KARBEN, Germany – Full-service production company satis&fy, based in Karben, Germany, has added more than 100 Elation Platinum FLX hybrid moving heads to its inventory, along with a number of EMOTION moving head digital lights. Pictured here is Elation’s Marc Librecht (left) with satis&fy’s Martin Heuser (right).
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Avolites’ feature-rich Titan V10 will be featured at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt next month, from April 5-8. The company says Titan V10 OS is packed full of a new features including a full 3D visualizer powered by the Capture engine, which is designed to let users create and edit shows right inside the Titan interface and lay out fixtures in the space using the console’s encoder wheels. V10 also allows the user to view intensity values in one place via the Intensity Grid. This clearly shows levels, source of information, whether increasing or decreasing and tracking information. Avolites will also be exhibiting its ‘supercharged’ Ai R Series of media servers and feature its Ai V9 software, with an all-new Audio Engine, a Dynamic Content Page, a new User Interface, and 58 new and updated effects. Avolites will be on Booth E80, Hall 3 Level 0 during the show.
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ETC is enhancing its line of Unison Echo products with EchoAccess and the company’s DMX Scene Controller. Both are compatible with all currently shipping Echo hardware products. Users can configure and customize self-contained systems, presets and zones while maintaining system-wide control. Combined with EchoAccess, the DMX Scene Controller allows for lighting hue, saturation and color to be modified locally or remotely for architectural lighting installations. Existing Echo products have also been updated in terms of capabilities and features in order to better meet energy codes, such as ASHRAE 90.1, CA Title 20/24 and IECC.
Read More »GOTHENBURG, Sweden —Latour Industries AB has signed an agreement to acquire 24.7 percent of the shares in LumenRadio AB through a directed share issue and acquisition of existing shares. Other large shareholders in the company are Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund and Almi Invest. LumenRadio develops, manufactures and sells equipment for wireless radio communication.
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LISBON, Portugal – The Voice Portugal, a Portuguese language version of the well-known TV singing competition, has incorporated d3 Technologies’ 2x2plus media servers in its production setup for on-stage visuals. The 2x2plus is designed to meet the needs of smaller shows and fixed installations with 2U solution that incorportates the d3 creative software suite.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – For the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, LA-based NYX Design put GLP’s X4 Atom, X4 Bar 20 and X4 Bar 10 fixtures into service. Said to be one of the biggest film premieres ever staged, with the red carpet stretching for half a mile, the film was shown in three cinemas simultaneously.
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BALTIMORE, MD – Light City Baltimore is a festival of light, music and innovation. The inaugural event will light up Baltimore’s Inner Harbor from March 28 – April 3 with art, music, performances, and an innovation conference. Central to the event, will be the 1.5-mile BGE Light Art Walk, with 50 illuminated experiences and art installations, musical performances, street theater and concerts, all free and open to the public. The event will kick off with the Light City Lantern Parade coordinated by the Creative Alliance on March 28 at 7 p.m., beginning at the Maryland Science Center and following the BGE Light Art Walk.
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GLENDALE, AZ – Image Engineering spent the beginning of 2016 working on the two largest football games of the year, the National Football Championship (pictured here) and the Super Bowl. At the National Football Championship Image Engineering provided lighting, cryogenic and flame special effects for the Clemson University and University of Alabama player introductions. These effects energized the players and fans helping to set the stage for what was a riveting game. An audience of over 70,000 fans were in attendance and over 25 million viewers watched on television.
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NASHVILLE – DWP Live added Ryan Darling to its recently founded laser scanning division. Darling, who brings expertise in 3D laser scanning to the position, will work closely with the company’s projection mapping unit. He joins DWPLive after gaining experience at Darling Geomatics in Tuscon, Az where he’s worked since 2002, most recently as vice president of 3D technologies.
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DALLAS – Syncrolite LLC named Gregg Brooks as the company’s technical sales manager. In his new position, Brooks will work with existing and new customers in all product groups at Syncrolite including the newly acquired Strong and SkyTracker lines. Brooks brings 23 years of professional experience as a lighting designer, production designer, programmer and stage technician. His career has taken him all over the world, working for top designers on concert tours including Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Cher and many more.
Read More »Drones have been seen (and heard) on rock tours at least since AC/DC’s concerts back in the mid-1970s, when Angus Young and Bon Scott conducted… Read More »Drones are Taking Off in Show Production
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