FLORENCE, Italy – The Showlight Quadrennial, slated for May 20-23, 2017, is now inviting lighting designers and directors, associates, programmers, scenographers, equipment manufacturers and others to submit their ideas for conference papers for the 2017 program. Clay Paky is the event’s main sponsor.
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Blizzard Lighting’s ProPar Z19, featuring a 5° to 60° degree zoomable beam angle, is availble in two versions – the CWWW and the RGBW. The CWWW features WW/CW white balance color mixing via 19 15W Osram LEDs. The RGBW version, with 19 15W 4-in-1 Osram LEDs, can be used for RGBW color mixing via DMX or in standalone mode.
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Martin’s M-Series software, version 3.5, includes the 2D Plan tool, which simplifies lighting fixture selection by using a topographic representation of the fixtures. It allows multiple fixture layouts to be stored and recalled at any time.
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ROME – For a revival of Vacanze Romane (Roman Holiday) at the Teatro Sistina in Rome, LD Francesco Adinolfi used various Clay Paky fixtures, including Alpha Profile 800 STs, Alpha Profile 1500 STs and Glow-up Strip 100 LED bars (pictured here).
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MILAN, Italy – Entertainer Angelo Pintus entertained audiences in Italy last year with humor and music. A lighting design by Gianluca Brunelli enhanced the shows with a rig that included Clay Paky Sharpys.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites added to the Clay Paky fixtures in its inventory with its recent acquisition of Mythos and Spheriscan fixtures. LDs Mike Swinford and Nick Whitehouse are using Mythos fixtures for Jason Aldean and Thomas Rhett, respectively. LD Butch Allen has also been using Bandit-supplied Spheriscan fixtures (pictured here).
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PROVIDENCE, RI – Luis Vargas has been bringing the Bachata beat to venues far from his homeland in Dominican Republic, expanding its popularity to a crossover crowd with his performances on electric guitar. At the Roxy venue in Providence, RI, LD Cody James recently used Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional to light Vargas’ show.
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MIAMI — The sold-out Madness Fall Tour by Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer, The Weeknd, in support of his third studio album, Beauty Behind the Madness, featured a set and lighting design by LeRoy Bennett of Seven Design Works. It incorporated more than 650 lighting fixtures from Ayrton — including ‘every available IntelliPix-R fixture on the planet’ – for Bennett’s multi-faceted looks.
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Canada – The Beaux-Arts façade of the Toronto Power Generating Station, a building that dates from 1906 and is now owned by the Niagara Parks Commission, got a wash of color during the recent Niagara Winter Festival of Lights event from Chroma-Q Color One 100 IP65-rated LED PARs.
Read More »LONDON – Sound Space Design and Anne Minors Performance Consultants are teaming up to form Sound Space Vision. The move formalizes their longstanding working relationship and will continue to build on their combined experience in performance, education and assembly spaces, as well as broadening their reach within the built environment.
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ORLANDO – Alcorn McBride will introduce VPage and announce the official release of WinScript Live 4.0 at ISE 2016 at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Center, February 9-12, 2016. WinScript Live 4.0 is for Alcorn McBride’s V16 Pro (pictured here), V4 Pro and VCore show controllers. Alcorn McBride will be exhibiting at stand 1-N95.
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