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Progressing to LEDBeam 350s

Progressing to LEDBeam 350s

Audio Progress owner and founder, Malcolm McKinnon with his LEDBeam 350s. Photos by Louise Stickland.

Audio Progress is a busy and inventive audio, lighting, and staging company based in Palmerston North tucked into the beautiful southern rural heartlands of New Zealand’s North Island, about 150km from capital city Wellington. The enterprise is run by Malcolm McKinnon, who founded it back in the 1980s, originally as an audio specialist, and since then, he and the team have built a solid reputation for delivering high quality productions for all types of shows and events, concerts, and festivals.Read More »Progressing to LEDBeam 350s

Free NETRON CLU from Obsidian Makes Data Management a Breeze

Obsidian Control Systems is pleased to offer the NETRON CLU, an easy-to-navigate central utility interface useful in discovering and managing NETRON data distribution devices across a lighting network. Especially helpful when deploying networks that use multiple nodes, or when working with nodes that lack integrated screens, the NETRON CLU makes NETRON data signal devices even easier to configure, eliminating the need to physically access the devices themselves.Read More »Free NETRON CLU from Obsidian Makes Data Management a Breeze

Visual Productions Unveils New Encolor T10 at InfoComm 2024

Visual Productions is releasing its new Encolor T10 DMX Controller at InfoComm 2024 (ACT Entertainment Booth C8034). The non-programmable, wall-mounted, glass touchscreen controller is designed for small, basic, single-zone, permanent installations. Its stylish design and clear layout make it shine in any environment or application — from theaters and entertainment venues to residential and hospitality settings. ACT Entertainment is the official U.S. distributor of Visual Productions solutions.Read More »Visual Productions Unveils New Encolor T10 at InfoComm 2024

Curve Light with Ayrton as it Launches Kyalami

Ayrton announces the official launch of Kyalami, its first IP65-rated laser source luminaire in its Creative Solution series. Kyalami is inspired by the multiple award-winning MagicDot. First released in 2015, MagicDot sold by the thousands within months, and still inspires creativity. Nine years later it has given birth to Kyalami. Here’s a video overview of the Kyalami:

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Alon Shnaiderman Powers Eden Hason with ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium Console

At times during his performances on his recent arena tour of the US/Israeli superstar Eden Hason seemed to be elevated in space as if he were seeking to connect himself and the audience to some higher, more hopeful meaning. It was an apt metaphor for these times, which is exactly what the singer and his Lighting Designer, Alon Shnaiderman hoped to create when they worked on the vision for this show together.Read More »Alon Shnaiderman Powers Eden Hason with ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium Console

Gaffer Tim Goodacre Talks Astera

Tim Goodacre is a busy and in-demand freelance Gaffer and Lighting Specialist based in Sydney and working all over Australia, primarily on TV dramas. He has invested steadily in Astera to help drive his business over the last two years, most recently purchasing one of the new LeoFresnel products from Astera’s Australian and New Zealand distributor—ULA Group, which is added to his existing stock of AX3 Lightdrop and NYX Bulb kits and workhorse Astera Titan and Helios Tubes. Read More »Gaffer Tim Goodacre Talks Astera

Robe Catches the Action for Nina Pušlar Show

Talented Slovenian singer-songwriter Nina Pušlar played a major sold-out show in Ljubljana’s 14,400-capacity Stožice Arena which was recorded for broadcast on national TV and celebrated the dropping of some exciting new music from Pušlar, for which her team including Creative Director Anže Škrube wanted a spectacular production. Lighting Designer Amadej Šuperger from design studio Blackout specified large quantities of Robe moving lights which made up 75% of the lighting. The positions were facilitated by an angled triangular truss in the center with four bracing trusses flanked by raked grids of crisscrossing trusses in the roof above the stage, which brought a structural look and industrial tone to the performance area. It also amplified the depth of the performance space.Read More »Robe Catches the Action for Nina Pušlar Show

Claypaky Plays Host to the Polytechnic University of Milan at the Picturesque Teatro Sociale in Bergamo

Again, this year, Claypaky played host to the students enrolled in the Master in Lighting Design and LED Technology, organized by the Polytechnic University of Milan. This course has long been devoted to nurturing the talents of aspiring young lighting professionals. The Master aims to equip them with the skills they need for diverse applications such as entertainment venues, interior architecture, urban landscapes, museum exhibitions and temporary installations and residential spaces. The curriculum focuses on the analysis and synthesis of lighting design methods, covering conception, organization, and rigging.Read More »Claypaky Plays Host to the Polytechnic University of Milan at the Picturesque Teatro Sociale in Bergamo

Hippotizer Unmasks Magical Visuals for ‘The Masked Singer’ South Africa

Hit TV series The Masked Singer kicked off its second season in South Africa in April with 16 celebrities battling it out in flamboyant costumes to hide their identities. The production team ramped up the staging, lighting, and visuals for the 2024 contest using tvONE’s Green Hippo brand of Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 media servers alongside a grandMA3 console to create epic projections and LED screen animations.Read More »Hippotizer Unmasks Magical Visuals for ‘The Masked Singer’ South Africa

PROLIGHTS Products Shine at Kostrena Seamen’s House in Croatia

PROLIGHTS products illuminated the new interpretive center The Sailors’ House in Kostrena, conceived as a cultural and tourist hub dedicated to promoting and disseminating maritime traditions in the area. The interpretive center was designed as a journey through sea, land, and sky, organized within The Sailors’ House across four thematic units: the ground floor, representing the sea; the first floor, representing the land; the attic as the sky; and the stairs as the journey that visitors undertake between these three elements.
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Moreleta Church Puts Faith in Pixel Plus and Blackmagic Design

Stage Audio Works was recently enlisted to reinvent the video infrastructure inside South Africa’s Moreleta Church. Known for housing one of the largest auditoriums in the country – with over 7,000 seats for the congregation – Moreleta welcomes both in-person and online worshippers every weekend.Read More »Moreleta Church Puts Faith in Pixel Plus and Blackmagic Design