MIAMI – Clay Paky lighting – including the US debut of the Sharpy Wash 330 – and a grandMA2 console performed at the 15th annual Ultra Music Festival (UMF) in Miami’s Bayfront Park. LD Stephen Lieberman spec’d the equipment to help in the Carl Cox Mega Structure, a tent-like environment purpose-built for the high-energy festival to showcase DJs and artists on stage and shelter legions of dancing fans.
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AMHERST, MA – Etesian Technologies manufactures wireless and self-powered wind speed anemometers. By virtue of a small self-contained internal generator, the anemometer provides its own… Read More »Etesian Technologies Wind Sensors for Outdoor Staging
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LAKE ORION, MI – High Resolution Systems, developers of the UDC (Universal Device Controller) software, announces UDC Timecode, a new feature in the Protocol Translation portion of the UDC Pro Plus package. UDC Timecode enables users to sync UDC control with external timecode or turn UDC in to a timecode generator itself.
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PARK CITY, UT – Sundance Film Festival organizers commissioned Klip Collective to create the 3-D projection mapping display for the venue’s exterior during their recent event. Klip Creative Director Ricardo Rivera envisioned a “man vs. machine” Steampunk-styled vignette entitled and inspired by the Tom Waits song “What’s He Building in There.” To fulfill the technical demands of the concept, Sundance Film Festival used Barco’s HDX-W18 large-venue projectors to present the show.
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AABYHOEJ, Denmark – When production designer Baz Halpin of Silent House found features he liked with SGM’s new XC-5 LED strobes, he tried them out during rehearsals for P!ink’s world tour and has since chosen them for Taylor Swift’s tour as well. PRG is supplying the fixtures for both artists.
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GUANGZHOU, China – PR Lighting has promoted two sales staff members to help with its expansion across the globe. Anna Zhang has been promoted to sales manager of the Americas, while Mary Ma moves up to sales assistant supervisor.
Read More »ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD — FiberPlex, a provider of secure AV communications technologies, named Cardone, Solomon & Associates as its representatives in the New England and… Read More »FiberPlex Names Cardone, Solomon & Associates to Represent its Fiber Optic Line
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PHOENIX – Clearwing Productions Arizona is now an Authorized Vari-Lite Service Center. Clearwing Service Technician, Andrew Witte is certified in the VLX, 500, 800, 1000,… Read More »Clearwing Now an Authorized Vari-Lite Service Center
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LOS ANGELES – LD Tom Kenny added Clay Paky’s Sharpy fixtures to his dynamic lighting mix on The Who’s North American tour, ‘Quadrophenia and More.’ He says he used the Sharpys’ effects to “sculpt the stage show and add drama, dimension and high impact architecture to the multimedia set.”
Read More »SAN ANTONIO — Thomas Dean Williams, 44, died April 5 after falling between 70 and 100 feet, according to local news reports. Williams was working on the venue’s concert lighting rig at the time and fell to the stage, where others were working. No other injuries were reported. The accident happened about 2 am Friday after a Romeo Santos concert took place at the venue Thursday night.
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LONDON – Automation specialist Kinesys strengthens its marketing team with the appointment of Nisha Suthar as marketing & communications assistant. She previously worked as a marketer for a leading publication, MoneyWeek Ltd. and prior to that has a journalistic background which includes working at the BBC Local London News.
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