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Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 and Skylos Light Up Eurovision Song Contest’s 360º Stage

The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) showcased its most innovative set design ever at the Malmö Arena in Sweden where Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 high-power LEDs and Skylos white-laser source searchlights supported the dynamic look of the event’s first 360º stage. Fredrik Stormby from Stockholm-based Green Wall Designs, the Lighting and Screen Content Designer for this year’s event, selected the Claypaky fixtures.  Stormby is best known as part of the creative team behind Beyonce’s 2023 Renaissance tour, Loreen’s winning 2023 ESC performance and ABBA Voyage in London.  He joined Production Designer Florian Wieder and the senior production team to help create, design and deliver the large-scale, spectacular show to a global audience of more than 160 million people.Read More »Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 and Skylos Light Up Eurovision Song Contest’s 360º Stage

Nick Jevons Immerses at Terminal V Festival with CHAUVET Professional

At its best, a design of any kind, isn’t just something to be seen and felt; ideally, it should also be something to interact with. The organizers of the popular Terminal V Festival, must have had this vision bubbling up in their collective imagination when they laid out plans for 10th edition of their annual event, which took place this April at the Royal Highland Centre. Taking their V2 Stage, a mainstay of the festival since 2017, they totally revamped it, turning it into a crisply angled 360-stage, making it “unrecognizable from years gone by.” The team at 19MIL, which designed the V2 Stage and the adjacent Terminal Stage were keenly aware of how important lighting would be to making both stages come alive in ways that would enhance the level of audience interaction with the impressive lineup of EDM artists appearing on them over the course of the weekend festival.Read More »Nick Jevons Immerses at Terminal V Festival with CHAUVET Professional

SJ Grevett and DMX Productions Create Varied Looks for MOBO Awards with CHAUVET Professional

“From the moment you approached Utilita Arena, you could feel the excitement and energy in the air.” That’s how one journalist described the 26th annual MOBO Awards.  True enough — but the magical mood was even more transformative inside the 11,000-capacity facility, thanks to the persona and performances of the special guests and honorees at the UK’s biggest celebration of Black music and culture.Read More »SJ Grevett and DMX Productions Create Varied Looks for MOBO Awards with CHAUVET Professional

CAS Exhibition Partners Choose Elation KL PAR FC for Superior Stand Lighting

In late April, CAS Exhibition Partners of the Netherlands took delivery of 250 KL PAR FC LED PAR lights from Elation for use in the leading exhibition contractor’s many state-of-the-art stand builds across Europe. Useful in setting the ambiance of an exhibition stand, reinforcing a theme, and adding depth and dimension to enhance the overall visual appeal of a space, the new full-color-spectrum lights can also play more functional roles like highlighting products, signage and displays. Either way, the KL PAR FC’s high color quality and adaptability will serve to captivate visitors and reinforce brand imaging for CAS customers.Read More »CAS Exhibition Partners Choose Elation KL PAR FC for Superior Stand Lighting

Robe ESPRITES Rock Melbourne Fashion Festival

The 2024 PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival celebrated some of the best of Australian fashion design, imagination, style and flair, with a main show space at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne – recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee as a prime example of 19th century international exhibition architecture. All Lighting and AV equipment for the week-long festival was supplied by full production services provider, Harry the Hirer Productions, led by Technical Producer Marcus Pugh.Read More »Robe ESPRITES Rock Melbourne Fashion Festival

Milton De La Cruz Makes Light Waves at Petronio Alvarez Festival with CHAUVET Professional

The Petronio Alvarez festival, affectionately called “El Petronio,” has no trouble making news. A signature event in Cali, the six-day celebration of music, food, and culture, draws over a half-million people to the city’s la Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo sports complex. It’s been that way for 27 years, but last summer the festival made news of a different kind when local news outlets were buzzing with reports of UFO sightings.Read More »Milton De La Cruz Makes Light Waves at Petronio Alvarez Festival with CHAUVET Professional

MSA Makes Substantial Investment in Moveket

(L to R) Daniel Klausen (MSA Operations Manager), Jimmy Johnson (MSA Technical Sales) and Aske Skovsted (Production Technichian)

Denmark-based entertainment automation specialist, Motor Stage Automation (MSA), has made a substantial investment – over 100 pieces – in equipment from Moveket, comprising 125 Kg and 500 Kg Moveket VMK-S C1 variable speed silent hoists, 125 Kilo Moveket VMW-S high speed winches, Moveket I-Motion Expert-T III and I-Motion Basic control consoles, together with Moveket V-Motion Drives – both E40 and E75 units. This was supplied to MSA via Danish distributor Matrix Sales and has been added to MSA’s rental stock to help meet current trends and demands in the busy and wonderful world of performance automation.Read More »MSA Makes Substantial Investment in Moveket

Arena Cob4FC Lights Up Christina Stürmer MTV Unplugged Concert

PROLIGHTS Arena Cob4FC lit up Christina Stürmer’s MTV Unplugged concert, an event celebrating the 20-year career of the Austrian pop-rock singer. The live broadcast from the Volkstheater in Vienna was produced by Das Rund GmbH, set in an environment evoking the intimate atmosphere of a rehearsal room, creating a welcoming and relaxed ambiance. Under the artistic direction of Thomas W. Kiennast from Das Rund, Lighting Designer Manfred Nikister designed a lighting setup that included 29 Arena Cob4FC units from PROLIGHTS, strategically positioned to maximize visual impact both on stage and in the surrounding scenery.

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Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela Invests in Robert Juliat Dalis 860 Cyclorama Lights

Home of Zarzuela – a form of Spanish traditional musical comedy – central Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela was restored to its historic beauty in 1913 after a fire destroyed the original 1856 building. Now owned by the Ministry of Culture and a designated Asset of General Interest with Monument status since 1994, the Teatro is Spain’s first and only Spanish lyric theatre. The most famous Zarzuela performances have premiered here, and the best works of its repertoire are still sung and heard here to this day to audiences in excess of 1,200.Read More »Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela Invests in Robert Juliat Dalis 860 Cyclorama Lights

Alta Media Created a Digital Solution for the Ravolution Music Festival, with INFiLED Screens

In December 2023, the grand Ravolution Music Festival was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The event organizer built an incredible stage by applying a creative ProAV solution from Alta Media, including setting up large-scale INFiLED screens. The stage visuals matched the live music created by some of the most talented musicians from all around the world, leaving the attendees with an unforgettable musical experience.Read More »Alta Media Created a Digital Solution for the Ravolution Music Festival, with INFiLED Screens

Erwin Van Lokeren Evokes Powerful Images on Racoon Tour with CHAUVET Professional and Splendit

A lot can happen over two-and-a-half years, especially when you’re an award-winning band that has become a national icon. Following the pandemic, mellow rock masters Racoon embarked on an extensive tour of the Netherlands in support of their album. Being the kind of band that thrives on audience interaction, the quartet performed at a very wide variety of venues, from amphitheaters and festivals, to clubs and theatres during their busy 30-month tour. Each show had its own distinctive atmosphere, which is why Racoon’s long-time Lighting Designer, Erwin Van Lokeren created unique looks for every stop along the way.Read More »Erwin Van Lokeren Evokes Powerful Images on Racoon Tour with CHAUVET Professional and Splendit