BELGIUM – Bram de Clerck has joined Robe Lighting s.r.o. as business development manager for Touring, TV & Live Events. He comes to Robe from Controllux BVBA, a distributor of professional lighting equipment with offices in the Netherlands and Belgium, and will continue to be dealing with key customers and lighting and visual designers and specifiers based in Belgium, the Netherlands and surrounding areas.
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ADELAIDE, Australia – The Adelaide Convention Centre has added to its already ample fleet of High End Systems consoles with the purchase of two Full Boar 4’s and six Road Hog 4’s, bringing their inventory to four Full Boar 4’s and ten Road Hog 4’s in total. The purchase is part of the plan for the anticipated mid-2017 opening of their new Plenary Building, a multi-purpose venue built on the site of the original 1987 Convention Centre, with a capacity of up to 3,500 seats.
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NASHVILLE – Sam Hunt’s musical career reached new heights these past couple of years with two Grammy nominations, five top 10 singles on the Hot Country Songs chart, and his first headlining tour. Lighting designer Taylor Price worked closely with production manager Graig Clinton and the artist and his management team to come up with the design. Price was given a lot of creative freedom to make this rig unique and versatile enough to work at both his headlining and supporting acts. He turned to 4Wall Nashville for an upgraded lighting package for Hunt’s 2016 tour.
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SINGAPORE—i Light Marina Bay, a light art festival, dazzled visitors to Singapore’s Marina Bay waterfront area from March 4-27 this year. A key feature was SONICtower (pictured here), an outdoor art installation by Sound Media Artist Zulkifle Mahmod (a.k.a. ZUL). SONICtower made use of a mix of Martin VDO Sceptron 10 outdoor rated LED video fixtures (30 each in 320 mm and 1000 mm), powered by a P3 PowerPort 1500 integrated power and data processor, all coordinated with a P3-200 System Controller. The outdoor lighting system included a Martin Exterior Wash 310 quad color LED (RGBW) programmed with a M2GO controller.
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BENSENVILLE, IL- ILC hosted its annual charity golf outing on July 21, with more than 60 golfers joined ILC’s staff, raising $10,000 for Behind the Scenes. Event sponsors included: Phillips Vari-Lite, A.C.T. Lighting, Ketra, High End Systems, Martin Professional, Elation Professional, Electronic Theater Controls, KSA Lighting, Lex Products, Navigator Systems, A.C. Lighting, Vistage Worldwide and Apollo Design Technology.
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NASHVILLE – Pennington Entertainment, led by industry veteran Shawn Pennington, announced a partnership with stage design and production company 44 Designs, headed by concert and event production pro Jeff “Lava” Lavallee.
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MANCHESTER, UK – The Lowry, a venue located in the Manchester area launched its first festival of arts, Week 53, from April 28 to May 8. The 11-day festival, which brought together contemporary dance, visual arts, music and theatre in interactive installations, exhibitions and performances, featured more than 200 international artists, and will be held annually for the next three years with a view to extend into the future. A recently purchased ATMe haze generator joined The Lowry’s 15-year old MDG Atmosphere unit.
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HONG KONG – Stage Tech Limited, a Hong Kong-based production company, has been using truss products from Milos for a variety of custom projects, fulfilling their stated promise to clients of “highlighting your ideas, enchanting your guests and making special occasions even more memorable.” In particular, they have used the Milos M400 range of truss for a variety of custom installations in public places within Hong Kong. Among their many creations is a hanging sculpture in Pacific Place shopping mall for its 25th Anniversary celebration and a hanging goat display at the PMQ Goat ARTventure exhibition gallery.
Chauvet Professional’s Strike 1, which follows the company’s launch for its Strike 4 multi format warm white fixture, is a single pod light that can be used anywhere as a blinder, strobe, wash and flood fixture. It uses a 230W warm white LED source for an even brighter and more intense output than each of the four pods within the Strike 4 unit (each of which are 100W). The Strike 1 is also rated for indoor and outdoor use.
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LAS VEGAS – Electric Daisy Carnival is one of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in the world. The June 2016 Las Vegas event generated more than 400,000 “turnstyle clicks” with attendance ranging from 130,000 to 135,000 for each of three nights starting on the evenings of June 17-19, 2016. The crowds were drawn with top EDM DJs, carnival rides, art and circus-style performances. Felix Lighting helped EDC celebrate its 20th anniversary (and sixth Las Vegas event) with a large complement of MDG fog generators, Clay Paky lighting fixtures and grandMA2 lighting consoles at its flagship Las Vegas Motor Speedway venue. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of the three brands in North America.
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Roland Pro A/V is introducing a new application for its XS-Series Matrix Switchers for use as high-quality, pixel-accurate cropping switcher/scalers for LED video walls. The XS-Series can switch eight HDMI or analog video inputs to up to four LED video walls, each with their own independent aspect ratio and scaling settings.
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Chauvet Professional’s Maverick series, including the MK2 Wash, MK1 Hybrid and MK2 Spot, Includes a W-DMX receiver card in every fixture as a standard feature.
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