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Chauvet Professional Nexus Aw 7×7 Creates LED Guitar Cabinets On Chase Rice Tour

LD Chris Lisle selected Chauvet Nexus Aw 7x7s to create LED Guitar Cabinets for the Chase Rice Tour

Chauvet Professional Nexus Aw 7×7 Creates LED Guitar Cabinets On Chase Rice Tour

NASHVILLE, TN – Lighting designers often like to talk about how they capture music in light, but Chris Lisle has taken this concept a step further on the Chase Rice tour. The well-known Nashville LD, who’s done standout work for the likes of Miranda Lambert, One Republic and Robert Plant, wove images of music and light together in dramatic fashion for the up-and-coming country star by converting faux guitar cabinets into lighting effects, courtesy of 16 Nexus Aw 7×7 LED panels from CHAUVET Professional provided by 4Wall Nashville.

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Bruno Mars at Rock in Rio Las Vegas with Ayrton MagicDot-R and Ayrton IntelliPix-R in full support. (c) Fred Morledge

Ayrton MagicDot-R Makes U.S. Debut at Rock in Rio Festival in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS – Cory FitzGerald of Seven Design Works included Ayrton’s new MagicDot-R fixtures in the rig for the Rock in Rio festival staged in Las Vegas in May. The fixtures from the French manufacturer, which were making their U.S. debut via distributor Morpheus Lights, added to the visual impact of sets by Bruno Mars and other artists. Mars’ headlining performance brought the festival to a spectacular close, with 184 of the new fixtures adding to the visual impact of the show.

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On an outdoor video shoot, a number of factors can cause the lighting elements to fail, but during this 3-day shoot, the VL4000 Spot was ready to perform every time the director called for action.

Film LD Matt Ardine Uses VL4000 Spots to Simulate SWAT Helicopter Searchlight

LOS ANGELES — When the script calls for a SWAT searchlight in the city’s night sky, you can pay big bucks to hire a full-sized helicopter and invite the wrath of angry neighbors complaining about the noise as it flies overhead for repeated takes. Or you could find an alternate solution, like film LD Matt Ardine, who used Philips Vari-Lite’s 1200W VL4000 Spot fixture to simulate the SWAT copter’s beam for a recent three-day video shoot in Los Angeles.

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Kevin Lyman, Founder of Vans Warped Tour, to Host 2015 Parnelli Awards

Kevin Lyman, Founder of Vans Warped Tour, to Host 2015 Parnelli Awards

LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors announced that one of the visionaries of the modern music festival, Kevin Lyman, will serve as host/MC for the 2015 Parnelli Awards. The award show takes place at the Rio Resort and Casino on Saturday, Oct 24. Considered the “Grammys for Live Events,” it celebrates and honors those in lighting, audio, video, staging and all related professionals involved in putting on concert tours and live events.

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