Following introductory concept discussions with Peter Fairhurst, it emerged that the system was to be used by the current President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni for the current national election campaign.
Fuzion's Jimmy Potter and Edmund Draycott combined their expertise to create a powerful, easy-to-rig PA system that could be assembled and dismantled in less than an hour.
They decided that Nexo Geo S was answer. The rig comprised nine Geo
Temple played host to some prominent speakers during the mid-20th century, notably Martin Luther King, Jr., President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Margaret Mead. Alistair Cooke and Edward R. Morrow delivered commencement addresses. But despite the building's storied past, the Baptist Temple went unoccupied for 30 years and fell into disrepair.
Seemingly headed toward destruction, the Temple was recently certified a Historical Building by the Philadelph
Kino ika has an overall area of 2,468 m2 and features two auditoria - the Katedrala hall (capacity: 800 standing or 450 seated) and the Komuna hall (capacity: 120 seated).
A key part of the venue is its technical infrastructure, which is designed to support even the most demanding multimedia acts. Installed by Ljubljana-based Audio Pro, the two M7CLs were specified because of their ability to fulfil the requirements of mode
LTM was consulted about the restoration and rejuvenation project for the Baths, (originally designed by city architect Henry Price and opened in 1906) by Jonathan Hartley who is heavily involved in developing Manchester College's creative apprenticeships, performing arts and community training programmes.
He had been tasked with the challenge of making a flexible workable space into a modern theatre and performance facility, capable of staging a wide range of events including art,
And, when the artwork concerned consists of a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond centered in the forehead, it was also going to demand well considered illumination.
Douglas James, from architectural lighting design company Mindseye, was challenged with the task of sourcing a solution to Hirst's brief - to create the impression that the piece was suspended in thin air.
"This meant absolutely no light pollution or spill," James explains: "Sometimes the simplest of briefs can be the most challenging. Of course, we weren't able to use the actual piece to develop the l
In addition to the assembly line, the factory includes soak testing, quality control, engineering, warehouse and administration departments.
To ensure that Multiform's reputation for build quality and reliability in operation is maintained, after full functional testing, all luminaires are burnt in for 72 hours before being packed for container shipment to their international distributors.
In addition to the Multiform brand, the factory produces a range of budget lighting produc
Gearhouse AV's operations manager Bhans Sheomangal explains how they were looking for a "reliable product that can be easily deployed and used for numerous tasks including the creation of multiple plasma screen effects". The brief was to find something that was: "Good quality with excellent and consistent colour reproduction," he comments, adding MicroTiles are proving to be the "perfect" solution for many applications.
Built on proven DLP technology, MicroTiles are designed for maximum image quality in demanding, high ambient light level environments. "The price is also good, and this combined with the general robustness and great long
The company has come a long way since being set up by Paul Kent in 1995, having developed into an operation turning over £1 million per annum in equipment hire and technical services.
Along the way the company moved to new headquarters on a one-acre site near Stansted Airport, from where it services corporate conferences and awards presentations throughout the world, backed up by a cutting-edge inventory of sound systems, stage sets, staging, cameras, lighting and computer based presentations.
The company has now further augmented this with the acquisitions of a
Over the years, D.A.S. Audio's loudspeakers and compression drivers have earned a reputation throughout the world for exceptional performance and reliability by incorporating the latest advances in transducer design and manufacture, including the latest coil winding technologies, the use of composite adhesives, and efficient cooling schemes. Similarly, the company pioneered the use of high-density structural polymers for the construction of acoustic enclosures.
Coincidentally, 2011 marks D.A.S. Audio of America's 15th years in the United States, making D.A.S. Audi
The first date will be Wednesday 2 March at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the Elgar Room. The session will start at 11am and continue through to 2pm. Drinks and a buffet lunch will be provided. Everyone with an interest is welcome to attend: please RSVP to janemonk@monkey.biz by Friday 25th February.
The tour will be visiting six venues across the UK. The next event will take place in Ireland on 4-5 May - venues to be confirmed.
(Lee Baldock)
The occasion was an exhibition of the newly restored Passion Cycle, a 12-picture collection created by German painter Hans Hesse in 1522. The Passion Cycle is one of the most significant religious works from the Middle Ages, and has been painstakingly reconditioned by academic painter Ji?í Brodský and his colleague Ji?í Bare, a long time art collaborator of Roudnice Gallery, over the last four years.
The paintings were loaned to the Roudnice Gallery by the Church of Birth of the Virgin Mary,
Lighting designer Per Sundin has been in charge of lighting the event for the past 10 years, but this was the first year Clay Paky fixtures were brought in for it. Interlite AB supplied eight Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500 fixtures for the banquet. The lighting was designed to be eleg
This year's Super Bowl, broadcast via Fox Sports, was the most watched in history, viewed by an estimated 111m people in the United States alone. The Black-Eyed Peas starred in the Halftime Show, which also included guest appearances by guitarist Slash and R&B singer Usher. The Post-Game Show included the Lombardi Trophy presentation, awarded
Headed up by Pastor Abraham Alex Tanuseputra, this is one of Indonesia's largest churches, able to accommodate gatherings of 30,000 in one sitting. Tri Tunggal Abadi's André Bonang has carried out several previous installations for the Bethany Church in Indonesia, including the Bethany Manyar.
Michel Brouard, L-Acoustics' sales manager Asia, initially visited the Graha Bethany Nginden church in March 2010 and met with Pastor Tanuseputra. "My first visit to Surabaya was reall
This visual extravaganza was the first ever such post cricket match entertainment event, and also celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indians in Africa. Over 40,000 cricket fans saw India narrowly beat the Proteas (South Africa), simultaneously making history as the biggest live crowd ever to watch a cricket match on the African continent. The concert was televised live worldwide on ESPN, opening up the potential audience to several million.
Lighting, stage set and visuals were designed by Tim Dunn and full technical production for the concert was supplied by Gearhouse South Africa, working for p
Conference speakers will include John Hayes, Minister for Business Innovation and Skills, Paul Latham, COO- Live Nation UK and Chair of NSA Board and other key figures from the technical and production sectors. There will also be a series of masterclasses.
The purpose of SARA'S visit is to attend the industry training and educational seminars, network and engage with industry players regarding knowledge and skills development issues, and also understand the qualification standard
With a combination of theatrical control philosophy and an adaptable hardware platform, the ORB Series provide intuitive control of both generic dimmers and moving lights. The ORB Series consoles support 2048 control channels, multiple playback stacks and are fitted with custom designed encoder wheels for dimmer and fixture control.
The road show events are free of charge and open to anyone considering a new lighting control solution for their venue or wishing to learn more about the ORB and ORB XF consoles. ORB specialist Jon Hole will be on hand to undertake training overviews or answer any specific programming or operating questions whilst our sales team can advise why the ORB range is right for
Taking place in late January at three of the UK's premier arena venues - Glasgow Braehead, Manchester's MEN and Wembley - the 'in the round' shows needed a system with plenty of power to ensure that master of ceremonies Jeremy Borash and playback music were heard above the roaring, sell-out crowds.
Urban Audio technical director Dan Lewis specified an L-Acoustics V-DOSC / DV-DOSC system, mixed wirelessly on a Yamaha M7CL console from an iPad running StageMix.
"The show was essentially quite simple, being playback and some radio mics. However the required aesthetic for the show was that there coul
Project manager for Unusual Rigging, Richard McIlhiney says, "Unusual supplied all the hanging points and trussing, as well as tracks for floor moving winches.
"Various pieces of scenery move up and down stage throughout the show, including a throne for one of the main characters, The Killer Queen, to sit on. An Unusual-designed nylon block under the show deck is pulled by a chain track and Kinesys-controlled motor, which in turn moves the set pieces.
"There are four LED video screens wh
With the new festival season fast approaching, in a country noted for its outdoor events, if the new proposals become law it will have a major impact on festival promoters and production companies. Thus FACE decided it was time to act.
By chance the Belgian distributors had carried out measurement tests of Martin Audio's new Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) nine months earlier - during an Amnesty International concert in Antwerp's Groenplaats - followed by a demo at the large Antwerp Sportpaleis arena. And they knew the syste
Held between 23 and 27 February, and featuring 42 concerts, 15 workshops and 150 songwriters, top names performing this year include Billy Bragg, Cerys Matthews and Ricky Warwick.
Festival organisers invited applications from interested parties to provide PA systems for the various concert locations, which include a variety of venues including a city centre church hall. It was decided to use EMS Audio's HK Audio Elements system.
EMS Audio's director, Les Hume, comments, "The festival is a great opportunity to show off the technical wonder that is Elements. It will be used to deliver a mighty sound in a discrete fashion for artists such as Brian Kennedy, Cerys Matthews and Nanci Griffith."
(Jim Evans)
Colourful and fun-filled events were held at different locations across the city and Christie high-powered projection was at the centre of the action. Auditoire was awarded the project for the Doha Corniche, which featured illumination, audio and large scale PA equipment, video projection and LED screens, distributed along the Corniche area. TechnoPro (Qatar) was awarded the execution and supply of the technical production.
As a part of the celebrations, a giant 36m x
An Anolis LED lighting scheme is an integral part of the new look and feel for the popular bar and eatery, owned by local entrepreneur Rene Doricak and frequented by sports enthusiasts and a lively young crowd from the local area.
Duel is adjacent to a busy sports hall run by the city of Zubri, located in-between two bustling Moravian towns - the historically significant and beautiful Ronov pod Radhot?m and the buzzing commercial centre of Valaské Mezi?í?í.
Jan?a approached Anolis's Czech & Slovak Republic sales manager Petr Kolma?ka, and together they discussed the best possible LED lighting solution.
Jan?a wanted to use power-efficient 'green' lighting to ad
The license applies to W-DMX G4 BlackBox F-1, BlackBox F-2, WhiteBox F-1, WhiteBox F-2, Micro F-1 and ProBox F-2500. All units are standard with RDM. The license also covers the Micro OEM PCB and PRO OEM PCB for W-DMX OEM manufacturers. OEM partners are "very happy" with the new license agreement, say Wireless Solution.
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