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14 March 2016

"In Germany, American companies are often considered somewhat conservative and lethargic," says Rainer Blanck, Sommer Cable CEO. "They are not really interested in grooming the German market because it is tiny compared to the US-market. Intelix is different. They are a clearly structured, modern American company with products strongly adapted to the European market. Plus, their technology is of good workmanship, have a very ergonomic and attractive design, and are known for their dependability."

"Sommer Cable's

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This season, the lighting rig incorporated a heavy variety of the Clay Paky range including Alpha Spot 575 HPE, Alpha Beam 700 and Alpha Wash 300.

"It's the first time I have used the 700 beams which were astonishingly bright and so versatile. I used just the 700 beams for quite a few numbers throughout the series, they really made the show," says Williams.

The rig also included Martin LC Panels with P3 Controller. Various LED Lights completed the look - including LED Par 36, 2 Lights, iCove QL and Chroma Strips.

(Jim Evans)

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More than 20 hardware, software, DSP and FPGA design engineers are being sought for positions in Kidderminster and Manchester.

The announcement comes just six months after the acquisition of Midas Klark Teknik by the Music Group. The move follows a declaration at the time of purchase to invest substantially in Midas product development.

"I am incredibly excited about the way that we can now develop the company, thanks to the Music Group," says John Oakley, managing director of Midas Klark Teknik. "We have already released a host of new products this year and the pace is about to increase. I want to hear from any R&D staff who would like to join us on our journey, particularly if they have experience of digital audio mixer design. W

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It is not only a restaurant, rather a "new and revolutionary concept". Four gastronomic islands offer specialties from different cuisines and various happenings are staged throughout the day. The necessity imposed by the aesthetic choices combined with the need for quality sound led to the request of high-performance professional products.

Each area of ChiMiama feature 18 wide band EDGE25PW loudspeakers, hung on the walls or on the pillars, combined with two Smart SMTV15SA subwoofers.

The whole system is electronically controlled by a Source AMIX4Z 4-zone mixer and an active AS025 cro

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Located in Durham, N.C., ENTTEC Americas houses the US sales and warehousing operations for the Melbourne-based ENTTEC. The US operation's large showroom displays its variety of lighting control systems for both training and demonstration purposes.

"We started our US operation five years ago. Since then we have seen steady growth every year," says Nicolas Moreau, ENTTEC's founder and managing director. "The next logical step was to open an office and factory space to further support our North American customers; a location where we would offer training for our existing product line and our new LED-based products. I'm really excited by this new project and confident our customers will

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14 March 2016

The Church Committee sought Rasch's advice, "My career has been in providing audio and communications systems. I worked with Informations Teknik in Copenhagen for some years, and now work with Get Visual, a specialist with particular expertise in video in my home town of Arhus. My primary recommendation was for a d&b audiotechnik PA system; speech is

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14 March 2016

The city government's original 'master plan' in 2006 involved structural restoration, but Mayor Mauricio Macri decided on a total facelift across the board costing US$ 100 million - the most expensive heritage restoration in Argentina's history - in order to improve both the building's structure and to bring it up to date technologically.

Ernesto Diz was in charge of the lighting system's bid specification. Diz, founder of Estudio Diz, was a professor of lighting design at the Buenos Aires University, and is the lighting and stage designer of several buildings in Argentina and around the world, including Teatro Argentino de la Plata, Teatro Municipal de Bahia Blanca,

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Festival season is always a busy time of year for Colour Sound Experiment, with an increasing number of headline acts on its books, it needed to rapidly scale-up its product portfolio, to include even bigger spots and popular lighting effects such as GLP impressions. Let down by its High Street lender, Colour Sound Experiment turned to Azule Finance, the specialist sound and lighting finance provider, to source a rapid and competitive quote.

Haydn Cruickshank, MD Colour Sound Experiment explained: "

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The event featured various Christ Embassy ministers who delivered blessings, prayers and sermons to the crowd. Speakers included Pastor Anita and Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. A live worship band and a choir of over 1000 voices accompanied them. The whole event was also recorded for DVD.

Entec's heavy schedule demanded some nimble logistics, so they brought Simon Tutchener onboard as technical production manager for the project, to integrate their services into a vast XL Video set-up, Hawthorn set design and four rigging teams from Summit Steel. Eat To the Beat and Stage Miracles completed the cast. Tutchener was also the anchor between

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This year as last, the festival's sound production was the responsibility of a team from rental company MSE Tontechnik. As well as the variety of the acts performing, the medieval venue - a 60 x 20m courtyard - also posed challenges for the crew of technicians. "It's no easy matter here," commented MSE chief Johannes Sch

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Stuart Gibbons comments, "It's a pleasure to have secured Simon Caldwell and the ISS team's installation skills in the new Tüchler/Le Mark project. To be able to offer the new, exciting and innovative range of PVC Projection Screens available from Tüchler and have them installed by ISS means our customers will receive superior service from enquiry to installation."

Caldwell and his highly respected team have worked on a number of entertainment projects including installation of stage engineering equipment for Disney Cruise ships, Thesselonika Concert Hall and many projects for system integrators based within the UK .

(Jim Evans)

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ARX managing director Colin Park finalised the distribution agreement at the recent Palme Exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City. "Pave's Jeffrey Lim, Robert Yeo our Singapore regional director and I finalised our distributor agreement during the HCMC Exhibition," says Park. "Pave Systems have been active

in Vietnam for 10 years and ARX is excited to working with Jeff and his team to develop the market for ARX products in the Install, AV and production sectors."

Along with ARX, PaveSystems also represents other lines including Kramer, Serriavideo, Wolfvision, Clockaudio and LifeSize Video Conference System in the region.

(Jim Evans)

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"As the brand was becoming more internationally recognised, this development was an obvious consequence," says Münz. "Hong Kong is the perfect hub to reach out to the Asian markets."

Situated on Hong Kong Island, next to the Central Business District, the main focus will be on pan-Asian sales and support - not only for the growing roster of GLP LED moving head and control products but also G-LEC visual technology.

Explaining the rationale, Münz continues, "Faced with growing sales spread throughout Asia, it became increasingly important to keep a closer eye on this

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During recent refurbishments, between 2004 and 2007, a completely new ventilation system was installed, the chairs on the ground floor and first floor were replaced, and on other floors they were repaired and the walls were painted in a different colour. The theatre was partially re-equipped with some new audio and video elements, and an Ethernet ring added, as well as new loudspeaker and light cabling. However no changes were made to the acoustics and no new public address installation was planned.

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The festival each year welcomes productions, participants and professionals to Scarborough from across the UK, to create a week of performances, discussions, training and over 180 workshops covering every area of theatre and including technical theatre. Technical director, Nic Watson, explains, "On the technical side, we take on a crew of about 60 young people, selected from hundreds of applicants, who build and manage the stages for the performance grou

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Jakarta-based DSS (Don Sistem Suara), a music and sound equipment rental house that supplies much of the pro audio equipment to music, audio, and broadcast professionals throughout Indonesia, was contracted to provide sound reinforcement services for the two Slash performances. Donny Hardono, the firm's owner, compiled a massive D.A.S. Audio sound system for these concerts and turned the mixing controls over to producer/engineer Ken "Pooch" van Druten.

In Surabaya, the D.A.S. Audio sound system deployed by the DSS crew consisted of 32 Aero-38 line arrays flown 16 elements pe

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Architecture Biennale is being directed by Kazuyo Sejima, 2010 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and a member of SANAA, one of the world's leading offices of contemporary architecture. She also serves as curator of the International Architecture Exhibition.

This year's Architecture Exhibition is titled People Meet in Architecture and runs from 29 August- 21 November 21 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale, as well a

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The ESTA Rock Our World Awards were created to honour groundbreaking achievement by its members and to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of the technology and the designer or integrator who applies it in a real world environment. The finalists for the third annual Rock Our World Awards are:

Inverter Pac - Motion Laboratories Inc.

LightConverse 3D Show Platform - LightConverse Ltd.

RevEAL LED Color Wash - Prism Projection, Inc.

RSC Lightlock - Total Structures, Inc.

PRG Series 400 Nodes & Ethernet Switches in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest - PRG

Shanghai Expo Opening Ceremony - MA Lighting International GmbH

Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre -

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Senior pastor at Bloemfontein, David Kennedy, was eager to replace his existing system with QSC's and when a friend offered to buy the previously installed rig (including sub), he said it was just the break he needed.

"I wrapped up the deal and ran to Toms [QSC's South African distributor] to buy my new K12's. As soon as I had installed them the difference was like night and day; even people untrained, or unobservant of such things, could tell immediately the difference in quality."

David Kennedy had been introduced to the K12's by Nico Greyling, who looks after the Bloemfontein branch of Toms Sound and Music.

Said Greyling, "I have known David for a few months, and on many occasions we have discu

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HSL has been working with C venues since 2005. The project was co-ordinated between Mike Oates at HSL and C venues production manager Richard Williamson, who also co-designed the C venues spaces with artistic director (and international lighting designer) Hartley T A Kemp. The lighting supply included the provision of generic and moving lights, dimming, power distribution and trussing, plus a technician - this year Ellen Connolly- for the fit up and get out periods, who trained the C venues crews who ran the shows for the month-long duration of the Festival.

This year, HSL invested in the new Avolites Power Cubes to supply various C venues spaces with a sol

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PSI has been involved with the event every year, seeing it grow steadily since its inauguration in 2008. This year the promotion was a collaboration between Shine Productions and MCD. The 6000 capacity outdoor concerts were all a success despite the unpredictable northern Irish weather at this time of year.

PSI's Sean Pagel created a production design that covered the requirements of all eight headlining acts - Kasabian, Paolo Nuttini, Florence & The Machine, the Stereophonics, Soulwax/2 Many DJs, Paul Weller, Biffy Clyro with special guests The Lost Prophets, and David Guetta, who brought the eight shows over two weeks to a tumultuous close. All of these brought the

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Carlos Cunha, owner of Boomerang, comments, "We were looking for an established and structured company that could offer a wide range of products to fulfill all the different market demands.

"We chose Proel because it is very active in this field with a 360° offering. Boomerang has also recently gained exclusive distribution of Turbosound for Portugal, therefore it was quite a natural choice for us to turn to Proel to complete the range of products to satisfy our customers' needs."

(Jim Evans)

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Gracing the Orange stage this year were 74 impression 90 units, nine impression XL fixtures and 32 impression 120 RZ zoom units, giving both the house, and visiting designers, a wide array of effects and powerful bright beams at their disposal.

Danish based Comtech supplied the lighting systems for multiple stages, including the main Orange stage which plays host to the biggest bands appearing on the bill. At the helm of operations for Comtech was lighting designer Lars Nissen, and assisting visiting designers at front of house was Mikkel Bach Nielsen.

"The GLP impressions were such a hit last year, that i

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"Looking at what The Brits stands for - the 'must-see' spectacle - it was clear that moving to a state-of the art venue like the O2 was an obvious evolution," said Brit Awards chairman David Joseph.

Down The Bookies - The odds of Paul Weller winning the Mercury Prize have been slashed after a bookmaker took an "unprecedented" rush of bets from people backing him to win. William Hill dropped its odds from 20/1 to 1/10 over the weekend after what it called "extraordinary" activity. Its spokesman said m