Gotthard Base Tunnel’s Opening Show Lit with GLP Impression X4 Bars

SWITZERLAND –  The Gotthard Base Tunnel, a milestone feat of human engineering that cost nine lives and $12+ billion over 17 years of construction, is officially open. Traversing 37.5 miles beneath the Swiss Alps, and including more than 93 miles of tube excavation for rail service between Erstfeld and Bodio, the project drew even more notice with a decidedly avant garde opening ceremony staged by Volker Hesse on June 1. The lighting design by LD Rolf Derrer made use of 140 GLP impression X4 Bars, supplied by Wohlen-based Winkler Multi Media Events.

FREDERICK, MD – Parlights, Inc. has become the most recent member of A.C.T Lighting, Inc.’s dot2 Preferred Stocking Dealer program.  Launched earlier this year, the program is open to select dealerships, which stock MA Lighting’s dot2 family of consoles and offer system training and support.  A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.

LAS VEGAS – Tweny years after the first Electric Daisy Carnival, and the sixth year since the event moved from the Los Angeles area to Las Vegas, EDC 2016 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway updated the Circuit Grounds performance arena by expanding it enough to accommodate twice as many people as previous years. To light the massive area, production and lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting used nearly 850 Elation Professional LED luminaires.

LAS VEGAS – Along with a 10,000-square-foot tent devoted to the sale of fireworks, the Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza offers 4th of July pyro enthusiasts an open space in the desert where they can ignite their purchases and light up the night sky. This year, the two-day Moapa Madness Festival offered a stage with live music as well. LD Steven Brody used 16 Q-Wash 419Z RGBW LED washes from Chauvet Professional LED fixtures. Kilroy’s Lighting & Production supplied the gear.

LAS VEGAS – Belgium based automations, engineering and scenic construction specialist WIcreations was asked by staging experts StageCo, working for Insomniac the production company, to produce key scenic elements of the circuitGROUNDS stage at the 2016 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) dance extravaganza. The event was staged at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and attracting around 450,000 people over three days with a stellar line-up of the best DJs embracing multiple musical genres.