U.K. – Leading UK lighting rental company Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting – including over 300 moving lights – to the four principal stages at brand new UK festival Wild Life, together with their brand new high definition proprietary 7 mm LED screen for one stage.
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NASHVILLE, TN – Lighting designers often like to talk about how they capture music in light, but Chris Lisle has taken this concept a step further on the Chase Rice tour. The well-known Nashville LD, who’s done standout work for the likes of Miranda Lambert, One Republic and Robert Plant, wove images of music and light together in dramatic fashion for the up-and-coming country star by converting faux guitar cabinets into lighting effects, courtesy of 16 Nexus Aw 7×7 LED panels from CHAUVET Professional provided by 4Wall Nashville.
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PANAMA CITY, Panama – Chauvet Professional COLORado fixtures were commissioned to for the lighting array at the seventh Summit of the Americas.
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LAS VEGAS – Cory FitzGerald of Seven Design Works included Ayrton’s new MagicDot-R fixtures in the rig for the Rock in Rio festival staged in Las Vegas in May. The fixtures from the French manufacturer, which were making their U.S. debut via distributor Morpheus Lights, added to the visual impact of sets by Bruno Mars and other artists. Mars’ headlining performance brought the festival to a spectacular close, with 184 of the new fixtures adding to the visual impact of the show.
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Canada & U.S. – U.K. instrumentation specialist Mantracourt Electronics has announced the appointment of Paradigm Rigging as Technical Partner for the supply of its BroadWeigh™ wireless load monitoring equipment to the Canadian and United States entertainment sector.
Read More »GOA, India – Visualization pioneer Barco hosted its Entertainment & Corporate partner event in India on 25 and 26 June. Over seventy business partners gathered in Goa to get a bird’s eye view of the latest developments in entertainment and corporate visualization.
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DETROIT, MI – Burst, a full service, professional sound and lighting company based in Detroit, has named Steven Fitzgerald to the newly created position of vice president of sales. The announcement was made by Scott Ciungan, owner of Burst.
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LOS ANGELES — When the script calls for a SWAT searchlight in the city’s night sky, you can pay big bucks to hire a full-sized helicopter and invite the wrath of angry neighbors complaining about the noise as it flies overhead for repeated takes. Or you could find an alternate solution, like film LD Matt Ardine, who used Philips Vari-Lite’s 1200W VL4000 Spot fixture to simulate the SWAT copter’s beam for a recent three-day video shoot in Los Angeles.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors announced that one of the visionaries of the modern music festival, Kevin Lyman, will serve as host/MC for the 2015 Parnelli Awards. The award show takes place at the Rio Resort and Casino on Saturday, Oct 24. Considered the “Grammys for Live Events,” it celebrates and honors those in lighting, audio, video, staging and all related professionals involved in putting on concert tours and live events.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan – The inaugural European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes devised by the European Olympic Committee took place in Azerbaijan’s ancient city Baku in June and featured 6,000 athletes from 50 countries. Creative Technology’s Sports Technology provided the entire AV infrastructure for the 20 competition venues and media/athlete areas.
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BRIGHTON, MI — For a Brighton High School performance of the Tony Award-winning musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It, the school’s Musical Theater troupe benefited from Chroma-Q Color Force 12 multi-purpose LED fixtures specified by lighting sales and production company E2i Design.
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