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UK - CIE-Group has entered into a partnership with the HDBaseT Alliance to deliver free accredited training courses for integrators and installers in the UK.

CIE-Group is already well recognised for its provision for AV training, not least its support for the HowtoAV online training channel, and the two organisations will now jointly be delivering the HDBaseT Installer Expert Program at locations across the country. The first dates are already announced with events taking place in London, Leeds and Nottingham during April 2016 with more to follow throughout the year.

The HDBaseT Installer Expert Program was launched by the Alliance in 2014 and almost 2000 delegates throughout the world have completed the course. Almost 4000 AV installers have registered at the Alliance's Installer Zone,

The courses cover HDBaseT technology principles, installation advice and best pract

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UK - West Midlands-based Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) supplied full technical production - video, sound and LED lighting - to the 2016 SEMTA Awards, staged in the Ballroom at the Park Lane Hilton hotel in London.

The Senior Skills Council for Science, Engineering & Manufacturing Technologies (SEMTA) is a not-for-profit organization specializing in engineering training in the UK, and this prestigious annual Awards event recognizes excellence within their various nationwide apprenticeship schemes.

CPL worked for the third consecutive year alongside Redditch based production company Eclipse Communications. The production design was a collaboration by Lee Gruszeckyj from CPL and Dave Bowring from Eclipse. This year's host was business journalist and BBC Breakfast co-presenter Steph McGovern.

"It was great to pool forces and work together with Eclipse," commented Lee.

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Germany - One of Germany's most accomplished lighting designers, JoJo Tillman, has turned to GLP's new X4 Bar 20s for the first time as a vital part of his stage concept for the annual Stunksitzung alternative cabaret at the Cologne E-Werk. This has formed part of the Cologne Festival for more than 30 years, and comprises around 50 shows which run up to the day before Lent begins.

The designer requisitioned 16 of the battens, which have brought about a paradigm shift since their launch last year. This is largely due to the density with which the 20 LEDs are packed into the 40-inch long bar, generating a broad pallet of pastel and saturated colours which allow for subtle graduated fades, and a 7:1 zoom range which enables it to be deployed equally as a narrow angle light curtain or a wide angle back- or wash-light.

Such versatility has allowed JoJo not only to animate the s

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Mexico - A massive, all-Meyer Sound system of more than 600 loudspeakers recently supplied seamless coverage for a festive crowd of over 300,000 that converged near the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec for an open-air Holy Mass with Pope Francis. Held across a sprawling event site temporarily constructed on a vast rain catchment plain known as El Caracol, this was by far the largest event of Pope Francis's five-day visit to Mexico.

"We have had excellent results using Meyer Sound to ensure the best possible listening experience for the public, so we decided to use Meyer Sound speakers exclusively for this event," says José Antonio Ru

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UK - Creative technical event production expert, Hawthorn, has been commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland to supply lighting for the UK tour of its acclaimed production, The James Plays.

Hawthorn is supplying lighting from its extensive hire range to meet the specification of theatre lighting designer, Philip Gladwell. This comes hot on the heels of Hawthorn's appointment to supply lighting and video equipment for the touring production of Hairspray.

Following critical acclaim and box office success in 2014, The James Plays by Rona Munro, and directed by Laurie Sansom, will undertake a major UK and international tour in 2016, visiting 11 venues across England and Scotland, as well as performing at international festivals in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Hawthorn has supplied a variety of different fixtures, including Martin MAC Vipe

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France - Robe's French subsidiary Robe Lighting France SAS finished the year with some strong sales to a range of high profile theatres.

In the theatre world, Robe's highly refined DL series of LED luminaires - built for the theatre and performance sector - bring all the advantages of LED technology combined with the accuracy, finesse and quality that theatre professionals demand.

Leading French installation, rental and sales company D6BL (D6 Bell Light) from Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris is well known as a theatre and performance technical installer and supplier, and recently delivered Robe DL fixtures to three important theatres, all with different but equally challenging needs.

The venues are the 500 capacity Theatre Bernard-Marie Kolt

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USA - Elation's EPT6IP LED video display panel has become the LED screen panel and cross rental panel of choice in the upper northeast. Used on an increasing variety of events, the latest example was 11-12 February when Boston's Fenway Park hosted a big air snowboarding and freeskiing U.S. Grand Prix Tour and International Ski Federation World Tour event.

The Elation EPT6IP panels were used for portrait walls on each side of a large take-off ramp. East Coast Lighting & Production Services, Inc. (ECLPS) supplied the panels for the event, working with Elation rep firm Healy Sales and ECLPS's client Mission Six.

"We had screens flanking both sides of the jump structure," explains Nate Almeida of ECLPS. "The riders right screen was 25' wide x 14' high and consisted of 84 EPT6IP panels. The riders left screen was 16' wide x 8' high and consisted of 32 panels. Both screens were

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Europe - Genelec has announced that its popular 4000 Series loudspeakers are now available as part of the BIMobject library. This move allows AV designers and architects to include the Genelec loudspeakers in any building information model to help in the design and planning stages of a project. Users will now be able to add the loudspeakers into digitally built models in building design software such as Autodesk Revit, ArchiCAD and Google Sketchup.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a means by which everyone can understand a building through the use of a digital model. By modelling an asset in digital form, it enables those who interact with the building to optimize their actions.

BIM is rapidly becoming an important part of the planning and execution of construction projects. As a result of this new deal, Genelec's 4010, 4020, 4030 and 4040 loudspeakers can be seamle

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South Korea - Pohang city is located in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, about 300km far from Seoul to the southeast. The city is well-known for steel making with three leading manufacturers based there.

In addition, there are some old and very important churches in Pohang. Among these is Pohang First Presbyterian church which is over 110 years, founded in 1905. In the beginning, they had a small space for worship, they moved to the current place, and built a new building in 2007. For preparation of 110th anniversary celebration in 2015, they started the renovation including the sound systems from last September.

The size of the main sanctuary in Pohang church is 37m by 30m and the capacity is 2,500 seats.

Avix, the Korean distributor for Portuguese manufacturer NEXT-proaudio, recently installed a NEXT-proaudio sound system within the church's main sanctuary, th

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World - Mexican rock pop band Mana recently concluded its Cama Incendiada World Tour with a large complement of Clay Paky Mythos, A.leda B-EYE K10 and K20, and Stormy lighting fixtures adding colour and punch to the global production.

The Cama Incendiada World Tour was the eighth concert tour by the band, which hails from Guadalajara. It was in support of Mana's latest studio album, Cama Incendiada (Burning Bed). The band has earned four Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammys, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America and more. No other Latin rock band consistently sells more albums or concert tickets: Mana has sold more than 40m albums worldwide.

Alain Corthout was lighting designer for the tour, which featured 107 Clay Paky Mythos, 54 A.leda B-EYE K10s, 32 A.leda B-EYE K20s and 36 Stormys in the rig.

Two groups of Mythos were on upstage and side cranes. "So

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USA - Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in Burbank, is the largest studio specialising in stop-motion animation in California. Best known for the adult animated character Robot Chicken, the stages also produce Super Mansion, LEGO Scooby-Doo, Bratz and MAD Spy vs. Spy

While stop-motion animation has been around since the silent film era, Stoopid Buddy gives it an irreverent and often R-rated twist. While mainstream Hollywood looks for sources offshore, Stoopid Buddy prides itself on creating everything in house. With its own model making, wardrobe, set construction, lighting, grip and camera departments, the studio operates like a traditional, self-contained studio, but the comparison ends there. The mostly millennial team of directors, camera operators, editors and writers collaborate in ways that blur the historic divisions of labour. With log cabin offices and a Winnebago executive sui

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South Africa - When it came to specifying lighting for the new 3,000 capacity auditorium at Rivers Church's Sandton Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, technical manager Ed Helliwell decided that Robe moving lights were the way to go.

Eighteen LEDWash 1200s, 10 x Pointes, eight DL4S Profiles and eight miniPointes later - together with 26 x LEDBeam 100s purchased a few months earlier from Robe's South African distributor, DWR - they have a dynamic and flexible lighting rig in place which is making a real difference to how they can light their popular worship session and other events.

The new technology is also a good fit with the tasteful and eye-catching proto-industrial design of the new building, complete with coffee shop, large atrium and a collection of bespoke designer artworks made from recycled engineering waste, all created by Senior Pastor Andre Olivier for the

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Italy - Clay Paky lights are co-stars on the stage of Nek's show, Prima di Parlare Live 2015. Radio Italia is the official radio station of the tour which played theatres across the country.

The set, designed by Gi

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UK - Following a competitive tender, Adlib was recently appointed by Glasgow City Council to supply a new loudspeaker system to the Royal Scottish National Symphony Orchestra's new home, the RSNO centre.

The impressive new venue forms part of the Royal Concert Hall complex in the heart of Glasgow's vibrant city centre.

The new auditorium was developed by the Council's in-house design team led by architect Kerr Robertson. It is adjacent to the main Concert Hall (home of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) which opened in 1990 as part of the city's year as European Capital of Culture.

The overall complex features a 600-seater auditorium, a rehearsal space and learning centre, a recital hall and performance space that will be also used for classical and choral recording as well as for folk and other amplified music events.

Following a detailed site survey and subse

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USA - Lighting designer Jason Liggett turned to the ease of Elation Professional's new Emotion moving head digital light to project organic looks for a 2016 New Year's Eve performance by American rock band Joe Russo's Almost Dead at the Fillmore in Philadelphia.

"It occurred to me that I needed to have more options to create unique textured looks," Jason explains of his decision to use the new generation digital light. "I needed a video element that was not too literal and could be hidden within our stage and set design. I needed a digital moving light projector that I could control from my console. The Emotion was very easy to drive."

The Emotion is Elation's new plug and play DMX moving light with an on-board media server developed in cooperation with High End Systems. Utilizing only 32 DMX channels (54 in extended mode), it houses royalty-free digital art and videos wit

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USA - Some of the University of Tennessee's most exemplary students arrived at Legislative Plaza 17 February to share the impact the university has had on their lives at the 10th Annual UT Day on the Hill. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the event which was coordinated by The UT Office of Government Relations and Advocacy.

Bandit provides these services at no cost as a means of giving back. Bandit set the stage floor with VL 2500s to cover the room with patterns and colors, while GRNLite LED Battens lit the upper balcony walls. ZR 44 smoke machines gave the senators and representatives a dramatic entrance. Additional lighting came from custom UT gobos shot with ETC 5 degree ellipsoidal, while the stage lighting and control was provided by the venue.

In addition to legislators hearing personal testimonies from the reigning Miss Tennessee, UT Martin's Hannah Robison,

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UK - When the European premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens came to London, Utopium were on hand to illuminate the red carpet royalty and Nelson's Column.

Thousands of dedicated fans flocked to London to celebrate the latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise, where Stormtroopers and Jedi knights joined the cast and celebrities for the biggest premiere of the year.

It was in Leicester Square that the cast and crew were joined by celebrity guests, as the area around the Empire and Odeon cinemas were transformed into a space-themed venue.

LED lighting from SGM illuminated the entire length of the red carpet, as well as the two cinemas and the stage set where the world's media captured the stars.

Utopium's Colin Bodenham, who designed and project managed the event, called on a wide range of fixtures from the SGM portfolio, including 68 SGM P-5s, 12 SGM

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Korea - Indie band, Standing Egg, embarked on a recent national tour with Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing system and ME personal monitoring system, supplied by rental company, G Audio.

Formed in 2010, the band has three members, known as Egg No.1, Egg No.2, Egg No.3, plus a host of renowned guest vocalists. I>.

Based in Busan, G Audio is a renowned rental company, which selected the dLive S3000 Control Surface with DM32 MixRack for FOH, and ME monitoring system comprising ME-1 mixers for each musician and a ME-U hub, from its hire stock.

"Using dLive was a refreshing experience, the design is optimal and versatile for every engineer and live mixing application. dLive has a lot of useful features; additional inputs and outputs are available by connecting the DX32 expansion rack, and Dante, Waves, and MADI cards can be inserted to give dLive networking options. More

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USA - Ranked by US News & World Report as America's best institution of higher learning for entrepreneurship, Babson College has long been an incubator of future business leaders. Arthur Blank, founder of The Home Depot, went to school here; so too did legendary former PepsiCo Chair Roger Erico, as well as members of the Ford and Toyoda automobile families. In keeping with this tradition, the school often sponsors talks by prominent business leaders, the most recent of which was A Conversation With Governor Mitt Romney. In addition to be treated to a vigorous exchange of ideas, the sold-out crowd at this session saw a clean, crisp stage presentation created by Image Production Services using a collection of fixtures from CHauvet Professional.

The session at the college's 440-seat Stephen D. Cutler Center, which featured the former US Presidential candidate and fo

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Germany - Every year, during Marburg b(u)y Night, Marburg city centre lights up: more than sixty public and private buildings become the stars of the show, and the shops stay open until midnight. The centrepiece of the event this year was the Blickpunkt Schloss project - with lighting up and regular intervals backed with appropriate music. Flashlight Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH dealt with staging the events.

Among the equipment the company chose to use were 39 Clay Paky Mythos units, one grandMA light, one onPC command wing, one 8Port Node onPC and four VPU plus MK2s (video processing units). An MA remote control system was also installed to control the lighting around the castle using tablet computers. The show was pre-programmed with the help of a 3D MA and a 3D model of Marburg castle.

The lighting designer, programmer and operator Sebastian Haffer comments, "We used Cla

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UK - The Father is one of the most successful theatre productions to have opened in recent times. Following an initial run at Theatre Royal Bath and The Tricycle, the play made its West End debut last year and received five star reviews. Due to popular demand, the show is returning once again, with both a West End run at the Duke of York's Theatre and a UK tour. Following its previous work on the production, along with its reputation as the West End's leading lighting supplier, WL is once again providing the lighting equipment for the show, with ETC products playing a significant role.

Written by Florian Zeller, The Father tells the story of 80-year-old Andre who lives with his daughter Anne and her husband Antoine. Or does he? Still in his pyjamas and becoming increasingly unaware of his surroundings, Andre begins to wonder whether he's losing control...

The

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Fettes Brot back on the road with MLA

Germany - Six years after Martin Audio's MLA system made its world deb MLAut with veteran Hamburg hip hop band Fettes Brot, the system's first adopter - Complete Audio's André Rauhut - has just completed another successful tour of duty, this time supporting the band's Teenager vom Mars tour.

Although the tour originally kicked off early in 2015 using largely local PA, the production values were ramped up towards the end of the year when Fettes Brot played venues ranging from around 3,500 to 15,000.

The Berlin-based production company based its rig design around a core of between 7 and 10 MLA cells per side, plus MLD Downfill - and depending on venue size, they also carried 12 x MLA Compacts for out-fills in the larger venues. Along the front of the stage, 14 MLX were set up as a broadside cardioid array.

In six years And

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USA - Since their beginnings in 1997, The Passion Conferences have served to bring college students together for worship with a line-up of concerts and speakers. In the 10 years since the organisation was founded events and tours have been held around the US and the entire world. This year the conference was held simultaneously at three venues in two different cities all linked together to share content by an Optocore digital fibre network. The three-day conference saw attendance at more than 40,000 people with six bands and six guest speakers to entertain the crowds in all three cities.

Rat Sound Systems from Camarillo, CA is a leader in providing state of the art sound reinforcement systems for major productions around the world. They were hired to provide the staging for all three venues. Each venue had an identical system: three DiGiCo SD7's with four SD Racks and a Mini R

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