Lighting

Details

14 March 2016

The 'official' tournament Breakfast was hosted by North Melbourne and staged in hall 2 of Melbourne Exhibition Centre, with all lighting and rigging supplied by Clifton Productions. The rig included Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E AT moving lights.

A long day of great entertainment ended with the post match After Party, held in the Punt Road Oval (home of Richmond Cricket Club) in downtown Melbourne - with Cliftons again supplying lighting, staging - and more Robe moving lights.

Lighting design for the Breakfast was a collaboration between Alex Saad (also the event's moving light operator) and TV lighting director Don Collins (who operated the generics). Cliftons' main systems tech was Michael Parsons.

The stage set w

Details

14 March 2016

The five day event has been running for the past 23 years, and Bruce Kirk has been working on it for 22 of those. The event began as a promenade concert inside the beautiful Temperate House, once the largest plant house in the world and now the world's largest surviving Victorian glassstructure. Kirk was lighting designer for the second concert and soon became overall production manager. He is now Kew's consultant production manager for this and other major events at the gardens.

"When I first started working on the event, it was for a few hundred people inside the Temperate House," explains Kirk. "Now we have

Details

14 March 2016

One of the most successful comedy and entertainment venues at the Fringe, The Gilded Balloon was established in 1986 and now operates eight spaces at what is, in real life, Edinburgh University's student union building.

In addition to the SmartFade MLs, Northern Light project manager Calder Sibbald also supplied two ETC Congo jr lighting control desks and five SmartFade desks, as well as various ETC Source FourR luminaires.

Calder says: "I recommended the Gilded Balloon take ETC equipment for the festival because of the quality of the equipment, as well as the superb after-sales service provided by the company, especially by their associateregional manager for UK & Irelan

Details

14 March 2016

"While everyone at Apollo shares a concern for the environment and workplace safety, switching technologies could not happen overnight," states company founder and president Joel Nichols. "We have been transitioning into this new process for over a year to ensure laser technology met or exceeded the quality and service standards our customers have come to expect from Apollo. We are extremely pleased to be delivering our products in a cleaner, safer way."

(Jim Evans)

Details

14 March 2016

A Broadway lighting designer will provide "inspiration." A dozen theatre lighting professionals will speak. About 20 manufacturers will be on hand and have technical personnel and equipment to demonstrate.

Sonny Sonnenfeld says, "the programme is designed to educate beginners and new professionals who seek additional training. It will be 10 hours of hard work, fun, and a great learning experience."

(Jim Evans)

Details

14 March 2016

"Soon we will launch a new feature allowing control of several DMX universes in stand alone mode," says a spokesman." Because of the increasing number of DMX channels required by large LED installations, we added a tool to control several DMX universes simultaneously. This is possible using SLESA-IP1 interfaces synchronised with each other, all within the same local network."

(Jim Evans)

Details

14 March 2016

"Since we launched our InfoTrace System last year, our customers tell us they really want all of their professional lighting devices to communicate and give maintenance and troubleshooting feedback," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "By giving away the RDM source code, we hope to support the professional lighting industry's universal adoption of the RDM standard."

"We think RDM is especially important because it gives users the ability to secure vital information from individual devices, making it easier to maintain and troubleshoot the entire installation," sai

Details

14 March 2016

Clay Paky will also be showing a number of new and recently introduced products.

The Alpha Spot HPE 300 is billed as "compact, light, very silent, easy to install and extremely bright (16,000 lux [15°] at 5m), with superior graphic and optical performances.

With the same optical, lighting engineering and constructional qualities as the Alpha Spot HPE 300, the Alpha Spot 300 is fitted with two 8+1 colour wheels combinable together, 15 gobos (eight fixed and seven rotating), morphing effect, rotating prism, 0-100% Dimmer on dedicated channel and stop/strobe.

The Alpha Wash 300 is a compact, light

Details

14 March 2016

Dr Craford's research work at Philips Lumileds and previously at Monsanto and Hewlett-Packard has enabled the product innovations that have seen the LED transformed into a viable, energy efficient replacement for traditional incandescent and fluorescent light sources. Philips Lumileds LUXEON LEDs are now used in applications from architectural and entertainment lighting to retail and office luminaires and even vehicle headlights.

Tom Standage, business editor at The Economist, said, "George Craford and Roland Haitz's pioneering work on the development and commercialisation of LEDs means that the proportion of human energy consumption attributable to ligh

Details

14 March 2016

The Randy Parton Theatre is a 1,500-seat show palace with state-of-the-art sound, lighting and video. Bandit sales and design associate, Chris Barbee was hired to be the lighting and rigging system designer and project manager for the permanent installation.

Barbee chose to use six High End Systems DL2s, 16 Martin MAC 700s, 18 Martin MAC 600s, six High End Studio Command 700s, 80 Source 4 Lekos, 100 Source Four PARS and 100 PAR 64 fixtures. 50 Chauvet COLORrado1s were added as truss and set toners as well as eight Chauvet COLORado3s. The lighting package was finished off with 15

Details

14 March 2016

The sold out event was attended by 20,000 dance and electronica enthusiasts who grooved the day and night away to an impressive line up of international artists like Digitalism, Shapeshifter, Justice, Scratch Perverts, Riot In Belgium M.I.A. and many, many more, appearing across four stages - Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.

Mutton's primary challenge was in making the lighting as flexible and dynamic as possible across all performance areas, so each operator had enough options for all the acts to have their own unique light-show. They also had to accommodate several visiting LDs.<

Details

14 March 2016

Lighting designer Will Charles specified the PixelArt chandelier after seeing the structure at PLASA. He explains: "The chandelier was the perfect centrepiece to the set. The PixelArts look great on camera and I will definitely be incorporating them into my future designs."

The chandelier featured 100 PixelArts complementing the large moving light rig. Lighting operators David Bishop and Oliver Lifely both used Wholehog 2s - and programmed the PixelArts with a Catalyst Media Server.

The show was shot at 3 Mills studio in front of a live audience. The brief was to

Details

14 March 2016

A 200- seat auditorium, the theatre has long been a popular and much-used facility within the school but found itself in need of some updating to meet modern health-and-safety requirements - and the demands of new productions.

White Light's technical sales manager Roger Hennigan worked with staff at the school to figure out the best way of approaching the refurbishment to ensure that the school saw the best possible return on their investment.

At the same time, White Light carried out a comprehensive upgrade of both the rigging and electrical systems in the theatre. The rigging system now has four motorised winches for lighting, four hemp

Details

14 March 2016

The exhibition demanded a lighting system that was flexible enough to allow distinct colour washed areas, but with the capacity to colour change; creating drama and atmosphere. The team specified Batmink Par 64 LED Cans, a bri

Details

14 March 2016

32 Degrees co-owner Barry Gutin wanted to stay a jump ahead of the city's fierce competition, so he commissioned Scott Kemly of Powerhouse Sound (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) to give the lounge a lighting makeover.

Having done the original installation, Kemly had ideas on not only how to update the room, but how to do so with minimal structural modification and expense. Previously, there had been a huge sphere in the centre of the ceiling, lit by purple neon. S

Details

14 March 2016

Williams joins Dialight Lumidrives with over 22 years' experience in the lighting industry. He joins having previously worked in product sales for DW Windsor, Philips and Concord.

George joins as design engineer having worked in CAD design for Creda/Hotpoint and most recently as design and development engineer for Victor Manufacturing.

Gordon Routledge, managing director at Dialight Lumidrives says: "Both appointments reflect our continued investment in the Solid State Lighting market. We are strengthening continually our sales and design departments to help maintain our current levels of growth."

(Jim Evans)

Details

14 March 2016

This unique cultural event featured over 300 performances from artists such as Kunal Ganjawalla, Shreya Goswal, Shaan to Udit Naraya, just to name a few. Each day saw a crowd averaging 10,000 spectators with an audience culminating at 15 000 on the closing day of the festival. The sound system consisted of 10 V-DOSC per side and eight ARCS.

The National newspaper The Hindu reported: "Both sound and lighting systems were top notch and they brought a tremendous contribution to the general atmosphere of the festival and definitely enhanced the listening pleasure of the audience."

(Jim Evans)

Details

14 March 2016

Fx Road Lights has been handling G-LEC products and technology for four years, during which time the company has been involved in many big events and projects, including custom signage for Casino Lisboa, which opened last year. Based in Lisbon, the joint venture, G-LEC Portugal LDA, will strengthen G-LEC's in the Iberian Peninsula marke, says the company.

Lars Wolf, managing director of G-LEC Europe comments, "Setting up the joint venture makes it possible for us to provide more support to Fx Road Lights and increases our options in the area. We have worked with Leocádia Maria Baioa da Silva for many years and now look forward to even more success in Portugal."

(Jim Evans

Details

14 March 2016

All models of the X-Band 300 II feature built in power supplies for direct AC power input from 100-260v. This allows the user to run power and data direct to each unit without the need of an external power or data driver plus; you can link up to 20 units from one power/data source on 120v power and 40 units from a 220v power. Acclaim also offers a junction box (CC-JB1) as an option for customers, which provides a Neutrik Power-Con input connector and 3-pin Neutrik DMX input connector. The CC-JB1 combines those two into one multi-core cable/connector trun to link to multiple units.

The X-Band 300 II is ava

Details

14 March 2016

The organisations involved include the Arts Council London, the Theatres Trust, the Independent Theatre Council, Equity and a number of key players from the industry who have all agreed to work with the Mayor to produce a Climate Change Action Plan for London Theatre.

Climate change is a key priority for the Mayor and this announcement builds on his Climate Change Action Plan launched in February this year. The Plan states that London can achieve the 60% reduction in carbon emissions that th

Details

14 March 2016

Speaking at London's Wembley Arena after she had finished focussing the lights, Westerberg explained: "I got the desk in January, and within the hour, I had everything programmed in and was up and running. The same was true when Damien was playing at festivals over the summer - because I had my own desk, we could get going so quickly."

In addition to nine 19º and eight 36º Source Four profile spotlights, the Arena rig included battens, floodlights, snow machines, foggers and some 40MAC moving lights.

(Jim Evans)

Details

14 March 2016

For Marr, an enthusiastic exponent of video and lighting 'convergence', the MiTrix added a new edge and depth to the show as well as providing surfaces for his custom created video clips. These were all sorted on and played back through two layers of the Catalyst.

The account was handled for XL by Jo Beirne and Phil Mercer who comment, "Stevie always comes up with new and refreshing ideas, and it's been great to see Maximo Park's video design evolve. He knows what he wants and is great to work with on all levels."

The MiTrix are arranged in seven rectangular columns of variou

Details

14 March 2016

Juhani Vitikka, Soundata CEO and partner for Soundata says, "We are excited about representing High End Systems products in Finland, as the country is known for a unique variety of entertainment - perfect for High End's unique products."

Soundata showed off the new product line at Audiovisual 2007 in Helsinki. The international trade fair is the most important professional event of the year in the Nordic region for professionals, designers and decision-makers in the audiovisual and corporate event markets. Soundata's booth demonstrated Road Hog and Wholehog 3, as well as Showgun and DL.2.

M

Details

14 March 2016

Madrix 2.1 improves all features from the older versions that make working with LED installations a one-click affair, the company says. Madrix supports DMX512 and ArtNet interfaces and includes an installation CD-ROM, a software protection dongle and an English user guide.

(Jim Evans)