ROCHESTER, NY—Whirlwind, a leading audio interface manufacturer for more than 40 years, recently added two new engineers to their team. Jim Berry and Mike Shapiro (pictured here, L-R) have joined the company as electrical engineer and product development engineer, respectively.
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NASHVILLE – The Nashville Municipal Auditorium was aglow March 10 and 11th with more than 8,000 high school and middle school students offering worship and fellowshipping at the Youth Evangelism Conference. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event for Orchestrate Experience with Lighting Designer Trey Meares and Orchestrate Production Director Alex Fleming. Featured guests included Dave Edwards, The Skit Guys, Luke MacDonald and the YEC Worship Band.
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FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design announced that Creative Technology (CT), a leading rental and event staging specialists, has equipped its infrastructure engineers with the Blackmagic Video Assist as part of their standard issue onsite testing kits.
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MIDDLETON, WI — On behalf of Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC), writer Marshall Bissett profiled ETC’s rep/distributor for Colombia, Bogata-based SEEL S.A., led by Carlos Fernandez. Fernandez was among the international attendees visiting Wisconsin last summer for ETC’s 2016 Rep and Dealer Workshop.
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LERMA, Mexico – Chauvet held a grand opening event for its new office, warehouse, service center and showroom facility in Mexico recently. Close to 100 attended the event, which featured a buffet dinner, speeches and DJ entertainment. Pictured here, from left, are Carlos Zamora de Martino General Manager of Chauvet Mexico, Daniel Pérez Carrillo and Alma Delia Reyes Villegas of Kassthelm, Albert Chauvet and Berenice Chauvet
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Eurolite will be featuring its new Hypno fixtures at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt April 4-7, 2017. They included 30W and 60W versions. Both have LED rings around the lens, lighting up with 76 and 88 RGB SMD LEDs, respectively.
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BOISE, ID — Food and agribusiness company J.R. Simplot turned to Neurilink, also based in Boise, for ideas on how to deal with a four-foot-wide concrete column that employees and company visitors would be passing each day. Neurilink’s Michael Fornander detailed how his firm was able to transform that obstruction into an interactive information resource with the help of a curved NanoLumens Nixel Series LED video display.
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LOUISVILLE, KY — A rap concert staged at the Tim Faulkner Gallery in Louisville, KY’s Portland neighborhood was interrupted by gunfire and panic in the early hours of Sunday, March 19, killing one attendee and leaving five other attendees injured.
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DYERSBURG, TN — Lowrance Sound Company (LSC) installed a dozen elektraLite eyeBall LED lighting fixtures to brighten worship services at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Dyersburg, TN. LSC systems engineer Carl Lowrance sourced the fixtures via Quest Marketing in Miami Beach, FL.
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HONG KONG – A new three-day music festival, Dragonland, made its debut on the Hong Kong event scene recently. Billed as the region’s first outdoor festival to combine pop with EDM, it joins Clockenflap as the only large-scale event of its kind in Hong Kong. Promoted by Playerone, a crowd of 15,000 people per day had been estimated, and in terms of production AHM Engineering supplied 20 of GLP’s award-winning X4 Bar 10 battens and 90 impression X4, as one of the mainstays of the stage set.
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WATTENS, Austria – LD Björn Hermann used 60 Claypaky Mythos2 and 20 Claypaky Supersharpy2 fixtures to deliver two large light sculptures as part of global crystal producer Swarovski’s Festival of Light, hosted at their 17-acre fantasy park Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) in Wattens, Austria. Lead creative agency for Festival of Light was Berlin-based international creative production company StudioNOW, who originated the project’s concept.
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NEW YORK – WorldStage launched its Sx3 AV platform, dubbed the Self-Contained Show System, at a conference for the IT industry in February. The Sxe AV platform is designed to significantly reduce set up time, deliver superior reliability and transform the look and feel of presentation rooms with 50 to 500 people.
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