CHAUVET Professional lighting fixtures help illuminate the Kasteeltuinen Arcen garden complex, home to the Netherlands’ Enchanted Garden festival. Designing this 17-day festival, which takes place at the 42-hectare plot near the border between Holland and Germany, is Dynamic Beeld, Licht & Geluid. These companies combine colourful lighting with a song written by Dutch recording artist, Stef Classens. Key to creating this evocative colour scheme of graduated reds and greens, along with some bold blue aerial effects were six Maverick Storm 1 Spot fixtures from CHAUVET Professional. The design team positioned the 480W LED fixtures around the edge of a pond…
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Main Light has opened its new facility in Nashville, Tennesse. Cathie Berbena-Lloyd and Jim Gregory will manage the new location for the entertainment equipment and lighting company. The new 70,000 sq ft Main Light, South shop is located at 12630 Old Hickory Blvd, Antioch, TN. Locally, Main Light will be led by Account Executive Berbena-Lloyd and Operations Manager Gregory. This new facility is the company’s third location, joining Main Light, East in Wilmington, DE and Main Light, West in Las Vegas, NV. Berbena-Lloyd brings an understanding of the customer’s point of view having been a long-time client of Main Light…
Sharp NEC Display Solutions is going to unveil the new NEC PX2201UL projector during ISE 2022, before its launch in May 2022. The 1DLP model with RB laser technology offers colour performance while still being relatively compact. Wide interface selection, built-in edge blending and geometric control technologies all support an easy installation. With 20,500 ANSI lumens, the PX2201UL projector gives spectators super bright and clear images. Wide interface selection and edge blending technology support the use of two or more projectors for wide visual angles. Despite all these advanced technological properties, the PX2201UL is relatively compact and transportable. As such,…
Analog Way has rolled out a new software release – 3.4 – for its Picturall series of media servers. The new features include support for NDI live video streaming (input and output), advanced audio features, synchronised layer timecode over the network and enhanced show and server synchronisation for back up. In addition to support for the latest v5.0 version of NDI technology, Picturall media servers that were already capable of receiving multiple NDI streams from the network are now capable of streaming one or more NDI streams over the network at up to 4.6kHz resolution, including with audio and alpha…
Enlightened has appointed Ryan Stromski to its Hire & Production team. An experienced Production Manager, Stromski joined Enlightened in 2021 to oversee the expansion of its Venue Servicing, Sales and Installation services which have grown considerably over the last year, benefitting enormously from his organised and detailed coordination. Stromski’s move across departments to join the Enlightened production team, has been welcomed by his colleagues. Along with his enormous energy and organisational skills, Stromski brings a wealth of industry hire and production experience across a broad range of disciplines. With COVID-19 restrictions now fully lifted, the production team are busier than…
Backup and Big Drop are joining forces to generate awareness for the live events and entertainment technical supply chain.Backup is a charity for the technical entertainment industry and Big Drop are producers of award winning alcohol-free beer. The collaboration aims to extend the reach of the Backup brand in order to help those impacted by the pandemic in the live entertainment industry further. As theatres open, and concerts and festivals start to re-emerge, the COVID-19 pandemic is viewed as being over. However, it has left serious scars. Help is still needed, as it was pre-pandemic, but now even more so,…
tvONE and Green Hippo are launching a competition to highlight excellence in control system design using their range of products. tvONE is looking for programmers, operators and designers who have mastered video manipulation using Green Hippo’s Hippotizer range of Media Servers, or harnessed the power of tvONE’s CORIOmaster family of video processors. The contest, called the CONECT Control Competition, was officially launched at the company’s CONECT Summit on 5 April, 2022. This free-to-attend, live-streamed event will include virtual demos, training, and panel discussion with industry leaders. The summit will focus on how tvONE, Magenta and Green Hippo products, software features…
Sell-out lighting trail, Woodyfest, saw Signify deliver projections on the façade of Scottish stately home, Hopetoun House in South Queensferry. These effects were augmented by the far-reaching aerial light effect of the Vari-Lite VL2600 PROFILE fixtures and the Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH. Which reportedly attracted the local community’s attention some distance away. Woodyfest, produced by Wondrous Woods, with creative design and technical production from 21CC Group, ran for the second year within the woods and grounds surrounding Hopetoun House. The trail goes along winding pathways, each of which led to dynamic installations, fairy grottos and water wall projections. The 2km walk…
For the second time Production AV supplied kit and crew for the concerts in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT). Taking place over seven consecutive nights at the Royal Albert Hall, the series of live music and comedy gigs were performed as fundraisers for the TCT, which provides care for people aged 13-24 with cancer. This year’s set up comprised Production AV’s Desay M6 LED panels as a central 8m by 4.5m screen flown above The Royal Albert Hall’s iconic stage and a large, curved 23.2m by 0.9m banner of LED screen across the back of the main stage,…
LIVE has appointed hospitality expert Jon Collins as its new Chief Executive. Collins’ focus will be to build on previous successes, driving progress on key issues ranging from boosting sustainability to creating an improved regulatory environment for the export and growth of the UK’s vibrant £4.5bn live music industry. He has been appointed following a 25-year career running representative organisations in the hospitality industry, and previously served as Chairman of the Institute of Licensing and the National Licensing Forum. Formed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, LIVE has pushed for the advancement of the sector. In just two years, the group…
Elation Professional has started shipping the new full-spectrum Fuze Max LED luminaire this week. Available in Spot and Profile framing versions, full-spectrum LED moving heads offer versatility and rivals 1kW/1.2kW class discharge fixtures. Available in Spot and Profile framing versions, the Fuze MAX has been designed for precision lighting applications such as theatre, broadcast and houses of worship where a wider chromatic spectrum (including dynamic whites) and high-quality is required. Both models have automated LED moving heads, offer full-spectrum performance from a 92 CRI engine that utilises an 800W five-colour homogenised LED array of Red, Green, Blue, Mint, and Amber…
Fulcrum Acoustic has appointed Audio Geer as its sales representative for southern California and southern Nevada territories. Audio Geer, based in Huntington Beach, California will be responsible for Fulcrum Acoustic product sales and support in its territory. Founded in 2008, Fulcrum Acoustic is a manufacturer known for a unique approach to loudspeaker design. Employing the research of company co-founder David Gunness, Fulcrum Acoustic combines proprietary coaxial design and Temporal Equalisation processing power. “I’ve been a big fan of Fulcrum Acoustic and what they bring into the market for years now,” said Audio Geer President, Alan Geer. “As they continue to introduce…
Sound Designer, Phil Wright chose DPA Microphones for his production of Joker Live in Concert because of its reliable audio. As part of promotion and production company Senbla’s ‘film in concert’ series, the concert required high quality audio with pristine clarity. With 25 years’ experience using DPA Microphones, Wright, Sound Designer and FOH Engineer for Joker Live in Concert trusted the brand to deliver. Working with AV production supplier SFL, Wright chose to make it a fully DPA spec. The show features a 48-piece orchestra comprised conventional strings, brass and woodwinds sections, with DPA mics utilised throughout. The brand’s 4099…
Brompton Technology has been included in this year’s fifth annual Financial Times 1000 list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies. The FT 1000, compiled with research company Statista, shows 1,000 European companies that achieved the highest compound annual growth rate in revenue between 2016 and 2019. Brompton was chosen among millions of existing European enterprises in what was a complex process of extensive research, public calls for participation, in-depth database research and the direct contact of tens of thousands of companies. The full report, published on 22 March, stands as an acknowledgement by the Financial Times and Statista of Brompton’s rapid and…
Earlier in the year, Tokyo Industries and Tim Burgess — best known as the lead singer in the Charlatans — stepped in to save two of Manchester’s most iconic live music venues: The Deaf Institute and Gorilla. Following the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the live events sector, the venues now ‘go digital’ with the formation of Gorilla TV. The venues’ previous owners, Mission Mars, announced the closure of both sites in July, but Burgess and team were determined to keep them going. Since the acquisition, however, the locations have been forced to remain closed due to the…
Powersoft, the Italian manufacturer of professional power amplifiers, announced it has ramped up its investment and capacity to deliver online training courses worldwide, in a bid to mitigate the increasing difficulties in organising face-to-face meetings and group sessions due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions. Starting tomorrow 17 March, Powersoft will provide more e-learning content and offer extensive distance learning tools to customers and users alike. Building on the success of its existing e-learning and e-training courses, each course will be conducted by Powersoft trainers and application engineers. These one hour long interactive sessions are free of charge and…
The dedicated team at Point Source Audio has grown once again with three new additions across the education and customer service teams. Joe Cota has joined the manufacturer as Customer Education Specialist while Justin Hall becomes Key Account Manager and Mitchell Ho is named as Account Manager, Western US. On top of a warm hug for everyone he meets, Cota brings with him a background as a worship pastor and vocalist. “I’m a professional singer and musician by trade so I can relate to many of the challenges our customers face out in the field,” he explained. “I really enjoy…
On February 26, 2020, at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, a unique immersive symphonic concert was given by French violinist Renaud Capuçon and 40 musicians. Virtual Harmony took place under a 300 sqm dome with projection mapping. The immersive experience was powered by the Modulo Kinetic media server by Modulo Pi, and its new module for automatic blending and warping used as a preview. To put the spotlight on 3Dvarius, the first 3D printed violin by Dassault Systèmes, a unique immersive symphonic concert was organised in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Internationally-renowned violinist Capuçon and 40 musicians were…
