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Brompton Technology Wins Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology

Brompton Technology Wins Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology

Brompton Technology has been recognized by the Television Academy with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology. The Emmy was awarded for its Tessera SX40 LED video processor, which has played a crucial role in the widespread adoption of LED screens for virtual production and elevated the storytelling process through its impact on how television programs are created.

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Robe T1 Profiles Enjoy the Silence at Bijloke Music Centre’s Concert Hall

The striking and unique concert hall venue, which is part of the Music Centre de Bijloke in Ghent, Belgium, was once a 13th century civic hospital and now offers a vibrant and interesting blend of music often embracing additional performance and visual art forms like theatre and film. During the pandemic, The concert Hall, which retains its original wooden curved frame roof and exterior walls, was completely renovated. New lighting was installed as part of this upgrade, including 13 Robe T1 Profiles, which were specified by the Music Centre’s Technical Manager, Natan Rosseel and his team.Read More »Robe T1 Profiles Enjoy the Silence at Bijloke Music Centre’s Concert Hall

Behind the Scenes of Here Lies Love on Broadway

Here Lies Love is a revolutionary new musical from David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, and Alex Timbers. In a Broadway first, this tale is illuminated by the talents of an all-Filipino cast. PRG provided audio, video, scenic, and automation solutions for the show that shatters traditional theater boundaries. The Broadway Theatre has been transformed into an intimate, 360° immersive dance club. This PRG Behind the Scenes video with Co-Sound Designer Cody Spencer and Production Video Engineer Asher Robinson looks at some of the craft and innovation of the production.

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Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Chooses Ayrton Perseo as the Workhorse of its Sustainable Lighting Rig

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London has become the first open air theater in the UK to install Ayrton Perseo fixtures as part of its plan to update to a more sustainable and environmentally-responsible lighting rig. Perseo Profiles have been supplied to this unique venue by White Light for the full summer season. White Light worked in close collaboration with the teams at Regent’s Park and Ambersphere, Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for the UK, to understand the aims, and facilitate the provision of the correct LED fixtures, to meet all the Theatre’s requirements.

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Rob Koenig Lights Metallica M72 World Tour with Proteus

Proteus Excalibur match energy and power on legendary metal band’s highly anticipated 2023/24 outing

One of the hottest tours of the summer—or any summer—is Metallica. Metals greatest band launched their M72 World Tour April 27 in Amsterdam with Rob Koenig again at the helm as Lighting Designer, an outing that has the thrash rockers playing a unique two-night, no-repeat schedule in cities across Europe and North America. Koenig crafts unique lighting looks using 600+ automated lights, a rig that includes Proteus Excalibur™ sky beams from Elation Professional. Lighting supply is by Premier Global Production.Read More »Rob Koenig Lights Metallica M72 World Tour with Proteus

Parnelli and Indispensable Technology Award Nominations NOW OPEN

Nominations are now being accepted for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held on Friday, January 26, 2024, during the NAMM Show. Anyone can go to the ParnelliAwards.com site and nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best for a Parnelli Award. Nominations for Indispensable Technology (IT) Awards are also open.

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Lighting for a Mobile Audience

It’s one thing to light a show or exhibit for a seated audience with a fixed point of view. But how do you support a visual narrative when viewers aren’t stationary? That was a key consideration for the designers featured in PLSN’s August 2023 issue for both the BOSTON 365 attraction atop the city’s Prudential Center and Broadway’s Here Lies Love. PLSN details how the visual designs from Lightborne (BOSTON 365) and Here Lies Love designers David Korins (Scenic), Justin Townsend (Lighting), and Peter Nigrini (Projection) optimize the “wow” factor for all those roving eyeballs.

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DRTCC Choose Prolights Fixtures for a Major Upgrade

Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre features the Joyce Schneider Auditorium, a 500-seat theatre with state-of-the-art facilities including a comprehensive, computerized sound and lighting control room. The theatre completed a significant lighting system upgrade, transitioning from outdated halogen lamps to more advanced technology.Read More »DRTCC Choose Prolights Fixtures for a Major Upgrade

Voting Now in Process for this Year’s Gottelier Award

Named in memory of renowned industry innovator and commentator Tony Gottelier, this special award recognizes the invaluable contributions of the people behind the products. Pre-registered PLASA Show visitors, and PLASA members are eligible to vote for the Gottelier Award. The recipient of which will be announced during the PLASA Awards for Innovation ceremony at PLASA Show on Monday September 4, 2023.Read More »Voting Now in Process for this Year’s Gottelier Award

Marillion Convention in Berlin

Marillion, performing at the Tempodrom Berlin. Photo by Alison Toon

UK-based Rock band Marillion has built up a formidable and near cult-like following over a career spanning five decades that has spawned 20 studio albums plus a string of top 40 hits since their formation in 1979. For the last 21 years, they have staged biennial 2 and 3-day summer convention events for fans, which include special live performances plus additional Marillion world activities. Lighting Designer Yenz Nyholm’s specification for the 2023 Marillion ‘convention tour’ included nearly 100 Robe moving lights – 31 Robe ESPRITES, 22 LEDBeam 150s, 16 MegaPointes and 30 Spiider LED wash beams.Read More »Marillion Convention in Berlin

Winter Solstice for Astera

SOLSTICE: Reflections on Winter Light is a multimedia and meditative art experience celebrating the shortest, darkest day of the year, created by MASARY Studios from Boston, and presented at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, MA. It started as a small two-day installation idea in 2020 during the pandemic and has grown rapidly and organically to become a hugely popular and accessible 10-day annual public art festival. Visitors engage with the magic and ephemeral beauty of lighting and sound and its relation to the algorithms, mystery, and energies at work in the greater universe.Read More »Winter Solstice for Astera