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USA - The lively and varied 2017 US festival season continues with the 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival staged at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, where Robe moving lights were chosen by leading LDs like Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting who specified Spiiders and Pointes for the Yuma stage and Gabriel Fraboni, who added 90 x Spikies as specials for Dutch DJ Martin Garrix’s two sets in the Sahara Tent over the event’s two weekends.
The 125,000-capacity festival is one of the U.S.’s highest profile music and arts extravaganzas. It’s also one of the most in demand festivals, with 2017’s nearly 200,000 tickets selling out in three hours despite 52,000 more being available over the weekend than in 2016.
Steve Lieberman and Los Angeles based SJ Lighting has been involved in designing the Yuma Stage since it started six years ago and works in

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UK - The South Downs Planetarium at the Sir Patrick Moore building in Chichester, Sussex, UK, reopened following a technology upgrade and installation of a new media server and show control system from 7thSense Design.
The upgrade of the 100-seat star theatre was led by Brighton-based immersive experience experts TEQ4. Working closely with TEQ4, 7thSense integrated a single Delta Nano Media Server and show control system as a cost-effective yet powerful solution for the two-channel fulldome display.
Martin Howe, founder and managing director of TEQ4 commented, “Delta was the obvious package for this project. It can play uncompressed images straight from Fulldome content without the time-consuming slicing that is often necessary. Also, the enhanced User Interface feature allows the operators to control the entire system from a browser running on a tablet. This all-in-

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Europe - Holotronica, owner of Holo-Gauze, 3D display solution for large hologram effects, has announced Gerriets GmbH as its exclusive European sales partner. The German company will distribute Holo-Gauze in the UK, Europe and Russia and featured the system on its stand at Prolight and Sound in Frankfurt.
“Gerriets is enthusiastic about this partnership with Holotronica for Holo-Gauze and is looking forward to a great future for this product,” comments Andreas Gause, director for marketing and key account management at Gerriets.
“We’re absolutely delighted to be partnering with Gerriets and look forward to seeing Holo-Gauze being used in even more countries and for even more fantastic events and broadcasts,” says Holo-Gauze inventor and Holotronica owner/CEO Stuart Warren-Hill. “Holo-Gauze is ideal for live events, allowing live performers to be situated

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UK - Avolites has announced the appointment of Canada's AVL Media Group and Malaysia's Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) as its new distribution partners for Canada and South-East Asia respectively.
The two new partnerships will see Avolites' products available across Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. The move comes at a time when the Avolites' brand enjoys its largest order book in company history and a rapidly growing international client base.
Of the Canadian expansion Andrew Hope, managing director of AVL Media Group, says, "Avolites is an iconic brand offering an exceptional portfolio of lighting and video products, unique in the Canadian market."
The AVL Media Group partnership was officially launched at Expo-Scène - the only major Canadian event dedicated to lighting, sound, and video technologies. The trade show was held at the

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Belgium - Visual design practice Painting with Light's Paco Mispelters has added imagination and style to the current Studio 100 tour of new youth musical Unidamu.
The tour visits four Belgian theatres and is a co-production with TV channel Ketnet. The Unidamu (Universe of Dance & Music) journey started with Ketnet Musical, a talent scouting competition TV show with a mission to source new singing, dancing and acting talent, resulting in 24 fresh and enthusiastic faces picked from 12,000 hopefuls to make up the cast.
Painting with Light and Studio 100 have enjoyed a long and positive working relationship and this is the third edition of the musical show. It has a strong anti-bullying narrative and tells the tale of two worlds - a reality which is grey and devoid of music, fun or entertainment and the sci-fi fantasy world of Unidamu - fil

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USA - Antioch Bible Baptist is not the largest church in the world, but it is making a difference in every corner of the globe. Each fall the suburban Kansas City house of worship hosts a Go Global Missions Conference, at which its members are asked to make a promise to support one of its 75 global missions, which stretch from Uruguay to the Philippines to Tanzania. The church doesn’t confine its work to overseas either; operating under the motto, Not in the city but for the city, it also does a great deal of outreach work closer to home.
Wanting to devote its resources to these missions, the church is careful not to overspend on its main campus north of Kansas City. However, music plays an important role in its two Sunday services, and its sermons are featured on live podcasts, so it needed quality sound and lighting systems to engage worshippers. It got both recen

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UK - Stage Electrics has supplied the University of Huddersfield with a raft of live sound equipment to allow students on its BA (Hons) Music Technology, BA (Hons) Music Technology and Popular Music and BMus (Hons) Creative Music Technology courses to get hands on experience with the latest digital products.
“Working with digital consoles for live sound is something we have wanted to develop into our courses for quite some time,” says the university’s Stewart Worthy, who teaches the courses along with fellow lecturer Alex Harker. “The other part of the university already runs music technology courses with industry standard analogue consoles such as Allen & Heath and Avid, but we wanted to do something different in our area, offering two different consoles with different operating principles to give our students a more diverse experience. We’re delighted that we

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UK - UK - The Knight of Illumination Awards 2017 (KOI), which celebrates the creative talents of international lighting and digital content designers working in the UK, has announced the appointment of a new chair of the Concert Touring & Events category - Jess Allan.
Well-known in the industry, Jess has worked in professional show lighting and event production for almost 20 years, gaining extensive experience of both technology and design while working in various roles for companies including Martin Professional and TAIT. In addition, Jess has been a member of the organising committee for Showlight, the prestigious quadrennial lighting conference, for the past eight years.
Most recently, Jess has launched Productionomics, a company providing specialist consultancy services to the event production industry, including data research, product launch, strategy planning

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UK - Taking place from 9 – 10 May, PLASA Focus Leeds has established itself as the essential event for entertainment technology in the North of England. This year, the exhibition will once again take place at the Royal Armouries Museum where companies from across the globe will showcase the very latest technology. One of these is White Light, with the complete technical solution specialist exhibiting on stand N-C24 with a range of revolutionary technology.
Since its formation in 1971, WL has forged a reputation for supplying technical solutions including lighting, audio, video and rigging to projects of all sizes across the UK, Europe and worldwide. At PLASA Focus Leeds, the equipment on display will showcase the full range of what the company can offer its customers.
WL’s business development Manager Mark Morley comme

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UK - Robe's new Spiider LED wash beam is a versatile fixture that is making an impact in many environments and even a few Spiiders will go a long way as lighting designer Gareth Weaver recently demonstrated when lighting a UK tour of intense dance piece The Suffocating Truth, created by Lukas McFarlane of The Untitled Dance Company.
The show visited five cities and played totally different spaces in each. Apart from being highly adaptable, Gareth needed a rig that would fit into a trailer and work aesthetically in the six unique venues, that was also flexible enough to provide dynamic lighting for the work which explores sexuality, expectation and emotional crises.
In addition to the four Spiiders which were on the floor at each corner of the space, Gareth also used four Robe DL4S Profiles on Manfrotto stands. Moving lights were “absolutely essential to get th

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UK - The Prolight Concepts Group, distributors of LEDJ, Equinox, Global Truss, eLumen8 and Clever Acoustics, has appointed Arenna Matthewson as regional sales manager for London and the South East.
Arenna joins the team at a time of expansion for the group and is already a familiar face, having previously worked for Avolites and TMB.
“Arenna is looking forward to meeting our existing customers, and welcoming new clients,” says group managing director, Andrew Jeffrey.
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UK - As part of an ongoing commitment to providing customers with the best in presentation technology, Saville Audio Visual has just taken delivery of 16 Panasonic DLP laser projectors for the conference and live events division. The investment is a major step in enhancing the hire stock available through the company’s twelve nationwide branches.
The new PT-RZ970 is a single lamp DLP projector featuring a huge 9,400 ANSI lumen output for high contrast and vivid colours at full HD resolution. Combined with Panasonics Clarity Processor 3 technology, it provides excellent levels of clarity, detail and depth with full edge-blending and projection mapping capability.
“Having seen the projector at ISE, we invited Panasonic to a shoot-out with two other leading brands and it’s performance resulted in us placing the order,” explained Andrew Ellerby, technical support m

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UK - Eskimo Dance is an exhibition of the grime genre in its rawest form. From the early days of raves at small (and often illegal) venues, the sound has gained more mainstream popularity in recent years celebrated most recently by Eskimo Dance at Wembley’s SSE Arena.

Firmly in charge of programming and operating the lighting for the show was Elliott Mountford of EMLD. The show was run with one of Mountford’s most recent acquisitions: A grandMA2 Light with an MA2 Command Wing for a full tracking backup.

“The first console, the grandMA2 Lig

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The Netherlands - Since opening its doors to the public in 2011, the 700-capacity Gebouw-T concert venue in Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands, has been a staple for up-and-coming acts on the Benelux touring circuit. Locally, Gebouw-T also has an important place within the region as a vocational educational centre, with students from the local Zoomvliet technical college responsible for the lighting productions of live gigs.
To give students and concertgoers alike the best possible experience in live production, the venue recently decided to replace its outdated moving heads. To this end, local install and rental specialists Relight Group B.V. were brought on board to upgrade the lighting rig. Relight did this in stunning fashion by installing a collection of Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Spot and Maverick MK2 Wash LED fixtures.
“Given recent advances in professional LE

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USA - A club with no permanent home, Club Nomadic is a traveling venue constructed each year to support the build-up to the Super Bowl. This year, Nomadic Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the NFL’s hospitality partner On Location Experiences, assembled the club in Houston, home to Super Bowl LI.
Elation Professional stage and decorative lighting was used to dress the club in colour and effect for a series of pre-Super Bowl events with Elation’s new IP65-rated Proteus moving heads used outside to beckon visitors to the venue.
Construction of the 62,500sq.ft pop-up venue began on 28 November, 2016 with the live event space opening its doors on 2 February for a series of events that included VIP performances by Bruno Mars, The Chainsmokers, Snoop Dog, Sam Hunt and Taylor Swift.
For those looking to have a good time in the city ahead of the big game, the te

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South Africa - Simon King is flying solo after working at the State Theatre in Pretoria for 28 years. He recently took a seat behind a grandMA2 full-size to light La Traviata, a stirring love story brought to The Joburg Theatre by the Joburg Ballet, and complimented with the music of Giuseppe Verdi.
“The ballet is by Veronica Paeper, a renowned South African choreographer from Cape Town, and Peter Cazalet, the set designer,” said King. “They have specific looks so when I create something they will say ‘yes or no’, or perhaps ask me to tinker. These are classic productions but I’m also given the liberty to play. Having worked with the ballet company since 1993, it’s like working with old friends.”
King programmed the lighting on a grandMA2 full-size, what he describes as his happy desk. “It always works for me – it’s like my other limb and I

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UK - Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, a newly formed group of the progressive rock band's core members, played a well-received show at Manchester Apollo, captured by Eagle Rock Entertainment for DVD. As the filming required precise lighting levels, Jonathan Pask of Illuminate Lighting Ltd designed a reliable multi-user control system of networked Avolites consoles to ensure each look was on point for camera.
"As the show was filmed for release later this year, it needed to be both amazing for the live audience and for those at home," says Pask. "I've used Avolites since I started out as an LD and their consoles have never let me down. The multi-console set-up for Manchester allowed us to both run the show smoothly and provide real-time management of the light levels, so that the cameras could capture high-quality footage."
To power the show's classic rock an

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UAE - Spread across ten days - and more than a kilometre of Abu Dhabi’s corniche - the Mother of the Nation Festival (MOTN) celebrates, commemorates and honours the inspirational values of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak.
Via a number of diverse activity zones, the festival again created an entertaining and highly interactive atmosphere, including educational activities, exhibitions and performance, inviting families and individuals from all walks of life to help preserve the Emirati heritage.
Based on their success in the inaugural year, Protec were again engaged to provide a comprehensive and fully integrated technology package - including rigging, and an array of backline from drum kits to keyboards - under the project management of James Lakin.
Working for Flash Entertainment on the Main Stage, his team faced considerable challenges, not only in re

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South Africa - DWR Distribution’s Jannie de Jager will be presenting the Introduction Beginners Television Lighting Workshop on 23 May 2017.
Jannie’s vast experience has seen him involved with several studios and the commissioning thereof with projects including E-Tv Hyde Park LED upgrade (two studios), The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation LED upgrade (three studios), Botswana TV (three studios upgraded to LED) and the SuperSport Lagos Studios. He is also involved with training and support of many local broadcasting studios such as MultiChoice, SABC and ETV.
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UK - With an expanding portfolio of performing projects across its three offices in London, Hong Kong and Sydney, Theatreplan has added Matt Kingslake to its growing team of consultants.
Matt graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in 1989 and went on to work for Holiday on Ice, touring the world for eight years within their electrical department rising to the role of chief electrician. After returning to the UK he was technical manager at Grimsby Auditorium before becoming the first technical manager for the Grove Theatre, Dunstable.
Matt comments: “I worked closely with Theatreplan during the construction and commissioning of the Grove Theatre and am delighted to be part of a team I’ve long admired.”
Theatreplan director, Mathew Smethurst-Evans, says: “With a 25-year career working in a variety of technical theatre role

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Italy - Tuscany hosts Showlight 2017 and Green Hippo is heading to Firenze in force. This show, the 10th since its 1981 launch, takes place on 20-23 May in Florence, providing a beautiful backdrop for what promises to be a productive gathering.
Encompassing the disciplines of architectural lighting, concert, event, film, theatre, and television, Showlight anticipates that lighting practitioners from some 20 countries will attend the Florence event. Green Hippo will present its Hippotizer Media Server range at Showlight’s exhibition, enabling it to demonstrate its award-winning line to this multinational audience, while also benefiting from the show’s traditionally strong business networking environment.
The exhibition runs alongside Showlight’s series of presentations – exhibitor stands close during conference – meaning that exhibitors can also partici

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Germany - Ray Technologies, a Laserworld company, has introduced their new RTI PIKO RGB 20 with a high precision diode module as a substitution for the OPSL green laser source. This change in technology for the green colour spectrum became possible due to new diode arrays that have been developed by RTI’s R&D in Valley, Germany.
The homogenous beam profile of the PIKO RGB 20 even fits small 4mm scanner mirrors, which results in high scanner performance, as the inertia of the scanners is kept very low. The CT-6210H scanners can do 60kpps @ 8° and still do 35kpps at their maximum scan angle of 80°. Besides the small beam diameter, the RTI PIKO RGB 20 maintains a very low divergence of <1.0mrad, so the small beam diameter is not negatively impacting the divergence at all.
The RTI PIKO RGB 20 laser systems are especially designed and tailored for high profession

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New Zealand - The Fo Guang Shan North Island temple and community centre has undergone a complete refit of its audio systems by integration specialists, AV Expression, with new systems based around Community Professional loudspeakers.
Fo Guang Shan North Island is a large temple and community centre of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist movement. The largest Buddhist temple in the country, it is located in the city of Auckland, famous for its yachts, and known as the City of Sails. The temple and complex were built over seven years and opened in late 2007. The design of the Temple is adapted from the palatial design of the Tang Dynasty.
With the original PA system deemed no longer fit for purpose, AV Expression was appointed to design and install new audio systems for both the temple and outdoor areas. The design was carried out in collaboration with Hills, Community’s distr

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China - Driver Terry Grant recently repeated his Jaguar SUV F-PACE loop-the-loop stunt on a 19m ramp. This time, the setting was located on the famous sea front - the Bund in Shanghai.
Grant’s first time performing this hazardous act was in Frankfurt, Germany, where he broke the Guinness World Record back in 2015. Both times, production company Imagination highlighted the event with SGM G-Spot moving heads, ensuring that the impressive spectacle was highlighted in a worthy and festive manner.
Project manager Alex Qian from Imagination says: “The Chinese market is being flooded with cheap lighting fixtures. However, we wanted nothing less than the best of the best that could display the luxury car brand Jaguar the way it deserved to be. After a test of the G-Spot, there was no doubt: Delivering the strongest colours and being IP65-rated, the G-Spot was the optimum
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