Astera will showcase a full range of its LED lighting solutions on stand B30 in Hall 12.1 at the 2024 Prolight+Sound expo. Including the PlutoFresnel and LeoFresnel fixtures and the new ProjectionLens for PlutoFresnel. The stand design will enable sales director Sebastian Buckle and the team to welcome visitors and highlight numerous current Astera innovations like the HydraPanel, PixelBrick, AX9 PowerPAR and AX2 PixelBar, the smart and neat NYX Bulb and the flagship TitanTube family. As a European trade show, Prolight+Sound attracts players and influencers from rental and staging markets, with that in mind, targeted product demonstrations will highlight the…
Author: Alicia Pollitt
Pangolin Laser Systems announced the release of BEYOND and QuickShow 5.5. The development team worked meticulously to bring these new tools and features to life, while also improving previously released ones. The MoboLaser Mobile app is new, designed for both Apple and Android, MoboLaser acts as an extension of our BEYOND and QuickShow software that provides users with a new way to interface with their laser displays. Another introduction is the Q-Shift, a new feature in BEYOND and QuickShow that changes the way offset effects are handled in live shows. Q-Shift is a performance tool that gives the power to…
Madonna is reimagining her live act with a curated look at her legacy alongside her present incarnation. At the helm of the live sound is FOH Mixer Burton Ishmael, he began: “It’s very nice to be asked to go on tour by the boss directly! Madonna is an exceptionally clever artist, and there can be a lot of pressure on a world tour, but thankfully, there’s a huge team effort going into what we’re doing, and the Eighth Day Sound crew are experts.” He says a core action at FOH is to repeat a process that has already been done…
Brown Note Productions added a rider-friendly Solid State Logic Live L650 to its inventory for engineer Nahuel Gutierrez and Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit, who specified an SSL Live console to handle monitor duties on their U.S. tour. “We have always had our eye on the SSL live,” said Ryan Knutson, who founded BNP with his wife in 2004. “Since we had a tour that spec’d an SSL Live, we felt like now was the perfect chance to get one in stock in Colorado and a great opportunity to get into the platform. It’s an exciting system for us.” First…
ETC announced the release of Hog 4 version 4.0 software. Enhancements include improvements to colour handling and Hog 4’s Color Picker, a new ‘Record Defaults’ function, and Fixture Builder upgrades. Senior Product Manager Sarah Clausen commented, “Ultimately, the new colour system relieves programmers and designers from the challenges in controlling rigs with multiple colour engines. By providing multiple colour input languages through the colour pickers, virtual colour functions and the gels library, and full ‘physical’ function controls linked to the virtual controls at all times, colour control becomes seamless.” For colour handling, v4.0. represents a overhaul of the colour mixing…
Performed in six different venues BJO30 was a celebration of the Belgium Jazz Orchestra’s achievements over the last thirty years. Support for these artists came from Belgium-based concert and touring sound specialists MONO. The team knew that the best option to provide an in-ear monitoring solution would be KLANG, which he combined with a DiGiCo SD12-96 and two D2-Racks. Enabling the core orchestra of 17 and the additional 13 visiting musicians to perform over the almost three-hour concert required a spacious and calm monitor mix. Something that MONO sound engineer Bart Lebegge decided could not be done with a standard…
On Night 3 of The Sanremo Music Festival Russell Crowe took to the stage and sang Let Your Light Shine. Another actor, John Travolta, also tried his hand at singing a couple of nights earlier. The five-day event celebrated its 74th year. Capturing the flavour of the festival up close was Radio Italia’s Fuori Sanremo, a programme that featured all of the artists from the festival with interviews and live performances recorded in a studio specially set up in the Mediterranean costal city’s Grand Hotel Londra. Lighting Designer, Ivan Lavezzoli created the atmosphere for Fuori Sanremo, with a setup that…
Scott Chmielewski of DMDS7UDIOS employed a rig of DARTZ 360 narrow-beam luminaires from Elation to support the performances of magician Mat Franco at The LINQ Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Chmielewski addressed an initial refresh of the show in 2021 before undertaking a complete redesign of the entire show, stage and theatre in early 2023, collaborating with Director Brian Burke, Art Director Joe Oneill and Mat Franco himself. Although a magician could choose to rely on lighting as an important aid in a magic show, Chmielewski says that Franco was more concerned with using lighting to raise the overall…
AV Stumpfl is set for Prolight + Sound with a display of its latest screen and media server technology in hall 12.0, stand #C84. Attendees will have the opportunity to discover the BLACKPEAK screen, making its debut in Frankfurt. In addition to BLACKPEAK, AV Stumpfl’s screen team will be on hand to showcase the company’s AnyShape technology, which offers custom-built projection screens with a variety of different frame shapes. The AV Stumpfl team will also present its 21:9 Monoblox and Monoclip frames, a mobile projection screen system, designed to meet the needs of corporate customers. Visitors to AV Stumpfl’s stand…
Perpetuum Jazzile, celebrated their 40th anniversary with a series of shows at Ljubljana’s Cankarjev Dom asking Crt Birsa from design studio Blackout to create lighting suitable for the occasion. Birsa created a visual showcase, working closely with Mark Pirc, who brought in as video content creator and co-show director with Aljaz Bastic for the performances. Birsa has lit the group several times over the last 10 years, and specifically more regularly in the last two after as Blackout has become their permanent lighting design provider. For this show, the basic elements of his programming from the last two years were…
K-array announced the extension of its control plug-in portfolio to include a new integration with Kramer Control. Utilising the full API of Kramer Control, the new driver will enable greater integration possibilities for K-array’s flagship Kommander range of amplifiers. “Through Kramer’s intuitive control platform, our Kommander amplifiers can now be implemented seamlessly into a Kramer-based control system,” explained Matteo Barbaro, Software Product Manager at K-array. “This is an exciting step as integrators now have fewer barriers when it comes to integrating our professional audio solutions into a range of spaces, such as corporate, government or education environments.” “The technical partnership…
Following the reception to GLP’s latest product portfolio at both LDI in Las Vegas and ISE in Barcelona, visitors to Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt can expect not only to see all these in action, but even more. The company expects the JDC2 IP hybrid strobe to be as well received in Frankfurt as it was at the international trade fairs. The new IP65 JDC2 IP is larger than its predecessor, significantly brighter and also offers a wealth of new features. An interpretation of the world’s largest JDC2 IP will be displayed above the GLP stand in Frankfurt – formed…
The Trilogy Tour recently selected a complete JBL VTX A Series arena sound reinforcement solution provided by Sound Image / Clair Global to power headline performances by Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull in arenas across North America. To deliver arena-ready mixes, Enrique Iglesias’s FOH Mix Engineer Brad Divens collaborated with Pitbull’s FOH Mix Engineer Will Madera and Ricky Martin’s FOH Mix Engineer Jorge Frontera to specify a complete JBL VTX tour sound reinforcement system. “I was introduced to VTX on a previous tour with Brad and Enrique Iglesias, and for the last 6 or 7 years VTX has been…
Founded in 2018 by Sound Engineers, Malle Kaas and Hannah Brodrick, Women In Live Music is fundamental in creating a community for women and minority individuals in the live music industry. Dedicated to giving guidance and mentorship for those entering the industry, a crucial part of their work goes into hosting Walk & Talk events throughout the European continent, recently TPi joined them, among other WILM and 3T members [see TPi #270] to get a behind the scenes look at The 1975’s O2 arena production. Headed by Brodrick and hosted by Production Manager, Josh Barnes and Production Coordinator, Alice Fraser,…
What can end users and production designers expect from Depence R3.2? “With this latest software update, R3.2, end users can look forward to many more new features and improvements. The update will be free of charge for all Depence R3 users and can be downloaded directly within the software upon release. We have once again given Depence a significant performance boost and added some new features, which were developed in close communication with our global community.” Which new features will particularly excite production and lighting designers? “In version 3.1, we introduced our exclusive Ambient Light feature, which provides realistic indirect…
It seemed that 2023 was very much the year of onstage reunions, with many in the UK jumping on the nostalgia train. Another band that is along for the ride is Busted, with the pop-punk trio recently celebrating their 20th anniversary with a record-breaking tour that ballooned from the original 15 planned dates to a whopping 27 performances across the UK and Ireland. Having worked with the band four years prior to this latest campaign, Tour Manager Ollie Horner was eager to get back on the road. “This tour has been in the works for a long time,” he said.…
What was the idea behind the creation of Midas HD96 AIR console? “When the Midas HD96 was designed we already had the HD96-AIR in mind. We wanted a console that could be navigated and operated without a hardware surface. This meant removing as much navigation from the surface and placing it on to the screen, which would also allow for a scalable console that could essentially be configured as small, or as large, as we wished. We added assignable buttons but they are all supported by screens so the entire surface is completely configurable and can be re-assigned.” “The AIR…
What was the idea behind the creation and formation of SGM Special Projects? “SGM has always taken on projects where we would modify products or work with a client to create new options for specialist applications. However, this effort has been spread across various personnel over the years. With Special Projects, we are formalising the process – creating a streamlined, core group and spreading the word that we can offer these services.” What are the advantages of this department? “Each person in the group has a defined set of responsibilities and experience. The personnel in Special Projects already works well…
