WUPPERTAL, Germany— Continuing the expansion of its North American team, Riedel Communications has appointed Rhett Frazier to oversee business development for the Western United States. Frazier joins the company with nearly a decade of experience in broadcast- and media-focused sales, account management, solution design, and business strategy and development.
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HAMPTON, VA – Country music singer Eric Paslay’s latest tour features a visual design shaped by show designer Mike Marcario, who is relying upon Elation Professional’s Platinum FLX hybrid moving head to create a unique look for each song. Elite Multimedia is providing the lighting for the tour.
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HEMING, Denmark – LD Kristoffer Nielsen, who runs his own rental company, Lystek.dk, now has close to 50 Robe moving lights, including Robe MMX Spots, LEDWash 600s, LEDBeam 100s and CycFX 8 fixtures. He has spec’d them on a variety of theatre, musicals and opera productions including Hansel and Gretel, pictured here.
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BLACKBURN, U.K. – Lighting and visuals specialist HSL is supplying lighting and production rigging for the theatrical staging of Jeff Wayne’s 1978 cult album, “War of the Worlds,” at the Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London, produced by Bill Kenwright. The work is based on HG Wells’ 1879 novel about a Martian invasion and is being played completely with a mix of orchestral and electronic musicians conducted by Wayne himself.
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KATOWICE, Poland – The finals of the 10th Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) season, an electronic gaming tournament sanctioned by the Electronic Sports League (ESL), took place during the IEM Expo at Poland’s Spodek Arena March 4, 5 and 6. The tournament took place in front of 10,000 live spectatores along with 34 million unique viewers logging in from around the world. ARAM handled the planning, design and technical production of all five stages including giant main stage and also 11 trade fairs booths for the three-day event, including rental of lighting, multimedia, scenic, audio, trussing and rigging as well as custom made automation systems.
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Scenex Lighting from GLP US Inc. launched a new range of flexible pixel control LED tape, featuring four-color RGBW LED’s, with different color temperature options available for the white LED element. With a pixel pitch of 16.7mm (60 pixels per meter), this new tape has a bright output and allows direct control over the color of each individual pixel and the ability to create unlimited effects across a length of tape with expanded color control from earlier RGB versions.
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AUSTIN, TX and BRUSSELS, Belgium – ArKaos PRO and High End Systems announced a new software collaboration promising simple, seamless, fast integration of video and lighting control. The two companies have worked in close cooperation to create a new Auto Patch feature which enables any Hog lighting console to take control of an ArKaos media server, quickly and easily, at the press of a single button.
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ORLAND PARK, IL – For Easter services at the Orland Park campus of Parkview Christian Church, Jason Reberski, president of JR Lighting Design, Inc., supplied and used Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixtures to mesh with, and add to, the visual firepower of the house rig for an impressive holiday light show.
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NEW YORK – Acolyte LED named lighting industry veteran Travis Jones president of the company’s North American Division. Prior to joining Acolyte LED, Travis, a 20-year industry veteran, served as president and CEO of CRS Electronics and a member of its Board of Directors. Jones also served as vice president, National Accounts for Lighting Science Group and as vice president, Sales and Marketing for the Austin, Texas division of Acuity Brands Lighting.
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NEW YORK – For jam band moe.’s winter tour, LD Justin Casey chose a rig that included 12 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and four Stormy CC RGBW LED Strobes, with a grandMA2 light and onPC Command Wing for lighting control. Although a lot of venues have strobe lights in their house rigs, Casey selected the Stormy CC RGBW Strobes to add color to conventional strobe effects. A lighting designer with Nashville-based Pulse Lighting, Justin Casey has been working with the band since last July. Moe. tours year-round; their winter tour recently concluded in NYC.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – XLNT Advanced Technologies will be featuring its CyberHoist II system at ProLight + Sound Frankfurt in Hall 3.0, Booth G73. The CyberHoist II variable speed chain hoist system promises unrivalled reliability; smooth, silent and accurate operation; impressive speed control and matchless safety, specifically designed to manage and accommodate the creative, logistical and physical rigours of automation design for entertainment environments, large-scale events and touring. The company’s products will be featured at Hall 3.0, Booth G73.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Robe is expanding its presence at Prolight + Sound 2016 in Frankfurt. The company’s stand, D80 in Hall 3, will be three times larger than before, accommodating hundreds of guests and focusing on a classic theatrical theme to showcase two new key products – the DL7S Profile and the DL7F Wash, both designed for the theatre and television markets.
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