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Electrosonic Provides AV Design and Installation Support for New Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Canadian Museum for Human Rights exterior

Electrosonic Provides AV Design and Installation Support for New Canadian Museum for Human Rights

WINNIPEG, Canada – Winnipeg’s new Canadian Museum for Human Rights explores the universal concept of human rights with a special emphasis on Canada. Electrosonic worked with local partner Advance Pro on the AV design and installation for the museum’s eleven galleries. The museum features theaters, interactive touchscreen stations, projections on a digital canvas and hundreds of video clips.

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Nook Schoenfeld, editor of PLSN magazine

LD Software Helps Get the Job Done

As a lighting designer, I just love my software. I know a lot of designers who whine about drawing plots and having to number things. They’d rather shout directions out to some assistant who can scribble notes now and transform that into 2D plots, 3D renderings and paperwork on how to make it all work. I get all that, and there’s nothing wrong with it. But I am not that guy. I am addicted to my software and would rather do it all myself.

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LD Rob Sinclair included 120 Martin MAC Viper AirFX and a dozen Martin MAC Auras in the rig.

Kylie Minogue’s “Kiss Me Once” Tour Heads to Australia

Kylie Minogue’s Kiss Me Once tour, in support of her 2014 album release, moves to the artist’s native Australia with plans for five concerts in March 2015 before returning for another tour leg in Europe this summer. The 2015 shows follow the artist’s 2014 tour, with close to 30 shows in the U.K. and Europe. LD Rob Sinclair and lighting director Louisa Smurthwaite provided insight into the creative processes behind the tour’s extensive lighting design, which included fixtures from Harman’s Martin Professional.

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Constellations on Broadway photo by Joan Marcus

Constellations on Broadway

The recent Broadway production of Constellations, a two-person drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, seems deceptively simple: a short 70-minute play in which the duo plays a couple that meets, falls in love, then copes with insecurities, infidelity, and illness. Above them hover a group of “balloons” of varying sizes that are omnipresent as the actors play out the scenes numerous times, reciting many of the same lines but offering multiple takes on the relationship based on a “what if” premise. What if one person had reacted to or acted differently in a certain situation?

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