Mikki Kunttu, one of Finland’s most successful lighting designers and visualists, marked his 50th birthday with a four-day celebration, In the Light Mikki Kunttu at Tampere Hall in Tampere, Finland. The festival saluted Kunttu’s impressive and diverse career with a concert performance of The Planets by the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra – a gala evening, an exhibition and a professional seminar, among other events. For The Planets, Kunttu utilised 58 Mini Xtylos HPE fixtures by Claypaky. Kunttu is an award-winning lighting, set and screen-content designer for the visual and performing arts, as well as for live entertainment and television. He is…
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Astera has introduced the RuntimeExtender – an invaluable ‘battery plate’ tool for lighting technicians working with Astera products. RuntimeExtender is compatible with most Astera products – Titan, Helios and Hyperion Tubes, as well as HydraPanel, PixelBrick, etc. – and allows connection to an external battery, so spare camera batteries can be used to power the Astera units in situations where the internal batteries might run out. When the connected lights are running at low level or switched off, the internal battery will also be recharging from this connection, allowing batteries to be swapped during the shoot so the lights can…
The latest addition to ADJ’s popular Focus Series of LED-powered moving head luminaires, the new Focus Hybrid, is a flexible fixture that functions interchangeably as a piercing beam, sharp spot, or soft-edge wash. Packed with features and affordably priced, it makes for an ideal choice both for production and rental companies looking for maximum versatility and permanent installation projects that require one fixture to serve multiple purposes. Sitting at the heart of the Focus Hybrid is a powerful 200W cool white (7500K) LED light engine, which offers an average life expectancy of 50,000 hours. This efficient light source is focused…
Elation Professional Proteus Excalibur proudly guided the way to Kinetic Lighting’s open house event titled Thursday Night Lights. The new feature is built into the latest firmware for the Proteus Excalibur. Accessible via the menu display, It allows one of the units to be the leader of a group of fixtures to work together to create the famous sky tracker searchlights which are typical in a Hollywood movie premiere. An excellent way for production and AV rental companies to offer to their clients that do not require an additional controller or lighting knowledge. www.elationlighting.com
Elation Professional presents its line of Proteus Rayzor luminaires. These IP-rated fixtures offer a wide range of design tools that incorporate multiple lighting effects for a wide range of applications. Proteus Rayzor 1960 is the newest fixture in the family and offers an extremely powerful wash effect featuring Elation’s unique SparkLED system and fast, continuous pan and tilt motion. The Proteus Rayzor Blade S and Proteus Rayzor Blade L are a striking visual combination of linear wash, high-intensity strobe line, and SparkLED FX inside a compact IP65 linear fixture design. And finally, Proteus Rayzor 760 is a compact yet extremely…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi272_digitallr/89 PixMob is expanding its custom approach to wireless event lighting into Europe, capitalising on the success of its immersive lighting experiences that have illuminated more than 2,000 of the world’s largest shows and events including the Olympic Games, the Super Bowl and the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as Lady Gaga, Coldplay, and Ariana Grande world tours. The European expansion, which hit the ground running in October 2022, saw the Montreal-based company offer product stock and a dedicated local team out of a centrally located Belgian office. PixMob has been involved in projects on the continent for the best…
What is the idea behind the introduction of Maverick Storm 2 BeamWash? “The initial concept for the Maverick Storm 2 BeamWash was for a brighter and lighter wash fixture in the Maverick Storm series. We wanted to give more tools to lighting designers and end-users working in outdoor and indoor events with challenging environments. Since we developed a new optical system, that allowed the Maverick Storm 2 BeamWash to be brighter, and have a wider zoom range, with which we could do nice beam effects. Additionally, we thought that adding the LED ring effect would give a little something extra…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi272_digitallr/84 What were the goals for the MAC Aura XIP? “The goal was clear: make a workhorse even more versatile without introducing new compromises. We strived to maintain the size, weight, output and noise levels, closer or better, than the MAC Aura XB. Add outdoor rating, so that the product can be used in even more applications as well as indoors. We also wanted to improve the wash quality for hotspot, edge, and stray light purposes as well as incorporating customer feedback collected over the years. For example, the inclusion of omega brackets, battery powered display, and a more narrow…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi272_digitallr/86 What was the inspiration for the Wolfmix W1? “We wanted to take the idea of DJ controllers and samplers, and combine these concepts with a DMX lighting controller. By this I mean a friendly, familiar and approachable piece of hardware built with metal and ABS plastic, compact and not too heavy, with backlit silicone buttons and encoders. At the same time, we wanted to do away with the limitations of typical hardware controllers of a similar form factor. The key to making the controller powerful and easy to use was to utilise a fixture library and create a system…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi272_digitallr/102 What is frame:work? “frame:work is a community organisation that seeks to bring together professions related to creative video use in live entertainment. From designers to screen engineers to those who touch the pixels along the way. When frame:work launched in 2019, our mission was to create a conference where we could discuss our common interests, learn more about each others’ practice, and ultimately become better advocates for each other to our shared clients.” How has the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the direction of the mission? “The primary goal for the initial founders, Soren West, Luke Malcolm, Elliot Dunwoody and I…
Building on the success of its ColorSource line, ETC has launched a new family of multi-venue fixtures. This trio of fixtures includes ColorSource Spot V, ColorSource Fresnel V, and ColorSource Spot VXT. The V in ColorSource V hints at the five-color array of red, green, blue, indigo, and lime. This combination of emitters makes it possible to produce the softest pastels and bold, punchy colors from the same fixture. In addition to the array, all ColorSource V fixtures include Multiverse wireless DMX/RDM, NFC for remote fixture configuration when used in collaboration with ETC’s free Set Light app, and increased brightness…
ASM Global has appointed Julie Driscoll as the new Chief Executive Officer of Olympia London. Olympia London Managing Director, Nigel Nathan, will remain in a consultancy role for three months to ensure a smooth leadership transition. Driscoll is an entrepreneurial leader, with 25 years of B2C and B2B experience driving stellar growth through building and leading multi-functional teams within Hyve, Ascential, Emap, WVIP and Highbury House Communications plc. Currently, the Divisional Managing Director for Retail, Manufacturing and Engineering at Hyve Group plc, Chair of the Association of Exhibition Organisers and board member of the Events Industry Alliance, Driscoll has a…
The Proteus Rayzor Blade is a combination of linear wash, high-intensity strobe line, and SparkLED FX inside a compact IP65 linear fixture design (Proteus Rayzor Blade L and Proteus Rayzor Blade S). Available with six or 12 independently controlled 60W RGBW LEDs, Proteus Rayzor Blade provides well-defined mid-air beams up to 12,500 lumens or exceptionally wide and even wash coverage. Two high-intensity strobe lines of cool white LED dots along with Elation Professional’s exclusive SparkLED effects add depth and visual impact. A wide zoom and dynamic tilt axis add to its visual flexibility. www.elationlighting.com
Created to meet the needs of rental operations, theatres, and opera houses, ETC Halcyon is a family of framing fixtures designed for the exacting demands of lighting production. Offering reduced cost, reduced weight, and increased output, Halcyon fixtures are each best in class and engineered to fit into every specification for every design. Offering matching feature sets and performance across all fixtures, the Halcyon range consists of Gold, Titanium, and Platinum. Halcyon Gold outputs 31,000 lumens and is ideal for short to medium throw applications. Designed for medium to long throws, Titanium outputs 40,000 lumens. And for the most extreme…
London-based Lighting Designer, Jason Ahn, who recently graduated from an MA course in Light in Performance at Rose Bruford College, has insisted on using odd numbers in lighting arrangements as he perceives this process to be beneficial in capturing the attention of the public. Inspired by expressionism and contemporary theatre, Ahn strives to provide a unique lighting experience that translates the intention of a production without directly explaining it or the emotions of the performing artists. What do you concentrate on when designing lighting? “As many lighting designers do, I’m concentrating to visually illustrate the world of the story. Because…
A shortage of employees well-versed in the creative capabilities of virtual production (VP) has become a barrier for companies trying to meet the demands of clients or pull off the next big project. With the launch of its Education Program, Pixotope is making good on its mission to make VP accessible and available to all media producers, by investing in the next generation of talent with a community-oriented initiative for higher education institutions. Through this initiative, education institutions will have access to Pixotope’s solutions to teach – hands-on skills – while also connecting them with expert industry resources to ensure…
Composer, music producer and sound mixer, Sky van Hoff recently jumped from zero live sound mixing to mixing monitors for Rammstein guitarist, Richard Zven Kruspe, during the German metal titans’ first stadium tour [TPi #243]. Ahead of one of live music’s biggest tours of the roaring 2020s, van Hoff and his ‘padawan’ Marco Bayati daringly manually programmed and operated the 330 snapshot-heavy monitor mix on an Avid S6L in line with timecode to provide Kruspe with a full scale music production-style mix in a monitor world. Speaking exclusively to TPi, the 35-year-old studio wizard reflects on trading the studio for…
Munich’s traditional weekend of classical music, Klassik am Odeonsplatz, by PRO EVENTS Veranstaltungs, which is held in the historic city-centre square named after the former concert hall on its north-western side, took place in mid-July 2022. Over two sold-out nights the event hosted a programme of classical music from the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra on the first night, conducted by Daniel Harding, and an evening of movie theme music played by the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle ahead of his three-year residency as conductor of the Munich Philharmonic next year. The performances were enjoyed each…
