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Astera Enjoys Busy & Successful Prolight + Sound Expo

Wireless LED lighting specialist Astera enjoyed a busy and successful 2023 Prolight + Sound expo over four days at the Frankfurt Messe, complete with a brand-new booth design and lighting concept that highlighted their current range of handy and ingenious ‘must-have’ lighting solutions for live events and broadcast applications. Astera’s Sales & Marketing Director Sebastian Bückle and the team were energized to be back at the show and prominent in Hall 12.1 at this major European entertainment industry hub… where they enjoyed the buzz of an international audience visiting from all over Europe and much further afield.Read More »Astera Enjoys Busy & Successful Prolight + Sound Expo

Depeche Mode: ‘Memento Mori’ World Tour

For the first time in five years, Depeche Mode is back out on tour, in support of their March 2023 album release, “Memento Mori.” Always on the cutting-edge of music and pushing the boundaries of the synth pop genre, Depeche Mode’s 19th tour again delivers acoustically and visually. Lighting Designer Jason Baeri spoke with PLSN about the dynamic design and how it supports Depeche Mode’s music and audience experience.

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MUSE: ‘Will of the People’ World Tour

Muse’s “Will of the People” World tour recently concluded its U.S. arena leg with a visual design aesthetic that is a stark look at a looming post-apocalyptic world. The powerful production design, from co-production designers Jesse Lee Stout and Sooner Routhier, has garnered a lot of positive attention from audiences and industry colleagues for reflecting the band’s vision.

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Using Lighting to Create Movement for ‘The Coast Starlight’

PLSN spoke with Lighting Designer and Educator Lap Chi Chu about working on two shows at Lincoln Center simultaneously; “Camelot” and “The Coast Starlight.” Both shows rely heavily on the lighting to help audiences understand the context of the scenes. Here the designer talks about his approach using Astera tubes within a lightbox onstage for “The Coast Starlight.”

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Björk’s ‘Cornucopia’

Live performance trailblazer, Björk continues touring her Cornucopia theatrical masterwork globally through 2023. It’s a fantastic example of using lighting inventively to enhance a much larger mixed media picture that captures the varied expressions, emotions, moments, and messages of Björk’s work. The elegant lighting design is co-designed by UK-based creatives Richard White and Bruno Poet.

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Mega-Monsters Tour 2023: Gojira and Mastodon

The metal bands Gojira and Mastodon are out in 2023 on their co-headlining Mega-Monsters Tour. Lighting Designer Pete Cary has been with Grammy Award-nominated Gojira for six-and-a-half years, while Lighting Designer Eric Price has been lighting the Grammy Award-winning Mastodon for just over a year. They spoke with us about their collaboration on the tour design and the support of Chicago-based JRLX Lighting.

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The Salt Shed

Chicago’s iconic Morton Salt complex is now known as The Salt Shed, an exciting arts and music venue downtown with a skyline view. With both outdoor and indoor stage spaces to realize, owners 16OC worked with Upstaging as the systems integrators and lighting suppliers. We hear about this unique project from Upstaging Account & Project Manager Steve Wojda and The Salt Shed’s Director of Production Tim Schoen.

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