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Europe - Elation Professional is now offering the complete ArKaos product line of software and media servers in several European countries and serves as the main value-added dealer of ArKaos Pro products in the UK.
ArKaos professional solutions for the show and lighting market are used all over the world by leading designers and rental companies. Elation Europe’s first opportunity to represent the ArKaos Pro product line will be this week at the ISE trade show in Amsterdam on Elation Stand 12-F40.
The ArKaos Pro product line of software and media servers meets today's needs by giving lighting designers and operators rock-solid, professional control of their shows. ArKaos products deliver unrivalled performance in speed, effects and manipulation of real-time visuals. Elation offers several products compatible with ArKaos Kling-Net protocol to allow the distribution o

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USA - Lumileds has announced the appointment of Mark Adams as chief executive officer. Adams most recently served as president of Micron Technology, Inc. a Fortune 200 global manufacturer of advanced memory solutions, from 2012 to 2016.
“I am very excited to join the team at Lumileds and have the support of Philips and Apollo to execute the company’s vision” said Mark Adams. “We will build upon Lumileds’ robust innovation pipeline, technology leadership and strong customer base to drive Lumileds’ future growth.”
Between 2008 and 2012, Adams held the position of vice president, worldwide sales at Micron. He also served in executive roles at Lexar Media, Inc., Creative Labs, Inc. and NCR Corporation.
Lumileds is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Philips. Philips announced in December 2016 that it signed an agreement to sell a majority interest in Lu

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Australia - Launched this week is Additive, a new design collaboration that offers “a fresh take on creative direction and production design”.
Based in Melbourne, Additive consists of Ben “Bosco” Shaw, Paul Lim and Tom Wright who between them offer a wide range of skill sets. After years of working on productions and festivals around the world, these three experienced professionals, and close friends, have joined forces to harness their collective industry experience and technical knowledge.
"Whether it’s an innovative design, a complex activation or an expansive festival, concert, theatre production or event, we offer experience, knowledge and creativity to deliver an elegant solution tailored to any budget or timeline,” commented Tom Wright. “Additive is a design and technical production house made up of good guys who want to see your project evolve and

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UK - Following a period of substantial growth, creative technical event production expert Hawthorn has strengthened its sales team with a series of new appointments.
Claire Ledward and Eliot Sargeant have joined the company as business development managers with Ieva Gudaite being welcomed as sales executive. Based in London and the Midlands, the trio bring more than 18 years of sales experience to the business.
Claire brings 12 years of sales experience to the team, spanning a variety of sectors including media, IT, telecoms and the events industry. Prior to joining Hawthorn, Claire worked at a global conference and exhibition company for six years, based out of the Dubai office where she was responsible for launching b2b events in challenging markets around the Middle East and North Africa.
Eliot joins the company from Chillisauce Events where he worked as senio

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USA - Officially, NAMM 2017 ended on Sunday 22 January, but for digital music trailblazer Roland, the show is still in high gear. The company is keeping the excitement of its NAMM launches and celebrity stage appearances alive with an extensive social media campaign, featuring powerful 360 VR streaming that recreates the feeling of being at the show.
A key contributor to the realism of the post-show video, as well as the engaging look of Roland’s sprawling, multi-faceted NAMM exhibit, has been the thoughtful, well-balanced lighting design created by Justin Preston of Three-Phase Productions, using a collection of Rogue, STRIKE and COLORado fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
Roland divided its large NAMM space into a number of sections, including a main stage where artists like Gregg Bissonette, Omar Hakim and Scott Tibbs performed, as well as separate areas for its

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USA - Elite Multimedia hasannounced that they have become the first North American live event production provider to make an investment in Claypaky Scenius UN1CO luminaires.
Working with importer and distributor A.C.T Lighting, Elite Multimedia chose to acquire the 1400W Spot, Wash, Beam and Profile fixtures for their powerfully creative lighting capabilities, and they are currently being installed in the lighting design of a large-scale, multi-national tour.
“As we strive to keep our rental inventory stocked with the most innovative lighting solutions, the Scenius UN1CO is a great addition giving us a dynamic automated luminaire with many quality design attributes,” said Tom Wilson, Elite Multimedia vice president of Event Productions. “Working with our clients who are designing in an arena production environment, we need this type of high-performance fixture a

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USA - The 59th Annual Grammy Awards are rapidly approaching, and the Nashville chapter of the Recording Academy gathered 26 January to celebrate the successes and toast nominees including Maren Morris, For King & Country, Cassadee Pope, Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini.
Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event with Chris Lisle lighting design and Erik Parker as programmer, creating a relaxed, cocktail party vibe.
“The last thing we wanted was to turn houselights on and have a bright space with no ‘mood’, so our main considerations were to give enough light to avoid the houselights, but not too much that the party felt more like an office luncheon,” Parker said. “There was a lot of thought from the producers in how the layout of the room would be and the scenic elements and we wanted to accent them all without being distracting.”

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UK - Since 2011, The Stage Awards have reflected the industry’s best performing theatres and theatremakers. Taking place on an annual basis, the Awards celebrate the various roles within theatre, such as producers, actors, venues and educational teams.
This year, the winners were announced at a ceremony at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Alongside sponsoring the Unsung Hero Award, White Light was called upon to oversee the complete technical solutions for the ceremony.
The ceremony took place on 27January in the Grand Saloon which sits at the top of Theatre Royal. Marcus Wadland, WL’s project manager, comments, “This is one of the most important dates in the theatrical calendar so we wanted to provide production support that would help make it an afternoon to remember.”
WL provided the complete technical solutions. This included the uplighting of the room along

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The Netherlands - ETC's booth – 7-S225 – at ISE 2017 will be packed with lighting solutions “designed to meet the diverse needs of any installation”. ETC employees will be on hand to answer your questions, discuss project requirements, and demonstrate a selection of equipment.
Unison Paradigm is designed as a new way of thinking about building control, ETC’s visionary Unison Paradigm system fuses architectural lighting control advances with entertainment lighting-control technology. ETC brings its award-winning expertise in both areas together to give you the best of both worlds.
The Unison Paradigm family of products includes powerful software, elegant touchscreens, wall stations, modular control electronics, dimming and control enclosures, and accessories to offer the most customisable and people-friendly control systems available.
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USA - For Ghost’s North American Popestar tour, lighting designer Christian Wienberg Bonde specified 11 High End Systems SolaSpot Pro 2000 fixtures as the floor lighting package.
Operated by lighting director Mike Holm and supplied through Gemini Lighting Sound Video, the SolaSpots serve as powerful workhorses, providing massive looks and amazing special effects lighting to the band’s high energy live performances.
Bonde says, “We’ve been touring since 2014 and have had the opportunity to use many different fixtures, including a variety of LED instruments. The SolaSpots fit perfectly in our fixture sets. In this design we always have a line of floor fixtures, as a wash from the back, so we place 11 SolaSpots on the ground.
“This design requires a big, powerful fixture, and we surely got that in the SolaSpots. We like their LED colours, because we get a

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USA - For the past 17 years, LD Paul Miller has directed the lighting of the New Year’s Eve Celebration from Times Square. Over the last four years, Christie Lites has been right there beside him, supplying the latest in lighting equipment and 24/7 support.
It’s a live, six-hour gig for the production team, which must wrangle with winter weather, the ticking of the clock to the midnight hour, and the knowledge that billions worldwide are watching.
When Miller lit this event in 2000, there was just one stage, and each network also brought in their own stages, cameras and broadcast trucks. It was soon consolidated into one setup. Now every artist performing outdoors for various networks does it on these same stages with this same lighting rig.
Miller explains, “So we’ll light a cast of a Broadway show performance. Then that director leaves and the ABC dir

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Turkmenistan - Polimeks inşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. is a Turkish construction company based in Istanbul that primarily operates in Turkmenistan, Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan. According to the American magazine Engineering News Record Polimeks occupies 59th place in the ranking of 225 largest international contractors.
For their recent New Year Show in the Turkmenistan Ice Hockey Arena in Ashgabat, lighting designer and programmer Umut Yurtseven, who is just 16 years old, used one grandMA2 full-size, one grandMA2 light and one MA NPU (Network Processing Unit), controlling dozens of moving lights including 46 x Claypaky Sharpy, 24 x Claypaky Alpha Spot HPE 1200 and 24 x Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200.
“In my opinion MA Lighting manufactures the best lighting control solutions in the industry”, stated Yurtseven. “The continuous development of the software is just gre

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USA - The Black Light King is a successful black light artist based in Los Angeles who creates spectacular black light art and installations that are visual treats for the eye and mind. Black art only pops when exposed to UV light so when creating his art he often turns to Antari UV lights to reveal the glow effect that makes black light art so unique.
The contemporary artist has been working in this medium for over 15 years and often has his art highlighted at electronic music festivals and underground warehouse art shows in the Los Angeles area. He also works with experimental film and photography that require art installations and lighting. The Black Light King was also on hand at the Antari booth at last year’s LDI show in Las Vegas, where visitors could watch him paint his distinct pieces.
The Black Light King often uses the Antari Dark FX Spot 670 to illuminat

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UK – Impact Production Services (IPS) has added nearly 200 aPix2 high resolution indoor LED video panels to its inventory, supplied by A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd (AC-ET).
IPS, which offers equipment dry hire through to complete technical production services for events, approached AC-ET’s specialist Video sales division when it was looking to make a significant investment in a high resolution LED screen system to service the latest needs of its rental clients.
AC-ET recommended the aPix2 panel due to its 2.9mm pixel pitch, which is suitable for today’s applications demanding ever higher display resolutions – such as corporate / AV presentations or other types of content benefitting from a smoother look.
The Video sales division supplied IPS with 198 x 0.5sq.m aPix2 LED panels, plus related screen processors and flybars, creating a total display ar

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UK - Any major refurbishments on cruise liners are best done when the ship is in dry dock to minimise passenger disturbance. However, when Fred Olsen decided to upgrade the stage lighting in the Neptune Lounge on board MS Braemar a more unconventional option was taken. Hastings UK-based EW Production Services Ltd. was able to make the upgrade during a fully booked cruise to minimise costs and expedite the process (dry dock opportunities are often two-three years apart).
To fit the requirements of the Neptune Lounge and the stringent install conditions, EWPSL specified six Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 Spots, four Rogue R1 Washes, two COLORdash Batten Quad 6s and 12 COLORdash Par-Hex 7 fixtures. EWPSL worked alongside the crew on MS Braemar to make good use of the lounge overnight, on port days and at other times when not in use by passengers.
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UK - Almost 370 of the UK festival and outdoor event industry’s leading suppliers and organisers attended the Festival Supplier Awards to celebrate and applaud the 2017 winners on Thursday 26 January.
Now in its third year, and settled in to its home at the Hurlingham Club, the awards recognise companies who work tirelessly to deliver great events, many of whose efforts often go unseen.
Amongst the awards presented were accolades for Best Stage, Best Power, Best Temporary Structure, Best Toilets/ Waste Management, Best Concession/ Bar and Best Sound, along with gongs for Best Production Team and Best Festival Support Service.
The full list of awards presented and the winners is:
Best Concession / Bar: Peppermint Bars, Bestival
Best Festival Technology Provider: TOURtech, Lollapalooza
Best Crowd / Pit Barrier: Actavo Events, London Stadium

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Germany - For the long-awaited inauguration of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall located on the harbour-side in Hamburg, a massive light and video setup was installed. It all culminated with a spectacular show in the evening of 11 January. As a crucial part of this show, no less than 500 P-5 and P-2 wash lights from SGM were applied.
Hamburg’s new concert hall is one of the largest and most acoustically advanced in the world. It is popularly nicknamed Elphi. The 108m tall building consists of two sections. The new glassy construction resembles a hoisted sail, water wave or quartz crystal, which is constructed on top of an old warehouse building. A terrace placed in middle, ties the new and the old sections together. This is where most of the P-5s were installed. Additionally, all balconies on the upper part were also equipped with P-5s.
The overall concept was thoug

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UK - PLASA has collaborated with some of the industry's leading experts, brands and production teams to expand its free-to-attend seminar programme for PLASA Focus Glasgow, which returns to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) on 18th and 19th January 2017.

Production services supplier, Adlib, has partnered with two of its biggest brands, Martin Professional and L-Acoustics, to deliver both a video and audio seminar respectively. Martin Professional will demo the ease of setting up and mapping creative LED fixtures including using their VDO FACE 5, Sceptron, and VC video ranges. On the audio side, L-Acoustics Application Engineer & Educator Fran

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UK - The eLumen8 GB-1 Reflectabeam has just launched into the event, installation, production and rental markets. The eLumen8 GB-1 Reflectabeam will "transform beam effects forever, and is currently one of the hottest product releases, with orders being taken in the UK, Europe and internationally".

"We are extremely proud of the design of the GB-1. The unit was created from an idea by our own engineer Geoff Goddard, using parts from other fixtures to create the prototype," says Bernie Marsh, general manager, The Prolight Concepts Group. "To finally see the finished fixture and the fast uptake in orders is absolutely superb."

Inside the fixture's robust, metal and fan cooled housing are six individually controllable multi-faceted dishes, which can be rotated continuously in any direction at variable speeds.

When strategically placed, the Reflectabeam can have beam effec

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USA - Dierks Bentley was up at dawn to kick off the morning of the 50th Annual CMA Awards with a live performance on the streets of Nashville with Good Morning America. The televised concert featured a lighting package designed by Mark Carver and provided by Bandit Lites.

The crowd was not only treated to hearing Bentley's new single Black, but GMA host Lara Spencer also took the stage to announce the first two CMA Award Winners: Music Video of the Year to Chris Stapleton for Fire Away and Musical Event of the Year to Dierks Bentley and Elle King for Different For Girls.

In addition to ensuring that the lighting aided in energizing the early morning crowd and conveyed excitement to the millions of viewers watching at home, lighting designer Mark Carver took special consideration that the performance, while early, would still be taking place with

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UAE - Production Resource Group LLC (PRG) worked with Balich Worldwide Shows (BWS) to supply a huge multi-surface video projection for the United Arab Emirates National Day celebration in Abu Dhabi.

The event, held at the request of the Crown Prince's Court, celebrated 45 years since the unification of the United Arab Emirates, and took place in the presence of a selected crowd of dignitaries. Tom van Hemelryck, VP global sports and special events was contacted by Balich Worldwide Shows to provide both the technical expertise and technology for this special commemorative show. Tom brought together video and technology specialists, Yves Winand, from PRG in Belgium and his counterpart Bill Ainley from the group's UAE operation to work with the design specification from Balich Worldwide Shows.

Starting with the mapping of the surfaces, d3 was identified as the media server fo

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USA - Soaring four stories high, the elegantly appointed Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria creates an awe-inspiring impression. Its 44' high ceiling, custom made 16' diameter chandelier and ornate carved balconies provide a dramatic setting for any event.

To stand out against this backdrop, a stage presentation has to be as bold and dramatic as the ballroom itself. Chris Hubbard and his team at Emergency Production provided just such a presentation recently for buildOn, a global charity, with help from 117 PVP S7 panels from Chauvet Professional.

Hubbard and his team used the LED video panels to build walls across the ballroom's Broadway-sized stage. The centre wall measured nine panels wide by five panels high. It was flanked on either side by vertically oriented walls measuring two panels by five panels, two panels by six panels and two panels by seven panels. There

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Sweden - Robe moving lights continue their run on high profile theatre shows worldwide, with the new Phantom of the Opera production in Stockholm utilizing DL7S and DL4S Profiles and DL4F washes - from the DL LED range - plus Pointes and ColorStrobes, over 50 fixtures in total.

The Really Useful Group (RUG) licensed production of the Andrew Lloyd-Webber blockbusting musical has just opened and is scheduled to play the 1650 capacity Cirkusteatern arena for a year, for which the Robe lights were specified by associate lighting designer, Mike Odam.

Mike's history with Phantom dates back to 1986 when he was the production LX on the original stage adaptation in London along with Howard Eaton, and they helped facilitate Andy Bridge's highly memorable Tony Award winning lighting design for the show's opening at Her Majesty's Theatre. Stockholm was Mike's 58th Pha

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