Elation Professional is pleased to announce that Atendi has been named the exclusive distributor for Elation products in Denmark. Effective immediately, Atendi will partner with Elation to represent and distribute Elation’s comprehensive line of lighting products. Atendi, located in Copenhagen, has a long history as a distributor of professional equipment to concerts, events, film, TV and theatre, as well as architectural installations. Previously known as Bico Professional, the company actually dates back more than 100 years. “We operate in an industry where there is always a demand and interest in new technologies, therefore we are always looking for brands and…
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Visualization has hired seasoned senior sales figure James Belso to spearhead its end user and consultant activity. Strictly operating under Visualization’s “trade only” ethos, Belso will be charged in developing Visualization’s business and grow its partner network. Boasting an impressive pedigree – having worked for Christie Digital Systems for over a decade – Belso has recently been focusing on the Consultant community and key end users. With both a deep technical expertise and strong commercial focus, Belso was instrumental in some major wins including the iconic London Stock Exchange digital transformation. Prior to Christie, Belso has worked with Panasonic and…
Adam Hall Group continues the expansion of its international distribution network for Gravity solutions with the appointment of Melbourne-based Link Audio. With this exclusive partnership, Adam Hall, based in Neu-Anspach, Hesse, wants to address and cover more specifically both traditional retail and the online sector in Australia. “We are delighted to have found an exclusive sales partner for Australia in Link Audio,” explained Adam Hall Group COO, Markus Jahnel. “The Australian retail market is particularly challenging due to Australia’s geographical size alone, and plays an important role in our international endeavours. Link Audio is a young, dynamic and flexible company…
Together with the partners Düsseldorf Airport, Mietmöbel furniture rental service and Kirberg Catering, Neumann&Müller has equipped the two different sized studios for immediate deployment for virtual and in-person events at Düsseldorf Airport. From the gangway straight into the streaming studio in Station Airport at the mainline railway station, Düsseldorf Airport provides a perfectly located venue that now has two ready-to-go streaming studios and is now up and running for hosting digital and hybrid live events. In a location previously used by airline passengers to check in their luggage, Neumann&Müller has installed video, lighting and audio equipment for live streaming on…
Memphis Stone and the Elevators has pledged to donate all proceeds of their new song, Summer to help the live events industry. Written in the first UK lockdown, the track is an ode to better times and the return of music festivals with all proceeds dedicated to MAKE IT BLUE. Tom Weaver, the band’s bass player and co-writer said: “It’s a celebration of being in a field with thousands of other people and sharing the amazing experience of live music. So many of us have so many great memories from festivals and that’s what we wanted to capture in this…
A newly formed group of Green Hippo Hippotizer media servers worked in total harmony for Eurovision Song Contest 2021 spectacular finale – feeding lighting and visual data into LED strips and LED tape on the main stage, set pieces and in the ‘green room’ artist area. An estimated 183 million people around the world watched as a Hippotizer Boreal+ served as lead in the band, driving all of the LED tape and strip colours on and around the main stage at Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena. Contestants from 39 countries took part in this year’s event. Second in command was a Hippotizer…
Martin Audio has set up a merchandise store to coincide with its 50th anniversary. A comprehensive range of high-quality clothing and accessories is now available for shipment across the world. Items include executive backpacks, face masks and coverings, T-shirts and Polo shirts with and without 50th anniversary branding, as well as hoodies, sweatshirts, bomber jackets, baseball caps and beanies, body warmers and even embroidered logo Barbour jackets. Other accessories include mugs, golf umbrella, lanyards and much more. Martin Audio Marketing Director, James King stated: “Our 50th anniversary has given us the opportunity to implement an idea we’ve had for some time. …
Stepping onto the stage at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls on 20 May, Toby Keith became the first major artist to embark on a tour since the start of the pandemic 14 months earlier. For the happy fans in attendance that night, Keith’s Country Comes To Town tour represented not only a chance to enjoy live music again, but a reunion with an old and treasured friend. “The connection with the audience has always been a big part of who Toby is,” said Seth Jackson of Darkroom Creative, who along with his partner, Nathan Alves handled the…
The Conference on the Future of Europe is a platform intended to give citizens the chance to voice their opinions about the EU’s fields of action and say what kind of Europe they want to live in. For public health and COVID-19 transmission prevention, this year’s conference was held in Strasbourg, France on 9 May 2021 with a global audience joining proceedings via video conferencing software. A specially designed multilingual digital platform made it easy to join the event online and discuss the EU positions on nine key topics. Seven INFiLED ER Series video walls were installed around the main…
Following the success of the inaugural Virtual Showlight event, which took place on 25 May 2021, all VSL papers and video shorts have been made available to view on the Showlight website. Speakers Hamish Jenkinson, Mike Bauman, Ken Billington, Aaron Porter, Rob Halliday, Isabel Nielen, Floriaan Ganzevoort and Mike Evers, and David Bishop spoke on topics that included the illumination of a lighthouse on an island in the Bahamas, lighting a comic book movie, the remote lighting of a stage musical from half way around the globe, transforming a shipyard into an art gallery, and taking a spin on the…
Marking the first major camping event of its kind since the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK, the specially created Download Pilot three-day festival took place as part of the second phase of the UK government’s scientific Events Research Programme (ERP) on 18 to 20 June 2021. 10,000 rock fans were welcomed to the hallowed grounds of rock in Donington Park to enjoy a fully-fledged festival experience with no social distancing, no masks and moshing allowed. All attendees were required to take both a PCR and lateral flow test prior to the event, share details with NHS test and trace and show proof a negative result to enter…
The fountain at Cary’s Downtown Park has served as a backdrop to lighting displays marking celebrations and causes that are important to townspeople over the past few years, especially June when the fountain is illuminated in the rainbow of colours symbolising LGBTQ+ Pride Month. This year, however, the fountain was temporarily decommissioned as part of a larger park renovation project. Moving quickly, the city turned to another nearby landmark, the historic Cary Arts Center. By the start of June, the arts centre, which traces its roots back to the 19th Century, was glowing with a brilliant display of Pride Month colours.…
Take1 Insurance has released a new educational white paper entitled Reopening Live Events Safely: An Industry View that can be downloaded for free here. The publication of the new white paper follows last week’s announcement that Take1, in partnership with Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions and the Event Safety Alliance, will provide free Event Safety Access Training to professionals returning to work after more than a year of being sidelined because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Take1 Insurance Vice President and Program Director, Scott Carroll said: “The entertainment and live events industry have been through a nightmare scenario as the COVID-19 pandemic brought…
The BRIT Awards has long been noted for its spectacular productions, and the 2021 event was no exception, staged at London’s O2 arena featuring an elegant and dynamic production design by Es Devlin and Yinka Ilori with spectacular lighting created by Al Gurdon. The live broadcast event celebrated some of the best British and international music and broke ground as the first major indoor live music event with an audience – of key and frontline workers – since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down of March 2020. Hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall, and aired on ITV, a stellar line-up of artists…
The brainchild of Plymouth-based AV supplier Nub Sound, The Nub Sessions is a live-streamed music show broadcast on YouTube since November 2020. A wide variety of both local Cornish talent and artists from around the UK have featured on the show – including Jamie Lawson, Seth Lakeman, Eliza Shaddad and Antimatador – streaming from The Airfield Studios in St Merryn and Plymouth’s new Market Hall venue. At the heart of the Nub Sessions’ audio delivery is an Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system, employed for band, broadcast and monitor mixes and selected for the task by the driving force…
Frankfurt Opera in Germany is one of the most renowned opera stages in Europe, having paved the way for many successful operatic careers. Recently, with an extensive d&b audiotechnik system already installed, the venue chose to enrich its audiences’ sound experience with d&b Soundscape technology. A d&b DS100 Signal engine was duly purchased in time for the 2019/2020 season and the staging of a world premiere at the Bockenheimer Depot – Frankfurt Opera’s second venue. “It was a spatially complex work, with moving actors and an orchestra spread across the stage” explained sound engineer, Margit Baruschka. Unfortunately, due to the…
The 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest at Rotterdam’s Ahoy arena, marked the first major live event to take place in the Netherlands since the COVID-19 pandemic. With an incredible visual deployment, the event was powered by disguise. The official technical supplier of the contest, Faber Audiovisuals, relied on a complement of disguise vx 4, gx 2c and 4x4pro media servers to power a total of 55 scenes on a giant LED video wall and floors, used across all 39 competing performances, the opening ceremony, the flag parade and all interval acts, such as the impressive ‘Power of Water’.…
When virtual production and, in particular, mixed reality production took flight in early 2020 ARRI and ROE Visual came into contact and connected to develop a better understanding of the impact of this technology on both LED volumes and camera performance. This mutual understanding has led to the development of a continuous testing programme. Early 2020, when Europe had to face the first COVID-19 measures, it became clear for ARRI and ROE Visual that virtual production would become an essential technology. Both companies, leading in respectively image caption and LED technology, realised they are a vital link in the chain…
