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Passaic County Technical Institute Goes LED with Philips Strand Retrofit

Passaic County Technical Institute Goes LED with Philips Strand Retrofit

WAYNE, NJ – The Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI), an award-winning high school with a 200 course curriculum which includes their School of Performing Arts, upgraded its theatre facility recently with a Philips Strand Lighting retrofit installation that included PLFRESNEL1 and PLPROFILE4 LED luminaires along with a NEO lighting control console, Vision.net Touchscreens, an A21 Dimming System, and CD80SV Retrofit Dimmer Modules.

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d3 Technologies Names Matthew Cotter Technical Sales Specialist. Cotter is pictured here (at right) with Hans Beijer.

d3 Technologies Names Matthew Cotter Technical Sales Specialist

LOS ANGELES – d3 Technologies named Matthew Cotter Technical Sales Specialist based on the U.S. West Coast.  Cotter has been a lighting director and media programmer for the past 15 years, primarily working in television and on theme park spectaculars.  He shared an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series” with his colleagues for “Dancing with the Stars” in 2014.

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String Cheese Incident Tours with Robe BMFLs. Photo by Dave Vann

String Cheese Incident Tours with Robe BMFLs

DENVER – Lighting designer and programmer Andrew Cass has been a fan of the famously multi genre blues-rock-jam band String Cheese Incident (SCI) from Colorado since his schooldays. In April 2014 he was lucky enough to land himself in the hot-seat of designing their lighting – a long term dream job he absolutely loves.

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Saxton Waller lit STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9)

LD Saxton Waller Lights Sound Tribe Sector 9 with Clay Paky B-EYE K10s and K20s

LOS ANGELES – When STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) began its U.S. fall tour, LD Saxton Waller decided to add Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s to the B-EYE K10 rig he deployed for the band’s 2014 tour, which included their sold-out concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.  Waller obtained the Clay Paky B-EYES and a full-size grandMA2 console from Brown Note Productions, Inc., in Thornton, CO, which has been working with STS9 for the last 10 years.

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Squeek Lights' looks

Squeek Lights Creates Two Shows from One Chauvet Rig for Senses Fail and Silverstein

NEW YORK – Squeek Lights LD Victor Zeiser provided Chauvet Professional fixtures for a tour featuring two hard-rocking bands – Senses Fail and Silverstein. Pooling their resources, the two bands were able to tour with an impressive visual design. Zeiser’s Chauvet-centered rig included six Nexus 4×1 linear COB LED fixtures, 12 Rogue R2 Washes, 10 Rogue R1 Spots and 16 Shocker 90IRC par style fixtures. 

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More than 270 attended.

Clay Paky, Stonex Host Seminar with LDs Al Gurdon and Peter Canning

MADRID – Clay Paky and by its Spanish distributor Stonex hosted a seminar at the Matadero de Madrid featuring the concepts of lighting designers Al Gurdon and Peter Canning, who have lit shows including the Eurovision song contest, the halftime entertainment shows of the NFL’s Superbowl and the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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