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14 March 2016

The international auction for the electric pink Crush 20LDX will start on Friday, 25 October 2013 at 9.00am GMT, on Ebay. The auction will last seven days, giving plenty of time to scrape all those pennies together for a unique amp and a good cause. To find the auction when it goes live, simply go to the pink Orange website homepage and follow the links. All the money raised from this auction will go to Breast Cancer Research.

Cliff Cooper, Orange Amplification founder and CEO said, "Breast Cancer Campaign is a cause close to many people's hearts, we all know someone who has been touched by this terrible disease. We want to support the fig

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14 March 2016

The first application saw 363m2 installed as an LED ceiling for the Audi booth at the Frankfurt IAA car show. The ground-breaking stand design featured an inverted city with buildings, trees and other architectural elements suspended within the purpose built exhibit hall. The LED ceiling displayed graphical content representing traffic and movement on the roads between reflected tower blocks.

This project would have been impossible with any other LED product as the entire 363m2 system weighed less than four tonnes including purpose built super modules which allowed the display to be transported and installed in pre-fabricated sections each measuring 1.5m x 3m and weighing around 100kg.

Immediately following the Frankfurt show the system w

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14 March 2016

The company is holding a Designing Vision contest that invites students and young lighting designers to create a stage or club design using Capture Polar software student edition. First prize in the contest is a free trip for two to InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas from 18-20 June plus Capture Polar Extended Software (a $4,000 value). Second place prize is Capture Polar Basic Software, (a $1,500 value); and the third place prize

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14 March 2016

Ten Clay Paky Sharpys were rigged in a circle high in the disused main hall of the Welsh Church on Shaftesbury Avenue for an interactive art performance entitled Nest. The fixtures' beam was used to create an acute criss-cross prism of clean, directed light around the space. The innovative performance was based on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey and featured cutting-edge dance troupe New Movement Collective.

Robin McNicholas, one of the directors of MLF explains why the fixtures were so valuable to the performance: "The production itself was a holistic collaboration where costume would inform choreography, which would in turn influence the

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14 March 2016

Regularly used for 'red carpet' premieres, the Pathé Tuschinski's 740-capacity main auditorium gives audiences the opportunity to watch films in luxury. Private boxes and 'love seats' are a feature, while wine and food can be ordered for at-seat delivery. As well as films, the room also hosts special events, concerts and weddings.

"Due to the high profile

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14 March 2016

L-Acoustics equipment was specified by award-winning sound designer Paul Arditti, following his successful shows (including London Road and The Magistrate) using L-Acoustics equipment in the Olivier Theatre, since its installation in July 2012.

"Having heard L-Acoustics Kara in the challenging environment of the Olivier Theatre in London, I knew that this was the loudspeaker system I wanted to specify for

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14 March 2016

With a 22 October ribbon-cutting, the 299-seat theatre, situated at 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, proudly joined the burgeoning Brooklyn Cultural District. After more than 10 years of design and construction, the opening of the Samuel H. Scripps Mainstage at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Centre marked the first theatre built in New York City for Shakespeare and classic drama since the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Centre in 1965.

Designed in partnership with H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, Theatre Projects sought to create a venue thats structural flexibility would allow for maximum artistic flexibility. With an orchestra floor th

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14 March 2016

Jacky Lehmann runs Berlin-based audio production company Audiosound Lehmann and has worked with Saxon since 2004. Initially he engineered the band's live recordings and mixed the audio for two live DVDs, before becoming the regular Front of House engineer for the band's European shows last year. As well as his many years of experience, he brought his own DiGiCo SD9 and SD11 consoles for mixing FoH and monitors respectively.

Jacky uses the SD9 with gain tracking, plus a D-Rack and a Little Red

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14 March 2016

The annual Tecnópolis exhibition runs for three months and is focussed on new technologies, techniques and advances to stimulate creativity.

Buenos Aires based lighting design and service company Pampin Luces designed the ornamental, environmental (encompassing the different spaces and rooms) and landscape lighting scheme, which is based on a different concept each year.

Lighting equipment includes 36 x Robe LEDWash 1200s, 30 x LEDWash 600s, 20 x Actor 6s and eight MMX Spots all from Robe's ROBIN series, plus 120 x LEDForce PAR 18s, four CitySkape Xtremes, 40 x CityFlex 48s and 20 x Anolis ArcPad 94

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14 March 2016

LumenRadio's CRMX product line is increasingly becoming a standard feature in professional fixtures. Their patented Cognitive Coexistence continuously monitors and adapts to the wireless environment to deliver a durable wireless link in even the most challenging environments.

SGM were one of the first manufacturers to launch wireless connectivity within their fixtures, originally using another wireless technology. As part of their continuous strive for improvement, head of development Finn Kallestrup evaluated the available wireless products in early 2013 before settling on LumenRadio's CRMX technology for all SGM produc

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14 March 2016

Philips Entertainment supplied a selection of the Selecon PL range of LED luminaires alongside Vari-Lite discharge and LED moving heads. All were delivered in tandem with onsite training and support throughout.

Enabling C venues to take full advantage of the creative benefits of LED in many more of its venues kit included the Selecon PLcyc1, the PLfresnel1 and the PLprofile1 augmented with the Vari-Lite VLX3 LED luminaires and VL440 Spot luminaires. In addition the VL440 Spot bought the energy efficiency of the super-bright 400-watt MSR Gold 400 MiniFastFit lamp plus a host of creative features including: powerful colour mixing, quiet and reliable strob

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24 delegates attended the Johannesburg event and DWR Distribution's Nick Britz, presenter of the Avolites Titan Training, was delighted with the response.

Topics covered included workspaces, patching, groups, controlling fixtures, palettes, playbacks, basic timings, chases, shapes and running the show.

Interest in the training event was heightened thanks to Avolites' Emma Thompson presenting a similar seminar in South Africa in 2012. As Britz and his assistant Gareth Chambers regularly train Avolites users on a one-on-one basis and provide daily technical support, the workshop was infor

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14 March 2016

Wes Matthews began his industry career aged 14 and now has 20 years' experience and hands-on knowledge at the 'sharp-end' of the industry. EMTO was founded four years ago to facilitate the supply of lighting and visual design projects in which time Matthews has established a reputation for providing well engineered, high quality, imaginative and interesting solutions for all types of venues, spaces and circumstances.

"The time is right to diversify and move the company forward and our intention is to establish the Foreground brand as a good-looking, robu

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14 March 2016

With the need for the display to include audio visual content, exhibition designers Conibear Design Associates (CDA) commissioned Integrated Circles to find the best solution.

Given the large amount of light streaming in through the large north facing window, Integrated Circles' technical director, Simon Beer, opted for a high grade front-projected dnp Supernova Blade, provided by the Danish manufacturer's UK distributors, Paradigm AV. He explained, "The choice was really driven by contrast ratios a

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Seven Engineering Emmys were awarded at the ceremony: the Philo T. Farnsworth Award, the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, Engineering Emmys for YouTube, Aspera's FASP Transport Technology, Josh C. Kline for creating Digital Dailies, iZotope RX Audio Repair Technology and Previzion Virtual Studio

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14 March 2016

During the initial build of the auditorium, four Jands JLX lighting bars were installed; three in the stage area and one front of house. Jands also supplied winches, curtains, wiring and a Jands WM wall mounted patch panel system.

More recently Top End Sounds supplied an ETC Source Four package including eight Source Four Zoom 15-30Deg Profile, six Source Four Zoom 25-50Deg Profile and six Source Four Fresnel including gel frame and barn doors.

"The ETC fixtures have been excellent, absolutely fantastic!" commented Ian Clarke, property manager at the school. "They've made a huge difference to the professionalism of our performances."

For lighting control an ETC SmartFade compact co

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14 March 2016

Ashton and Himanshu Sabharwal, his business partner in TricolorIndia, were commissioned by the Delhi Tourism & Transportation Development Corporation (GTDB) to create the piece, for which Sabharwal was the overall show director.

Their brief was to create an immersive experience that had a universal spiritual appeal to people of all faiths, and that could work harmoniously with the new age minimalist architecture of the monument.

TricolorIndia delivered the entire technical infrastructure involved including projection, lighting and audio. Hailed as the largest installation currently in India, the challenge was to ensure that the substanti

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14 March 2016

XL Video, working for event producer, STS Touring Productions, supplied LED screens for the Oklahoma City Thunder v Philadelphia 76ers game at the Phones4U Arena in Manchester on 8 October.

The four flown screens were situated in the centre of the arena, allowing the audience on all levels to have a great view of the fast-paced on-court action. The screens not only showed live action from the courtside cameras, but displayed score graphics, player profiles and other game information.

XL Video selected Pixled F-6 LED for the screen as its high resolution offered the audience excellent picture quality. The product is also lightweight an

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14 March 2016

The copper dome over the room is the largest in Australia, spanning 31m in diameter. The dome is supported on a brick base that allows the interior of the main auditorium to be unobscured by columns.

Located within this dome is a computer to monitor the loads on all of the chain hoists suspended from the roof structure. Unfortunately the people on the stage who were operating the chain hoists couldn't see the computer's screen and hence couldn't see what load was being applied to the structure. The structural engineers on the job had specified particular load ratings on the roof trusse

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14 March 2016

At show close, AES reported a 16% increase in registration since the last time the convention was in New York two years ago (131st AES) and a s71% increase over last year's San Francisco event (133rd AES), which unfortunately was plagued by smaller attendance due to Hurricane Sandy.

"I can't express how thrilled I am with our convention this year," stated Bob Moses, executive director of the AES. "Our organizing committee really outdid themselves, with over 250 presentations from an astou

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14 March 2016

With this new managed service, Eclipse Services - part of the Eclipse Presentations Group - can offer clients the flexibility of fully supported multipoint video meetings at maximum quality and efficiency.

The concierge and bridging service can be tailored exactly to client requirements in terms of the number of participants, required points of connection ... and wherever their location around the world.

The service is secure, stable and provides seamless integration between VC and TelePresence units, codecs, laptops, desktops, iPads and other tablets, all with real-time audi

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14 March 2016

//hapo's vision was clear: to create an interactive exhibition space where the story of Southern Africa, dating back 3.6 billion years, unfolds in an engaging narrative and visual form. The museum is split into a number of zones and scenes, each telling a different part of the African story. Lighting is used to evoke the feel and atmosphere of each scene presented.

Designed by a collaborative team of South African architects from Mashabane Rose, MMA and GAPP, Johannesburg based Gavin Olivier of Digital Fabric conceived and managed the technological aspects of the project. In the process he called on some of South Africa's leading integrators including: TDC Africa and DWR Distribution to deliver the lightin

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14 March 2016

The Stravinsky strives to improve and develop its features at every turn and to this end commissioned GDS, through its distributor Swiss Light Consulting, to supply a new lighting system able to specifically adapt to the modularity of the stage area.

During orchestral performances, for example, the depth of the stage and the position of acoustic baffles within the hall changes significantly. The system had to be flexible enough to accommodat

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14 March 2016

Now in its fifth year, the annual Locos in a Different Light sees students from all over the country lighting up the A4s. Entries are judged by industry professionals and will be marked according to a number of categories including; safety and conservation, energy and efficiency, object communication and innovation and aesthetics. The winning team will get the opportunity to drive a locomotive.

The competition has been a huge hit with performing arts students in previous years with many going on to bigger and brighter careers in stage lighting. This year's event will be attended by students from across the UK, includin