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Ultra Music Festival 2017 - Carl Cox Megastructure. Photo by Adam Kaplan

Three Classic EDM Stages at 2017 Ultra Music Festival Lit with Elation Fixtures

MIAMI — With names like Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Carl Cox, Alesso and David Guetta consistently on the marquee, Ultra cemented its place as the world’s premier electronic music festival years ago. The elaborate production that backs the performances is just as impressive. Three of the festival’s classic EDM stages — the Carl Cox Megastructure (pictured here), Main Stage and Worldwide/Midpark Stage — relied heavily on Elation Professional lighting fixtures to deliver extra visual impact.

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Laserworld Rti NEO 1

Laserworld RTI Neo One

Laserworld says the concept behind the new RTI Neo One laser unit is to provide professional productions with a modular laser effect that can be controlled via DMX and Art-Net; no other control system is required.

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Prolyte launched BGR70 truss at PL+S 2017

Prolyte Group’s BGR70 Truss, Launched in Frankfurt, Headed to Untold Festival, Other Gigs

CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania — Prolyte Group is reporting strong demand for its BGR70 truss, noting that the massive truss will be used as mainstage support at the Untold festival in Romania this summer, set for Cluj-Napoca, Romania in early August. The Untold festival takes place across various locations in the city, including the impressive 30,000 seat Cluj Arena stadium.

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Entertainment Structural Products EuroPick

ESP EuroPick

Entertainment Structural Products’ (ESP) new EuroPick is made for use with continuously webbed 290mm by 50mm box and tri-truss. The billet machined aluminum body is designed to be strong yet light, and the product can be positioned anywhere along the length of the truss in conventional topside, bottomside, right side up, or upside down in the crank stand configuration (with SAS crankstand adapter). All this functionality is enabled by slim hardened tool-steel clamps and aircraft quality spherical rod-ends, making installation a snap. The product is competitively priced with slings, and ESP-KNX promises their product is bound to improve your shows and your life.

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Elton John at Caesars, image courtesy d3 Technologies

Illness Forces Elton John to Cancel Shows in NV, CA

LAS VEGAS — Elton John is recuperating in the U.K. after a bout with an unspecified illness that required a temporary hospital stay following his shows in South America, according to reports. A string of seven Million Dollar Piano shows slated for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from April 25-May 4, plus a May 6 concert in Bakersfield, CA, were canceled.

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Blizzard 3.9mm IRiS R3

Blizzard 3.9mm IRiS R3

Blizzard Lighting’s newest product series, IRiS™ professional video products, featuring the IRiS™ R3 LED video panel. This product is an ETL listed professional video panel ideal for either indoor rental or permanent installations. Each panel features 128×128 resolution (16,384 pixel), high-contrast 3-in-1 SMD2121 blackbody LEDs for vivid colors and wide gamut. IRiS R3 features 3.9mm pixel pitch, 1200nits brightness and 1920Hz refresh rate for eye and camera appeal.

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Photo courtesy WorldStage

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Features Immersive Social Media Environment with Assist from WorldStage

NEW YORK — WorldStage provided an extensive media-server driven video package for the Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which relies on the technology to tell the story of a high school senior coping with social anxiety disorder.  Before it opened on Broadway’s Music Box Theatre in Dec. 2016, the show was performed Off-Broadway. The musical premiered in July 2015 in Washington, DC. WorldStage supported those productions as well.

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