The Ultra Music Festival, one of the world’s premier electronic music events, attracts top international DJs and performers, drawing thousands of spectators from all corners of the globe. The 2023 edition featured Gloshine Outdoor LED Screen – LE 4.81, ensuring every element contributes to the experience. Attending Ultra offers an experience unlike any other, where the visual components are as crucial as the auditory ones. Attendees aren’t there just to hear the music; they yearn to see, feel, and immerse themselves in the music. With every beat drop and crescendo, the visual elements need to be impeccable, and that’s where…
Author: James Robertson
The Lighting & Staging Zone at ISE 2024 will serve as a hub for exploration of the ever-changing illumination industry, shining a light on the incredible technology that enhances performance, heightens audience connection, and creates an unforgettable, immersive experience. Located for the first time in Hall 1 at ISE 2024, the Lighting & Staging Zone showcases lighting/lighting control, rigging/staging equipment, motion tracking, video mapping, holography, and much more. It promises a huge variety of solutions, spanning those appropriate for small temporary venues, right up to fixtures for major stadium concerts. In Hall 1, you’ll find globally recognised manufacturers like Robe…
To enhance fairness and inclusivity across the live touring sector, the 2024 TPi Awards have undergone a revamp in the voting process and category structure. The TPi Academy, composed of last year’s winners, has meticulously curated the shortlist to ensure a diverse representation in the individual categories. They have also combed through all the company applications to draw up the top six for each category. In response to industry dynamics, The Des Fallon Video Visionary Award has been retired, and two new categories emerge: Content Creator of The Year and Video Specialist of The Year. Similarly, the other named awards;…
Mondiale Technology Media presents EXPO Latam, a new exhibition that will showcase technology for the entertainment industry and is aimed at the Mexican, South and Central American, and Caribbean markets. Cancun is the perfect hub, bridging all the Americas; South, North, and the Caribbean. This city is also easily accessible globally, with over 49 airlines around the world flying to this vibrant destination. There are plenty of great bars, restaurants, hotels, meeting spaces and, of course, beautiful beaches. Exhibitors will consist of Manufacturers, Distributors and Rental Houses, and the visitors will be made up of Dealers, End Users, Technical Crew,…
INFiLED has launched its CBSF (Color & Brightness Shift Free) technology, which marks a significant leap in xR/VP market. As the market expansion and technical development of xR technology are interdependent, INFiLED’s commitment to contributing to xR through technology will further promote the rapid development of the virtual production industry. With CBSF technology, INFiLED is setting a new benchmark for colour performance in xR/VP. INFiLED’s new solution, powered by the innovative M2 chip with chip-type LED five-sided aims to eliminate conventional LED chips which nowadays fall short of enabling accurate color reproduction due to technical limitations such as colour shifts…
In November 2023, INFiLED made a significant collaboration with Vision Collective and SoCal Rentals in Austin, TX. The joint effort resulted in a screen installation with the state-of-the-art IRDB2.6 LED. The IRDB series screen with a fine pixel pitch of 2.6mm provided by INFiLED proved to be the ideal solution for the installation. Its impressive display capabilities elevated the project to new heights, captivating audiences with its striking clarity and vibrant colours. With a high contrast ratio of 5000:1 and 14-bit greyscale, it showed unrivalled visual performance and served as a testament to INFiLED’s commitment to excellence. Commenting on the…
The HOF team continues to grow and has been able to bring another event technology expert on board with Tim Otte. Otte has been working in the field of event technology for many years and has extensive industry, sales and user experience. Many people will recognise him from these activities. Tim is already very familiar with HOF’s portfolio. He joins HOF as Sales Manager and will work on both national and international accounts. www.h-of.de/en
Creative Technology (CT) announces a new leadership change in Europe. After 30 years leading Creative Technology UK through many challenges, triumphs and successes, Mark Elliott has decided to step down from the position of Managing Director and handed over the role to Sid Lobb. Already a seasoned member of 22 years with the company, Lobb’s experience and understanding of the company, its clients and its people allow him to be best placed to help drive the company forwards into the next version of itself. Lobb commented: “I am truly very excited about taking over from where Mark Elliott has got…
POLAR will stage a demonstration featuring products by HK Audio at Com Church in Dunstable on Monday 20 November. The HK Audio range attracted strong interest as part of POLAR’s recent highly successful Roadshow events across the UK, prompting its team to stage an event dedicated entirely to the brand. Visitors to the event will enjoy a live demo of the HK Audio Cosmo integrative and highly flexible line array, as well as the chance to experience the brand’s Linear 5 MKII and flagship Linear 9 systems. POLAR’s Andy Plunkett, who will manage the event, commented: “Our recent run of…
Billed as a ‘reunion tour’ – following the reintroduction of founding vocalist/guitarist Tom DeLonge as part of the pop punk band’s live setup for the first time since 2014 – blink-182’s eagerly-anticipated World Tour 2023/2024, affectionately named the Rock Hard Tour, hit the road on 4 May at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Serving as a precursor to the imminent release of the band’s ninth studio album, One More Time… the band, their dedicated support teams and a road-tested production crew descended on London’s The O2 for two back-to-back sold-out shows. In Europe, the technical suppliers included Backroom…
When I started at TPi, I remember one of the first questions I would ask a monitor engineer was: ‘What are you using for the artist’s onstage sound?’ Back then, many productions opted for one of three options – wedges and side fills; in-ear monitors (IEMs); or, what was often the most popular option, a hybrid of the two. With the ever-growing sophistication of IEMs, not to mention a lot of guitarists and bassists opting for digital amp options, completely quiet stages – bar the drummer – have become the norm, with all on-stage sound being delivered through IEMs. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi278_digitallr/82…
The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) returned to New Jersey’s Prudential Center in September for its biggest and most striking show yet. The event celebrated acts from across the globe including Beyoncé, BLACKPINK, and Taylor Swift – including a tribute to 50 years of hip hop featuring Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick, and Grandmaster Flash, among others. EMMY Award-winning Production Designer, Matt Steinbrenner and Lighting Designer, Tom Sutherland were among the key personnel responsible for creating and designing this year’s production, which saw 16 captivating performances across two identical stages. Speaking to TPi, the two acclaimed designers share their insight into…
Paramore has been on a world tour supporting their sixth studio album, This is Why, which dropped in February 2023. The live show features an eye-catching and interesting stage and lighting production design crafted by Sooner Routhier of Sooner Rae Creative and Trevor Ahlstrand of Ahlstrand Productions. The lighting rig includes 67 Robe ESPRITE moving lights, three Robe BMFL FollowSpots and six BMFL FollowSpot LTs working on a three-way RoboSpot system, plus six iFORTES. Approached in the fall of 2022 by Tour Manager, Andrew Weiss, it is Routhier’s first work with the band. Ahlstrand and Routhier were keen to collaborate…
Elation Professional has launched Proteus Hybrid MAX. CreatING wide ranges of powerful effects from a 1.8° shaft of light to a 45° wide beam, and everything in between. In fact, the zoom offers a range of all hybrids available in the market. An added frost softens light allowing the unit to be used as a wash unit at any angle from the extra-large 170mm front aperture lens. Powered by the Philips MSD Platinum FLEX 500 lamp with lamp life of up to 4,000 hours, and boasting a 22,000 lumens the Proteus Hybrid MAX produces potent beams, gobos, and washes. The…
Celebrating 40 years of Spanish quartet, Hombres G, the Seguimos Empezando tour is running throughout Spain and Latin America, treating fans to hits like En la Playa and La Esquina De Rowland during a two-hour set in which the band never takes their foot off the gas pedal. Reflecting this energy at Hombres G’s sold-out performances at Arena Monterrey and Arena Ciudad de México was a CaCo García light show anchored by 30 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorised strobes supplied by Serpro Producciones. The band’s lighting designer for the past 11 years, CaCo García, brilliantly created a variety of looks that…
Multi Academy Award-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has been revealed as the Opening Keynote for ISE 2024. Most widely known for her Academy Award-winning documentary shorts: Saving Face and A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness, Obaid-Chinoy is the first filmmaker from Pakistan to win an Oscar and the first female film director to have won two Oscars by the age of 37. She is also the recipient of four Emmy Awards, a Knight International Journalism Award, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, the second highest civilian award of Pakistan, and was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.…
The Jazzopen music festival in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart has developed into an extremely high-calibre, world-class concert event. In 2023, around 50,000 visitors experienced performances by Melody Gardot, Deep Purple, Grace Jones, Die Fantastischen Vier, Joss Stone, Simply Red and many others over the festival’s 11 days. Event technology specialist, Sound & Light from Leonberg, has consistently supported Jazzopen as a technology partner in recent years and has been a permanent service provider for sound, light and video technology on the main stage since 2022. None other than Jerry Appelt is responsible for the lighting design on the main stage, which is…
Event Safety Specialist Edward ‘Eddy’ Grant – CMIOSH FHEA has been appointed to the role of Director of Safety at LFX Events. Eddy will head up the growing Event Safety division within LFX Events taking on responsibility for developing the Company’s event safety division and steering its progress as the business expands with significant new contract wins and growth internationally. Eddy is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Safety and Health, Professor of Professional Practice in Events Management, at the Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership. University of Cumbria, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Eddy is…
