Claypaky has numerous products at PLASA 2024, including three world premieres – the TAMBORA RAYS with volumetric effects taken to the extreme; the TAMBORA STORMY which translates the classical strobe into the 21st century; and the MINI-B SPARKY AQUA, a game-changer in the world of compact and lightweight mini moving-heads.
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Avolites Ltd – A Robe Business – plans the UK debut of the Diamond 7 (D7), the newest addition to the Diamond collection of consoles, at this year’s London PLASA show on stand C28 within the Robe village.
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This year marked the third consecutive time that Laserimage has collaborated with Eurovision, further solidifying themselves as a leader in live TV laser show technology. Laserimage deployed a fleet of their 15 RGB projectors with Pangolin FB4 control hardware and Pangolin DiscoScan Lenses.
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Twenty One Pilots kicked off their 70+ date “The Clancy World Tour” at Denver’s sold-out Ball Arena. More than performing a concert, the band is treating fans to a musical journey of epic proportions on this tour. Lighting and production designers Tyler Shapard and Dayne deHaven of District 5 got into the narrative spirit of this tour, creating a show that (like the music of their clients) was deep, multi-layered, and constantly evolving. Their design includes 63 CHAUVET Professional STRIKE Array 2s supplied by Solotech.
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Beckhoff USA opened a new office in the Atlanta area. Located in Alpharetta, GA, the new facility will serve as a home base for local sales and support engineers as well as a regional hub for training, seminars and other business activities.
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The Obsidian Control Systems team is attending the upcoming PLASA tradeshow from September 1-3 at Olympia in West London with groundbreaking devices in its award-winning NETRON data distribution range, including the world’s first line of IP66-rated data signal products for entertainment.
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Princess Cruises’ brand new Sun Princess ship set sail on its maiden voyage in mid-2024 with a totally re-imagined AV system. Multiple LED walls are installed throughout the vessel, all of which are driven by Hippotizer Media Servers.
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The skies over Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana came alive with a one-of-a-kind drone sky story during country music star Tyler Childers’ concert. Nova Sky Stories, the global pioneer drone light company supported Childers’ show to surprise fans with a true spectacle from the stage to the night sky to celebrate the closing night of his U.S. tour.
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Award-winning lighting designer Sooner Routhier has been working with Coldplay since 2019 and, keeping with the effort of Coldplay’s in ushering in a new era of sustainable touring, she chose to light the band’s “Music of the Spheres” world tour using greener, more eco-friendly fixtures. The lighting vendor for the tour is a long-time partner, Upstaging.
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For more than 20 years, the Airbeat One Festival has entertained fans with the harder side of electronic music with an event that features cutting-edge stage design, epic light shows and leading international DJs. Airbeat One 2024 was recently held where Lighting Designer Christopher Rostalski, CEO of CR Lichtdesign, used 130 Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 LED pixel-mapping bars for versatile lighting effects and artistic set decoration.
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Entertainment Technology Partners (ETP) announces the promotion of Doug Murray to the role of Managing Partner and Executive Vice President. Murray, a prominent figure in the video technology and live event industries, will now oversee global marketing and business development efforts across all ETP brands.
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Open Beatz is the largest open-air festival for electronic music in southern Germany. 2024 performers included Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Felix Jaehn, Lilly Palmer, and many more. Eventures GmbH was responsible for the lighting, sound, and video equipment on the three largest stages. Lighting Designer Tobias Reinartz (visualprime) worked with the new Cameo ORON® H2 Hybrid Phosphor Laser Moving Heads for the first time.
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