The hotly-anticipated Eurovision 2019 spectacular landed in Tel Aviv in May with a bold ‘Dare to Dream’ tagline and world-class staging, upon which 26 countries battled to be crowned the winner. Video returned to the core of the show, powered by a chorus of disguise vx 4 and 4x4pro servers. The 64th edition of the much-loved song contest, held at Expo Tel Aviv, featured a 250 sq.m. high-resolution LED, diamond-shaped stage, backed by a 36 by 12m high-resolution LED wall made up of 12 individual screens, all supplied by PRG. More than 16,998,976 pixels lit up the stage, making it…
Author: James Robertson
This April, Competitive gaming platform FACEIT partnered with the PUBG Corporation to host the first global event of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ 2019 Esports season. The multi-stage tournament held at London’s ExCel saw 24 teams battle for the championship. Bluman Associates were commissioned to provide full video display solution and management. The FACEIT platform is home to 12 million registered users, hosting 34 million monthly games with up to 90,000 gamers playing at any one time. The summit included teams from North America, Europe, Korea, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Streamed to registered internet and television viewers, the tournament started…
Projection mapping specialist Motion Mapping assisted Help for Heroes with a recent campaign raising awareness for mental health support by using Epson projectors. Help for Heroes is the leading charity for the British Armed Forces community. Their belief is that those who put their lives on the line for us, deserve a second chance at life, and they provide lifetime support for the armed forces community and their families. In December 2018, the charity commissioned a study to look at how long it takes veterans to reach out for mental health support. The results suggest that on average, they take…
On 9 May Björk opened her Cornucopia season at New York’s newest cultural centre The Shed, utilizing a full 360-degree d&b Soundscape system powered by the d&b En-Scene object-based mixing and En-Space room emulation software. As an integral part of the performance design. Cornucopia is Björk’s most elaborate stage production to date incorporating stunning visuals, intricate stage movements and a fully integrated immersive sound design, made possible by the d&b Soundscape. Beginning the sound design conception in a studio in Iceland the production has progressed through production rehearsals in the Backstage Centre, London, to The Shed in New York City.…
Taiwanese singer and film star, Jay Chou, has amassed millions of fans across the globe, starred in Hollywood blockbusters, broken records for the most expensive live production in Australia and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. He recently entrusted Britannia Row Productions to deliver the biggest PA rig that Britain’s largest indoor venue, London’s 02 Arena, has ever seen. For the final three concerts of Chou’s 120-date The Invincible 2 World Tour, The Asian King of Pop, as he’s known to the Western media, played two nights in London before deploying the Britannia Row rig for a final show at…
ADJ was called upon by Lighting Designer Eric Wilson for the Children’s Winter Games. Established in 1968 and sponsored by the Olympic Committee, the longstanding International Children’s Games branched out in 1994 with the launch of the Children’s Winter Games. This year the competition was held in Lake Placid, New York, giving young athletes from across the globe the chance to compete at the highest level in a wide range of winter sports. But while the Games are all about exceptional sporting achievement and fostering the exchange of ideas between athletes from different countries and cultures, it’s also about putting…
Hayden Borgars has covered a broad spectrum of shows during his career as a lighting designer, including a wide range of music genres, corporate, dance and theatre. Most recently he joined forces with American rap artist, Hoodie Allen (real name Steven Markowitz) for a British and European tour, at venues ranging from the 700-capacity Garage Glasgow to 2,000 Shepherds Bush Empire. Travelling with him throughout was an inventory of 18 VDO Sceptron 10, four MacEncore Performance Colds and two AURA XB, which combined as the cutting-edge Martin Professional lighting package, supplied by rental company, Siyan. The tour was set up…
Technic Consult of Austria has been a satisfied customer of Elation products for years, products like the industry staple Platinum Beam 5R and FS 15R Followspot, but the company says now the time was right to upgrade. The event technology providers recently welcomed to their inventory brand new Elation Artiste Picasso LED moving heads and multi-functional Paladin effects. Technic Consult has been active in event technology for over 25 years. Located in southern Austria, near Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, the full-service provider manages lighting, sound, video and staging for live events of all kinds, including theatre, handling everything from planning to…
West London lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment has expanded its fleet of vehicles with a brand new artic and trailer, a Volvo FH460 Globetrotter Euro 6 tractor unit, complete with a 45′ Schmitz Cargobull low-ride Tri-axle Ferroplast, Express semi-trailer. This vehicle, chosen for its efficiency and dynamics, is an investment made for the convenience of trucking equipment to tours and festivals across the UK and Europe. It will also offer clients an additional element of cost-effectivity as Colour Sound can offer independent trucking services for large one-offs. The truck will be especially busy during the upcoming festival…
Lynx Technik, provider of modular interfaces for broadcast and professional AV signal processing applications, announced today that Varun Patel has joined the management team as Product Manager for the entire range of Lynx solutions including the award-winning greenMachine software-based signal processing platform, yellobrik throw-down interfaces, and Series 5000 (with APPolo software) rack and card-based solutions. In his role, Patel will be responsible for managing the product management strategies and roadmap for the company, helping to assess customer & market needs and deliver the exceptional quality solutions that Lynx Technik is known worldwide for. Varun will also work closely with customers, partners…
Richard Ashcroft’s lighting has been designed by Jonny Gaskell since 1996 and the heydays of The Verve – an impressively long and fertile client relationship also making Gaskell the longest-serving crew member – and he is still driving some of the onstage aesthetics 23 years later. Ashcroft’s fourth solo album and top 10 hit Natural Rebel dropped at the end of last year and he was back on the road recently in the UK with lighting and video once again supplied by Colour Sound Experiment. At the start of each touring project, Ashcroft will present Jonny with a series of…
Adlib is supplying full technical production – sound, lighting, video and rigging with over 100 points – to the ongoing 2019 arena tour by Brendan O’Carroll and his Mrs. Brown’s Boys phenomenon. Presenting its first ever musical tour, Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Musical!” the show has just finished the first of three one-month segments, each covering four major cities where they play for a week. Hassane es Siahi is the FOH engineer, the Adlib systems engineer is Alan Harrison, Steph Fleming is the monitor engineer and Shona Steadman is looking after mics and RF. Lighting has been designed by Mike Summerfield.…
In this newest video release on A4i.tv, Area Four Industries Technical Director Dipl-Ing. Norbert Tripp discusses the history of the Beaufort scale and how it works. He dives into the differences between wind speed, wind force and wind pressure, and how this scale is used to measure them. By the end of the video, you’ll have a far better understanding of the Beaufort scale and why it’s important for helping ensure the safety of your truss structures. www.a4i.tv
Robe North America has announced the appointment of Charlie Hulme as Business Development Manager. He will specifically be focusing on advancing systems sales and the coordination of installation projects. Robe North America co-CEO Lorienn Cochenour stated: “As Business Development Manager, Charlie will be a perfect partner with Tal Janowitz in managing the Robe Anolis architainment brand and representatives, and he will also liaise with our Robe regional sales managers on permanent installation projects.” Hulme is based in Austin, Texas and will be travelling extensively in his new role. Hulme has been involved in entertainment lighting for around 30 years, including…
For InfoComm 2019 in Orlando, Meyer Sound has expanded its booth and demo room footprints to showcase multiple new products, most notably the Ultra-X40 point source loudspeaker, and to immerse visitors in a captivating preview of Spacemap Live, a prototype spatial sound mixing tool. The focal point at the floor booth will be an expansive display dedicated to the Ultra-X40, a groundbreaking new product making its USA trade show debut at InfoComm. A comprehensive, hands-on display area will present the versatile new self-powered loudspeaker in a wide variety of portable and installed configurations, from flown clusters to pole mounts, to…
Bob Schacherl, co-CEO of Robe North America, has announced that he will be stepping down from his post on 30 June 2019. “After nearly six fabulous years working with one of the most innovative and inspiring moving light manufacturers, which has included amassing a sales ‘dream team’ covering all regions, helping to take the brand to the very top of the entertainment lighting industry … it is time to spend more time with my family and in developing several ongoing projects” he stated. Schacherl joined Robe at the end of 2013, just prior to the launch of the BMFL range of…
Well over a thousand delegates from the private rental sector gathered in London’s ExCel on the 2nd of April to attend the Annual ARLA Propertymark Conference and exhibition. The event is the largest and most attended event in the lettings calendar and returned to London’s ExCeL in April this year and Protec European Events were trusted by their client Westrade Group Ltd to provide a full event technical service package. Moderated by BBC News presenter Julian Worricker, the conference focussed on the importance of legislation, and how to keep abreast of industry issues. Topics high on the agenda this year…
Meyer Sound returned to Durham, North Carolina for its second year as the Official Sound Partner of Moogfest, the landmark festival that brings together the most visionary and creative minds in music, art, and technology. This year’s expanded presence included providing multichannel systems for concerts, workshops, and technology demos at the festival’s anchor performance spaces, including the Durham Armory, the 21c Museum Hotel, and Fletcher Hall at The Carolina Theatre, as well as two installations at the Durham Fruit and Produce Company. Many of the events in these venues showcased Meyer Sound’s Spacemap, which provides spatial mixing for any loudspeaker…
