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The new 600-seater home for Scotland's symphony orchestra, constructed in the centre of Glasgow, is described as a 'world-class' venue which has been acoustically balanced to very strict standards. Opened in late 2015, it was built with funding from a number of public and private sector organisations.

The RSNO approached professional technology equipment reseller, A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd., to propose a lighting solution for the new venue, with quality of light being a key element of the requirements.

"We were asked to deliver a solution that would be suitable not only for the audience, but also the orchestra, with thei

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As part of the annual style make-over given to the infamous Elstree residence, LED Creative has supplied almost 1500m of its new Alpha 60 LED System, which has been woven throughout the stylishly flamboyant interiors, adding intense colour and crisp highlights to the modern design.

To take care of the kilometre and a half of LED, the company has also provided 45 of the newly introduced BIT400 RGB Controllers. Featuring four outputs, each capable of handling 100W of RGB, the units are simple to set up and free from complexity; DMX controllable, silent, flicker free and ultra-compact, making them perfect for discreet placement and allowing flexibility and precise control throughout

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Simply ask Berlin-based freelance LD Rick Kay, who recently went on the road with '80s cult artiste Anne Clark, the British poet and spoken word performer.

Armed with video, lasers and an inventory of low-mass / high output LED heads from GLP he realized he could operate all the lighting from a single 13A socket.

"We were travelling in a van, and in the six weeks we were on the road the GLP X4 S and X1 really came into play," he admits. "LDs should consider these when they have to decide how much gear they can get into the available 2sq.m at the back of the van."

Having initially decided

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The shows started with a special gig at the Royal Albert Hall where Heart - known for the brevity and dynamics of their rock based music - was accompanied by the 67-piece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO). The same gig was filmed for release as a live DVD.

Says HSL MD Simon Stuart, "It was an honour to be involved in a unique collaboration like this at a magical venue, as well as to supply the rest of the Heart UK dates."

The tour was project managed on the road for HSL by Lester Cobrin and back at base in Blackburn by Sean McGlone, with Lester liaising directly with Heart's production manager Dale Doucette and lighting director Gabrielle Scheff who has worked with the band in various lighting capa

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Organisers Entel and Huaweii appointed Real Audio Sistemas to put together a suitable closing ceremony for the occasion. At 7:00pm, 24x Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330 lit up the sky of La Florida, along with six Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1500 that harmonized the lighting design. Large gobo beams set a powerful tone to this stage, all coming from the dazzling Mythos and Scenius fixtures that contributed to the scale of the event.

The backbone of the lighting performance was provided by W-DMX from Wireless Solution. Two BlackBox F-1 MKII transceivers were used, sending data from the console for more than 100m to the front truss line without disrupti

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Antonio Parise has gained an extensive sales experience working for many years in the lighting industry in the same position. He already knows many international distributors and he is well respected by all industry professionals for his integrity and reliability.

"DTS is in a positive trend due to the big success of the new products, and the reputation of our brand in the professional market is steadily growing, says Paolo Albani, sales and marketing director. "That's why we need some help to give our sales network the support they deserve. So we are really glad to welcome this passionate and motivated new colleague; Antonio is the perfect match to maintain and further boost this success."<

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The Eos Motorized Fader Wings will be released in conjunction with the Eos v2.4 software, which is geared toward the needs of programmers working in broadcast, music and live-event markets, and other complex gigs. The upcoming software update - scheduled for later this summer - expands the types of content that can be placed on playbacks and the types of controls and mapping that can be associated with them.

The Motorized Fader Wings are designed to optimise these new features, including size and rate overrides, faders that can preset to 50 percent for effect rate, and displays large enough to show the customise

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14 December 2016

Barn on The Farm is forging a serious reputation as a UK festival event for showcasing new and emerging talent and the brightest 'ones-to-watch' after show-stopping performances by artists like Ed Sheeran, Ben Howard, Bastille, Hozier and others all headlining past Barn on the Farm's just ahead of major career leaps.

Organisers Josh Sanger and Matt Keene have kept it intimate with 2,000 tickets and three stages; cutting edge with the lively and energised band line ups; and friendly, encapsulating the true spirit of a festival community - with the bonus of there being plenty of space to move.

MIRRAD became involved for the first

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The show is currently visiting various sites across the UK and, for the sixth year running, WL is providing the lighting and power equipment.

In The Night Garden Live! consists of two shows featuring stories about the main characters of Igglepiggle and Makka Pakka. Andrew Fidgeon is production electrician on the show. He comments, "In The Night Garden Live! is a unique show. Not only are there four performances a day but every show takes place in a purpose-built s

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This year's event had an appropriately expansive lightshow, thanks in part to the addition of the Rogue R1 FX-B LED fixture from Chauvet Professional.

Lighting designer John Hollingshead used 12 of the new Rogue fixtures, supplied by The Design Oasis, to create big, sweeping, transformative looks on stage that belied the relatively small size of his rig. The five independently controlled 3-watt RGB LED moving heads in each Rogue fixture, along with some extremely fast pan and tilt movements, helped

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The event was staged at Carnival City in Gauteng and showcased in a two-hour live broadcast on South Africa's M-Net and Mzansi Magic channels. Alongside the competition, a line-up of South African acts entertained the live audience and thousands of viewers at home, including MTV Africa Music Award-winning group Mi Casa.

Cutts worked alongside Centurion-based technical supplier and event production house Dream Sets to deliver the sparkling production for the second consecutive year. He positioned 16 Mythos across multiple arches which framed the main stage.

"The Mythos were used on the main arch because of their punchier ou

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Kicking off in Nice, France, on 24 May, the tour continued throughout Europe and featured, as Coldplay's legions of fans have come to expect, only the highest production values - state-of-the-art lighting, pyrotechnics and Xylobands for the audience (wristbands featuring flashing lights that synchronise with the music).

When designing the concept for the tour, lighting designer, Paul Normandale, came back to an old challenge: "I needed an IP-rated wash fixture - as well as a blinder - that would be reliable and crew friendly," explains Paul. "Often in stadium situati

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BigFish specified 18 Ovation E-910FC colour rendering RGBA-Lime fixtures for the event's three stages (Lions Innovations, Lions Health and Lions education) that hosted speakers, demonstrations and panel discussions. The company also hung 24 Nexus 4x4 COB LED panels above the audience and the conference's exhibition area. The Nexus units were used as house lights as well as creati

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Lighting for the tour has been designed by Cory FitzGerald with the rig including Robe Pointes plus two BMFL Spots which are being utilized as rear follow spots.

It's Cory's first work for Bieber. When he came on-board, the production design created by production manager Chris Gratton and creative director Nick DeMoura was already evolving, together with video content produced by Michael Figge of Possible.

Fifty-six Robe Pointes are rigged on the upstage trusses and under the downstage flying catwalks, which are used for many scenes and effects, primarily as the high-powered beam lights for which they are renowned.

"They are great fixtures," he states, "fast, punchy and with lots of tools under the h

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Ann Desender joined Barco in 2008 and has been leading Barco's global finance team since 2010. She will succeed Carl Peeters as a member of Barco's Core Leadership Team and will report directly to the CEO.

Carl Peeters joined Barco in 1987. His initial roles were in business development. He took up his first senior finance role as CFO of BarcoNet in 2000. He was appointed group CFO of Barco NV in 2010.

Eric Van Zele, CEO of Barco and Jan De Witte, CEO designate, commented, "Carl has been a long term senior manager with Barco and throughout his career has played an important rol

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Nano-RX modules have been installed into Look Solutions Viper 2.6 smoke machines and Pea Soup Phantom hazers to provide full wireless control of the output and variable blower control.

Andy Thompson, of AC Lasers notes: "It is important to have full, balanced coverage of haze in arenas or outdoor festival stages for lasers to look their best, and W-DMX

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Fitted with an Osram Laser Phaser P6000 phosphor conversion module, DreamSpot-18K is capable of both beam and spot projection and offers an 18,000 lumen output, in a uniform beam with no hot spots, plus continuous pan and tilt capability.

DreamSpot-18K's zoom is composed of a 13-element optical system that provides a range of 2° to 34° in Beam mode and 6° to 54° in Spot mode. The monochrome laser emitter is colour calibrated at 5,600°K, negating the need for relamping due to colour variations.

DreamSpot-18K offers a CMY subtractive colour mixing system and a wheel of 13 standard colours that include four levels of CTO correction. It is capable of producing an almost infinite palette of pastel and saturated colours, says the company.

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"We first played a theatre tour and really liked the intimate feel," he said. "So when we moved up to arenas this year I tried to 'resize' the show to maintain an intimate setting for her and her band."

Helping him achieve this was a combination of GLP's X4 (Tunable White) LED fixtures and 32 of the new X4 Bar 20 battens. With the Muttersprache album having gone platinum, the shows were performed entirely live, with no computer based backing tracks. Thus Bertil decided to create a visually slow moving vibe to pick out the music accents, with a combination video/lighting set where the video walls acted more as a scenic digit

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With the Midnight Mafia organisers promising to deliver "the biggest event to date", the pressure was certainly on LD Arian Yegenah to come up with an entertaining visual concept to delight the expectant 7,000 partygoers. To award the 5,400sq.m space with an added visual dimension, Chamelion touring systems Australia acquired 14 x Chauvet Professional Vesuvio RGBA fixtures from Australian distributor Showtools to provide Yegenah with illuminated fog effects to fill the impressive event space.

Yegenah placed two Vesuvio RGBA fixtures on each of the seven moving truss arms suspended from the ra

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Silence and the LED lightsource were both keys when it came to deciding which luminaires to invest in for this latest purchase, and although competitor products had been used in their concert and recital venues before, they were too noisy for this type of performance explained Marco.

He and the lighting team of four work across the Philharmonie concert hall in Haarlemhe Philharmonie's two main venues - De Kleine Zaal capacity 412 and The Great Hall, with 1220 sets, and also the Stadschouwburg (City Hall) which is about 2k away, still in the city centre.

What is now the Philharmonie re-opened in 2005 after extensive renovations incorporating the original building and its performance spaces dati

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Similar to the original productions, daytime performances within the venue have always used natural daylight, whilst evening shows use a broad wash of tungsten floodlighting. Now, for the first time ever, the venue is installing a theatrical lighting rig and has approached WL to provide the equipment.

The rig has been installed as part of Emma Rice's first season as artistic director. The lighting designer is Malcolm Rippeth, who is also lighting two of the shows in the opening season.

He comments, "The Globe has always been a space for experimentation which is reflected by the introduction of theatri

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Due to the re-orientation of the InfoSport+ editorial line, a new studio was created by French designer, Philippe Désert, which led to new lighting requirements. Engineering project manager, Jean-Marc Delage, decided on Robert Juliat Tibo neutral white LED profiles, on the advice of French lighting director, Frédéric Dorieux.

This is not the first time Robert Juliat Tibo LED profiles have been favoured by Canal+. The same model was installed in 2013 at the InfoSport+ studio, at that time with a white body colour to blend with the studio's white feature ceiling. Successful comparative tests w

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Tickets will sell out fast, so secure a place now by visiting the Showlight website. The 'register' link will direct you straight to Showlight's registration page on the Eventbrite website where you can choose your tickets. Delegates have a choice of two ticket options: Full Delegate or Papers Session Only Delegate.

Full Delegate ticket holders enjoy the whole event which, in addition to the Papers sessions, includes the Saturday evening reception, the Sunday evening company-sponsored dinners, Monday afternoon visits to places of cultural interest, and the main Showlight Gala Dinner.

Altern

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The secondary ticketing market in the UK is thought to be worth more than £1bn a year. But the music industry is concerned that fans are being excluded from concerts by "professional" resellers, who scoop up tickets as