Lighting Designer Andre Beekmans of TAOL in collaboration with Andrei Predut of APart in Bucharest, Romania used a large complement of Claypaky fixtures to light the ‘We are ONE’ concert in the city’s National Arena to benefit humanitarian causes in the region.
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LD Liam McCarthy used 100 Robe moving lights supplied by Just Lites for ABBA Orchestral [an ABBA tribute show] at Dublin’s 3Arena. The musical extravaganza featured the Waterloo Concert Orchestra led by noted conductor and arranger Andy O’Callaghan.
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With the tagline of Reunite Again, the 2022 Rebirth Festival was one of the first large-scale outdoor dance events to take place in the Netherlands following two years of pandemic-induced restrictions. It also represented a reunion between the organizers and production company Spectrum AV, which worked on the festival in its early years. However, the event grew extremely quickly and required a scale of production beyond what Spectrum was capable of at the time. A large production company took care of all of the stages at the festival in the intervening years, but following the pandemic decided to refocus their business on only larger stages. Therefore, for this year’s event, they recommended that the organizers brought back Spectrum to handle the midsize stages. This was partially because of their positive experience of working with them elsewhere and partially because Spectrum AV’s business model focusses exclusively on these medium-sized stages.
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Lighting designer and operator Andreas Bünemann is using the ONYX lighting control platform from Obsidian Control Systems to run a large lighting rig for German reggae artist Gentleman and says he wouldn’t turn to any other system. “Our choice is the Obsidian ONYX system and it will be going forward,” stated Bünemann, owner of full-service rental company Bam Bam FX of Germany. “For us, it is the future and the direction we want to go. It’s a powerful and reliable system and we will be recommending it to clients interested in user-friendly lighting control.”Read More »Andreas Bünemann Relies on ONYX Lighting Control Platform for Reggae Artist Gentleman
Two of the most successful German Twitch streamers, Trymacs and MckyTV, met recently—not for an Esports event, but for a real boxing match. Believing in the motto ‘the more, the merrier’, the two brought in four more Twitch colleagues, who also tested their strength in two preliminary fights. For the Great Fight Night, moderator Steven Gätjen hosted the evening, while the spectacle was rounded off with a live music performance.Read More »PRG Sends GLP into Battle for the “Great Fight Night” at Cologne’s Lanxess Arena
Inspired by Brit Pop and Seattle grunge, Latin rock group Zoé has continuously refined their music since the group formed in the mid ‘90s, bringing… Read More »Chauvet Professional Helps Tony Pérez Reflect Universal Sound of Zoé
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The first major live post pandemic corporate event staged in South Africa was organized by international services, trading and distribution company Bidvest for key clients,… Read More »Bidvest Back with Future Now Extravaganza
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The historic Palais-Royal in the heart of Paris was the site of an EDM dance fest—“Monumental Tour Europe”—with a crowd of 2,000 raving to pulsating… Read More »Magnum Unleashes Proteus Excalibur at Palais-Royal EDM Bash
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UK-based Designer Daniel Richardson, working for innovative international creative practice Sinclair Wilkinson (Rob Sinclair & Andrew Wilkinson) took the role of production designer for Craig… Read More »2022 The Time is Now for Robe and Craig David
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After a three-year hiatus, the results of the hard work from the TDC Crew of project managers, creative technologists, designers, and engineers working behind-the-scenes at Vivid Sydney are now live.Read More »Technology that Powers Vivid Sydney Reveals Soul of the City
For German rock icon Udo Lindenberg’s ‘Udopium Live’ tour, the 180-degree stage design is lit with close to 150 GLP fixtures. LD Günter Jäckle is using 40 GLP GT-1, 32 impression X4, 30 impression X4 L, 36 FUSION Exo Beam 10, and six FUSION MBL 20 to light Udo and his “panic orchestra.”
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Lighting designer and founding partner of Woodroffe Bassett Designs, Adam Bassett, specified a wealth of IP65-rated Ayrton fixtures for the entertainment lighting rig for Expo 2020 Dubai’s central venue, the Al Wasl dome. The rig included 182 Ayrton Perseo S profiles, 116 Ayrton Domino S profiles, and 16 Ayrton Huracán LT long throw profiles.Read More »Ayrton IP65-Rated Fixtures Chosen for Expo 2020 Dubai