The Electric Love electronic music festival promised music, spirit, adventure and community. A top line-up with over 200 artists on a total of six stages and 180,000 visitors from 70 nations made the Salzburgring shake again at the beginning of July. GLP contributed to the power of the spectacle with a range of weather-protected devices.
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Nominations are now being accepted for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held on Friday, January 24, 2025, during the NAMM Show. Anyone can go to the ParnelliAwards.com site and nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best for a Parnelli Award. Nominations for Indispensable Technology (IT) Awards are also open.
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PLSN was saddened to hear of the passing on Aug. 2, 2024, of Lighting Designer / Lighting Director Christopher Richard Stuba at age 63 from Stage 4 Small Cell Lung Cancer. Debi Moen who knew and had interviewed Stuba several times, remembers this beloved friend in our lighting community’s life and career through friends of his as well as quotes from Stuba himself from past interviews.
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The Venice Performing Arts Center (VPAC) in Venice, FL, has recently undergone a significant lighting upgrade with the installation of Elation FUZE PAR Z175 luminaires, facilitated by production and integration company Thunder City Pro. The venue now offers an enhanced visual experience using state-of-the-art LED wash luminaires with dynamic color mixing and motorized zoom.
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Princess Cruises has taken a major step toward sustainability and delivering outstanding live performances by upgrading the lighting rig in their 1,000-seat Princess Theatre on the Crown, Emerald, and Ruby Princess ships. Princess Cruises Fleet Lighting Supervisor Matt DeJong and the Princess Entertainment Technical team selected Robe Lighting TE fixtures.
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ESTA is seeking passionate, motivated individuals to join its Board of Directors and help guide the association into a future filled with excitement, possibilities, and growth. A number of Board positions are available for the January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2027 term. The nomination deadline is September 9, 2024.
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Central London-based lighting and event technology and services specialist Halo now has one of the largest and most extensive stocks of Astera products in the UK. Halo’s total count of well over 400 Astera luminaires includes Titan Tubes, Helios Tubes, Hyperion Tubes and many others.
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This summer, some seven decades after Brutalism first shook things up in the design world, highly regarded Lighting and Production Designer Bryan Barancik has channeled its visceral power to create a gripping, deeply moving show for Lenny Kravitz on the four-time Grammy winner’s 27-city European tour, which began June 23 in Hamburg at Sporthalle.
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The power and flexibility of Avolites’ D9 lighting console and an Avolites AI Qgen media server running Avo’s proprietary Synergy protocol were at the heart of lighting and video control for Arcadia Spectacular’s amazing new live music / performance experience when they debuted their Dragonfly conceptual art installation at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival.
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AV Stumpfl’s media server platform, PIXERA, is the backbone to the creative Elektra opera at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. The recent production of Elektra at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, with a capacity of 2,500, Germany’s largest venue of its kind demonstrated the capabilities of AV Stumpfl’s media server platform, PIXERA.
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Friday, June 21 marked a momentous day for fans of extreme metal music. On that evening Dimitri Minakakis returned to join The Dillinger Escape Plan for the first of three shows at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the band’s seminal ‘Calculating Infinity’ album. Also making a return, though it was after a far shorter hiatus, was Victor Zeiser, Owner of Squeek Lights.
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A team from Netherlands-based creative studio Live Legends headed by project director Serge Patist and lighting designers Thomas de Vries and Bas Knappers completed a bold and modern interior design and technical – set, video, lighting and audio – scheme for the SIR.TEEN Group and their new Club BEEN, a brand-new venue and entertainment concept that has burst onto the highly competitive nightlife scene in Beijing, China. The lighting design features over 250 Robe moving lights – 144 x Spikies and 76 x Viva CMYs and six T1 Profiles.
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