FARMINGDALE, NY — Group One Limited named Sonic Sales to oversee West Coast sales activities for the elektraLite brand. Based in Carlsbad, CA with offices in San Francisco and Seattle, Sonic Sales was formed in 1997 and is led by CEO Josh Carruthers (pictured here, right, with Sonic Sales’ Kenny Andrews, left).
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USITT has launched the new website for its 2015 Conference & Stage Expo, at usittshow.org. The site, branded exclusively for USITT 2015, is designed to make it easy to find info and plan for the big event, set for March 18-21 in Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Convention Center.
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LOS ANGELES — Alex Kay, LD for up-and-coming rap artist Machine Gun Kelly, a.k.a. MGK, is no stranger to bringing big lighting looks to small venues. He’s served as LD for the rap superstar since the artist was doing local shows in his hometown of Cleveland in 2012.
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Launched in time for the 2014/2015 holiday season, ADJ’s VF Series Fog & Snow Machines are positioned as affordable effects makers for a variety of applications. Models include the compact VF400 400W mobile fog machine, the more powerful VF1000, the higher-capacity VF1300, and the largest machine in the series, the VF1600. ADJ is also launching the VF Flurry, an efficient 600W unit for simulated snow effects.
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EDINBURGH, U.K. — Theatre company Paines Plough’s portable Roundabout Theatre has been popping up for performances around the U.K., including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this past summer. Lighting programmer Peter Small opted for Avolites’ Sapphire Touch console to generate pixel mapped effects using 627 LEDs in panels built into the touring venue’s roof.
Read More »LONDON — Citing demand, InfoComm added another of its Networking for the AV Industry events. With support from key sponsor AMX by Harman, the three-day intensive event is set for Dec. 9-11 at the AMX University Training Centre.
Read More »MIDDLETON, WI — Earlier this year, ETC unveiled the 2014 Theater program, which allows venues to upgrade their existing ETC lighting systems without the need for a costly retrofit. The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) was one of the first to participate. UNCSA upgraded three of its seven on-campus venues with new ETC dimming systems, including the Agnes de Mille Theatre, a 188-seat proscenium stage used primarily for opera and dance, pictured here..
Read More »SEONGNAM, South Korea — As a crowd of about 700 gathered Oct. 17 near an outdoor stage featuring different K-pop bands, some spectators hopped over a short wall to stand on a ventilation grate. The grate and 27 spectators fell more than 60 feet to an underground parking area. Fourteen died on site; two others succumbed from injuries later. The remaining 11 were severely injured.
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JERSEY, U.K. – For the nonprofit Branchage Festival, an event pairing live music performances with silent film projection on this Channel Island off France’s northwest Normandy Coast, U.K. projection specialists QED Productions undertook one of their most ambitious projection-mapping challenges yet: to projection-map the seaside environs of St. Aubin’s Fort, located on a tidal island connected to the larger island of Jersey at low tide. The festival took place in Jersey from Sept. 24-28.
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