The FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2023, hosted at the Constanța Masters in the City Park Mall, was illuminated by a lighting setup composed of Prolights products. For its inauguration in Romania, the FIBA 3×3 World Tour attracted sixteen top-level teams from around the world who competed for the championship title.Read More »The FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2023 Illuminated by Prolights Fixtures
Offering a unique mix of stunning natural scenery, exciting activities and cultural displays, Xcaret is one of Mexico’s leading tourist attractions. At the end of 2021, the park’s technical team upgraded a problematic projector-based video system in its main Tlachco Theater with ADJ LED video panels. The new setup not only improved the clarity of the video content shown as part of the venue’s resident production but has also proven to be far more reliable than the previous system, following over a year of continuous use across daily shows. Here’s a video overview of this project:
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Lighting Designer Jack Creegan and Technical Director Jeffrey Kelly recently utilized Martin MAC Aura XIP fixtures in a high-profile role in the recent Hopewell Valley Central High School musical production of The Wedding Singer, located in Pennington, NJ.Read More »Martin MAC Aura XIP Plays a Starring Role in Hopewell Valley Central High School’s ‘The Wedding Singer’
Four hundred members of the live music touring industry attended the 12th Annual Touring Career Workshop Tuesday evening (11/14) at Soundcheck Annex in Nashville. Established to provide support, education, resources, and networking opportunities to the men and women who make live music events possible, this year’s event featured breakout sessions on topics including mental health self-care, financial planning, health insurance options, event safety, job hunting and more.Read More »Photos from the 12th Annual Touring Career Workshop
The Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen has invested in 80 new Robe FORTE luminaires in a package featuring 32 FORTE Profiles, 34 FORTE Fresnels, 4 FORTE FollowSpots and 10 iFORTE (IP65 rated) moving lights, as part of a technical upgrade to ensure that this high- profile venue can offer its productions and creative teams the most appropriate and sustainable technologies to create and craft their art.Read More »Royal Danish Opera Invests in Robe FORTES
Seeing Nothing More live is “an experience that is hard to put into words,” one music critic wrote after going to the St. Petersburg show on the Grammy nominated band’s recently concluded Spirits Tour. That’s true, but terms like in your face, riveting, adrenaline-pumping, and emotionally transformative, do come pretty close to capturing the onslaught of sensations that rush through the heart and brain at one of this uber-talented quartet’s multi-faceted concerts.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Channels Intensity on Nothing More’s Spirits Tour
Ayrton announces the official launch of its new IP65 rated Rivale Profile, the next in its Classical IP65 3 Series, and the first ultra-equipped luminaire in Ayrton’s brand new ‘ULTIMATE’ series. All ULTIMATE models are perfectly homothetic, sharing common features and delivering previously unimaginable weight-to-output ratios. Here’s a preview video of the Ayrton Rivale Profile:
With the addition of experienced industry professional Giulia Calani, GLP is strengthening its resources on two fronts. Calani has been recruited in the dual role of Sales & Partner Relationship Manager for the internationally renowned manufacturer of professional lighting solutions.Read More »Giulia Calani Joins GLP in Sales & Partner Relationship Manager Role
Nashville-based PTP Live has invested in 60 Ayrton Argo 6 FX lights for its live production work for music, festival and corporate clients and to bolster its rental inventory of lighting and video equipment. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures in North America. The new Argo 6 FX lights expand PTP Live’s roster of Ayrton fixtures, which already includes Khamsin S and MagicPanel 602 units.Read More »PTP Live Grows Its Ayrton Lighting Inventory with Argo 6 FX Fixtures
If you are looking for an example in how a single lighting and video setup can be used by two different designers to create distinct visual narratives, the North American ‘Freaks on Parade’ tour with Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper could serve as a case in point. “It’s always really cool to see how designers use the same rig in different ways,” said Damian Rogers, Lighting & Video Designer, Programmer & Director for Rob Zombie. An expansion in LED video gear and content also played a key role, not just for Zombie, who “makes great videos and provides tons of cool content for our show,” Rogers says, but also for Cooper, who took the LED video content plunge for the first time with this trek.
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Bandit Lites is finishing 2023 with yet another nomination for Concert Visuals Company of the Year at the 35th Annual Pollstar Awards where the industry gathers to honor the top tours, venues, live music executives, agencies, production companies, and more in over 40 categories.Read More »Bandit Lites Nominated for Pollstar Awards Concert Visuals Company of the Year
PLSN Editor Michael S. Eddy turns the Editor’s Note spotlight over to, and onto, the important topic of mental health in our industry.
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