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Freshtival took place June 3-4, 2017

PR 5000s Light Up Freshtival in The Netherlands

ENSCHEDE, The Netherlands – One of the Netherlands’ biggest dance festivals took place June 3-4 at the  during the Pentecost weekend. Freshtival provided two days of music and camping in Enschede’s Het Rutbeek recreational park — and to bring the main stage alive were no fewer than 60 of PR Lighting’s premium PR5000 Beam and Spot moving heads. Fully featured, and one of the most advanced fixtures on the market, they were largely responsible for the spectacular light show that enhanced performances by acts that included headliners Headhunterz, East & Young, Showtek and Nicky Romero. Rolight provided 60 fixtures for premier Dutch dance event

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Green Hippo Presents Demo at NEC Solutions Showcase

Green Hippo Presents Demo at NEC Solutions Showcase

LONDON, UK,– Victoria House in London’s Holborn was home to the 2017 NEC Solutions Showcase and Green Hippo’s UK team played a key role in delivering one of NEC’s sweetest exhibits to 1,500 trade visitors. A Hippotizer Boreal Media Server created a ‘virtual sweet shop’ set-up, using a total of 11 screens, three Datapath X4 video splitters, and playing back 4K video. The resulting display immediately grabbed the attention, and show visitors immediately grabbed some time with Green Hippo’s on-hand team of technical experts.

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Colour Sound Invests in AquaBeams

Colour Sound Invests in AquaBeams

UK -Colour Sound Experiment has invested in 100 new LightSky AquaBeam waterproof beam moving lights in readiness for the 2017 festival season which will see the west London based lighting and video rental specialist supply over 60 different events with equipment, design services and crew. MD Haydn Cruickshank (H) says they have been looking for a couple of years for a product that is water resistant and bright enough.

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John Mayer Tours Europe, U.K. with 40 Robe BMFL Spots

[caption id="attachment_277436" align="alignnone" width="800"]John Mayer finished his European Leg with Robe[/caption]

LONDON – Lighting designer Nathan Alves has a penchant for invention and thinking out of the box, so he has enjoyed the challenge of developing the lighting scheme for the new John Mayer “Search for Everything” world tour which just finished its UK and European leg. The set / production design created by Sam Pattinson of Treatment Studio has a strong cinematic feel and is heavily video-orientated.

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Video West Adds Tyler Truss Systems GT Truss

[caption id="attachment_277433" align="alignnone" width="720"]Tyler GT Truss arrives at Video West[/caption]

PHOENIX – Video West continues to invest in large corporate and entertainment events with their newest addition of Tyler Truss Systems. Video West invested in Tyler Truss Systems Green Truss (GT) for large corporate and entertainment events. These revolutionary truss structures allow for lighting fixtures to be pre-rigged in house before arriving on show site. By pre-rigging the lights and eliminating their bulky cases, these help save truck weight and space while also reducing set up time and labor needed on show site.

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The new truss products promise to help save truck weight and space while also reducing set up time and labor needed on show site.

Video West Adds Tyler Truss Systems Green Truss (GT) to Inventory

PHOENIX – Video West continues to invest in large corporate and entertainment events with their newest addition of Tyler Truss Systems. Video West invested in Tyler Truss Systems Green Truss (GT) for large corporate and entertainment events. These new truss structures allow for lighting fixtures to be pre-rigged in house before arriving on show site.

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Viggy Vignola

Tour Supply Opens New Nashville Headquarters to Demo and Program Turnkey Playback Rig

NASHVILLE – Tour Supply, a company dedicated to the needs of live touring musicians, noted the opening of a new Nashville headquarters for its Playback Control playback rig, in partnership with veteran audio designer, programmer, and drum/keyboard tech Viggy Vignola. Tour Supply says its new Playback Control platform is designed to allow audio, video, pyro, and lighting effects to operate automatically throughout the duration of a live show.

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Moogfest Takes Streaming to New Level with Roland Video Switchers

[caption id="attachment_277422" align="alignnone" width="1800"]Cam Carrithers mixing on the Roland VR-50HD Multi-Format AV Mixer at the Fletcher Hall Stage[/caption]

LOS ANGELES, CA,— “Moogfest celebrates the innovative collision that Bob Moog discovered long, long ago when he invented the Moog synthesizer, where art, technology, science – that creative spirit in all forms – come together.” In that one sentence, KamranV, managing partner and CTO of Moogfest, encapsulates the event. “Moogfest started in 2004 in New York City,” he elaborates, “and eventually travelled to where the Moog factory is in Asheville. Now we’re in our home here in Durham, NC. It’s about 40,000 people over the weekend from 44 different states and 22 different countries. And it grows every year. It’s really fantastic.”

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New EtherCAT Board Enhances Data Gathering Capability Of HARTING’s MICA Mini Industrial Computer

ELGIN, Il. – HARTING’s Mini-Industrial-Computer MICA®, winner of the prestigious 2016 HERMES Award for industrial innovation, now is available with an EtherCAT board, allowing data to be collected directly from industrial production networks, preprocessed and forwarded to IT systems via standard protocols such as OPC UA or MQTT. Thanks to MICA®s modular hardware concept, which allows users to incorporate individual function boards, the other advantages of this mini-industrial PC are retained, like compliance with important industrial standards.

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Destination Imagination Global Finals 2017

Destination Imagination Global Finals Returns with Bandit Lites

KNOXVILLE, TN – Destination Imagination, the non-profit organization that works to inspire and equip the world’s next generation of innovators, held their annual Global Finals event, where more than 17,000 attendees including 8,000 students from 21 countries gathered to compete. Bandit Lites provided a lighting assist with for the event, which centers on promoting logic skills and inspiring creativity, while encouraging enthusiasm in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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