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Ayrton Cobra joins the party at Fairground Festival

Cologne-based motion design and show development studio, visualprime, is used to doing things on a large scale, and Hannover’s Fairground Festival of electronic music is no exception. The second iteration of this relatively new festival – already classed as Germany’s third-largest indoor festival – took place in the cavernous spaces of the Hannover exhibition halls hosting 40,000 party-goers over two remarkable days. visualprime lighting designer, Tobias Reinartz, employed over 100 Ayrton fixtures to inject dynamism, color and striking linear arrays across the stage and dance floor.

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Hometown Hero Nominations 2024 Now Open!

Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Hero award. This award honors the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest, and Canada. This award—from nominations to winners—is selected by you, the entertainment technology industry, because you truly know who the Hometown Heroes are in the industry.

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Daniel Knipper Enchants at Strasbourg Cathedral With CHAUVET Professional

Lighting Designer Daniel Knipper used 24 CHAUVET Professional Ovation Rêve E-3 IP LED ellipsoidals in his transformative design for the six-century-old Strasbourg Cathedral located in Place de la Cathédrale in Strasbourg, France. The full-spectrum color-mixing fixtures, which were supplied by XEOS, were hung on two porticos that flanked the façade. This  arrangement allowed Knipper to highlight the architectural details of the façade by creating gobos based on digital photos.

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Raw Cereal’s Spectacular Design for Lainey Wilson Lit with Elation

Stepping into the world of Raw Cereal means diving into a realm of creativity and cutting-edge technology. The global creative and production studio with the intriguing name creates immersive live experiences for some of the world’s best-known artists, with one of the hottest names in country music, Lainey Wilson, thrilling fans with Raw Cereal-designed shows that include Elation RAYZOR series lights.

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Arcadia Lights Up Glastonbury 2024 with Dragonfly and Robe iBOLTS

Flames, lasers, and lights fired up the night sky at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK as Arcadia launched its amazing new “Dragonfly” spectacular concept. Lighting included Robe’s new iBOLTS, a laser-source searchlight style moving light, and iPointe65s – an IP65 version of Robe’s MegaPointe moving light – as a part of the over 200 lights illuminating the Arcadia Arena.

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Analog Way Aquilon C+ Drives Main Stage Screen at Coachella 2024

Analog Way’s Aquilon C+ fully modular and scalable 4K/8K multi-screen presentation system and videowall processor drove a massive curved ROE CB5 LED video screen on the Main Stage, or Coachella Stage, at the eponymous musical festival this year. Tim Nauss, Managing Director of Denver-based Dapper Productions, was hired by Goldenvoice and NEP Sceenworks as Screens Producer for the Main Stage. 

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Vari-Lite VL3600s Bring Beautiful Native White and Saturated Colors to ‘The Who’s TOMMY’

When Lighting Designer Amanda Zieve needed a high output luminaire for the newly reimagined Broadway production of The Who’s TOMMY, she knew she wanted excellent colors, a beautiful native white, and a good selection of onboard gobos. That’s why she selected the VL3600 Profile IP luminaire from Vari-Lite, the originators of the modern moving head light fixture and Signify entertainment lighting brand.

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New Lío Mallorca Nightclub Shines with GLP

The new Lío Mallorca nightclub in Palma, Mallorca’s biggest city, has opened with a spectacular dinner show, featuring a troupe of singers, dancers, acrobats, and international artists. Cabaret Espectacular is billed as a high-octane cabaret for the 21st century. The fully immersive experience is brought to life with stage lighting from GLP.

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Ayrton Launches IP65 Rivale Wash

Ayrton announces the official launch of its new IP65 rated Rivale Wash, the first ultra-equipped wash luminaire in Ayrton’s brand new “ULTIMATE” range. A new addition to its IP65 3 Series, Rivale Wash has been developed especially for mixed indoor and outdoor use, including in salt-laden environments.

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