AUSTIN – Together with High End Systems, LightConverse is issuing an invitation for participants in their 2016 Lighting Challenge. Entries are accepted throughout the month of March and winners will be featured at Prolight + Sound in early April. The top prize: a High End HedgeHog4 X console and LightConverse Unlimited software.
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NASHVILLE — Ted Emmit Mellencamp, 62, died March 4, 2016 at his home in Nashville, surrounded by family. He was a tour manager for his older brother John Mellencamp and other well-known artists.
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The new Mobile Beat MAX MK2 from X-Laser is designed to help mobile entertainers craft aerial beam shows and graphics displays at gigs of up to 1,000 people. Capable projecting impressive graphics precisely, even at distances up to 100 feet, the . For total creative control, the Mobile Beat MAX MK2 offers ILDA input and DMX input and output along with its 12-channel DMX capabilities.
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CHICAGO — Hard rock band Disturbed returned to the stage after a lengthy hiatus with a show last August at the House of Blues in Chicago. It heralded the band’s sixth studio album, Immortalized, released the same day. This year, the hard rock band has embarked on its first world tour in five years, hitting 60 cities in the U.S., Canada and Europe and teaming up with co-headliners Rob Zombie and Breaking Benjamin along the way. LD Matt Mills, who worked with the bands’ last tour in 2011, deployed a Christie Lites rig centering on Martin fixtures — MAC Quantum Washes, MAC Viper Profiles and Atomic 3000 LEDs — along with High End Systems ShapeShifters.
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NAPLES, Italy – After Le voci di dentro, the Servillo brothers have chosen the Teatro Bellini to bring their latest creation, La Parola Canta, to Naples. It is a concert, a recital and a festival – skillfully illuminated by Clay Paky – made up of music, poetry and songs which celebrate Naples: the eternal magic of its living tradition, and the importance of the fusion of different epochs and the widest possible participation in culture.
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MANNHEIM, Germany – For Germany artist Sido’s “SIDO VI” tour, Günter Jäckle and Friederike Krauch came up with the stage and lighting design for the tour, using 24 Clay Paky Mythos units, two full-size grandMA2s and one VPU plus MK2 (video processing unit). Photographer Ralph Larmann took these shots at the SAP Arena in Mannheim in late November; the tour ran through the big show in Berlin Dec. 7, 2015.
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NASHVILLE – For the University of Tennessee’s first ‘State of the University’ event at St. Thomas West Hospital, Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the event at no cost in an ongoing effort to give back to its local community. Bandit provided LED pars and complemented the auditorium’s house rig for the event.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Along with plans to give USITT attendees a close look at product innovations such as the ETC Source 4WRD LED unit, pictured with a Source Four fixture here, ETC has big plans to celebrate their 40th anniversary at USITT with other recent product introductions, such as the company’s latest additions to its ColorSource product line, ETC’s new Irideon FPZ framing projector, and a sneak peek at a forthcoming expansion of the company’s control offerings. The latter brings the company full circle, in a way, because the company got its start with a control product back in 1975.
Read More »ORLANDO – Alcorn McBride, Inc. marked its 30th anniversary by celebrating its position as the leading manufacturer of show control, audio and video equipment for the theme park industry. The company got its start by founder and CEO Steve Alcorn in 1986 after his experiences working on behalf of Disney World’s EPCOT helped inspire the launch of the company. Prior to the company’s launch, Alcorn served as vice president of engineering for Linn Electronics, an electronic musical instrument manufacturer. The company is now based in Orlando, FL.
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MACAU, China – Mojo Barriers supplied a variety of barrier products for the front of stage and front of house production areas, for the European leg and two Asian tour dates of Madonna’s Rebel Heart World Tour. Rebel Heart Tour is the tenth worldwide tour from Madonna and supports the release of her 13th studio album of the same name. The tour kicked off Sept. 9, 20165 in Montreal, Canada and ran for six months, visiting 22 countries worldwide. Mojo Barriers was contracted to ensure audience and artist safety for all of Madonna’s 25 European tour dates, as well as at her shows in Taipei and Macau, which both took place in February 2016.
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TULSA, OK – Tim Ottley, Lighting Director for Asbury United Methodist Church, Tulsa, has been using ArKaos’ MediaMaster PRO on an ArKaos PRO Stadium Server to create immersive projection mapping visuals within the interior of the church. Working with a graphic designer, Jason Yang, of Invisible Element, Ottley created an animated narrative of the Easter story as an introduction to the service that followed.
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