Fusing the poetic Urdu and Kashmiri languages with a cinematic soundscape of dreamy indie-rock, Bangalore based four-piece Parvaaz returned to the stage with the multi-city Full Circle tour, the first of its kind in India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mumbai-based sound engineer Supratik Das has worked with Parvaaz for the past four years as their FOH and monitor engineer, and when the call came for the Full Circle Tour he already had a mixer – or three – in mind. And with the help of Sun Infonet, Allen & Heath’s distributor in India, he was able to…
Author: Jacob Waite
disguise has released r20 software in six new languages. In addition to English, disguise’s Designer software is now available for use in Spanish, German, French, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. This localisation represents the next step in the company’s move towards remote, cloud-based collaboration following its recent acquisition of leading 3D content previsualisation platforms Mapping Matter and Previz. Trusted for over 20 years on some of the world’s biggest, most complex live shows, broadcasts and virtual productions, the disguise Designer software is a powerful toolkit for winning pitches, developing storyboards, creating camera fly-throughs, validating content, testing technical setups, and designing entire projects. Its timeline-based interface allows…
Starting 1 January 2022, Wuppertal-based Riedel will be structured in to three main divisions: Product Division, Managed Technology and Riedel Networks, headed up by CEOs, Rik Hoerée, Lutz Rathmann and Managing Director and CEO, Michael Martens, respectively. With this strategic step, Riedel Group CEO, Thomas Riedel will devote his attention to driving business development and expanding global partnerships and networks. Together with Group Chief Financial Officer, Frank Eischet, who is responsible for finance, HR and IT, Thomas will form the spearhead of the Riedel Group. “The last year has given us time to take a deep breath and reflect on…
On Halloween evening, a unique event took place in Germany that blurred the lines between dance event and concert. Dutch hard dance DJ and producer Sefa played a 90-minute set with a full live band, headlining an event aptly titled, This Is SEFA. Drawing focus to the stage, lighting production for the evening featured over 120 ADJ fixtures, including Vizi Beam RXONE and Focus Spot 4Z moving heads alongside Encore Burst 200 audience blinders and Jolt 300 multifunctional LED panels. Hosted at the 3,000-capacity Warsteiner Music Hall, an old industrial building in the German city of Dortmund that has been…
Having entertained music fans and provided an outlet for a talented production team with a series of livestream shows in lockdown [see TPi #255], Irish singer-songwriter, Dermot Kennedy returned to the road with his most ambitious tour to date and three sold-out shows at London’s Alexandra Palace. The project comprised the expertise of Creative Director, Richard Sloan; Creative Producer, Peter Abbott; Lighting and Production Designer, Owen Pritchard-Smith; Content Producer, James Lockey; Video Programmer, Joe Lott of Quantum Creative and Lighting Chief, Dave Moorcroft. Following a successful run of shows in the UK and Ireland, three nights at Ally Pally saw…
Elbow’s recent UK tour – the band’s most comprehensive in years – was brought to life by longstanding Lighting Designer, Cate Carter, who harnessed GLP impression FR10 Bars among the key fixtures on the rig. A massive fan of GLP’s innovative battens, Carter believes that while GLP impression X4 Bar 20s have been “confirmed favourites that have featured on all our designs”, she took the decision to step up to the more powerful FR10 Bar after originally seeing it at the LDI Show in the United States. With 10 separate sources of 60W RGBW LED among its feature set, the…
Established by industry veterans Alan Durrant, Geoff Knight, and Matt Wright, Freight Minds is a wholly new company dedicated to excelling at all aspects of the increasingly competitive freight forwarding industry. With new rules and legislations making cost-effective freight forwarding of live tour equipment an increasingly complex task, the team at Freight Minds bring over 125 years of combined experience to the new company, ensuring that every project benefits from their understanding of the intricate logistics that underpin successful completion. Located at London’s Heathrow Airport, Freight Minds is positioned for all air freight imports and exports, both into and out…
Over a year in the making, The National Lottery’s Team GB Homecoming Event, which was staged at The SSE Arena, Wembley, in August, saw Britain’s returning Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games athletes honoured by a host of big names from the world of music and entertainment with performances by the likes of Rag’n’Bone Man, KSI, Griff, Anne-Marie, Bastille, Yungblud, Nile Rodgers, Chic, Laura Mvula, Mica Paris, Chickenshed, The English National Ballet, Motionhouse, and The Spirituals Choir, among others. The 90-minute televised showcase, packed with performances and big screen content, also marked a significant step in the return of in-person audiences convening…
From 4 to 12 September, the Rehberghalle in Roßdorf, Germany, was transformed into a musical stage. Under the direction of Broadway Entertainment e.V., young people from the local area staged a rendition of Jekyll & Hyde. Lighting Designers, Benedikt Vogel and Kilian Scheiding relied on Cameo by Adam Hall Group OPUS, ZENIT and F Series spotlights, supplied by Pfungstadt-based MKM Event Show Technik. Broadway Entertainment e.V. has been staging impressive show productions for quite a few years now. Sunset Boulevard, Dracula, Chaplin and Shrek, among others, recently celebrated their musical premiere in the Rehberghalle. “The location itself is one of…
SIXTY82 has expanded its global distribution network with the appointment of Stagemarket as its exclusive distributor for the Russian Federation. Stagemarket has been a provider of professional staging solutions to the Russian market since 2010. Throughout this time, Stagemarket has proven itself as one of the main players for high quality equipment and bespoke structures. With over 21 years of experience in the live events industry, Stagemarket has a wealth of experience and technical knowledge in recommending solutions to suit their customers’ needs. SIXTY82’s customers can be confident of the abilities of the dedicated team at Stagemarket to meet their…
Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy hits the road with two DiGiCo SD5 consoles, supplied by SSE Audio, operated by FOH Engineer, Will Donbavand and Monitor Engineer, Simon Peter Lawson. Donbavand and Lawson have been working with Dermot since 2017, with Donbavand doing Dermot’s first ever London show at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen and Lawson taking the reins for a Monitors from FOH tour around Europe later that year. Things quickly escalated in early 2018 with both engineers taking up their current positions. “As soon as we could spec desks for Dermot, we took out a pair of SD11 is and…
A cornucopia of music’s best and brightest stars, including Billie Eilish, Coldplay, Dua Lipa, and Nelly, descended on the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the iHeartRadio Music Festival – a live production backed by striking visuals driven by Green Hippo Hippotizer Tierra+ media servers, supplied by 4Wall Entertainment and supervised by Screens Producer, Jason Rudolph of Mobius Productions. “I’ve used Hippotizer products for a long time, since the early days of V3,” said Rudolph. “I’ve always gotten incredible support from the team at Green Hippo, and that’s a big reason why we have continued to use them over the…
Maroon 5 wrapped an early fall tour on 8 October in Concord, California, the conclusion to an eight-week return to the road lit by Brian Jenkins using Upstaging-supplied Elation Professional lighting fixtures. The pop rock band played sheds across North America in support of Jordi, a summer release dedicated to band manager Jordan Feldstein, who passed away in 2017. Maroon 5 has proved to be one of the most successful acts of the past 20 years with at least one top five single on the Billboard Hot 100 on every album since their 2002 debut release. That staying power echoes…
Audiologic has been named as an exclusive UK distributor for LEA Professional. The LEA portfolio of products is made of the Connect Series smart amplifiers, with both a standard and Dante format available. As the rest of the signal chain has continued to grow with smart connectivity with IoT integration, LEA have bought amplifiers right up to the forefront of the technology race. The Connect Series range scales across two, four and eight channel options with a host of power options. The amplifier has a fully capable on-board DSP providing all the processing you could need for the tuning, protection…
Universal Audio (UA) has appointed Sandeep Gupta as Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Gupta will oversee all aspects of UA’s rapidly growing business, including its engineering, product, financial, sales, and marketing efforts. Reporting directly to CEO Bill Putnam Jr., Gupta brings 30 years of experience delivering industry‑changing consumer and professional products to UA. For the last decade, Gupta worked at Amazon (AMZN) and most recently served as Vice President and General Manager for Amazon Fire TV. There he developed and managed the Fire TV business, including its expansion into software licensing for Smart TVs, Soundbars, and Automotive. His prior…
Organised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, the ninth Chinese Peking Opera Arts Festival took place over a three-week period in September and October at The National Centre for Performing Arts. Held in the concert hall of the National Centre for Performing Arts, the symphonic performances not only demanded the highest quality audio, but also that the loudspeaker system was as discreet as possible in order to avoid compromising video feed sight-lines or other aspects of the presentation. Production specialists and CODA Audio’s distributor in China, Tongbo supplied a CODA System based around…
PRG Switzerland has rebranded as PRG Gear, broadening its reach beyond Swiss borders. With this move, PRG brings its dry rental sources under one single brand with the focus of being a source of equipment rental for the wider production community. PRG Gear’s office in Zurich is ideally located since it is right in the heart of Europe and can easily offer professional services going beyond. Within 24 hours PRG Gear will be able to serve a radius of 600 km straight from its 7,500 m2 warehouse, which is amongst the largest equipment inventories for all types of production disciplines…
Infinity Furion S401 Spots, iW-1915 RGBW wash moving heads, Showtec Helix S5000 Q4 RGBW LED wash fixtures, and DMT Pixelscreen E6 MKII LED screens were successfully deployed at the Praça al Mouhatamid Ibn Abbad in Silves during the Geopalcos summer festival in the Algarve in the south of Portugal. Geopalcos is a biannual event that aims to connect art, science and nature in the Geopark territory in the southern region of Portugal (the Algarve). Artists and scientists are challenged to combine their skills and expertise, and take nature lovers to discover art and science, lead art aficionados through nature and…
