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Clare Dunn

Elite Multimedia helps make a statement for Clare Dunn

NASHVILLE,– As one of the most highly regarded songwriters today, MCA Nashville recording artist Clare Dunn is now making a name for herself on tour. Having already opened for many of country music’s biggest stars, the Colorado native has embarked on her first solo tour and production designer Mike Marcario was brought on to create a high-energy design that could accentuate the artist.  To bring the full design together, Marcario worked with Nashville-based tour provider Elite Multimedia. 

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Roland VR-4HD

Roland VR-4HD High-Definition AV Mixer

Roland’s new VR-4HD High-Definition AV Mixer is designed to serve as an easy-to-use, compact and portable AV mixer that integrates a digital audio mixer, video switcher, multi-viewer touch screen and USB video/audio streaming interface into a stand-alone device. The VR-4HD has three dedicated HDMI input connectors compatible with a variety of equipment and offering support for 1080p/1080i/720p video resolutions. A fourth input includes a scaler to support both video and computer resolutions and also supports analog RGB and component input, as well as HDMI, so older devices can be used as sources without the need for external conversion equipment. HDCP is supported for input of copy-protected content from devices such as Blu-ray disc players. The Roland VR-4HD High-Definition AV Mixer will be available in December 2016.

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Pulse Halloween

Daniel Thibault Revs Up Pulse Halloween With CHAUVET DJ Intimidators

RALEIGH, NC – The Tar Heel State’s “Research Triangle” is home to some of the leading high-tech firms in the US and three large universities (Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State), as well as a vibrant, diverse millennial population. Fused together, these ingredients have turned the area into a hotbed of electronic music.  A driving force behind this trend is Pulse EDM, a group dedicated to putting on some of the sickest (or should we say “best”) dance parties anywhere.

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Electric Forest Festival Main Stage

LD Travis Shirley Lights Main Stage of Electric Forest Festival

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ROTHBURY, MI – The annual Electric Forest Festival features jam band/EDM music on five stages at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI. But more than that, Electric Forest Festival has an experience mission: it’s to enhance the music with a multi-sensory fan experience by locating art installations throughout the (actual) forest in which the fest takes place. Lighting Designer Travis Shirley was tasked this summer (his fifth year with the festival) with lighting the festival’s Main Stage – called the Ranch Arena

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Eagle Brook Church

Eagle Brook Church Chooses ACL 360 Bar™ for Latest Design at Six Campuses

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MINNESOTA – In a unique example of an EDM-style lighting fixture in a House of Worship, Nate Nohling, Lead Lighting Designer at Eagle Brook Church, a large ministry with six campuses across Minnesota, chose 156 ACL 360 Bar™ LED battens as the staple of a new lighting design. “The number one thing I was shooting for when designing this set was impact,” Nohling explains. “I wanted to have a large quantity of fixtures that had the ability to create the impact we were looking for.”

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Gary Numan UK tour

Avolites delivers ‘full creative control’ for Gary Numan UK tour

UK – Electropop pioneer Gary Numan has completed a critically-acclaimed UK tour, with lighting designer Luke Edwards of Cue Design Ltd selecting the compact yet versatile Tiger Touch II to control the show’s stand-out visuals. “All my Gary Numan shows are very dynamic,” says Edwards. “I find Avolites products allow me to achieve that very easily. The Tiger Touch II’s intuitive functionality meant I could create a high-impact show with minimal programming time.”

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WIcreations Celebrates 10 years in Style

WIcreations Celebrates 10 years in Style

BELGIUM – Entertainment engineering specialist WIcreations celebrated its 10th birthday in style over the weekend with a large party for its many fans, friends, clients and acquaintances in home town Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. The company was founded by Hans Willems in 2006 to tackle all those challenging, crazy and innovative projects that occur in the industry … with style, flair and imagination.

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Ghent Floralien

BMFLs for Ghent Floralien

GHENT, BE. It’s not every day that the opportunity presents itself to light something completely different, so when Belgian LD Thomas Boets was asked to light four sites across the city of Ghent for their 2016 Floralien (Flower Show), a quadrennial 10 day exhibition and extravaganza of floral and plant artistry and life organized by The Ghent Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany … he jumped at the opportunity!

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SmallHD Monitors

Firmware Upgrade Adds Functionality to SmallHD Production & Studio Monitors

LOS ANGELES – SmallHD announces a free firmware update that adds an array of new features to increase the functionality of its groundbreaking line of 13”, 17”, 24” and 32” production monitors, including the HDR (high dynamic range) displays. To provide a better viewing experience, the Firmware 1.3 update adds De-Interlacer to view interlaced video in a progressive mode. It also adds V-Log and S-Log 3 DeLOG and HDR Preview support. 

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Wet

Erich Meitzner Sets Scene For Wet With CHAUVET Professional

NEW YORK – Few indie bands have broken through the buzz like Wet has. The Brooklyn-based synth pop trio had its self-titled debut EP streamed 928,000 times on Soundcloud, saw one of its songs “Don’t Want to Be Your Girl” streamed 20 million times on Spotify, and toured to sellout crowds.  Described by Billboard as “the toast of the tastemakers,” the group was pursued by a plethora of major record labels, sparking a highly publicized bidding war, before ultimately signing with Columbia.

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International Cultural Tour in Germany

Claypaky Lights Up International Cultural Tour

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POLAND – It’s been an eventful year for EVENTPRODUCTION Poland as the company took the International Festival of Language and Culture on the road to 17 different countries. Charged with handling technical production for all events, EVENTPRODUCTION’s lighting designers, Michał Mazurkiewicz and Piotr Pońsko, deployed a large number of Claypaky fixtures, chosen for their wide ranging creative options and reliability.

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