Music & Lights welcomes Johanna Freytag as PR Manager. Prior to entering the industry, Freytag was part of a leading advertising relations and strategic marketing team at international tech company Google. Freytag explained: “I am really excited to be involved with Music & Lights, working with a dynamic young team of innovators in the international event and entertainment market that is evolving quickly to develop new experiences and associated technology – we have gone beyond providing mere sound and lights and have gone into creating a better work experience for professionals. M&L really do give people the tools and support…
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NEWSUBSTANCE announces a joint venture with Singaporean company SKYMAGIC to deliver performance drone shows around the world. Over the past 5 years, both companies have been at the vanguard of drone-based light shows. By joining forces as one company with offices in Europe and Asia, SKYMAGIC is positioned to truly push the boundaries of artistic performance, harnessing the latest cutting-edge drone technologies to deliver spectacular entertainment solutions around the globe – in both outdoor and indoor environments. SKYMAGIC is an autonomously flown indoor and outdoor performance drone system. Creative and dynamic, our customised fleet of performance drones are each mounted…
The inaugural American Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI-USA), which brings this renowned celebration of the achievements of show lighting and video designers to the United States for the first time, has announced the full judging panel for the 5 awards in the Concert Touring & Events category. Concert Touring & Events judging panel: John Featherstone, principal lighting designer and founder of Lightswitch and chair of the judging panel, has worked with The Pretenders, Van Halen, Duran Duran and Bryan Adams, to name but a few Barry Lather, a creative director, began his career starring as a dancer in Michael Jackson’s…
After a series of successful training events held at ROE Visual USA, ROE Visual brings the ROE Academy to Europe. The ROE Academy is initiated to support customers and users with the best and most authoritative and up-to-date knowledge on LED solutions and applications available; offering a thorough training on best practices related to building a LED screen solution. Transferring knowledge to users and customers on how to use its products in the best and most effective way, is part of the total support package ROE Visual offers. The ROE Academy facilitates access to the broad knowledge base that is…
Belgian TV and stage entertainment producer Studio 100 called upon Painting with Light to design lighting and video, including content creation, for 2018 Ketnet (Children’s TV channel) musical Team UP, which played to sold-out crowds in 4 major cities around Belgium. Painting with Light’s Paco Mispelters took Studio 100’s impressive double-decker set design as a starting point; featuring a complete first level balcony and a gymnasium-style climbing frame structure upstage, as well as a 10-metre diameter stage, revolve further downstage, which was used to play out specific scenes and to move props and additional set assets on and off stage.…
Front of House Engineer John Gale joined Björk’s 9th studio album, Utopia, touring team during its production stage in March 2018, choosing a DiGiCo SD12 as his preferred method of control, that rental company CS Audio purchased from SSE Audio Group. Gale is a long-time DiGiCo proponent, having cut his teeth on the original DiGiCo D5 Live and D1 during his days at Sound By Design (now Delta Live) in the early 2000s, where he used them on some very large input shows, including multiple band TV shows and classical concerts. He quickly fell in love with their sound and the…
Harman Professional Solutions and UK distributor Sound Technology launch the new Martin by Harman JEM Glaciator Dynamic low-fog system.
Well-known corporate and event audio professional Dave Woodman has joined forces with London-based audio rental specialists, RSH Audio. Woodman has been active in the live audio industry for over 20 years and is responsible for the audio design and engineering on a series of high-profile events and productions. His business, DWA, has built up a base of rental equipment, specifically tailored to the corporate events market, which is now integrated with RSH’s extensive hire fleet. Dave will be acting as a senior project manager on a wide range of live events. RSH has recently made a series of significant investments…
Bandit Lights provided the lighting for 3 of Beachside Hangout Festival’s stages, including the main stage, taking careful consideration of supplying a variety of gear that would accommodate the wide swath of artists travelling with its own packages. “Hangout is the official start of the festival season for us and always a blast to be involved with,” stated Client Rep and Production Director Dizzy Gosnell. “There truly is not a festival like it. The brief for the main stage was for the system to be able to work for the three headliners, The Killers, Chainsmokers and Kendrick Lamar, and of…
Leeds-based creative studio NEWSUBSTANCE marked the beginning of its joint venture with Singaporean company SKYMAGIC by delivering the UK’s first largescale drone performance, capping the Great Exhibition of the North’s Opening Spectacular. The event, which drew on talent from across the North of England’s creative industries, attracted huge crowds to Newcastle’s Quayside. “With roots in the north of England, we are very proud to be part of the Great Exhibition of the North,” said Creative Director Patrick O’Mahony. “As one of only a few companies in the world with the resource, expertise and vision to deliver performance drones, we are…
Creative Technology Asia Pacific (CT APAC) has added Riedel Communications’ Bolero wireless intercom system to its rental stock. Known for its innovative application of the latest technology alongside the very best technical and operational personnel, CT APAC tested and identified the Bolero system as a critical addition to its comms solution offering. “We worked with Bolero on a large-scale arena event just a couple of months back, so the system’s flexibility and clarity are still very fresh in our minds — and they’re great reasons to make Bolero part of our rental stock,” said Marcus Lim, General Manager, CT Singapore.…
WorldStage will be the first company to provide ROE Visual Sapphire for the US rental market. The laser-sharp 1.5mm pixel pitch LED panel, which ROE Visual launched at InfoComm 2018, joins an expanding inventory of LED displays and solutions available from WorldStage. “Our investment in the next-generation of LED technology from ROE reinforces the reputation WorldStage has earned for being the industry’s leading provider of innovative LED solutions to our customers,” said Gary Standard, WorldStage CEO. “WorldStage offers a full roster of LED displays, including the proprietary c3ONE and i5FLOOR solutions as well as ROE CB5, Hybrid 18 and Strips. …
UK-based specialist in immersive spatial audio for performance, presentation, and AV installation experiential markets, Out Board, has appointed Votec Kft. to distribute TiMax SoundHub spatial audio and showcontrol processors and TiMax Tracker performer tracking systems throughout Hungary. The relationship was triggered by owner Sándor Elek’s passion for groundbreaking audio products and is reinforced by Votec’s in-depth technical experience of delivering high-end live sound for events and installations. Votec founder Sándor Elek commented on the new relationship, “We had a productive workshop session with Dave Haydon here in Szeged and are very pleased to distribute the impressive TiMax range of products…
Christie Lites’ UK operation has made a major investment in Kinesys automation equipment, with the purchase of 24 half tonne Liftket motors with Kinesys Elevation 1+ vari-speed controllers, complete with LibraCELL load monitoring shackle pins and the brand’s powerful and flexible Vector control software package. “Kinesys is constantly appearing on riders and technical specifications – a strong sign of their success, and that is across all sectors of our work – corporate and industrial, concert touring, television and theatre,” explained Christie Lites UK account handler Andy Strachan Christie Lites’ CEO and founder Huntly Christie made the decision to go with…
Madrix lighting control solutions made in Germany sparked an enormous interest at the booth of sole distribution partner IES – Integrated Entertainment Solutions. We would like to thank every visitor for their time and IES for their support. More importantly, Madrix 5 was very well received by the audience and critics alike. We are incredibly excited to have been “awarded for bringing exemplary innovation in lighting technology and opening up lighting technology creativity opportunities for lighting design engineers” at the PALM Sound & Light Awards 2017– 2018. The PALM Sound & Light Awards are an integral platform of the exposition…
Lighting Italian superstar Vasco Rossi’s Non Stop Live 2018 stadium tour spectacularly was the artist’s long-term LD Giovanni Pinna, who included over 300 Robe moving lights on the rig – a mix of Robe MegaPointes, Robe Spiiders and Robe LEDBeam 150s – all supplied as part of the lighting package by Rome based lighting rental company, BOTW, and used to create plenty of excitement and hi-impact. The starting point for the tour design for Giovanni and the Vasco creative team – was the show-stopping event in Enzo Ferrari Park, Modena last summer, Vasco’s one and only live appearance to celebrate 40 years…
Clair Brothers is now an integral part of the Dreamweavers arsenal of state-of-the-art gear, following heavy investment. “We were invited by Wayne Grosser, Clair Brothers’ rep here in Australia, to take a listen to a full range of Clair Brothers systems,” explained Sam Pomana, Dreamweavers General Manager. “Wayne is familiar with our mission to stay on the cutting edge of event production innovation. He knows we have to – the nature of our creativity depends on it.” According to Grosser, the Clair Brothers kiTCurve system seemed like the perfect fit. Kyle Hodges, Dreamweavers audio engineer and producer puts it…
Green Hippo’s Hippotizer is the Media Server of choice for Finnish National Opera and Ballet’s landmark production to mark 100 years of Finland’s independence. The Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB) marked 100 years of Finnish independence with a number of exclusive events. Its headline event, Land of Kalevala, premiered in November 2017 running for 26 amazing performances until February 2018. Taking place in the FNOB’s home base, the Opera House in Helsinki, Kenneth Greve’s ballet spectacle explores the very essence of Finland and the Finns through dance. The crack team behind this occasion was very carefully assembled, with Mikki…
