For the fourth year running, NRG crew members, under the supervision of Robe’s creative team – spearheaded by Lighting Designer, Nathan Wan and Associate Lighting Designer, Andy Webb – made a significant contribution to the TPi Awards 2020. NRG’s first female Assistant Lighting Designer, Becky Gaskill, was among those chosen to play an integral role in illuminating a room of over 1,700 industry peers and insiders at Battersea Evolution. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpimar20_digitallr/94 Photos: TPi & NRG www.productionfutures.com www.robe.cz
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An Allen & Heath dLive mixing system set the rink alight for one of the most successful ice-skating gala events in the world, Art on Ice, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this month with a series of shows taking place across Zurich, Lausanne, Basel and Davos. Combining live performances from internationally acclaimed artists, world-class dancers and figure-skaters, including the 2018 Gold Olympic medallist Alina Zagitova, Art on Ice offers a unique and immersive storytelling experience. Produced by Swiss AV production company, Habegger AG (and with Session Pro helping to supply gear), the full setup featured a dLive S7000 paired with…
4Wall Entertainment has acquired the company UK company Smart AV in order to continue to grow its European and UK presence as audio visual suppliers and further support their clients internationally, while Smart AV’s current customer base gains the advantage of global support and an increased array of equipment including lighting and rigging. Smart AV is the second UK-based acquisition 4Wall has made in the past year, following lighting provider HSL, and becomes its third international location including Germany. Smart AV’s 40,000 sq ft of warehouse, showroom facilities and demo area just outside of London join 4Wall UK’s already 165,000 sq.…
Magmatic atmospheric effects has begun shipping the first snow machine in its Polar series of dependable, high-output snow effects – Polar Crisp. Crisp is a professional, high-volume snow machine with intuitive innovation that makes it easy to create scene-setting wintry settings. Compact and lightweight, Crisp is capable of producing high volumes of naturalistic snow with the capacity to adjust snowflake size for greater versatility. Small flake or large, short throw or long, this 1250W high-volume snow machine can project snow up to 40 feet (12 meters) with the flexibility to adjust to the occasion. An all-in-one APF (Air Pump Fan)…
When Circus Flic Flac rolled into town at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund for its ninth annual Christmas show, it brought with it a 1200-capacity Circus Tent, an array of exceptionally talented human-only artistes and a stunning Ayrton lighting arrangement by talented Lighting Designer, Christopher Rostalski, from CR-Lichtdesign in Soest, Germany. Rostalski chose to work with the latest Ayrton products to create his design in this unique setting, employing 20 Khamsin-S profile spots, 20 Bora-S washlights and 10 MiniBurst graphic strobe fixtures, all of which were supplied by Stefan Kniess at B + B Veranstaltungstechnik in Dortmund. Circus Flic Flac was, naturally, needing…
Introducing the Rigging Commandos, an elite rigging & trussing team that Area Four Industries have put together to achieve one of their core pillars and mission goals – elevate event engineering & safety practices in the entertainment industry through continuous education programs. Made up of six team members, the Rigging Commandos bring their extensive knowledge and practical experience directly to your phone or computer screen with a series of interesting and entertaining rigging & trussing videos. The videos are produced throughout the year and released to the public on A4i.tv – the world’s first video portal dedicated exclusively to rigging…
Jetwave Wireless announces a major company expansion with the opening of its brand new, New York City-area facility, dedicated to productions throughout the region. Now in its fifth year, Jetwave is an industry leader in production wireless and communications, providing equipment and support for the broadcast, live events, location sound, film and entertainment industries. Located in Norwood, New Jersey, the new 5,000-square-foot regional office is just a 35-minute car ride from Manhattan. This enables Jetwave to easily build shows and keep inventory local to the New York City market. The New York office is comprised of teams for live events…
SJM Concerts has donated a six-figure sum, per year for a three year commitment to climate change charity ClientEarth. ClientEarth chief executive James Thornton said: “We are honoured and humbled by this extremely generous gift, which will allow us to deepen and extend our work tackling climate change around the world. ClientEarth relies on the generosity of donations like this, and SJM Concerts’ investment strengthens our ability to hold governments and big business to account. “This is an incredible gift and contribution to our work, but is also a great symbol to the rest of the music industry, which we…
Tommex Żebrowscy Sp. J. (Tommex) has been appointed Polish distributor for RCF’s Installed Sound, Commercial Audio and Voice Alarm EN54 product lines. Tommex’s Commercial Director, Marcin Zimny, stated that the move resulted from changes in the ownership structure and distribution strategy of their existing long-term loudspeaker partner. “This meant we were looking for a new partner with a high-quality installation range, that could complement our portfolio; RCF provided a great opportunity and was an exact match.” “The combination of 70 years of RCF history with 30 years of Tommex provided a compelling partnership”, he said. Over the years Tommex has…
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Multi-disciplined and award-winning Lighting Designer David Grill has worked at the top level across the genres of theatre, dance, opera, TV, architectural and industrials which, he says, have taken him “from the Great Wall of China to the Great Stage of Radio City Music Hall.” Most recently he has returned to GLP’s lighting portfolio to stage a new production of Michael Pink’s 1996 ballet Dracula — a reimagining of Bram Stoker’s horror classic story — at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City, USA. This was presented by the Oklahoma City Ballet. “The production is rented to ballet companies…
It has been announced today that PMC owner and chairman, Peter Thomas, will assume the role of Manager Director, following Tim Ireland departure from the British loudspeaker manufacturing company. Thomas takes on the role with immediate effect, ensuring a seamless transition to deliver PMC’s ambitious plans for new product introductions, growth, and continuous improvement to customer service. Thomas said: “We would like to thank Tim for his endeavours and wish him well for the future. During his two years with PMC he has overseen some great changes and steered a steady course, keeping our objectives clearly in focus while upholding…
ArKaos continues its support of the Total Production International (TPi) Awards. The annual event – produced by TPi Magazine, part of Mondiale Media – honours some of the best creative and technical achievements in the world of live entertainment. Staged on 24 February at the Evolution venue in Battersea, central London, TPi Awards 2020 sawthe return of host and comedian, Russell Kane. An ArKaos Stage Server Pro running Kling-Net protocol was used by Lighting Designer, Nathan Wan in the main room to pixel map 108 Robe moving lights – a mixture of Spiider LED wash beams and Tetra2 moving LED battens.…
Pearce Hire have been announced as the winner of the 2020 Favourite Power Supply Company at this year’s TPi Awards. The team’s win was announced by host Russell Kane at the glittering awards ceremony held at Battersea Evolution in front of a 1,700 strong ‘who’s who’ industry audience. Shaun Pearce, MD and founder of Pearce Hire commented: “The TPi Awards are hugely prestigious. For us at Pearce Hire it is the highest industry accolade achievable. I’ve been waiting patiently for this recognition and it really is a milestone award for us.” The team celebrated their win with industry colleagues and…
A second instalment of NEXO’s STM Series modular line array elements is on its way to Chandigarh-based A One Jolly Pvt. Ltd., one of North India’s largest sound equipment rental companies. Started in 2012, this family-run company has been catering to high end events in North India and has delivered exceptional service to all their clients. In March 2018, Mr. Manmohan Jolly, owner of A One Jolly, purchased the first inventory of NEXO STM series, which included 22 modules along with accessories. The experience with the STM Series modular line array exceeded all expectations and, in December 2019, Mr. Manmohan…
German band VON WELT spent eighteen months in the studio together, writing and producing songs, before publicly launching the band in 2015. On the evidence of their well-crafted and dynamic output, that time was well spent. It is quickly apparent from their material that they are a band very much at home with the application of technology and the opportunities it affords them to communicate with both power and subtlety. They are something of a paradox – it could be said that VON WELT’s highly controlled approach to music-making is exactly the thing that allows them to deliver their message…
Movecat from Nufringen near Stuttgart has cancelled its participation in this year’s Prolight + Sound in response to the significantly worsened situation regarding the spread of the Covid-19 virus. “We cannot and will not expose our employees or trade fair visitors to unnecessary risks of contracting this infectious disease”, said Movecat Managing Director Oliver Nachbauer. “The decision was very difficult for us because we have been meeting our customers at Prolight + Sound for many years and were able to show them the latest equipment”. However, Movecat wants to present its new products at an in-house exhibition on 7 May…
MA Lighting grandMA3 consoles made their Super Bowl Halftime Show debut at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium where they joined a complement of grandMA2 boards to control video elements, stage effects and the LED wristbands worn by approximately 65,000 spectators. ACT Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America. Super Bowl LIV featured one of the most talked about Pepsi Halftime Shows in years with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez turning up the heat with their high-energy, bilingual performances on the main stage. Jason Rudolph, a Lighting Director for the halftime show for the last decade, was equipped…
