WorldStage Purchases Riedel’s Artist 64 Digital Matrix Intercom System
NEW YORK — WorldStage, the new brand for Scharff Weisberg and Video Applications, Inc., has acquired Riedel Communications’ Artist 64 Digital Matrix Intercom system.
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WorldStage Purchases Riedel’s Artist 64 Digital Matrix Intercom System
fun. at The Grammys with LumenRadio
LOS ANGELES – How do you control 28 four-foot lighted spheres suspended above the band fun. at the 2013 Grammy Awards? With LumenRadio Receiver Cards inside each sphere, and a LumenRadio Flex transmitter located backstage.
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Teslacoop Creates Virtual 3D Forest with wysiwyg
TURIN, Italy – Visual design company Teslacoop has created a life-size virtual 3D forest using wysiwyg R30. The live simulation, originally conceived for a show by a prominent fashion label, was designed to be held within a circular theatre in Milan. Although it was a 3D forest, Luca Baraldo, president of Teslacoop, says it could have been anything involving scenery: a town, a desert, an aquarium, for instance. “The main thing is that we can put the audience inside a virtual 3D scene.”
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Siyan Supplies The Courteeners’ UK Tour
HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK – Lighting rental company Siyan supplied equipment and crew to the first UK leg of indie rockers The Courteeners tour. LD Dan Hill was challenged with designing a show that would expand from the tour’s smaller venues to the larger festival season stages.
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GLP Makes an Impression on Motown Show
LAS VEGAS – When production for Smokey Robinson presents Human Nature: The Motown Show relocated from the Imperial Palace to the nearby Venetian Hotel, LD Steve Cohen received a call for help in redesigning the lighting. With budgetary constraints and physical limitations of a small venue, he selected six impression Wash One, 12 impression Spot One and 16 impression X4 from GLP to pump up the new production.
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ETC Source Four LED Studio HD
MIDDLETON, WI – ETC introduces the Source Four LED Studio HD, a white light LED spotlight designed for professional broadcast, film and video production. The new Source Four LED Studio HD uses the color technology of ETC’s Selador x7 Color System for a more spectrally-complete white light that can be finely tuned for truer color rendition on camera.
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Tekamaki Becomes First d3 Studio in California
LONDON – d3 Technologies announce that San Carlos, CA-based rental and staging company Tekamaki have signed up to become the latest d3 Studio. Tekamaki used d3 systems on the September 2012 DreamForce event for Salesforce.com, which saw the entire San Francisco City Hall visually mapped up for a one-off performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Read More »Top 40 Rules of the Road
Top 40 Rules of the Road 01. Think about what the system needs while you’re in rehearsal–not the day of the first show. We really… Read More »Top 40 Rules of the Road
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Eos Titanium (Ti) Console Debuts
ETC’s Eos Titanium (Ti) control desk [pronounced “tee-EYE”] is the latest in the company’s Eos family of lighting control systems. Incorporating hardware adapted from the company’s Gio console, including multitouch displays, backlit keys and an anodized finish, Ti takes the place of ETC’s flagship Eos desk at the head of the company’s product line. Ti also features a larger multitouch encoder display and dedicated pan and tilt encoders along with four pageable encoders, which promise to make designing and programming even easier. ETC has also introduced two new accessories: the RPU3 (Eos Remote Processor Unit 3) and Net3 RVI3 (Remote Video Interface 3), along with new Eos v2.0 software.
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Cameron Tryon Joins Davis Entertainment
MESA, AZ – Entertainment design firm Davis Entertainment of Mesa, AZ, has appointed Cameron Tryon to “breathe new life into its operations.” Tryon will oversee the future of operations, sales and rentals, and will help organize the company’s design projects.
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UK’s Bloc Party Choose Clay Paky on Tour
LONDON – English indie rock band Bloc Party are currently in the midst of their biggest, most ambitious tour to date. LD and set designer Rob Sinclaire is using Clay Paky products through Clay Paky suppliers, Ambersphere, a relationship which goes back through the years.
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Ayrton Chooses LumenRadio as Wireless Partner
FRANCE – Ayrton announces that all new Ayrton products equipped with a wireless DMX/RDM receiver module will feature CRMX technology by LumenRadio. The first projector to benefit from the new CRMX wireless features will be launched at Prolight & Sound Frankfurt.
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