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USA / Italy - Outline S.r.l. and US subsidiary, Outline North America, LLC, have entered into an agreement with Production Resource Group (PRG).

The centre of activities for this new relationship will be at PRG's expansive Las Vegas facility, the hub of PRG's touring sound business, where a fully complemented turn-key system of Outline GTO, GTO-SUBS, Butterfly, MANTAS, DBS18-2 Subs and recently introduced LipFill-0182, will be inventoried and staged for immediate deployment for PRG's most demanding production and touring requirements.

A joint launch of the GTO and Outline partnership is planned to coincide with the upcoming LDI Show and Parnelli Awards in Las Vegas. A Stageline Mobile Stage, with a full Outline GTO rig, will be set up on the grounds of the PRG complex. Transportation to and from the PRG compound from the Las Vegas Convention Center will be provided as a courte

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The stakes are always high when a band of Coldplay's stature hits the road and creating something visually new and exciting is a constant challenge, but it is one that production designer Paul Normandale is more than equal to. With the band's 2012 tour taking in both arenas and stadiums, Normandale has once again chosen an array of Martin Professional fixtures, including the new 1000 W MAC Viper Profile, to add to his lighting arsenal, which enables him to create a fresh, dynamic look and feel that is a real crowd pleaser.

Normandalehas been working with Coldplay for the past five years, first on the Viva La Vida tour and now on that promoting Mylo Xyloto. Lighting vendor for the European leg is Lite Alternative, while Upstaging handles the North American leg. On the arena tour, the Martin inventory included 46 MAC 101, 32 MAC 700 Profile and 13 MAC 2000 XB Wash. For the

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USA -The Wildcats' Basketball season kicked off with a sensational start as Kentucky's Big Blue Madness united the past and present in one phenomenal light show provided by Bandit Lites.

The scrimmage took place on 12 October 2012 and marked the start of the University of Kentucky's basketball season. Tickets for Big Blue Madness sold out in 35 minutes, and crowds poured into the 23,500 seat Rupp Arena hours before the 7:30 p.m. show.

In an unparalleled opening, the packed arena watched as the entire basketball court itself transformed into a 94 feet by 50 feet screen.

Aaron Swetland of Bandit designed the lighting programme which highlighted a projection of the University of Kentucky logo exploding into light particles while banners expounding the university's eight championships filled the court. Sport commentaries reverberated to the crowd's deafening screams as they watc

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UK - Laurence Connor's contemporary depiction of Jesus Christ Superstar brings Andrew Lloyd-Webber's show to some of the UK and Ireland's biggest stages: this touring production, which kicked off on 21 September and runs until the end of October, features former Spice Girl, Mel C, comic singer Tim Minchin, and former Radio One breakfast show host, Chris Moyles, and plays host to a number of sizeable venues including Liverpool's Echo Arena, Wembley Arena, and Dublin and London's respective O2 Arenas. With full touring arena audio supplied by SSE/Canegreen, right in control at monitor position every night is a DiGiCo SD7.

"My reason for using a [DiGiCo] SD7 is simple, really: it is literally the only console that can handle a show like this," states monitor engineer, Seamus Fenton, who runs 110 channels from the desk. "Being a theatre production, there are so

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UK - Castle Rent, which is owned by Castle Group Ltd, has launched its all-new on-line equipment hire service (www.castlerent.com). Dedicated to test and measurement instrumentation, this new website offers a wide range of products from numerous manufacturers and covering subjects from airflow to weighing scales and anemometers to vibration meters.

Simon Bull, managing director of Castle Group said, "Rental is more and more of a desired option these days with capital budgets being squeezed from all directions in the face of work that still needs to be done! We are delighted with the response to our new site and are pleased that we can offer such an extended range of equipment. People who hire equipment from us tend to come back time and time again, so there must be something in it!"

Renting equipment for a short duration has clear advantages in cost saving, flexibili

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UK - Less than a month after its release, WYSIWYG R29, the new, upgraded version of CAST Software's industry standard pre-visualisation suite, is already being used to stunning effect on high-profile shows around the world. Among them is the BBC Radio One Teen Awards, which took place at Wembley Arena this month, featuring a visual design by award-winning LD Tim Routledge.

Broadcast live on BBC Red Button, with highlights shown the following evening on BBC Three, the Radio One Teen Awards included a live music bill that read like a who's who of up-to-the-minute pop music. Headliners One Direction were supported by the likes of Little Mix, Ne-Yo, Conor Maynard and Taylor Swift, drawing a crowd of 10,000 screaming teenage fans.

Routledge, who has used WYSIWYG extensively in recent months, having been lead lighting programmer for the opening and closing ceremonies o

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UK - Michael Grandage CBE, will open this year's TheatreCraft event by giving a welcome speech at 9am on Friday 30 November 2012, at the Royal Opera House.

TheatreCraft, which is now in its seventh year, is the essential free event for anyone aged 17 to 25 looking for a non-performance career in theatre. Participants can explore topics including producing, stage management, wig-making, lighting, marketing, theatre journalism, sound, directing, costume design, playwriting and designing.

The event on Friday 30 November at the Royal Opera House will welcome more than 1,000 young people from across the UK and runs from 9am - 3.30pm. Participants will have the chance to take part in a choice of over 60 workshops delivered by skilled theatre professionals from, meet more than 40 exhibitors in the bustling marketplace and visit the 'Ask the Experts' zone which offers one-to-one advic

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UK - Adlib's sales and installation division supplied an L-Acoustics Kara sound system to Scarborough Open Air Theatre, North Yorkshire, UK, which featured concerts by JLS, John Barrowman, Olly Murs, Alexandra Burke, Russell Watson and many more in its 2012 Summer Season.

Liverpool based Adlib were contacted by Scarborough based P&L Sound & Lighting to present a joint proposal to supply and service the venue with audio equipment, which was put out for tender by Scarborough Borough Council.

Once their bid was successful, the two companies also collaborated closely with L-ACOUSTICS and the Council to ensure that all their sonic requirements were met.

The 6500 capacity Open Air Theatre in Northstead Manor Gardens is the largest such venue in Europe. It was originally built in 1932, and reopened in 2010 after a £3.5m refurbishment which includes a full stage and roof syste

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UK - The British Olympic Association's (BOA) operational headquarters during London 2012 (Team GB House) was complete with private hospitality area, a special lounge designed to allow athletes to spend time with their family and friends, a press conference room, broadcast suites and back office operations centre for sports and news analysis.

Situated opposite both Olympic Park and Stratford Station - Team GB House was designed to provide a relaxing haven for nearly 550 athletes, who represented Great Britain at the Games, with secure access from the village.

The Centre benefited from an advanced digital communications infrastructure, designed and installed by multimedia systems integrator, Netpractise Ltd., who have previously delivered innovative audio visual solutions for the BOA at their London HQ.

All principal audio tools in the key areas at Stratford were from the Harm

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USA - "A sound system at a church is really only a tool to help us do what we do. Sing. Pray. Teach. It's just that this new d&b audiotechnik sound system allows us to do all of that so much better than anything else we've used." For worship pastor David Lewis and the rest of Living Hope Church in Piperton, Tennessee, it was essential to create a worship space that would enhance their services and create an atmosphere for passionate praise, "This sound system uncompromisingly allows us to serve our community and focus on the ministry."

The congregation at Living Hope Church has been together since 2006. Without a building of their own, most of the events were held in school cafeterias and gymnasiums. This year, Living Hope was finally able to create their own space. After years in acoustically challenging venues, the church understood that sound had to be one

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South Korea - Dureraum, also known as the Busan Film Centre, is the dedicated theatre for the most renowned Korean Film festival - the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), and is used as the venue for both opening and closing ceremonies. It is located in Centum City in Haeundae District in South Korea. The newly constructed architectural wonder was built on a 32,137sq.m site, utilizing a design by Coop Himmelblau of Austria and Heerim Architects & Planners of Korea, both whom were selected in an open competition.

The centre is composed of three buildings - Cinema Mountain, PIFF Hill and Double Cone, the building varies from four to nine stories high with a combined total floor space of 54,335sq.m. The essence of Dureraum's beauty is its super-sized roof known simply as the 'Big Roof'. It is the longest roof of its kind in the world, about one and a half times the size of a

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Belarus - Jennifer Lopez's dynamic Dance Again World Tour came alive in Minsk with the help of a super-bright rig of Clay Paky luminaires.

Lighting designer Sean Burke's vision was for a fast-paced lighting show to match Lopez's dance-inspired music and passionate choreography - and it was met by Belarus'-based Ilya Piatrouski of FE Belimlight whose inventory of Clay Paky fixtures stepped up to the challenge.

"Arriving in Minsk, all luminaires needed to be sourced locally, so we were relying on local supplier Belimlight to come up with the goods," explains Burke. "The system was to comprise of Clay Paky units in the majority. Given the quantity of fixtures required for the performance we had a mixture of different types of Alpha profile and spot fixtures. Having not used them many times I was looking forward to seeing what they could do."

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UK - Rebranded event production specialists, VisionEvents (formerly called Sound+Vision) has become the first company in the world to invest in the new WU14K-M WUXGA platform from Christie.

With a 30-year pedigree, and offices across the UK (after starting out in Edinburgh), VisionEvents purchased two each of the Roadster WU14K-M and Mirage WU14K-M projectors as the major component of a £200K investment, to help maintain their status as a world class production company.

Said managing director, Chris Montgomery, "We've always been impressed with the Christie products as they design specifically for the industry. Their after sales service is excellent and our team really benefitted from the training they organised for the products we recently purchased. The projectors have already assigned to events last September."

The new Christie projectors were quickly put

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Europe - Lawo console brand Innovason has just wrapped up a successful European seminar tour entitled The origin of sound. Driven by Lawo's Marcel Babazadeh, himself a tonmeister and accomplished classical musician, the aim of the tour was to explore the secrets of creating the best possible sound for classical music with a live PA system. Innovason and Lawo teamed up with Neumann and Sennheiser to present six workshops in six different venues across Europe.

"The 'origin of sound' can be interpreted in many different ways," explained Babazadeh. "On one side is the equipment, which includes the musical instrument itself as well as the technology used to transmit the sound. On the other side there is the musician and the sound engineer who express the music through their use of this equipment. The ultimate goal, of course, is to satisfy the audience. This can

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USA - PLASA Events has announced the line-up for the next three editions of its North American regional trade show series. Following PLASA Focus: Stamford 2012, to be held on 12-13 November, 2012 at the Stamford Marriott in Connecticut, the new-style regional events will roll into Orlando on 15-16 May, 2013; Austin on 10-11 September, 2013; and Nashville on 5-6 February, 2014.

Having made a name for itself in its first year, the PLASA Focus series is committed to providing live production professionals that can't attend national shows with a chance to check out new technologies in their own backyard.

The events are the first chance for many entertainment tech communities to meet at a dedicated event for their area. Each event showcases the very latest pro audio, lighting, AV and stage technologies, much of the gear making its U.S debut, fresh from international launches.

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USA - Audio-Technica supplied microphones used on both candidates, the moderator and audience participants at the third debate in the 2012 presidential campaign on 16 October at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

Larry Estrin, of Best Audio in Studio City, CA, who serves as audio and production communications director for the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), chose A-T for each of the four debates in the series.

Products used included A-T's 5000 Series wireless with AEW-T5400a condenser handheld transmitters and AEW-R5200 receivers for President Obama and Governor Romney (allowing the candidates to freely roam while answering the evening's questions); AT898cW Subminiature Cardioid Condenser Lavalier Microphones with AEW-T1000a body packs (doubled for redundancy) for moderator Candy Crowley; AE6100 Hypercardioid Dynamic Handheld (wired) microphones, connected to

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USA - Producer/DJ Benny Benassi is about to embark on one of his most extensive North American tours to date and has buddied up with RCF.

Stemming from a mutual hometown in Italy, RCF and Benny Benassi share a distinct zeal for the highest standard of excellence within their own fields, making the collaboration a natural fit. RCF will not only be decking out Benny's tour bus with top of the range speakers but they will also be offering a pair of monitors AYRA 6 to win.

Benny comments, "As a DJ I am always around speakers and finding a good set is always a challenge. I genuinely love the sound quality of RCF speakers so when they offered to fit out my tour bus I was really excited. They're even putting sub cabinets in the luggage hold, the sound system on the bus is going to be amazing."

Setting off on 17 October and covering 17 shows, Benny Benassi is driving the R

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UK - The glittering glass facets of the new Siemens Crystal building form the striking exterior of London's newest landmark, at the Western end of the Royal Docks. Just down the road from the Stratford Olympic park and across the river from the O2 Arena, formerly known as the Millennium Dome, the Crystal represents a £30m investment and will be home to the company's global Centre of Competence Cities. The aim is to encourage the growth of sustainable cities through partnerships, research and expert collaboration.

The structure covers 6,300 square meters and is designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects with Arup to be one of the most sustainable buildings in the world, using solar power and ground source heat pumps to generate its own energy among a large number of sustainable technologies. With offices and a 270-seat auditorium, the highly interactive building offers the publi

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UAE - With a focus firmly on the integration features of its product range, d&b audiotechnik GmbH along with its Sales partner Lightbox Professional has revisited exhibiting at InfoComm Dubai with considered determination.

Loudspeaker systems drawn from the dedicated installation White range were displayed, and demonstrations of the high quality sound achievable with these systems were made. The fully featured integration technology of their associated d&b amplifiers, with on-board control and processing, and network integration, was highlighted. Janko Ramuscak from the d&b Application Support team in Germany made a well received presentation on The secret of good sound system design.

The highlights for visitors were the d&b D12 and D6 amplifiers with their comprehensive DSP control functions for loudspeaker configuration and sophisticated protection. Besides the expected para

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UK - Visitors to the National Railway Museum's Great Hall this November will be treated to a spectacular free event as selected locos from the National Collection are displayed in a whole new light.

Part of the Illuminating York festival, the annual Locos in a different light event from 1 - 3 November gives visitors the opportunity to see locomotives and carriages in the collection from a totally different perspective. This year's lighting competition, in which teams of students experiment with various effects in order to bring the collection to life, will be bigger than ever for 2012 with double the number of nights open to the public.

The initial competition takes place on the 1 November and the entries are judged by professionals during a private event. They will be marked according to four categories; safety and conservation, energy and efficiency, object communicat

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Greece - The ARK Festival, now in its third year, took place on 10 and 11 September, hosting 14 renowned and emerging artists, including Lucian Kilaidonis, Nick Portokaloglou, The Maraveyas Ilegal, the Burger Project with Takim, the Tabby Sporakia, Matoula Zamani and Angry Birds, and many other acts.

The ARK Festival 2012, the largest ever, was held in Technopolis, a noted industrial museum and a major cultural venue of the City of Athens, Greece, in the neighborhood of Gazi, next to Keramikos and very close to the Acropolis.

For this special event, the Technopolis became a lively and interactive park with dozens of parallel events of cultural, social, sports and educational nature to complement the musical experience.

The festival took place on two distinct stages, the Ark and the Angel. Sixteen JACK high-power compact moving heads were placed on the Arkstage, suspended fro

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UK - Allen & Heath recently conducted a series of GLD and iLive digital mixing desk training days; the latest of which being completed at Batmink Distribution in Glastonbury. The purpose of these days was twofold; firstly to enable potential purchasers to get hands on before they commit, and secondly to support existing owners and users.

Due to its popularity, the Batmink event was held over three days; with Allen & Heath trainer Stuart McKay on site for the duration of the training. "I was really pleased with how the three days of training went. Batmink provided a great location and real hospitality and I look forward to working with them again on future sessions," commented McKay.

Batmink sales director, Grant Thomas added, "We were really pleased with how well attended and received the training days were. Stuart is extremely knowledgeable and the feedback we

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Singapore - Singapore's mythical mascot the 'Merlion' just celebrated its 40th anniversary. For this reason the show Merlion & I: An Inspiring Journeywas designed to trace how the Merlion has evolved into a well-loved Singaporean icon over the past four decades. The Merlion is a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.

Lighting designer Andrew Gardner and programmer Fares Aljunied chose a grandMA2 light to control the lighting equipment that was supplied by Showtec Singapore.

Aljunied explained,"The grandMA2 is my console of choice - especially in projects like this, were the range of fixtures could only be made available last minute. So with the preset flexibility of the grandMA2, very fast programming was possible. Also key was that the grandMA2 could easily adapt to changes in control concepts with regards to Timecode and media server in

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UK - Orbital Sound has opened a new programming suite, providing sound designers, producers and engineers with a relaxed programming environment. The new room is part of Orbital's expanding studio complex, located at the company's extensive London headquarters.

Investing in new facilities is central to Orbital's philosophy, as MD Chris Headlam explains, "We originally created our studio complex with the aim of providing a fully equipped working environment for creating sound effects, click track and voiceovers, and it has been hugely popular since it opened. The new programming suite is a natural extension of this, designed as a welcoming and comfortable space, with the added bonus that it is furnished with some of our latest mixing consoles to give users a chance to try them out at their leisure. It's all about providing an enhanced service that supports the creative proce

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