Sitting serenely atop a hill 1,000 feet above the fertile floor of the Dee Valley, the Dinas Brân, which now stands in ruins, and its adjacent hills, has inspired hope and gratitude in the form of a brilliant lighting display created by ASG Entertainments, with the support of the Denbighshire County Council, North Wales Police, Eastwood Media, and Xperience Productions. On two successive nights in May, an all-volunteer group illuminated the hills and castle in vivid colors as a sign of appreciation for the NHS staff and key essential workers who have laboured selflessly to keep the county functioning during…
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Katy Perry and XR Studios engaged Production Resource Group to support the virtual 3D interactive environment for Katy Perry’s Daisies performance during Sunday’s American Idol finale on ABC. The performance made history as the most comprehensive use to-date of Extended Reality (XR) for television. XR Studios in partnership with Silent Partners Studios of Los Angeles and Montreal, created an environment with comic-book style graphic elements that changed throughout the performance, including a house, chair and, of course, daisies that enveloped Katy and to which she interacted and reacted. XR is an umbrella term for all immersive technologies that enable the…
Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, New Hampshire transformed their business operations and parking lot into the ‘Tupelo Drive-In Experience’ to produce some of the first live concerts in the United States with the new social distancing requirements. The music venue’s debut shows in mid-May were powered by a LEOPARD system provided by Meyer Sound rental partner UltraSound, showcasing one of the early innovations that explores new ways to deliver performances to a safely-distanced live audience. UltraSound’s Scott Tkachuk has been working alongside Tupelo Music Hall’s Owner Scott Hayward and Production Manager Paul Higgins since the conception of the drive-in shows…
Immerse yourself in LED technology. A wide range of LED panels can now be viewed and tested in ROE Visual’s new and impressive showroom. ROE Visual Europe has recently finalised a complete refurbishment of its showroom in Leek the Netherlands, showcasing its LED products in an intimate setting. Creating an immersive environment, the initial idea was to show a broad range of the latest LED panels in a setting that could facilitate a focus on the display of stunning visuals on the one hand and create a relaxed atmosphere to conduct business conversations on the other. The absolute center of…
Vans For Bands has announced the arrival of ‘The Big Band Bus Raffle’ – a fundraising raffle of items donated by the music industry to provide frontline doctors and nurses with wellbeing breakout space during the COVID-19 pandemic. The news comes as last month, Vans For Bands announced that it was offering its entire fleet of state-of-the-art luxury tour buses to NHS hospitals for front-line staff to use for the duration of the current COVID-19 crisis. The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge, Whittington Health NHS Trust in north London, Lewisham Hospital in south London and North…
ecolibrium has launched as the new brand for Energy Revolution, the charity that tackles environmental impacts from live event industry travel, to date, helping members balance emissions from over 13 million miles with investment in renewable energy ecolibrium marks a new phase of the charity’s journey, with more ambitious aims and a brand that speaks to a wider audience. The update includes expanded resources for its members including an app, industry specific sustainable travel guides, and new climate solutions programme, Trees+, designed to protect and regenerate ecosystems through tree planting, preservation of existing forests, and supporting sustainable farming practices. The Trees+…
While volunteering at Surrey Drive Campaign, Peachy Productions’ Philip French decides to use his technical expertise to transform the Guildford Cathedral into a beacon of light and optimism in the wake of COVID-19. French relocated to Wiltshire after being based in the Surrey city of Guildford for eight years, however, during the COVID-19 crisis he is making the journey back twice a week to volunteer for the Surrey Drive Campaign. A locally-based crowd-funded initiative that delivers around 2,500 delicious and nutritious cooked meals – with locally sourced ingredients – each week for hardworking staff at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation…
QSC has announced Mainline Marketing will represent the QSC Systems and Live Sound business in Florida and Puerto Rico. Mainline Marketing will take over for Meyer Marketing after acquiring its firm early this month. “We would like to thank the entire Meyer Marketing team for their hard work and dedication representing QSC over the years,” said Frank West, Senior Director of Sales for QSC Systems. “We look forward to working with Mainline Marketing in the Southeast region and leverage their vast experience and connections in the AV industry, specifically in corporate AV, theme parks, production and retail. Our companies share…
On Mental Health Awareness Week, Unusual Rigging is urging its industry counterparts to consider what mental health in the workplace will look like in a COVID-19 adapted world. As the entertainment industry has been knocked sideways by the global crisis, Tom Harper, Managing Director at Unusual Rigging, believes the time is right to tackle the growing problem of work-related mental health problems head on and to nip it in the bud rather than simply putting a sticky plaster on it. “If ever there was a time for it to be OK to not be OK, it’s now. With the world…
Record industry charity The BRIT Trust, which draws much of its funding from the annual BRIT Awards, has announced a donation of £30,000 to Music Support, the peer-led music industry charity that provides confidential mental health and addiction services. The money will help Music Support at a critical time when many people in the artist and music industry community are in urgent need of its help. It will also go towards Music Support’s ambition of giving 10,000 people access to Thrive – the UK’s only NHS-approved mental health app. See Notes for more details. Matt Thomas, Chair of Trustees of…
Singapore’s Bicentennial Experience could hardly have been more successful. Conceived to illustrate milestones in the island’s history, it employed a rich mix of immersive audio-visual solutions, from the large-scale to the intimate. Originally aiming for 300,000 visitors, by the time of its close at the end of 2019, its remarkable creative storytelling had attracted an incredible 760,000. Behind that success was show design specialist Ctrl Fre@k, Low used the power and versatility of Hippotizer to realise the multitude of solutions. A founding partner of Ctrl Fre@k along with Jeffrey Yue, Low is one of Singapore’s leading experts in video and…
Astera LED Titan Tubes were at the heart of a lighting scheme designed by Ben Donoghue, now of Flare Lighting, for Beyond the Road: an immersive exhibition at London’s world-famous Saatchi Gallery last year. Featuring the music of UNKLE, the experience thoughtfully and cerebrally merged the worlds of visual arts, music and film, offering visitors a chance to lose themselves in a multi-sensory world led by sound. In the watchful eye of UNKLE’s James Lavelle, the work was curated by Creative Producer, Colin Nightingale and Sound Designer/Creative Director, Stephen Dobbie of Punchdrunk. Lighting Designer, Ben Donoghue – who has recently…
Yamaha has launched exciting new additions to its range of professional audio products, the RIVAGE PM5 and RIVAGE PM3 digital mixing systems. The launch of two new control surfaces and two new DSP engines gives sound engineers greater choice and flexibility to deliver optimum sound in a much wider range of applications, democratising high end audio as never before. The Yamaha RIVAGE PM series is highly regarded by professional engineers for its outstanding sonic quality and flexible control. RIVAGE PM10 and RIVAGE PM7 are already established as industry-leading digital mixing systems and now the new, physically smaller RIVAGE PM5 and…
Obsidian Control Systems is pleased to be presenting an ONYX at Your Service webinar 28 May 10am (PST) focused on lighting control and programming for Houses of Worship. ONYX is Obsidian’s powerful and scalable lighting control platform that is a popular choice for many Houses of Worship around the world. It is affordable at any budget and easy to learn for volunteers while having the feature set and power to drive large gatherings. In this webinar, Obsidian Control Systems Product Manager Matthias Hinrichs will lead a two-hour discussion with experienced ONYX programmers and lighting designers Chris Eguizabal of Riverside, California,…
All Access is safely bringing back live events through its innovative VersaPlex Drive-In Events capabilities. Due to the impact of COVID-19 in the entertainment industry, All Access pioneered the VersaPlex system. Which provides an outlet for in-person event interaction while adhering to social distancing regulations and safety practices. In working with leaders both inside and outside the entertainment industry, All Access created a mobile and adaptable drive-in screen system. Combined with their event management expertise, they’re empowering organizations to host live events like concerts, tournaments, church services, movies, and gameday tailgating. VersaPlex provides this with event logistics, management, and weekly…
Luminex Network Intelligence has introduced LumiCore, the newest addition to the LumiNode family. Designed to allow simple, flexible control of network Lighting data from multiple sources LumiCore routes, merges, converts, restricts and allows multiple streams of ArtNet and sACN data from multiple sources to be managed in a clear intuitive way. Designed to provide simple management of the increasingly complex task of integrating different network lighting elements, LumiCore is ideal for easily managing multiple lighting consoles at a festival, routing lighting control from gallery to studio in TV, integrating remote followspot systems into a lighting system, separating Lighting data from a…
TEG has announced the appointment of Matthew Donazzan to the newly created role, Director of Strategy and M&A. Donazzan leads the team charged with assisting TEG’s CEO and Board in determining and executing the global live entertainment, ticketing and technology business’s key strategic projects. He also oversees TEG’s mergers and acquisitions program, including target identification and prioritisation, stakeholder coordination, due diligence, execution and integration. Donazzan was previously an Executive Director covering private equity clients at Goldman Sachs, where he played an instrumental role in the sale of TEG to its new owner Silver Lake Partners in 2019. Geoff Jones, CEO of…
PROLIGHTS has announced the appointment of SEESOUND as its new distributor in Spain. Nacho Alberdi, CEO for SeeSound said: “To me, working in this kind of industry means to carry on my family legacy, as in 1880 my grandfather started manufacturing pipes for church organs. That’s why we aim to continue doing what we do with passion and in the most professional way, taking care of the quality of the work done by our team. This, should allow us to offer the best solutions to our customers and partners.” He added: “When I first approached PROLIGHTS, I was fascinated by…
