After Le voci di dentro, the Servillo brothers have chosen the Teatro Bellini to bring their latest creation, La Parola Canta, to Naples. It is a concert, a recital and a festival – skilfully illuminated by Clay Paky – made up of music, poetry and songs which celebrate the city. LD Francesco Adinolfi took up the task of designing the lighting, which arose spontaneously last year during the Ravello Festival, where the two Servillo brothers performed with the Solis string quartet. The show began to take shape in January and, after the Bellini, it will depart for a short tour…
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The Jockey Club has announced 23 live concert dates across seven racecourses, with Symphotech on hand to provide all production management and healthy and safety, February 2016. The Jockey Club Live is a unique series of concerts which combines horse racing with a spectacular line up of music, including The Corrs, Bryan Adams and Little Mix, at some of the world’s most famous racecourses. With 23 shows over a three month period, Symphotech has been contracted to deliver the highest quality of production and health and safety services. Symphotech has worked with The Jockey Club for three years and for…
Two of the world’s best known pro audio and MI companies, Yamaha Music Europe and DPA Microphones A/S, will join forces at the 2016 MusikMesse and Prolight+Sound shows in Frankfurt to demonstrate the advantages of combining their two technologies. As always, Yamaha will have a major presence at both events. The company’s Musical Instrument division will be exhibiting in Portalhaus at MusikMesse, with the company’s professional audio products shown in Hall 3.1, Booth E50 at Prolight+Sound. DPA Microphones will be exhibiting on Booth C11, Hall 4.1 at Prolight+Sound.Yamaha’s live performance stages will be equipped with DPA d:vote Instrument and d:dicate…
Following a long break from the live scene, The Corrs returned to touring in the UK with arena dates in January 2016. The tour supported the release of their latest album, White Light. For the tour, Henry McGroggan and Ian Calder contacted PRG XL Video to supply lighting and video, having worked with both teams separately in the past. Both worked with the band’s new lighting and video designer, Steven Douglas, to satisfy his design brief. Steven’s design was a multi layer design which featured a shimmering semi-opaque metallic drape forming the backdrop to an array of Orbis-Fly LED spheres.…
Howard Jones and Nate Alves, who co-designed the lighting for Brantley Gilbert’s Black Out World Tour, have selected an array of Clay Paky fixtures – including the new Scenius moving head spotlight and grandMA2 consoles for the current leg of the arena tour. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and MA Lighting brands in North America. Gilbert, the country rock singer and songwriter, kicked off the US and Canada leg of the Black Out World Tour playing to capacity crowds in Saginaw, Michigan. After the tour wraps this spring Gilbert will take a breather before launching the…
Chauvet Professional is unleashing Maverick, a power-packed series of tour ready moving fixtures at Prolight + Sound (Hall 4 Stand G45). Featuring the MK2 Wash, MK1 Hybrid and MK2 Spot (with more fixtures to come), the new series serves up an arsenal of performance features intended to shatter budget barriers, free the imagination and set a new standard in their price category. “We set out to make a statement with Maverick: that powerful full-featured tour-grade fixtures can be offered at an affordable price,” said Albert Chauvet, president and founder of Chauvet. “Maverick builds on the trail we blazed with our…
Motion control systems manufacturer Kinesys hosted a highly successful training event and open-house in its Lithia Springs, Georgia, USA facility, which was attended by over 50 people connected to the world of rigging automation and its application in the live entertainment industry. The format included two days of technical and operator training on Kinesys products, presented by David Martin, Head of Training – Kinesys USA, which catered for a range of ability and experience levels. This was followed by two days of general ‘open-house’ product awareness sessions for potential clients, existing customers and associates. The objective was to increase familiarisation…
Elation’s Platinum FLX hybrid moving head is growing in popularity among rental companies and lighting designers in the U.S. and Europe with sales of the award-winning multifunctional fixture soaring since hitting the market last autumn. Rental companies across the US, Canada and Europe have discovered the value of the unique beam/spot/wash fixture, which is also finding its way into a variety of installation projects thanks to its versatility, performance and value. In the US, a growing number of rental companies have added the Platinum FLX to their inventories including Atomic Pro (Vermont), Dynamic Productions (New York), Elite Multimedia (Nashville), Kinetic…
Lighting NZ’s 53rd Halberg Awards was a collaboration between the event’s lighting, audio and LED screens supplier, Oceania, broadcast partner OSB and broadcaster SKY TV. Thirty Robe BMFL Spots and 20 x Pointes graced the lighting rig this year among other fixtures at the Vector Arena, Auckland. The red carpet came alive with the great and the good of New Zealand’s sporting community, 1,400 of whom turned up for the occasion to see the All Blacks rugby team, cricketers Kane Williamson and Brendon McCullum, golfer Lydia Ko, all Blacks coach Steve Hansen and many more collect their prizes and accolades…
Singapore-based AIMS Productions has joined the growing roster of d3 Studios, boosting the number in the APAC region to three. As a d3 Studio AIMS offers a full d3 workflow as its in-house solution for pre-production and production of experiential multimedia for live events. d3 Technologies maintains a network of partner studios worldwide dedicated to helping fulfil customers’ d3 requirements, from consultation and support to client demos and more. AIMS combines visual arts with innovative technology to design and implement visionary multimedia productions for high-profile campaigns and installations. Productions typically encompass large-format video projection, projection mapping and interactive design, including…
Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is on a world tour in support of his latest album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ with a punchy rock and roll lighting design by Shaun Moore using 30 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures. Moore of Nitelites, who has worked with Frank and his backing band The Sleeping Souls since 2010, is using the high advanced beam and spot hybrid for large backlight gobo looks and dynamic aerial work. “The Mythos was ideal for this tour as it’s one fixture to do two jobs,” he explained. “Its incredible zoom made it perfect for achieving the looks I…
Contour Veranstaltungsservice has invested in 30 Clay Paky 100 Show Batten AS units. Besides the AS units, the company also used 14 new Show Batten 100s, with symmetric optics, at Wirtschaftstag 2015. The Wirtschaftstag is a business forum that takes place annually at the Frankfurter Jahrhunderthalle. It is considered the barometer of the German economy and this year’s theme of “Wealth – Freedom – Security: scenarios for a changing world” brought together – once again – prestigious speakers such as Jean-Claude Juncker, Sahra Wagenknecht, Niki Lauda and others. The event was moderated by Sandra Maischberger and Udo van Kampen. The…
Robe BMFL Spot moving lights created a huge impact for the arena section of Simple Minds’ “Big Music” tour for which lighting designer Stephen Pollard expanded and scaled up the stage set and lighting rig he used in theatre venues last year. Leading UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL invested in 50 x new Robe BMFL Spots just before the tour went out, 24 of which were used by Pollard. While Simple Minds won worldwide fame, recognition and built a resolute fan base with their massive rock anthems and maverick stadium performances of the 1980s and early 1990s, the…
VUE Audiotechnik has announced that Austin Audio Visual Design, TN, now offers VUE’s full product line of loudspeakers throughout middle Tennessee, including Nashville, Murfreesboro and Franklin. With over three decades of experience, Austin Audio Visual Design offers installation, rental and consulting services for a variety of markets, including house of worship, residential, commercial and live events. Austin Audio Visual Design carries the full range of VUE products: the h-Class Premium Powered Systems, al-Class Scalable CST Line Array Systems, a-Class Advanced Passive Systems and i-Class Superior Integrator Systems. A mid-sized al-8 system with h-Class hs-28 ACM subwoofers is also available as…
Russian rental company Marinov&Merkulov decided to upgrade their lighting department last year with new fixtures. They expanded their inventory by investing first in the SGM X-5 strobe, then the G-Spot moving head – and finally the SixPack blinder. Co-owners Oleg Smirnov and Eugene Merkulov first crossed paths with SGM eight years ago working with small moving heads and consoles. Rediscovering SGM years later, they were positively surprised by the new SGM. “A modern, well-organised company with a fresh perspective and perfect quality products”, said Smirnov. Taking a closer look at the entire new SGM product portfolio, Marinov and Merkulov felt…
Martin Audio has appointed Dom Harter as Managing Director with immediate effect. An experienced business leader with a deep history and passion for pro audio, Harter’s remit will be to build on the success of the Martin Audio brand and help grow this success across multiple markets worldwide. “Pro Audio has been my entire professional career having worked for some of the best known pro audio brands alongside a number of prestigious installations, one off events and tours”, said Harter. “It is an honour to lead the Martin Audio team”, he continued. “It is a brand of tremendous pedigree with…
d&b is introducing NoizCalc, a new software tool to predict the far field noise emmission of open air events. Noise from outdoor entertainment events has become a serious topic, particularly as the number of events in populated urban environments increases. Gaining permission to stage an event frequently requires an official statement with a prediction of the noise impact on the surrounding areas. NoizCalc is designed by d&b in collaboration with noise consulting and software development experts SoundPLAN, as the next tool in the d&b enabling technology portfolio. NoizCalc predicts sound propagation of multiple coherently emitting sources such as line arrays…
Martin Audio has started to tease the launch of its widely anticipated CDD-LIVE! Series that will be fully announced and showcased at this year’s Prolight+Sound in Messe Frankfurt. Details of the series are being kept under wraps, but Martin Audio has released a teaser print image and an accompanying teaser video for the new product launch under the banner of “The Sound of Things to Come”. The range will build upon the hugely successful Coaxial Differential Dispersion technology and given the ‘LIVE!’ moniker is primarily targeting the live sound community. Dom Harter, the recently appointed Managing Director, said: “This new…
