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GLX Productions Creates Magical Winter Holiday Moments at Eden Project with CHAUVET Professional

The Eden Project’s beautiful tribute to nature engages visitors in compelling ways with its Winter Holiday 2024 lightshows, which take place at its different domes. Artfully designed by Glenn Gridley and his team at GLX Productions using CHAUVET luminaires, the immersive displays capture the mystical quality of the season when winter light and nature interweave in a timeless transcendent dance.

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Interpol investigates Ayrton Cobra

In keeping with NYC post-punk band Interpol’s cool, brooding image, Ed Warren’s lighting carried a cutting edge, spartan quality. The stripped back design employed 21 Ayrton laser-sourced Cobra fixtures – Warren’s only moving lights – in what Warren terms an ‘extremely considered and precise’ show.

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Alain Corthout Powers Los 40 Music Awards with ChamSys

The Palau Sant Jordi is the largest indoor arena in Spain, but even this sleek 18,000-capacity venue couldn’t contain all the energy and excitement generated by the 19th edition of the annual Los 40 Music Awards held there this past November. Designer Alain Corthout with help from operator Timothy Demets supported the various dimensions of Los 40 by serving up a range of lighting looks that were equally at home pulsating to  the music of performers.

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Another Brick in the Wall Part 5 Moves with MSA

Denmark-based entertainment automation specialist Motor Stage Automation (MSA) supplied performer flying winches, hoists for scenic motion, stage lifts and a full MOVEKET control system together with innovation, creativity and expertise in the art of automation for the acclaimed production of Another Brick in The Wall, Part 5 staged at the Østre Gasværk Teater in Copenhagen. 

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Hippotizer at Heart of Digital Christmas Card Animation at Queens Hotel

A heartwarming Christmas story told through projection mapped animations in the run-up to Christmas is being driven by tvONE’s Green Hippo brand of Hippotizer Media Servers onto the façade of The Queens Hotel in Leeds. The animation, ‘To Leeds, With Love’, is a reimagining of The 12 Days of Christmas song, featuring a cheeky gingerbread man who is on a mission to decorate the hotel for a festive party.

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St Paul’s Cathedral Shines with PROLIGHTS

Blue Thunder Sound provided full production for the London Film Music Orchestra concert at the St Paul’s Cathedral, using over 200 lighting fixtures, including 102 PROLIGHTS Smart Bat units. Blue Thunder Sound strategically placed the lighting fixtures to enhance the architectural features of the cathedral, minimizing cable runs by employing wireless signals for lighting and audio control.

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Olly Suckling Animates Ultimate Fireworks Spectacular at Alton Towers Resort with Light and ChamSys

Every November Alton Towers Resort hosts its annual end-of-season fireworks extravaganza. Even the most spectacular pyro displays, however, become more mesmerizing when set against a stunning backdrop of light. This year, Lighting Designer Olly Suckling, now in his eighth year working on the Alton Towers Resort Fireworks, elevated the display to new heights with a bold and vivid lighting design, controlled via a ChamSys console.

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Robe Power Lighting for Spectacular Linz Bridge Opening

Eighty of Robe’s most powerful moving light fixtures – iBOLT, iFORTE, and iFORTE LTX – were used to great effect for a visually stunning lighting scheme designed by Thomas Maier from event production company NoiseGate Eventtechnik GmbH to illuminate a special performance show celebrating the completion of the 305-meter-wide Danube Valley suspension bridge – Donautalbrücke – in Linz, Austria.

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