High Peaks Event Productions livestream studio recently staged New York quintet Lousy Sloughter’s Couch Tour in early April with artfully crafted lighting design by Christine Sharp drawing on the colour and gobo rendering prowess of over 30 CHAUVET Professional fixtures. “The looks I create are pretty varied depending on the genre of music, even and down to the song being played,” said Sharp, who runs High Peaks with her husband Roger. “For a low-keyed show, or an acoustic performance, I try to create an aesthetic frame around the musicians on stage. If I know the vibe of the song, I…
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disguise is set to receive research and development funding from Innovate UK to expand its work in virtual production. Innovate UK is part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation organisation whose purpose is to accelerate UK economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation – investing in game-changing and commercially viable disruptive ideas through the investigation and prototyping phases. With the grant, disguise will focus on pure research, outside its usual engineering innovation work, while maintaining a development timeline that is highly competitive within the technology sector. The disguiseVP R&D project focuses on scalability and flexibility as key improvements…
Absen has welcomed Jessica Golding as the company’s new European brand manager. Golding will be responsible for strengthening Absen’s reputation across Europe and Australia and fortifying Absen’s relationships with its European partners and distributors. Golding began her career working for DCS Group, a global distributor for brands in the FMCG market. “The work allowed me to gain invaluable experience straight out of University directly working with customers and to learn the ins and outs of distribution,” Golding said. After two years, Golding moved on to Taiwanese B2C and B2B manufacturer BenQ as a marketing executive, where she was rapidly promoted…
Robe lighting has released the T2 Profile – a lighting fixture offering an array of innovative technologies and the sought-after colour finesse of Robe Multi-Spectral LED (MSL) light engines. Crafted for multiple applications, the T2 Profile produces over 17,500 lumens – measured at the front lens – via its 850W MSL source. The T2 Profile incorporates many unique technologies like adjustable CCT – from 2,700K to 8,000K – together with DataSwatchT for the quick selection of 237 authentic pre-programmed colours and tones including the most frequently used whites. A high CRI of 95+ supplies skin tones, while L3 – Low…
BriteShot has shifted its manufacturing strategy amid the global pandemic and now specialises in COVID-19 decontamination products. Mitigating COVID-19 exposure in indoor environments, BriteShot’s revolutionary decontamination solutions include its AirAffair air filtration system and BriteShot decontamination tent. “To help venues re-open safely amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, we have dedicated our R&D resources to design groundbreaking innovation in air filtration and air purification,” says Roy McDonald, co-founder at BriteShot. “With more than a decade of knowledge and experience working in the entertainment space, we aim to have our decontamination technology be a factor in helping entertainment venues, restaurants, schools, houses of…
One of New York’s latest creative talent collaboration start-ups, Hotspring, has launched a global platform to service the increasing demand for remote VFX talent and to improve on the existing high-cost business model. Set to change what creative businesses are capable of achieving, Hotspring’s innovative approach makes it easier for creative studios to discover and work with global VFX talent on demand. Users see a saving of up to 35% on costs plus significant time savings, all while maintaining quality and security. The co-founders behind Hotspring, Jon Mason and Varun Parange, build on their previous success with Trace VFX; one…
Audio-Technica has been confirmed as a distributor for Optimal Audio – Focusrite’s new commercial audio brand – in no less than 17 territories across Europe and Africa. The company will assume distribution activities at launch on 20 April 2021. Focusrite Group’s seventh brand, Optimal Audio has been in development over the past three years to simplify the often unnecessarily complex world of commercial audio, as Focusrite CEO Tim Carroll explained: “Optimal Audio provides a streamlined product offering working seamlessly together to deliver high quality sound that is easy to install and can be operated by anyone, not just engineers.” Dom…
PROLIGHTS 7Pix and 19Pix contain 7 and 19 by 40W LED emitters, made by Osram, with additive RGBW colour mixing. The Astra Wash7Pix can output 4,000 lumens and the Astra Wash19Pix 10,000 lumens, considerably brighter than their predecessors, and the brightest fixtures in their class. Every Astra Wash is fully calibrated to a default 8,000K, cool-white at full. The fixtures have a newly designed and proprietary front lens and glass light rods, meaning it can meet exceptionally high optical efficiency across the entire zoom range. They are also protected by a new lens coating technology that helps increase the brightness,…
LIVE (Live music Industry Venues & Entertainment) – a confederation of industry bodies, including: The Association of Independent Festivals, Association for Electronic Music, Association of Festival Organisers, British Association of Concert Halls, The Concert Promoters Association, The Entertainment Agents’ Association, Music Venue Trust, Music Managers Forum, National Arenas Association and Production Services Association – has made a new proposal to the UK government intended to save the summer festival season, as one of the UK’s biggest festivals cancels citing a lack of insurance as one of the main reasons. Boomtown Fair, a 70,000 person festival held in Hampshire in August,…
Over the past year, PRG has created a worldwide network 20 of studio environments, including locations owned and operated by PRG Alliance partners. Ideally suited for efficient, scalable production of pre-recorded and live content, each location is equipped with gear and engineering to service its local market. The studios offer artists, brands and other creators a COVID-19 compliant setting and the resources to bring their visions to life. Beyond their responsiveness to today’s need for safety, they represent the future for digital and hybrid events. “The studio environment has never played a more significant role, not only for legacy TV…
In light of the continued situation with the global COVID-19 pandemic, one of the UK’s largest independent festivals, Boomtown Fair has announced the postponement of its in-person event for the second consecutive year. The next instalment of the music and theatrical festival will now take place on 10 to 14 August 2022. The 66,000 capacity event which was sold out in February was due to return to the Matterley Estate, nr Winchester over 11-15 August 2021 for the launch Chapter One: The Gathering. However, owing to the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and critically the lack of a UK government backed…
18 April marks a special day for d&b audiotechnik. 40 years ago, in Korb, a small village not far from Stuttgart in Germany, professional audio history was being made. Two young men, Jürgen Daubert and Rolf Belz, registered a new company, d&b audiotechnik. To mark the important milestone, d&b CEO Amnon Harman has issued a message: “Daubert and Belz believed that sound had the power to transform an otherwise ordinary space into something special. And now 40 years later, this belief is still intrinsic to everything we do at d&b. For d&b, two beliefs have stood the test of time…
Organised by local event and production company, Sound & Vision By DJ Nick in celebration of World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April. Dreaming Hearts livestream was broadcast from the historic Kourion Ancient Theatre on the island of Cyprus. The hour-long broadcast featured short, high-impact sets from four local DJs performed in front of an epic backdrop with an all-ADJ lighting rig. More than 70 ADJ lighting and atmospheric fixtures were positioned around the theatre, which has stood on the site for more than 2,000 years, creating a unique juxtaposition between the old and the new. The idea for the…
Directed by Daisy Evans, staged at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and conducted by Paul Wingfield, Coraline tells the story of a girl who opens a mysterious door in her parents’ home to discover an Other World, which is inhabited by her Other Mother and Other Father, who have buttons instead of eyes. Everything seems better in the Other World – to start with, at least… Lighting Designer, Robert Price, picks up the story: “Opposing worlds was the main theme running through my lighting design. One very natural, normal, and safe and one very abstract, in your face, and dangerous. I…
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced UK theatres to close in December 2020, the National Theatre’s pantomime, Dick Whittington, at the Olivier Theatre had only previewed four times. The performance on the 15 December was filmed and shared on YouTube over the Christmas holiday period with the National Theatre looking to reach as wide an audience as possible despite the closure. “It was a stunning production and great fun to work on, but a shame people couldn’t experience that magic first hand,” explained Lighting Designer, Jessica Hung Han Yun. “At least the streaming made it accessible to more people.” The Olivier…
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Extreme and ATEM Streaming Bridge were at the heart of a multi location digital cultural festival livestream, KulturMachtPotsdam (Culture Makes Potsdam) held in Germany. The 12 hour event was designed to show support for artists and professionals involved in Potsdam’s cultural scene, which has been brought to a standstill by the global pandemic. More than 150 local performers and speakers delivered a diverse program of entertainment, music and panel discussions, taking place across five different venues throughout the city. Live specialist Wir Streamen took responsibility for designing a streaming workflow that would capture all of the…
Tickets for Virtual Showlight 2021 are now available on Hubilo. All tickets are free of charge, however, delegates are encouraged to make voluntary donations when registering with proceeds set to support industry charities, Backup and Behind the Scenes. The event will be hosted on behalf of Showlight by MaxLive Events and takes place on 25 May 2021. An exciting programme of speakers are lined up and content will be interspersed by several ‘Video Shorts’ – short stand-alone papers, some of which will be forerunners to the full Showlight event that we hope will resume next year. A discussion panel of…
Green Hippo has further strengthened its international sales network with two new distribution appointments in Northern Europe, Frequency OÜ and Amepa Oy. In Estonia, Green Hippo has appointed Frequency OÜ, a live event specialist offering expertise in video engineering and equipment for live concerts, conferences, expos and more, founded in 2017 by Matt Villis, a video professional with over 15 years’ experience in the event production industry. “Hippotizer Media Servers provide a great range of products for all aspects of the market,” said Villis. “With events and installations beginning to move again, clients are mindful of their spending. But with…
