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Updating a Visual Icon with a Sonic Twist

Matt Steinbrenner, Production Designer for the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, shared some insights on the interesting visual twist to MTV’s iconic Moon Person helmet on stage at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Sept. 12, and as it turns out, the core idea wasn’t as much about sight as it was about sound. “The idea that I came up with was, ‘Okay, let’s take this helmet and imagine that sound waves could be so intense that they would etch into and carve out a new image on the surfaces of the Moon Person.’ That’s what really brought about all the horizontal striations that wrapped around the form and sliced through it in a kind of interesting way. Then that gave us the chance on the visor, which was all mirrored in chrome, to create banding that had open space in between.”

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The Engineering and Flexibility of NYC’s new PAC

New York City’s new Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has been praised for its design since it opened this fall. Lower Manhattan’s dynamic new 129,000 sq.ft. home for the arts has the flexibility to rearrange its three theater spaces such that they can transform into 10 different proportions that collectively reconfigure into more than 60 stage-audience arrangements with capacities ranging from 90 to 950 seats.

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Elation Strengthens Bonds at rELATIONship 2023

Elation Professional recently held a highly unique and successful event for its European distributor network—rELATIONship 2023—a special gathering more akin to a family get-together than a business meeting. Held October 16-18 in the beautiful surroundings of the historic Abbey Hotel Rolduc on the outskirts of Kerkrade, the Netherlands, hometown of Elation’s European headquarters, and with over 60 representatives from Elation’s European partner network in attendance, the gathering was all about strengthening personal bonds and celebrating the ties that make the family-owned company unique.Read More »Elation Strengthens Bonds at rELATIONship 2023

AOTO Brings Cutting-Edge New Products and XR/VP Virtual Production to LDI SHOW 2023

AOTO will participate in the LDI SHOW 2023 in Las Vegas from December 3-5, 2023. AOTO will bring its competitive XR/VP Virtual Production and solutions and cutting-edge rental new products to LDI SHOW, and again show the audience AOTO’s scientific and technological achievements and product solutions. AOTO will be in Booth #1563.Read More »AOTO Brings Cutting-Edge New Products and XR/VP Virtual Production to LDI SHOW 2023

Elation’s Proteus Hybrid MAX™: The New Torchbearer of Hybrid Lighting Innovation

The next generation in hybrid lighting is here. Elation Professional proudly presents the Proteus Hybrid MAX™, an absolute game-changer that takes everything you loved about the pioneering Proteus Hybrid™ and cranks it up to MAXIMUM power. This isn’t just an update; this is a breakthrough evolution in lighting excellence.Read More »Elation’s Proteus Hybrid MAX™: The New Torchbearer of Hybrid Lighting Innovation

Robe LEDBeam 350s Are a Sound Investment for Audio Engineering

(L to R) Caleb Siebritz, Mari Vermeulen, and Marcel Bezuidenhout from Audio Engineering, with some of the new Robe fixtures.

Robe’s LEDBeam 350 moving light continues to be in demand worldwide including in South Africa, where distributor DWR keeps seeing this small, powerful, and highly versatile moving light fly off the shelves as fast as they can get hold of them. Another recent LEDBeam 350 investor in Cape Town is Audio Engineering, a full production specialist founded in 1998 by Marcel Bezuidenhout initially as an audio supplier. The enterprise soon expanded in the early noughties with the addition of lighting and then video departments as Audio Engineering’s clients demanded full technical packages.Read More »Robe LEDBeam 350s Are a Sound Investment for Audio Engineering

Gloshine Brightens the Ultra Music Festival

The Ultra Music Festival, one of the world’s premier electronic music events, attracts top international DJs and performers, drawing thousands of spectators from all corners of the globe. Synonymous with unrivaled soundscapes and scintillating visuals, this festival ensures every element contributes to the grandeur of the experience. And this year, a star emerged not on the stage, but behind it: Gloshine’s Outdoor LED Screen – LE 4.81 LED video product.Read More »Gloshine Brightens the Ultra Music Festival

An Unprecedented Visual Setup with INFiLED for the Marrageddon Hip Hop Festival

Marrageddon is the first Italian hip hop music festival which debuted September 23 in Milan at the Ippodromo La Maura. More than 140,000 fans attended this show organized by the artist Marracash, with a second date in Naples. The visual design, created by Ombra Design, the company managed by the creative Lorenzo De Pascalis, was crucial in this event and Gianpaolo Rizzo, MOD’s Technical Manager, supplied a huge size of INFiLED AR 3,9 outdoor video product installing about 1.000 sq/m of LED video panels.Read More »An Unprecedented Visual Setup with INFiLED for the Marrageddon Hip Hop Festival

Ayrton Cobra Shines at Marrageddon Festival in Italy

Marrageddon, the hugely successful first hip hop festival from King of Rap, Marracash, involved two massive concerts in the two cities that are symbolic of the rapper: Milan and Naples. Lighting Designer Giorgio De Cassan of Ombra Design, who was entrusted by the rapper with the entire creative direction of his Italian tour, lit this revolutionary event. The LD opted for 40 Ayrton Cobra laser-sourced fixtures, supplied by Mister X Service.Read More »Ayrton Cobra Shines at Marrageddon Festival in Italy

CHAUVET and Serpro Producciones Celebrate 40 Years of Hombres G Band

Few people other than dedicate cinema buffs, remember the 1935 James Cagney movie G Men, but the classic gangster film has lived on for the past four decades thanks to the global success of the Spanish quartet Hombres G.  Ever since they made their debut at Madrid’s Rock-Ola in 1983, the band has been wooing fans with their irrepressible pop sound.Read More »CHAUVET and Serpro Producciones Celebrate 40 Years of Hombres G Band

Robe Hopes for Great Things

Popular rapper and producer ИF just finished a massive US leg of his HOPE world tour which featured another impressive lighting and production design created by Chris Denholm (also Production Manager & Musical Director) and Clay Joiner (also Lighting Designer & Programmer, as well as operator on the European leg). The pair have worked together for some time, and extol the advantages of having two brains, imaginations and sets of experience – both contrasting and converging – to boost the creative dynamic they bring to the table.Read More »Robe Hopes for Great Things

CHAUVET Professional Fixtures from Air Light Holland Help PAARD Continue Tradition of Intensity

When it opened in June 1972 it was called Paard van Troje [Dutch for Trojan Horse], perhaps a reference to its underground vibe, its tendency to host counterculture bands that weren’t always welcomed in mainstream circles, and its previous life as a squatter’s house. By 2016, however, this red-hot live music venue in the Prinsegracht had long since become so famous that the clandestine label no longer seemed to fit, so its name was changed simply to PAARD.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Fixtures from Air Light Holland Help PAARD Continue Tradition of Intensity