LONDON – d3 Technologies named Sarah Cox as the new Sales Manager EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Cox joins the company at its head office in Borough, London. Cox brings previous experience with project and production management, architectural and events installation as well as sales distribution in the AV industry.
Read More »LONDON – For this year’s Wimbledon Championships, Creative Technology provided nine new Electronic Information Displays on the front façade of Centre Court and various other strategic locations around the facility. The purpose-built housings will remain in place on a permanent basis while the AOTO M8C display technology is installed and removed on an annual basis. All displays are controlled from a central location via a dedicated fibre network. Creative Technology was also involved in the production facility located within the broadcast centre which feeds live content, highlights packages and other entertainment to the large screen and other locations.
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DUBAI, UAE – Coolux technology played an integral part of “The Future” exhibit at the Arab Media Forum in Dubai. All the visuals within the showroom were played out using three coolux Pandoras Box servers, in conjunction with the Pandoras Box Manager PRO and the Widget Designer PRO software.
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WARRINGTON, UK – Colour Sound Experiment supplied more than 550 moving lights plus hundreds of other lighting fixtures along with rigging and trussing for two stages at the 2014 Creamfields EDM festival, staged at Daresbury Estate, near Warrington. Colour Sound’s team was again led by crew chief Jon Rickets, and they all worked with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE on the project.
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NEW YORK – Three Byte Intermedia wrote custom control software to orchestrate the interactive experience in the new tuning chamber in Clear Channel’s lobby here. The corridor leads visitors from the elevator through a fog screen with video display and down a hallway lined with interactive LED lights and the sound of live streamed radio programming triggered by the visitors’ movements.
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TORONTO, Canada – Christie provided 4K screening capability at five venues during the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, held here from Sept. 4-14, 2014. With 4K submissions to the festival having doubled from 2013, Christie, the official projection sponsor for 14 consecutive years, will offer 4K screening capability at Roy Thomson Hall, Princess of Wales Theatre, The Elgin Theatre’s Visa Screening Room (exterior of the building pictured here) and Ryerson Theatre. All TIFF Bell Lightbox cinemas also feature Christie 4K projection.
Read More »NANJING, China – Barco and High End System provided projection and video processing for the Summer Youth Olympic Games, held in Nanjing, China. Using 112 Barco HDF-series high-brightness projectors and 56 High End Axon HD Pro media servers, Lighting and video master Sha Xiaolan created one of the world’s largest stage projections, presenting a visual feast to those watching around the world.
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UK – Lighting designer Yenz Nyholm ran the Main Stage lighting at Coventry’s Godiva Festival this year from an Avolites Sapphire Touch, with a host of visiting LDs using the console as their acts performed. “The Sapphire Touch works well on a festival due to the many faders and easy to read touch screens,” says Nyholm. “It’s very intuitive, so any LD can use it within a few minutes of turning up. The many faders work well on a festival/busking situation, where you need to be able to grab anything very quickly.”
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Viewed through 3D glasses, Multiverse is an extraordinary new work that combines the power of live dance with the wonder of 3D graphics from one of the great innovators of Australian dance. The show also uses infrared technology that enables sound, video, and lighting to respond live to the actions of the dancer. To accommodate the infrared technology, lighting supplier Jands supplied an LED system comprised of twenty-four ETC Source 4 LED Lustr+ profiles, and ten Vari-lite VLX LED washes.
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WARRINGTON, UK – Adlib supplied lighting, sound and rigging to two main arenas and the Hospitality / VIP area at the 2014 Creamfields EDM festival staged at Daresbury Estate near Warrington, UK. Crew chief Kevin Byatt, working with Dave Eldridge at the company’s office/warehouse, supported Arenas 04 (hosted by Pete Tong / London Warehouse Events), 05 (Revealed / Super You & Me) and the VIP (Hospitality Audio System).
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DALLAS, TX – Marshall Fundamental Secondary School houses a 1,200-seat auditorium used for a wide range of performing arts activities, but with a lighting system that was in need of a full renovation. Working with Forman and Associates, George Kwiter was asked to oversee the renovation and to give the school the best system possible he chose 18 PLprofile1, 12 PLfresnel1, and eight PLcyc1 LED luminaires from Philips Selecon.
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SUNRISE, FL – Bandit Lites added Rogue R2 Beams (fixture pictured here) to its inventory for the upcoming Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood tour. Emmy-nominated LD David Butzler of Bandit Lites selected the fixture for his tour design. The fixtures are made by Chauvet Professional.
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