International News

TEL AVIV, Israel – Light Architects Cochavi & Klein are known for their style and propensity for invention … and they are also really impressed with Robe’s Spiider LED wash beams! The leading designers seized the opportunity of the ‘Picnic Passover with Black Coffee’, a pumping electronic music event presented by The Tripping in Tel Aviv’s most famous urban oasis, Hayarkon Park, to utilise 48 Spiiders and 24 Robe Pointes on a circular trussing structure, forming a massive ‘sun’, which was winched above the crowds on a crane.

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LONDON – All Spotlight and Headline Sponsors have been confirmed for the prestigious 10th anniversary edition of The Knight of Illumination (KOI) Awards, which will be held once again at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London on Sept. 17, 2017.

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LONDON – For Active Training Team (ATT), which produced an immersive training program depicting a (thankfully fictional) account of a worker’s death on a construction site for client Tideway, White Light provided a variety of visual technologies including d3 media servers. The idea is to present real workers with the fictional drama of a workplace accident in hopes of preventing actual tragedies in the workplace.

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PARIS – For the Meeting de Paris Indoor, a one day track and field event held earlier this year at AccorHotels Arena in Paris, local production house Franck Sono provided energetic visuals using Chauvet Professional  fixtures supplied by Algam.

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AUSTRALIA – Melbourne-based lighting and production company Colourblind are having a huge 2017, with lighting director Nicholas Beachen out on the road using High End Systems Hog 4 on the Hot Dub Wine Machine tour through March and April, and the company’s new Hippotizer Karst and Portamus Media Servers joining Melbourne hip-hop artist Illy as he traverses the country at the same time.

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EUROPE – Canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy might not be mainstream airplay but the band has been around for decades and is currently touring Europe beneath an intelligent lighting rig that includes Elation Professional ACL 360 Bar™ effect lights and SixBar 1000™ LED color-changing battens. Pioneers of the electro-industrial genre, Skinny Puppy, known for their theatrical and sometimes controversial live performances, enjoys a dedicated following and has charted in both North America and Europe. They are currently out on the European leg of their “Down the Sociopath” tour, which runs until June 16th.

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BRISTOL, U.K. – For musician, music producer and DJ Bonobo’s Migration world tour, Colour Sound Experiment is providing a lighting rig that includes Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures from Chauvet Professional. LD Will Thomas chose the fixtures in part for their multifaceted versatility.

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ABU DHABI, UAE – Lighthouse Productions (LHP) from Dubai created a unique visual design for the Islamic Art Awards 2017, staged at the Abu Dhabi National Theatre. Terry Miranda led the LHP team. He and Adrian Guzman specified 80 Robe luminaires to be right at the centre of the aesthetic.

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MANCHESTER, U.K. — WIcreations supplied staging, elevators and extensive automation elements for Take That’s 2017 “Wonderland Live” tour, which kicked off at the Genting Arena in  Birmingham, U.K. and wraps up June 18 in Manchester’s Etihad Stadium.

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ADELAIDE, Australia – For Australian Pink Floyd’s elaborate show, which honors the British band’s stagecraft and gags as well as their music, LD Tom Mumby has been relying upon ChamSys’ MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console for the tribute band’s nine universe lightshow. The tribute band kicks off a string of U.S. dates this summer starting July 20 in Detroit.

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LONDON – For Steel Yard London, a two-day dance music event staged in a temporary venue erected within Victoria Park, Hackney, HSL-supplied lighting gear lit Swedish DJ duo Axwell^Ingrosso’s set. Show designer Andy Hurst specified a floor-and-roof lighting package with more than 180 fixtures.

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SHANGHAI – Christie is featuring a variety of advanced visual technologies NAB Show Shanghai, taking place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre June 13-15, including projection-mapping, real-time tracking ID-tags controlled by the Christie Pandoras Box media server along with the company’s Captiva Series 1DLP laser phosphor projectors and more.

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