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14 March 2016

This year's Technology Day will feature a new format where over 20 manufacturers will work together, integrating their technologies to demonstrate different 'room solutions' including a control room, a high end visualisation room, video conferencing cloud solutions, Lync, 4K collaboration, remote monitoring, and wireless collaboration and presentation. Each 'room solution' will show a selection of alternative technologies which can be used in that particular set-up to suit different budgets, room sizes or business objectives.

Confirmed suppliers include Adder Tec

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14 March 2016

Case Automation has been designed and engineered to aid specific elements of the production process by speeding up some of the most difficult and challenging tasks associated with case making e.g. punching extrusion and others.

Penn Elcom's Case Automation system has a footprint of just one metre square and the machine costs around 10,000 Euros, depending on which sets of quick-change tools are selected from an array of available options.

Cutting 19 inch rack rails for example becomes extremely straightforward using Case Automation.

When doing this manually, the physical cutting is wasteful and long-winded as the rail has t

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14 March 2016

Barry Howse joined LSi in March of 1992 as Advertising Manager, then as Media Sales Manager. He also served on the PLASA Exhibitor Working Group. Jane joined in 1993 as LSi's sales coordinator, then Media Sales Executive and has also regularly provided valuable organisational support for a succession of Showlight events which Jane will continue to work on. Bo

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The training will take between one to three days depending on the particular brand. Attendees will have the opportunity not only to hear about the strong and successful brands, but also they will improve their knowledge and skills within different areas of professional audio and video market.

Confirmed dates are: Sound Devices, 6 May; DIS I, 10 - 11 May; DIS II, 12 May; Shure, 13 May; Rane, 17 May; ENCO, 18 May; Mackie / Neutrik, 19 May; Cloud, 25 May; SMAART, 1 - 3 June; Clear - Com, 7 - 9 June; Roland, 10 - 11 June; Midas, 14 - 16 June.

"This year the portfolio of the brands participating at Academy 4.0 is much larger than the one we hosted previous year. Recently launched produ

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14 March 2016

Director Phil Clark says that given his company's own history with Martin Audio - coupled with an already existing demand this summer for a technology that is scientifically proven to eliminate off-site noise escape - the move was a logical one.

"We are not a rental company and have no intention of competing with rental partners. But having done research, and noted the extent to which production companies are cross hiring from each other on peak weekends, it is sensible to make more enclosures available on a dry hire basis. Along with the flying frames a

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Recently, the franchise turned to LineQ, the chief distributor of Barix products in the United States, to improve the fan experience. The solution employs three Barix Instreamer IP audio devices to encode live game feeds into files for streaming over the Internet and to mobile devices. The streams additionally incorporate live closed-captioning for hearing-impaired fans.

Because they own rights to their broadcasts, the Trail Blazers can create an entire programme at Moda Center for distribution to their network of 30 radio affiliates throughout Oregon. The program not only includes broadcasts of all the games-both home and road-but also all commercial content, announcements, and pre- a

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14 March 2016

For the second year in a row, this event was held in Katowice, this time spread to two locations - Spodek and the newly built International Convention Centre. Event broke all records of audience and visitors.

The event lasted for a total of four days, and ARAM was responsible for the design and implementation.

"Work began many months before the show," says Michael Mrzyg?ocki. "We were responsible for the execution of the set design of projects for all three stages." The ARAM team worked closely with both the client and the executors, among others, Jack Van Daniels.

The resulting total of three scenes, including an impressive main stage with a total span of 60m, located i

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Recently, Journey North acquired an old Lutheran church school building in nearby Baxter, Minnesota and set about the task of converting its reverberant gymnasium into a contemporary worship space.

Twin Cities-based Audio Video Electronics (AVE) assisted, repurposing old classroom acoustic tiles and using other low-cost ideas to give the worship space vastly improved acoustics and lighting. Importantly, AVE installed a Danley Sound Labs SH-96 for main coverage and two Danley SM-60Fs for side-fill. Danley's point source phase coherence maximized intelligibility and fidelity, and its tight pattern control k

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Over the last decade, Shirley and Iglesias have done 12 tours together. The Sex and Love Tour was a first, however, in that Iglesias shared the role of headliner for some of the shows with Pitbull, which challenged Shirley to design a show concept that was distinctly Iglesias's style but could be augmented by Pitbull's creative team when necessary. Furthermore, the tour's far-reaching itineraries made local product availability a key concern.

"The show design that I sold

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For the first time, west London based rental company Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting equipment and LED screens - for the latest section of the tour - which has just completed an extensive run through UK academy venues.

Jvan's original design concept has been adapted several times for the various legs of the tour, which have already included two full production runs and two festival seasons. This time it was modified again to fit the academy sized venues, retaining the raw, gritty aesthetic with lots of moody back-lighting and quirky video that has created such an interesting cr

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To celebrate this event in an appropriate way, the organizers decided to go for a massive laser show setup on four of the six stages, which meant that more than 16 high power lasers were set up on the main stage, and 16 more fired on the other floors.

Reliability as well as quality of the equipment is essential at such large scale productions. Laserfabrik did the laser show performance on all stages and decided to go for a massive laser setup of RTI NANO, RTI PIKO and RTI FEMTO show laser light systems.

The laser show control was executed with a combination of DSP controllers and grandMA2s, which triggered the pre-programmed

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Founded and hosted by Pastor Paul Adefarasin since 2005, The Experience is an interdenominational gospel concert which takes place in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, every December. So popular is it, however, that an adjacent cricket pitch is also needed.

Featuring many of the highest profile names in gospel music, alongside acts from Nigeria and other African countries, Subfrantic managing director Steve Davies first became involved in 2013.

"I was brought in following a long professional relationship with House on the Rock (HOTR), the church which organises

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Reed has been show designer for the band's previous two tours, which were centred on video. For this run, he went for a more light-based show, specifying 14 of the SL eSTRIP 10 units from Bristol-based rental operation Enlightened Lighting.

"The overall concept was to take a very modern approach to the lighting, whilst maintaining the requisite menace and quirks that span the punk, new romantic and even pop genres," says Reed. "When it came to choosing fixtures Andrew Bartlett at Enlightened invited me to check out the SL eSTRIP 10 and I was sold just from looking at one unit washing a white wall in daylight."

Reed focused the design on a black camo net backdrop to reflect the band's signature

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Since inception in 1988, Audiopro has established a name for itself as one of the principal suppliers and installers of d & b audiotechnik and Clearcom systems.

Peter de Fouw of Ampco Flashlight and Rolf Dijkstra of Audiopro head up the merger. Both men possess longstanding industry experience and have extensive national and international networks.

"Audiopro is a welcome addition to the Ampco Flashlight Group and our sales companies TM Audio Holland and Lightco Netherlands," says Peter de Fouw. "It will enable the group to offer

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"It was time we got one and Olebogeng Boinamo from our offices has been pestering me!" commented Mike Jones, owner of MJ. "It's a great product."

Ole is a talented lighting designer and technician at MJ and having worked on the grandMA full size for numerous years, he developed the MA mind set. "I am ecstatic and enjoying the console very much," said Ole. "I have not taken it on a show as yet, but I have been playing with it at the warehouse and received training from DWR's Nick Britz. The desk is perfect and just what I needed."

Nick Britz from DWR says Olebogeng took to the desk like a duck to water. "Ole was brilliant on the training. He was a very quick learner and I was extremely impressed. MA is

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14 March 2016

With yearly double digit growth over the last decade, the company is expanding its manufacturing capacity in order to respond to market demand. The new facilities will enable L-Acoustics to increase production significantly by the end of 2015.

A new logistics facility has been operational since early 2015. Located in the Paris region, close to the company's headquarters in Marcoussis, the new warehouse increases the company's logistics facilities to 8,200m2, expanding capacity by 300 percent.

The new warehouse was joined by the March inauguration of a new production facility. Located in Marcoussis, next to the company's business headquarters, the new assembly site boasts 3,000m2, fully dedicated to the manufacture of L-Acoustics sound systems and doubles t

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Chesser became intrigued with TiMax after the technology was presented at the ASD Winter School in 2014 and has subsequently showcased immersive soundscapes for research and development projects using TiMax.

In Vernon God Little, Chesser recreates the frenetic but isolated world of the main protagonist. In one sequence she creates an immersive memory soundscape the protagonist is reacting to, explaining, "Using TiMax's tracking/panning effects voices and sounds (bell, gunshots) are coming at him from diffe

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The week-long run included a comedy night hosted by Kevin Bridges, plus live music shows headlined by Stereophonics, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Paul Weller, The Who, Van Morrison, and Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls.

All the shows featured a central flown screen, 36.6sq.m in total, formed from XL Video's Barco NX6 6mm LED. This screen displayed a mixture of the artists' own playback content and logos, live IMAG footage and pre-recorded films about the Trust's work. Playback content was served from one of XL's Catalyst media servers.

In addition, a wide LED banner screen formed from XL's ROE Visual MC-18T

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In keeping with the creative streak that characterizes Seattle (this is the city that gave us grunge, Windows and Amazon), Parlor Live is no ordinary comedy club. Aside from its 200-seat comedy club, this two-story venue also houses a sports bar, cocktail lounge/restaurant and meeting facility.

"From a lighting standpoint, this was really three or four different projects in one," said designer Stephen Weeks of Morgan Sound and Audiovisual who was responsible for creating a design that met the diverse demands of this venue, while

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This was the second year Mauritz was commissioned to design and operate the show and he worked on the State Theatre's grandMA2 Light, having some 80 Robe fixtures and a further 30 Clay Paky Sharpys, at his disposal.

"Being in the theatre took me back quite a few years," said Mauritz, recalling his student days at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria. "It was very nice to be in this theatrical environment again."

Mauritz was chuffed with his compliment of lighting, some of which belonged to the theatre. The total comp

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14 March 2016

EL4EN is a recently formed company of industry veterans with vast experience of lighting control and operation. EL4EN will take on the responsibility of supporting the LSC Clarity range of products including the LX range of consoles, VX wings as well as the software product from a technical perspective as well as offering training courses for all levels.

Pete Floyd, international sales manager for LSC commented, "We are having more and more success with Clarity and the appointment of EL4EN is a great addition allowing us to provide better and more responsive support for the products across Europe."

EL4EN will be on the LSC booth at this year's Frankfurt Pro Light

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14 March 2016

Recently, Robe's DL Series LED fixtures have been installed in its two auditoriums as part of a lighting refit and upgrade.

As well as a leading creative live art and performance forum presenting around 600 arts events a year, Kings Place is a world class, award-winning conference and events venue, hosting leading brands across 10 event rooms and spaces. In the past 12 months, Kings Place has managed around 350 corporate events from small meetings to multi-day conferences for over 1000 delegates.

The latest lighting installation continues

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The gig - their biggest ever to date in the UK - sold out in just a few days and was preceded by a short seven-date jaunt around Europe. It also came just a month after All Time Low finished a double headline UK arena tour with You Me At Six, so, with the proximity of this still in fans' minds, Jeff designed a completely new overhead lighting scheme for the Wembley event ... and retained the core high-impact floor package from the co-headline tour, adding some new elements so he could create an eye-popping new visual extravaganza that would feel great live and look awesome on camera!

"I wanted to establish multiple layers

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As well as increasing the number of apprenticeships in the creative industries, the party has reaffirmed its commitment to creating a 'prime minister's committee' on the arts, culture and creative industries -