PSCo, trade only rental supplier of the latest display technologies, has invested in Absen’s brand-new 3.9mm indoor/outdoor LED product within the Polaris range. The PL3.9 Pro LED is exclusively available in the UK from PSCo. This revolutionary technology means that the PL3.9 Pro with HBB can achieve 5000nits brightness with a 1921 black-face SMD – using less power and without compromising on brightness or black levels. This is delivered in an IP65 rated chassis allowing for excellent visual performance outdoors – with the same high-performance grayscale as previous generation Absen rental technologies. This visual performance can also be delivered at…
Author: Jacob Waite
The culmination of the academic year at this renowned art institution, its President’s Gala, is a rousing evening of musical diversity that moves seamlessly from West African drumming and dancing to orchestral and choir compositions, to show tunes. Providing a visual backdrop for this far-ranging event, which took place at the school’s Rainey Fine Arts Center on April 21 2018, was a richly textured and flexible lighting/video design by ACS Sound and Lighting that featured a collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures and LED video tiles. “Jay Pitts, the new producer of the President’s Gala, brought our company on board to…
After recently expanding its inventory with a large complement of Claypaky Scenius Unico and Mythos2 fixtures and MA Lighting grandMA2 consoles, Elite Multimedia Productions has provided a portion of that equipment to Cole Swindell’s nationwide Reason to Drink Tour. Both brands are exclusively distributed in North America by ACT Lighting. The country singer/songwriter kicked off his headlining tour in Allentown, Pennsylvania in February and wrapped the first leg in Los Angeles in April. He resumed the tour a month later in Austin and will continue to play dates across the country through September. Nashville-based Elite Multimedia is the production provider…
Sterling Event Group has announced a new company leadership structure with the appointment of 3 new directors. Former Senior Project Managers Paul Davies and Richard Nicholson and former Head of Vision Dan Charmer, have been promoted internally to Company Directors. The 3 new directors have worked at the Manchester-based company for a combined 19 years and their promotions are in line with the company’s ongoing growth strategy. Current Director Jessica Baynes and Managing Director Richard Bowden are delighted to welcome the new directors to the board. Bowden commented: “They each possess varied and extensive industry experience and are focused on…
Lift Turn Move based in Wirral, has shown a commitment to training the future generation and can confirm that two of their apprentices Charmaine and Josh have now joined LTM as full-time staff members. Charmaine Pude came to LTM in 2016 to gain office experience and work towards her NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration. She has recently passed her NVQ and subsequently been given a full-time job at LTM as a Sales and Purchasing Assistant. Office Manager Jenny Steenson stated: “Char is an irreplaceable member of the team, quiet, helpful, thorough and she gets stuck into any task given…
CyberHoist by CyberMotion is on tour again, this time with Vegas native band The Killers on their Wonderful, Wonderful tour. The band finished their European leg at the end of 2017 before starting their US leg at the beginning of 2018. The primary driving visual elements on the stage were video-constructed triangles with one anchored on the stage and an inverted triangle hanging above it nicknamed “The Flying V” made up of video tiles that would fly apart, turn, twist and move into different shapes utilising the CyberHoist automated moving system. 12 active CyberHoist 1000kg and 1 MotionCue control system, all…
Audinate has announced that its line of Dante AVIO adapters are now shipping and already available from several key online retailers, including Full Compass, Dale Pro Audio and Thomann, in addition to key regional distributors around the globe. Dante AVIO adapters are a family of cost-effective endpoints that enable audio professionals to easily connect legacy analog and digital audio equipment to Dante networks. Starting with a list price of only $129 USD, the Dante AVIO series features six adapters including line-in and line-out analog adapters, a bi-directional AES3/EBU adapter and a bi-directional stereo USB adapter. The Dante AVIO Analog adapters…
Singer, songwriter, and record producer Lorde has been out on her international Melodrama tour, which accompanies the new album of the same name. The show is also set to visit some of this Summer’s biggest festivals, and front of House Engineer Philip J Harvey has been along for the ride, with the special honour of engineering on the first international tour on the road with the new L-Acoustics L-ISA Live multichannel immersive technology. To complement this, Harvey needed a console that could do justice to the band and L-ISA, so he chose SSL Live. The stage set-up is relatively simple. An acoustic drum kit, guitar amp, and…
Catapulted into the role not long after graduating from London College of Music (LCM), Cosimini arrived loaded with zeal, ambition and an Audient iD14, all set for her You tour in October where the audio interface was invaluable in a live setup. Conor Cosimini, producer and studio co-owner got a call in 2018 asking him to join English singer/songwriter Dodie’s touring team as monitor engineer. “The iD14 has come on both tours – and every other show I’ve done since – and I couldn’t be happier with it,” confirms Cosimini in the afterglow of Dodie’s most recent ‘Spring Tour’ which…
AV Stumpfl, the acclaimed Austrian AV technology manufacturer, will allow InfoComm visitors a first look at its next-generation media server software solution PIXERA, scheduled to be released later this year. The 64-bit system for real-time media processing, compositing and management is built around the key theme of usability. Users can gradually discover the options and features and can smoothly transition from being a beginner to becoming a specialist. Actions in the 2D and 3D space follow the same mechanisms. The system was designed so that users can execute the most important basic actions in record time and with only a…
As a Platinum-selling songwriter and recent GRAMMY and ACM Award nominee, Eric Paslay has celebrated five No. 1 hits while also making a name for himself as a dynamic performer. With the debut of his latest single Young Forever and the launch of his 2018 tour, Paslay wanted to create a new experience for his fans out on the road. Once again working with lighting designer and programmer Mike Marcario and production manager Norwood Wood, the creative team needed a trusted tour provider for the updated lighting rig, and they turned to Nashville-based Elite Multimedia. “The lighting design seemed to…
Peavey Commercial Audio has announced the appointment of Audiens Norge AS as the exclusive Norwegian distributor for all PCA brands with immediate effect. The brands concerned are MediaMatrix, Crest Audio and Peavey PA products. Based 25km north-east of Oslo, Audiens is a leading specialist AV supplier offering solutions across a wide range of applications including education, worship, museums, hotels, sports facilities, auditoria and more. According to PCA operations manager, James Kennedy, Audiens is the ideal partner for PCA. “Audiens are clearly very well established in all the markets that relate directly to our products,” he said. “They go out of…
The Activity turns to Elation Professional IP65 moving head for special anniversary design element on Main Stage. Guest LDs incorporate Elation Professional Proteus into performances The world’s premier electronic music festival, Ultra Music Festival, turned 20 in 2018 and the occasion was marked, in part, by big beam lighting effects from an array of Elation Professional IP65-rated Proteus Beam moving heads that lined the top of the festival’s iconic Main Stage. Production and lighting design for the Main Stage was by The Activity, its 9th year of involvement with the festival. The Las Vegas-based production and design firm, headed by…
Singer-songwriter Adel Tawil is again on tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Prior to the tour, he used a number of festival appearances to present his current No. 1 album so schön anders before embarking on an extensive theatre tour that ended with 3 sold-out arena shows last Autumn. These included all the essential production elements of his other shows. The man responsible for the lighting design is Bertil Mark, who wanted to implement a symbiosis of clear spaces and chaos. Production rehearsals took place over 3 days at Black Box Music in Berlin, where most of the band now resides,…
A long-time user of Martin Audio PA systems, Norwegian-based AudioLight AS has made a major investment in the manufacturer’s new generation products, purchasing a package that includes 32-box Martin Audio WPC PA, along with 12 Martin Audio SXH218 subwoofers and 16 Martin Audio XE 300 monitors, all powered by Martin Audio iKON iK42 amplifiers. Located in Harstad, AudioLight has been a supplier of sound, lighting and staging, for small and large events across the northern part of the country for over 15 years. The order was placed with Martin Audio distributors, Atendi AS on the opening day of the ISE…
The brainchild of The Who’s guitarist and primary songwriter, Pete Townshend, Tommy – a rock opera that tells the story of a deaf, dumb and blind boy who achieves a personal breakthrough when he becomes an expert pinball player – was first performed on stage in 1969. Featuring some of Townshend’s best-loved songs, including Pinball Wizard and See Me, Feel Me, Tommy has enjoyed remarkable creative longevity as a staple of The Who’s live repertoire, as well as multiple theatrical and touring productions and a celebrated film directed by Ken Russell. For the musical component of the new production currently being staged at…
Described as the “world’s most sensational school concert”, the Voice in a Million charity concert drew a remarkable 10,000 schoolchildren to London’s SSE Wembley Arena in mid-March 2018, for 2 nights of performances by the UK’s most gifted children’s choirs. With technical production on a tight timescale, an Electro-Voice X2 line array system, part of the X-Line Advance family, delivered punchy, even coverage across the arena, while Electro-Voice ND86 dynamic supercardioid vocal microphones ensured each child’s voice was captured in perfect detail. Founded in 2006 by Robert and Jo Garofalo, Voice in a Million is a charitable organisation dedicated to…
British rock band Marillion treated fans to a series of immersive shows in April, with theatrical-style lighting controlled using an Avolites Tiger Touch II with Titan interface. The band worked with its long-serving lighting designer Yenz Nyholm to create a pitch-perfect light show, designed to synchronise with pinpoint accuracy to video content and on-stage action. “Each song on this tour required lighting that would act as if it were a mini-play, reflecting the stark nature of the music and immersing the audience into the experience,” says Nyholm. “The design was based on beautiful, symmetrical beams of light.” “Programming with Titan…
