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USA - Located in New Orleans, Audubon Zoo offers visitors an exotic mix of animal encounters from around the world and are renowned for their natural habitats. With the recent addition of their latest exhibit, the zoo would be opening a 42ft, transparent flyway entitled Criaturas de la Noche filled with more than 200 short-tailed bats. Needing a nocturnal lighting design that would entice its inhabitants to come to life, the design engineers worked with LEA-Inc. who provided a combination of Chalice RGBW recessed and pipe-mounted LED luminaires from Altman Lighting.
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Europe - Currently in the midst of a busy worldwide touring schedule that includes festival appearances as well as their own shows, The Killers continue to be one of the biggest crowd-pullers in rock music. Since their formation in Las Vegas in 2001 the band have released five studio albums, all of which have topped the album charts, while their live shows help cement their reputation as one of the 21st century’s biggest rock acts.
Their FOH engineer Kenny Kaiser heard about Outline’s Newton processor via the engineer’s underground network and, recognising its potential, se
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Hungary - Capital Sound met the challenge of fielding Martin Audio’s MLA for two of Hungary’s signature festivals, while simultaneously being able to deploy 318 MLA series enclosures in Hyde Park for Roger Waters’ opening night of the Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Festival - in surround sound.
The multi-genre Volt Festival takes place in Sopron, near the Austrian-Hungary border, from 26-30 June and this year featured Depeche Mode, Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Clean Bandit, Steve Aoki and Hurts. The festival is organised by the same organisation that makes Sziget fest

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Denmark - The Danish summer tour and concert season is rocking with multiple artists on the road performing hundreds of concerts to many thousands of enthusiastic fans - many outdoors, some indoors, own headliners, festivals, taking advantage of the long daylight hours, milder temperatures and the public’s voracious appetite for live music and performance - a small country that most definitely feels the beat.
Rasmus Seebach is one of Denmark’s’ best known and most popular singer / songwriter and music producers and lighting his 2018 summer tour is Jacob Baekmand who designed

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UK - One of the most unusual deployments of RCF’s active HDL6-A line array has taken place at Sage Gateshead to coincide with the Great Exhibition of the North.
The installation of 40 of these compact elements was sensitively carried out by RCF partner Nitelites, to contour the curvilinear glass and stainless superstructure of the building. Its purpose is to reproduce a newly commissioned work by Sheffield-based ‘sound sculptor’ Mark Fell, called Protomusic #1.
The installation was carried out in just three days and involves bespoke mounting bracketry, manufact

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UK - The Nevill Holt Opera House, located in a converted 17th century stable block of the Nevill Holt Estate in Leicestershire, was officially inaugurated on 14 June for the start of Nevill Holt Opera’s (NHO) annual season.
Over the last six years, NHO, backed by the David Ross Foundation (DRF), has built an opera company to support emerging British opera talent and local children and students from DRF academies.
NHO’s summer opera season was previously housed in a temporary tented structure within the stable block which hid the interior of the historic structure. The l

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USA - Signify reports that the current Beautiful Trauma world tour by pop star Pink is benefiting from the power and presence of the Philips Vari-Lite VL6000 Beam luminaire. Lighting designer Baz Halpin is employing the fixture to provide dramatic punctuations to the energetic and spectacular production.
Halpin comments: "This is a hybrid between a very theatrically-lit show and a punchy rock and roll show. The fixtures chosen needed to be able to live between those two worlds. We were specifically looking for a fixture that could cut through the brightness of the LED scree

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USA - D.A.S. Audio was selected to upgrade the sound reinforcement system at the Hollywood Beach Bandshell. After careful consideration and evaluation, the purchased equipment was drawn from the Event Series catalogue of D.A.S. Audio.
Ricardo Cintron-Jimenez, the professional accounts manager for Guitar Centre Professional of South Florida handled the sale of the D.A.S. equipment through Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort. This transaction included six D.A.S. Audio Event 208A three-way, active line array elements and two D.A.S. Event 218A powered sub bass enclosures.
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China - Mirror-Mirror is a dynamic kinetic installation created by German lighting / visual artist Christopher Bauder from WHITEvoid, featuring contemporary dancer and crossover artist Qiu Jirong and one of seven stand-alone segments making up Apologue 2047/2, directed by Chinese film director Zhang Yimou.
The work was produced by L!VE Kingway at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing in June and will tour China in August allowing a wider audience to experience how Zhang Yimou breaks the form of traditional stage presentation by blending Chinese folk

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UK - Live production specialist Vis-a-Vis Video is delivering video content for N.E.R.D.’s UK summer appearances, with Catalyst V6 and a series of UltraStudio Mini HD from Blackmagic Design. The solution is supporting the hip hop act throughout its appearances at festivals including Lovebox in London’s Gunnersbury Park as well as at the Leeds and Reading Festival.
The software allows live operators to enhance an artist’s onstage performance by extracting images and elements from live camera signals and graphics, creating multiple outputs to LED screens or projectors on stage

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USA - Redemption to the Nations church in Chattanooga recently renovated its 2,000-seat sanctuary and outfitted the space with a new Elation intelligent lighting system spec’ed and installed by intyde.
The growing ministry sits on the site of the former Highland Park Baptist Church, a once megachurch, as well as the campus of defunct Tennessee Temple University. With a vision to gather the entire ministry onto one campus, church leaders took the opportunity to acquire the 55-acre site in 2014 and transformed it into the Redemption to the Nations campus.
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USA - Matching the double Grammy winners' irrepressible energy on Nine Inch Nails’ current Cold and Black and Infinite tour is a 'raw, blow-your-head-back lightshow' designed by Paul 'Arlo' Guthrie that draws on the intense output of 28 Chauvet Professional STRIKE 4 fixtures supplied by PRG.
The tour is promoting the band’s ninth album Bad Witch and opened on 13 June at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, with an extended run in Europe and Japan to take place in the summer before the band returns to the US for 28 shows at venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Holly

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USA - The White House added a live concert on the South Lawn to its annual Fourth of July celebration this year and Harrisburg-based Anderson Audio deployed an Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Adaptive sound system to reinforce the production.
Broadcast by Hallmark, the 90-minute event was made possible through a partnership between the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation and featured performances by artists Sara Evans, pianist Lola Astanova, American Idol finalists Jax and Jonny Brenns, and the US Marine, Navy and Air Force Bands.
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USA - Signify reports that its Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 Spot luminaires were used to provide illumination and effects for a large-scale immersive show for digital media company Oath, staged by the Hudson River in New York City. A subsidiary of Verizon, Oath reaches over 1 billion people through its digital brands, including AOL, Yahoo, Tumblr and HuffPost.
Produced by FIRST as part of the NewFronts digital media showcase, Oath's show featured content ranging from musical acts to theatrical style performances. Lighting designer Barrett Hall of design consultancy Magic Hour East say

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UK - Illumination rental and installation specialists LED Creative supported Trojan Media on a recent football-themed campaign for LG, featuring French World Cup winning goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
Filmed on the sound stage at Backstage Centre in Purfleet, the sequence featured the goalkeeper saving an onslaught of mechanised penalties against a goal area mapped out in bright LED.
Working alongside production designer Zoe Koperski, LED Creative provided their Alpha 60 flex for the project, the stark contrast between the crisp, bright LED against the dark background creating a f

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USA - Participants in this year’s Nike GO NYC 5K got an adrenalin-boosting dosage of both, as DJ Diplo was there at the Basketball City/Pier 36 finish line to entertain with his mix of dance music. Adding some perky visual zest to the performance was a colourful fast-moving lightshow featuring 20 Chauvet Professional Maverick MK Pyxis fixtures, supplied by 4Wall Entertainment.
Designed by Ben Danielowski and Tanner Simpson of Boum Creative, the show relied on the Pyxis fixtures for a varied mix of eye candy and to create a dramatic ballyhoo moment when Diplo walked on stage. “

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South Africa - In order to keep up with increasing demand, Modanso Entertainment of Johannesburg has invested in 42 new lighting fixtures from Elation Professional. The purchase includes 24 DARTZ 360 beam/spot LED moving heads, as well as 12 Platinum HFX hybrid moving heads and six Platinum 1200 Wash LED moving heads supplied by local distributor The Production Warehouse.
"Moving the company forward and the need to meet international rider requirements at an affordable rate to the client, Elation was the best investment for Modanso Entertainment,” says Patrick Paledi, owner of M

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UK - Anolis LED luminaires have been specified to bring colour, brightness and additional vibrancy to the Welsh seaside resort of Rhyl. They are used to light key landmarks in the town including the 76m high Sky Tower which is prominent on the seafront skyline.
Additional lighting installations currently include the front façade and the fly tower of the Pavilion Theatre, the clock tower, seafront waterfall and new sea wall viewing shelters.
Andy Hughes, technical manager of the Rhyl Pavilion Theatre, specified the Anolis fixtures in conjunction with Anolis UK technical sal

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UK - Foo Fighters shook the 80,000-capacity London Stadium to its core on two consecutive nights, as they performed on a Stageco stage on their latest tour, Concrete & Gold.
Essentially treated as a one-off for Stageco, the band played under a regular Super Roof, the company’s second largest after its voluminous XXL model, which was constructed within three days by a team headed by David Van Assche, who held the same position last summer on tours by Jeff Lynne’s ELO and Guns N’Roses. “This roof came from another one-off in Hamburg,” says Van Assche. “On a to

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UK - If you’re going to amplify performance in a British bastion of classical music, who wouldn’t want to do so with a system that enables the sound engineer to place instruments in their correct positions relative to all the listeners? This was the option offered by Britannia Row when the subject of the rejuvenated Classical Brits came up.
“It came about because we were keen to try the L-Acoustic L-ISA system,” says Colin Pink, head of live sound for the Brits. “The Royal Albert Hall were also keen to hear it. Initially, myself and Brit Row MD Bryan Grant went to L-Acou

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USA - When hip-hop recording artist, songwriter, record producer and actor Lecrae needed a lighting package for his one-off season, Bandit Lites was there to provide the gear and support for those on the road.
With venues ranging from a headlining event at U.S. Bank Stadium to an intimate performance at prisons for inmate moral, production manager Charlton Combs crafted a diverse and vibrant lighting design for the two-time Grammy Award winner. "The hardest challenge we find is building a rig that can work for 5,000 people or 50,000 and still bring the same look every night," expl

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UK - Having circled the globe for more than a year, Ed Sheeran's Divide tour recently arrived at London's Wembley Stadium for a string of critically praised homecoming shows.
Performing before sold-out, 80,000-strong crowds, Sheeran once again proved that one man and a guitar are more than enough to fill a stadium, while audio systems engineer Charlie Albin and FOH engineer Chris Marsh ensured the technical production was faultless. Helping them to do so was a more recent addition to the touring rack – a JoeCo Blackbox BBR64-MADI multi-track recorder described by Albin as

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UK - As the Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time festival in London’s Hyde Park has continued to grow organically since its inception in 2013, so sound production company, Capital Sound, has deployed an increasing number of its Optocore converters to provide digital signal transmission over optical fibre across the vast site.
But nothing quite prepared them for the opening day this year when Roger Waters brought his Us + Them tour to the UK for the first time, having already taken his sonic and visual experimentation to breath-taking levels at Desert Trip in 2016, wit

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UK - When it opened in 2017, Printworks London made clear its commitment to host world-class electronic music events, with a central part of that promise revolving around delivering supreme lighting, sound and video systems.
Testament to this vow is demonstrated by the kit list in the venue’s new 3000-capacity live room. With audio gear comprising an extensive d&b audiotechnik J and V-Series system, quality sound delivery is assured. And when it comes to the visual system, Printworks London speed-dialled the UK creative Digital Insanity.
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