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Manufacturers Display New Gear in Frankfurt

Prolight + Sound 2012

Manufacturers Display New Gear in Frankfurt

FRANKFURT, Germany — The live entertainment industry spotlight turned to Frankfurt from March 21-24 for this year’s Prolight + Sound and Musikmesse trade events. Along with the latest technology, the industry’s proclivity to mix business with pleasure at industry confabs was on full display. Here are a few highlights.

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ETC Source Four LED

ETC Source Four LED

MIDDLETON, WI — The ETC Source Four LED produces a sharp, clean beam of focusable light or a smooth wash. The luminaire will be available in three versions: Lustr+, Daylight and Tungsten.The Source Four LED Lustr+ offers a complete palette of colors using the Selador x7 Color System. The Source Four LED Tungsten and Daylight produce maximum brightness at the respective warm (3000K) and cool white (5600K) color temperatures.

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Colour Sound Experiment

Colour Sound Experiment Doubles Space in Warehouse Expansion

LONDON – When Colour Sound Experiment found itself bursting at the seams with equipment in its inventory, something had to give: the walls. The company expanded its current warehouse facility by acquiring the building next door and knocking down the walls. The expansion nearly doubles the previous available space. Another part of the new space is a dedicated storage and workshop area.

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Les Miserables

‘Les Miserables’ LD Happy with Jands Vista T2

LONDON – Danish LD Benjamin la Cour has been using his own Jands Vista T2 lighting console, running the next generation Vista v2 software, on a busy schedule which includes a Danish production of  “Les Miserables.” The designer tried out three different consoles for a month each, deciding on the Jands Vista in the end because of its theatre-friendly features.

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Gordon

Gordon ‘Gordo’ Hyndford Joins Epic Team

OXNARD, CA – Gordon ‘Gordo’ Hyndford has joined Epic Production Technologies as Senior Account Executive. Hyndford brings more than 30 years of industry relationships and experience to the company, including a number of years working with Ed & Ted’s Excellent Lighting (one of two founding companies of Epic). ?Hyndford is working at Epic’s Southern California facility in Oxnard.

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Academy Awards 2012

Rose Brand’s Curtain Call for Academy Awards

SECAUCUS, NJ – The 2012 Academy Awards featured a main drape fabricated from Rose Brand. The drape was made out of 21 oz. Marvel and custom sewn in Rose Brand’s West Coast facility. The drape featured 204 hand-sewn, jeweled medallions and a 4-foot-8-inch trim band. It was also sewn with 150 percent fullness.

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Katy Perry

Clay Paky Fixtures Go Dreamin’ with Katy Perry

Bergamo, Italy – LD Baz Halpin used Clay Paky Sharpys and Alpha Beam 700 automated spotlights on the US leg of Katy Perry’s “California Dreams” tour.  Katy’s tour was set in a ‘Candyfornia’ world that was colorful and thematically-inspired, Halpin said. He used the 16 Sharpys along the perimeter of the stage, while the Alpha Beam 700s were the “multipurpose workhorses.”

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