DUBLIN — Critically acclaimed Irish singer-composer James Vincent McMorrow’s kicked off his “We Move” world tour in Dublin on Oct. 7. Central to the set designed by Conor Jacob are Solaris Mozart RGB LED fixtures. The tour includes the UK, Europe, Canada, and the US, closing Dec. 1 at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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.
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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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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UK – Electropop pioneer Gary Numan has completed a critically-acclaimed UK tour, with lighting designer Luke Edwards of Cue Design Ltd selecting the compact yet versatile Tiger Touch II to control the show’s stand-out visuals. “All my Gary Numan shows are very dynamic,” says Edwards. “I find Avolites products allow me to achieve that very easily. The Tiger Touch II’s intuitive functionality meant I could create a high-impact show with minimal programming time.”
BELGIUM – Entertainment engineering specialist WIcreations celebrated its 10th birthday in style over the weekend with a large party for its many fans, friends, clients and acquaintances in home town Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. The company was founded by Hans Willems in 2006 to tackle all those challenging, crazy and innovative projects that occur in the industry … with style, flair and imagination.
