FRANKFURT, Germany — Ayrton celebrated its 15th anniversary at Prolight + Sound with new products, new staff and a prestigious PIPA Award in the Light FX category for its MagicBurst™ graphic LED strobe fixture.
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LONDON — Event design and technical production company Maestra Group has made some substantial new investments at its London branch for lighting, audio and video ahead of a busy summer season. This follows a round of recent purchases by Maestra Dubai. The company added Robe, ETC, Avolites, Prolyte, ChamSys control, d&b audio, Christie, Sony and Analog Way gear to its inventory.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Claypaky detailed the “immersive” experience created for visitors to its booth at Prolight+Sound 2017, held earlier this month in Frankfurt, Germany and also detailed its most important product introductions and awards winners at the company’s Distributor Meeting.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — GLP reported a positive response to its booth offerings at PL+S 2017, where the company featured its GT-1 hybrid fixtures and JDC1 strobes, along with a lightshow designed by Matt Shimamoto from Volt Lights in Los Angeles.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Robert Juliat recapped some highlights from its presence in the Lightpower Village at Prolight+Sound 2017. The company presented a line-up of its tungsten and discharge followspots – Lancelot, Merlin, Cyrano, Victor and Roxie – which formed an impressive backdrop to herald the arrival of Robert Juliat’s two new LED followspots, the 600W Oz and Alice.
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BIRMINGHAM, U.K. — For the Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships 2017, which ran from March 7-12 at the Barclaycard International Arena in Birmingham, SLX supplied Badminton England with a multipurpose LED-based lighting solution.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Elite Event Technology recently added a pallet of TMB ProCable multicores, adding just under 700 meters to their inventory and bringing their TMB cable total to “around 10 kilometres worth,” said Darren Russell, Elite Event Technology’s Managing Director, pictured here. “We’ve invested in a mixture of TMB ProPlex DMX and Ethernet cabling, ProCable multicable assemblies with Socapex connectors, and headers, patch panels, and tails.”
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SINGAPORE – The first rental and technical production company in Singapore – and indeed south east Asia – to invest in Robe’s new Spiider LED wash beam fixtures is Expo AV-InSync which works locally and internationally throughout the Asia Pacific region including Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.. Currently they have upwards of 200 Robe fixtures in the lighting inventory. When the Spiider was launched last year, it was perfect timing as they were looking for new LED wash lights and loved the Robe LEDWash 600+s that they already own.
UK – Boston, Massachusetts based lighting designer Jeff Maker once again chose Robe as his main moving lights for the most recent UK and European tour for U.S. rockers All Time Low which was a teaser for their upcoming “Last Young Renegade” album release, scheduled for June 2nd. The band combine their hi-energy, in-the-face mix of gritty pop punk rock with a relentlessly busy touring schedule and are renowned for their live performance.
SLOVENIA – It is Eurovision selection season … and one of the 43 hopefuls for this year’s event in Kiev, Ukraine, in May is Slovenia’s Omar Naber whose song “On My Way” was chosen at a spectacular Eurovision Melody (EMA – Evrovizijska MelodijA) show staged in Hall A2 of the Gospodarsko Razstavisce exhibition center in Ljubljana.
WROCLAW, POLAND – Nearly 100 Claypaky fixtures illuminated the interior of UNESCO world heritage site, the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, Poland, for its live production of large-scale theatrical performance ‘Niebo’ as part of the closing celebrations of the city’s year-long status as European Capital of Culture 2016. Creative producer and multimedia lighting designer for Niebo was Pawal ‘Spider’ Pająk, founder of Polish production design company Fish Eye. Spider specified a number of Claypkay Mythos, Sharpy and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures from Polish rental outfit TRANSCOLOR to craft the production’s vast spot, beam and wash effects.
FRANKFURT, Germany – Philips noted that the 2017 Prolight + Sound expo was the company’s most successful to date, where it launched new stage and studio lighting products and showcased recent releases.
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