Germany - At Prolight+Sound Frankfurt, TMB introduced Flare Jr, a powerful new compact lighting fixture developed with technology from the popular, award-winning Flare. The Solaris LED Flare Jr, now available for shipment, features many of the breakthrough advances of the original Flare, in a package one-third the size. Flare Jr with its tremendous RGBW output performs as a combined wash/strobe/blinder and effect light, plus it features full RDM functionality and is also offered with a LumenRadio wireless control option.

"Response to Flare Jr at Prolight+Sound was fantastic, especially from the lighting designers," says Spantax, TMB UK customer development. "We previously showed a working prototype at PLASA last year and since then the very clever guys in R&D manage

Germany - Robert Juliat experienced a successful show at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt with a constant stream of visitors keeping the stand exceptionally busy over the four days.

Robert Juliat chose to refocus attention on its followspot range to reinvigorate its presence in the German market. The models on show - the Cyrano 2500W HMI, Lancelot 4000W HTI and Victor 1800W MSR - proved a great hit, not only in the German market but also with the international presence that was so evident at the show.

"The quantity and quality of visitors to our stand from all over the world confirm

Germany - The launch of LightGeist's new product range, the LightStick, the Badger and the Splodger, proved an unmitigated success at the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt.

Exhibiting for the first time, the LightGeist team was delighted with the impact the new products had on visitors and the instant response they generated.

"Visitors were fascinated with the effects produced by LightStick and the flexibility and versatility of Badger and Splodger," says LightGeist CCO, Nigel Hedley. "Our new 'cloud lighting' technology aroused great curiosity and we are encouraged by

Germany - At this year's Prolight+Sound Sommer Cable once again presented their product portfolio at a large booth. On an area greater than 100s.qm one could see many products and ideas around the topics of cables and lines, connectors and connection technology, signal processing as well as mechanical solutions for mobile and permanent installations.

The focus of attention lay on the latest developments in the Cardinal DVM in-house brand.

As of now the popular DVM 120 series is broadened by the single-channel model versions DVM-120-DIS and DVM-120-DISH. Owing to their transformers f

UK - Tod Machover, "America's most wired composer" (The Los Angeles Times) is today announced as the opening Keynote Speaker of the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference 2014, kicking-off the three-day event in London on Sunday 8 June.

A 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music Finalist, Machover studied at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM in Paris. He is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge USA), where he is also Director of its Opera of the Future Group. Si

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