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Painting With Light Illuminates the Spektakel Musical

MECHELEN, Belgium – Painting With Light provided the lighting for Spektakel Musical, which commemorates the death and destruction of the First World War which started a century ago in 1914. Virtual wing space with light curtains were created to conceal mobile scenery trucks offstage. The same concept is used to mask off different depths along the performance space as the location of the action shifts up and down the hall. There is a left and right vertical light curtain and four horizontal ones made up from a total of 465 Vari*Lite V*L5s and 28 bars of four ACLs.

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The Prodigy at Sonisphere Lit with HSL-supplied Gear

STEVENAGE, U.K. – Lighting rental company HSL supplied an extensive lighting package – including 140 new Philips Nitro LED strobes along with 60 Robe LEDBeam 100s – for the Prodigy at Sonisphere 2014, which was held in Knebworth Park here this year. The lighting rig, which includes  complements the “aircraft hangar” look created by show designer Andy Hurst. He also deployed that look for the band’s New Years Eve show at London’s O2 Arena earlier this year.

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Third Eye Blind Rocks with Clay Paky and grandMA2 on Festival Tour

As Third Eye Blind hits the road across America, Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20 lights and a grandMA2 light console are hitting the road with them.  LD Mitchell Schellenger created a look that echoes the sunset set times of some of their gigs.  “The B-EYEs have a nice big head so their look is perfect for our sunset theme,” Schellenger says.  “The show color scheme starts more bright CTO Amber and works its way toward a deeper orange.  The B-EYEs’ awesome effects give the show the ability to progress visually through that minimal color scheme.” 

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GLP Impression X4 Rises Up for Tim McGraw

For Tim McGraw’s Sundown Heaven Town 2014 tour, production designer Baz Halpin created a set “moving away from the traditional imagery of country music and into something more modern looking.” To implement this, lighting director Pat Brannon selected 134 of GLP’s impression X4 LED moving heads to create a highly imaginative lighting dynamic.

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World Cup Viewing Party in Germany Lit with Elation Fixtures

NUREMBERG, Germany – Some 20,000 soccer fans celebrated Germany’s victory over Argentina in the World Cup final at an open-air viewing party near Nuremberg Airport here July 13. Event technology supplier sld mediatec, based here, provided LD Sebastian Gross with Elation Platinum Beam 5R Extreme and Platinum Spot 35 Pro moving heads, Rayzor Q7 LED moving heads, Design Beam 1200C and Design Spot 575 moving heads, ELED Tri Par 56 LED par lights and white light TVL 3000-II DWs.

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Arcade Fire's Reflektor tour

As Arcade Fire Reflektor Tour Ends, LD Chris Bushell Credits Avo Gear

LONDON – Faced with delivering a complex show design capable of fitting into every kind of venue, LD Chris Bushell turned to Avolites’ Sapphire Touch console for Arcade Fire’s Reflektor tour. He explains, “I needed a console that would allow me to recreate my design as quickly and efficiently as possible in each space. Luckily the Avolites Sapphire Touch not only manages to do what all other desks do, but it’s also packaged in a much easier to access and more intuitive platform, which means I can focus on the creative side of my job rather than the number crunching aspect.”

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