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14 March 2016

To mark the release of their fourth album Third, the so-called trip-hop band from Bristol has been touring Europe with visual design that matches artist John Minton's creative concepts with PSL display technology.

Behind the stage, three separate projection screens are used in combination, with either three individual displays or as one large landscape. A multitude of small cameras, positioned all over the stage amongst the musicians, provide live footage, which is also processed as a feedback effect and relayed onto the screen.

Visual artist John Minton explains that he wanted to keep the

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Le Moulin à Images (The Image Mill), is a spectacle of imagery and sound created by media innovator and artist Robert Lepage and his team at Ex Machina, recalling the history of Quebec City.

Each evening at sundown the grain silos on the banks of Louise Basin in the Port of Quebec will be transformed into an immense projection screen measuring 657m long and 33m high - some 40 million pixels - revealing this stunning work.

E/T/C Paris is installing a total of 27 Christie Roadster S+20K DLP video projectors for the project. Onlyview, E/T/C's multi-media control platform, will handle the programming, transmission and broadcasting of thousands of spectacular images, anima

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Commissioned by the SAF the Festival Maze art installation, disSPACEments was conceived and designed by local designer Chia Yu Hsien as a way of exploring the spatial articulation of moments along a journey. Each day from the 9th May - 22nd June, 2008 the public were invited to wander through this maze of twenty-five towers losing themselves in photographic memories and three dimensional forms.

Kamal Thapa of Phat-EventZ comments on the art of lighting this unique installation: "I decided to use two Selecon Lui Cycs to light up each of the twenty-five Maze towers with a blue gel in the

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The brief in the third annual contest staged by the Middleton Grove lighting design specialist was to design a high-end luminaire utilising Philips new 'Touch-dim' control gear with linear and circular TL5 fluorescent lamps technology. The competition has been designed to encourage innovation and awareness of the potential the lighting sector can offer and to recognise and reward good ideas.

A total of 14 third year BA (Hons) design students in Leeds Metropolitan University's School of Architecture, Landscape and Design entered this year's competition, with Chris judged the victor with his entry Luminous Attitude, a bespoke low energy lighting solution designed for u

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The main stage makes use of over 1,200 ways of ETC's Sine Wave dimming and switches, including 840 ways of ETC Matrix Mk II modular install dimmers and 360 ways of ETC distributed SineWave Power Bars. In addition to this, the Studio stage makes use of 260 ways of ETC Sensor+ SCR dimming.

Says project manager for Bico Professionel, S°ren J°rgensen: "The specification called for the same type of network and equipment as we already had at its sister venue, the Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House) - incl

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The workhorse of the massive automated lighting system, set to be the largest single automated lighting system ever assembled for a single event, and the largest Martin rig ever, is Martin's MAC 2000 Wash and new MAC 2000 Wash XB moving head luminaires.

Martin will be the largest automated lighting manufacturer represented at the Beijing Olympic Ceremonies with more Martin MAC 2000 Wash luminaires in use than any other single fixture in the lighting system. Most of the MAC luminaires will be rigged in the roof of the stadium with several hundred lining an upper balcony. Lighting design is by Chinese LD Sha Xiaolan with main

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Lighting designer Nick Gray explains: "For this show we wanted something a bit more subtle than a PixelLine 1044 or 110, but with just as much punch! The new PixelArt batten fitted the requirements perfectly." The stairwell contained 24 PixelArts which complemented the theatrics of the rest of the stage set - and their bright intensity was exactly what was needed for an opening entrance.

Nick continues: "We were looking for a more defined look

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The annual Rental & Staging Systems Awards, which recognize excellence in the design and production of new products, were held at InfoComm in Las Vegas last week. The awards for best new products in the rental and staging market, in which Barco's NX-4 won Best LED Product and DML-1200 won Best Lighting Product, were determined by a special Rental & Staging Systems Magazine readers' poll.

(Lee Baldock)

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Lighting designer, Greg Shipley primarily chose to use Coemar Halos, Martin MAC 2000Performances and MAC 600s to light the event. Lighting was controlled by a Compulite Vector Red.

Martin MAC 2000 Performances were used to provide an animated stage background. Custom glass gobos with the UT logo were projected onto the center screen. Shipley also added a water effect behind the UT logo using animation wheels. In addition to providing a stage wash, the Coemar Halos were used to light a brass band, which played offstage for the graduation entrance. Large projection screens with live footage of the event were added to either side of the stage. The event was also projected on the arena's newly renovated

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Lighting designer Nic Ayres chose Robe for his moving lights, which are supplied by Southampton-based rental company GLS, along with the rest of the lighting kit and technician Karen Brown. The stylish and minimal video-based scenic design was created by Bruce French. This gives the stage its basic architecture and definition, with two different sized Element Labs Stealth screen panels upstage, and eight 11m fingers of Superlite truss loaded with VersaTubes forming a gently asymmetric arc above the stage.

Content for the VersaTubes and the Stealth has been custom created by Mark Video, and he and Ayres worked closely during production rehearsals to ensure that lighting and video combine into coherent and seamless visual pictures for the show.

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The display, set up on 17th of May to mark World Refugee Day, came as the U.N. refugee agency reported a record 11.4 million people were driven from their home countries last year.

Organized by the UNHCR - UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Experience Darfur exhibition had white U.N. tents erected in the square and films of the UN work going on in Sudan and Chad were back projected on the windows and windshields of two Toyota vehicles.

Cinegel Silent Frost and Rosco's grey screen for rear projection were stuck on the inside of the windows and projectors were mounted inside the vehicles to provide images.

Cinegel Silent Frost is a relatively dense diffuse

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BMW led off the three-day gathering by unveiling the BMW X6 SUV in an airplane hangar at the DeKalb Atlanta executive airport. The reveal carried the theme 'Ready for Take Off,' in the converted airplane hangar that had been carpeted, furnished and detailed to create a ultra-modern look in line with BMW's branding. A stage was erected and a white-walled metal and plexiglass set installed. "The client was interested in a simple yet elegant lighting look," reports UVLD's Paul Sharwell who designed the lighting with UVLD's Jo

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Last year saw the introduction of the Hawk-Eye system at Wimbledon and Barco's OLite 612 LED screens were installed on No.1 Court to allow spectators to see the replays and judgment calls of the new electronic line-calling system.

Following the successful trial in 2007, the 122nd Championships at Wimbledon will see the traditional scoreboards on both courts replaced by full color LED displays. The di

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Disturbing News: Almost one in four secondary schools in England no longer has any specialist physics teachers, a survey suggests. The report, published by academics at the University of Buckingham, warns of a threat to the subject's future. The government has set targets to promote the number of physics teachers in secondary schools. But the report's authors wa

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Grant Thomas, sales director for Batmink, explains: "It soon became obvious that although still images and video footage give a flavour of what this flooring system can deliver, there is absolutely no substitute for seeing the floor operating 'in the flesh'. With this in mind, we have decided to take a 6m x 6m floor on a tour of the UK to enable interested parties to come and have a look, see a demonstration of its motion graphics and text capabilities and discuss any questions they might have."

The floor will be in Glasgow, on Monday 11 August, Leeds on Tuesday 12 August, Donington Park on Wednesday 13 August and London on Thursday 14 August. For more information regarding venues and

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Lighting designer Paul Nancollas used one grandMA full-size, one grandMA light and five MA NSPs. "The grandMA is the only desk capable of controlling something so complex, the choice was obvious," he says.

The show also used two grandMA video servers and was visualised via grandMA 3D. The design integrated over 2500 LED strips of various types from German manufacturer Schnick-Schnack-Systems. "I had used the B25 and B12 strips in previous shows to great effect so I was very excited when the C25

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"In my role as entertainment consultant to P&O Cruises I was instrumental in selecting Martin as the lead supplier to provide the moving light elements of the entertainment systems for Ventura," reports Chris Blackburn of Snap2Black.

Ventura incorporates flexible Martin lighting systems into several areas of the ship. "Most major entertainment areas are multi-use, although they do have a main use focus," says Blackburn. "They all have an identity."

The two-deck Arena Theatre is the ship's primary show space. "The brief was to augment the generic rig with moving light and mirror fixtures. There w

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Last year's inaugural Award was won by Tony Andrews of Funktion One for his decades of dedication to the advancement of loudspeaker design.

The Nomination phase of the 2008 Gottelier Award is now open, and industry professionals worldwide are being asked to put forward the names of individuals who they believe should be considered for this year's award.

Following the nomination period, a shortlist of the leading nominees will then be ope

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With such an eclectic array of performers, the lighting rig needed to be equally diverse and able to adapt to each unique show. Putting it all together again this year was lighting designer Paul Normandale, who laid out a spectacular rig on the main stages for the various guest LDs who came and lit individual shows. With so many artists and so many LDs in such a short period of time, once again flexibility was the order of the day.

Paul explains the brief: "The lighting had to be suitable for a live, multi-band event which has a constant BBC/TV broadcast element. So a bal

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Beccegato has extensive experience in the industry, previously owning his own creative agency called Sedicinoni SRL, based in Verona, Italy. There he also worked as senior designer and produced video graphics and other visualisations for events, business meetings and conventions, both in house and for other Italian communications agencies.

In his new role, Beccegato will be responsible for directing some of SPS's other graphic designers and taking the creative lead in corporate event projects. He will also be working alongside many of SPS's clients to establish briefs and to present and sell ideas.

Robin Coles, managing director at SPS commented, "Adding Jack to the team is a great boost to the creative arm of our

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Featured new products include tri-colour high power LED - billed as "a very interesting alternative to conventional spotlights, with all the advantages of LED devices.

(Jim Evans)

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At Jazz World, lighting was supplied by Essex-based DPL for the second year running, and designed by DPL director Pete Watts, who specified an Avo Diamond 4 Vision for his console. This was controlling 28 moving lights (a mix of Robe and Martin), an assortment of PARs, ACLs and ETC Source Four profiles, plus ChromaQ db4 LED battens, a backdrop of 42sq.m of ChromaQ ColorWeb LED and six Robe LED blinders on top of the PA towers.

The LED fixtures were fed with content from a Hippotizer v3 digital media server triggered by the D4. "The D4 is flexible, powerful and gives instant access to everything, which - when you have moving lights, generics, digital and

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Walmsley, renowned for his previous production designs for Pop Idol in the UK, turned to California-based Sweetwater Video to supply all video equipment for the show, including the 340 panels of Element Labs Stealth LED displays used to grace the stage during the finals in the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

The Stealth panels, configured to form four strips upstage centre and additional strips above and below the main LED screen, allowed Walmsley to create a design in which video and lighting integrated seamlessly within the overall set design.

"The Nokia Theater has an enormous stage that requires a significant volume of equip

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All lighting for the Jazz World stage was supplied by Essex-based DPL for the second year running, with 12 Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs and six Robe ColorWash 2500E AT's taking centre stage for DPL director Pete Watts' design.

DPL installed a trussing grid underneath Jazz World's 18m Serious Stages Orbit roof, and the moving lights were arranged across that, together with a selection of generics and 42sq.m of ChromaQ ColorWeb LED as a backdrop and around the sides of stage.

Three Robe 8-lite LEDBlinder 196 LT fixtures were also rigged on top of the PA towers for audience illumination.

It was the first time that Watts had used the ColorWash 2500E ATs for one of his designs, which he describes as "Ludicrously bright" and very reliable.

On the front truss they replaced all the PARs that he'd us