LONDON – Colour Sound Experiment supplied gear for Secret Garden Party (SGP), which drew 30,000 to Mill Hill Field in Cambridgeshire July 23-26. Jonathan Ricketts, Head of Lighting for SGP’s production team, The Dark Horses, included 18 Clay Paky Sharpys in the Great Stage’s lighting rig. Pictured here, Jungle performs.
MIDDLETON, WI – Undergoing a planned phase of strategic growth, ETC in Middleton, Wisconsin has surpassed a significant milestone this summer, employing more than 1,000 people worldwide.
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PixelFLEX is expanding its FLEXUltra product line with 1.6mm, 1.9mm, and 1.9mm front-serviceable LED video panels. Designed for the permanent installation market, the FLEXUltra product line promises stunning high-resolution and curve-able LED displays that allow designers and engineers to easily create exciting and unique environments.
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MONTREAL – The Duceppe theater company staged Judy Garland, la fin d’une étoile, a French language adaptation of Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow, which focusing on the last months of actress Judy Garland’s life, in Montreal from April 8 to May 16. Set designer Olivier Landreville required custom carpet to showcase Garland’s performance in a hotel suite, where a piano would sit. He turned to Vincent Rousselle, Duceppe’s technical director, for an assist, and Rousselle found a custom printed carpet solution from Enhance a Colour.
Read More »AUSTIN, TX – SHS Global announced that Tony Magaña joined the company as head of new business development, both for SHS Global and partner company TourPro Lighting. CEO and founder, Leigh Anne Aiken, made the announcement. Magaña comes to SHS with extensive experience in the entertainment and specification lighting industry working for over 25 years with manufactures both in the US and Mexico. He’s most recently held senior sales management positions with d3 and Barco.
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The new COLORado 1 Solo from Chauvet Professional uses a 60-watt Quad-Color (red, green, blue white) LED with output that appears as a single beam, hence the “Solo” in its name. It was designed for a wide range of applications, indoors or out. This IP65-rated par-style wash fixture will be unveiled by the company at LDI Booth #539.
BIRMINGHAM, MI – Emagine Entertainment’s recently opened Emagine Palladium theatre features a Christie Experiential Networks (CEN) immersive digital signage installation in the lobby. It’s part of CEN’s nationwide rollout that is due to have 200 theatre lobbies in North America equipped with immersive visuals by the end of this year.
Martin’s RUSH MH 6 Wash, which is based on the popular RUSH PAR 2 RGBW Zoom featuring the same LED engine and zoom system, is now shipping. Well suited for night venues and live events, the RUSH MH 6 Wash offers a fully pre-mixed color system of 12 10W RGBW LEDs with 10–60° zoom. It also features full electronic dimming, strobe effects and temperature-controlled fan cooling for quiet operation.
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Chauvet DJ’s LDI Booth #439 will feature a diverse array of products, from easy-to-use plug-and-play effects that require no technical experience, to DMX-compatible fixtures that give you the option of programming your own customized lightshows. Pictured here is Chauvet DJ’s D-Fi USB transceiver, which eliminates the need for any DMX cables.
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Middle Atlantic Products is demonstrating its Select Series UPS at CEDIA EXPO 2015. This collection of UPS products features compact form factors and IP capability, and joins the company’s Premium Series UPS products for an expanded portfolio of solutions that meet varying price points, space requirements, and system capabilities.
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BREGENZ, Austria – The LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2015) drew 1,400 around the world to Bregenz, Austria from Sept. 22-24 to discuss and learn about all things LED.
SAN ANTONIO, TX – When Community Bible Church undertook a multi-million dollar technical renovation of its main 3,500-seat auditorium, it called on the integration division of Morris in Nashville to install new audio, video and lighting systems. Morris added Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 and Mythos lighting fixtures and an MDG ATMe hazer to take Community Bible to the next level with moving lights and atmospheric effects. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and MDG products in North America.
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