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LONDON – Haydn Cruickshank of Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) designed and supplied lighting for a showcase celebrating the birthday of Tennessee whiskey Jack Daniels at a cavern called Devil’s Arse in the Peak District, UK. One of the many challenges facing the production team was the 600-meter (656-yard) push from the truck drop through the treacherous terrain of the Castleton Village pathways and up the hill into the first cave. Access to the second cavern entailed the lighting crew crawling on their bellies along a passage less than a meter (39 ft) high with all the kit, negotiating rocks, walls and dripping water and dank odors.

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbian lighting director Viktor Trifu recently used an ETC Ion console to run the lighting for “Time of the Gypsies” at Belgrade’s Sava Center. Described as “punk opera” or “how Monty Pyton would have imagined opera,” the show presented challenges for Trifu, but the Ion console made it easy to control, he says.  I have used Ions before and am always impressed by how much fine control I have of intelligent fixtures.”