ISCHGL, Austria – Muse is touring with Mojo Barriers’ specially-designed touring barrier as 160 linear meters of the system keeps crowds safe throughout the Drones world tour. Mojo Barriers was contracted to ensure audience and artist safety at all the U.S. and European dates of Muse’s nine month tour.
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LONDON – Quantum Special Effects designed two new products for Adele’s sold-out world tour – a custom tourable rain system and storm blasters that can deliver up to a minute of non-stop confetti across an entire arena. Working closely with Adele Live 2016 show designer Es Devlin and production manager Richard Young, Quantum is supplying gear for more than 100 shows across 44 arenas.
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PALM SPRINGS, CA — For the CUE 2016 National Conference, an education technology event that took place March 17-19 in Palm Springs, AV Professionals deployed Roland’s V-800HD Multi-Format Video Switcher. Garth Fjellstrom, president of AV Professionals, credited the switcher for its functionality and value. The conference, the largest of its kind in California, has been attended by educators, technology coordinators, administrators and other education professionals for 35 years.
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MOONACHIE, NJ – Al Ridella, who led 4Wall’s New York location as general manager for the previous three years, has been promoted to national sales manager. To fill the vacancy created by Ridella’s new role, the company has added experienced industry executive Brian Friborg to the role of 4Wall New York GM. Ridella is pictured here on the left, and Friborg is pictured here on the right.
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FRANKFURT, Germany –– ArKaos PRO noted that the recent Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt was one of the Brussels-based company’s busiest shows to date. Highlights of the stand included demos for the video mapping capabilities of the ArKaos PRO MediaMaster 4.2 software with an intricate array of 3-dimensional shapes outlined to perfection as projection surfaces and also a daily competition to find Europe’s fastest video mapper.
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Hubbell Control Solutions’ NX Fixture Controller is designed for standalone or networked lighting control. The fixture-based module promises to maximize savings by deploying only the features needed.
Read More »LONDON – d3 Technologies announced that LMG has become its latest rental partner in the US. d3 Technologies maintains a global network of rental partners who help fulfill customers’ d3 hardware requirements in their local areas. LMG joins a dozen other rental partners based in the US.
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AUSTIN, TX. – Following the release of the SolaSpot Pro 1000 and SolaWash FX 1000 luminaires at the recent Pro Light & Sound Exhibition, High End Systems has announced several key promotions within their sales and management teams. Jeff Pelzl has been promoted to General Manager of High End Systems; a 26 year veteran of the company, Pelzl has worked in numerous roles within the organization throughout his tenure, most recently in marketing management and as Sales Manager for the Pacific Rim territory.
FRANKFURT, Germany – Ayrton’s light show, staged at the company’s double decker stand at Prolight + Sound, featured nine of the company’s most recenty introduced products. Exhibiting with its German distributor, Vision Stage, at a 224 square meter, double-decker booth, the light show was designed by Stéphane Migné and made use of more than 650 fixtures in all.
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LOS ANGELES – Singer, dancer and actress Tinashe is out on her 2016 “Joyride” world tour beneath an Elation Professional rig of SixBar 1000 LED battens and Platinum 5R Beam moving heads with graphic elements displayed across an LED wall made up of Elation EMAG4 LED panels. Production designer Daunté Kenner worked with Jason Reberski of JR Lighting to support the show’s visuals with the lighting and video package, chosen in part for its efficiency.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Optocore and BroaMan recapped some of the highlights from the company’s booth during Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt. Noted for its slot car scale racetrack, the booth featured milestones from the company’s 20-year history right up to the present, including this year’s new product releases such as BroaMan’s upgraded Route66 video router and other products targeting the Broadcast, System Integration and Concert market sectors.
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NASHVILLE – For rising country act Canaan Smith’s Stompin’ Grounds tour, LD Sooner Routhier’s design includes 12 Robe Pointes and eight LEDWash 600s supplied by VER. The first leg of the tour visited 11 cities in the Midwest and South last November and December.
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