Ayrton’s new Zonda 9 Wash and Zonda 9 FX are the first luminaires in a new family of products devised for stage lighting. Equipped with a high-performance 40W LED source with RGB+W additive color synthesis, these new products fit into Ayrton’s Multi Sources 9 Series category. Follow the link to see a video preview.
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Three years after the previous edition of Prolight + Sound in 2019, the international trade fair is returning to Frankfurt am Main. Adam Hall Group… Read More »Adam Hall Group at Prolight + Sound 2022: #Restart with New Product Highlights
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Final Pixel, a creative studio that has worked with Discovery, Disney/ABC, and Shutterstock, among others, recently ran several test shoots using Brompton’s new Frame Remapping technology. The results exceeded Final Pixel’s already-high expectations.
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Ghost from Sweden and Volbeat from Denmark co-headlined a U.S. tour lit, respectively, by LDs Erich Bertti and Niels Bjerregaard. Premier Global Productions provided a rig centered on Robe moving lights including MegaPointes, Spiiders, and BMFL Spots.
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The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas has invested in Vari-Lite and Strand luminaires from Signify in five of its main spaces to transform their lighting and reduce power consumption. The $360 million multi-venue Center upgraded its fixtures with more than 200 Vari-Lite and Strand products.Read More »Dallas’ AT&T Performing Arts Center Upgrades all Main Venues to Vari-Lite and Strand
The eight-time Grammy Award-winner and R&B superstar Usher Raymond IV recently headlined a Las Vegas residency, delivering his fans an extraordinary immersive performance and “an Usher experience like they’ve never seen or heard before”. Opened at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on July 16, 2021, Usher delivered 12 shows in total – eight in July, three in December, and a final event on January 1, 2022. BrainHub and LMG Touring & Entertainment, both part of Entertainment Technology Partners (ETP), worked closely together and with the production team, including Production Designer, Paul Tate DePoo III and Video Design firm FragmentNine’s Jackson Gallagher, to design a larger-than-life experience featuring more than 500 moving lights, creative LED, and video solutions. [PLSN covered the Usher Residency in the November, 2021 issue. You can read that story here.]Read More »Brompton Technology Helps Deliver Usher’s Supreme Las Vegas Residency Experience
tvONE and Green Hippo are launching a competition to highlight excellence in control system design using their range of products. tvONE is looking for programmers, operators and designers who have mastered video manipulation using Green Hippo’s Hippotizer range of Media Servers, or harnessed the power of tvONE’s CORIOmaster family of video processors.Read More »Green Hippo and tvONE Launch the CONECT Control Competition
Christie Lites, global provider of stage lighting services and technical expertise, has welcomed Chris Patton as its VP Rentals. Patton’s new role comes as part of a wider expansion of the Christie Lites management team, bringing increased focus to both client and rep support. To that end Patton will join Ken Alexander, Senior VP Rentals, to lead, develop, and support the Christie Lites Rental Rep Team.Read More »Chris Patton joins Christie Lites as VP of Rentals
Detroit-based Display Group has acquired Belleville, MI-based Fantasee Lighting. The combination creates a full-service event production company—offering clients a one-stop shop for production services for… Read More »Display Group Acquires Fantasee Lighting to Fill Out Event Production Offerings
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Ayrton was recently delighted to receive this message from lighting designer Phil Kong of Kong Design, Inc.: “We just used 20 Ayrton Diablo’s on Ghost: Nachricht von Sam [Ghost: Message from Sam] for ShowSlot GmbH and I wanted to let you know I was very happy with them for all of the things they were able to do, and how fast they were. The flat field, the gobos, the color rendering – a lot of good things going on with them – and the size and price point are great. I was so glad to have these Ayrton fixtures on the show.” Naturally, Ayrton just had to find out more.Read More »Ayrton Diablo Impresses on Musical Theater Tour of ‘Ghost: Nachricht von Sam’
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The Howell Binkley Fellowship Program, part of the Hemsley Lighting Programs, proudly announces its Fellow for the 2022-23 season, Samantha (Sam) Weiser (she/her). Weiser hails from Long Island, NY where she was exposed to theatre at a young age. Her passion for lighting design led her to the Long Island High School for the Arts and then to receive her BFA from the University of Michigan in 2020. Her favorite part of designing is turning “what if’s” into reality.Read More »Meet Samantha Weiser, The 2022 Howell Binkley Fellow