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Claypaky illuminates the 110-year anniversary celebrations of Osram and The Westin Excelsior Rome

The Westin Excelsior Rome

Claypaky illuminates the 110-year anniversary celebrations of Osram and The Westin Excelsior Rome

ROME – Lighting manufacturer Osram, which celebrates its 110-year brand anniversary this year, is joined by another famous institution: the Westin Excelsior in Rome. To mark the occasion, Claypaky – a company of the Osram group – illuminated the venerable hotel in a particularly spectacular fashion from November 5 to 20. Following the video projection shown at the Patent Office in Berlin during the Festival of Light in October, this was the second lighting installation being presented by Osram for its brand anniversary.

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Alchemy 680 HD Controller

Aeson Alchemy 680 HD Controller

Aeson LED Display Technologies says its Alchemy 680 HD Controller is a significant upgrade from their current 660 controller. Key features include RJ45 locking Neutrik Ethercon connectors, a more robust locking IEC power connector and a more compact form factor – the cabinet is 1RU (rack unit) as opposed to 1.5RU for the 660. The following are the key features of our new Alchemy 680 HD controller: RJ45 LOCKING Neutrik Ethercon connectors which replace the basic RJ45 connectors; the more robust locking IEC power connector (the power cable will never become dislodged; and the cabinet is 1RU (rack unit) as opposed to 1.5RU for the 660.

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Dave Koz Brings Holiday Joy

Dave Koz Brings Holiday Joy with Bandit Lites

NASHVILLE – Saxophonist Dave Koz has embarked on the Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour – Starring Dave Koz, Valerie Simpson, Jonathan Butler, and Kenny Lattimore. The tour features a lighting package designed by Erik Parker of Chris Lisle Lighting Design and provided by Bandit Lites.

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Al PoYang Sung

Po-Yang Sung Joins Available Light

BOSTON MA – Available Light expanded its Boston studio with the hiring of Po-Yang Sung. Po-Yang is a Taiwanese native fresh from The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his MFA in Lighting Design. In school, he lit a variety of performance styles ranging from drama to dance to musical comedy. Prior to joining Available Light, Po-Yang served as Resident Lighting Designer at Michigan’s Thunder Bay Theatre Company.

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GMA Dove Awards

GMA Dove Awards for Christian Music Get Video Assist from Elite Multimedia

NASHVILLE – Since 1970, the GMA Dove Awards has honored excellence in the Christian Music industry. At the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards, event producer and production designer Scott DeVos of DeLux Productions was brought on board to help accentuate that diversity. Wanting LED video to play an integral role in the design, DeVos needed a provider with a myriad of technologies to fill the design, so he reached out to Nashville-based Elite Multimedia. Elite Multimedia supplied him with PixelFLEX LED video walls for the production design.

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Color Sound invests in Placebo

Placebo Tours U.K. with Robe Spiiders from Colour Sound Experiment

LONDON – For the current Placebo “Retrospective” arena tour, which wraps up with a big show at SSE Wembley Arena Dec. 15, visual designer Jvan Morandi turned to UK rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment for the full lighting, video and rigging package. Color Sound is supporting the shows with recently acquired gear including a new Kinesys automation system; new robo and static video cameras and new Robe Spiider WashBeam moving lights, among other recent additions to the company’s rental inventory.

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Robe Epicenter at Signal Festival

Prague’s Signal Festival of Light Brightened with Robe Fixtures

PRAGUE – Robe was a proud sponsor of the 2016 Signal Festival of Light, staged over four days in and around Prague in the Czech Republic. Twenty-three original and innovative pieces of light art drew estimated crowds of up to 400,000 into the city to enjoy the event which started in 2013, and is now recognized as one of the biggest as well as one of Europe’s foremost festivals of light. 

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Coldplay Gets Assist from Specialz in Taking Xylobands Idea One Step Further

[caption id="attachment_273338" align="alignnone" width="3264"]Coldplay plays the Pyramid stage with Xyloband products[/caption]

BIRMINGHAM, UK – Specialz, a Birmingham-based production design and specialty manufacturing company, took up a challenge posed by Coldplay and LD Paul Normandale to take the inclusive Xyloband crowd lighting idea one step further for the band’s performance at the Glastonbury Festival’s main Pyramid stage this past summer. They turned to Specialz for help in creating a festoon that could fully support over 500 LED balls without being attached to the structure. Each LED ball was programmed, tested and charged, before being secured into its holder and then rigged onto the outer staging.

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Macon Rd Church gets an Upgrade with ADJ help

ADJ’s AV6 Panels Create 21st Century Stained-Glass Window at Tennessee Baptist Church

ARLINGTON, TN. – When the team at Macon Road Baptist Church in Tennessee were planning their new worship and teaching facility, their concept centered on a large and costly stained-glass window and most certainly didn’t involve LED video panels. However, thanks to the input of AV expert Charles Lawing, a last-minute change of plans led to a much more flexible finished project.

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LUXE Creative Designs Looks for Thrival Musical Festival

LUXE Creative Helps Propel Pittsburgh’s Thrival Musical Festival to the National Stage

PITTSBURGH, PA – LUXE Creative served as the artistic lighting and production arm for this year’s Thrival Music Festival 2016, providing Creative Direction and Design for the two-day outdoor live music experience. With Creative Direction from LUXE Creative Founder + CEO, Martin Potoczny, the group was able to tell Pittsburgh’s story through a curated live experience. The event featured over 250,000W of lighting fixtures, and over seven miles of cabling for the scenic lighting of the historic site alone.

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