MEXICO CITY – Las Lunas Del Auditorio – an awards program honoring Mexican live performance and music industry achievers – took place at the 10,000 capacity venue and founder of the event, Auditorio Nacional. For the first time, the event’s moving lights were exclusively Robe.
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Tour: April 2015-Fall 2016
Design: “I had free rein, not something I’m used to, so it was fun. We use a lot of LED elements — for pixel mapping, as movers, strobes, PARs — including a LED Wall. We made a scrim using the band’s album art, which the video wall shines through.”
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It was another bountiful year in Las Vegas as the LDI (Live Design International) show hit the Convention Center for the fourth consecutive year. Over 10,000 people were on the floor to check out more than 350 different exhibitor booths over the three-day span the floor was open. From Lighting to Lasers, Staging to Scenery, it was all here on display last Oct 23-25. One didn’t have to search far for all the cool little gizmos we all need to keep the shows running. New inventions as well as improved versions of old standards peaked my technical interest as much as the great new lighting products.
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Lighting Co
East Coast Lighting & Production Services (ECLPS)
Venue
City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA
Lighting Co
Christie Lites
Venue
Various (U.S. Tour)
SOUTH BEND, IN — The city of South Bend, Indiana is celebrating 150 years. LD Rob Shakespeare developed an interactive lighting display called South Bend River Lights using 80 Martin Exterior 400 and Tripix Wash LED fixtures to illuminate the St. Joseph River.
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EMERYVILLE, CA – Advanced Systems Group (ASG) announced that Steve McCracken has joined the company as a systems engineer for the Technical Services Team. Based in Southern California, he offers field service and consultation for ASG clients in the region.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Keven Myhre, a Salt Lake City theatrical designer and director, has been chosen to receive the 2016 Thomas DeGaetani Award from USITT. Myhre will be honored at USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City next March. USITT annually honors a key contributor to the performing arts in the region of its national Conference & Stage Expo. The 2016 Conference will be held in Salt Lake March 16-19.
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AUSTRIA – This year was the sixth Lake Festival, the biggest EDM event in Austria. More than one hundred artists performed on five different stages, including Avicii, David Guetta, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Steve Aoki, Alesso and Tiësto. Thirty six Clay Paky Sharpys, 34 Clay Paky Mythos units, 1 grandMA2 full-size e 1 grandMA2 light were used (along with other equipment) at the festival, which took place at Unterpremstätten on Schwarzl Lake.
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Acolyte recently expanded its RibbonLyte family of products with the Static White 3.0 and RGB 3.0 Matrix RibbonLyte. The new Matrix RibbonLyte has a bendable and flexible design that is ideal for curved runs like curved coves, or for making right angles without having to have separate pieces soldered together.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands – For a Dutch musical version of The Bodyguard staged at Beatrix Theatre, LiveLAB and The Unit Showcontrol collaborated on the visuals, relying upon d3 Technologies to bring the renewed, vivid set design to life.
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Emulation Touch from Elation Professional is a new generation lighting controller that turns users’ tablet into a lighting console, giving them full DMX control of moving heads, LED lights, conventional lighting and special effects from their hand-held devices.
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