Aurora has taken delivery of the new Chroma-Q Space Force. On receiving the new fixtures Aurora Project Manager Ben Taylor said: “The new Space Force is a low energy alternative to traditional 4.8kW heads, plus, the new yoke makes it an extremely useful soft source in any orientation, not just the traditional hanging format”. Taylor added: “Having a fixture we can send True1 in and through instead of a full socapex is fantastic! Not only does it mean big savings on energy consumption, but also in the distribution and cabling requirement.” www.aurora.co.uk
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UK company Video Design recently supported the British Summer Time concert season at London’s Hyde Park. For four years Alex Leinster and his team of video technicians have installed and managed a thousand sq metres of LED screen and camera package, though for this year the equipment supplied by Video Design was slightly expanded. “We’ve added a 1.1-metre wide vertical wrap around strip to the stage left wing to improve the view from the VIP area,” explained Leinster. Steve Price, Video Director for Mumford & Sons, one of the half dozen acts that headlined this event over the two weekends,…
CAST has released version 2.0 of its realtime motion tracking system BlackTrax, after more than 18 months of beta testing. Discussing the changes to the software, Marty Cochrane, BlackTrax Product Manager, explained: “A lot of these improvements were developed from customer suggestions, requests and general feedback. This includes better system reporting, real-time chapter programming and more control over fixtures during the calibration process.” The new fixture calibration mode improvements on the BlackTrax solution ensure faster calibration. Multi-person calibration enables several people with different beacons to calibrate their own selection of lights. Colour and gobo on the fixtures will automatically be…
Allen & Heath’s dLive and ME systems have been used for globally renowned trance group Above & Beyond’s latest world tour. dLive was requested by Monitor Engineer Tom Howat who has toured with the likes of Paolo Nutini, Morrissey and Franz Ferdinand. “Above & Beyond’s tour is an acoustic reworking of the group’s popular hits, and involves 17 artists and 80 inputs on stage,” explained Tom Howat. Performers comprise the three principle artists with various keyboards and guitars, two drummers with three drum kits, four vocalists, a bass player, the Musical Director, a four-piece string section, a harpist, and a…
British LD Richard Lambert has worked on the Jazz Dance Company’s latest tour, Unexpected Tales, with equipment supplied by Entec. While Lambert provided his Zero 88 ORB XF control desk and a few fixtures including Chauvet Intimidator LED spots and GLP Atoms through his own business, Lambco, Entec supplied the power and data distribution, 11 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300’s, 10 Martin by Harman MAC 700 Wash lights and eight overhead scaffold bars. Discussing the production, Lambert said: “Unexpected Tales was like a book in the sense that for each chapter there was a different story that provided the…
Fineline supplied lighting for two venues at the six day 2016 Snowboxx Festival staged in the French Alpine ski resort of Avoriaz. It was the first year that Fineline has been involved as a technical supplier. Stu England designed the rigs for both areas. The main stage was outdoors on the slopes and comprised a 12-metre roof system beneath which Stu and the Fineline crew sub-hung four finger trusses running upstage/downstage. The moving lights included 12 Robe Pointes, 12 ROBIN 600 LEDWashes and 12 ROBIN 100 LEDBeams, as well as six Martin by Harman Atomic strobes, 12 2-lite Moles and…
This year’s Electro Magnetic festival in Völklingen featured lights from PR Lighting, distributed by Focon Showtechnic. Robin Schulz headlined the festival’s line-up, which also included Alle Farben, Chopstick & Johnjon, Moguai and Richie Hawtin. The products playing a central role on the main stage were 24 XR 440 BWS’s and four XR 330 BWS’s. These BWS moving heads were positioned on the truss, side wings and stage floor. Focon Showtechnic became involved with the festival for the first time this year, supplying the technical event providers Triacs GmbH with the PR Lighting solutions. www.pr-lighting.com
The opening ceremony of the Gotthard Base Tunnel featured GLP impression X4 bars. Provided by Swiss company Winkler Multi Media Events, the equipment lit up the ceremony, which celebrated the opening of the ‘Swiss project of the century’. With a construction period of almost 17 years, and extending to 57 kilometres in length, the Gotthard Base Tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in Europe. At the opening ceremony on 1 June more than 1,000 guests from the world of politics and local dignitaries, including distinguished guests from neighbouring countries, arrived at the foot of the Gotthard. Theatre Director Volker Hesse…
The latest UK tour from John Grant has featured Shure KSM8 and KSM9HS vocal microphones, in addition to Shure PSM900 in-ear monitors. Following the release of Grant’s third solo album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure in Autumn 2015, he took to the road for a short tour of the UK and Ireland which lasted into early 2016. It was on these dates that he began using the Shure microphones, chosen by Ber Quinn, the tour’s FOH Engineer. Matt Pengelly served as Monitor Engineer for the tour. Shure’s recently launched KSM8 microphones were used on backing vocals. PSM900 in-ears were also used,…
Somme 100 Manchester marked the commemoration of 100 years since the start of the Battle of the Somme in July, with dbn Lighting providing lighting, LED screen, rigging equipment and crew. dbn’s Pete Robinson led their team and worked closely with LD Chris Davey to realise his specification and design for lighting a main orchestra/choir stage plus a smaller dance performance stage that was built just in front. The concert section of the event included Manchester’s acclaimed Hallé Orchestra playing several well-known pieces of music related to the First World War and a major physical dance piece staged on the…
Solid State Logic featured at the fifth annual Palais en Jazz event in northern France. All performers were supported by the L500 Plus console and Amadeus PA, featuring PMX monitors, DIVA line array, and MAESTRO subwoofers. Amadeus was a co-sponsor of the event, which featured the likes of Damien Schmitt, Erik Truffaz and Victor Wooten. Philippe Guerinet, Director of International Sales for Solid State Logic, commented: “The SSL Live console is designed to help highly skilled operators deliver outstanding performances in the most demanding applications, and this festival is definitely an example of this. “The high calibre of the technical…
The United Kingdom Crowd Management Association has launched a new website. With a record number of full and associate members, the UKCMA now offers a voice to tens of thousands of crowd management and event security professionals. “The new website is another significant step forward for the UKCMA in that it profiles a commitment to addressing the challenges which we face in the security industry,” said Mark Harding, Chairman of the UKCMA and Managing Director of Showsec. Harding continued: “It provides us with a platform to set out the aims and objectives of the constitution, whilst also focusing on what…
Beverley Knight’s latest tour saw DiGiCo’s SD10-24 digital mixing consoles feature heavily in FOH and monitor positions. As the three-time MOBO award winner graced the stages of UK theatres, FOH Engineer Robin Tombs and Monitor Engineer Simon Panos oversaw the DiGiCo consoles, supplied by Capital Sound. “I first started working with Beverley Knight in 2011,” said Panos, who was introduced to the ‘BK camp’ by Tombs. “We’d worked together for quite some time with a variety of artists and we work well together, so he invited me to mix monitors for Beverley on the tour. This is her first tour…
Australian dance music festival Midnight Mafia returned after a short hiatus this year at the Showground event space in Sydney’s Olympic Park. With the organisers promising to deliver ‘the biggest event to date’, LD Arian Yegenah filled the 5,400 sq metre space with illuminated fog effects courtesy of Chauvet Professional’s Vesuvio RGBA. Australian distributor Showtools provided Yegenah with the fixtures. Yegenah placed two Vesuvio RGBAs on each of the seven moving truss arms suspended from the rafters 22 metres above the ground. Midnight Mafia took place in April and boasted a lineup that included The Enforcers and The Bodyguards. www.chauvetprofessional.com
Meyer Sound’s LEO Family has featured heavily on live tours with acts across the continent, including French band Les Insus and Danish singer Christopher. A rock quartet formed by members of the legendary group Téléphone, Les Insus are touring major arenas in France throughout the year. Bob Coke is serving as FOH engineer for the band, and works with assistants Aymeric Sorriaux and Wilfried Mautret. The band’s production features a system with front hangs of 12 LEO-M over two LYON-W loudspeakers each in addition to 30 1100-LFC elements, 20 LYON-M loudspeakers for out fill, and 16 LEOPARD line array loudspeakers for…
An array of Clay Paky fixtures recently featured at Montreal’s 22nd Bal en Blanc, the oldest electronic music festival in Canada. Held on Easter weekend at the Palais du congress de Montreal, the Bal en Blanc was produced by Produkt with One Drop as its official cause partner. One Drop is a Montreal-based non-profit, created by Guy Laliberte, whose mission is to provide safe water to communities worldwide. 45DEGREES staged its One Drop Moment to showcase this collaboration and provide a taste of what’s to come as the partnership continues with Bal en Blanc 2017. “The challenge was to create…
Event technologist FIX8Group has launched the FIX8Studio, a fully supported visualisation and training space at the company’s Stockport headquarters. The facility gives visiting production companies, studios and creatives direct access to the latest digital content control and interactive resources. Although the studio has been used internally by the group for some time, it came into full existence as a rentable space late last year, in response to increased demand from a variety of productions in theatre, corporate, music, TV studios and arena shows. FIX8Studio works with the latest server and control technologies, with developer knowledge of Hippotizer, the latest d3 Technologies…
Ayrton has launched the DREAMSPOT-18k, the world’s first laser-source automated profile. Fitted with an Osram Laser Phaser P6000 phosphor conversion module, the DREAMSPOT-18k is capable of both beam and spot projection and offers an 18,000-lumen output, in a uniform beam with no hot spots, plus continuous pan and tilt capability. The new fixture’s zoom is composed of a 13-element optical system that provides a range of 2° to 34° in Beam mode and 6° to 54° in Spot mode. The monochrome laser emitter is colour calibrated at 5,600°K, negating the need for relamping due to colour variations. The DREAMSPOT-18k also…
