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Sweden - On one of the brightest nights of the year in Kumla, Sweden, lighting designer Fredrik Jönsson showcased a drama-filled lightshow using products from the SGM P-family. The show took place on a man-made hill, with smoke pouring from the ground, complementing the spectacular artistic light show on this bright summer night.
The light show took place during a gala dinner during a world leadership conference. It did not take long to choose the man-made hill, as it was the highest point for miles and with an already fixed art-installation with large outdoor installations called Art on the Hill. With a concept of dining at a very scenic place, the event company Bright Blue decided to build a huge tent with see through sides and roof on a scaffold construction on top of the peak.
Kvarntorpshögen was made during World War II, when extracting oil from slate. Al

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New Zealand - Since 1984, Grouse Lighting Aotearoa in Wellington, New Zealand, has been renting high-quality lighting gear locally and nationally for everything from weddings to grand opera. With services spanning design, installation, production, and operation, their lighting control platform needs to be fast, efficient, and scalable.
That’s why managing director Allan McShane has made Grouse Lighting a High End Systems Hog house for coming onto eight years. To keep it all in the Hog family, Grouse Lighting has purchased two Road Hog 4 consoles to replace their trusty but aging Road Hog 3s.
“The Road Hog 4s are our general workhorse desk and are used on all sorts of events; from large-scale orchestral concerts to corporate presentations,” Allan states. “Grouse Lighting supports any job that requires lighting, from something as simple as hanging festoons in a g

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USA - Elation Professional’s Artiste Dali LED moving head won the accolade for Best Debuting Product: Lighting at the recent LDI trade show in Las Vegas. It is the second notable industry award in the past two months for the Artiste Dali, having won a PLASA Award for Innovation in September.
The award came just a day after the Elation Chorus Line 16 LED batten was awarded a Gold Star Product Award by the editors and writers of PLSN magazine, and with the Proteus Hybrid also a 2017 PLASA Innovation Award winner and the Artiste DaVinci WH a Best Moving Light Award winner at the recent WFX show, the Elation trophy case is bulging.
The LDI 2017 Best Debuting Product Award was presented at an awards ceremony on Saturday, 18 November, on the AG Productions' megastructure stage at LDI: Live Outside at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. “It’s a chilly evening but this def

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Germany - Astera LED Technology’s AX1 Wireless PixelTube won a PLSN Goldstar Award for the Best New Battery-Powered Light at LDI 2017 in Las Vegas.
The German manufacturer’s pixel controllable LED RGBW baton has 28W of LED power and reaches almost 700 lumen output. Its RGBW LEDs are individually calibrated to reach a CRI of 88, and the fixture’s built-in lithium-ion battery pack offers a 20-hour runtime on a single charge. Each of AX1's 16 pixels can be controlled individually via W-DMX or CRMX. In addition, the fixture’s IP65-rated housing enables safe outdoor use and LDs can use the AsteraApp to create programs on the go and to set up the AX1 for DMX usage and monitor the lights during operation.

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USA - Ayrton received the LDI 2017 Award for the Most Creative Use of Light at last week’s LDI Show in Las Vegas.
The judges praised “Ayrton’s cool product presentation that physically re-engages the audience to show their products in a unique setting”. The light show was designed by top lighting designer Cory FitzGerald and programmed by Jason Baeri, and accepted on behalf of the company by Ayrton’s global sales manager, Michael Althaus.
Ayrton exhibited in a crystal dome play-zone that showcased all their latest products while visitors were invited to lounge in comfortable gaming chairs. Above them rose a pyramid composed of two opposing triangles of truss that carried bars of 30 alternating MagicPanel-FX and 20 IntelliPix-XT fixtures, flanked by 10 MagicBlade-FX; on the opposite sides were two triangular projection screens for showing off the gobo project

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Belgium - For lighting designers, testing their design during a show isn’t an option - but neither, in the majority of cases, is it feasible to put together a live trial.
That was the challenge facing Raphaël Ganhy, lighting designer for Gedinne Plein Air Festival 2017. Raphaël turned to CAST Software’s wysiwyg, a comprehensive design suite that incorporates virtual real-time pre-visualisation of lighting, motion, and media content.
“I used wysiwyg from the beginning to the end of the project,” he explains. “That meant spending around 200 hours using wysiwyg and all of its many functions – CAD, Design, CAD Plan, Report and so on. In total, I used around 133 DMX universes. It was a challenging, but very enjoyable, project, and wysiwyg enabled me to determine whether my ideas would work – and to find alternatives if necessary.”
What Raphaël was

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UK - Created by the Olivier-nominated Les Enfants Terribles, Inside Pussy Riot is inspired by the all-female punk rock group who staged a protest inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2012. This immersive theatre experience is currently taking place at the Saatchi Gallery to coincide with their Art Riot exhibition. Having supplied a range of immersive theatre projects already this year, White Light was called upon to supply the lighting equipment.
Inside Pussy Riot invites audience members to pull on their balaclavas, stand in the dock and experience the realities of imprisonment. The lighting designer for the show is Charlie Morgan Jones. He comments: “Inside Pussy Riot takes its audience through the complete experience of Nadya Tolokonnikova’s trials and tribulations as the founder of Pussy Riot. At only an hour long, it’s e

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Israel - Israeli singer Rita Yahan-Farouz is back on the road with a new album Transparent Miracles and a new lighting and visual design by Ronen Najar featuring Robe Spiiders and BMFL Spot moving lights.
The tour started at the Yakum Kibbutz Hall just outside Tel Aviv, where Ronen was engaged in five intense days of pre-programing before revealing the magic and mystery creating a stunning looking show for Rita and her 12-piece band.
Ronen, who has worked with Rita for around 16 years, discussed the show concept with the signer who came up with the basic live concept in terms of the music, rhythm and pace of the set. From this, he produced the essence of the design with the idea for a curved structure upstage of the band.
Visiting a wide variety of venues, from 500 – 3,000 seaters, the rig had to be scalable and the structure capable of being flown, grou

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USA - Chroma-Q ‘s Inspire XT fixture has won the 2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Award for Best New Interior Architectural Light at LDI 2017.
The Chroma-Q Inspire XT is the newest addition to the award-winning Chroma-Q Inspire colour-mixing LED house lighting range and is suitable for the house of worship, entertainment and architectural markets.
Paul Pelletier, brand manager for Chroma-Q, comments: “Public spaces within a venue are turning more and more into dynamic canvas. The Chroma-Q Inspire range facilitates this transition by bringing colored ambiance that can adapt to any situation and return back to a beautiful white light for a normal situation.”
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Europe - Prolight Concepts Group company eLumen8 recently released its latest range of professional moving heads - the Evora series, comprising three fixtures.
All units include three-phase motors, LEDs with dimming and display battery backup and an array of onboard features.
The eLumen8 Evora 1000 BSW is a 3-in-1 hybrid with a 180W LED and has a beam (4.5°), spot (20°) and wash (45°) modes. It also has eight facet circular and six facet linear rotating indexable prisms, motorised zoom and focus, frost filter, a colour wheel, a static gobo wheel and a rotating, indexable, replaceable gobos wheel.
The eLumen8 Evora 1000 Spot is designed for larger events and venues and is equipped with a 180W LED and colour wheel.
The compact eLumen8 Evora 500 Spot has a three facet indexable rotating prism, remote focus and manual zoom combined with vibrant colours and

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UK - Richard Martin Lighting (RML) needed to specify a moving strobe fixture for a major motion picture company and picked Ayrton’s MagicBurst for the job.
Distributed by Ayrton’s UK distributor Ambersphere Solutions, the 240,000lm white LED strobe unit has continuous rotation on pan and tilt and allows individual control of any of the 64 pixels.
RML operations manager Steve Wells asked Ambersphere Solutions to provide a couple of units for testing. He says: “The team at Ambersphere have always been very keen to let us test fixtures in real world conditions. In the film world, our customers work in environments that are not always dust and dirt free. With some shoots running for a couple of months we don’t want to have to swap units out and disrupt filming.”
The MagicBurst’s pan and tilt capabilities meant there was no need to hang multiple units –

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USA - Texas state fair’s nightly spectacular Illumination Sensation took place in Dallas from 29 September - 22 October and incorporated Elation Professional gear.
LD Nick Belley and show producers Interlaced Productions used the company’s IP65-rated Proteus series moving heads along with other Elation gear, with all production and lighting supply provided by local event solutions company Onstage Systems.
Set to music celebrating Texas heritage and American pride, Illumination Sensation was held nightly at the Fair Park Esplanade fountain and incorporated an array of lights, projection-mapped buildings and firework displays. This year’s show included lighting of the Hall of State building, expanding the length of the rig to 400 yards in total.
“The biggest challenge we have with this show is the fact that it is outdoors for almost a month,

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UK - SGM has appointed Anthony Van-Sertima as the new business development manager at its UK branch. Anthony was first introduced to SGM in 2005 and has loved the products ever since.
“In the UK, the network of lighting people is close and friendly. Having extensive knowledge in lighting and production, I’ll be on hand to provide the link between lighting designers and the brand; a friendly, familiar face,” said Anthony about his new role at SGM.
Anthony foresees a huge growth phase for SGM, and is thrilled to be part of that journey.
“It’s not like other manufactures are falling short, but SGM is a few years ahead of competitors, having developed purely LED based technology a few years before the other major manufacturers,” said Anthony. “Also, in terms of the IP-rating, it is an exciting time for SGM as the demand for outside light installations

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USA - Critics have hailed Great Hall as a monumental triumph of architecture. Effortlessly balancing form and function within its spacious confines, the two-story room alternately awes and inspires with its towering Corinthian columns, Romanesque arches, double staircase and a gold-ornamented ceiling that exudes the unbridled optimism of its 19th century designers.
Setting off the room’s design and making a powerful visual imprethe US Library of Congress’ ssion on visitors from the moment they walk through its bronze doors is the gleaming white Italian marble that makes up most of the Great Hall’s surface area.
Although beautiful, the marble made the design process more complex for Elizabeth Coco on 1 November when she lit the American Film Institute golden anniversary celebration at the Great Hall. Coco was able to meet this challenge with help from a collection

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USA - Occupying the former site of one of America’s largest shoe factories, Craddock Terry Hotel in Lynchburg has reflected that industrial heritage in its interior design.
The hotel also boasts a distinctively modern flair with richly coloured light that washes its front columns courtesy of Iluminarc Colorist 8Qa Panels installed by Jon Daggett of Castle Lighting.
Daggett positioned 10 of the IP65-rated RGBA panels across the base of a 135’ section of the three-story building to light the columns that separate its large factory windows. Reaching up to the top story 32’ above the ground, light from the Colorist 8Qa Panels sets off the original design of the early 20th century structure, creating a sense of its scale and conveying its rock-hard power.
“The Colorist Panel 8Qa was a perfect fit for this project, because of its shape, footprint, and punch,”

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UK - Technical production specialist Central Presentations (CPL) and producers Constructive Communications delivered full technical production for Construction’s Got Talent, a team-building / gala dinner conference event with a difference for leading independent construction and property services company Wilmot Dixon.
This was staged in the Noble Suite at the Pullman Hotel on Euston Road, London, with tailor made format partly inspired by TV talent show competitions on a quest to discover the company’s own undiscovered talent, which was interspersed with presentations and speeches.
Lee Gruszeckyj led the CPL team who worked with Constructive Communications’ project manager Ken D’Souza.
A 10 metre-wide stage with free-standing printed graphic wrap set / backdrop including the event’s own Got Talent logo was installed, complete with small thrust fo

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Europe - The Rolling Stones’ live shows are still known for their dynamics and power, and the recent No Filter tour featured a stunning lighting and video design that captured the essence of their performance and underlines the indelible legacy and huge influence of their music.
Lighting designer and creative director Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design (WBD) worked closely with stage architects Stufish on developing the look and feel of the No Filter tour, which used four grandMA2 full-size consoles, one MA grandMA2 light, five MA NPUs (Network Processing Units) and four MA 8Port Nodes.
Woodroffe explained: “We had very little lead time once the tour had been confirmed but worked with a great team from Neg Earth on lighting, and Solotech on video. Stufish and Jeremy Lloyd put together the scenic design and concentrated very much on the deta

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UK - Battersea Dogs & Cats Home’s annual Collars & Coats Gala Ball returned for its ninth year earlier this month, with Hawthorn on hand - or should that be paw - to deliver full technical production for the star-studded occasion. Taking place at Battersea Evolution, a Smart venue, the creative technical production expert provided lighting, sound, video and staging for the charity’s biggest fundraising event of the year.
Even with a guest list packed with some of biggest names of stage, screen and sport, it was Battersea’s four-legged friends that stole the spotlight at the Gala Ball. Battersea’s legendary Guard of Honour, a red carpet lined with the home’s dogs and their handlers, kicked off proceedings before guests settled down to a dinner by Smart Hospitality.
Guests of the two-legged variety were kept well entertained throughout the eveni

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USA - Success has not spoiled Louis The Child, nor has it made this pair of Chicago-bred DJs any less daring when it comes to reshaping their distinctive brand of EDM music. Since bursting on the scene two years ago with the highly original and spacey tune It’s Strange, the duo has continued to jump head first into the creative cauldron. Rather than resting on their laurels, they show a fearless willingness to experiment with novel eclectic synths, push percussion assemblages to the limit, and in general do whatever it takes to reach new musical heights.
The same Louis The Child philosophy is at play when it comes to lighting their shows. Going into their 32 -city Last To Leave Tour, which started 12 October, the pair told the team at Creative Production & Design (Austin, TX) that they wanted a lightshow that looked radically different from the one that h

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UK - Overlooked by a dominating Nelson’s Column and The National Gallery, U2 premiered material from new album Songs Of Experience amongst a set of their greatest hits, at a free show for 7,000 fans in London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday 11 November.
Introduced by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, MTV Presents Trafalgar Square was the curtain-raiser to the following evening’s 24th annual MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) at The SSE Arena, Wembley, where the Irish four-piece were honoured with the Global Icon award.
Both events were graced by Stageco’s dedication as staging provider with Wim DeWolf and Mario Dockx handling the R&D, while Dirk De Decker managed both projects. For the U2 event, the Stageco crew of seven [plus local crew], headed by Stefaan Vandenbosch, negotiated one of the busiest tourist areas of the city to erect the company’s

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Europe - Thirty-Six Robe BMFL Spots were workhorse moving lights on the recent Rolling Stones No Filter European tour, part of a spectacular and epic lighting design created by Patrick Woodroffe.
Patrick and associate designer Terry Cook of Woodroffe Bassett design (WBD) worked closely with stage architects Stufish on developing the show’s overall aesthetic.
With many moving lights on the rig, they sought a high-powered fixture to occupy four 'slots' just below the tops of four imposing 23m high by 11m wide monolithic video towers which define the performance space.
"Patrick and I needed a multi-functional fixture and knew the positions would be hard to access and given the complexity of CDM rules and regulations and the requirement that crew be able to access the fixtures safely - a lot of thought went into the process," explained Terry. “We decided o

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Turkmenistan - Internationally renowned lighting designer, Durham Marenghi used more than 800 Claypaky fixtures to deliver the two large-scale lighting designs for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG), produced by Balich Worldwide Shows, held this year at the Olympic Stadium in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
The ceremonies, broadcast on the 17 and 27 of September to 57 countries worldwide, featured giant projection-mapped sets, pyrotechnics and sweeping light displays. For the opening ceremony, over 7,600 performers told the history of the Silk Road through music and dance, culminating in the lighting of the games' 'cauldron' which burned throughout the 12-day event.
Marenghi, the designer behind the lighting for the Rio Olympics last year, specified a large Claypaky lighting package for the AIMAG ceremonies. The rig com

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South Africa - The country’s first strictly dry hire company, Guquko Technical Rider, has been established by a young entrepreneur, Phumzile Sibanyoni. Guquko is the Zulu word meaning ‘to turn around’ or ‘to reform’, a pertinent name for a company that hopes to bring a fresh wind of change to the industry.
Making an investment of 12 Robe Spiiders, 24 Longman 4 Ups and Prolyte stage decks purchased from DWR Distribution, the objective of the company is to rent out high ticket line items that are specified by lighting designers on a daily basis.
“Because we were just starting out, we looked at gear that would be beneficial to the growth of Guquko,” said Phumzile. ”The company has started trading and with the Robe Spiiders currently high in demand on shows, their units are out already creating revenue.”
Duncan Riley of DWR says, “Phumzile was wi

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UK - The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD)’s latest event took place at the Arts Theatre, courtesy of Chauvet and White Light, suppliers of the event’s lighting. ALD Members were invited to see cult rock musical The Toxic Avenger and to hear from the show's lighting designer, Nic Farman, and programmer / production electrician, Clancy Flynn.
Over the summer, events have included an evening with Ambersphere at London’s National Theatre, alongside insight tours to the West End’s latest rock musical, Bat Out of Hell Olivier Award-winning Jesus Christ Superstar at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, and to 42nd Street at the Drury Lane theatre.
Matt Cowles, Ambersphere’s technical sales manager, stresses the importance of meeting ALD members in this environment. “For us at Ambersphere, the chance to chat with technici
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