The young and ambitious company was established two years ago by two passionate and experienced veterans, eager to join forces in order to deliver innovative AVL solutions to the Hong Kong and Macau market. “Our vision is to provide state-of-the-art professional lighting, audio and video solutions to our partners and users” explained Dominic Cho, Regional Sales Manager for D&T PROLIGHT & SOUND LIMITED. “Analyse systematically our clients’ needs and facilitate them hassle-free by provision of one-stop world class solutions and services, as well as staying focus, are definitely our core valuable strengths. It is common knowledge that almost all the leading…
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CODA Audio has confirmed the sale of a range of systems, including its flagship AiRAY, to two leading production companies in the USA. Eastern Stage Productions (ESP) of New York and Technical Entertainment Services (TES) based in Florida, have both made significant investments in CODA’s next generation technology, that delivers exceptional audio from the most compact, lightweight and powerful enclosures on the market. The two companies enjoy a close relationship, often working together on major productions and combined to provide a CODA system for the Stereo Bloom Stage at the recent EDC Orlando. When Bill Danilesyk of ESP first heard…
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) has enjoyed success across its array of course offerings since it was founded in 1996. With constantly high rankings in most government and independent measures, it boasts numerous high-profile and successful alumni in disciplines from acting, dance, and music, through to management, theatre technology, and sound technology. In sound technology the institute is pushing forward into the future by developing new facilities and new courses that address emerging media formats and delivery platforms. Part of that plan includes building new TV production facilities and a 7.1.4 Atmos Home Entertainment studio. Neumann monitors have…
Reality music competitions have had massive global success since first appearing in the early 2000s and with good reason. They work and fans love the format. Take Spanish singer Aitana as an example. Aitana first gained recognition in 2017 as runner-up of the Spanish reality TV music talent competition Operación Triunfo and she has enjoyed popularity and a number of hits ever since. This past summer, the 20-year old singer released her debut album, Spoiler, which topped the Spanish charts, then launched her much-anticipated Play Tour with lighting design by SomosLuz, a Barcelona-based design studio who worked with Brutal Events…
Visual design studio Tenfeet’s longstanding relationship with Dutch rockers BLØF resulted in some dazzling effects as the much-loved band played two sell-out gigs at Rotterdam’s 16,000-capacity AHOY Arena. Tenfeet video programmer Pim Elberse specified and supplied two Hippotizer Boreal+ Media Servers – one main and the second as a full live backup machine – to handle pre-made content mixed with multiple effects and live feed blend. The content ranged from sweeping landscapes to computer-graphics, lyrics and pictures. “We needed a system that could cope with various live feeds and feed a variety of content that was mixed with live, as…
As a burgeoning stage lighting designer in the entertainment industry, Jason HyoYoung Ahn has already crossed off several South Korean productions on his personal live events calendar. Having recently finished an Associate Degree on Stage Lighting at Seoul Institute of Art, he shared details of a breakthrough 2019 with TPi. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi_jan2020/80 Photos: Kim SungChan www.instagram.com/kimhaze www.theshinepeople.com www.productionfutures.com
Light Design has increased its lighting stock with the investment of Claypaky Sharpy Plus fixtures. “We were in the market for a powerful beam spot hybrid fixture that could perform well on a festival stage for our busy summer festival season, but be equally at home during the winter months doing corporate and theatre work ensuring full asset utilisation,” Light Design’s Terry Lewsey opened. “The Sharpy Plus was a perfect fit for us, due to it being the only fixture we had seen that could do both Spot and Beam jobs equally as well and be a true hybrid.” https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi_jan2020/18…
Norwegian DJ and record producer, Alan Walker set out on his latest Aviation tour across China, India and Norway, with an Allen & Heath dLive Wings system handling both FOH and monitor duties. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi_jan2020/16 Photo: Allen & Heath www.allen-heath.com
Over the years, the idea of a ‘showcase’ or an ‘open house’ has become increasingly popular with manufacturers in the live events industry, with companies opting to take over a space to display the capabilities of their offerings in a controlled environment. In November last year, lighting specialist Avolites took this concept further with SPLNTR. A creation from the minds of NEICO’s Ed Shaw and Brett Bolton, SPLNTR created a stunning immersive projection-mapping project in the heart of Las Vegas’ Art District, with the help of some of the industry’s top brands including Group One, AG Light and Sound, X-Laser,…
With various categories for all aspects of festivals that have taken place in the UK – as well as one category for European festivals – the annual UK Festival Awards (UKFA) recognise and celebrate the collective achievements of projects and personnel throughout the British festival industry. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi_jan2020/12 Photos: UKFA www.festivalawards.com
Doubling as both a music conference and festival, Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is widely recognised as the global meeting point for the electronic music community. Featuring more than 1,000 events in almost 200 locations, the five-day programme shapes the malleable DNA of the city into a beating metropolis of dance education and culture. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi_jan2020/8 Photos: Funktion-One www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl www.funktion-one.com www.think-av.nl
Formed back in 1961 from the hive of lighting activity in London’s West End for the pioneering lumineers to share ideas, information and opinions, The Association of Lighting Designers has been a staple of the theatre landscape for a number of years. However, with the ever-increasing number of LDs moving from theatre to the live touring sector, the ALD’s Ian Saunders spoke to TPi about the importance of expanding its reach – as well as pushing for diversity within the inner workings of the organisation. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi_jan2020/84 Photos: ALD www.ald.org.uk www.stagesight.org
How long has Beat The Street’s US office been in the works for? “We have been planning this adventure for two years, opening the office in Tennessee in August 2019. We plan to have our double-deckers on the road by February 2020.” Why was it the right time to create this new arm of the business? “We were asked by many clients for many years why there were no double-deckers in the USA for the touring industry and, quite frankly, we didn’t have a good answer. The idea has been in my head for quite some time. Having pulled the…
Liverpool, UK-based production specialist Adlib continued its excellent working relationship with popular vocal harmony group The Overtones, supplying lighting equipment and crew to their latest UK tour, supporting LD and set designer Neil Holloway. Adlib has in fact been an equipment supplier for the band since their career took off in 2010, and it’s been a great journey for all involved to see the band’s success. Holloway, now a busy freelance designer working internationally for a diverse range of clients, was working full time for Adlib back in 2010, and that’s also where his association with The Overtones started. Ahead…
Lighting Designer Jacob Gowler relished the chance of using Robe’s new T1 Profiles and LEDBeam 150s for the first time on a Cambridge Theatre Company (CTC) production of the crime-and-passion fuelled musical Chicago (High School Edition), staged over six performances in the 337-seat Great Hall at The Leys School in central Cambridge, UK. CTC was founded in 2015 by Louis Ling to offer a range of opportunities for performers – young and old – to participate in high-quality theatre, and it now performs to over 9000 people annually. Since 2017, CTC has developed its focus on the youth community, and…
When production, lighting and multimedia designer, Pawel ‘Spider’ Pajak, and PERCEPTO [LAB] – the team responsible for creative visual production – were approached by production company, East Eventz, to design and deliver creative solutions for a one-off concert, choosing Ayrton MagicPanel-FX and Khamsin-S fixtures to provide contemporary, densely-coloured and dramatic effects for this very special evening. The two-artist concert featured singer Dawid Podsiadlo and rapper Taco Hemingway, and was the first sold-out gig for Polish artists in the history of Warsaw’s PGE Narodowy Stadium, attracting an attendance of 60,000 people. Spider explains why he chose to use Ayrton’s state-of-the-art technology…
Fisher Hires has confirmed an investment in Portman Lights’ recently developed P1 Mini LED. Launched at Prolight+Sound 2019 in Frankfurt, the units caught the eye of Fisher Hires’ Head of Operations, Rob Baker, who immediately contacted Portman’s exclusive UK distributor Entedi, to secure stock when the products began shipping in June. Portman Lights was established in Gdańsk, Poland in 2016 but despite its comparatively recent appearance, has already established an impressive global distribution network for its specialist, decorative stage lighting products. The company’s end-user list already includes an impressive array of concert, festival and TV settings. With its tungsten appearance…
Verge Aero has achieved an aerial first in Mexico, delivering the country’s first ever drone light show. Working with local partner Sky Precision, Verge Aero provided a system of 150 drone lights to create moving, colour-changing pictures in the sky to open the performance by Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, marking Mexico’s Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) at the FIG19 hot-air balloon festival. Founded in 2002, the FIG (Festival Internacional del Globo) hot-air balloon festival, which takes place each year in the city of León in central Mexico, has become one of the leading balloon events in the world.…
