Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott performed ‘Caravan of Love’ for the encore to their 90-minute set at Glastonbury Festival’s acoustic stage in late June, giving Patrick Sollitt the opportunity to create his “favorite look” using his ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M to control a rig supplied by Fineline Lighting.
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For a 78-show, three-month UK tour featuring 2021 ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ champion Giovanni Pernice, Lighting Designer, Director and Operator Jose Lorenzo used Obsidian Control Systems’ ONYX lighting control platform to control up to 80 intelligent lighting fixtures, some of which were pixel-mapped.
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LD Dan Williams lit White Lies’ show at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London with a rig that included 94 of GLP’s JDC Line 1000 hybrid strobes, the largest complement of these fixtures deployed so far for a single show in the UK. Colour Sound Experiment provided the fixtures.
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Turnstile’s lead singer Brandon Yates entrusted LD Kat Borderud to use the tools at her disposal to provide mood and color to the band’s non-timecoded 2022 shows. Those tools include eight Chauvet Professional Rogue R3X Wash fixtures supplied by Squeek Lights.
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Latin singer-songwriter Maluma showed his love for his townspeople with Medallo en el Mapa, a passionate three-hour, 35-song concert at the city’s Atanasio Girardot Soccer… Read More »Maluma’s 360ﹾ Stage Gets Diverse Looks with Chauvet Fixtures from Génesis Producciones
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J3 Consulting, LLC lent its screen management expertise to the Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony at the tenth annual CinemaCon at Caesars Palace Colosseum in Las Vegas. J3 CEO John Mims III used a pair of disguise vx 4 media servers to program and execute the star-studded show, which also featured animated full screen presenter transitions designed by J3.Read More »J3 Consulting Handles Screen Management for CinemaCon 2022’s Awards Show
LD Crt Birsa, who has worked with 2CELLOS since 2014, opted for a complete break with his previous designs for the duo of Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. Instead of the full-on rock ‘n’ roll looks of the previous tour, Birsa takes a more architectural approach using Robe MegaPointes and Spiiders at the core of his design.
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Country artist Kane Brown returned to his hometown of Chattanooga, TN, to play his first stadium show at Finley Stadium. Lighting and production designer Trevor Ahlstrand used Elation lighting on the May 7 sold-out milestone event, including the company’s IP-rated powerhouse luminaire Proteus Maximus™, all supplied by DCR Nashville.Read More »Trevor Ahlstrand Turns to DCR-Supplied Elation Lighting for Kane Brown Stadium Show
Here’s a video of the stunning performance by Lizzo at the BET Award’s 2022, which aired on Sunday, June 26, 2022:
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Lighting Designer Andre Beekmans of TAOL in collaboration with Andrei Predut of APart in Bucharest, Romania used a large complement of Claypaky fixtures to light the ‘We are ONE’ concert in the city’s National Arena to benefit humanitarian causes in the region.
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Following a successful launch at the Prolight + Sound tradeshow in Germany in April, Obsidian Control Systems is pleased to announce availability of the NX1™, an ultra-compact yet full-featured lighting controller designed to handle a huge variety of shows using the intuitive ONYX™ lighting control platform. The NX1 also features an expandable playback wing (NX P™) along with a 10-digit keypad (NX K™) that combined with the NX1 creates an even more powerful and flexible console. Designed for smaller to medium projects where an intuitive console is needed without a PC, the NX1 joins the compact yet fully integrated NX2™ and Obsidian’s flagship NX4™ under the ONYX lighting control platform. Read More »Modular NX1™ Console System from Obsidian Offers Complete ONYX Lighting Control Experience
Each night, whether he’s performing in a theater, arena or amphitheater, Jack White treats his fans to a one-of-a-kind musical experience, with no fixed song list and plenty of improvisations within songs as well. As such, Michelle Sarrat and David Leonard serve up unique lighting and video looks each night as well, flowing with Jack White’s musical lead. But to help keep lighting, video content, live cameras and automation in synch, Luz Studio’s Matthieu Larivée notes the creation of “aesthetic blocs” that Sarrat and Leonard can discuss and opt for to guard against creative chaos. And with the palette limited to blue and white, the colors never clash.
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