YONKERS, NY – Altman Lighting is pleased to announce that Wade Williams has joined the Altman team in the role of Southern Regional Sales Manager. Wade will manage Altman Lighting sales in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Blizzard Lighting’s vertical fogger, the 1500W AtmosFear Hex Jet, can send bursts of fog up to 25 feet in the air, and these plumes are set aglow with a dozen 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs.
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Chauvet Professional’s Ovation E-260WW promises a level of brightness and output that exceeds an HPL 750W ellipsoidal fixture, yet gives users all the advantages of LED fixtures, including a 50,000-hour LED source life to lower maintenance costs.
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LONDON – Creative Technology (CT) announces the acquisition of “The Wireless Works” a specialist event service business based in Godalming, UK, delivering radio communications, intercom and data services to the broadcast and live event markets.
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LAS VEGAS — For Hakkasan Group’s Jewel nightclub, which opened in May within the Aria resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, replacing the previous nightclub occupying the space, Haze, AudioTek provided an interactive lighting design controlled by a custom Avolites system of integrated control desks and Ai media servers.
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LONDON – Zero 88 has launched a competition offering one of its powerful and flexible FLX lighting consoles as a prize.
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MILTON KEYNES, U.K. – On behalf of Festival Republic, Dick Tee of ‘enteetainment Ltd’, was asked to look after the technical production management of the recent EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) show in Milton Keynes Bowl, working alongside his counterpart, world renowned Production Manager Jake Berry, who was representing Los Angeles based Festival producers ‘Insomniac’.
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DENMARK – Sound and Light is a busy rental company based in the bustling port and university town of Aalborg on the edge of the gently rolling, lush countryside of Jutland, north Denmark, and a recent investor in Robe’s BMFL Spot moving light fixtures. Focused on servicing the top end of the entertainment lighting market – incorporating TV productions, corporate events and industrials plus installations – Sound and Light was founded in the 1980s by Jess Otzen.
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PHILADELPHIA – The impressive stage set for Coldplay’s 2016 A Head Full of Dreams Tour is highlighted by the new, bright, RGB Firefly FloppyFlex flexible LED neon. Currently on a seven-city US stadium run, the tour began early this year in South America, then went to Europe, and will continue to Australia and New Zealand.
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TORRANCE, CA. — To a professional symphony orchestra, being able to clearly read their sheet music is the only way to put on a performance worthy of a standing ovation. Sheet music poorly lit by troublesome incandescent lighting simply won’t due; especially for the best of the best. The members of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra had to deal with inefficient incandescent lights in their musician stand lights. After they switched to LEDtronics Right-angle LED T10 Lamps, the Orchestra no longer has to worry about bad lighting holding back their performance.
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JEFFERSONVILLE, IN — Every Friday throughout the summer, the city of Jeffersonville, IN hosts a free concert on a floating music venue, the RiverStage. This unique floating performance space is a barge moored on the banks of the Ohio river near the city’s downtown area. For the 2016 season, Sounds Unlimited Productions upgraded the visuals with 45 ADJ AV6 LED video panels and six ADJ Vizi Hybrid 16RX fixtures. The video panels add to the live music performances, and they are also used for advertising messages for sponsors between performances.
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HONG KONG – Global event supplier, Arena Group, has bought Hong Kong based event production company Ironmonger Marquees, to create Arena Hong Kong, extending its Asian capabilities with a new office and hub in Northern Asia. Ironmonger Marquees was introduced to Arena Group in 2015, when the companies collaborated on the Art Central project in Hong Kong.
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