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USA - Elation Control Systems has introduced the DMX Partner, a hand-held DMX recorder/playback unit that will accept information from any universal DMX-512 controller. The DMX Partner is capable of commanding a professional intelligent light show, while fitting comfortably in the palm of a hand, say Elation.

The DMX Partner features 96 DMX channels, and can hold eight chases of up to 99 steps each. It can also hold two light shows of up to 99 steps each, with separate speed and fade time adjustment. It also includes a mini-joystick in the center that can be assigned to fixtures for pan and tilt control.

Chases and shows can be played back either in Sequence Mode, one at a time, or in Mixed Mode with all eight chases and two shows playing during one session. When in Mixed Mode, the DMX Partner will incorporate the HTP Principle (Highest Takes Precedence). Under the HTP Princip

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UK - The Trafalgar Square 200 - The Spirit of Nelson spectacular which took place on October 23, was authored, created and produced by London-based production company, Innovision.

Innovision's aims were to combine artistic production with interactive theatrical techniques. Stage Electrics and lighting designer Durham Marenghi also played key roles.

The result of was a stunning array of lighting in patriotic colours, illuminating Nelson's column. Equipment used to create these effects included 16 Space Cannons, 4 Syncrolite B52s and a combination of 60 Martin MAC 2000W and MAC 600NT units.

Some 700 crew and cast, many of whom are Navy and Sea Cadet personnel took part and an estimated audience of 10,000 attended. Captain Steve Bramley, director of marketing and publicity, Trafalgar 200 commented, "This was a bold and challenging event that we believe struck

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Austria - Austria's largest privately held brewery, Stiegl, in Salzburg, is on the move. Following plans by the well-known Austrian architectural firm, Atelier Burgstaller, a newly built brewing area was recently completed - a glass extension of the old building. The area is also used to hold seminars on beer and brewing and receives a good deal of visitors.

Modern brewing boilers - formerly made of copper - are today made of stainless steel. For that reason, and in order to create an authentic atmosphere for guests that resembles the older look of those traditional copper boilers, Lichtdesign of Salzburg proposed a controllable, dynamic lighting solution for the new brewing area.

Some 19 controllable Alien 02 colour changers from Martin Architectural are now mounted in two circles on the ceiling to provide a variety of dynamic lighting looks. With the touch of a button tour g

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UK / Americas - Pulsar is pleased to confirm that Jerry Colmenero has joined Pulsar as sales manager for the Americas. Colmenero, who will be based in Texas, will offer support and develop Pulsar's activities in the Americas, and in particular will act as a support mechanism for the company's distributors in Canada, USA, Mexico and South America.

Pulsar's managing director Paul Mardon said: "The Americas are an important sector of our business; Jerry's appointment will ensure that we are in a position to react quickly to the needs of our customers in the region."

Andy Graves, head of sales and marketing said "Jerry is well known in the lighting industry and in particular his knowledge of the US industry will greatly enhance our market presence and customer support goals."

Pulsar will be exhibiting its comprehensive ChromaRange LED solution products at the

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UK - Neil Riley and Mark McClellan of Liverpool-based Absolute Lighting & Events have created an extensive LED environment for the newly-opened Viper Lounge bar restaurant in the Warrington suburb of Stockton Heath. The company designed the split-level interior entirely around the products distributed by Lighting Effects Distribution (LED Ltd) to produce a result which Riley describes as "quite spectacular".

Absolute has incorporated a wide range of products to achieve maximum impact, including 46 x 3W stair light 'injectors' placed in the venue's entrance and on the stairs to the second floor. Two sets of Alkalite Riva 80 recessed 8-head LED colour-change systems have been placed in the ceiling at various points, and two sets of the Octopod 30 8-head systems have been used to create strips of light along the length of the recessed ceiling.

Absolute has also used &qu

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Australia / India - Australian lighting control manufacturer, LSC Lighting Systems has appointed Acoustic Control of Bangalore as its stockist and distributor for India. Acoustic Control will be responsible for the importation, distribution network and technical support of LSC's lighting control desks, DMX network products and the complete range of portable and installation dimming systems.

Acoustic is already well established as one of India's leading audio and lighting suppliers. Their staff includes LDs, console programmers, service technicians and CAD experts, to provide a total service to the customer, either directly or via their network of resellers throughout India. The company has made a heavy investment in LSC and its products, purchasing the entire stock from the large LSC stand at the recent PLASA Show in London.

Ian Pope, LSC's business development manager, recent

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UK - Adlib Lighting - newly streamlined and fresh from major investments in Martin Professional, James Thomas Pixel range technology, Highend systems and motors from LTM - supplied production, lighting and crew for the recent Royksopp tour.

Sister company Adlib Audio also supplied sound for the two largest gigs of the UK tour - Brixton Academy and Manchester Apollo - plus selected effects and 'specials' for FOH engineer Patrick Walsh for the whole tour which covered three weeks in the UK plus European dates.

Adlib Lighting supplied Royksopp LD Dave Ross with a rig of specials for the entire tour, including 6 Martin MAC 2Ks, 6 PixelPARs and 6 PixelLine 1044s and one of the latest High End Systems Hog IPC consoles with an expander Wing.

For the Brixton and Manchester shows, additional lighting equipment included 12 PixelLine 1044s, 2 MAC 2Ks, 12 HES Studio Beam wash lights, 12

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USA - Compulite Systems, manufacturer of the Vector line of lighting control consoles, will offer free Vector training sessions throughout the first two days of the ETS-LDI exhibition next week (11 & 12 November). Two sessions will be held each day, at 11:00am and 2:30pm. The two hour sessions will take place in a dedicated room at the convention center, with several consoles available for hands-on training.

Participants will receive an overview of the console, as well as basic setup, operation and a taste of advanced features such as Matrix programming, Multimedia attachments and bi-directional WYSIWYG integration.

Registration is by email - please indicate name and preferred session.

(Lee Baldock)

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Canada - Cast Software reports two new partnerships which add to the growing list of manufacturers that are bundling their consoles with WYSIWYG Perform Console Edition (CE), the lighting design and pre-visualization software.

Leprecon Pro Lighting will offer LP-X users the option of pairing a copy of WYSIWYG CE with every LP-X48 and LP-X24 console. The Leprecon LP-X series lighting consoles will control up to 1024 DMX channels of moving lights and static instruments.

Lehigh Electric Products Co. will bundle WYSIWYG CE with their Millennium Series of consoles, providing seamless integration of all available features, including visualization, AutoPatch, fixture selection, and AutoFocus.

"These new partnerships are adding to the industry buzz, confirming that manufacturers want to join forces so they can offer their customers a complete solution," says Gilray Densham

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USA - Chauvet reports that despite the difficulties caused by hurricane Wilma, the company is fully operational and will attend next week's LDI show and conference as planned. Last week, the company lost power, phone and e-mail communications in the aftermath of the hurricane. Thankfully, neither Chauvet's main office nor any of its warehouses sustained structural damage, but the company's management determined that it was best to keep employees at home for the week out of consideration for the hardships and safety concerns caused by the hurricane.

CEO Albert Chauvet said that dealers and distributors have been overwhelmingly supportive. "We thank every dealer, every employee and every customer for sticking together through these trying times. Our employees specially deserve our admiration for putting aside their own personal concerns to serve customers. If anything, we've

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USA - Entertainment Technology is to release software version 3.0 for the Marquee and Marquee ILC lighting control consoles at the 2005 ETS-LDI Trade Show in Orlando, Florida.

"We are very excited to be releasing software version 3.0 for the Marquee lighting control consoles," stated Alan Keen, entertainment technology product manager. "With this upgrade, the Marquee and the Marquee ILC are continuing to set themselves apart from the other consoles on the market."

Designed by Horizon Control, the new software version 3.0 will introduce the Effects Editor feature to the lighting control consoles. Along with allowing the user to build their own effects on to any lighting attribute, the Effects Editor feature will include pre-defined effects such as Ballyhoo, Cancan, Circle and Rainbow.

Also inside software version 3.0, the Indepe

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China - Color Kinetics Inc has announced a series of newly completed marquee installations in mainland China, reflecting its growing momentum in the region. Most recently, installation of Color Kinetics systems was completed at LG Tower, a multi-million dollar construction by LG Building Development Co Ltd, whose 460ft towers will be lit by more than 7,600ft of Color Kinetics' iColor Accent system.

Additionally, Color Kinetics' systems illuminate Sands Macao and Grandview Hotel in Macau, Garden Hotel in Guangzhou, the China Resource Centre building in Shenzhen, Tianjin (Yi Do Cam) Business Centre in Tianjin, Lilly's Restaurants and Nightclubs in Shanghai, and Chongqing Times Square in Chongqing, among others.

"Color Kinetics' success in mainland China reflects the strength of our technology, depth and quality of our product portfolio, and the timely execution of our on-go

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Europe - Lighting designer Craig Allnutt is using an Avolites Diamond 4 console on the current Bloc Party UK and European tour. Allnutt joined the Bloc Party team in February 2005 following the NME tour and had previously worked with Keane.

"I particularly like the way the Diamond 4 is set up and the fact that you can patch anything to anywhere," says Allnutt. "It's very simple to pick up, particularly if you have an Avolites background."

The rig on Bloc Party is slightly asymmetric to match the non-conventional nature of the band and their music. The rig consists of two 40ft trusses - front and rear - the upstage of which has four truss drop-beams off the bottom rail. There are five truss towers onstage all at different heights, to 'break up' the overall appearance of the space.

Moving lights are 11 SGM Giotto 400 Washes and 13 CMY Spots, which ar

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USA - Compulite's Vector lighting console was chosen by LD Jeff Lava for Audio Adrenaline's fall tour. Established for ten years, Audio Adrenaline is a leading Christian music group, with sales of over 3 million album sales and 18 number one radio hits.

The AudioA tour ran 26 shows in six weeks, and was Lava's first experience with Vector. "After having seen a demo of the desk at Bandit, I was very impressed and decided to try it out on my next tour," he commented.

"The learning curve was immediate. Within a few days I was running the console as if I had been doing it for years. I was specifically impressed with Compulite's support. Whenever I had a question, I called their product specialist and got an answer within minutes. When I ran across things I didn't like, I had Compulite's engineers call me for details, and on several occasions I received a software up

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UK - Shepherds Bush Empire recently hosted singer James Blunt on the first leg of his UK tour. Lite Alternative provided the lighting, with MAC 2000 Profiles and MAC 250 Washes. The MAC 2000s were chosen for their reliability, brightness and colours, say Lite Alternative - and as far as the lighting team were concerned, the fixtures lived up to their workhorse reputation: ". . . just worked and worked on a demanding tour where we played a huge variety of venue sizes . . ." says lighting operator Glen Johnson.

Paul Normandale, lighting designer at Lite Alternative, noted: "The MAC 250 Washes are small and punchy. We found them reliable and surprisingly bright, which was everyone's reaction that evening."

Johnson talked animatedly about the lights: "They are great units, which we are keeping on the design even for the Arena leg early next year. Nice beam

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USA - Martin Professional will be showing a prototype version of a new tungsten MAC luminaire, the MAC TW1, at the upcoming ETS-LDI show in Orlando. The MAC TW1 is a 1200W tungsten wash fixture that promises "an array of avant-garde features to equip the lighting designer with the broadest possibility of effects, colours and design".

Martin says: "Innovation runs through the product with newly patent pending technology removing any obstacle to creativity. The lower colour temperature of the MAC TW1 brings the warmth of traditional theatre and TV looks up to date. An innovative twin lens zoom system allows for greater flexibility in fixture placement without the need to change the front lens, and a full and comprehensive CMY colour mixing system provides a full range of colours, from delicate pastels to deep saturation."

The MAC TW1 features a choice of inte

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UK - black light has played a pivotal role in bringing over 10,500 visitors into the Perthshire Big Tree Country, by designing and building a spectacular lighting and video installation for the annual Enchanted Forest project.

For seventeen consecutive nights in late October and early November, visitors enjoyed the spectacle, with black light's work recognised by an interview on prime time BBC news programme Reporting Scotland.

Several different areas of woodland were looked at as potential venues by landowner the Forestry Commission. Faskally Wood, near Pitlochry, was chosen after consultation with black light project manager Paul McGreal about the creative possibilities it offered. "The site surrounds a small loch, so there was a lot of potential for using the water as a canvas," says McGreal. "It meant visitors would see the various installation

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USA - FocusTrack, the new database system for tracking and documenting the use of moving lights for theatrical productions, recently made its Broadway debut with the New York production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White. The show is previewing at the Marquis Theatre; its opening night is scheduled for 17 November.

FocusTrack was specified for the production by the show's lighting programmer, Vic Smerdon, who had successfully used FocusTrack to document the intricate moving light focuses on the show's London production. For New York, lighting designer Paul Pyant and his associate, David Howe, had adapted and expanded the rig, substituting new types of lights for some of the units used in London; the London FocusTrack allowed the team to match the focuses of the new units as well as providing all of the information needed to refocus the rig in New York.

FocusTra

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USA - Martin Professional will use LDI in Orlando to give a world premiere to three new products - a prototype version of the MAC TW1, an advanced tungsten wash fixture; Maxxyz PC, a computer based version of the popular Maxxyz console; and BigLite Xenon fixtures, high powered single arm moving heads.

Other new lighting, sound and fog effects on display will be the MAC 700 Profile; Stage Cyclo; MAC 250 Wash; updated versions of Maxxyz and the Maxedia Digital Media Composer; new Mania series lights; a new fan and multi-headed fog system from Jem smoke, plus a new subwoofer from Mach speakers.

The new MAC TW1 is a 1200W tungsten wash fixture that "brings to the stage features and patent pending technology to equip the lighting designer with the broadest possibility of effects, colours and design". A twin lens zoom system, full CMY colour mixing and choice of internal o

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Czech Republic - The LEDBlinder 196 LT (launched at Frankfurt this year) and the 4-lite version LEDBlinder148 which debuted at PLASA 2005, will be Robe's main new product focus at LDI. The 196 and 148 units are the brand's first entertainment based LED products. Both of these high-impact units are fitted into the industry-standard 8-lite and 4-lite casings.

LEDBlinder 196 is an LED version of the poplar 8-lite Molefey, a staple of the rock 'n' roll world, featuring 8 LED modules, each with 12 high power Luxeon RGB LEDs. Each two or four pairs of the 4 or 8-lite modules are separately controllable for additional effects and flexibility. This product is aimed at all stage lighting markets and television productions as well as arenas and venue installations of all sizes. Robe says that they are also particularly relevant for environments were space is tight, as the units emit virtu

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USA - A.C. Lighting is set to stage several major new product launches at LDI, alongside displays of its extensive inventory of entertainment technology brands. Chroma-Q will launch its Color Web - a modular, transparent LED matrix. The low cost 3' 3" square (1sq.m) panels provide 16 individually addressable colour mixing LED cells with a pitch of 10" (250mm), clip together easily on all four sides and can also be joined over distances for complete control of the display area shape and size.

Chroma-Q will also unveil its new Plus colour changer - the successor to the Original which combines its core features with new electronic features, increased capacity and other enhancements to provide greater flexibility and usability from the same low cost unit. The manufacturer's Color Block multipurpose LED fixture will also be on display with its full range of mounting options

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UK - Blackburn-based HSL supplied full lighting production and all lighting and video rigging for the recent Happy Mondays tour. This culminated in a massive sold-out late night show in Manchester Evening News Arena, taking the Madchester dance gurus back to their clubbing roots.

Lighting designer was Andy Liddle, who last designed for the Mondays back in the mid-eighties when they were supporting New Order. He was asked onboard to do these shows by tour manager Neil Mather. The tour was project managed for HSL by Mike Oates.

Liddle designed an adaptable rig based on four upstage/downstage 'fingers' of truss which were assembled in 10ft modules. This was for easy break down and installation into the smaller venues, whist still retaining the look and aesthetics of the stage. The fingers were raked with the upstage ends lower and the downstage ends higher points. At Manchester t

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UK - JTE's new PixelEights are rocking the streets of London as part of an exciting new window display at the Levi's Flagship Store in Regent Street. The rock & roll set is being used to promote the Levi's Ones to Watch 2005 Tour campaign that supports a number of new bands on a tour across the UK in December.

In conjunction with Levi's, communications agency Logistik created and installed a window concept, recreating the atmosphere and excitement of the Barfly venue in Camden using brick walls, backline, sound system and lighting rig.

Logistik's project director, Attila Keskin explains, "I wanted to add some pizzazz to the generic par rig - something that would really wow the people in the street! The PixelEights were recommended by PRG and as I had used PixelLine 1044s in the windows last year I was confident the fixtures would provide another dimension to the di

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UK - Sir Steve Redgrave is to flick the switch at 6pm on Sunday, November 20 - triggering a spectacular pyrotechnic display and more than four miles of lights across the city of Liverpool.

The five-time Olympic Gold Medallist will be joined at St George's Plateau with Everton FC's Australian ace Tim Cahill and Liverpool FC's Norwegian star John Arne Risse. Ex-Atomic Kitten singer Liz McLarnon, who tops a live music bill including X-Factor finalist Tabby, will also join them at the hour long show.

Professor Drummond Bone, Chairman of the Liverpool Culture Company, said: ''This year's switch-on will be a stunning show and is a celebration of the many successes for the city this year - not least by our two football clubs. It's fantastic that we are also ending our culture themed year Sea Liverpool, with one of the greatest watersports legends - Sir Steve Redgrave.''

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