Christmas and New Year celebrations in Mumbai, India were especially dazzling thanks to a light and laser spectacular showcasing the beauty of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, a 5.6km long, eight-lane wide bridge connecting Bandra in the western suburbs of Mumbai with Worli in the south. Spectators in India’s largest city enjoyed an extraordinary experience in which Claypaky Mythos 2 HY B-EYE K25 LED wash lights/beams/VFX projectors played a key role. The span of the bridge was illuminated with a string of lights in a changing array of colours as the towering arches and cables were bathed in rainbow hues. “This…
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Lightware Visual Engineering has joined the Esports Trade Association (ESTA). As these global markets continually mature into mainstream forms of entertainment, most reports forecast total industry revenues of more than $1bn over the next several years. The rising profile of these events, larger audiences and increased advertiser interest has heightened the need for enhanced gaming experiences, with vivid resolution, minimal latency and stable connectivity. Gaming tournaments now rival “traditional” sports events in terms of scale and popularity, but they also present their own unique audio/video technology challenges. Lightware’s full line of AV-over-IP systems, matrix switchers and extenders are considered a…
Extreme Lighting & Sound (ELS) recently wrapped up its first season presenting Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Fairview, Tennessee. The dazzling drive-thru holiday light show featured atmosphere-generating effects from a large amount of Elation Professional lighting gear along with custom pixel products and proved a huge success. ELS was approached by the city of Fairview in September to create and run the show after an initial contractor pulled out, which gave the design and production company only two short months to get everything together. “We agreed to do the Christmas light show but knew we were on a…
Craig Thompson has joined Riedel Communications as executive director of its new Customer Success Department. In his new role, Thompson will oversee operations for the department, which was created to deliver a frictionless experience for customers — from the initial demo and system design to training, delivery, and post-sales support — while expanding the company’s services portfolio and associated revenue streams. “With the creation of our Customer Success Department, we’re realising our vision of customer-centric operations, while preparing a solid foundation to support a product portfolio of hardware and software products,” said Riedel Communications Product Division CEO, Rik Hoerée. “With…
Following the success of his 2021 New Year livestream broadcast, DJ and producer, Nicky Romero brought together the same technical team to produce his 2022 show, which was filmed outdoors and featured a large lighting rig composed almost exclusively of ADJ fixtures. ‘Nicky Romero and Friends Presents NewYear Show 2022’ was streamed exclusively on the DJ’s website from 10pm until 1am, local time. It featured warm up DJ Marc Benjamin, a guest performance from Wildstylez, and an hour-long set from Romero to welcome in the New Year. Filmed outdoors in front of the iconic Kreelpoort (town gate) in Romero’s hometown…
Epson has launched its newest generation of compact, efficient and ultra-lightweight high lumens 3LCD projectors. Building on the success of its EB-L20000U series, Epson’s PU2200U range of high lumens 3LCD projectors includes the world’s smallest and lightest 20,000 lumens models (EB-PU2220B / EB-PU2120W) which are 70% smaller and 50% lighter than their predecessor (EBL20000U). The new range offers users advantages including much reduced size and weight, easier installation and set-up, simplified maintenance and improved image quality. The new range of ultra-lightweight, compact laser projectors has been designed for use in large auditoriums, live events, concerts, conference rooms where it delivers high-impact immersive…
James Barker Band recently appeared at London’s Centennial Hall for a country jamboree, illuminated by an Andrew Dawson lighting design, which featured CHAUVET Professional STRIKE 1 fixtures, supplied by PA Shop Productions. Like the band itself, Dawson’s show thrived on creating a strong connection to the crowd. Toward this end, the young designer from Toronto relied on audience lighting from the eight STRIKE 1 units in his rig. “I was looking for a way to add crowd lighting to the show’s design without being overbearing,” said Dawson. “The venue had an all-white ceiling, which I wanted to use as part…
Brompton Technology has hit the ground running in 2022 by announcing its latest Tessera v3.3 software features. The new features include Operating Modes, and Per-Batch PureTone. Additionally, the Tessera SX40 and S8 now have a preset to support the ACES AP1 colour space, as used by ACEScg. Finally, in collaboration with Mo-Sys, Brompton Technology has added support for its StarTracker camera tracking system when using panels fitted with the Tessera R2 or Brompton’s new Tessera R2+ and an SX40 or S8 processor with Frame Remapping. The new Tessera R2+ receiver card has the same SO-DIMM form-factor as the R2, which…
The National Trust team at Anglesey Abbey in the picturesque Cambridgeshire village of Lode recently opened its gates for its Winter Lights – an imaginative and breath-taking night-time trail through the beautiful heritage gardens of the listed Jacobean Abbey. Pearce Hire were the clear choice for the Abbey’s events team as they designed and activated the brief for an enchanting 2km lighting and audio nature trail through the grounds and taking in the House, Mill and the aptly named Winter Garden. “We may be better known in the industry for providing technical production support for festivals and tours, but this…
Ayrton has appointed Vijay Thaygarajoo as regional sales manager for the Asia Pacific. Thaygarajoo brings over 10 years of industry experience in the region, working with Ayrton’s local distributor and as regional sales manager for a number of industry manufacturers. “I am very excited to be joining the amazing team at Ayrton,” said Thaygarajo. “As the RSM of Ayrton, I will be responsible for maintaining and building relationships with current distributors as well as appointing new distributors around the APAC region, with the aim of progressing and further strengthening the Ayrton brand and image in this part of the world.…
NicLen, headquartered in Dortmund, has made a substantial investment in Robe moving lights – with a three-figure quantity of FORTES and iSpiiders, delivered by Robe Germany. NicLen CEOs, Nico Valasik and Jörg Stöppler commented: “FORTES are appearing increasingly frequently on event and artist riders and requests for this fixture have increased substantially this year since the product was launched. We ensure that our clients have the very best tools at their disposal to help achieve spectacular results.” As live shows and events intermittently returned during the second half of 2021, there has been a huge spike in the demand for…
In late 2021, VDC Trading was approached by Murt Whelan Sound (MWS) to create a 48-channel stagebox. (MWS) provides professional services nationwide and is a one stop production shop, offering support from initial concept and design right through to the realisation and management of any large-scale event. Well-known for its high quality creative solutions, MWS constantly invests in responsive, state-of-the-art equipment to ensure it stays ahead of the market and exceeds its customer expectations. The firm approached VDC Trading to design a custom 19” rack mountable, 48 channel stagebox, which will be central to many of the concerts it plans…
Production Manager, Jon Bumgarner turned to Entec Live’s technicians for support during the post-pandemic production of Christmas With Il Divo Tour, under the recommendation of Eighteentwentysix Director of Touring, Matt Doherty. Representing Los Angeles-based production company, Eighteentwentysix, US native Bumgarner harnessed Entec’s intimate knowledge of smaller 2,000 to 3,000-capacity UK venues in secondary locations that the multi-national quartet were playing and tapped into the company’s ability to singularly source the technical infrastructure required for the production. “I have done a lot of shows in the UK over the last 15 years but mostly arenas in big cities such as London,…
Meyer Sound has revealed PANTHER, a new flagship linear line array loudspeaker engineered to meet rapidly evolving demands for large-scale touring and installed systems. Complex and visually-focused production scenarios, coupled with tighter safety regulations, often restrict the space and weight allowed for loudspeakers. At the same time, environmental policies require greater energy efficiency and a smaller footprint for transport as more productions shift to a networked signal infrastructure. Responding to these demands, PANTHER’s acoustic output is closer to the significantly larger and heavier LEO line array loudspeaker and occupies the slender form factor of the existing LYON line array loudspeaker.…
Multi-GRAMMY Award-winner Carrie Underwood debuted her first Las Vegas residency, REFLECTION, in December at the new Resorts World Theatre where lead Lighting Designer and Creative Producer, Nick Whitehouse and joint Lighting Designer, Brian Vaughan used MA Lighting grandMA3 software to control the lighting. Underwood’s career-spanning, hit-filled show, featuring her eight-piece band, aerialists, dancers, and a virtual orchestra, opened the new 5,000-seat theater at Resorts World Las Vegas. Among the spectacular moments on the 13,550ft stage were a hall of mirrors, a car which descended from the rafters and was set ablaze, and a grand finale surrounded by waterfalls. Underwood has…
Studio Zuid in Antwerp’s trendy South has transformed its entertainment offering with the purchase of a TiMax SoundHub-S64 spatial processor with MADI I/O. The venue’s semi-circular amphitheatre-like auditorium plays host to a wide and popular variety of immersive musical dining experiences, the first of which was an immersive production of The Bodyguard, originally made famous by the Whitney Houston film and award-winning soundtrack. Sound Designer and venue Audio Director, Erik Loots, had a big vision for the type of production the venue needed and the level of audio flexibility he wanted for shows like The Bodyguard. For him, “TiMax was…
Heavenue, an entertainment-focused platform delivering high-fidelity, immersive live shows from the cloud, has opened in New York. Founded by CEO, Alex Coulombe, the early development platform has already been used by the prestigious Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky for its first show, a virtual rendition of Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol. Heavenue allows audiences to get up close and virtual with their favorite performers, live, from anywhere in the world. “Now, with the advent of technologies including NVIDIA CloudXR, remote rendering, MetaHumans, and Unreal Engine, we can build a platform like Heavenue that democratizes live performance across the metaverse,”…
tvONE and Green Hippo have announced they will bring their innovative new technologies directly to partners and end users in their own countries, focusing on a series of localised tradeshow events. After making the move to not exhibit at ISE 2022 in Barcelona, the company will focus its efforts on a number of face-to-face activities, including Prolight & Sound in Frankfurt with Green Hippo Distributor Cast Germany; Technology Exposed by Midwich; NAB with partners FX Design Group, DigiLED and DVG; UK Plasa North with AC Entertainment UK; Infocomm 2022, Las Vegas; Medialog by Kern & Stelly Germany; S14 Day by…
