Pharos - Leaderboard - May 2024

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Europe - Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi has been filling the world's biggest halls for years with his mixture of minimalist neo-classicism and pop adaptations. This spring, the musician also visited arenas throughout Germany as part of his current world tour before journeying to Asia and North America.
In order to transport Einaudi's sparkling, dynamic piano works to the furthest corners of every location in the highest degree of transparency, the German service provider satis&fy relied on an L-Acoustics configuration including K1 and K2 system along with Kara and Kiva as supplementary side-fill and near-fill loudspeakers.
In contrast to his solo concerts, Ludovico Einaudi brought various musicians on stage for the current tour in order to bring his genre-defying compositions to life in an approach combining both conventional and unusual instruments

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USA - Queens of the Stone Age are on an epic international tour and FOH engineer Jay Rigby (The War on Drugs, The 1975, Cage The Elephant) has specified a Solid State Logic L500 console supplied by Eighth Day Sound.
The most recent QOTSA tour started last June with an SSL L500 console already specified. Rigby and the monitor engineer Francois Pare joined the tour in April this year, and Rigby decided to stick with the SSL console. "I haven't looked back," he says. "I absolutely love it."
Choosing to start from scratch rather than try to adapt himself to the previous set-up, Rigby used multitracks from earlier shows to build a new show file. "I was able to go into the Eighth Day Sound warehouse and prepare as much as possible.
"The first show I did with Queens of the Stone Age, and the first time I met the band, was headlining at a festival

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UK - The Piccadilly Theatre in London’s West End opened in 1928 as one of the largest theatres in London. In 2017, it underwent a major refurbishment, aimed at enhancing many of its original features using modern technology, as well as meeting modern sustainability targets.
Theatre owners Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) wanted to completely replace the Piccadilly Theatre’s existing house light system with low-energy LED lighting, without detracting in any way from the theatre’s Art Deco heritage. This was to include emergency lighting throughout as well as provision for the recently restored dome ceiling, including new centre-piece chandelier. Integrator White Light was engaged to install the new system.
GDS supplied products from across its entire range to meet this extensive brief, including a number of bespoke special project items that avoided any compromise w

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USA - The stately building at 1615 Vine - one of the first legitimate Broadway-style theatres in Hollywood - was purchased in 1999 by the Ricardo Montalbán Foundation as part of its mission to promote theatre education and the work of Latino artists.
In 2005, it was renamed The Montalbán and has served as an incubator of budding theatrical talent by hosting the Chauvet Professional Student Lighting Showcase.
Now in its fifth year, the annual interactive educational event, which was sponsored by 4Wall Entertainment, provides lighting students from Los Angeles-area college theatre programmes an opportunity to collaborate on design projects and have their work evaluated by noted lighting designers. This year’s group of designers included Jeff Ravitz, Matt Ford, James Schipper, Rachel Miller, Mark Devlin and Aron Altmark.
Aside from having the opportunity to rec

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Italy - Giudizio Universale: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel is the immersive, multimedia stage show created by Marco Balich of Balich Worldwide Shows. For the show's lighting, Balich worked alongside award-winning designers Rob Halliday and Bruno Poet who selected a range of ADB and Claypaky lighting products (see LSi June 2018 for a full production report).
Now running at the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome, the show features live theatrical performances, dance and aerial acrobatics. Vivid, 270° high-resolution projections of Michelangelo's work, created by live video design company, Luke Halls Studio are mapped across a 'vaulted' digital p

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USA - From the waterfront in Portland, Maine to the West End in Portland, Oregon, America’s downtown districts are experiencing a revitalization boom. One of the most inspiring signs of this renewal can be found at 1601 Grand Boulevard in the heart of Kansas City, where the Church of the Resurrection - Downtown held its inaugural service on 2 June, making it the first new house of worship to open in Missouri’s largest city in over 80 years.
A modern $10.2m structure, the new 450-seat church has a flexible LED stage lighting system that helps it meet the diverse needs of its community. Designed and installed by Stark Raving Solutions, the lighting rig features a broad collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures.
“The Church of the Resurrection - Downtown was founded in 1990 and is based in the suburb of Leawood, Kansas, but it had been looking to open a satellite

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USA - Spyscape, the contemporary and interactive museum dedicated to espionage that opened in Manhattan earlier this year, shows the many facets of the spy-vs-spy game. In doing so, it also reveals how L-Acoustics’ L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology makes the fantastic believable.
Deployed across two main rooms of the 60,000sq.ft midtown venue, the museum’s L-ISA complement comprises five dozen L-Acoustics enclosures of various models into two multi-channel setups (38.1 in one of them) that completely immerse large groups of visitors in an experiential espionage adventure, maximising storytelling and engagement.
Working closely with Spyscape creative director Ross Phillips, London-based audio director Nick Ryan and technical sound designer/immersive mixing fngineer Davey Williamson were responsible for the sound design experience the museum would present to

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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.
Mike Gonzales, LEA-Inc. controls specialist, comments: “We have done quite a few projects over the years with the Audubon Zoo, but nothing as unique and specific as this installation. The project was part of a $3m addition to the zoo called the Jaguar Jungle, designed to showcase animals from Sou

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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, set about acquiring one for the current run of shows. London-based Capital Sound Hire are providing a complete FOH control and mixing package for Kenny and with Newton units already in their inventory they were happy to oblige.
Kaiser describes how he’s using the device: “Right now we are u

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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 festival in Budapest happen. In between is another Sziget sibling and EDM festival, which took place on the picturesque lake Balaton 4-8 July. Appearing there were The Chainsmokers, David Guetta, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Martin Garrix, DJ Snake and other famous artists.
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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 a spectacular set, lighting and visual performance space.
The lighting rig includes 24 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams and 16 x MegaPointes - the first time Baekmand had used these - purchased for the occasion by Nordic Rentals, and these have been making a lot of impact, together with the Cope

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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, manufactured in house by Nitelites, enabling each speaker to be optimised at the correct tilt angle, while remaining discreet.
Fell’s soundscape of real world sounds that represent the north of England, have been reproduced by 60 traditional instruments from around the world by Royal Northern Sinfon

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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 limitations of the tent prompted the idea of a new permanent structure to keep out the noise of rain and wind; deliver excellent acoustics for young voices; improve the audience-performer relationship whilst preserving the intimacy of the existing space; optimise the technical equipping of the stage

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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 screen and act as a powerful rear side-light to dramatically draw attention to the action."
The VL6000 Beam fixtures are grouped together on two giant, actuated arms that hang over the stage. “We tightly clustered the fixtures in groups of three to give them a unique personality in the context of

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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.
Cintron-Jimenez discusses the project: “There is an outdoor, beachfront stage that is located right on the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk. The resort works very closely with the city to manage the Hollywood Beach Bandshell. On Wednesday to Sunday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. there are live music performances th

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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 arts with modern technology, creating a unique performance concept in the process.
For Mirror-Mirror, Christopher utilised 30 x Robe Pointes as his primary lightsources, which worked in unison with 102 x Kinetic Lights WinchLEDpixels and 34 x Mirror Disc lighting fixtures.
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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 and throughout a venue, immersing the crowd within the live performance.
Catalyst’s capture elements are built around Blackmagic hardware and for N.E.R.D’s summer schedule, Stuart has built a compact media server rack, featuring a series of UltraStudio HD Mini capture and playback devices

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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.
The all LED lighting system, a remarkably fast install that took place from 9-21 October 2017, includes a variety of Elation LED moving heads - Satura Profile, Platinum SEVEN, Platinum Spot III and ACL 360i - along with Colour 5 Profile ellipsoidals and SixBar 500 battens.
The design merges church lighting with

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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 Hollywood Palladium. Guthrie’s rig, which has its STRIKE 4 fixtures on rolling stage carts, was designed to adapt to any venue.
Guthrie explains: “We’re keeping this rig very flexible and basic, focusing on boldness and power. The show is intended to be the same at every venue, and that look

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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.
Mat Edgcomb, system tech for Anderson Audio explains: “The stage was 100ft wide and they wanted coverage for the entire south lawn, which was 700ft down to the fence. Traditional front-fills would not support the space between the main PA and the stage. We decided to use a pair of Anna modules at stage level to cover

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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 says: "I needed to choose a lighting fixture with great light output, because the event began during daylight hours and would transition through sunset on Manhattan's West Side, and on into the night."
He adds: "I was able to get light exactly where we needed it, without worrying about not having

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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 fantastically futuristic Tron-like feel.
Commenting on working with LED Creative, Koperski says: “Tim was a joy to work with and brought exactly what I asked for to life and he was very helpful with advice around the restrictions (even launching footballs at them at high speed!) he worked wel

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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. “When everyone finished the 5K they came into Basketball City, all sweaty and looking like they just ran five kilometers,” says Danielowski. “We had a warm-up DJ on stage and things were kind of mellow. Then when Diplo dropped the beat, our programmer Devin dropped the lights to black and waited

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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 Modanso Entertainment. “The efficient, powerful and easy-to-use Elation lighting was always our choice for stage lighting but was never available in South Africa until two years ago. We couldn’t be happier with our investment in Elation and the after-sales support from Production Warehouse."
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  5. JoeCo Blackbox captures Ed Sheeran at Wembley
  6. Mega Optocore network created for Us+Them
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