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Venuetech, Barco LiveDots Partner for Saudi Arabia

Venuetech, Barco LiveDots Partner for Saudi Arabia

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Barco LiveDots, a Barco company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai-based audiovisual expert Venuetech. Venuetech will be the exclusive distributor of LiveDots’ full LED portfolio in Saudi Arabia and a non-exclusive reseller for the GCC (Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates). In a company statement, LiveDots said it is “confident that Venuetech will help to expand its business in the Middle East market.”

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Monty Rains

Monty Rains Named COO for PixelFlex

NASHVILLE — PixelFLEX, an LED solutions company based here, named sales and marketing veteran Monty Rains as its chief operating officer. Rains will be responsible for expanding sales channels, forging strategic partnerships and building structure and strategic processes to assist with the company’s growth.

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EDC 2013

Festival Momentum Continues as Insomniac Gears Up for EDC Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — Along with 2013’s double-weekend sellouts for the Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March and Coachella in April, the Electric Daisy Carnival, set for June 21-23, is also due to set a new attendance record, with Insomniac Events reporting the sale of 345,000 tickets — 115,000 per night — up from total ticket sales of 320,000 last year.

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CAST R31: The new Material System in Shaded Views

CAST wysiwyg R31

TORONTO – CAST Group has released the first few details of forthcoming new release of wysiwyg R31, due to launch within the next few weeks. For features, most significant is the new Material System in Shaded Views, allowing material properties to be applied on a per-element level to any object in the file, adding more realism to real-time visualization, meaning more screenshots and fewer renderings. New material properties include Specular Level, Specular Gloss, Specular Color Source and Light Reflection, delivering ‘really virtually real’ images to enhance the creative process.

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Nashville Sounds.

Nashville Sounds Go Deep with PixelFLEX LED Video Curtain

NASHVILLE — The Nashville Sounds enhanced the fan experience during a recent night game by using lightweight and flexible LED video curtain panels manufactured by PixelFLEX. With more than 3,000 fans in attendance for Music Industry Night, a popular promotional event scheduled several times a season that features a pre-game musical performance, the Sounds kept fans in the action throughout the game by delivering video and player information across the PixelFLEX panels in right-centerfield.

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Eddy Izzard.

Renegade Designs Eddy Izzard’s ‘Force Majeure’

LONDON – Nick Gray of London-based creative visual design practice Renegade worked his lighting magic on the latest Eddie Izzard “Force Majeure” arena tour, which has just finished a three month tour around the UK and Europe. It’s the first time that Gray – well known for his work in the fashion world and as LD for rockers Kasabian – has designed lighting for the ‘surrealist’ funny-man, a task on which he collaborated closely with Izzard’s Artistic Director, Sarah Townsend.

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ASL CEO/Founder David B. Scherz with Serafino Melloni, Winkler Multi Media Events

SGM Blasts Off in Switzerland

BASEL, Switzerland – Within five months of taking on the distribution of SGM in Switzerland, the long-serving ASL Electronic has already introduced another stalwart company, Winkler Multi Media Events, who have made a major investment in the Danish company’s LED portfolio.

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Journey at Wembley. Photo: James MacKenzie, courtesy of White Light

White Light Supplies Journey/Whitesnake Arena Tour

LONDON -White Light supplied lighting equipment and solutions for the Journey and Whitesnake 2013 UK Arena Tour. The popular bill featured the two bands, along with musical guest Thunder, together in concert for the first time in the UK. For the tour, which opened in Belfast and finished in London, White Light worked closely with Production Manager Rob Kern and LD Kevin “Deuce” Christopher, supplying a full production service including lighting fixtures, cabling, rigging and power distribution.

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CMA Fest

CMA Festival Shines with Bandit Lites

NASHVILLE – Country music’s biggest stars found themselves awash in the beams of more than 600 moving lights as Bandit Lites and LD Mike Swinford lit up the main stage at the CMA Music Festival. Starting on June 6, the four-day festival featured country music’s hottest stars including Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Lady Antebellum taking the stage at LP Field to crowds of more than 162,000.

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Kekul Sheth (Robe distributor IES), Sachin Naik (owner Nitin Speakers & Electrical), Sandeep Bhattad (business partner), Rasesh Parekh (Robe distributor IES)

India’s Nitin Speakers & Electrical Invests in Robe

PUNE, Maharashtra, India – South Indian rental company Nitin Speakers & Electrical has invested in Robe moving lights to upgrade their lighting inventory. Known for many years as a high quality audio rental company and also for building large portable venue superstructures, Nitin Speaker’s & Electrical opened its intelligent lighting division a year ago.

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