DORVAL, Quebec — Proel S.p.A, based in Sant’Omero, Italy, named Musiquip Inc., based here, as its U.S. distributor. The agreement includes Proel’s professional audio, sound reinforcement, lighting and accessory products.
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SYDNEY – As another season of TV’s The X Factor in Australia draws to a close, LD Ian Anderson has counted on a variety of Vari-Lite and ETC fixtures for his designs, in particular the 48 VL3000 Spots. The rig also contains 30 ETC Source Four Revolutions. Chameleon Touring Systems supplied the lighting.
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MILTON KEYNES, UK – For Swedish House Mafia’s DVD shoot, LD Ian Tomlinson specified Clay Paky Sharpys to add more effects to the show at the National Bowl at Milton Keynes. Tomlinson followed a ‘less is more’ approach, filling the gaps for the camera shots and lighting the stage and audience in a visual onslaught. HSL supplied 60 Clay Paky Sharpys, which were attached to the bottom of the video pods.
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NEW YORK – USITT, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, will recognize five new performance spaces with its 2013 Architecture Merit Awards. Winners include two university performing arts centers, a national parks visitor center, a British opera space and an arts complex in Norway. Timothy Hartung also will be honored with the USITT Distinguished Achievement in Architecture award. USITT will present the honors at its 2013 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Milwaukee March 20-23, 2013.
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NEW YORK – The Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City (IESNYC) had to postpone their annual Control This! event, originally set for early November, due to superstorm Sandy. The daylong event expo and seminar series, which includes a “PlugFest” sponsored by Soraa, is now set to take place Dec. 5 at the original location, the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. The PlugFest is geared to test the interoperability between products from different manufacturers, and to showcase new lighting control and energy management systems.
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NEW YORK — Although the Empire State Building has been equipped with a Philips Color Kinetics LED color-changing system including customized Reach, Graze, Cove and Blast Powercore fixtures, the LED fixtures have so far been used mainly to mimic the static seasonal and charity-related hues bathing the upper reaches of the 1,454-foot office building for years. But on Nov. 26, that changed. At 9pm, a color-changing light show designed by LD Marc Brickman and driven by Hippotizer media servers controlled by a grandMA2 console was synched to Clear Channel broadcasts of music by Alicia Keys.
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