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Brazil - Celebrating more than 20 years in Latin America Barco is strengthening its presence in Brazil with a growing deployment of advanced visualization projects that support public health and safety, commerce and entertainment in the region.

Many of Barco's technologically advanced AV solutions have contributed to the success of Brazil's most high-profile public venues and events, as well as supported the development of corporate and commercial enterprises in the region.

Projects that are helping to fuel the transportation, utilities, and healthcare infrastructures serving the country's 200m residents include: control room visual collaboration platforms help safeguard and manage efficient travel; best-in-class cinema projection and immersive sound systems enrich the movie-going experience; and innovative diagnostic, surgical and clinical medical display systems ensure o

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India - Nexo STM M28 line array systems have been purchased by three rental companies in the Mumbai/Goa region: Just Audio, Karryman Sound and Chakor Sound are out and about with STM systems configured with the M28 as main module.

In a country where music can be heard on every corner, Nexo's STM Series modular line arrays are delivering versatility to India's rental companies, enabing them to design a wide range of systems from just four core modules. The breakthrough product has been the STM M28 module, the newest and smallest member of the STM family of loudspeakers. This injection-moulded all-purpose 2-way loudspeaker cabinet provides 90°/120° of horizontal dispersion and 0° to 15° splaying angle between modules.

Troy Furtado, owner of Just Audio in Goa has long been an admirer of Nexo and recently added 12x M28s, six B112 bass cabinets and six S118 subs

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Belgium - At the end of July every year, two million visitors hit the medieval streets and market squares of Ghent for the annual 10-day Gentse Feesten, a music and arts festival with a 160-year pedigree. One of the central hubs at the festival is to be found at the Sint-Baafsplein square which houses one of the largest stages at the festival. Tasked with designing a lighting concept for the Sint-Baafsplein stage, LD Vince de Schinckel specified 16 x Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Washes, 16 x Maverick MK2 Spots, six STRIKE 4s and two Atmos smoke machines from Belgian rental specialists Euro PA to create stunning looks at the traditional heart of the festival. After testing out the Maverick series earlier in the year, de Schinckel was convinced that the Maverick MK2 Spot and Wash would provide an arsenal of tools with which to create huge looks on the central Sint-Baafsplein

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South Africa - ARX has announced the appointment of Octave Distribution as their new exclusive distributor in South Africa.

Colin Park, ARX's managing director said, "Octave Distribution is Nigel Booyse's new distribution venture. Nigel was employed at Matrix Sound, ARX's previous distributor. Matrix have recently stepped back from product distribution to focus on their rental and production business.

"Nigel has been involved in the Pro Audio market for the past 15 years, and with his experience and knowledge in the industry he decided to form Octave Distribution to provide a seamless transition of product supply and support for the brands distributed by Matrix.

"Here at ARX, we're looking forward to working with Nigel and his team, they're very enthusiastic about further developing the Southern African market for the growing ARX digital and analogue product range."

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Germany - This summer, the global phenomenon Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo stormed into Germany for two dazzling months, stopping off at Berlin, Cologne, Mannheim, Osnabr

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Ireland - UK-based image innovation technology company, GBvi, has recently delivered two VOID infinity display experiences to a new art installation by media and technology artist, David Cotterrell. The new installation work, Mirror II - Distance, is on show in Dublin as part of the Seeing exhibition at the Science Gallery.

Mirror II - Distance is part of the "Mirror" project, a series devised to provide insight into global communities that experience distancing and objectification. It is inspired by observations of the Diplomatic Enclave in Islamabad and features two Pakistani guards standing and watching over the expat compounds they are stationed over. The two men observe each other across a distance as they listen to the visitors, the experts and the specialists discuss Pakistan, its people and its future.

The art installation comprises two VOID installations by GBvi,

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USA - MCA Nashville recording artist David Nail is known for his powerful lyrics with emotionally-charged vocals that have garnered him both Grammy and ACM Award nominations. Currently on tour in support of his fourth album Fighter, Nail and his production team are making their way across the United States bringing his music to fans in packed houses and festivals across the country. With a lighting design and playback system created by Cour Design, the production team needed a tour provider who understands the value of quality gear and support so they once again turned to Nashville-based Elite Multimedia.

"This will be our second tour with David and his shows are really focused on the music and the storytelling of his life," says lighting designer Gordon Droitcour. "To make sure we are supporting him best as an artist, the lighting design has to be dynamic for both high

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USA - Anyone who left town and has been away from Council Road Baptist Church for a year or two would scarcely believe their eyes if they returned today to this suburban church outside of Oklahoma City. The church's sanctuary, described by its pastor as having a "1980s style look", with a big choir loft, cavernous balcony and plain walls, hasn't merely been updated, it's been totally transformed into a modern worship facility.

Paragon 360 accomplished this metamorphosis by adding multiple faux wood, stone and custom-designed architectural elements to the stage and side walls of the sanctuary that were designed and built by Paragon 360. The transformation also included: ceilings that were painted black; 1200 contemporary theatre seats, which replaced pews; and stylish new carpeting and paint schemes. Adding extra warmth and contemporary colorization to the new sanctuary is a co

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UK - Aurora has taken delivery of the new Chroma-Q Space Force - an innovative, viable, powerful LED alternative to conventional fixtures.

Cool running and energy efficient, the Space Force offers precise, variable control over colour temperature (2,800K to 6,500K) and intensity. With an output of up to 26,700 lumens, smooth, uniform beam and consistency between units the Space Force is ideal for use as a low energy space light or as a versatile, controllable soft source.

On receiving the new fixtures Aurora project manager Ben Taylor says, "The new Space Force is a low energy alternative to traditional 4.8kW heads, plus, the new yoke makes it an extremely useful soft source in any orientation, not just the traditional hanging format."

The low profile, lightweight units weigh in at just 8kg and feature a variety of mounting options and accessories, including egg crate

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Australia - The Revesby Workers' Club in south-west Sydney is a regular stop for premiere touring acts. Its concert venue, the Whitlam Theatre, seats 750 in 'dinner mode' and 1400 in theatre mode. The theatre is known for its big PA and excellent audio facilities, but, until recently, its lighting systems were struggling to keep up with the demands of modern touring acts. Happily, Revesby has changed all that with the purchase of High End System's flagship Hog 4 console plus a Playback Wing 4, bringing their venue back in line with the best in Australia.

The Hog 4 replaces a lighting desk known and loved by an entire generation of lighting operators - a JandsHog 600, first released in 1996! Obviously way past its use-by-date, the JandsHog 600 will still be missed. "It uses floppy discs," points out Phill Webb, Revesby's audio visual coordinator, "and obviously that's not suppo

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UK - The Gilded Balloon is one of Scotland's leading entertainment venues and one of the four largest at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Producing a critically-acclaimed showcase of theatre, comedy and cabaret, the Gilded Balloon has an international reputation and this year promises to be its busiest yet. For the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, White Light has been called upon once again to provide the lighting throughout all of its 14 venues and across 160 different productions.

Danny Cunningham is head of lighting at the Gilded Balloon. He comments, "At the Gilded Balloon, we are constantly looking to push the boundaries with our programming. Whether its local or worldwide entertainment, the work we programme has to be to the highest standard possible. This needs to be reflected in every aspect of our venues - including the lighting."

The brief for the Gilded Balloon was

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Germany - Taking the genre of illusionism into a completely new dimension, brothers Chris and Andreas Ehrlich - who had already played to over half a million people on their Magic - Experience Dreams arena tour put on a special performance, Magic - A Unique Stadium Show at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt.

Designing all visual departments - stage, video and television, effects lighting (design and operating) and co-ordinating the OB and camera technology - for this spectacular experience was the team from Cologne based visual design and creative practice mo2, led by Manfred 'Ollie' Olma.

They used 200 Robe lighting fixtures - 180 Pointes, 20 x BMFL Blades and around 1500 other fixtures to help achieve a remarkable event. There were also some Robe PATT 2013s included from the Ehrlich Brothers standard touring package, all of which was incorporated into the stage set up fo

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Singapore - Christie visual solutions delivered spectacular visuals that captivated over 55,000 spectators who attended Singapore's 51st birthday celebrations at the new National Stadium. The projection mapping performances were planned and executed by Christie's rental staging partner Hexogon Solutions Plc Ltd.

A total of 66 Christie Boxer 4K30 3DLP projectors were installed around the fourth level of the stadium to claim the biggest real-time tracking 3D projection mapping show in the world for this National Day Parade (NDP) in Singapore. A slew of bright and vibrant visuals projected onto the surfaces of the two moving structures by the Boxer 4K30s greatly enhanced the scale and excitement of the celebrations. This marks the debut of Christie Boxer 4K30s at the National Stadium since the completion of this state-of-the-art sports facility in 2014

Adrian Goh, group manag

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UK - One of the most successful UK metal acts of the last decade, Bring Me The Horizon have built their reputation on incendiary live shows and regular re-invention. With a UK arena tour (including dates at London's O2 and a hometown show at Sheffield Arena) booked for November, BMTH are set to play their biggest headline gigs to date - and will rely on Allen & Heath's dLive digital mixing system for monitoring throughout the tour.

A long-standing A&H iLive user, monitor engineer Jared Daly made the move to a dLive system for Bring Me shows earlier in 2016 and has had the chance to work on each dLive control surface size since. Ultimately favouring the S5000 surface for its combination of power, usability and dimensions, Daly also employs a DM64 MixRack in his set-up, which is hired from SSE Audio for each run of gigs.

Talking about his favourite dLive features, Daly says,

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Germany - When the Ehrlich Brothers needed a bit of special production magic to move a giant set of scenic doors smoothly and horizontally on and offstage to top and tail the two acts for their 2016 performance at the Commerzbank Stadium in Frankfurt, their production turned to Belgian automation specialist WIcreations!

Magic - The Unique Stadium Show is the first time that the magician duo has ever played a football stadium and it also signalled the end of a sold-out 120-date arena tour by the Ehrlich brothers in spectacular style.

WI's Geert Stockmans was contacted by production manager Thomas Bartz who was in charge of co-ordinating all the ambitious show's massive automation elements.

The stage was built at one end of the stadium and the production used the massive LED screen already installed for public viewings of Germany's UEFA Euro 2016 soccer championship matc

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South Africa - Cape Town's City Hall has witnessed plenty of history and culture over the years. Nelson Mandela made his first speech here from its balcony after his release from prison in 1990, and artists from all musical genres have performed in its ornate Grand Hall.

Given the building's historic significance and beauty, it was understandable that lighting designer Jean-Pierre Willson of Unfazed Productions wanted to accent the palatial structure's architectural flourishes when he created a design for Africa Day eKapa!, an annual Africa Day concert celebrating the anniversary of the Organization of African Unity. To help him achieve this goal, the LD relied on a collection of Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures supplied by Audiosure.

Willson used Rogue RH1 Hybrids, flown from the venue's vaulted ceiling at a height of 82' (25 meters), and Rogue R2 Washes, positioned on

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USA - AlunaGeorge, the electronic music duo hailing from London with one of the world's most streamed songs, hit the American touring and festival circuit outfitted with gear from Bandit Lites.

The group, described as "pop alchemists" consists of lyricist and singer Aluna Francis and producer George Reid. The duo has been bringing their compilation of pop and electronic sounds to the likes of the Firefly Festival and Lollapalooza, while simultaneously gearing up for their forthcoming album, I Remember. DJ Snake's remix of their song, I Know You Like It proved to be a massive success and skyrocketed to the top of the charts as one of the world's most streamed songs of all time.

Working with lighting designer Eric Baum, Bandit provided a lighting package that included GLP Impressions, GLP Spot Ones, and Bandit's exclusive LED GRNLite Batten. Baum created a dyna

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USA - French DJ and music producer DJ Snake fired up the crowds at the recent Global Dance Festival staged in the breathtaking Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver, Colorado, while his lighting designer Steve Brody (known industry wide as 'Brody') took full advantage of Robe BMFL Spots, which were prominent among other fixtures on a 'house' lighting rig for the event supplied by DSI Event Group, also based in Denver.

The show is one of a number of festivals in the rising star artist's action-packed summer and fall schedule which LA-based LD Brody has been lighting for the last three months.

He was delighted to learn that the lighting package for GDF contained the BMFLs. Snake's show design features big, bold, high-impact looks mainly using primary colours with plenty of red and white.

There's continuous audience interaction throughout the set, and Brody explained that he

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UK - Adlib again delivered lighting, sound, rigging and crew for the recent UK and European tour by blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa and his band, which culminated with a headline show - recorded for DVD - at the Greenwich Music Time festival staged in the grounds of London's historic Old Royal Naval College.

Adlib's lighting manager Dave Eldridge co-ordinated the lighting requirements for Bonamassa's regular LD Justin Duguid for the UK section of the tour, while Adlib director Dave Jones looked after all things audio for both the UK where a full sound rig was supplied and Europe where the tour continued with a control package. Eric Roa is the tour's production manager and Charlie Rushton was the main Adlib lighting tech out on the road, with Mark Johnson as the main Adlib PA tech.

The musical thread for this tour was British Blues Explosion with the music of Eric Clapto

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USA - The Bergen Performing Arts Center - aka BergenPAC - a non-profit theatre in Englewood, New Jersey has seen and heard it all. Originally built as the Englewood Plaza movie theatre in 1926, the venue re-opened, after several iterations, in 2004 with its 1,367-seat auditorium hosting 200 shows a year by a diverse roster of performers, including Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, John Legend, Jerry Lewis and Willie Nelson. The facility is also home to dance, theatre, voice and music classes offered year-round at The Performing Arts School at BergenPAC.

Throughout its most recent existence, the venue has rented PA systems for major shows. But, as of June, BergenPAC is now a self-sufficient venue featuring its own L-Acoustics Kara sound system designed and installed by Boulevard Pro, a leading NYC metro area audio systems and backline provider supplying L-Acoustics sys

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UK - tvONE, designer and manufacturer of video and multimedia processing equipment, is expanding the tvONE Training Academy with a new studio area to enable the development of an extensive suite of online tutorial videos as well as the expansion of its series of webinars.

Commenting, Mark Trevena, training manager of tvONE said, "Our CTS accredited hands-on sessions remain popular, but we hear from clients that their time is becoming more and more precious. The tvONE Training Academy Studio provides a solution that maintains the high quality of presentation and content our partners, installers and end users expect, but provides new formats and forms of content that they can access instantly online at a time that suits them."

In order to deliver the high standard of presentation that the Pro AV industry expects from tvONE, the studio is fitted out with nearly £100,000

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UK - As part of its commitment to improving the student learning environment and providing opportunities for graduate employability, the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) has announced a new partnership with Tileyard Studios based in Kings Cross, Central London.

This will provide ICMP students with a unique opportunity to study in and engage with an immersive industry environment, building their networks amongst some of the music industry's biggest names.

Tileyard Studios is the largest professional music community in the UK, with more than 70 music studios and 100 businesses that provide a home to a wide spectrum of companies working in music, film, television, fashion and creative new tech sectors. Artists and companies at Tileyard include Mark Ronson, Tynchy Stryder, The Prodigy, John Newman, Lily Allen, Notting Hill Music, Marathon Artists, Spitfire Au

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Cultural Review - The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has launched a review of Arts Council England to investigate the body's efficiency, effectiveness and governance. The 'tailored review', first announced in the culture white paper in March, will be carried out in two parts, the first asking whether the functions performed by the Arts Council remain appropriate for its status as a non-departmental public body, as well as assessing its performance. The second part will examine issues including how ACE advocates for the arts, delivers its current set of functions, and manages its board.

As part of the review, DCMS has opened an online survey asking for feedback on the Arts Council, which is open for submissions until 20 September. ACE deputy chief executive, Althea Efunshile, said she felt the body was well placed for the review, referencing changes to the application

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