BRISTOL, U.K. – For the third BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, staged in Bristol, U.K. Feb. 12-14, Utopium handled lighting and rigging within Colston Hall, where more than 50 acts performed. The interior and exterior lighting design included Martin, Chauvet, SGM and other fixtures controlled from grandMA control desks and Avolites Art 2000 dimming.
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SYDNEY – Lexair Pty Ltd., currently the exclusive master distributor for High End Systems, Green Hippo and TMB in Oceania, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Elation Professional, both for Australia and New Zealand.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish rental company Comtech added Robe fixtures to its inventory for two consecutive years. The initial purchase, and the company’s first in Robe, was for 40 Pointes in 2014. In 2015 they made a further investment with 50 BMFL Spots, which have been equally as well received, according to project manager Jes Christiansen. Christiansen is pictured here, left, with Johan Kvartborg from LightPartner in the Comtech warehouse
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PERTH, Australia – Christie is showcasing a range of advanced visualization solutions at the 2016 Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference (AOG), at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, February 24-26.
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Flex Rental Solutions released Flex version 4.14.1 to customers on Feb. 17-18, 2016. The newest release includes several new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. Release 4.14.1 includes a new notes tab with highlight functionality for contact records, a bulk edit feature when editing selected serialized items, and an increased character limit on the Raw Printer Template, and more.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada — Niscon Inc., a company specializing in the design, engineering and implementation of motion control systems for the entertainment industry, announced that Marc Beaudry, a 30+ years manager in the planning and delivery of technically complex and large-scale live entertainment in both touring and permanent facilities, has joined its project management and sales department.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Morris is pleased to announce the addition of two new team members to its Integration division and two new team members to its Light & Sound division. The Integration division has named Steve Land (pictured here), CTS, as Director of Business Development & Sales and Wade Russell as Relationship Manager. In the Light & Sound division, Chris Malmgren will serve as Audio Department Manager and Frank Heinrich as Operations Manager.
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LONDON – Colour Sound Experiment is supplying lighting equipment and crew to the current European tour by synthpop duo Hurts, riding high on the success of their third album ‘Surrender’ with a production design by Rob Sinclair. Colour Sound invested in 100 x new Martin VDO Sceptron 10 LED battens for the tour for which lighting is being directed and operated on the road by Matt Arthur.
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Read More »COLUMBIA, MD – As a part of their shared commitment to empower today’s entertainment designers, Vectorworks, Inc. and Production Resource Group (PRG) announce that they will collaboratively develop and implement new features for Vectorworks Spotlight software. More specifically, PRG will work with Vectorworks’ research and development team to develop new tools and object libraries for Spotlight, the standard for CAD software in entertainment design, as well as drive efficient workflows that are crucial to the industry.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Banda el Recodo has been making its distinctively engaging brand of music since 1938. The band’s lighting rig, controlled by LD Arturo Guevara, includes fixtures that are considerably younger. Guevara lights the 17 musicians with more than 140 fixtures from Chauvet Professional, including 84 Rogue RH1 Hybrid and 16 Rogue R2 Wash moving fixtures, 40 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels, six Atmos high-output fog machines, and 16 Data Stream 4 optical splitters.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Blackmagic Design has today announced that Mumford and Sons six show tour of South Africa, directed by Steve Price, featured a live to screen fiber optic workflow incorporating Blackmagic’s studio cameras, ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K and HyperDeck Studio Pro. For the band’s first ever tour of South Africa, promoter Hilltop Live approached local specialists Militia Broadcast, with nearly 150 live shows under their belt, about supplying the IMAG projection, PPU, camera packages and crew during the band’s Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria gigs.
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