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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Includes ‘Animotion’ Pairing Live Music, Digital Art

Edinburgh Fringe Festival Includes 'Animotion' Pairing Live Music, Digital Art. Photo by Ross Ashton

Edinburgh Fringe Festival Includes ‘Animotion’ Pairing Live Music, Digital Art

EDINBURGH – The latest AniMotion live painting, digital art and music show is being presented by Aurora Nova at George Herriot’s School as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The power of original painting created in real-time and projected onto architecture accompanied by live music is a collaboration between projection artist Ross Ashton, percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and visual artist and painter Maria Rud.

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Current RMS - Cloud Rental Software

Current RMS – Cloud Rental Software

Current RMS is cloud-based rental management software designed specifically for rental businesses in the AV, Production and Events sectors and lets users create proposals, send invoices, keep track of inventory and coordinate logistics. The cloud-based system provides the freedom to manage your rental business from any device and location, with the ability to access and use vital rental processes outside of an office environment, instantly improving customer response rates.

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Colour Sound Lights 2015 Secret Garden Party with Close to 500 Moving Lights. Photo of Zola Blood by Danny North

Colour Sound Lights 2015 Secret Garden Party with Close to 500 Moving Lights

HUNTINGDON, U.K. – Colour Sound Experiment continued its frenetic 2015 summer festival season supplying lighting to 12 major stages, 24 smaller performance areas and 8 bars at the 2015 Secret Garden Party (SGP) event staged in Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon, UK. Colour Sound’s crew of 22 were chiefed by James Hinde and Alex Ryan. Robe, Clay Paky, SGM, Chauvet and other fixtures were controlled with Avolites consoles. Colour Sound also provided its own Green Hippo controlled BT-6 6 mm LED screens for the festival.

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For the 10th anniversary edition of Let's Dance in Sweden, LD Pelle Larsson's lighting design included 24 Robe Pointes. Photo by Louise Stickland

LD Pelle Larsson’s Design for ‘Let’s Dance’ in Sweden Includes Robe Pointes

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – For the 10th anniversary edition of Let’s Dance in Sweden, LD Pelle Larsson’s lighting design included 24 Robe Pointe moving lights installed in prominent positions around the dance floor and amidst the orchestra. Pelle Larsson worked on the project with others at LD Sweden including daughter Kim and son Rasmus. Another son, Robin, was overseeing lighting for an antiques quiz show, Gladiators for TV4, which was being recorded elsewhere. Also working for Pelle Larsson’s company, LD Sweden, is Daniel de Sivo.

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FLEXCurtain HD from PixelFLEX to be a good fit for the needs of Electric Tundra, an EDM concert staged at the University of Buffalo’s Center for the Arts. The event, featuring Bingo Players, 3LAU and DNNYD, included a 20-by-eight-foot video wall.

“Electric Tundra” EDM Concert at the University at Buffalo Features PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain HD

BUFFALO, NY – Katie Gilliland, production manager at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts, found FLEXCurtain HD from PixelFLEX to be a good fit for the needs of “Electric Tundra,” an EDM concert featuring Bingo Players, 3LAU and DNNYD. Along with brightness and resolution, she cited the rigging advantages of the lightweight panels, noting that the 20’ x 8’ video wall used for the 6,500-seat arena weighed only 250 pounds.

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For the Toyota Summer Concert Series during the Orange County Fair, Ray Woodbury of RK Diversified Entertainment used Next NXT-1 panels from Chauvet Professional.

LD Ray Woodbury Uses Next NXT-1 Panels for Toyota Summer Concert Series at Pacific Amphitheatre

COSTA MESA, CA – For the Toyota Summer Concert Series during the Orange County Fair, Ray Woodbury of RK Diversified Entertainment used Next NXT-1 panels from Chauvet Professional. The artists performing at the 8,000-capacity Pacific Amphitheatre included the Band Perry, Iration, Capital Cities, Deep Purple, America, The Steve Miller Band, Huey Lewis and the News and Jefferson Starship.

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Large Cyc for Dutch Touring Opera Lit with ETC LED Fixtures. Photo by Richard ten Hof

Large Cyc for Dutch Touring Opera Lit with ETC LED Fixtures

ENSCHEDE, The Netherlands — At 82 feet wide and 33 feet high, the cyclorama for the Nederlandse Reisopera (Dutch Touring Opera)’s touring production of Orphée et Eurydice was always going to be a tall order to light, especially because the company’s limited budget meant they needed to be in and out of the venue in a day. But, with the help of 40 ETC Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr luminaires with CYC adapters, and some clever rigging choices by chief lighting technician Richard ten Hof, they succeeded where others might fail.

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