ZURICH, Switzerland — Drawing close to 950,000 people, the Zurich Street Parade 2013 featured nearly 200 DJs performing on 30 trucks and eight large-scale stages. Along with such headliners as Bob Sinclar, Westbam, Nicky Romero and NERVO, the event featured Laserworld AG’s laser shows from three stages. Laserworld used Wireless Solution Sweden’s W-DMX for its peripheral systems including smoke and haze machines.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The 65th Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA), held here from Sept. 10 to 22, 2013, included new Audi, BMW, Mini, Opel, Porsche, Seat and Volkswagen autos, all lit by more than 2,000 Robe LEDWash fixtures from different German lighting rental companies.
Read More »EAST LONDON, UK – Lighting design and rental company Siyan chose Avolites consoles for the Lovebox performances at Victoria Park here this summer. This year Siyan provided Sapphire Touch and Tiger Touch Pro for the main and second stages, respectively.
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ROSKILDE, Denmark — The Roskilde Music Festival, a summer tradition since the 1970s, this year featured Metallica on the festival’s Orange stage and also included performances by top acts ranging from Rihanna to Slipknot. LD Kasper Lange lit the Orange Stage with a variety of fixtures from Harman’s Martin business unit.
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SINGAPORE — The Star Performing Arts Centre (The Star PAC), which opened in November 2012, includes a 5,000-seat theater, a multipurpose hall, an outdoor amphitheater, rooftop reception areas, and supporting spaces of varying sizes. ETC’s lighting control systems and fixtures can be found throughout the complex.
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NEW DELHI, India — The lighting director for the Guru Tegh Bahadur Memorial here worked with PR Lighting’s distributor for India, Modern Stage Service, and its designer, Varinder Wadhwa on a lighting scheme for the attraction that incorporates PR Lighting’s XR300 Beam and PR-8802 fixtures.
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NAPLES, Italy — For Mishima, a choreographic installation designed by Brazilian artist Ismael Ivo on the troubled, triumphant and tragic life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, LD Marco Policastro provided a lighting design that incorporated Clay Paky Alpha Profile fixtures.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Lollapalooza, which ventured from Chicago’s Grant Park to Santiago, Chile in 2011 and Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2012, returned to the Jockey Club in Sao Paulo for the last three days in March, 2013. Electra Light and LPL Lighting Productions set up an on-site custom 3D visualization studio with all three main stages virtually replicated in LightConverse for the benefit of visiting LDs.
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