CHAUVET Professional’s new COLORado Solo Batten 4 sets the stage for seamless scenic looks at tours, festivals, churches, theatres, and other applications. A featured product at the company’s LDI booth (945), the unique 4-cell batten features seamless end-to-end RGBAW colour mixing with no separation or dimmed lens corners. The fixture’s crisp looks and smooth homogenised light make it ideal for creating engaging backgrounds on stage. It can also be used to outline entire stages and scenic elements in addition to accenting truss structures. Thanks to its compact size, the 372mm (14.65”) long fixture can be arranged in vertical or horizontal…
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The Broadway musical Hadestown won a Tony award for Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz’s sound design, which features 28 Alcons Audio V-series pro-ribbon monitors. The Tony was the icing on the cake for Nevin and Jessica, who also won a Drama Desk Award for the Hadestown sound design, as well as being nominated in the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Steinberg is a longtime user of Alcons pro-ribbon loudspeakers, including them in the sound design for Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton: An American Musical, both of which continue to attract sell-out audiences. “Alcons pro-ribbon loudspeakers have proven to be an excellent…
Active Audio/APG has hired Mathieu Pobeda as its new R&D director. He will oversee the development and introduction of new products for both arms of the company, with particular attention being paid to acoustics and transducers. Pobeda brings with him a strong knowledge base – gained both academically and practically – of the market, as well as a great deal of expertise in electro-acoustic research. “Active Audio / APG’s vision – which was explained by CEO Régis Cazin – was very appealing to me,” said Pobeda. “In addition, I know there to be a lot of clever and talented people…
INFiLED, global manufacturer of LED displays, announced the new Ultra-Thin INFiLED WP Series, designed to meet the requirements for both fixed and flexible installations. With the ultra-thin and lightweight wallpaper series customers can save significant space due to its unique 29.5mm edge thickness. Front installation and front maintenance offer easy operation for a simple and neat environment. With its 16:9 panel ratio and narrow pixel pitch, it is designed to support native Full HD, 4K and 8K resolutions. A seamless and high definition solution ensures perfect visual effect for images and videos. High Definition: Available from 0.9 up to 3.1-millimetre…
ADJ expanded its range of professional moving head luminaires with the launch of the new Vizi Wash Z37. This high output LED-powered wash fixture is a versatile lighting tool designed for professional touring and one-off event production as well as permanent installation in large nightclubs, concert venues and houses of worship. The Vizi Wash Z37 features variable motorised zoom, allowing for a beam angle of between 10 and 60-degrees. This wide zoom range means that the same fixture can be used to saturate large areas of a stage or crowd with vibrant colour washes as well as spotlight specific performers…
New Jersey-based Starlite has purchased a complement of Ayrton Khamsin-S, Ayrton’s super-compact and highly versatile profile fixture. The company has one of the largest inventories on the East Coast of AV, lighting and control equipment to meet the needs of clients in the broadcast, concert touring, corporate, performing arts and educational markets. ACT Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures in North America. The Khamsin-S purchase represents Starlite’s first acquisition of Ayrton products. “ACT Lighting demo’d the whole Ayrton line for us, and we evaluated the Khamsins in our shop for our rental inventory and use on our…
All staff at SLX will transfer as part of the transaction which completed this month. CEO Alastair Currie said: “Two years ago I joined SLX and at the time had no idea what an amazing business I would find. SLX is brimming with some of the most knowledgeable, talented, passionate and dedicated individuals I’ve ever come across. From delivering on incredible West End productions and national tours to utterly unique corporate events as well as being in house providers at nationally recognised top tier venues, I couldn’t be prouder of the work we do. “There is still an incredible untapped…
American rock band KISS are currently playing their last ever shows with the End of the Road World Tour. The band opened the tour in January in Vancouver and will wrap up in Nagoya, Japan at the end of 2019, playing 112 dates in between. True to the legacy of KISS, the tour is a massive production featuring lasers, floating drum kits, fire, pyrotechnics and more. disguise gx 2 media servers are powering a key part of the large-scale video for the tour, which features 17 LED video pods above the stage that move in and out via automated winches,…
Westwood Recordings, the Vancouver-based EDM label and event management company behind acts such as The Funk Hunters, Stickybuds and Defunk held A Westwood Halloween at the 1,000 seat Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC. The annual showcase, which features representatives from the independent EDM-focused record label’s diverse clutch of artists, was a yearly reminder of Westwood’s commitment to creating immersive performances that bring a festival atmosphere and sound quality to rooms of all sizes. A key part of these events has been founder Nick Middleton’s long-time relationship with Calgary, Alberta-based loudspeaker manufacturers PK Sound, a relationship that has given Middleton the…
Area Four Industries has consolidated its leadership position among the world manufacturers of aluminium trusses, support structures, peripheral products and related services industry. Continuing on the path already traced by the other controlled brands, Prolyte will keep its DNA intact but will undergo a profound reorganisation from a management, production and strategic point of view. Since its establishment in 1991, Prolyte has been a brand in the production of temporary structures for the entertainment industry. Throughout its history, the company introduced several key products that influenced the entire market for years to come. František Zykan, CEO of Area Four Industries,…
Lighting Designer, Elliot Baines of Spiralstagelighting utilised Prolights IP Airbeam moving beam and Panorama IP WBX wash lights to raise the roof for DJ sets on the main stage in the Metropolis district of Boomtown. In the futuristic Metropolis district, the main Pagoda Plaza outdoor stage’s eclectic global bill included legendary US house DJ, Kenny Dope; techno from Dr Rubenstein; retro house grooves from Sally C; electronica from Horse Meat Disco; and soulful disco from The 2 Bears, to name but a few performers. For Elliot’s lighting design, he and other operator, Christian Smith utilised Prolight Panorama IP Airbeam discharge…
Denmark’s Roskilde Festival is a broad meeting ground where music, visual arts and technology come together to form a dynamic creative community. As one example, during the 2019 event Meyer Sound partnered with the festival’s creative team and students at the Danish Technical University to design and construct an intriguing Sonic Crystals demonstration project. Sonic Crystals are a periodic arrangement of sound-scattering objects that, depending on the size and spacing of the objects, selectively block some audio frequencies while allowing others to pass through. “The word ‘crystal’ here just means ‘pattern’,” explained Meyer Sound Senior Scientist and Innovation Steward Roger…
CHAUVET Professional has expanded its popular F Series LED panels to offer solutions for a wider range of applications with the introduction of two new products: the F2 2.9 mm pixel pitch panel and F5 IP, an outdoor rated 5.9 mm pixel pitch outdoor rated panel. The highest resolution panel ever offered by CHAUVET Professional, the slim-bodied F2 is ideal for applications where crystal sharp clarity is essential from any viewing angle, even at distances as close as 7.5 feet (2.3 meters). Its ultra-fast, high-quality black bodied LEDs, reproduce video at 14-bit grayscale, operating on an A5s Novastar card, to…
Belgium-based entertainment technology engineering and automation specialist WIcreations has acquired the assets of Swedish advanced technology manufacturer, Visual act Scandinavia AB, effective immediately. The terms of the deal include all the IP, source coding, patents, etc., related to Visual act’s innovative computerised control systems designed for all types of automated machinery – on, over or below the stage – for events, installations and venues. The move makes independently owned and operated WIcreations the largest and most significant automation rental provider in Europe. Hans Willems, CEO of WIcreations, stated: “This hugely exciting opportunity will assist our planned medium-term growth and allow…
Lighting designer Sooner Routhier of Nashville, USA-based SRae Productions designed lighting for Muse’s just completed Simulation Theory World Tour that started in February this year, following the English band’s highly acclaimed eighth album release in November 2018. It was Routhier’s first lighting design for the band and she was delighted to be one of artistic director Jesse Lee Stout’s creative collaborators for the tour. Their large, distinctive ‘alt-rock’ sound and esoteric brain-twisting lyrics have enthralled a generation of music fans since they burst on the scene in 1994. Routhier’s chose Robe moving lights to be integral to her design, with…
Riedel Communications announced the appointment of Chris Johnson as General Manager of Riedel Australia. Johnson first joined Riedel Australia in 2016 to head up the company’s rental operation. In the meantime, he has charted significant success in developing the business and delivering complex solutions to high-profile customers across Australia, including Vivid Sydney and the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Before joining Riedel, Johnson was based in the U.K., where he operated his own business providing production engineering and design services to global clients such as the BBC and IAAF. In that role, he worked with Riedel on several events, including the 2012…
JoeCo has signed a pair of distribution agreements that will ensure a greater number of European end users will have local access to the company’s full product range. The deals, which were signed at IBC, follow the announcement that Beirut’s Boujikian Bros has taken on JoeCo distribution. The first of these new partnerships has seen Tonspur AG become the official JoeCo representative for both Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The company, based in Adligenswil, already has a number of important pro audio brands on its roster, making JoeCo an obvious addition to the range. “We are delighted to be working with Tonspur…
Axiom Pro Audio presented their first constant curvature array system, based on the full-range AX1012 enclosure. Capable of deployment as individual, point-source systems or in horizontal or vertical array configurations, AX1012 represents a versatile solution that can meet the needs of a wide variety of applications, from small, mobile main FoH systems, to fills of all types, to permanent resident systems for in-the-round venues like sports arenas. The multi-purpose design philosophy of this enclosure, and its entire related system of hardware and accessories, makes it ideal for providing maximum return on investment for rental companies. The array element is available…
