst other things) as a 'technical triumph', thanks in large part to a daring design which called for the complete transformation of the existing theatre space in order to create the interior of Toad Hall. Structural aluminium systems specialists, Litestructures, were called in to help with the metamorphosis.

The design of Toad Hall, which was the brainchild of designers Lydia Denno and Catherine Chapman, necessitated the transformation of the traditional proscenium arch configuration into an in-the-round space. To achieve this, all of the seating was stripped out from the stalls, and Litestru

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USA - BSR E1.32 - 201x, Guide for the Inspection of Entertainment Industry Luminaires, is available for public review at http://www.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php through 25 October 2010. The document is intended to provide guidance in the inspection of stage and studio luminaires used in the entertainment industry to evaluate their safety and any needed maintenance.

An employer could write his own safety inspection procedures from scratch as part of his duty to provide a safe workplace, but borrowing from or adopting the final version of this document might be easier and lead to a better set of procedures.

The public review is over when the 'Review End Date' shown on the website of October 26, 2010 starts. Comments should be submitted before then.

Reviewers also are requested to look for protected intellectual property in the document. ESTA does not in

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Germany - Lighting designer Marcus Krömer specified 330 Chroma-Q Color Block 2 LED fixtures to provide stage scenic elements backlighting for a large corporate event featuring some of Germany's most popular bands.

The event was held at Cologne's LANXESS arena, one of Europe's largest all-purpose venues and host to concerts by an impressive range of international music stars.

Production management for the event was by Placet Die Veranstaltungsgesellschaft. Stage lighting, audio and video supply was by PRG Cologne, with set design by John Stillwell. For the third year running, Marcus Krömer and Marcus Bossdorf provided the lighting and video content design for the all-day event, which featured a conference in the morning, an awards show in the afternoon and a concert in the evening. Splitting into two teams, programming was 24/7 for a whole week in the arena.

Krömer needed

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Oman - The 45-day-long Salalah Tourism Festival (STF 2010) in Oman opened with a spectacular pageant staged by some 2,500 performers. Every year the festival draws thousands of tourists from Oman and the other Gulf states. This year's programme was specifically created to coincide with celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of Oman's renaissance under His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

For the opening, lighting designer Ali Saab chose an MA control system consisting of two grandMA full-size consoles, three MA video stations, three MA NSP (Network Signal Processors) and MA Digital Dimmer Touring 12 2.3kVA modules (Socapex EF 419). The lighting rig featured 56 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 575s, 40 Alpha Spot HPE 1200s, 20 Alpha Beam 1500s and 20 Alpha Beam 300s as well as SC15 (15 mm) and SC20 (20 mm) LED-screens, totalling 150sq.m of surface.

For the concerts in Al-Muroje Th

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UK - Robe launches a major new green initiative - Think of the Future - Consider Nature- at PLASA 2010 to underline its ongoing commitment to developing and producing genuinely cutting-edge, innovative and energy saving products.

Using Robe's latest products, the booth lightshow will consume 30% less power than before, and look equally impressive, says the company.

There will also be no less than seven newly launched environmentally friendly moving light and LED products on stand 1-F47 from the Czech Republic based manufacturer.

Says MD Josef Valchar, "Robe has already been operating a strong green policy for several years, we are not just jumping onboard a current trend, and now is the time to push this philosophy to the next level". He adds that Robe intends to keep at the forefront of developing sustainable technologies and encouraging everyone to think s

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UK - Interest is building in this month's AV Networks 2010 conference, which is set to throw new light onto the business and technology behind networking protocols.

According to conference chairman Roland Hemming, the day is aimed at three types of attendee: "Those who are just learning about networking and are keen to find out more; those who are using networking technology already but want to explore some of the more complex issues; and those who aren't necessarily interested in the nuts and bolts of the technology, but are keen to find out how it is going to change the economic model of the industry."

Hosted by Installation Europe and Pro Sound News Europe, the day will present a rounded picture of AV networking from a variety of perspectives. A panel of end users and venue representatives will discuss customer expectations of networking. A panel of

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Cambodia - Singapore-based ProAktiv Systems supplied and installed an EAW speaker system with Powersoft amplification at the Elements Club and Lounge in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.

The club area, where the music is typically a mix of hip-hop, house and funk, features a pair of EAW Avalon Series DC2 three-way loudspeakers horizontally mounted above the raised dance floor. Four SB1002 dual-18-inch subwoofers provide additional low frequency coverage down to a floor-shaking 28 Hz. Powersoft Digam LD3004, D2002 and K3 amplifiers provide the power to the club sound system. Two ultra-compact EAW UB82e loudspeakers powered by a Powersoft LD2004 amplifier ensure even coverage to the DJ and VIP areas.

Chandan Mahtani, managing director for ProAktiv Systems, stated, "This is the only club in Cambodia that can boast to be the best in the country. The owner did not comp

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