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‘The Joan’ is High End – Penrith’s PAC adds SolaSpots and Full Boar 4

SolaSpots join the stage

‘The Joan’ is High End – Penrith’s PAC adds SolaSpots and Full Boar 4

SYDNEY – The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in the Sydney suburb of Penrith is known affectionately by the locals as ‘The Joan’. Like the grand old dame herself, The Joan has fantastic stage presence, with a 580 seat concert hall, 378 seat theatre and a 90 seat studio. Like any flexible performance space, the concert hall at The Joan hosts everything from touring acts to local community groups, which means the technical staff have to get shows, and looks, up and running quickly.

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Nocturnal-Wonderland

Nocturnal Wonderland Lights Up the Night with Claypaky Fixtures, grandMA2 Consoles

LOS ANGELES – The Nocturnal Wonderland music festival was staged for its 21st year Sept. 2-4 at the San Manuel Amphitheater and Grounds.  The festival, presented by Insomniac and Pasquale Rotella, turned to LD Steve Lieberman of Westlake Village, CA, who lit four of five stages with a variety of fixtures. Claypaky fixtures played a key role, including Mythos and Sharpy fixtures, and grandMA2 consoles, also distributed by ACT Lighting, controlled the washes and beams that lit up the night.

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COB Cannon Wash DW

ADJ Releases Powerful White-Light Illumination with Variable Color Temperature

LOS ANGELES – Ideal for illuminating stage sets, performers, speakers or architectural features, the ADJ COB Cannon Wash DW is a potent wash fixture that features a unique ‘Dynamic White’ COB – Chip On Board – LED light-source. Building on the success of the original quad color COB Cannon Wash, this new version combines Warm White and Cool White LED sources on a single LED chip to allow smooth and shadow-free blending between the two color temperatures (3000K: Warm White and 6500K: Cool White).

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Granger Community Church

Granger Community Church Gets Aid from Cineo Lighting

INDIANA – Granger Community Church, based in Northern Indiana, has two campus locations, as well as an extensive online presence for people around the world to celebrate GCC’s message. The Visual Arts team at Granger in fact captures and produces a wide range of content for its services and presentations with almost half the videos being storytelling, documentary style works. For many of their video shoots Granger’s team relies on Cineo Lighting products.

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GLP at LDI 2016

GLP Rewarded For Largest LDI Stand Ever

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Sun Valley, CA – GLP reaped the rewards for investing in what was their largest ever stand at this year’s LDI Show in Las Vegas. In keeping with the city itself, their grand 2,500 sq. ft. space was a myriad of adventure, bathed in a cornucopia of lighting, which visitors wasted no time in exploiting.  An open area at the front, adorned with demo tables bearing the new fixtures, enabled lighting professionals to get up close and personal with the products before joining GLP staff in the meeting and hospitality area.

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Clare Dunn

Elite Multimedia helps make a statement for Clare Dunn

NASHVILLE,– As one of the most highly regarded songwriters today, MCA Nashville recording artist Clare Dunn is now making a name for herself on tour. Having already opened for many of country music’s biggest stars, the Colorado native has embarked on her first solo tour and production designer Mike Marcario was brought on to create a high-energy design that could accentuate the artist.  To bring the full design together, Marcario worked with Nashville-based tour provider Elite Multimedia. 

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Roland VR-4HD

Roland VR-4HD High-Definition AV Mixer

Roland’s new VR-4HD High-Definition AV Mixer is designed to serve as an easy-to-use, compact and portable AV mixer that integrates a digital audio mixer, video switcher, multi-viewer touch screen and USB video/audio streaming interface into a stand-alone device. The VR-4HD has three dedicated HDMI input connectors compatible with a variety of equipment and offering support for 1080p/1080i/720p video resolutions. A fourth input includes a scaler to support both video and computer resolutions and also supports analog RGB and component input, as well as HDMI, so older devices can be used as sources without the need for external conversion equipment. HDCP is supported for input of copy-protected content from devices such as Blu-ray disc players. The Roland VR-4HD High-Definition AV Mixer will be available in December 2016.

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Pulse Halloween

Daniel Thibault Revs Up Pulse Halloween With CHAUVET DJ Intimidators

RALEIGH, NC – The Tar Heel State’s “Research Triangle” is home to some of the leading high-tech firms in the US and three large universities (Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State), as well as a vibrant, diverse millennial population. Fused together, these ingredients have turned the area into a hotbed of electronic music.  A driving force behind this trend is Pulse EDM, a group dedicated to putting on some of the sickest (or should we say “best”) dance parties anywhere.

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Electric Forest Festival Main Stage

LD Travis Shirley Lights Main Stage of Electric Forest Festival

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ROTHBURY, MI – The annual Electric Forest Festival features jam band/EDM music on five stages at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI. But more than that, Electric Forest Festival has an experience mission: it’s to enhance the music with a multi-sensory fan experience by locating art installations throughout the (actual) forest in which the fest takes place. Lighting Designer Travis Shirley was tasked this summer (his fifth year with the festival) with lighting the festival’s Main Stage – called the Ranch Arena

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Eagle Brook Church

Eagle Brook Church Chooses ACL 360 Bar™ for Latest Design at Six Campuses

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MINNESOTA – In a unique example of an EDM-style lighting fixture in a House of Worship, Nate Nohling, Lead Lighting Designer at Eagle Brook Church, a large ministry with six campuses across Minnesota, chose 156 ACL 360 Bar™ LED battens as the staple of a new lighting design. “The number one thing I was shooting for when designing this set was impact,” Nohling explains. “I wanted to have a large quantity of fixtures that had the ability to create the impact we were looking for.”

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