International News

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LONDON – Award winning lighting designer Francis Clegg applied his imagination and magic to the latest Snarky Puppy UK tour, where his penchant for creating interesting and different visual environments is perfectly suited to the band’s improvisational instrumental jazz-pop sounds.Colour Sound Experiment was delighted to be the lighting and video supplier for the tour. The west London based company has worked on other projects with Francis, part of creative practice design MIRRAD, including most recently, Giggs and Kano. “You know that a design will look fresh and alternative when Francis’ name is on it,” commented Colour Sound’s H (Haydn Cruickshank).

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[caption id="attachment_276990" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ed Warren uses Robe on Circa Waves[/caption]

LONDON – UK indie rockers Circa Waves are certainly making some waves right now, and the release of their second album “Different Creatures” brings some more serious, hard-hitting and thought-provoking messages along with solid catchy rhythms. Lighting designer Ed Warren started working with Circa Waves at the start of this album campaign in October 2016. Having known their management team for some time, all the circumstances and stars aligned to make it the right time for Ed to add his ideas and imagination to the stage presentation on recent UK and European legs of the tour.

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[caption id="attachment_276987" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ayrton Welcomes Vari Internacional S.A[/caption]

MEXICO CITY – Ayrton is very happy to announce the appointment of Vari Internacional, S.A. as its new exclusive distributor for Mexico. The agreement was formalized at the recent sound:check Xpo show in Mexico City and takes place with immediate effect.

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TURKS and CAICOS  – Beaches Resorts in the Turks and Caicos Islands offer activities for people of all ages, not to mention convenient access to some of the Caribbean’s best beaches. Lighting designer Lisa Weinshrott Kimmel, of Sharp Edge Lighting Design, was recently brought onboard to design lighting for a theatre project at the vacation resort and found an Elation rig at her disposal.

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VENICE, Italy – ‘Protected Paradise’ is a 12 meter high mixed media installation created by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen. Located in the garden of the Palazzio Francetti for the 2017 Biennale di Venezia contemporary visual art exhibition. Luc Peumans of Painting with Light lit the work using, among other fixtures, the specialty StarEye fixture from Antwerp-based Lux Lumen.

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CHILE – Urdile Audio & Iluminación, PR Lighting’s Chilean distributors, are just one global partner that has been achieving extraordinary success with the Chinese manufacturer’s XR440 BWS, and its smaller sibling the XR330 BWS (denoting that these hybrid, high output moving heads combine Beam, Wash and Spot effect).

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[caption id="attachment_276947" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Pink Floyd Exhibition Their Mortal Remains [/caption]

LONDON – Now open at the V & A Museum, The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is the first international retrospective of one of the world’s most pioneering and influential bands. The exhibition offers an immersive and multi-sensory journey through the career of Pink Floyd, chronicling their music, design and staging, from the 1960’s through to the present day. Following the company’s work on last year’s EXHIBITIONISM, the Rolling Stone’s exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, White Light was called upon to oversee the lighting installation and supply the lighting equipment on this occasion.

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MANCHESTER, U.K. – At about 10:30 p.m. local time on May 22, only about a minute after the house lights came on after Ariana Grande’s last song, a deafening explosion shook the foundations of 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena. Chaos and confusion swept through the venue and continued as parents and young attendees tried to find each other in the aftermath.

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[caption id="attachment_276927" align="alignnone" width="800"]Armin Van Buuren Show gets help from Inventdesign[/caption]

AMSTERDAM, –  Armin van Buuren turned the tables on 12 and 13 May during his show ‘The Best of Armin Only’ in the Johan Cruijff Arena. For the second time in 6 months, InventDesign was the preferred party to cater the LEDs for yet another spectacular lightshow. Last October, the company catered the lights for the Amsterdam Music Festival, which also took place in the Johan Cruijff Arena. The special lightdesign, which was designed by 250K for the show, didn’t stop with an impressive stage. InventDesign provided the full length and width of the Johan Cruijff Arena with vertical and horizontal pendant LED strips, with the shortest vertical variations being at least 8 meters long.

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[caption id="attachment_276906" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chauvet gear in use at London's Cargo[/caption]

LONDON – The new Cargo late-night bar and club venue in London has been drawing crowds with a Banksy graffiti art-filled courtyard and multifaceted light show looks from a number of Chauvet Professional and Chauvet DJ fixtures installed by Halo Lighting.

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MIDDLE EAST – Approaching the end of a very busy season in the Middle East, there was one more important event that the events industry in the region would be looking forward to – MEEA17. There was a sense of excitement that could be felt across the industry in the lead up to the awards ceremony this time, as everyone was aware that it would have to take something really special to break through the competition in every award category.

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[caption id="attachment_276897" align="alignnone" width="800"]Robe Fixtures used in A Little Night Music [/caption]

LONDON – Award winning lighting designer Paul Pyant returned to London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to light a production of the Steven Sondheim classic, A Little Night Music directed by Edward Kemp and staged at RADA’s Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre in central London. Robe enjoy a close ongoing working relationship with RADA, making their latest technologies available for students to use across the three main venues. Paul’s design for this production utilized Robe’s DL7S LED profiles and the new Spiider LED wash beam moving lights, together with other moving and conventional fixtures.

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