ARISTA Corporation has revealed the company’s new Pro AV website. With a more visually pleasing colour scheme, easy access to product information, and an architecture that makes navigating one’s way about the site more intuitive, the new ARISTA website is more intuitive and time-saving to use. Upon arriving at the site, visitors will immediately notice a new, more colourful brand identity designed to be more welcoming. This new look incorporates a greater emphasis on product photography so that prospective customers can get a considerably more up-close and detailed look the company’s various offerings. Product category organization is also more focused.…
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Just Add Power will continue its annual partnership with Guitars For Vets (G4V), donating nine acoustic guitars and a year’s worth of lessons to American veterans. For the past four years at the CEDIA Expo, Just Add Power has held a guitar giveaway at its booth to raise awareness for G4V and its mission. Because of the movement of CEDIA 2020 to a virtual event due to the COVID-19 crisis, the company will donate nine Epiphone PRO-1 Vintage Sunburst guitars directly to the charity, with a plan to resume the popular giveaways in person at CEDIA 2021 in Indianapolis. “While…
BTM worked closely with NEXO to deliver the PA systems for the Porta Ferrada Festival, staged on the Costa Brava in Spain, servicing new venues which had to be redesigned according to new festival safety protocols. Now in its 58th edition at home in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, near Girona, the festival had to reinvent itself, presenting the new Guíxols Arena. Once the main stage of the event, this space had to take on the character of an auditorium, restricting capacity to no more than 800 socially-distanced spectators, divided between stalls and stands. Nevertheless, more than 10,000 tickets were sold,…
One of the growing trends in entertainment lighting the past few years has been the increased use of UV light in productions of all kinds. Join Elation Professional on Thursday, 17 September at 11:00am (CEST) for its next Elation Coffee Break as hosts Alistair Smyth and Frederik Afif take a closer look at the Prisma line of advanced UV LED lighting products from Magmatic Atmospheric Effects. This new generation of IP65 lighting is changing the quality of UV light projection while making it easier for designers and production houses to implement UV light into their projects. Because Prisma uses high…
Pytch (formerly known as SXS Events) has launched The Virtual Venue to serve clients’ communications needs as the industry moves from staging live events to live streaming during the COVID-19 pandemic and into the future. In the Virtual Venue, Analog Way’s Ascender 48 multi-output switcher and video wall processor drives content on a massive 3.9mm LED video wall backdrop. Pytch is well known for staging large-scale brand events, including launches and sales conferences for fortune 500 companies. It transformed one of its warehouses into The Virtual Venue, a combination of a top-tier event space and a TV studio. In its…
After a period of consultation with the industry and the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Integrated Systems Events announce that ISE, scheduled for 2 to 5 February, has been postponed and will now take place in June, with dates to be confirmed, alongside a virtual offering. Additionally, ISE will launch RISE Digital, a regular programme of content and networking events which will run throughout the year and support the live show. Integrated Systems Events released the following statement [sic]: “We’ve been monitoring the conditions in Europe since the beginning of this year and have worked hard on your behalf…
As a specialist in visual content delivery, Jon9 thinks big. Not necessarily in terms of screens, pixels and layers, but in the bigger-picture possibilities of experiential entertainment and visual storytelling. With technical and creative expertise in equal measure, he has over many years developed a productive relationship with the Green Hippo team and its Hippotizer Media Server range – the toolkit he finds best suited to enabling his vision. Jon9 first used Hippotizers in building the media playback solution for Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE show in Las Vegas in 2004. It was a record-breaking system at the time. Since then,…
The catering divisions of Global Infusion Group, GIG and Eat to the Beat have joined the brand logistics arm of the business, e2b in its brand new 84,000 sq ft warehouse at Symmetry Park in Aston Clinton. The new facility has been an intrinsic part of the global business’ plans for expansion for the last three years, along with a desire to consolidate the individual companies under one roof. When the Global Infusion Group took possession of the premises in November 2019, they were looking ahead to a packed calendar of events for GIG and Eat to the Beat in…
d&b audiotechnik has introduced the company’s first flush mountable cabinet, 4SS, delivering compact, high-performance audio and a wide range of flexible mounting options. An intelligent waveguide and baffle design create a very smooth horizontal dispersion down to the lower frequencies while being tightly focused vertically. The 90º by 30º dispersion pattern keeps sound directed exactly where it should be. The asymmetric cabinet design and the optional back box supplies additional flexibility that allows adjustments of +/- 20º in 5º increments, accommodating different listening heights. A rotatable waveguide extends this to both horizontal and vertical positioning. Paired with the 10D or 30D…
L-Acoustics recently announced a partnership with SoundGirls, kicking off an annual training grant program to support the organisation’s mission to empower women in audio. Following a thorough panel review of numerous applications submitted by SoundGirls members, L-Acoustics is pleased to officially congratulate the three recipients of its 2020 SoundGirls Training Grants: Carolina Antón was awarded the L-ISA Grant, Kim Watson the Advanced Grant, and Eluned ‘El’ Ashwood the Starter Grant. “We were overwhelmed by the interest and response that we received from the SoundGirls community regarding these training grants,” said L-Acoustics Director of Education and Scientific Outreach, Etienne Corteel, upon…
Live Event Community – an organisation formed to support Canadian live event workers who’ve lost their livelihoods due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic – has organised a day of visibility on Tuesday 22 September 2020. Live Event Community calls upon event professionals, technicians, suppliers, and venues across Canada to light the night red one hour after sundown to raise awareness for an industry that is still dark. Organisations, grassroots groups and individuals will come together to illuminate landmarks in red, bringing to light the many performers, creators, technical, logistical, and management support personnel who drive a $100bn Canadian economic engine.…
The ALD has announced that applications for its perennially popular Sponsored Student Scheme for the year 2021 are open, and that also running alongside the scheme, for the month of September only, is a promotion targeted at the other individual membership categories, for discounted subscription rates for the rest of the membership year to March 2021. The Sponsored Student Scheme is funded by ALD Corporate Members and is targeted towards students who have not previously been members, offering the opportunity of free ALD membership until the end of March 2022. Membership within any category provides vital interaction opportunities and connection…
Palais des Papes in Avignon, France transformed intp a vibrant collage of colours, shapes, and textures as a result of 12 Robe ESPRITE moving lights – chosen by Lighting Designer, Fabien Chamakoff for Helios Festival 2020. The 10-minute Palais des Papes light show took place over the course of five weeks from 25 July to 30 August. With no soundtrack, Chamakoff illuminated the 60m wide by 40m high section of the building, in light of the work of renowned French architects, Pierre Peysson and Jean de Louvres, as well as the ornamentation of Simone Martini and Matteo Giovanetti, students from…
On August 26, the exterior of the Columbia Museum of Art was lit in purple, gold and white for Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment’s passage. David Sneath of ACS Sound and Light, organised the inspiring display with the city of Columbia. A collection of 30 CHAUVET Professional WELL Fit fixtures were used to light the museum and the historic building across the street from it at 1530 Main Street. Delicately balanced with varying degrees of saturation, and white light blended artfully with colour palettes, the commemorative lighting at the museum commanded attention as it…
As the current pandemic continues to throw a wrench into many institutional learning activities and potentially hinders the interaction between seasoned industry professionals and pro audio students, the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS) continues to provide its students with informative events which buck these current unfortunate trends. As such, Karen Dunn of KMD Productions recently helped host a Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) Career Opportunities in Pro Audio Product Companies Panel Zoom session for 50 CRAS students. “This was a terrific event and was designed as an informational webinar to help CRAS’ near-graduation students learn about the companies…
The long, hot summer of COVID-19 saw live music safely come back to Chicago’s lakefront with the new Lakeshore Drive-In venue. AudisBliss spearheaded the project working with LEC Event Technology (LEC) to transform a parking lot just west of the Adler Planetarium into an in-person concert venue that keeps the safety of the attendees, artists and employees in mind. LEC provided Ayrton Perseo-S fixtures for the stage, the first compact, multi-function luminaire with an IP65 enclosure rating developed for intensive outdoor use. LEC also supplied a large complement of grandMA3 gear for lighting control. Both brands are exclusively distributed in…
Datapath welcomes two new key appointments, with Alex Taylor joining the UK-based manufacturer as Project Manager and Dan Rippin announced as Software Development Manager. With a wealth of experience gained from photography and guest experience specialist Picsolve, as well as managing projects with the NHS and associated technology providers, Alex will be working closely with Datapath’s research and development teams, engineers, and sales and support teams, to ensure smooth completion of the company’s up-and-coming product releases. Taylor commented: “Datapath is globally respected as a market leader in video processing and management and I am thrilled to be joining their team.…
Black Skull Creative transformed this year’s GRM Daily Rated Awards show into a blended reality experience with the help of Anna Valley and subsidiary company, Matrix UK Solutions. The awards – hosted live at the Eventim Apollo in previous years – were streamed exclusively on YouTube and ratedawards.com on 9 September 2020 from a digital environment designed to challenge the audience’s perception of reality – and to comply with social distancing restrictions. The fifth GRM Daily Rated Awards sought to celebrate some of the biggest names in urban music and their contribution to the genre in the year leading up…
