International News

SWEDEN – The Swedish manufacturer of W-DMX™ has recently supported the students of University of South Wales in the UK, completing BSc. degrees in Live Event and Lighting Design. Wireless Solution provided Wireless technology to the final year students that wanted to integrate W-DMX™ into their final-year projects. The USW degrees encourage students to create a lighting fixture that could be commercialized – this includes specifying, designing and creating a product prototype, before presenting it in a trade-show environment, along with other engineering students.

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COLOGNE, Germany — LD Jerry Appelt designed the lighting for a live broadcast on Feb. 9 that presented the five finalists vying to represent Germany at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Appelt specified 52 of GLP’s new GT-1 hybrid fixtures for the production, which took place in the studios of Cape Cross Studio + Filmlichtgesellschaft GmbH, in Cologne-Mühlheim.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland —For Skunk Anansie’s most recent European tour dates in support of last year’s Anarchytecture album, the U.K.-based band turned to LD Dan Williams, who used a Siyan-supplied rig that centered on Claypaky Scenius fixtures.

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FRANKFURT, Germany – The ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium received the Prolight + Sound International Press Award (PIPA) for “Best Product of the Year” in the lighting control category.   Based on voting by over 100 journalists from specialized publications, the award was presented on April 6th at the Prolight + Sound show. “This award is a tribute to the ChamSys design ethos,” said ChamSys Managing Director Chris Kennedy. “ChamSys has been built on giving the end-user as much freedom and flexibility as possible, because we respect the creativity that’s inherent in the design process.”

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FRANKFURT – PR Lighting enjoyed high visibility at this year’s Frankfurt Prolight+Sound Show — largely due to an inspired product showcase centered around their new AQUA waterproof moving heads. This was promoted heavily at the Show via banners and large posters in heavily populated areas of the concourses and walkways. The AQUA 440 Beam, the waterproof version of the XR440 Beam, takes advantage of the popular new high output Osram 440W discharge lamp to deliver a punchy and parallel 3.1° beam.

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FRANKFURT – Trade show success can be measured any number of ways, but by any standard Prolight + Sound 2017 was historic for Elation Professional. Bolstered by a new distribution relationship in Germany with LMP Lichttechnik Vertriebs, as well as the announcement just prior to the show that over 800 Elation lighting fixtures will feature on the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, this year’s Prolight + Sound was truly one to remember for Elation.

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PERTH, Australia – The recent refresh of the entire Perth Concert Hall lighting rig (made possible through the State Government’s Department of Culture and the Arts Infrastructure Improvement Program) saw Head of Lighting Alex Spartalis with a lot of decisions to make. The choice to make the PCH home to nine Elation Sixpar 300 RGBAW+UV LED fixtures was not one of the difficult ones. With the whole rig headed to LED, Alex had to audition a huge range of luminaires, and the Sixpar 300s were an easy winner.

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BEIJING – Christie is exhibiting this week at InfoComm China, which takes place at Beijing’s China National Convention Center April 12-14. Christie’s multi-zone booth occupies the space at Booth #EB1-01 at the show.

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FRANCE – During the last German International Green Week in Berlin, the German company BayWa that specializes in agriculture, building materials, and energy sectors, gathered 3,000 people together for a reception on the theme of agriculture. For the production of the AV part, BayWa contracted audio+frames, a German company that provides AV services for events.

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BIRMINGHAM, UK. – An audacious, eye-popping lighting design by Nathan Wan featured nearly 300 Robe moving lights to provide the power, punch and luminosity needed to match the roaring engines, burning rubber and screeching brakes of the races and performance car action! Nathan has lit the show for the past few years working with technical consultants and equipment suppliers Network Productions. This year their technical director Nick Halliday and production manager Dave Beel were working with a new creative team who wanted to inject some turbo-charged theatricality into the tire-slaying speed drama unfolding on the track.

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PALMARES, Costa Rica – A series of concert events that were part of Costa Rica’s annual Fiestas de Palmares took place Jan. 12-22, drawing big crowds with Sean Paul, Gente de Zona and Zion y Lennox. Ronald Goñi and Jairo Barrantes used 16 high output Maverick MK2 Spots from Chauvet Professional.

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UK – Lighting designer Ian Bintliff returned to top UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL to source equipment for the most recent UK tour by bluesy rockers Thunder promoting their new album ‘Rip It Up’ visiting a string of theatre and town hall venues. This follows last year’s arena tour – with lighting also supplied by HSL – and this time, the band were keen to play more dates in more locations at smaller venues to cultivate an intimate vibe and be closer to their very loyal UK fan base.

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