Lighting Designer, Gregg Maltby chose an array of Ayrton LED fixtures – Diablo, Eurus profiles and Zonda 9 FX washes made up half of the rig – for Peter Frampton’s Never Say Never Tour. Frampton’s North American tour kicked off in June 2023 in Huber Heights, Ohio and wrapped in Sandy, Utah in August. Then recently extended the tour with a series of November dates. OSA International in Nashville, the lighting vendor for the tour, provided the Ayrton fixtures to longtime customer Maltby. “I’ve used Ayrton lights for a long time, including for Huey Lewis, Boston, and the Roy Orbison…
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The Antwerpen Sportpaleis played host to a cornucopia projected lasers and lighting earlier this summer when promoters, Zillion presented their new ‘Iluminati’ dance concept. This brand new design, conceived by Frank Verstraeten, who co-promoted the event with Yves Smolders, ran over two days — each with nine hours duration. There was an abundance of GLP JDC1 and JDC Lines, some 85 JDC Line 500 and 40 JDC 1 hybrid strobes deployed. “We used all of these fixtures, not only as a conventional strobe but also to create an atmospheric glow, enabling us to punch through with the other moving heads,”…
Monitor Engineer, Lorin White reveals the strategy that he used to make the DMI-KLANG card an integral part of Lionel Richie’s Sing A Song All Night Long tour. Lorin White, brought on as the monitor engineer for Lionel Richie’s Sing A Song All Night Long tour, was ready to take off in 2020. The multiple Grammy Award winner and his band only managed to get one show in before the world shut down. Fortunately, White recorded that show, which became the basis for his experimentation with KLANG’s immersive IEM mixing system. “During the lockdown, Group One sent me a KLANG-equipped…
Christie HS Series projectors are illuminating the façade of the Cathedral of San Marcos. Organised by the City of Tuxtla Gutierrez with the Municipal Tourism Bureau, the show was managed by Puntos Audiovisuales, a rental and staging company. The projection seeks to highlight the culture, music, and traditions of Chiapas, and to promote tourism in the city. The show runs every day at 8pm and 9pm. Two Christie DWU15-HS projectors, supplied by Christie’s partner Wesco Anixter, were mounted on metal tower-like structures in front of the cathedral at a throw distance of 37 meters to create a 17-meter wide by…
The Foundation, established in memory of Christopher Meredith, will enable the music industry charity to increase its efforts in helping peers who work in music and live events affected by mental ill-health or addiction. The partnership includes funding which will contribute towards three areas across three years: Funding or part-funding qualifying beneficiaries to receive treatment, developing Music Support’s ‘Safe Hub’ backstage at festivals, a space where artists and crew can take time out or speak to a Mental Health First Aid trained individual and developing complementary programs for families and friends (including colleagues) who are supporting loved ones struggling with…
Vectorworks has announced the availability of Vectorworks 2024. The 2024 release includes Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Design Suite, Fundamentals, ConnectCAD, Braceworks and Vision with the English-language editions of these versions available today. “Our goal is to empower designers with tools and resources that boost their creativity,” said Vectorworks Chief Technology Officer Steve Johnson. “With Vectorworks 2024, we have taken this mission to new heights through groundbreaking new features, user experience enhancements and a strong focus on quality and performance. These advances will significantly accelerate our users’ design experiences, from the initial spark of an idea to the ultimate realisation of…
Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard recently played a string of US stadium shows – supported by Alice Cooper – lit using Brutus and Rayzor 1960 fixtures from Elation Professional’s IP-rated Proteus series. Michael Cooper has been working with the band for 10+ years and collaborated with Def Leppard LD Kenji Ohashi on The World Tour design. Originally started back in 2019, the design was put on the back burner when Covid hit but eventually saw the light of day on the 2022 tour. “It was the longest design process we ever had!” Cooper explained. “We wanted something that would work…
Production designer and show director Ryan Wiley selected 48 VL5LED Washes from Vari-Lite for the Peso Pluma Doble P tour. Amish Dani, owner and executive producer, Frameworx explained: “With the artist’s meteoric rise being fuelled by social media, we wanted to make sure we delivered a show that was very photogenic from both a lighting and video standpoint.” The RGBALC additive colour mixing system on the Vari-Lite VL5LED Wash offers a colour range and a high CRI, making it an ideal fixture for the Peso Pluma tour. “I’m a big VL guy,” said Wiley. “The VL5LEDs are great for the…
Jubin Nautiyal’s longtime Lighting Designer, Roosevelt Dsouza relied on a collection of CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorised strobes for the artist’s latest Australian tour. “Every song has its own way of conveying emotions, so I treat every song differently in terms of colour,” said Dsouza. “Colour choice is closely connected to feeling.” Although he uses the fixture’s two bright white LED tubes for strobing and audience lighting, Dsouza relies heavily on the fixture’s RGB pixel mappable face to create colourful effects. Dsouza divided the 16 Color STRIKE M fixtures in his rig evenly between stage left and stage right…
Robe has received two PLASA Innovation Awards for its Footsie and iFORTE LTX products at PLASA 2023. Also previewed were new Robe products, the HolyPATT and MolyPATT, both new additions to Robe’s PATT range of luminaires. Six Robe NRG (Next Robe Generation) students from five associated colleges worked alongside the Robe international team, with one assisting the Avolites team, all gaining valuable experience, contacts, and insights into the world of production technology. Three of the students operated RoboSpot systems during the live shows. Using around 200 lighting fixtures, the live show was storyboarded, designed, and produced by Robe’s creative team…
Astera has won a PLASA Award for Innovation for its new PlutoFresnel product. The Awards were announced during the three-day PLASA London 2023. Astera’s award was received by R&D director, Simon Canins. Astera Sales and Marketing Director, Sebastian Bückle was delighted to win the award and stated: “We’re honoured to receive a Plasa Innovation Award for PlutoFresnel, which is a groundbreaking lighting solution designed for film, studio, and event settings. The cutting-edge technology complete with built-in battery gives 3 hours of operation on MAX brightness, and its full-spectrum Titan LED Engine sets a new standard in lighting innovation. This recognition…
Costa Nikols has joined Riedel Communications as Vice President of Sales Enablement. In this role, Nikols will design, develop, and institute sales enablement programs to build foundational and technical knowledge for the global sales team. “We are thrilled to have Costa take the reins of our global sales enablement initiatives, which consist of connecting people to the information they need. Costa brings an impressive and quite extensive background of experience successfully guiding both colleagues and customers through several huge technological disruptions,” commented Daniel Url, CCO Product Division at Riedel. “As Riedel continues to grow and evolve, Costa will ensure the…
This year’s production at the Bregenz Festival was Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. KV2 Audio solutions made up the core of the system serving the Seebühne and its auditorium. Clemens Wannemacher explained: “We have been using a point-source based system for many years now as we found it was the most efficient way to handle the various constraints of working on an outdoor production with a live orchestra and a complex set. I’d had my eye on KV2 since 2019 when I was working on another lake stage in Mörbisch am See and was looking to upgrade the front fills and main…
Production Futures will hold its ON TOUR event at Production Park, Wakefield on 28 September. Following last year the event will once again be livestreamed by Production Futures and feature as part of Leeds Digital Festival, which runs from 18 to 29 September. This will be the eighth edition of a festival that is an open, collaborative celebration of all forms of digital culture. Leeds Digital Festival Director, Stuart Clarke commented: “The Leeds Digital Festival celebrates the region’s vibrant digital and creative sector, so we’re very happy to promote the Production Futures event. Helping to bring the organisation’s work to…
Green Hippo’s London-based manufacturing operation is reporting high demand for its range of Hippotizer media servers and is ramping up production to meet orders. The team says the first quarter of 2023 saw a huge rise in sales across all Hippotizer models, including the flagship Tierra+ MK2 and high-performance Boreal+ MK2. The recent launch of the Hippotizer v4.8 software update included major enhancements of the new software including Show Manager, Timeline feature and the SHAPE tool. Built-in integrations were also upgraded, with a notable addition being the NDI update to version 5.5, which includes features to its media over IP…
PROLIGHTS fixtures lit up Skënderbej Square in Tirana, setting the stage for the Ricky Martin Symphonic. PROLIGHTS local distributor, ASLV Albania, supplied the sound and light system contributing to the success of the show. Comprising approximately 307 PROLIGHTS luminaires. This array included the PanoramaIP Spot, PanoramaIP WBX, Stark 1000, Razor 440, Sunrise 2IP, LumiPar 12IP, LumiPix 16H, and Lumipix 15IP. “The show was a terrific success,” declared the ASLV Albania team. “We are immensely proud to have contributed to this extraordinary event. Once again, PROLIGHTS fixtures proved to be the ideal choice, elevating the concert to new visual heights.” prolights.it
SLX has invested in a stock of Ayrton lighting fixtures as part of its new focus on environmental sustainability. The fixtures, which include Ayrton Diablo, Mistral, Eurus, Perseo, Karif and Cobra, were supplied by Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for the UK, Ambersphere Solutions. SLX used the hiatus of the pandemic to reassess and reset its aims, choosing to focus on environmental and social sustainability, as CEO Alastair Currie explained: “We examined how we operate within a circular economy, what we expect from our manufacturers and suppliers in terms of sustainability, and aim to give opportunities for minority and disadvantaged groups to…
XD Motion has appointed Andrew Gordon as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Benoit Dentan, CEO of XD motion, explained: “Andrew’s vast expertise, especially in the fields of robotics and automation, aligns seamlessly with our company’s direction. We’re moving beyond being solely service-focused, with eyes set on the future – IO.BOT, the promise of automation, and the boundless potential of our other divisions. We are eager to journey through this transformative phase with Andrew guiding our commercial endeavours.” Gordon’s enthusiasm towards IO.BOT, resonated with XD motion’s vision of future-driven innovation. He remarked: “I’m deeply excited to be part of the XD…
