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Two Seasoned Pros Form KD Productions

KD Productions Partners Ed DiBona and Ken Kepler.

Two Seasoned Pros Form KD Productions

NEWFIELD, NJ – Ken Kepler and Ed Di Bona have formed KD Productions, a full service AV production/rental company serving the Atlantic City/Philadelphia markets. The partners, who started their company two years ago, have a combined 50 years of industry experience. Di Bona was most recently technical director at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, NJ. Kepler spent more than 12 years as the lead audio engineer and lead project manager for Showorks Audio Visual.

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ETC Unison Mosaic Atlas

ETC Unison Mosaic Atlas

ETC’s new Mosaic Atlas, part of the company’s Unison Mosaic line of products, is now available. Designed to control large scale projects, Mosaic Atlas promises to make it easier to map large LED pixel arrays for building facades, bridges, and presentation walls. Users can play video content across their arrays or incorporate a range of creative, generative effects.

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Area Four Industries R&D director Marc Hendriks

Milos Offers Second Video on Crowd Barriers

CZECH REPUBLIC – Milos has just released a second video as part of a three-month push to increase awareness about its crowd barriers. In this video, Area Four Industries R&D director Marc Hendriks provides information on the technical design and construction of Milos barriers, as well as their optimal use in real world situations.

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AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts

AT&T Audience Network Music Concerts Lit with Fuze and Other Elation Fixtures

HOLLYWOOD, CA — TV LD Victor Fable used Elation’s new Fuze Par Z120 IP LED wash light and other Elation Professional fixtures on the recent AT&T/Audience Network Music Concerts that aired exclusively on DirecTV and AT&T U-verse. Southern California-based Kinetic Lighting supplied the Fuze LED wash light for the shows along with Elation’s Platinum FLX hybrid, Colour Chorus Series LED batten, Platinum Beam 5R and Platinum Beam 5R Extreme moving head beam lights.

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Bucharest Ladies Orchestra

Bucharest Ladies Orchestra Lit with XR 440 BWS Fixtures from PR Lighting

BUCHAREST, Romania – The Bucharest Ladies Orchestra performed with Romanian jazz singer and TV personality, Ozana Barabancea, recently at Bucharest’s Aqua Parc Crangasi for an audience of 2,000. The European Cultural Center (Sector), promoters of the event, once again enlisted Temple Media, PR Lighting distributors, to provide the technical infrastructure. Sergiu Ardelean, Lighting Designer and DP at Romanian Television, came up with the imaginative lighting plot, working with Temple Media.

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d3 Media Server

CPL Invests in d3 Media Server and Training

WEST MIDLANDS, U.K. — Production specialists CPL (Central Presentations Ltd) added a d3 4×4 media server to its visual arsenal and held a two-day on-site training course at the company’s headquarters in the west Midlands, UK, for CPL’s staff and key freelancers. Core members of CPL’s video division and the company’s regular freelance designers, programmers and video technicians took part.

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Wenger Acquires Secoa Assets

OWATONNA, MN – Wenger Corporation acquired the assets of Secoa, Inc. of Champlin, MN. The company says the acquisition will expand the products and services now offered for the performing arts market by Wenger and its subsidiary J.R. Clancy.

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Altman PHX ellipsoidals added at Bucknell

Bucknell University Upgrades with Altman PHX LED Ellipsoidals

LEWISBURG, PA — For Bucknell University’s Harvey M. Powers Theatre and the Tustin Studio Theatre, lighting designer Heath Hansum worked with Starlite Productions on a lighting upgrade that included PHX LED ellipsoidals from Altman Lighting. With zoom ranges from 15-35 or 30-55 degrees, a 360-degree rotating barrel, and its die cast aluminum fabrication, the PHX LED is available in a diverse line of LED choices including RGBA, RGBW, 3000K, 5600K, and tunable white versions as well.

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Gavin Degraw Tours with Bandit Lites

Gavin Degraw Tours with Bandit Lites

NASHVILLE – Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw recently wrapped a tour with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The Grammy nominated artist traveled across the country on a three month, 50+ show excursion that showcased both his popular hits and newest album, Something Worth Saving. Lighting designer Mat Gass built a look that saved on space put still offered a great output with a functional floor package.

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