"Dataton aims to broaden market access in this part of Europe. With COMM-TEC as a strong and experienced partner in Value Added Distribution, Dataton will strengthen its position sustainably, just as we have done in Spain and Portugal with IberCOMM-TEC," says Michael Engstr
Visitors to their booth (#E60) will see the new GT-1 hybrid, which has been causing such a stir on the international circuit in 2016 - although this will be its first appearance at the London show.
Functioning as both a spot and a beam, the combination of a high powered 470W discharge lamp and advanced optical system has resulted in a high performance beam with an enormous 22:1 ratio zoom range (from 2.5° to 55°).
Easy to accommodate, with its unique baseless design, the GT-1 also features inbuilt wireless DMX control, full 16-bit pan and tilt movement, full range dimming and shuttering capability, an in-built battery for fixture setup, an aut
300,000 young people from around the world gathered that first year and it has become the tradition that every Palm Sunday WYD is celebrated in a different city around the world. This year, the event held in Brzegi near the Polish city of Karkow and DiGiCo consoles helped form the backbone of the massive audio system provided by Polish rental company Gigant Sound.
With over 2m people attending, the day included an address from Pope Francis, prayers and concerts featuring a 100-strong symphony orchestra and a 300-strong choir plus soloists on the main stage, as well as various bands on the second stage.
"Three SD5s were deployed at the main stage Front of House po
High-quality lighting solutions from the Munich-based lighting specialist will be in use in the Congress Hall where representatives of the 20 most important industrial and emerging nations will be meeting. They will also be used to illuminate various outdoor areas.
Osram has supplied the hosts with several hundred spotlights and spotlight lamps. High, mid and low-power LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors are integrated in luminaires from the Chinese manufacturer Roleds.
To ensure optimum illumination for the Congress Hall at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Osram has supplied around 400 Kreios PAR units and more than 200 spotlights from its Italian subsidiary Clay Paky.
The innovative Clay Paky spotlights
Based on the hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Maggie Smith, Sister Act tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, a disco diva whose life takes a surprising turn when she witnesses a murder. Under protective custody she is hidden in the one place she won't be found - a convent. Disguised as a nun and under the suspicious watch of Mother Superior, Deloris helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she unexpectedly rediscovers her own.
Directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, the product
Many of Taipei's most popular artists performed at the beach side location, which is an attractive site for the audience. And for the sound system, the engineering team needed to make a special effort.
The main hangs comprised 19 MLA and a MLD Downfill on each side, and side-fills were formed of six MLA elements and two and MLD. Six MLX subs were flown and three ground-stacked MLX in a cardioid pattern were staggered in three positions on each side of the stage
Working alongside the band's head of audio, Tony Smith, they had already incorporated a number of Optocore devices into the DiGiCo console topology - but have now taken the journey further by embracing the new Route66 AutoRouter from technical partner, BroaMan - the first audio consultant to do so.
"The main objective was to design a system that would allow a d&b audiotechnik array processed system to be built in modular fashion and be scalable - as some shows require extra ring delays," explained Hadjigeorgiou.
The new Route66 AutoRouter provides a more elegant so
The three-day festival has been going for more than 30 years, and is now one of Europe's greatest music events. Pukkelpop selects its 300 musical acts from the alternative fringe, and presents the different genres across 10 stages. This year, VDB-PA was responsible for the Shelter stage (hard rock/metal), the Club stage (pop/rock/hip-hop) and the Castello stage (electronic music), using NEXO STM and GEO systems.
This year, VDB-PA has made a major investment into Nexo's STM modular line array technology, purchasing 18 sets of STM M46 and B112 main and bass cabinets, together with 24x STM S118 subbass cabinets. This inven
Jazz Open Hamburg is one of leading jazz festivals in Germany. Since 1996, musicians from Hamburg and musical guests from around the world present the current jazz trends on the two days in July - in front of up to 10,000 music fans each year. For the 21st edition of the legendary festival, the visitors enjoyed concerts by Grammy winner Omar Sosa, jazz piano player Jacob Karlzon and the NDR Bigband.
In addition to the musical stars, a small stage detail drew a great deal of attention: the Gravity stands. On both days of the festival the stands ensured stability for the artists' performances - and convinced with their user-friendly
This summer's BoomTown Fair saw the introduction of over 80 street venues and an increased capacity of 60,000, making it the biggest year to date. The fully immersive festival features nine individually themed districts, impressive main stages and an eclectic line up of music and entertainment with the introduction of Sector 6, a brand new district and witnessed performances from Madness, Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley and Fat Freddy's Drop.
Utopium provided festival lighting and rigging to 12 main stages and venues, which included the Town Centre, The Lion's Den, The Jolly Dodger, The Old Mines, The Ballroom, Rusty Spurs and Tangled Roots.
To illuminate The Lion's Den stage, which is the largest reggae stage in
Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of SRae Productions have created a lightshow that does more than keep pace with the group's supercharged performance, they've also added an immersive sense of depth and drama to the Carnival of Madness stage with help from Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures, supplied by Bandit Lites.
Routhier and Long, who are the scenic as well as the lighting designers for the Shinedown tour, position the five-headed moving Rogue fixtures on seven ladders located upstage behind the set. This arrangeme
All bands within the EMEA region - Europe, Middle East and Africa - irrespective of genre can participate. All they have to do is upload a band profile in English and an accompanying YouTube video to prove their live performance skills. In addition to receiving Shure gear worth 5,000 Euro, the winning band will perform at one of the world's most famous festivals, the Montreux Jazz Festival. Plus, a professional video crew will be present to film the entire Montreux performance, a copy of which will be provided to the winning band as a memento.
A live performance demands a great deal of any artist. There is no chance to re-record anything,
"The new addition of Midas, Klark Teknik and Turbosound to our existing portfolio has re-awoken us, and our customers, who are completely thrilled to have access to even more award-winning products produced by Music." commented Ennio Prase, CEO of Prase Media Technologies. "We thrive on truly getting to know our customers and this makes for an ideal relationship with Music - it is built of 4,000 people who believe in exactly the same values as we do."
Chris Hinds, senior manager of Touchpoint Europe at MUSIC added, "Music looks for partners that live and breathe our core values. Prase offer an outstanding customer experience with an after sales support which is second to none. They are already doing amazing work in Italy so this is just the v
Provided by Allen & Heath's Indian distributor, Sun Infonet, both companies selected the flagship S7000 Surface with DM64 MixRack as part of an upgrade to their hire inventories.
"Our team recently expanded, and the technical demands of our clients has increased in recent times, so I needed to invest in a new digital board, and Allen & Heath was the obvious choice," explains Systematic Inc.'s owner, Vinod Bangera. "I have been using Allen & Heath mixers for more than 15 years, starting with the GL3300 and the ML Series, and I always loved the pre amp of the analogue mixers.
"However, the main reason I chose dLive was the 96k processing capability, and during testing, I was ve
The new purpose-built Bridge Community Church is a multipurpose building catering for conferences and live events, as well as weekly church services. The newly completed development provides the church with a comprehensive community centre that includes a 1000-capacity auditorium, café and other facilities.
"We use Elation products on all of our lighting installations due to the finished result and also the price of the units compared to similar products," stated Tim Mortimer, installations manager at Wigwam Acoustics. Wigwam has a well established reputation for work in churches and cathedrals, so was well placed to design, supply and install a com
Dubbed 'After Dark' these annual concerts are held in secret - the audience contacted via text message and given a series of clues that would take them across the estate, unbolting doors, through maze-like hallways, searching down woodland pathways and exploring the unseen parts of the Darlington Hall.
With performances by The Mountain Firework Company, Adem, Fiona Bevan, Moulettes, Oh Pep and Laura Moody, the concerts were held over a series of weeks during the summer.
"I chose the acts for After Dark because I loved their music." says Daniel. "All of them are artists I've met either on the road, at festivals or at gigs from all corners of the gl
By engaging Stage Audio Works the church solved a classic dilemma at the same time, as head of sound for worship music, Andrew Illgner explained, "Our pastors André and Wilma Olivier, never wanted it to be two churches, those at the front feeling fully engaged, and those at the back, a little removed. So it's in how we address our audience where the benefits of ArrayProcessing have proved such a discernible difference."
ArrayProcessing (AP), an advanced line array optimization tool from d&b audiotechnik, was not yet ava
Recent months has seen the continuing steady growth of alliance membership, with 13 new member companies joining in July and August alone.
Commenting on the milestone of surpassing 50 member companies, AIMS chairman Michael Cronk said, "Since the founding of AIMS last December, we have experienced a rapid rate of growth in our membership. This reflects a wide and increasing awareness that a common, open standards based approach to IP Interoperability is the best way forward."
Axon designs and markets high quality broadcast equipment for the conversion, processing, routing and compliance recording of audio and vid
Martin used 12 x BMFL Blades, eight BMFL Spots and 12 x Pointes for the lighting element of his piece, which mixed the mediums of lighting and monumental projection to illuminate a section of the wall approximately 100m long.
The idea was to build a 10-minute animated show that painted the wall with light ... examining the connection between the ancient stone wall and the cutting-edge technology of the lighting fixtures that are bringing it to life in multiple layers. Using this "magnificent historical heirloom as a canvas
Filmed at Fountain Studios and based on a live Edinburgh show, this new series hosted by Dara O'Briain sees team captains Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon compete in five rounds of hilarious gaming contests to be crowned the 8 Bit Champion. In each episode they'll each be joined by as celebrity guest with names such as Bob Mortimer, Russell Howard, Rachel Riley and Gina Yashere taking part throughout the run. They'll be competing in video games both retro and current and it'll be up to the live audience and resident gaming expert Ellie Gibson to decide who will come up trumps in the battle for gaming glory.
For this vibrant set, Roger has employed VL1000TS, VL3000 Spots and Robin 600 LED Wash. A
The announcement of the TV shortlist follows Theatre and Concert Touring and Events which were disclosed earlier this month. The 2016 TV judging panel is made up of Stuart Gain (chairperson) and STLD committee members John O'Brien, Andrew Dixon and Alan Luxford. The shortlist is as follows:
THE PHILIPS VARI-LITE AWARD FOR DRAMA - Sue Gibson for Death in Paradise, Martin Kempton for Upstart Crow and John Sorapure for Hunderby
THE LIGHT INITIATIVE AWARD FOR EVENTS - Nigel Catmur for Tom Jones and Rob Brydon: One Big Night, Bernie Davis for BBC Proms Season 2015/2016 and Roger Williams and Zac Nicholson for The Sound of Music Live
THE PRG XL VIDEO AWARD FOR LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT - Philip Brines for B
Over 500 loudspeakers, 20 digital mixing desks and 100 radio microphones were used to provide stunning sound on a range of high profile shows. The Warehouse provided a range of diverse audio solutions for the spectacular opening & closing shows at the EIF as well as a diverse range of shows across the Festival's calendar from 5-29 August 2016.
As a lead partner supplier to the EIF, the company provided the audio solutions for Alan Cumming's residency at The Hub, Sigur Ros at the Edinburgh Playhouse, Ba
"FloppyFlex is working out great," says Rob Sinclair. "I particularly like the brightness, smoothness and vibrancy of the colours, as well as its versatility. We have about 100m of the RGB FloppyFlex for the stage and backdrop, all driven by ProPlex RGB Drives. Built into individual stage sections and backdrop, it's easy to set up and break down and the system is very reliable. I intend to use FloppyFlex again and am recommending it to other designers."
Brilliant Stages of the UK supplied the lighting gear for the tour, which also
These were specified by Chris Moylan of Berlin based Optikalusion, who was the lighting designer and programmer for all the entertainment spaces, amounting to the theatre, AbtanzBar nightclub, the Studio and pool deck stage. This follows up his very successful Robe installation on Mein Schiff 3 in 2014 and Mein Schiff 4 in 2015.
For this latest vessel built in Meyer Turku Shipyard in Finland, explained Chris, the entertainment areas have been expanded. Klanghaus which was previously a very basic 'music chamber' has evolved into a full Studio performance space staging numero
