USA - Czech Republic-based lighting manufacturer Robe Lighting has appointed Adam Camp as regional sales manager of the western United States, effective 28 September, 2015.

Due to customer demand and increased popularity, Robe Lighting continues to expand its reach in the U.S. under CEO Bob Schacherl. This is one of several strategic steps the company has taken to provide Robe's clients excellent sales support and coincides with the opening of a new technical support office in Burbank, CA.

"I am very pleased and honoured to take over Western U.S. Sales alongside such a great team of well-respected industry professionals. In recent years I have watched Robe bring many new and innovative advances to our industry," said Camp.

"In my opinion we have the widest array

UK - Sound Technology, distributor of HarmanN Professional Audio in the UK And Eire, is holding a Soundcraft Vi open day at John Henry's in London on Tuesday 27 October.

The new Vi7000 and Vi5000 consoles, announced earlier this year, are the most advanced yet with improvements including 96kHz processing, BSS DPR901ii dynamic EQ, an increased channel count of 128 inputs & 32 mono/stereo busses, and a doubling of the I/O capability to 392 audio streams.

Rapid configuration via new encoder assign functions and shortcut keys are joined by a new extension to the Vi's patent-applied-for VM2 radio microphone status monitoring feature, with Shure ULXD systems now recognised alongside AKG's DMS800 and WMS4500 systems.

The open day will also see two exclusive product previews from AKG and a demonstration of JBL's tour sound loudspeakers. To register to attend, visit www.soundtech.co.

UK - The versatile new FLX lighting console won a 2015 PLASA Innovation Award to the delight of all at Eaton's performance lighting control business.

The much coveted Innovation Awards were presented at the three day entertainment technology expo staged at London's ExCeL Centre earlier this week.

Zero 88 series general manager David Catterall commented, "A huge amount of work has gone into ensuring that FLX would deliver new standards in lighting control using a touch screen interface and other time-saving features, and winning the Award is great recognition of the effort and ingenuity engaged at all levels by the team who have brought this product to the market.

Launched earlier in the year, FLX has been an instant success for Zero 88 in a number of sectors from rental companies to theatres, churches to multi-purpose venues.

The Innovation Awards were judged by a num

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Kazakhstan - Aiming to bring a 'taste of Vegas' to Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan, the Aray Club was recently equipped with a NEXT-proaudio sound reinforcement system, distributed by the manufacturer's Kazakhstan distributor Sound Light Systems.

Fast becoming Kyzylorda's ultimate lifestyle party destination, Aray Club in southern Kazakhstan will regularly feature top notch entertainment whilst redefining the standards of luxury clubbing with more than 300 seats, an Kazakhstanunique contemporary musical and lighting equipment, a huge dynamic dancing, delicious food and drinks, and of course the show programme with participation of international singers.

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Finland - Lighting and set designer Mikki Kunttu has used an array of Clay Paky Mythos and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures to create a truly stunning lighting design for a production of symphonic poem Kullervo at the Finnish National Opera.

Composed by Finnish national composer Jean Sibelius and first performed in Helsinki in 1892, the opera is based on the character of Kullervo in the epic poem Kalevala. A dance element choreographed by Tero Saarinen and performed by the Finnish National Ballet was added to this 2015 production, which celebrated 150 years since the birth of Sibelius. Kunttu specified 52 x Mythos and 48 x B-EYEs from Bright Finland for key lighting in the piece.

"The brightness of the Mythos fixtures was undoubtedly the most important quality in the visual picture of the production," says Kunttu. "They delivered the final incredible punc

Germany - . Both show's audio systems were supplied by Bottrop, West Central Germany-based TDA Söhne Mannheims, founded in Mannheim in 1995, celebrated their 20th anniversary this summer with two sold out shows in their hometownRental, with a DiGiCo SD5 at Front of House and two SD7s for monitors.

Roger Wagener has known the band for over a decade and has manned the FOH position for Söhne Mannheims for the last two and half years, using the SD5 from the moment it was available.

"I use an SD5 with the Waves package on board," he says. "It's an amazing workhorse! DiGiCo has been my first choice since I did my first show with a D5 back in 2005 and I have done hundreds of shows with them since.

"The SD7 is the ultimate monitor desk. We used two at monitors because we had to split band and singers pretty much 50:50 (there are 21 of them in total) in order to

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Poland - The sea port of Gdansk, the European Solidarity Centre (ESC) is a museum and library named after the famous trade union and civil resistance movement of communist Eastern Europe. Built at a cost of 80m Euros and designed by Polish firm FORT Architects, the building exterior is manufactured from rust-coloured sheet metal to deliberately evoke the hulls of the ships that were built at the city's shipyard - the hub of the Solidarity movement. This simple exterior contrasts with the interior which features much state-of-the-art interactive technology, including loudspeakers from Genelec.

The company tasked with supplying and installing the audio system for the permanent exhibition was Konsbud Audio. One of the main requirements of the audio system design brief was that the system should be effective from an audio performance point of view, while also being discreet in appea

Denmark - Loudspeaker manufacturer Dynaudio has announced that, from 1November 2015, it will be distributing its industry-leading studio monitors from its headquarters in Skanderborg, Denmark.

Dynaudio Professional products have been distributed by TC Group since 1999. Following the April acquisition of TC Group by Music Group, Dynaudio has taken the opportunity to restructure its distribution operation. As a result, the company has chosen to take its distribution operation in-house.

Ole Jensen, who has been working closely with Dynaudio from within TC Group since the original distribution agreement was signed, has moved to Dynaudio and will continue to be the main contact for distribution.

"We have enjoyed a long and mutually rewarding relationship with TC Group. The parting is amicable and we wish them every success in the future," says Claus Rasmussen, sales dir

The Netherlands - Highlite International BV has extended its distributor network into Asia and the USA over recent months. Graham Eales joins the company from Philips Entertainment to head up Highlite Asia, while Malcolm Burlow moves on, after six years as sales director for Highlite International UK and Ireland, to set up and run Highlite International USA.

Graham and Malcolm share over 40 years of experience within the Sound and Lighting industry. Graham Eales, based in Hong Kong, will be expanding Highlite's Business into New Zealand, Australia and Asia. Graham will oversee product quality control with Highlite's manufacturing suppliers in Asia next to his commercial activities. Patrick Herveille (vice-president of Highlite International) said: "It's very important for us to have a base in Asia, so we can liaise closer and quicker with our Asian suppliers. We also found

Qatar - Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises (NMK) team on the road just wrapped up the seminars in Oman and Qatar. Following last year's seminar series hosted across the region, the NMK team started its first round of the seminars in Muscat. Attendees learned about NMK's portfolio of products and discussed various scenarios and the challenges they are encountering in the industry.

The attendees had an opportunity to meet Eugene Novacek, the founder of American company ENCO and Andrea Granata from Shure MEA whose presentations and open discussions added value to the seminar itself.

For the Video Formats, Recording & Mixing presentation, NMK teamed up with Canon MEA and presented a complete solution utilising Canon video cameras. There were also user experiences shared with the attendees as the Royal Opera House Muscat discussed its use of Shure's Axient.

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UK - WhatsOnStage offers a database of some 5,500 plus performances along with reviews, interviews, gossip, blogs and exclusive video content. Alongside this, each year the organisation hosts the WhatsOnStage Awards - in which the audience are the judges across all categories. With its origins in theatre, complete productions solution specialist White Light is once again sponsoring the event.

WL has previously sponsored the Awards Concert, where the available accolades include Best Actor in a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical, Best New Play and Best Lighting Design, which is sponsored by WL and whose previous recipients include Mark Henderson, Adam Silverman and Hugh Vanstone.

Hannah Longman, commercial manager at WhatsOnStage, comments, "We are extremely fortunate to have companies such as WL sponsor the Awards. It is through their support that such an eve

Spain - One of Barcelona's flagship night time hotspots, Razzmatazz, continues to innovate in order to stay among the region's top entertainment venues. A recent installation of Elation Professional Cuepix Panel LED matrices has added to the venue's visual possibilities, whether for a live music performance or a night of clubbing.

A myriad of artists have stepped onto the Razzmatazz stage over the years, including big names like Coldplay and Kanye West. Razzmatazz uses its 3700m2 of space and five distinct spaces in a variety of ways however. On weekends for example it transforms into a nightclub and its various rooms can be used to host parties, fashion shows, galas or virtually any event. The five separate spaces - Razz Club, the Loft, Pop Bar, Lolita and the Rex Room - can also function as one with the advantage of creating different ambiences at the same event.

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USA - Syncrolite is pleased to announce the introduction of its newest product family member: the SyncroMITE Beam which offers "a new twist with revolutionary brightness in a compact integrated moving light that offers the advantages of a Xenon source in a traditional moving light sized package".

The SyncroMITE Beam outputs 97 CRI and narrow beams (3° native) in a convenient package ready to tour, install or hire into any application. The SyncroMITE Beam provides an extremely high center beam intensity (CBI) through a massive eleven inch output aperture. Other features include two color wheels designed to produce fully saturated single and mixed colors, a Gobo wheel, flag shutter for dousing and strobe effects, zoom lenses, beam diffusion, on-board auto-sensing power supply and much more.

The SyncroMITE Beam will make its first public appearance at LDI2015 at the

USA - Robe underlines the importance of the American market by announcing a major new product launch at the 2015 LDI expo in Las Vegas - the BMFL Wash and BMFL Wash XF (Extra Features).

There will also be a host of other exciting new products making their US debut at Booth 2521 at the Las Vegas Convention Centre 23 - 25 October.

BMFL Wash and BMFL Wash XF are the latest fixtures to be added to Robe's 'game-changing' BMFL range of luminaires. These are powerful workhorse wash lights, packed with innovative and creative features, says the company.

A large 200mm diameter front fresnel lens provides a high quality traditional wash output ranging from a punchy and tight 4.5° to a super-smooth 55°.

Custom interchangeable frost filters offer three grades - light, medium and heavy - giving an extremely subtle and natural 'soft touch'.

Both CMY and CTO colour mixing filte

South Africa - Prosound Technical Director and South African Theatre stalwart, Mark Malherbe, has just completed the sound design for the second season of David Kramer's new musical Orpheus In Africa.

Prosound's Marketing Manager, Dominique Vermeulen, who attended the Preview evening comments: "An original homegrown musical is always a significant theatrical milestone, and this uber-talented cast and flawless technical and staging production, left me completely immersed in this remarkable story."

Mark and David's association goes back many years, as too does Prosound's partnership with Eastern Acoustics of Cape Town, who provided and installed the sound equipment. The Fugard Theatre is a special place for Prosound and it is noteworthy that this season begins in South Africa's Heritage week, emphasising Prosound's continuous commitment to South African art and

UK - Autograph Sales has recently supplied the Hull Truck theatre in Kingston upon Hull with a new sound system from EM Acoustics based around the HALO-C compact line array to replace an older EM Acoustics system that dated from the theatre's previous venue.

"Since our new venue was completed in 2009 we knew that our old sound system was no longer appropriate for the space," explained Hull Truck's technical manager, Amy Clarey. "Our theatre boasts quite a long thrust stage for its size [a three-sided stage that extends into the audience] which, whilst great for the audience, is a challenge for all aspects of theatre-making, especially sound. We therefore needed a system that would be able to handle this configuration and at the same time offer us as much flexibility as possible as our programme is extremely varied. Our aim was to invest in a new system that lives

USA - Described by Billboard as "trance music's most influential curator," Armin van Buuren has taken this branch of electronic music to new heights. The Dutch-born DJ's State of Trance podcast attracts over 25m listeners a week and is broadcast on 40-plus FM radio stations around the world.

As captivating as these broadcasts are, however, they're only preludes to the truly transformative trance experience of a van Buuren concert. This was clearly evident in late September at the House of Blues in Boston, where the Grammy-nominated artist served up a mesmerizing mix of music wrapped around an immersive lightshow. At the heart of it all was a towering video wall made of MVP Ta8 Curve SMD LED tiles from Chauvet Professional.

Image Production Services used 136 MVP Ta8 tiles, which have an 8.33 mm pixel pitch, to create the striking display. The majority of

USA - Fall Out Boy just wrapped The Boys of Zummer Tour co-headlining with Wiz Khalifa, and once again Clay Paky fixtures were along for the exciting cross-country ride. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky products in North America.

Robb Jibson of So Midwest, Inc. continued his relationship with the pop punk band, this time as production designer for the US amphitheatre tour. Fall Out Boy released its sixth studio album, American Beauty/American Psycho this year; it swiftly became the band's third #1 album.

An enthusiastic proponent of Clay Paky fixtures, Jibson specified 68 Mythos for the tour. Upstaging was the lighting vendor.

"I'm a fan of Clay Paky; they seem to really do things right," he declares. "I had demo'd Mythos but hadn't had a chance to use them just yet. The light is versatile enough I knew if we spec'd them we

France - With Paris Fashion week just ending, the historic Plaza Athénée Hotel in Paris debuted its new immersive speaker system install in their luxury Bar du Plaza Athénée featuring Amadeus loudspeakers.

The new speaker system is designed to create a fourth dimension in sound for its modern, comfortable and stylish surroundings. Designed by scenographer Etienne erard from Atelier A/V, the Amadeus system features 25 specially placed speakers including custom 'slim' versions of their ML 8 subwoofer under the bar's seating. The well-known French designer, Patrick Jouin, designed all the custom furniture for the bar. Some of the Paris Fashion Week festivities were held at the hotel, and the Bar du Plaza Athénée hosted celebrations for fashion luminaries and models with a sound quality to match the hotel's other gold-standard amenities.

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UK - A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) has specified, supplied and installed cutting-edge performance lighting systems for two separate drama studios at Buckinghamshire New University's High Wycombe Campus.

Having previously supplied lighting systems for several other performance areas on the campus, the university approached ACSP to deliver solutions to meet their latest studio technical needs.

For the campus's main Drama Studio 1, which is utilised by a variety of performing arts courses, the brief was to enhance the existing conventional tungsten lighting system with a range of the very latest LED solutions, as well as upgrading the existing lighting console to cope with the new rig.

The university was keen to invest in LED technology, to help improve the campus's overall lighting and heating energy efficiency rating, and thus reduce their carbon footprint. In addition, they w

Spain / China - D.A.S. Audio has announced the launch of a new strategic project for China with the creation of AV Ganguan, a multi-brand distribution company of audio-visual products. D.A.S. Audio has appointed AV GGanguan as exclusive distributor of D.A.S. Audio products in China.

AV Ganguan emerges as a partnership between two of Europe's leading professional audio companies, D.A.S. Audio and Fluge. D.A.S. Audio is recognized worldwide as a manufacturer of high-level loudspeaker systems, power amplification and related audio processing equipment. Fluge is an internationally renowned specialist in sound, video and lighting design, full-service technical production and venue management. The combined experience of these two companies offers partners and customers in China technical expertise and specialized support.

AV Ganguan is headquartered in Shanghai and backed by an inte

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