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UK / USA - Stage Technologies, the award-winning UK stage automation system specialist, recently hosted a reception at its new facility in Neasden, north London.

After a number of years at its Highbury base, the company recently completed the move to the Neasden site, which offers more flexibility in terms of equipment warehousing and office space. Director John Hastie described the company's current workload in the UK as "manic": engineers are involved in a variety of projects including the refurbishment of London's Royal Festival Hall, due for completion in 2007. The company can now be contacted at 9 Falcon Park, Neasden Lane, London NW10 1RZ.

Meanwhile, the company has also announced the opening of a permanent US office in Las Vegas, Nevada, to be headed up by compa

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UK - Midas is pleased to announce that it has appointed Milan-based Texim srl as its Italian distributor. Texim has been Klark Teknik's Italian distributor for 15 years, and the decision to expand the company's remit to include the Midas range of consoles is a logical progression given the increasing interoperability between the brands. This is exemplified in the November launch of Klark Teknik's Show Command integrated system of hardware and software which can interface with Midas consoles.

"The move comes at a time when the synergy between the two brands is stronger than ever, and it makes sense to have one distributor handling both," says Midas and Klark Teknik sales and marketing director David Cooper. "Texim is consistently one of our best European Klark Teknik distributors and we are confident that they can repeat this success with the Midas range. Their tec

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Italy - An architectural multi-projection onto the Motorola Pirelli building proved a challenge in terms of creativity, technology and innovation - a challenge taken on by visual designer Paolo Buroni and lighting manufacturer Stark. The project, based on an idea by Tcommunication and Motorola, is the biggest multi-projection ever attempted on a skyscraper with large, windowed surfaces, say Stark.

The technical difficulties included combating the high ambient light levels created by the thousands of public lights of night-time Milan. Buroni says that apart from this problem, he was also faced with the only available site to project from being located 200m from the building. Buroni explains: "The image to be projected was divided into 15 sections using an extremely precise graphic process and a complicated series of calculations and tests in order to obtain the perfectly rec

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The popular ICOA PA systems have been further developed to include two active full-range coaxial speakers – ICOA PRO 12 A and ICOA PRO 15 A – as well as the active 21″ bass-reflex PA subwoofer ICOA PRO SUB 21 A. With its professional features and high output power, the ICOA PRO series is aimed at ambitious bands, musicians and DJs as well as hire companies and commercial customers looking for a compact, robust and powerful PA sound system. The ICOA PRO series is rounded off with modern connection and control options via Bluetooth 5.1 and the specially developed ICOA PRO app, for use on smartphones and tablets.

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UK - Lynnsport & Leisure Park, situated in 72 acres of parkland near King's Lynn in Norfolk, is one of the largest sports and leisure facilities in the country. The Sound Division Group recently won the contract to supply and install a sophisticated Tryka LED colour change lighting system with Pulsar control, a 24-station eight-channel Audeon wireless cardio entertainment system and numerous plasma and LED screens, plus an Abstract VRX Gladiator lighting system in the facility's spinning studio.

The brief was to provide a thoroughly modern yet sympathetic environment for exercisers using the latest technology. However, it had to be a system that would be easy for untrained personnel to use and operate. Sound Division installed 24 Audeon 28 RX6 wireless personal receivers on the CV machines and the same number of Audeon 28 CS wireless Csafe docking chargers. The AV distribution s

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UK - Blackout Ltd designed and supplied all production rigging infrastructure for the 12th MTV Europe Music Awardsheld in the Pavilhao Atlantico in Lisbon, Portugal, on 3 November 2005. A variety of Blackout truss and track systems were supplied for individual artists. For Madonna's new hit single 'Hung Up', Blackout arranged for a rigged 2m mirror ball to be smoothly flown on to stage using a Liftket motor and Kinesys control system.

Framing the stage for the Gorillaz performance, Blackout supplied 4 track systems fitted with red velour to represent a secondary proscenium arch. Two 12m x 9m white filled cloth and red velour Kabukis drops added a projection surface. A "Peppers Ghost" effect was created using two translucent panels and a projector truss and projector beams bounced images back on screen where they were combined with life size silhouettes of band m

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UK - Bandit Lites UK supplied the full lighting production and crew to cult heavy rockers Dream Theater for their UK and European tour. The band's worldwide lighting requirements have been looked after in the US and Europe by Bandit for several years, offering a fully integrated intercontinental Bandit solution. The European leg of the tour was project managed for Bandit Lites UK by Mark Powell, who said: "It's was great to work with the Dream Theater team again on another innovative and interesting design."

The band's long term LD Benoit Richards and their video designer Bert Baldwin worked together on developing the 2005 show's 'visuality', which united both lighting and video in an integrated stage 'look', matching the band's huge energy. Both Richards and Baldwin have been involved with the band for some time. "It's very much been a collaborative effort this t

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With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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UK - GLP UK has launched as a new e-commerce portal (www.glplighting.com) to streamline its sales and supply line of the full-range of German Lighting Products direct to the customer.

GLP UK is a division of Chepstow based i-Vision, specialists in architectural, LED and feature lighting. Complementing i-Vision's bespoke and standard ranges of architectural fixtures, GLP UK offers a massive choice of entertainment lighting fixtures from fully-specced professional level moving heads for studio and touring applications, to a vast range of conventional lightsources, to a myriad of club and disco effects. This includes lighting control systems - dimmers and desks, stands and rigging, and all imaginable accessories.

GLP UK is the exclusive UK distributor for German Lighting Products. The new user-friendly and easily navigable website is geared to clients with all levels of knowledge

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Worldwide - Critics enthuse that Dave Gahan of veteran British electro-pop band Depeche Mode has never sounded or looked better. Touring for the first time in four years, the band are showcasing their new acclaimed album 'Playing The Angel' mixed together with classic hits from their vast back catalogue.

Artistic director Anton Corbijn, visual director Blue Leech and lighting designer Paul Normandale created the visual concept to reflect an 80s space feel and the lighting was carefully selected to complement the tradition of a band with a history of visual spectacular as well as musical presentation.

One of the key elements to both the set and lighting design is the custom-built futuristic looking stage facia and synthesiser stations. Perforated with small holes they house a total of 59 James Thomas Engineering's PixelPup LED fixtures. Paul Normandale explains: "I wanted

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UK - Live brand experience specialist MMM has won the coveted 2005 Corporate Event Award (CEA) for Event Management Team of the Year.

MMM nominated its in-house Jaguar event management team for the award and won because of its innovative approach to live branding exercises, the huge success of the experiential events that it produces for Jaguar and the way the company works with the client on a strategic level. This involves a truly comprehensive understanding of Jaguar's business on all levels, says the company.

MMM has handled Jaguar's account for over 15 years and is made up of a core team of five people - a director, two event managers, an administrator and a warehouse manager. The judges were impressed with the longevity of the relationship, which has needed a lively and constant creative evolution to develop the brand identity and keep pace with the times.

The Team del

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Italy - Italian manufacturer Outline has once again contributed to the sound reinforcement on one of the country's biggest TV shows Rockpolitik. In the colossal television studio in Brugherio - one of the largest in the world, fitted out with millions of euros' worth of scenery and equipment - the studio audience heard the host's and guests' speech exclusively via 120 of Outline's Micra II cabinets.

The reputation of these compact loudspeaker systems, say Outline, is based on their ability to reproduce the human voice in a focussed manner, with natural timbre and high intelligibility - even at high volume, and without feedback, say Outline.

For the area of the studio hosting VIPs, eight Outline H.A.R.D. 212 stage monitors with the company's unique (patent pending) "acoustic architecture" were used: these continue to make a name for themselves in high profile e

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UK - Skan PA Hire has purchased a 60-channel Klark Teknik DN1248 Plus mic splitter system. The units have been built into a custom stagebox, designed by Skan's Chris Fitch, with custom wiring and panel work by VDC. The stage box has been designed to fit into Skan's existing multipin systems while providing the flexibility and demands that some touring acts need.

The splitter system went straight out on David Gray's UK tour, making its debut on Gray's Parkinson appearance, then moving onto another TV slot with Jools Holland before heading out across the UK for the December dates. The DN1248s Pluses have been used to their full capacity, with the need for FOH, monitor, multitrack and broadcast splits on several occasions, say Skan.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - 5 Star Cases is supplying Unusual Rigging with 100 new flight cases for one tonne Liftket motors, the first of which are rolling off the production line at the company's Wisbech-based manufacturing plant. Unusual have had to increase their hoist stock to facilitate an incredibly busy touring season, bringing their total motor count to over 1000! Once again, they came to 5 Star to build rugged road cases for the new hoists, which have been specially customised both inside and out. The light blue exteriors feature the Unusual Rigging logo and full contact details. On the inside, the Tour Grade cases are fitted out with a specially designed framework to accommodate the hoist.

The trunks are a brand new design based on a familiar 5 Star hoist case shell, with further enhancements including a refined CNC machined cradle support. This cradle system comprises 24mm birch ply which

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Germany / Europe - The organizers of Photokinaannounced that the fair looks set to be a success. Oliver P. Kuhrt, executive vice president of Koelnmesse GmbH, says: "The imaging market is booming and therefore provides ideal conditions for a successful photokina 2006. The World of imaging is benefiting from the increasing convergence of markets and technologies. It's the only event in the world that represents this market in its full complexity."

Koelnmesse is expecting to attract around 1,600 suppliers from 50 countries to the event which opens on 26 September 2006, with more than 60% of the exhibitors coming from outside Germany. Also on hand will be major names from the IT and telecommunications segment. Many of these, including Epson, HP, Casio, Samsung and Panasonic, will be enlarging their stands - as will companies such as Nokia and Microsoft. Kuhr

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France - L-Acoustics recently took advantage of the 119th AES Convention in New York City to announce the worldwide launch of two self-powered two-way coaxial loudspeakers, the 108P and 112P. Both combine the significant advantages of L-Acoustics' proven coaxial point source technology, with the convenience of self-powered performance and on board digital signal processing, says the company.

Christian Heil, L-Acoustics president comments: "The introduction of a self-powered line of products does not indicate a change in our strategy, but an emphasis of L-Acoustics position towards multi-purpose, easy-to-use portable applications . . . It is not in our intention to extend the concept of self-powered speakers to the entire L-Acoustics range, however this approach seems relevant to us for small-to medium-sized multi-purpose systems."

According to L-Acoustics: "Both

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Australia / Belgium - Show Technology, Australia's leading importer and distributor of intelligent lighting solutions, has been appointed exclusive Australian distributor of Arkaos DMX Media Server software VJ 3.5.

Belgium-based Arkaos is a world-leading provider of technology for live visual performances. Since 1996, Arkaos has developed visual synthesizers that trigger and manipulate graphic content that can be displayed on large screens at events, concerts, clubs or wherever visual information is required. When it comes to media manipulation software, Arkaos is one of Europe's leading names in clubs and rental companies.

"Video is becoming integrated with lighting and lighting control at a rapid rate and it is important that we provide appropriate solutions for our customers' needs" says Show Technology managing director, Emmanuel Ziino. "Our team is dedicate

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UK - Shure Distribution UK gears up for its new marketing push with two new appointments to its marketing department. Uzo Onuora, formerly of international media monitoring agency, Romike, is now marketing manager of both Commercial and MI and Entertainment Divisions. Her primary role will be in the areas of market analysis and planning, which are the key skill she brings to Shure through her extensive knowledge and experience off print media analysis and public relations.

Faye Chang, in the newly created position of press and communications officer, will largely be responsible for press and external communications. Faye comes from the book publishing industry and brings with her 10 years' experiences of sales, promotions and publicity.

Further key additions to the Shure family are Anthony Short who recently joined Shure to take up the position of commercial area manager for t

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Singapore / Malaysia - Allen & Heath has appointed Sindo Exports PTE Ltd as its new distributor in Singapore and Malaysia. The firm will manage the sales, distribution and service of the complete Allen & Heath product line from their offices in Singapore and office/show room in Malaysia. "It is our pleasure to be part of the Allen & Heath family," comments Sindo Export's managing director, Mr. Koh. "With the increasing market demands on the Allen & Heath range of products, and our knowledge of the region, we are sure to create a prominent impact in the market."

"We feel that Sindo Exports was the logical choice for Allen & Heath's continued growth in Singapore and Malaysia. Mr. Koh and his staff are highly qualified, have strong local relationships and many years' experience in the distribution of pro audio products in SE Asia," comments Allen & Hea

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UAE - Events freighting specialist EFM recently shipped 60 tons of sensitive production equipment for the formal inauguration of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), to celebrate its first successful year of operations. With offices worldwide, EFM was brought in to move the technical production, including screens, a giant revolving stage, PA, lasers and most sensitively, pyrotechnics.

EFM's Chris Lumb was flown into Germany to manage a 26-hour load, which was particularly arduous due to the size and complexity of the staging. EFM's managing director Mike Llewellyn and Lisa Ryan were in Dubai ready to receive the unusual consignment and oversee the success of the project. On completion, Chris was flow out a few days later to re-pack the equipment and get everything safely back to base. The German production companies have expressed their admiration of the extemporary

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UK - A few places are still available on the Pyrotechnics Safety Training course, hosted by the Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians, in January 2006. The first course takes place at Warwick's Bridge House Theatre on 5 January: to book contact Richard Cooper on 01926 776475 or email rjc@warwickschool.org (For more info see www.stsg.org.uk).

The second and third courses take place at London's Central School of Speech and Drama on 12 and 13 January: to book contact Jacky on 020 7722 8183 or email enquiries@cssd.ac.uk.

Further details are available from the Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians: see web address below.

(Lee Baldock)

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Spain - Bosch reports that a purpose-built integrated conference and information system went live on 12 September in the debating hall of the historic Congreso de los Diputados, the Madrid home of the Spanish Parliament. The system is the first of its kind, say Bosch and, most importantly, was implemented without disturbing the historic and elegant furnishings and surroundings of the building - a key customer requirement.

The newly installed system integrates a Bosch DCN Next Generation microphone, voice and voting system, with an HP PC-based thin client and server information and display system. In addition to modern conferencing and voting features, this facility also provides parliamentarians with on-floor informational (office-type applications), messaging and display functionality, interconnected with high-speed Cat 5 data and conferencing networks.

The system features 35

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Germany - The first Zero 88 Frog 2 console sold to Germany has just completed a tour throughout North and East with energy supplier EWE AG. EWE AG is one of the leading regional energy service companies in Germany providing a comprehensive range of services including electricity, gas, water, telecommunications and IT to customers in the north and east of the country.

To mark their 75th anniversary EWE AG staged an impressive six-month, five-city interactive touring exhibition where customers learned about both the history and the future of the company. The exhibition consisted of a huge marquee (over 1,000sq.m of floor space) that included a wide variety of exhibits informing visitors about the company's services. The event included an audiovisual exhibit with capacity for 300 visitors that featured a massive 360° video projection with surround sound.

The lighting system requ

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