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GLP Celebrates 20 Year Milestone at PL+S 2014

Udo Künzler photo by Arpad Ikuma Csizmazia

GLP Celebrates 20 Year Milestone at PL+S 2014

FRANKFURT – German Light Products celebrated 20 years at the recent Prolight+Sound Show here earlier this month. Udo Künzler, who founded the company in 1994, hosted a get-together attended by the company’s distributors and members of the press. The event, also attended by Kasper Gissel and Mark Ravenhill, featured some of the company’s products hits (and misses) along with observations by industry-leading LDs who have relied upon the gear.

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Tom Grant, Jack Sayer Rely on Avolites for Wembley R&B Show Visuals

Tom Grant, Jack Sayer Use Avolites Gear for Wembley R&B Show Visuals

LONDON – Powering a lighting rig with more than 100 fixtures, the Avolites Ai Media Server lit up The Show: R&B Superstars Valentine’s Special, a night of performances by 90’s R&B legends at Wembley Arena here. LD Tom Grant from Siyan Ltd. worked alongside programmer Jack Sayer using Sayer Lighting Productions-supplied gear. The control setup included an Avolites Expert Pro with Titan Mobile Wing to control the lighting and media, which was run from an Avolites Media Ai T4 Media Server.

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LD Scott Warner is using four of Robe’s new Robin Cyclones for Icona Pop, the Swedish duo opening for Miley Cyrus' Bangerz world tour.

Icona Pop Opens for Miley Cyrus with Robe Cyclone Fixtures

TAMPA, FL – LD Scott Warner is using four of Robe’s new Robin Cyclones for Icona Pop, the Swedish duo opening for Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz world tour.  Developed by Robe in response to an initial design idea by Warner, the Cyclone is “a high-powered LED wash light with a built-in DMX-controlled fan,” said Warner. Theatrical Media Services of Omaha, NE is providing the fixtures for their touring debut; they were launched at PLASA 2013.

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For Tetractys: The Art of Fugue at London's Royal Opera House in February, Tauba Auerbach worked with programmer Florian Baeumler and a Hippotizer Rackoon

Royal Opera House Ballet Uses Hippotizer Rackoon to Pair Performers with Pixels

LONDON – For Wayne McGregor’s Tetractys: The Art of Fugue, a ballet for 12 dancers set to Bach that was performed at London’s Royal Opera House in February, set and costume designer Tauba Auerbach worked with programmer Florian Baeumler and the venue’s newly-acquired Hippotizer Rackoon for an assist with the visual design, which paired live performers with geometric graphics.

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U.K. TV Show Lines Ski Jump with Ai-Controlled LEDs

LONDON – For The Jump, a show broadcast on U.K.’s Channel 4 that invites celebrities to give ski jumping, bobsledding and other Olympic winter sports a try, lighting director Roger Williams and set designer Patrick Watson used 400 meters of IntelliFLEX LED systems, controlled by Avolites Media’s Ai Server Infinity EX Series. The show was presented by Alex Brooker and Davina McCall (pictured here).

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Avicii U.K. Tour Supported by HSL Group

Avicii U.K. Tour Supported by HSL Group

LONDON – For a recent Avicii tour, tour director Curly Jobson and production manager Robin Scott relied once again on HSL Group for HSL lighting equipment and crew. The show was designed by Simon Barrington and Ian Tomlinson and directed live by video artist/VJ Harry Bird. It included lighting, video visuals, pyro, special FX and lasers, complementing Avicii’s performance in real-time.

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Moment Factory Creates Immersive Visuals for Oakley Marketing Event

Moment Factory Creates Immersive Visuals for Oakley Marketing Event

LOS ANGELES – Oakley commissioned Moment Factory to design and produce a multimedia environment for the launch of its new “Disruptive By Design” marketing campaign. Working with several different spaces in Studio Red in Los Angeles, Moment Factory created unique visuals that included a room featuring 270-degree projection screens for a speech given by Oakley CEO Colin Baden.

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4Wall Las Vegas Teams with Fine Design for CES Booths

LAS VEGAS – Design firm Fine Design Associates used equipment provided by 4Wall Las Vegas to light the trade show booths and events of eight prominent manufacturers at the 2014 CES show here earlier this year. Canon USA, Motorola, Ricoh, Panasonic, Samsung, Hisense, Monster Products, and Funai all featured lighting experiences at their booths or events created by the Fine Design Team.

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NPI Audio Visual Solutions Adds Vista Systems Spyder

CLEVELAND – NPI Audio Visual Solutions, a systems integrator based here, recently invested in its first Vista Systems Spyder X20 for use in live events and for its demo room where the company showcases equipment for permanent installations. NPI serves customers nationwide with a primary focus in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia.

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Passion 2014 Atlanta Conference Uses Gear from Bandit Lites

ATLANTA – For the Passion 2014 Atlanta Conference, which drew more than 20,000 university students to Philips Arena here in mid-January for a weekend of worship and teaching, LD Ed White used an octagon of 16 moving video screens as both a scenic and narrative show element. Bandit Lites provided the gear for the event, which was followed by a second event at Toyota Center in Houston in mid-February.

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Alcorn McBride Helps Animate Texas State Fair Icon

DALLAS – A new and improved Big Tex was back welcoming guests to the State Fair of Texas last year. The iconic giant cowboy figure, which had been greeting fairgoers since 1952, was destroyed by fire near the end of last year’s State Fair.  The rebuilt Big Tex is even bigger, and enhanced this time around by SRO Associates and Texas Scenic and their use of Alcorn McBride’s V4 Pro frame-accurate controller and AM4 Digital Audio Machine. 

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U.K. Bhangra Showdown Lit with Entec Gear

WEST LONDON – Entec Sound & Light supplied a full production package for the 2014 Bhangra Showdown staged by Imperial College’s Punjabi Society. The vibrant event was a full-on dance competition that showcased the color, style and energy of Bhangra, with eight of the best university Bhangra dance teams in the UK battling for the title. Entec has been involved since the start of the show in 2008.

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