MEXICO CITY — The lighting crew for Ricky Martin’s latest tour are making good use of the pixel-mapping capabilities of Chauvet Professional’s Nexus 4×4 and Next NXT-1 panel fixtures. The Nexus panels are arrayed in various-sized wall configurations upstage; the Next NXT-1 panels are used with the geometric overhead truss.
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ETC says its ColorSource PAR LED luminaire uses a proportionate blend of red, green, blue and lime LED emitters to produce a richer, more natural and consistent light output than other budget LED fixtures. Along with the color calibration that ETC does on all its LED luminaires, the company is touting its round-the-clock customer and technical support.
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LONDON — LD Nick Gray of Renegade provided five different lighting designs for five distinctive architectural spaces during the most recent London Fashion Week (SS15), held Sept. 12-16. He used gear provided by Neg Earth, Panalux and White Light. For the Anja Hindmarch show, pictured here, Gray used Martin MAC Viper Wash DX fixtures fitted with UV filters.
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Analog Way’s AW Toolbox is a mobile app designed to control the LiveCore series of presentation mixers. The wireless app lets users fine-tune any multi-projector Soft Edge Blend, recall presets and master presets and configure the processor’s inputs and outputs, all via WiFi. The company has also released a series of free tools including AW Gateway, AW Screen Frame Cutter and AW EDID Editor.
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LONDON — Creative Technology’s London operation announce the expansion of its account management team with the return of Mick Jones. Jones, a 27-year AV industry veteran, started his career at Mediatech AV in the late 1980s and most recently worked for Chaos Visual Productions. He worked previously for CT in the late 1990s.
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LAS VEGAS – For the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival, staged in the MGM Grand here Sept. 19-20, LD Tom Kenny specified more than 500 Robe moving lights, provided by VER. The event, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, featured performances by Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Usher, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris, Bastille and others.
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NEW YORK, NY – An estimated crowd of more than 400,000 converged in New York City for the People’s Climate March, just a few days before the United Nations’ Climate Summit. Upstage Video partnered with event organizers to be the sole provider of Mobile LED screens and live camera production for the massive march.
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MORRISON, CO — Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre here with a lighting rig from Thornton, CO-based Brown Note Productions that included 22 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 LED-based moving lights controlled by a grandMA2 with NPU. The band’s LD, Saxton Waller, is also including the fixtures, sourced via A.C.T Lighting, in STS9’s fall touring rig.
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READING and LEEDS, U.K. — U.K.-based indie rockers The Courteeners headlined the NME and Radio One stages for this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals. Their LD, Dan Hill, specified a rig of Robe moving lights for the band, performing in support of their new studio album, Concrete Love. Siyan provided the gear for both events.
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