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14 March 2016

Charcoalblue will discuss the design concepts that resulted in this critically acclaimed new performance space for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Andy Hayles, managing director of Charcoalblue says, "The Royal Shakespeare Theatre's transformation project, which was completed last autumn, was a singular development in world theatre. The space embodies a host of new techniques and technologies. The auditorium has been designed, without compromise, to create

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Travis used a visualizer to pre-empt programming in between working at the Oppikoppi festival and television shoots. "I tried to keep a clean look with smooth transitions," said Travis who maintained the rock fused with theatrical feel. "The gig went very well and the pre-planning and assistance from the Grand West staff made it pleasurable. I worked with Sean Caie who is a super helpful guy."

The rig was flown from fly bars in the venue, with six Robe ColorSpot 700s on the deck for beam work. "We kept a simpl

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"I can get a moving light working within eight seconds with the Vista T2," he declared. "I plug the light in, hit the cue, drag in the number, ask what number it is, put the number where it goes, press intensity and there it is working in eight seconds! I challenge anyone to get a moving light working that quickly - especially when they're a sound guy like me."

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

The announcement comes after months of speculation about Guitar Nation, which was scheduled to take place in late November at Wembley Stadium, whilst Live Culture was to launch next April.

"Guitar Nation, organised by Clive Morton's Norgaard Media, has been officially scrapped, with Morton blaming adverse trading conditions," say reports. However, they go on to add that Morton's former partner Graham Butterworth, who had been hired to sell stand space for Guitar Nation, claims that he has not been paid by Norgaard Media and left the company at the end of June.

Cunningham, who left Mondiale Publishing to work with Morton on the Wembley-based Live Culture, also says he has no

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The show action takes place on the Esplanade down below in the centre of the Tattoo's completely new £16m amphitheatre, which is installed for the first time, with new seating tribunes, VIP Boxes, a special projection platform, a large corporate hospitality area and improved site lines all round.

A purpose built climate controlled projection control room is also part of the new design, along with lift access for the third floor of the production and FOH control areas at the back of the seating stand.

In practical terms, the elevator has speeded up the projection get-in enormously, as the equipment no longer has to be craned into place.

The Tattoo also has a new chief executive and producer, Brigadier David A

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Hilton on Park Lane Hotel

The "Grand Ballroom" (1st floor)

22 Park Lane, London W1K 1BE

The Awards will be held during PLASA 2011 on the evening of Sunday 11th September 2011. A drink reception will commence in the Grand Ballroom (1st floor) and will be followed by an elegant evening - with a three course Italian buffet and wines, a statement reads. Guests by invitation only.

(Claire Beeson)

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14 March 2016

Founded in 1974 and based in Petaluma, California, Furman manufacture a wide range of AC power conditioning and distribution products. With a focus on AC power technologies the company offers professional grade multistage protection, line filtering, extreme voltage shutdown, true RS voltage regulation and power factor correction products.

Jands CEO, Paul Mulholland, states, "I have long admired the innovative products developed by Furman and Jands are proud to be associated with the company. In recent years I have been made aware of our customers growing need and demand for mains protection and management products. It is well known Australia power leaves a lot to be desired and professionals whose livelihood depends on equipment continuing to work will be well served by the products o

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14 March 2016

The festivals included events in Belgium, Corsica, France, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Switzerland. Mika and his band had an array of Sennheiser equipment on stage and Front of House engineer Craig Pryde took the opportunity to put the new MK4 through its paces.

"I've used Sennheiser for a long time and I use their equipment with other artists, including Alexandra Burke and The Last Shadow Puppets," says Pryde. "I was looking for a large diaphragm condenser mic and so I approached Sennheiser UK's Mark Saunders, who suggested that I try the MK4."

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This takes the company's line array capability up to 24 TTL33-A (or two 12-element hangs) and 12 TTS28-A subs - with active 2-way TT25-A's providing front fills.

Formed in July 2003 following a merger of two local companies, ESL has been specialising in sales, hire and installation ever since. But according to director, Paul Galley, the key part of the business is production and the touring/live events industry.

The pooling of the two companies' respective inventories covered the immediate requirements at the outset but they soon started standardising on key components and increasing stock.

"We had some RCF ART products and the smalle

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Supplied by Sennheiser's UAE distributer Venuetech, the equipment includes 10 HMD 281 PRO single side headsets, seven ME 66 short shotgun microphone capsules with seven K-6 battery / phantom power modules, seven sets of HD 212 PRO professional stereo headphones, and six ew 122-p G3 lapel wireless microphone sets.

"Sennheiser equipment is very much the standard for the broadcast industry throughout the world," says Venuetech's technical director Elie Khairallah. "The ew 122-p G3 lapel mic system allows for very convenient camera work in electronic news g

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14 March 2016

F-6 product, in combination with the Mitsubishi HD processor, has been delivered to the following: Stealth 7 LLC in Russia; Smart Choice Ltd from Portugal; Visiontools GmbH from Germany; Irish-based Mongey Communications Ltd and the XL Video Group, which is headquartered in Belgium.

Pixled's Cross Rental Network is a dynamic European based business strategy formulated to enable forward-thinking AV and visuals rental companies to seamlessly cross-rent equipment for larger projects.

General manager Bart Van der Beken comments, "Cross rental is definitely a way forward. Everyone is impressed with the build quality, the fast and easy rigging and the superb Mitsubishi processing option on the F-6, plus all the ex

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The companies will unite to demonstrate the capabilities of the software to peers and industry professionals as part of the Education and Learning Programme at the forthcoming PLASA exhibition at Earls Court, London, from 11-14 September.

Backstage Academy specialises in training for the live events production industry and will be offering courses on Isadora, an award-winning graphic programming environment that facilitates interactive control of digital media and real time manipulation of digital video.

Isadora expands on the traditional media-server concept by offering interactive control over video and audio. Notable users include the Royal Shakespeare Company and America's experimental theatre company The Wooste

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The 9000 capacity Sensation Ocean of White show was presented by the Netherlands based dance organisation that has made Sensation a global nightlife phenomenon. The O2 show was sponsored by Smirnoff and the venue transformed into a pure white, theatrical experience of epic proportions for the evening, complete with extensive water effects surrounding the circular stage set which had two 20m catwalks leading off either side plus a dazzling line up of lasers, pyro, inflatables, aerial artists and a lightshow.

The project was managed for LML by Anthony Norris, working with Ceire Deery as the event assistant. Norris comments, "It was really refreshing to see a l

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14 March 2016

The two-day event, to be held 22-23 February 2012 at the Renaissance Austin, Texas, continues to attract a growing list of high-profile exhibitors, who see the event as an opportunity to reach a regional market of customers and network with fellow exhibitors.

Confirmed exhibitors include GLP German Lighting Products, Daktronics Rigging, Clay Paky, Total Structures, High End Systems, Chauvet, Philips Color Kinetics, A.C.T Lighting, Doug Fleenor Design, Strong Entertainment Lighting, and Secoa, with many more expected to follow.

In addition, PLASA Focus: Tech - a recently announced audio, video, and lighting workshop and concert - will be held in tandem with PLASA Focus: Austin 2012. Th

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Teams from all of AC-ET's specialist product divisions will be there to discuss the large, multi-million pound stockholding of over 200 leading brands available from AC-ET's High Wycombe and Leeds offices for worldwide dispatch to over 80 countries - as well as in-house filter and cable manufacturing facilities and wide range of consumables - backed up by an emergency evening and weekend delivery service.

Lighting:

The A.C. Lighting division of AC-ET will showcase the new GLP Impression Wash One and Spot One high powered LED spot and washlight moving heads. The latest mo

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The historical basilica is visually stunning but its vaulted ceilings and abundance of hard surfaces create acoustical challenges for audio engineers during religious services. Desiring to eliminate as much reverb as possible and increase speech intelligibility, Our Lady of Victory recently installed a Renkus-Heinz Iconyx digitally steerable line array system for enhanced sound quality.

Explains John Burckhalter, pro audio/video project manager at Ronco Specialized S

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DHL has been established to supply LED technology and other lighting products to rental companies on a dry hire only basis. The company aims to support such businesses in fulfilling their rental demands and assisting them in the event of short falls.

Acknowledging a gap in the market for a hire company that could support businesses with their rental activities, Rob Merrilees, Nic Tolkien and Paul Rees, combined their experience to launch DHL.

The DHL portfolio of products currently includes a range of Philips Color Kinetics fittings including the ColorBlaze TRX RGBAW and ColorBlaze RGB battens and ColorBlast TRX RGBAW wash lights, and the Power

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14 March 2016

This follows the massive success of their third album, The Suburbs, which topped the charts in many territories on release including the UK and US, and is shortlisted for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.

The tour originally kicked off last year in the US, project managed for XL by Phil Mercer out of the LA office. In the UK and Europe, it is being managed by Jo Beirne.

Richie Stembridge is the visuals designer and video director. The actual stage screen design is a collaboration between him and LD Susanne Sasic, who also created the set concept.

Onstage, the main screen is constructed from 49 panels of Pixled F15, which for all the indoor shows is covered by a custom silver spandex skin which diffuses the imag

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Off Broadway - Broadway shows were cancelled on Saturday as New York braced itself for the full force of Hurricane Irene to strike. They included Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana at Radio City Music Hall and War Horse at Lincoln Center Theatre. "The safety and security of thea

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Sound quality is a major consideration for all who perform at the Dongpo Theatre, which is considered a cultural and entertainment landmark. This is why a new sound reinforcement system drawn from the catalogue of D.A.S. Audio was recently placed into service.

Ms. Jie Han, Gold Coast Company's project manager, comments, "As the largest theatre chain in China, the Gold Coast Company operates over 50 theatre productions at its 14 theatres

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"The CTA's have received a fantastic response from the local market with the brilliant sound that the system produces and the production crew rave over its ease of use and versatility" said Andrew Sorrill, audio specialist at ProAudio. "We are expectant that the HKAudio brand will have a greater presence in the live sound market of Southern Africa because of this immense reference."

Tawanda Munyawiri, operations manager at Omalaeti Events has enjoyed HK Audio's sound and versatility through the years, having worked on all of their products, including the concert audio HK Cohedra Line Array system when he was in Zimbabwe. "With HK Audio products, I hav

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14 March 2016

The Palace of Culture and Science (Pa?ac Kultury i Nauki, or PKiN) is the tallest and most dominant building in Poland, constructed between 1952 and 1955 as a gift from the Soviet Union to the people of Poland. The 231m-tall building currently serves as an exhibition hall, office complex, radio and television broadcasting centre, plus it holds cinemas, theatres, museums, and a conference hall for up to 3,000 people.

The main attraction of the Palace of Culture is its observation deck on the 30th floor, from which the whole city can be viewed on a clear day. In 2010, a new lighting installation on the building was begun in order to revive the city skyline with a colourful centrepiece - a project developed with financial support

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Formerly of duo, DeepDish, Dubfire's latest solo technical set up comprises the Xone:DB4 at the centre of two X1 controllers running Traktor and an iPad controlling Maschine and Ableton.

"The DB4 has been amazing. It's portable and lighter than other mixers and allows me to travel with my full DJ set up, including portable speakers, so I can even play with different parameters and experiment with my set up and build a good FX library in my hotel room. It's been fantastic," explains Dubfire.

"It's much easier having access to functions like FX and filters on the actual DJ mixer, whilst external devices are inside the software. I'm using the delays a lot because they sound so good, and I'm able to change the delay time so quickly. The A&H filtering, of course, i

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Todd Roberts of Visions Lighting saved the day at L.A. Rising by substituting the Platinum Beam 5R, after the festival's original lighting proposal turned out to be too costly to execute. "I had a proposal for the L.A. Rising show that called for a lot of larger, higher-powered fixtures. But a week out, th