Lighting Designer Mathieu Poirier created the atmosphere of the grand hotels of the past for Hotel, the latest touring show for Montreal-based company Cirque Eloize. Poirier selected Claypaky’s new Axcor Spot 300 moving LED fixtures to help set the scene for the troupe’s very special 25th-anniversary production. In Hotel acrobatics, theatre, dance and live music guide the audience through an intimate refuge with an avant-garde look inspired by the elegance of the greatest hotels. The lives of transient travellers intersect briefly but long enough for tales and memories to be forged. “Early in the creative process the Belgium-based director, Emmanuel…
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TiMax StageSpace spatial rendering at Waldbuehne arena, Berlin. Out Board will present the groundbreaking new TiMax 500S software for TiMax SoundHub, at AES New York 2018 – 145th International Pro Audio Convention ob 17-19 October 2018. TiMax 500S features the already popular StageSpace spatial rendering tools, which instantly auto-calculate multiple adaptive delay-matrix localisation objects using three-dimensional data imported from CAD files or entered directly. TiMax spatial objects can be rendered and adapted for a wide variety of stage, audience and sound system configurations, and fine-tuned in rehearsal by the user, because, as Out Board maintains “experienced sound designers will tell…
Proel has announced the appointment of Access Pro Group to distribute its Axiom brand of professional loudspeaker systems in Serbia. Based in Novi Beograd, which became a new business centre for the largest foreign companies, Access Pro Group has been a major player in professional audio in Serbia since 2000 when political conditions improved enough for the business to flourish. Owner and Director Nenad Stojanovic has pursued his passion for high-end sound equipment coupled with cutting-edge technology and has built a successful rental market around corporate, DJ, fashion show and festival events. “We specialise in professional audio but being a…
Adlib’s Glasgow-based operation enjoyed a busy and proactive summer supplying a full complement of technical services – lighting, sound and video – to a number of high profile events. Including Glasgow and Edinburgh Summer Sessions, Rewind Festival’s Scottish date at Scone Palace plus sound and lighting to the 2018 TRNSMT festival on Glasgow Green. This reflects a healthy schedule of locally based business for the company who opened their Scottish operation in 2016. Adlib has worked carefully and conscientiously to expand this offering technical services and equipment that are new to the region, in the process collaborating with a network…
Stone Sour may be the opening act on the U.S. leg of Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tours 2 tour but the American hard rock band is making an impression with the help of LD Scott Warner and a dynamic wall of colour. On the road since late August with The Prince of Darkness, Stone Sour has made a unique opening act impact with a “huge wall of overwhelming colour” made up of multifunctional Elation Professional Paladin LED effect lights supplied by Bandit Lites. “I knew coming into this tour that I didn’t have access to LEDs and with Stone Sour,…
Outline has confirmed the appointment of Patrick Wong to the position of Regional Sales Manager, APAC. The post, part of a series of major recruitments within the company over the last few months, is a new position for Outline – and has been created in response to the steadily increasing demand for its products throughout the region. Fluent in both Chinese and English, Wong’s qualifications include a Bachelor in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and he joins the Outline team after a decade at Sennheiser Asia during which he successfully fulfilled roles as both team leader and regional sales manager.…
Rain Age from Landsberg am Lech has held the Eisbrecher Festival reins ever since its inception – and were once more on-hand for the band’s anniversary event. Martin Heining of Rain Age, who is also Lighting esigner for Eisbrecher, built creatively on the band’s existing tour design, which was expanded for the arena. This also serviced the guest bands – and this year besides the headliner it included Oomph !, The Krupps, Stahlmann and Zeromancer – who were also bathed in the additional light equipment. Among other GLP effects, the impression X4 and impression X4 L were also available. “My…
Brothers Osborne ready-imposing presence was accented further on its current tour by a wall of truss and light designed by Chris Reade and Jay Ballinger of KYVA Design. Reade and Ballinger created its image-intensifying wall using 54 high-output Chauvet Professional STRIKE 1 fixtures, supplied by Christie Lites. Arranged in groups of 3 on 18 vertical rows of truss, the single-source 230W LED fixtures create a powerful, industrial looking backdrop for Brothers Osborne, who are opening for superstar Dierks Bentley on the tour. “Our lighting rig not only illuminates, it also serves as a scenic element,” said Reade. “We’ve created a…
Allen & Heath has unveiled a suite of feature enhancements, designed to make its SQ mixers the perfect compact monitor consoles. SQ firmware V1.3 adds a Listen bus, enabling the engineer to patch PAFL to an IEM system, stereo nearfield monitors or a mono listen wedge, with the option to control the Listen level with the master fader. Engineers can enjoy easy communication between FoH and Monitors, thanks to the addition of an External Input to PAFL. V1.3 firmware dovetails with the new SLink card, opening up new possibilities for FoH / Monitor splits and remote I/O, or combinations of…
Shure UK has announced Aztec Event Services as its 2018 UK Rental Partner of the Year. The award was presented to Aztec’s Operations Director, Steve Colesell in recognition of the company’s commitment to embracing new technologies that ensure the best results for their customers. The team at Aztec have gone the extra mile this year in learning about and embracing digital wireless systems for use on complex RF coordination projects. Most recently, Aztec technical staff were quick to realise the potential of Shure’s new Axient Digital wireless system, and their early adoption was crucial in staying ahead of the game.…
In recent years, DPA microphones have a played a key part in delivering great sound for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and 2018’s performances were no exception. Sound Designer Sebastian Frost, who has worked on this event for 23 years, specified a vast selection of DPA Microphones d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones, d:screet 4061 Miniature Microphones and d:fine 4066 Headset Microphones incorporating the new CORE by DPA amplifier technology. In total, more than 110 DPA microphones were deployed across a wide range of musicians and performers, including a Malawian choir. “My main task is to amplify lots of different elements and…
WIcreations was asked to work on 2 specialist elements – a moving / tracking video wall and a star lift – for Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s On The Run II (OTR II) stadium tour; part of an epic and spectacular set design concept designed by Stufish. In addition to all the hardware, software and bespoke engineering elements, on the administrative front, WIcreations delivered a full scenic motion risk assessment to the tour’s management, together with machinery technical files and full user manuals covering the entire system. “As automation gets increasingly important in entertainment applications, so safety is the most important aspect…
Robe offered high energy, high profile roles to half a dozen NRG crew members during the latest edition of PLASA entertainment technology trade show in London. During the course of 3 non-stop, high octane days, students and young technicians from every corner of the British Isles supported the international Robe sales team in the jungle adventure that was the Robe stand. Hailing from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, 6 students from 6 different colleges and universities came together to work as a close-knit team to provide a frontline ‘welcome’ to all the trade visitors coming onto the Robe stand and…
The fast growth in popularity of Amsterdam’s Oranjebloesem festival called for a louder, higher quality and more directional sound solution in one of The Netherlands’ most built-up cities. Peak Audio constructed a d&b GSL system to achieve just that. “We positioned Oranjebloesem as an alternative to the more traditional King’s Day festivities and it’s now one of the major house events in Amsterdam,” says Ridder Haspels, co-owner of the city’s events outfit Chasing the HiHat, which organises the festival. Twenty thousand people attended Oranjebloesem 2018, to enjoy four stages of DJs and live bands at Blijburg aan Zee, Amsterdam’s beautiful…
Vanguardia has announced its move to ‘The Ministry’. Representing a significant step for the business our new London office puts Vanguardia at the heart of the UK’s creative industry and follows the opening of a similar new office in central Manchester. As part of the world-famous , the cutting-edge facilities acoustically designed by Vanguardia mean we continue to be at the forefront of delivering a bespoke client experience in a modern working environment. Lohan Presencer, Chairman of Ministry of Sound said: “We’ve worked with Vanguardia for a number of years and are delighted that they’ve chosen The Ministry as their new…
Russia is an expanding market for the entertainment technology industry, so Ayrton welcomed its showcase in Moscow at the recent Prolight+Sound NAMM Russia 2018 – an astounding interactive lightshow created by its commercial partner, TDS-Pro. TDS-Pro is a leading show design company which specialises in stage design and technical production of TV projects, concerts and major sporting events. Its incredibly creative designers use Ayrton lighting fixtures in its designs. This was reflected in the stunning lightshow which used the latest technologies to combine artists, Ayrton lighting fixtures, video, robots and augmented reality into a dramatic storyline. In it, a robot,…
Limelight Presentation Systems has ended a long search for a potent mid-sized loudspeaker array by investing in Martin Audio’s groundbreaking MLA Compact. The delivery of 24 Martin Audio MLA Compact elements and 13 Martin Audio MLX subwoofers ended a journey that had begun many years earlier, when Martin Audio first revealed the MLA platform to audio professionals at Wembley Arena back in March 2012. Having been a Martin Audio house for 10 years Limelight Head of Audio, Dave Plant had reviewed all the premier brands before deciding that the time was right to invest in MLA Compact. “We service an…
Theatre and live event production company, Blue Parrot, of Edinburgh has recently enhanced its rental inventory with the purchase of an MDG ICE FOG Compack HP low fog generator and an MDG ATMe haze generator. Blue Parrot provides full production services and dry hire of lighting, sound, video, staging, rigging and power distribution, which it has done for more than 18 years. The Blue Parrot team was actively looking for alternative low fog and haze generators which would give a better output with less noise and the durability to withstand the high demands of life in a rental house. “We…
