SIAULIAI, Lithuania – W-DMX recently took control at the 5th TAFISA World Sport for All Games held in Siauliai, Lithuania. SSGPRO supplied the lighting rig, choosing W-DMX for various reasons. Mr. Viktoras of SSGPRO said, “Using W-DMX saved us a lot of time during setup and programming – using cables was not an option.”
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LONG MARSTON, UK – Martin Professional’s M1 lighting controller was used to control a large moving head rig on the main stage at the 2012 Global Gathering festival at England’s Long Marston Airfield in late July. Festival lighting operator André Beekmans of The Art of Light used the Martin console on Friday for top acts such as headliner Afrojack, for which he is also the LD.
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HOF, Germany — Working with Soundhouse, Tait Technologies is providing staging and automation support for Helene Fisher’s current tour, which began here Sept. 18. Tait provided the main stage, a hydraulic 12.4-meter lifting arm and three lifts controlled by Tait’s Navigator automation system. Tait project manager Matthew Hales noted that the tour serves as an example of how the company can reconfigure existing staging and automation elements to create a fresh new look without breaking a tour’s budget.
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SURREY, UK – displayLED has opened The Pixel Depot, a showroom and resource featuring innovative LED products from leading manufacturers. The Pixel Depot opened this September at the company’s headquarters near Dorking, Surrey. Products on display include solid LED modules and tiles, creative and flexible displays, mesh/curtain products, video controllers, content management software and an LED dance floor. They’re also showing digiLED product applications, including the use of wearable LED and incorporation into objects such as a piano, as used by a leading US performer.
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NELSPRUIT, South Africa – Robe moving lights were at the hub of the lighting action for a Main Stage design by Johan Ferreira from JSF Productions at the 2012 Innibos Festival in South Africa. The organizers wanted to up the ante on the look and feel of the event – and in particular the Main Stage – so Ferreira set about designing looks with a theatrical feel. This was his seventh year to design the lighting.
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LONDON – Word leaked out during the recent PLASA trade show in London that the SGM R&D team had been developing radically different LED Spot, Wash and Beam fixtures. SGM’s Head of R&D Peter Johansen came clean about it, saying that the G-Wash and G-Beam will, of course, be joined by the G-Spot. The range is set for an April 2013 release at the Prolight + Sound Show in Frankfurt.
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LONDON — The fifth annual Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI), organized by Clay Paky, the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and the Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), honored the U.K. LDs who created the most distinctive looks for live events and TV.
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LONDON – London’s Royal National Theatre has three theatres under its control. It recently invested in two new 8-channel Kinesys DigiHoist controllers to upgrade its existing system at its Cottesloe Theatre venue. The sale follows on from the purchase of a 21-channel Kinesys Elevation 1+ motor system, which is used regularly across its two other venues, the Olivier and Lyttelton Theatres. The National Theatre’s Rigging Resources Supervisor, Matthew Wheeler, specified the purchase.
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