BELGIUM – Belgium-based lighting, video and motion control design house Gravity added XLNT CyberMotion’s CyberHoist II system to its offerings. Pictured here, from left, are Gravity’s Rik Uyttersprot and Robin van Bael; and XLNT’s Hans van der Moolen.
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LONDON – The PLASA Awards for Innovation & Sustainability 2015 and the Gottelier Awards were presented at the PLASA Show at London’s ExCeL in early October. This year, 31 products were nominated for the Awards for Innovation & Sustainability, with eight awards presented, including a final Gold Award for Innovation.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided theatre planning and consulting for the 900-seat Herbst Theatre and support spaces within the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building. The venue was reopened and rededicated in mid-September after lengthy seismic upgrades and improvements. Auerbach Glasow French provided architectural lighting design for all public spaces.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA — TourReady, an online service that helps concert touring freelancers find work, recently announced an alliance with justabunchofroadies.org. TourReady will donate a portion of subscription revenue to the non-profit group.
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LINZ, Austria – For a staging of The Phantom of the Opera by the Musiktheater studio in Bad Leonfelden at Anton Bruckner Private University, lighting designer, programmer and operator Ingo Kelp, used Clay Paky A.leda Wash K10s, Clay Paky Alpha Profile 700s and Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s.
Read More »MIDDLETON, WI – From new product launches and a master class, to hands-on product demos, an uplifting kinetic art display and more, ETC has a lot in store for the 2015 LDI tradeshow, October 23rd to 25th, in Las Vegas. ETC has so many innovations to show off, that it will have two booths for you to visit, 1539 and 1545.
Read More »ORLANDO – Techni-Lux, based here, was named the U.S. distributor for the KRE Electric Cam Wrench.
Read More »BEAVERTON, OR — Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, today announced that after 28 years in the industry, AV industry veteran Read Wineland is retiring. With his retirement, Michael Frank moves into the role of Eastern North America sales development director.
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TEMPE, AZ – Creative BackStage finished off the Summers Ends Music Festival with a bang. The festival ran from Sept. 24-27 and is one of the largest music festivals in the Phoenix/Tempe area. The featured act ending the four-day long festival was Kanye West, and with Kanye it has to be big.
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KERKRADE, The Netherlands – As the Castle of Love open-air music festival returned for its tenth year, partygoers from across the continent flocked to the site for a weekend of dance music and good times. Following the use of ADJ products in 2014, lighting designer Tom Franken once again chose ADJ lighting to really bring the festival to life, putting some of his favorite fixture to the test on the festival’s main stage, and elsewhere.
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DALLAS – One of the last of the season’s major US music festivals takes place October 2-4 and October 9-11 in Austin, TX. Syncrolite returns to the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) in a big way by providing SXL automated skylights that will be filling the night sky over Zilker Park with dancing beams of light and ArenaColor wash fixtures illuminating the stage scrims.
Read More »If only there were a small, single rack-space unit that could monitor four, eight, even 16 feeds…mmmmm… The MultiView 16 from Blackmagic design does just… Read More »One Rack Mount, 16 Layers – Not Just a Fantasy
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