LOS ANGELES — Jason Aldean’s 2014 Burn It Down tour rig includes 165 Solaris LED 16×1 fixtures. LD Mike Swinford credited the fixtures for their output, individual LED “pixel” control and overall performance.
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Lightware Visual Engineering has introduced the UMX-TPS range of extension systems designed to transmit multiple video formats at resolutions up to 4K and UHD. With these transmitters video, audio and control signals can be sent up to 170 meters at full HD over a single CAT5 cable. The UMX-TPS-TX120, UMX-TPS-TX130 and UMX-TPS-TX140 transmitters are ideal solutions for small meeting rooms, classrooms, control rooms and home cinema applications.
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LONDON – US rapper Childish Gambino’s recent London show used 18 VL3000 Wash luminaires and 16 VL2000 spots. “Childish Gambino’s show is very theatrical, not a typical rap concert,” explains LD Sarah Landau. “The visual design is focused on projections – four 20K projectors mapped onto an upstage screen, a downstage scrim, side columns, and stage set pieces. The Vari-Lite luminaires illuminated the artists without obstructing or washing out any of the projections, as well as matched their colours and textures to create a cohesive environment onstage.”
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BUFORD, GA – The Tannery Row Ale House, established here in 1873, installed a 224” 6mm NanoLumens NanoSlim LED Display in their large bar room to entertain guests. The bar draws a big crowd every year for football season.
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Chauvet Professional’s new Vesuvio RGBA combines color and fog to create unusual atmospheric effects. It is equipped with 28 red, green, blue and amber LEDs and a fog generator that produces 40,000 cubic feet per minute. The Vesuvio RGBA is also equipped with an electronic dimmer and a variable strobe.
KORTRIJK, Belgium — Barco, based here, announced its acquisition of IOSONO GmbH, a manufacturer of 3D cinema sound systems based in Erfurt, Germany. IOSONO will become known as Barco Audio Technologies. Barco noted that the acquisition is being made with input from caudio partner Auro Technologies.
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GLASGOW, Scotland – Lighting and rigging specialists dbn provided lighting for ‘Sound To Sea’, a night-time nautical spectacle staged on the River Clyde here. The visuals spanned a large distance, from the top of the Science Centre roof, where the aerialists performed, to the boats maneuvering in the dock, reaching right along to Glasgow Tower at the end of the Science Centre, which was lit up with carefully choreographed pyro sequences.
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LOS ANGELES – When LD Brock Hogan designed lighting for the recent co-headlining Matt Nathanson and Gavin Degraw tour, he specified Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600s as the main stage washes. For Gavin Degraw’s performance, the LEDWashes and other fixtures could be used as impressive beam effects. Although it meant more challenging conditions for lighting, restricting the smoke helped guarantee that both artists had a completely different aesthetic for their respective performances … while sharing the same lighting rig.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Jon Clark has specified Showline’s SL Bar 640 luminaries production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Young Vic. “The SL BAR 640 luminaires allow us to achieve a deep and intense color saturation,” notes Clark. “The range of colors the units can accurately reproduce is impressive; from dirty, sickly yellows and greens to deeply saturated reds and low frequency blues.”
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LONDON – Patrick Rizzotti will give a presentation on his set designs at USITT’s PLASA booth at London’s ExCeL Center, Stand R42, on Oct. 6. Rizzotti won USITT’s 2014 Scene Design Award, which is sponsored by Rose Brand. USITT Executive Director David Grindle and several USITT officers and staff also will be at the show promoting USITT programs and the Annual Conference & Stage Expo. Rizzotti was among 11 Young Designers & Technicians honored at USITT 2014 in Fort Worth, Texas, last March.
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PERSHING COUNTY, NV – Art cars are a favorite feature of the annual Burning Man festival, and W-DMX made it possible for a series of art cars, bedazzled in light, to move through the festival with control coming from a moving stage. Ryan Tucknott of Walter Productions explained, “We transmitted the DMX signal and received it on all of our vehicles using 8db high-gain antennas. The system worked flawlessly last year with our four vehicles so we added to the fleet this year.”
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ADJ’s new Inno Scan HP (pictured here, left) and Inno Roll HP (pictured below) are higher-power versions of its earlier LED mirror scanners, both featuring 80-watt LED sources. Its 8 colors and 6 rotating, interchangeable GOBOs can be combined to create create mesmeric colored pattern effects.
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