High End Systems' award-winning Catalyst system will be prominently featured in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, with finals taking place May 25 in Tallinn, Estonia. Lighting director Per Sundin of SVT has specified 15 Catalysts - the largest installation of Catalyst systems on any Catalyst project to date - along with a number of x.Spot automated luminaires in the production.

SVT is providing much of the technical support for Estonian TV. Spectra+ of Stockholm, Sweden is the lighting rental company supplying the event. Lang Audio Vision of Germany is supplying the bulk of the Catalysts along with other video equipment. Video Unlimited of Stockholm is also providing video services as well as some video projectors.

In a separate announcement, Spectra+ has altered its name and logo to reflect recent changes to the services it provides, with the introduction of a complete entertainment package service to the industry. The company can now offer lighting, sound and video equipment as an integrated package. Spectra+ (previously Spectra, Prisma and Chroma), established in 1989, has grown to become on of Scandinavia’s largest suppliers of lighting equipment to the entertainment industry. Based in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe, the company has 40 employees and a turnover of 48 million SEK.

As official lighting supplier to The Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn 2002, Spectra has invested in High End Systems’ Catalyst as the first step towards providing integrated lighting and video.

(Lee Baldock)


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