Far from conventional, Dutch musician, DJ and producer Julian Jordan filmed his set for DJ Mag Virtual Festival 2021 in a former industrial plant. The towering metal structure, illuminated by ADJ static LED wash fixtures, provided a backdrop for the performance, while ADJ beam fixtures – positioned on the structure itself at various heights – generated piercing aerial effects which filled the night sky. To coincide with the voting for the 2021 edition of its Top 100 DJs poll, DJ Mag hosted a 10-week online showcase of the world’s leading DJs across the summer. The DJ Mag Virtual Festival was…
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Brooklyn-based Volvox Labs (VVOX) tapped into the disguise Extended Reality (xR) workflow with Unreal Engine to create a stunning visual experience for Dubfire’s recent livestream concert from The Met Cloisters Museum in New York City. Part of the Sonic Cloisters virtual electronic music series, which explores the parallels between techno and the art of The Middle Ages, Dubfire’s xR performance was the first time that the Cloisters had undergone such a digitally-enhanced display of its artwork. “It was amazing to be able to take this project into such a unique location for one day and basically launch a full xR…
The Ford, a 1,200-seat outdoor amphitheatre situated in Hollywood Hills, celebrates the return of live music and events with a multifaceted calendar of summer entertainment performed beneath a seasonal lighting package that includes Elation Professional IP65-rated Proteus Maximus LED profile moving heads, supplied by Volt Lites. Situated in a 32-acre park in the Hollywood Hills, and under the stewardship of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the dramatic outdoor setting with its natural backdrop is hard to beat for sheer beauty and intimacy. Renovated in 2017 with a number of technical and aesthetic improvements, a night at The Ford is a unique experience…
CHAUVET Professional continues to develop its capabilities to further serve the broadcast, studio, and film markets with the addition of Scott Laurentz to its management team. Formerly with The Lighting Design Group in New York, Laurentz joins CHAUVET as Product Resource Manager for Broadcast lighting. In his new position, Laurentz will draw on his extensive global experience working on lighting projects to provide the CHAUVET Professional and Kino Flo product development team with strategic input. He will also be involved in building customer relations and conducting training related to broadcast, studio, and film lighting. “This position is part our product…
The emergence of Hamburg indie-pop artist Vivie Ann’s new alter ego, Bowie, has been accompanied by four music videos that were created in just two days at the end of July in Hamburg’s Oberhafenquartier. In order to give each video its own look, despite the limited time and material resources, Lighting and Set Designer, Mikko Rahf called on 54 GLP Creative Light 1 Plus fixtures. “In the music videos for the songs Pale, XO, Liar and Milk Me we experience the revival of the character ‘Bowie’, as the artist will appear from now on,” explained the designer. “Under the conditions we…
Compared with some of Disney’s classic musical films, Bedknobs and Broomsticks has been comparatively late in being adapted as a stage musical. Now the story of three wartime evacuees and their fantasy adventures has made it to theatres in a world premiere tour of the UK and Ireland. Sound Designer, Gareth Fry chose a Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 digital mixing system to bring the magic to life. The multi- Olivier and Tony award-winning sound designer of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, The Cat In The Hat, The Encounter, Black Watch and many more shows and exhibitions, Gareth has been keenly…
ArKaos has released a feature update for its MediaMaster real-time video control software platform, MediaMaster 6. This MediaMaster feature update not only provides a brand new, streamlined user interface, it also unlocks multiple dynamic new features and offers50% more performance, power, and speed – when tested on Arkaos Studio 4K server running Windows 10 Pro – compared to previous versions – taking creativity and imagination to new levels, enabling users to produce the most spectacular high impact shows. The brand-new Remote Player is one stand out feature – a cue-based programming tool especially designed for those working on long term and…
For the virtual 2021 iteration of the annual WhatsOnStage Awards, Lighting Designer, Jack Weir harnessed Martin Professional lighting solutions to translate the excitement and grandeur of live performance through the computer screen. Held annually since 2001, the WhatsOnStage Awards celebrate excellence in the British live theater industry. However, due to social distancing regulations, this year’s ceremony was a virtual live stream broadcast from the Turbine Theatre, a more intimate venue than the show’s usual large-capacity locations like the Prince of Wales Theatre and the Dominion Theatre. This year’s show required a lighting system that effectively translated from the stage to…
Darkroom Creative – a fusion of imagination, ideas and production design from lighting and visual experts Seth Jackson and Nathan Alves – combined history, nostalgia, and reinvention in a blind pitch for the lighting and production design of the much-acclaimed Doobie Brothers 50th Anniversary tour, which they won. The tour was originally scheduled for 2020, was halted amid the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, and is now back on the road across North America. The lighting design includes 92 Robe Spikie moving lights which play a key role in shaping the show’s unique aesthetic, which takes inspiration from a collage of classic…
Billy Joel has resumed arena and stadium touring across the US to the delight of fans eager to see his electrifying live performances again. 4Wall Entertainment, the lighting and rigging vendor for the show, is providing two MA Lighting grandMA3 Light consoles running MA3 software as well as two wing extensions and two XL processing units for lighting control and network and data distribution – making the show the first North American tour to use MA3 software. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America. Billy Joel kicked off his 2021 dates at Boston’s Fenway…
A premier destination for live music since 1922, the Hollywood Bowl has hosted a litany of stars over the years and serves as the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This summer, the LA Phil and a host of other artists – some playing together with the orchestra such as Christina Aguilera – are performing beneath a seasonal lighting rig at The Bowl that includes Elation Professional Artiste Monet LED profile luminaires. Full-service lighting company Volt Lites of Southern California has supplied 50 Artiste Monet fixtures to The Bowl after adding the LED profiles to its inventory earlier this…
Measuring 88m by 132m, with a roof spanning 11,600 m², the Sportpaleis is an impressive structure by any standard. During one weekend in September, the venue and the neighbouring Lotto Arena joined forces for Reverze, a hardstyle music festival produced by Bass Events. Contributing to the experience was a series of transformative light shows run by designer and programmer Leon Driessen of LD Company with help from two ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M consoles with Stadium Wings. Featuring 1,017 lighting fixtures and 36,225 channels spread over 117 universes run through sACN and ArtNet, the light shows, which supported performances by 14 different…
The final footsteps of the 101-mile fundraising mission known as ‘A Light Walk’ were taken on Friday 24 September 2021, as the five-day odyssey from The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon to the National Theatre on London’s South Bank drew to a halt. The team behind A Light Walk, which includes CHAUVET Professional’s Sam Bowden and ALPD Lumiere Working group members, Charlotte Burton and Tamykha Patterson, were quick to point out, however, that although the walk is complete, the fundraising continues. The epic hike was undertaken to highlight the vital work of, as well as raise money for,…
BroaMan MUX22 fibre multiplexer and Repeat 48 3G/HD/SD-SDI Video/MADI fibre extender were provided by Total Solution Marketing (TSM), along with full-service support, for the recent Singapore National Day celebrations. The event this year was rescheduled by the Government from its traditional 9 August date to 21 August due to the increase in COVID-19 cases. These interfaces were deployed by The Show Company Pte, the appointed vendor of the Multimedia Committee for this year’s National Day Parade. The fibre-based solutions were used between transmitters and receivers, across distances averaging 250 metres—over LC multimode fibre to three different camera locations. This enabled…
Green Hippo has rolled out its latest hardware version, Hippotizer V4+ MK2. Delivering generational performance gains of up to 100% and key new features, Hippotizer V4+ MK2 provides the platform for creative video projects for years to come. Including five new hardware platforms, including the debut Hippotizer Mayon+ MK2, these tour-ready and install-proof systems are designed to deliver for even the most demanding productions, with up to 100% more processing power for seriously enhanced generative performance, 3D Mapping and Visualisation. With the ability to drive up to 32x 4K clips, the next generation hardware is optimised for generative playback, smooth…
On 9 September 2021, Gentleman was the star guest at the Strandkorb Open Air series of concerts at Berlin’s Hoppegarten venue. The reggae artist from Cologne and his band delighted around 2,000 fans who watched from the comfort of a thousand two-seat beach chairs at the historic racecourse. Wired and wireless microphones and IEM solutions from the Sennheiser portfolio are ubiquitous at concerts by Gentleman and his band. By forming the first links in the audio signal chain, they play a key role in ensuring superb live sound quality. For his performances, lead vocalist Gentleman, aka Tilmann Otto, uses a…
Enlightened Lighting deployed some of its stock of Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH and VL2600 Series luminaires at Bath Festival – one of the first major music festivals to take place in the UK following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in August. For Dave Thorpe of Enlightened this was the first time the firm’s newly purchased VL2600 PROFILE and WASH fixtures and VL10s had graced the stage of a busy festival. Therefore, he was keen to see how they performed and gauge the response from festival lighting designer Nic Ayres and McFly’s visiting lighting designer, Chris Yeomans. “It was a delight to use…
After 18 long months in exile, London Olympia’s PLASA Show 2021 marked an important landmark for the UK’s return to live events trade fairs, and an equally important milestone for Autograph Sound. Speaking exclusively to TPi from the tradeshow floor, core members of the audio-visual equipment rental service detail a consolidation of two departments and its future direction. Autograph Sound Recording was formed in 1972 and soon established itself as a forerunner in sound for theatre. A decade later, Autograph Sales was incorporated to bring the hard-earned skills and knowledge from theatre into the sales and installations markets. Autograph Hire…
