BEIJING – Christie is exhibiting this week at InfoComm China, which takes place at Beijing’s China National Convention Center April 12-14. Christie’s multi-zone booth occupies the space at Booth #EB1-01 at the show.
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CORTLANDT, NY — Motion Laboratories named Rick Montgomery VP Sales for the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Montgomery comes to Motion Labs from Stagemaker, where he worked for the last eight years, serving as North American business development manager.
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LumenRadio’s new RDMchip shares many attributes with its big brother, LumenRadio’s TiMo, but in an even more compact size. The RDMchip measures just 6mm by 6mm in size. As such, it claims the title as the world’s smallest wireless RDM receiver. By adding a few ancillary components, users get an integrated wireless receiver that can talk both DMX and RDM.
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GLADSTONE, MO — For Antioch Bible Baptist Church, a modestly-sized church located north of Kansas City with a big emphasis on outreach, Lenexa, KS-based Stark Raving Solutions provided a cost-efficient audio system and a new broadcast and live audience-friendly lighting rig that features Chauvet Professional COLORado fixtures.
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GOTHENBURG – LumenRadio, world leaders in wireless DMX, releases a new version of SuperNova – Supernova 4. SuperNova is a complete system management tool for monitoring and configuring your lighting network and with the new features and improved UI this market leading RDM management tool has got even better. With support for both CRMX and 3rd party Art-Net nodes from other manufacturers, SuperNova provides a clear and detailed view of the status of your entire network – both wired and wireless devices. RDM enabled fixtures can be configured and monitored from the software, with configuration of common parameters just a click away.
ORLANDO, FLA.– Barco, the global leader in digital cinema, is proud to collaborate with Lucasfilm and ReedPOP on the Star Wars Celebration event, to be held in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center on April 13 – 16. During the four day event, devoted Star Wars fans will experience the latest in laser projection technology as they gather at the Galaxy Stage to attend high-profile guest panels, including Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Hayden Christensen and more, and watch a special tribute to 40 years of Star Wars.
NASHVILLE— City Winery venues across the U.S. combine a fully functioning winery with intimate concerts, food and wine classes, fine dining, and more. With more than 300 events in 2016, City Winery decided it was time to redesign and renovate its AV technology to communicate seamlessly across each venue’s many rooms. To do so, they called on trusted Nashville-based technology integration firm, Tour Supply Inc.
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FRANCE – During the last German International Green Week in Berlin, the German company BayWa that specializes in agriculture, building materials, and energy sectors, gathered 3,000 people together for a reception on the theme of agriculture. For the production of the AV part, BayWa contracted audio+frames, a German company that provides AV services for events.
LONDON – Lighting controls expert, Artistic Licence, has upgraded its premium DMX splitters to superhero status, by endowing them with special powers to withstand mains electrocution. DMX splitters are a common component in lighting installations, allowing cable distances and fixture counts to be increased without signal degradation. However, with the increasing popularity of DMX as a means to control fixtures in a variety of commercial sectors, installation damage is becoming more frequent. This is largely as a result of accidental connection to mains voltages, caused by contractors unfamiliar with entertainment lighting industry protocols.
BIRMINGHAM, UK. – An audacious, eye-popping lighting design by Nathan Wan featured nearly 300 Robe moving lights to provide the power, punch and luminosity needed to match the roaring engines, burning rubber and screeching brakes of the races and performance car action! Nathan has lit the show for the past few years working with technical consultants and equipment suppliers Network Productions. This year their technical director Nick Halliday and production manager Dave Beel were working with a new creative team who wanted to inject some turbo-charged theatricality into the tire-slaying speed drama unfolding on the track.
One of the things about being a tour manager, according to John Callahan, is the fact that you need to be “on” when everyone else… Read More »The Perks of Being a Tour Manager
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