NEW YORK — PRG is combining PRG Concert Touring, PRG Nocturne, and Chaos Visual Productions units to create a single division called PRG Music Group. Led by Mickey Curbishley, now CEO PRG Music, the division will focus on providing integrated video and lighting solutions for tours, festivals, and concert events around the world.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications named Maribel Roman as the company’s sales manager for Spain. Roman, an international sales manager with more than seven years’ experience in the broadcasting market, will support company clients in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Expert systems designer, Rapenburg Plaza saw an intensive year of meticulous planning, design and integration come to fruition on Dec. 13 when the National Military Museum, Europe’s biggest military museum opened to the public.
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PARIS – The Arch of Triumph (Arc de Triomphe) was even more of a focal point than usual during the celebrations welcoming 2015 as the clock ticked off the final seconds of 2014. LD Jeff Freeman used an arsenal of gear that included Clay Paky SuperSharpys to light the arch for the festivities as hundreds of thousands of revelers congregated in front of it or watched at home on television.
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NanoLumens’ NanoSlim Engage promises to serve as “an easy-to-install and easy-to-service 2.5MM pixel pitch solution that can be viewed with spectacular edge-to-edge clarify from very short distances,” accordign to Nate Remmes, NanoLumens’ VP of marketing and business development.
Read More »GUANGZHOU, China – The fourth annual Guangzhou International Light Festival ranked among the world’s largest visual and lighting spectaculars, seen by as many as 8 million. French multimedia design firm Danny Rose added to the visual spectacle with Play Me!, an interactive and immersive 3D architectural projection mapping experience. The event ran every evening from Nov. 15-30, 2014.
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McALLEN, TX – Doug Hood, president of Custom Sound Designs (CSD; Fort Wayne, IN), designed and installed a new lighting system for the Baptist Temple of McAllen that included a plethora of Chauvet Professional fixtures, including six Rogue R1 Spot moving heads.
Read More »NORTH CREEK, NY — High End Systems distributor Creative Stage Lighting has been conducting an ongoing series of two day hands-on training events for High End Systems’ Hog 4 consoles. Sales engineer Phil Heid is leading the classes. Students taking the course will learn basic and intermediate HOG 4 programming techniques, including console layout, launching and managing shows, patching and editing fixtures, groups, palettes, directories and more.
Read More »SAN FERNANDO, CA – Artistic Licence named TMB as its exclusive distributor in the U.S. for nanoScope, the pocket-sized tester for DMX512 and RDM. Following its launch last year, nanoScope has quickly become a much-coveted gadget for professional lighting technicians.
ATLANTA – Active Production and Design has recently added several dozen Elation Professional Platinum Series moving heads to its inventory. The addition of Platinum Profile 35 Pro and Platinum Spot 15R Pro moving heads complements Active’s expansive lighting inventory. Pictured here is Matt Clouser, Active Production and Design’s owner, with the new fixtures.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – PT. Prima Global Indomedia’s D’Six Studio upgraded recently with more than 40 SGM P-5 TW (tunable white wash lights) and 40 Q-7 W (white flood, blind and strobe) fixtures fitted with eight-way barn doors and accessory holders.
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