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Riedel Names Jeremy Lommori Head of North American Technical Sales and Support Team

Jeremy Lommori

Riedel Names Jeremy Lommori Head of North American Technical Sales and Support Team

WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications announced that Jeremy Lommori has been promoted to serve as head of technical sales and support for Riedel North America. Lommori is a production professional with extensive experience in technical design, broadcast engineering, live event production and postproduction, as well as comprehensive knowledge in design, integration, and maintenance of television production systems, professional audio and lighting equipment, and integrated control systems.

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PR Lighting fixtures at work in the new Global Show Trade showroom

GST Adds PR Lighting to Moscow Production Showroom

MOSCOW — Lighting rental house Global Show Trade (GST) has set up a new showroom at its headquarters in Moscow, enabling many manufacturers, including PR Lighting, to demonstrate their products. Initially, GST began with a standard showroom for lighting equipment, but this developed into a full production area for some of the best practitioners in the city.

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Elation TVL CYC RGBW Cyclorama Wall Wash

Elation TVL CYC RGBW Cyclorama Wall Wash

Elation Professional’s TVL CYC RGBW is a theatre-style cyclorama wall wash luminaire that promises a smooth and even field of seamlessly blended colors onto cycloramas, backcloths, scenery or any surface. Well suited for use as a color-changing floodlight for TV, film, theatre and broadcast applications, the TVL CYC RGBW features a 150W RGBW LED engine for floods of uniform light in virtually any color while linear variable white color temperature presets (7200K – 3200K) make it a convenient white light luminaire.

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The band performed at the Roundhouse in February.

Coasts Rock London’s Roundhouse with Avolites-Driven Light Show

LONDON – Bristol, U.K.-base band Coasts rocked London’s Roundhouse in February with an atmospheric lighting show created by Tom Campbell using an Avolites Sapphire Touch and networked Tiger Touch II. Campbell’s consoles are loaded with Titan v9 for the tour, and he’s using an array of the new and powerful features available in the software. The Avolites consoles were supplied by Siyan.

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Photos Courtesy Bass Events

Reverze Gets Scenic, Automation Assist from WIcreations

ANTWERP, Belgium – For the annual Reverze hard-style dance indoor extravaganza, staged by Bass Events in the 20,000 capacity Antwerp Sportpalais on Feb. 27, engineering specialists WIcreations automated large scenic objects to tie in with the theme of this year’s event, “Deception.” The title alone presented the opportunity for visual fun. WI was commissioned by Bass Events under the technical production management of Kristof Devriese, to move and rotate two large trussing ‘cubes’ onstage, fly nine other objects above the stage and also fly nine other large scale lighting pods … over the audience.

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VDO Sceptron 10

Martin VDO Sceptron Linear LED Fixtures Family Expands

Martin’s VDO Sceptron 20 and VDO Sceptron 40 are the newest additions to the Harman owned company’s series of linear, outdoor-rated LED video and lighting fixtures, joining the previously introduced VDO Sceptron 10, pixtured here. Well suited for the rental and installed markets, these fixtures are available with 20 mm and 40 mm pixel pitches, with an extensive range of optical accessories for a wide variety of video and lighting looks. The VDO Sceptron 20 and VDO Sceptron 40 are driven by the Martin P3 System controller for easy configuration, mapping and setup. No external components required. These fixtures are also backward compatible with DMX controllers for smaller setups.

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Writers Theatre, Glencoe, IL

Writers Theatre to Stage Opening Performance March 16 in Chicago

GLENCOE, IL – After operating out of two separate leased spaces for the past 23 years, Writers Theatre now has a new home to call their own, featuring the 250-seat Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre and the 99-seat black box Gillian Theatre in the Chicago area. Auerbach Pollock Friedlander played a key role in the development of the new venue.

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Blizzard Pixellicious Mini

Blizzard Pixellicious Mini

A new addition to Blizzard Lighting’s pixel mapping LED effects fixtures, the Pixellicious Mini is a ½ meter fixture that features 80 (tri-color) SMD 5050 LEDs with a projected life span of more than 50,000 hours of use. Users can also control each of the 80 LED lights with Art-Net (3.0 compliant), ArKaos Kling-Net and DMX protocols.

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Toby Mac performs with 4Wall-supplied fixtures

Toby Mac’s Diverse Stylings Get Visual Support from 4Wall-Supplied Rig

KANSAS CITY, MO – Christian artist Toby Mac, who can jump from hip hop to rock to EDM and funk music stylings, likes to refer to his style of music as “musical gumbo.” For his current “Hits Deep” tour, LD Jason Norris is using gear from 4Wall Nashville. The rig includes Vari*Lite VL4000 BeamWash fixtures, Martin MAC Quantum LED Profiles, Clay Paky Stormy Strobes and Elation Platinum Beam 5R Extremes.

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Icon Nightclub shines with Martin lighting gear

Icon Nightclub Showcases Harman Technologies During Miami Music Week

MIAMI—Harman’s lighting and audio technologies are being featured at Icon Nightclub during Miami Music Week 2016. The AV advances also reflect Harman’s renewed commitment to the nightclub entertainment sector, including the appointment of Bradley Drummond as Nightlife Solutions Manager in October 2015. The system for Miami Music Week was designed by Drummond and Tony Perez, Manager, Cruise Lines & Nightlife, Harman Professional Solutions, in collaboration with Icon Hospitality. All of the audio and lighting equipment and technologies come from the Harman Professional Solutions family of products.

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High End Systems Announces 2016 HOG FACTOR Competition

High End Systems Announces 2016 Hog Factor Competition

[caption id="attachment_268370" align="alignnone" width="333"]High End Systems Announces 2016 Hog Factor Competition[/caption]

AUSTIN – High End Systems’ HOG FACTOR 2016 competition is now underway. he competition is open to all college and university students in the USA and all information; rules and most importantly the programming package can be obtained by going to their website below.

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