VANCOUVER, BC – Canada’s Grey Cup Halftime Show, held at the BC Place in Vancouver, used a design from Electric Aura for headliners Imagine Dragons. Production designer Robert Sondergaard relied on W-DMX technology from Wireless Solution Sweden AB for wireless control.
Read More »LONDON – Electrosonic, an international audio-visual systems integrator, announced the expansion of its facilities in Scotland with the opening of a regional office in Aberdeen, Scotland. The office in Cults, just outside Aberdeen City Centre, will be used to support its growing business in the city and the region.
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Martin’s VC-Grid and VC-Strip LED Video products are now shipping in 15, 30, and 60 mm pixel pitches. They are designed with individually-controllable pixels that can be used with architectural installations, stage design and as television set elements.
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LOS ANGELES – The 41st People’s Choice Awards, honoring 2014’s pop culture standouts, helped kick off awards season with a live broadcast from the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles. PRG/Nocturne, Burbank, supplied Laura Frank of Luminous FX with six media servers from d3 Technologies to control and manage the motion graphics-based scenic media content, created by Syndrome Studios, LA, on an array of on-stage screens.
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LONDON – Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue recently completed the first leg of her Kiss Me Once tour, which included stops throughout Europe. The second leg of the tour begins in March 2015 with five shows in Kylie’s native Australia. Following the successful tour of Europe, Lighting Designer Rob Sinclair and Lighting Director Louisa Smurthwaite provided insight into the creative processes behind the tour’s extensive lighting design, which prominently featured fixtures from HARMAN’s Martin Professional.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Johannesburg based rental and production company Lucidity has just invested in its first Robe moving lights … with the purchase of six Pointes and six LEDWash 300s from Robe’s ROBIN series.
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WORLDWIDE – Engineering and automation specialists Wicreations is supplying flying and rigging solutions to the ‘Ice Age Live – A Mammoth Adventure’ tour produced by Stage Entertainment Touring Productions, which continues to enthral audiences worldwide now on its latest third leg of an extensive touring schedule that started in 2012 and is currently scheduled until 2017.
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Grundorf’s Plastic Front DJ Façade is designed to give DJs an easy way to achieve a clean, streamlined appearance for their on-stage equipment setups, one that can be used to hide their equipment behind a facade that conceals the LED lighting fixtures while allowing the light to glow through the façade.
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ORLANDO, FL – Alcorn McBride is pleased to announce that Justin Ruka has joined the company as a Support Technologist. His hiring follows other recent additions to the growing staff roster at Alcorn McBride, the leading manufacturer of show control, audio and video equipment for the themed entertainment.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – Philadelphia based production company Sparks Entertainment announced that they opened an office in New York City on Feb. 2, 2015. This new office will allow Sparks Entertainment to providing creative lighting design, audio production, video projection mapping, concert production and equipment rental to the New York City area.
Read More »Prolyte Group announced a new website at prolyte.com. The site conveys product information along with technical support and features a modern, “pageless” design.
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NASHVILLE, TN — Mobile production specialist TNDV lent its video and audio expertise to the debut of Skyville Live, a new monthly music series streamed exclusively online to audiences worldwide from Skyville Live studios located near the center of Nashville. The series provides music lovers with live music performed by top artists in intimate settings — usually around 100 attendees.
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