Powersoft will kick off its 30th-anniversary year in style and unveil an all-new audio product on stand 7E700 at Integrated Systems Europe 2025. The new product, tailored towards the fixed-installation and AV/IT markets, will join Powersoft’s growing portfolio of audio solutions for system integrators and IT managers. It will be launched on the Powersoft booth at 14.30 on day one of ISE by Claudio Lastrucci, Powersoft Co-Founder and R&D director. ISE visitors are invited to drop by the Powersoft stand to talk about the new product as well as toast the company’s 30th Anniversary. ISE 2025 will be the first…
Author: Alicia Pollitt
Robert Juliat will be returning to ISE on Stand 6K700. RJ will be showcasing lighting solutions with its latest LED followspots, profiles and Fresnels offering solutions for venues of all sizes. Attendees will discover the very latest addition to the Robert Juliat LED range of followspots, Lexie. Compact in size, comparable to the Roxie model, yet with a more powerful output, Lexie followspot (1176) features a 400W LED engine delivering approximately 15,000 lumens with a crisp 6500K cool white source. ISE 2025 will mark its official launch. The Tristan followspot, which was shown as an exclusive preview at ISE 2024,…
Music Support has hired experienced executives Kimberley Goddard and Laila Khan to key positions in the charity. Goddard has been named Head of Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships, while Khan has been hired in the position of Major Event Fundraising and Engagement Specialist. The hires come after Music Support recently announced that it has directly impacted at least 1,000 people from the UK music industry in the last year across its core services and seen an increase of 51% in calls and emails to its Helpline. Khan is a highly skilled relationship manager with over 20 years of proven experience working…
Group One, the US distributor for DiGiCo, Solid State Logic, Calrec, KLANG, Fourier Audio, Sound Devices Astral RF, elektraLite, and other pro audio and lighting industry brands, has announced several key changes to its management team ahead of the 2025 NAMM Show. Austin Freshwater has been appointed to serve as the new CEO for Group One, in addition to carrying on his current role as Managing Director for DiGiCo. Freshwater originally joined the digital console maker as General Manager in 2017, coming to the brand after a decade spent with Canon. After four years with DiGiCo at its global headquarters…
Eighth Day Sound provided a d&b audiotechnik KSL PA system overseen by Account Executive Meegan Holmes for The Killers hometown shows in Las Vegas. Out front, the band’s longtime FOH Engineer Kenny Kaiser, has been part of the alt-pop / rockers’ crew for some years, starting out as a PA Tech before eventually taking his mixer position. He began: “There’s a lot of trust between the band and me, and that comes with time. The show must sound the way your artist wants it to, but thankfully, I’m lucky to work with a band that trusts me with the decisions…
The countdown to Showlight 2025 is upon us and Showlight have announced the next round of speakers engaged in sharing their experiences over three days in Dijon this May. Topics include innovations in mixed and multimedia lighting, the illumination of spaces from the smallest venue to the wide open sky, and the subject of climate change and sustainability initiatives. Lighting ‘Cine-Theatre’ Nick Schlieper, one of Australia’s most highly awarded designers, will examine the considerable challenges posed by lighting Cine-Theatre, a style of production which utilises live feed video combined with pre-recorded footage with which the performers constantly interact. The term…
d&b audiotechnik has introduced En-Space Custom Rooms, a customisation service and extension to the capabilities of En-Space, the virtual acoustics engine of the d&b Soundscape immersive audio ecosystem. “Our ongoing mission at d&b is to continually push the boundaries of audio technology to enhance creativity and the listening experience. The En-Space Custom Room Concept adds a powerful combination of flexibility and customisation for our customers,” said Robb Allan, Principal Product Manager, Soundscape at d&b. “Combined with our easy-to-use approach to electro-acoustics, Custom Rooms will allow users to transform spaces sonically using detailed responses from a specific concert hall or interesting…
Astera has announced the appointment of Agata Birn as the company’s new Head of Sales. Birn brings over 12 years of experience in international business development and distribution strategy. With a track record of handling motion picture equipment, including four years as International Sales and Business Development Manager at DoPchoice. Welcoming Birn, Chief Sales Officer Sebastian Bückle commented: “Agata’s extensive expertise and dynamic approach make her an outstanding addition to our team. Her leadership will undoubtedly help us serve the film and event communities.” In her new role, Birn will oversee Astera’s global sales strategy, while delivering service to its…
Allround Lyd & Lys (Light & Sound) based in Struer, Denmark, purchased Robe iFORTE LTX Follow Spots ahead of their busy 2024 festival season, so going forward, they could offer follow spotting facilities with their festival stage lighting packages. Head of lighting, Martin Breinholt, and his team designed a quick-to-rig festival production lighting set-up based on Robe LEDBeam 350s and ESPRITES for over-stage lighting, with the fixtures installed in pre-rigged trussing sections. These deployed on a string of festivals around the country throughout summer. Eight units of each fixture type were rigged to a standard run of PRT so the…
Two years ago, Hans Willems joined Stageco Belgium as CEO. At the same time, he also remained CEO at WICREATIONS, dividing his time between both companies. At Stageco, Willems guided the company through a highly challenging period, overseeing a generational transition and establishing a new management committee. However, it also became clear that the Stageco Group is a house with many rooms, both local and international, each of which demands and deserves significant time and attention. After careful deliberation, and to give both companies the best opportunities for the future, it was decided, in consultation with Willems, to transfer his responsibilities…
Having led the lighting charge for multiple touring campaigns, Sam Parry of The Owl Creative Design, recently curated the Sea Girl’s most ambitious lighting design to date in celebration of the band’s third studio album. TPi’s Alicia Pollitt caught up with the lighting designer at the end of the UK tour to get an insight into how this arena-worthy design toured a range of academy-sized venues. “We wanted to achieve something that we hadn’t seen on the academy circuit yet, something a little bit more bonkers – which is where I come in usually,” Parry said, reflecting on his three…
“As we make our final preparations for The NAMM Show, we wanted to update you one last time with the latest information from Anaheim.” “We have been in constant contact with our partners and city officials all week, and Anaheim is still unaffected by the wildfires in northern Los Angeles. We have confirmed that the air quality is safe, that traffic between LAX and Anaheim will not impact relief efforts, and that our hotel rooms will not displace any evacuees. We want to be sure that we can gather for a safe, successful NAMM Show while also supporting the ongoing…
The Deadmau5 Retro5pective tour’s lighting designer, Erik Mahowald of Bending Lite Productions described the chemistry between the Deadmau5’s signature Cube v3 video structure and the rig’s 108 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorised strobes, supplied by Brown Note Productions. “The Cube v3 is about 12-feet per side, covered on three faces on the exterior with video panels and interior lined with rows of LED pixels,” said Mahowald, who was invited to handle lighting design by Chris Schroeder Productions. “The upstage video wall is about 75-feet wide by 28-feet tall. By using a blow-through screens, we were able to add 40…
Naostage will showcase the interactive future of AV technology at ISE 2025. In partnership with fellow French companies Groupe Novelty and XD motion, with which it is sharing its 156m² booth. Stand 6L900 will centre on a showcase, featuring a six metre by four metre LED wall and a six metre by six metre LED floor provided by Groupe Novelty (via its Spanish subsidiary, Novelty Spain). Leveraging Naostage’s tracking platform, K SYSTEM, to create interactions between guests and the LED video content, a looped five-minute AV show will transform the space into an interactive celebration of the potential offered by…
PRG UK has appointed Phil McMichael as UK Sales & Business Development Director with Miles Hillyard promoted to Commercial Director as the company continues to focus on growth and delivering service to its global client base. McMichael has over 20 years of experience in the event industry, working with clients and growing their accounts. As Sales Director at Blitz, he focused on corporate accounts and agencies including Boeing, Temenos and Karla Otto. He then co-formed JLLive that later merged with JLLighting & JLUSA to form JLGroup, where he was Group Commercial Director, working with the likes of Pico+, 2Heads &…
tvONE has appointed Jonathan Begleiter to the position of Director of Sales North Central and South America, and Alex Jerome as Director of Marketing. Begleiter is promoted to the Director of Sales (NCSA) following 13 years at tvONE, most recently as SE Regional Sales Manager. He brings more than 35 years’ experience in the AV industry, working within successful distributors and manufacturers and offers considerable commercial and residential integration experience. “I have proven results attaining revenue in my SE regional roles and a track record of providing superior customer support,” said Begleiter. “I’ve showcased this through all aspects of the…
CHAUVET Professional has built its booth,6M100, for ISE 2025 around the theme of “Finally True Colours Revealed.” For CHAUVET Professional, the true colours phrase not only refers to the company’s commitment to customers, but also to its recent breakthroughs in LED technology and optics that allow its fixtures to render a rainbow of colours. The results of these colour rendering advances will be evident throughout the company’s booth, including in the Maverick Storm 1 Flex and STRIKE V, two products built on the highly regarded reputations of their namesake series in terms of output and performance. For the Maverick Storm…
Hive is set to debut the Beeblade Nexus, at ISE 2025. Alongside Nexus, Hive will unveil version 1.2 of its intuitive software, introduce the Nucleus chassis to European audiences and headline the Panasonic Interactive Immersive Experience. Attendees can meet Hive’s leadership team and new members at stand 5E880 in Hall 5. The Beeblade Nexus is the newest addition to Hive’s Beeblade family, delivering performance in a compact, scalable SDM format. The Nexus introduces a daughter board system with optical fibre Ethernet interfaces, supporting 10, 25 and 100 Gigabit connectivity, enabling bandwidth uncompressed streams via SMPTE 2110 and NDI. With an…
