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White Light Oversees Lighting Installation for Pink Floyd Exhibition at V & A Museum

[caption id="attachment_276947" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Pink Floyd Exhibition Their Mortal Remains [/caption]

LONDON – Now open at the V & A Museum, The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is the first international retrospective of one of the world’s most pioneering and influential bands. The exhibition offers an immersive and multi-sensory journey through the career of Pink Floyd, chronicling their music, design and staging, from the 1960’s through to the present day. Following the company’s work on last year’s EXHIBITIONISM, the Rolling Stone’s exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, White Light was called upon to oversee the lighting installation and supply the lighting equipment on this occasion.

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SE Systems Continue To Build GLP Inventory

[caption id="attachment_276944" align="alignnone" width="800"]SE Systems invests in more Robe Gear[/caption]

SUN VALLEY, CA– Based in Greensboro, NC, GLP partner SE Systems has recently increased its inventory of the German manufacturer’s advanced LED solutions, by adding quantities of the award-winning X4 Bar versatile battens, and investing for the first time in the GT-1 Spot/Beam hybrid. The company has vast experience, having been founded in 1973 by the highly-respected Wade ‘Cliff’ Miller, who remains sole owner to this day.

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Something’s Going On with Trace Adkins and elektraLite

[caption id="attachment_276941" align="alignnone" width="800"]elektraLite out with Trace Adkins[/caption]

GRAND RAPIDS, — Trace Adkins is currently out on a US tour through October supporting his 12th and latest studio album, Something’s Going On. Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Odyssey Lighting USA, who has worked with the country music artist since 2014, is once again supplying the lighting complement for the tour, which includes elektraLite LED fixtures as well as an Avolites lighting console.

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d3 Media Servers are the Winning Choice for Entertainment Awards Shows Worldwide

[caption id="attachment_276938" align="alignnone" width="800"]d3 Media Servers in use at the Grammy Awards[/caption]

LONDON – d3 media servers have played a major role in some of the biggest awards ceremonies around the world, including the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, 37th Annual Brit Awards, the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), 41st Laurence Olivier Awards, 37th edition Blue Dragon Awards, iHeart Radio Awards and the MTV Movie Awards.

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Acclaim Lighting AL Driver 4

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Acclaim Lighting’s AL Driver 4 is a four-channel, pulse-width-modulation (PWM) dimming driver for low-voltage LED products. Well suited for controlling Flex Spectrum, Flex II RGB and Flex Tube RGB products, AL Driver 4 controls three and four channel products with manual color settings when external DMX control is not desired. The AL Driver 4 can receive DC input from 12-24VDC and dims each channel via DMX. It controls up to 5A of multi-color LED product. It features a four-channel PWM dimming, a powerful technique for controlling analog circuits, from 0-100 percent. Operating temperatures range from 14 to 122 degrees F (-10 to 50 degrees C).

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Interior of Manchester Arena during a typical concert. The venue can accommodate 21,000; close to 20,000 had packed the arena on May 22, 2017.

Manchester Suicide Bombing Kills 23, Injures 116

MANCHESTER, U.K. – At about 10:30 p.m. local time on May 22, only about a minute after the house lights came on after Ariana Grande’s last song, a deafening explosion shook the foundations of 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena. Chaos and confusion swept through the venue and continued as parents and young attendees tried to find each other in the aftermath.

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Pablo Santiago Reflects Myriad Of Moods In “Destiny of Desire” With Rogue R2 Wash

[caption id="attachment_276930" align="alignnone" width="800"]Destiny of Desire gets assist from Chauvet Professional[/caption]

CHICAGO – Karen Zacarias’ “Destiny of Desire, An Unapologetic Telenovela in Two Acts” is aptly subtitled. The raucous, freewheeling “play within a play,” makes absolutely no apologies as it follows the lives of  two Mexican woman (one born to wealth, the other to poverty) who are switched at birth. Parodying the telenovelas commonly seen on TV, the play unabashedly takes audiences on an emotionally charged journey that is at turns, harrowing, hilarious and ultimately thought provoking. Intensifying the myriad of moods that runs through this fast-paced play is a richly textured lighting design by Pablo Santiago that features CHAUVET Professional Rogue R2 Wash fixtures.

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Inventdesign Supplies LED For The Armin Van Buuren Show

[caption id="attachment_276927" align="alignnone" width="800"]Armin Van Buuren Show gets help from Inventdesign[/caption]

AMSTERDAM, –  Armin van Buuren turned the tables on 12 and 13 May during his show ‘The Best of Armin Only’ in the Johan Cruijff Arena. For the second time in 6 months, InventDesign was the preferred party to cater the LEDs for yet another spectacular lightshow. Last October, the company catered the lights for the Amsterdam Music Festival, which also took place in the Johan Cruijff Arena. The special lightdesign, which was designed by 250K for the show, didn’t stop with an impressive stage. InventDesign provided the full length and width of the Johan Cruijff Arena with vertical and horizontal pendant LED strips, with the shortest vertical variations being at least 8 meters long.

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Arista Corporation Introduces IP Flash Caster at InfoComm

[caption id="attachment_276924" align="alignnone" width="649"]Arista IP Flash Caster[/caption]

FREMONT, CA – Arista Corporation, a leading manufacturer of video wall LCD displays, AV extenders, matrix switchers, AV MultiViewers, and related products for the AV installation and industrial markets, announces the debut of the IP Flash Caster AV Over IP signal distribution system. Featuring uncompressed 4K streaming and zero-latency AV-over-IP, the IP Flash Caster enables installers and system integrators to replace proprietary AV matrix switches with off-the-shelf Ethernet networks that deliver dramatically improved price/performance, flexibility, and scalability.

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“Tomorrow’s Technologies – Trusted Today” – EDS 2017 Recap for Harting

[caption id="attachment_276919" align="alignnone" width="460"]HARTING celebrated its partners with their annual Distribution Awards[/caption]

LAS VEGAS – HARTING held its annual Open House and Distributor Awards at the Electronics Distribution Show (EDS) on May 17th at the Mirage in Las Vegas.  This annual tradition for the company gives its distribution partners the opportunity to see how HARTING is shaping the future with their technologies.  This year the theme was “Tomorrow’s technologies trusted today”, highlighting how HARTING’s technologies make future-forward applications possible.

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Martin by HARMAN Brings a Modern Look to the Return of Love Connection on Fox Television

[caption id="attachment_276916" align="alignnone" width="800"]Love Connection uses Martin products[/caption]

LOS ANGELES—Lighting Director Matt Firestone recently installed 30 Martin VDO Sceptron LED video fixtures on the set of Love Connection, the classic 1980s-era game show which will return to television in May 2017. Airing on Fox and hosted by Andy Cohen, the reboot will feature the same familiar game format, with a completely modernized set design. Firestone used the VDO Sceptrons to create a dynamic background during specific shots when both the contestant and the host are on screen.

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