SYDNEY — For Vivid Sydney 2016, the Star hotel and casino presented roof-mounted beams from 36 Clay Paky SuperSharpys, protecting each fixture from the elements with Clay Paky Igloos. Show Technology supplied the gear, with technical manager Mike Gearin working with Bruce Dwyer to put the system together. Thirty-six IP-rated ShowPro LED Flood EX36 were positioned between the Supersharpys for color wash.
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NYC – Jim Digby, a 30 plus year veteran of the entertainment industry has accepted an invitation to join the Behind the Scenes Foundation Board of Directors. Jim is the founder and Chairman of the Event Safety Alliance® and owner of Collaborative Endeavor Group (CEG), which provides international touring strategies and complete production solutions for the live entertainment industry. He currently serves as Director of Touring and Production for the multi-million selling artists Linkin Park, and has previously worked with artists as diverse as The Backstreet Boys, Bon Jovi, and Marilyn Manson, as well as winning Parnelli’s “Production Manager of the Year” award for 2012.
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PILTON, U.K. – The the lineup of folk/roots bands performing at the Glastonbury Festival’s Field of Avalon performance area, GLS Lighting provided a rig that included a collection of Rogue and Strike 4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The GLS team, headed by Wil Thomas and John Curtis, flew 12 Rogue R1 Beam, 8 Rogue R2 Wash and 8 Rogue R2 Beam fixtures on the upstage truss.
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Blizzard Lighting’s Lo-Pro CSI LED black light PAR fixture gets its ultraviolet light from 36 3-Watt 365nm UV LEDs. The fixture also offers designers two pixel patterns and a 15° beam angle. This black light can be controlled with either 1/2/3/4 or 5-channels of DMX and comes with built-in auto and sound active programs with variable electronic strobe and dimming capabilities. For additional UV coverage, users can link multiple units together with the fixture’s pass-through power option.
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LONDON – AV company Electrosonic named Steve Leyland executive chairman of the board. Leyland has been a non-executive director and advisor on the Electrosonic board since July 2015 and has worked for many leading global technology companies during his career. Philip Aminoff, who has served as chairman of the Electrosonic board for the last 14 years, remains a director of the board, and chairman of Electrosonic’s parent company Helectron Oy Ab.
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ARLINGTON, TX — A cappella group Pentatonix have been touring with a lighting design where Elation Professional’s compact ACL 360i beam effect light plays a key role. Production designer Sooner Routhier of SRae Productions used many of the fixture’s features for the Grammy-winning group. After their U.S. dates, Pentatonix toured Europe and are heading to Japan and Australia/New Zealand this summer. The band will resume touring the U.S. in October.
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LONDON – A promotional film for the 2016 BBC Proms, an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events that starts on July 15, features performance artist and cellist Sol Gabetta debuting her performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor. It also features video imagery projection-mapped onto the surface of Gabetta’s cello, the smallest surface area that the team at 59 Productions has ever mapped.
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NOVE MESTO na MORAVE, Czech Republic – Robe sponsored the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships held in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic, part of Robe’s 2016 ‘Working with Winners’ initiative. Robe partnered with leading Slovakian rental company Q-99 for the 2016 Championships to supply over 100 of the latest Robe moving lights – Squares, BMFL Blades and BMFL WashBeams, Pointes and ColorStrobes – to the event’s entertainment stage.
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MOSCOW— For Red Bull Wrong Side, a touring show featuring Jack’s Garret, a nine person modern dance troupe, LD Evgeny Romakhin worked with a Martin M6 console to provide a special mood for each moment of the original, jointly choreographed work. The six-month tour culminated in a sold out series of shows at Moscow’s Pushkin Drama Theatre. Romakhin’s Martin-controlled rig also included Martin lighting fixtures: 38 MAC Aura XBs, 18 MAC 700 Profiles, two Atomic 3000 DMXs and a MAC Viper Profile. Russia-based Laser-Kinetics supplied the gear.
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LILLEHAMMER, Norway — The Norwegian Olympic Museum, launched in Feb. 2016 by the Queen of Norway at a prestigious ceremony, features unique video installations, curated exhibits of cultural and historic artefacts and Olympic memorabilia. A unique draw is Lysgaardsbakkene, roughly translated as “Jump Hills,” a large-scale circular raised-platform interactive feature measuring 3.5 meters in diameter. Local systems integrator Bright Norway achieved a true to life interactive presentation using AV Stumpfl Wings Engine Raw uncompressed 4K media servers and Wings VIOSO calibration software to manage and warp native video content across 4 edge-blended projectors.
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LIVE OAK, FL – A procession of over two dozen bands performed on stage at the 9th annual Purple Hatters Ball in mid-June, but this three-day festival has never really been just about the music. Set in a pastoral region of north Florida, and offering sessions in yoga, healing arts and meditation, Purple Hatters is as much about raising consciousness as it is about pleasing the ear buds. This year’s event had an appropriately expansive lightshow, thanks in part to the addition of the Rogue R1 FX-B LED fixture from Chauvet Professional.
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ATLANTA – Analog Way, an innovation-driven designer and manufacturer that specializes in computer and video signal processing and distribution, is pleased to launch its Training Academy for the Americas. The Academy will be located at the new Analog Way facility in Metro-Atlanta which has been equipped with several rooms designed for hands on training. A Technology Instructor has also joined the company as a specialist trainer. Strengthening the training offer in the Americas is Christina Spurlock.
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