LONDON and DUBAI – Maestra Group, specialist in premium event production, design and solutions, has made a large investment in new sound, AV and lighting equipment for 2016, which also follows the launch of the new Maestra London office on Jan. 4. Pictured here are Justin Hammond and Thomas Clements.
Read More »Barco is broadening its HDX projector portfolio for large venues and events with a 3-chip DLP, 19,000-lumen model that offers 4K UHD resolution with superb image quality. The HDX-4K20 FLEX shares its lens range, ease of use, and modularity with the other HDX models.
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FLORENCE, Italy – The Classical Ballet Moscow recently completed a tour of Italy and Sicily featuring an emotive lighting design from Evgeniy Toma programmed on a Philips Strand Lighting NEO Lighting Control Console. The company performed The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty in cities including Florence, Milan and Palermo over 36 consecutive days.
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SYDNEY – Indoor ‘hardstyle’ festival Knockout Circuz returned to iconic Sydney venue The Hordern Pavilion at the end of last year, with lighting designer Arian Yeganeh creating an eight-hour light show using Clay Paky Mythos, Stormy and Sharpy fixtures.
Read More »SYDNEY – Elation Professional named Lexair Entertainment its exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand. Lexair will be showing Elation at the Entech Roadshow across Australia this February and will be debuting the latest in Elation’s line of versatile, energy-efficient LED and Platinum Series lighting solutions. Alex Mair and Tony Lukeman will be on hand, with Chuck Green joining the team in Perth.
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Christie is expanding its Velvet Apex Series of LED tiles featuring 1.2 and 1.6 millimeter pixel pitches. The new tiles will be featured at ISE in Amsterdam.
Read More »ARGYLE, TX – GoVision L.P. announced the addition of Justin Barrow to its Golf Operations team and also named Christian Perez account executive for the GoVision sales team.
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BROOKLYN, NY – Jeremy Roth, who designed the production and is out running the lighting for Wilco’s 2016 shows, is surrounding the band with a large number of individually controlled pixels arrayed on IFR 1/2 grid mesh from Rose Brand.
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AUSTIN, TX – High End Systems and LightParts updated their service and repair agreement for vintage HES gear. The new agreement has been expanded, covering a broader range of HES legacy products. Pictured here, from left, are HES and LightParts partners Chris Ferrante, Don Pugh, Robert Mokry and Jeff Pelzl.
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ST. LOUIS – Technical Productions, Inc. noted that LD/production designer Seth Jackson has joined the firm as a full time member of its executive creative team. Jackson will work on behalf of TPI as Production Designer. Pictured here, from left, is the new TPI Executive Team: Gene Brian (Director Engineering/Operations), Seth Jackson (Production Designer), Elizabeth O’Keefe (Director Creative Services) and Michael O’Keefe (CEO).
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LONDON – For a recent U.K. tour stop for Kevin Hart’s ‘What Now’ world comedy tour, LD Ken Delvo specified 24 Rogue R2 Washes and eight Rogue R1 Washes. SXS Event provided the gear.
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AMSTERDAM – tvONE will be featuring its MultiView Dual DVI transmitter Morph-it card at ISE in Amsterdam (stand 1-M60). It will allow users to distribute digital video more than 300 meters, accordin to the company.
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