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France - ARX Systems, the Australian based manufacturer of Professional AudioEquipment has announced the appointment of LCB Distribution as their new distributor for France.

ARX's managing director Colin Park says: " We're very pleased to haveJean-Paul Querry and his team at LCB Distribution as our new distributorin France. France is a challenging market for most manufacturers, LCB have a wellestablished Distribution network and have been active in the marketfor many years and are well respected in the live sound and installation sectors.which is where ARX's product focus and research and development have always been focused."

Along side ARX, LCB are distributing Xenum, Zero 88, New Wave Trussin the French market.

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Argentina - Named after Christopher Columbus and declared a National Historical Monument in 1989, the Teatro Colón is a significant example of cultural heritage in the City of Buenos Aires, and plays a key role in Argentina's artistic industry, defining, promoting and projecting national identity throughout the world. The theatre was recently equipped with Selecon Pacific Zoomspots, chosen for their "exceptional luminaires with outstanding performance, optically and mechanically".

Located on de Julio, the widest street in the world, the 2,367-seat Teatro Colón is the second largest performing arts theatre in the southern hemisphere, second only to Australia's Sydney Opera House. The theatre opened on 25 May 1908 with a performance of Verdi's Aida and during the twentieth century has deservedly earned the reputation of a world-renowned operatic centre possessin

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Germany - Following the acquisition of Telex Communications by Bosch Security Systems in late 2006, the company has announced that the title and structure of the Bosch organisation that contains professional audio product brands Telex, RTS, Electro-Voice (EV), Dynacord, Midas, and Klark Teknik will be named Bosch Communications Systems with effect from 1 January 2007.

The creation of Bosch Communications Systems - a business unit of Bosch Security Systems - sees Bosch poised to become one of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of professional audio, wireless, life safety and communication equipment. Bosch systems have been installed in a wide range of applications, such as large stadium and airport projects where customer demand for turnkey solutions combined with security systems is growing. Likewise, the recently acquired brands Telex, RTS, Electro-Voice (EV), Dyna

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USA - When Californian turntablist superstar Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, toured the UK in December last year, XTA GQ600 equalisers were hard at work throughout, being manipulated by FOH engineer Suneil Pusari.

"I think XTA kit sounds great, it's always very clean and detailed." says Suneil. "Having such a smooth graphic as the GQ600 is very important on DJ Shadow's shows.

"Where you would normally have natural dynamics from a band, you are limited in the dynamics that come from recorded tracks. To keep the gig exciting and not to tire the audiences' ears, I constantly work the graphics during the show, using them to highlight the nice bits, the cool sounds and the weird little hooks that draw the listener into the mix.

"The GQ600 is precise and smooth enough that the audience wouldn't hear the changes, but they will feel them," he says, adding: &

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UK - Strengthening their position in the market as a leader in digital snake and announcement systems, Roland Systems Group and Stage Electrics has forged a new distribution deal commencing 1 February 2007.

As one of the largest professional hire, installation and professional audio suppliers with branches in Bristol, London, Birmingham, Exeter, Cambridge, Plymouth and Tyneside, Stage Electrics offers comprehensive UK coverage and was felt to have all the necessary ingredients to take RSS by Roland products to a wider audience. As well as being stockists Stage Electrics will offer demonstration and installation and key staff have benefited from comprehensive product training.

Offering a straightforward high quality solution to any situation requiring noise and trouble free audio transfer, Digital Snake offers the reliability and flexibility that the professionals need. The AR

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UK - All are invited to High End Systems' Open House of new products on Wednesday 28 February and Thursday 1 March in London, UK. The company will be offering drinks and refreshments all day (11.00-18.00) with a complimentary lunch buffet available from 12.30-14.30 each day. The day will include demonstrations of the company's DL.2s and its new software features, Wholehog 3 and Hog iPC consoles, all three models of Studio Command (700W, 1200W and Halogen), and Catalyst and Axon Media Servers.

The location is at the Red Stage at Dukes Island Studios on Dukes Road, Western Avenue, London W3 0SL. Those interested in attending should RSVP to the e-mail address below, noting 'London' in the subject field.

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Turkey - A comprehensive, state-of-the-art fire detection system from Bosch Security Systems is installed in the Kempinski Hotel The Dome in Turkey. Opened in 2005, the luxury hotel is located on the Mediterranean coast near the ancient harbour city of Antalya. The fire detection system, installed during the building of the hotel, comprises detectors from Bosch's well-proven 400 and 500 Series and Universal Fire panels of the type 2000 Series LSN (Local Security Network) with associated interface, alarm and control equipment.

Flush-mounted 500 Series automatic smoke detectors are installed in the hotel's Royal Suite, the general manager's office and the automation control room ensure unobtrusive protection and do not disturb the ambient's aesthetics without compromising safety requirements. These detectors operate on the scattered-light fire detection principle with dual detecti

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Cyprus - Riccos Sound & Light, the KV2 Audio distributor in Cyprus, has just completed a prestigious sound and lighting installation in one of the country's premier live music clubs Hnioxos. Riccos Sound & Light was founded in 1992 by Andreas Christodoulou in Paphos, Cyprus and employs 11 people. One of them, Pambos Christodoulou, a distinguished sound engineer in his own right, designed the sound system at Hnioxos.

Hnioxos is a 900sq.m venue catering for up to 800 guests on four levels, constructed in the form of a modern day amphitheatre. Situated in Chlorakas, Pafos, the club has been owned and run by leading local music star Adonis Michaelides, drawing devotees from all over the island. The decision to upgrade the sound system in the club came through a perceived need to improve the 'offering' to the club's clients and provide them with absolutely the best sound system solut

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India - India's leading lighting designer Atul Sonpal wowed the crowds at the 2007 Hero Honda Star Screen Awards using Clay Paky Alpha Spot and Wash fixtures.

Sonpal's company, Mumbai-based Jagmag Electric, also lighting contractors for the event, is the newly appointed Clay Paky dealer for western India. Clay Paky shipped extra units out to Jagmag in time for the event.

The Star Screen Awards is the highest profile Indian film awards ceremony of the season, and this year was staged at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai. Now in its 14 year. Winners are selected by a panel of industry professionals and the winning criteria is professional excellence.

Sonpal's clients were the Indian Express newspaper and Cineyug Entertainment, and the show was attended by a host of celebrities, dignitaries and VIPs including Chief Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh. The show was also recorded

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USA - On December 10, 2006, Spring Awakening opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. After receiving critical acclaim as an off-Broadway smash-hit, this controversial and inspirational musical is once again achieving box office success. Behind the lighting design of Spring Awakening is lighting designer Kevin Adams, and behind Adams is the VL1000TI automated luminaire, and a Strand 550I lighting control console.

"While we were moving the production from off-Broadway, I basically took the same lighting plot, and then added in the VL1000 fixtures," said Adams. "I really like how the tungsten source from the VL1000 shines on faces."

Adams first used the VL1000TI luminaire on the Broadway production of Good Body starring Eve Ensler. This production was a one-woman show with a small amount of music, and so he needed an automated li

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UK - ETC has released the dates of further training sessions for their Congo andCongo jr lighting control consoles. The courses are aimed for those whohave recently heard about the desks and want to get to know them in afriendly environment.

Training is hands on, with no more than two people per console, and thereare only 10 places available for each two-day session, which will be taughtby associate regional manager for UK & Ireland, Jeremy Roberts. Registrationis first come, first served, and all training sessions held so far have beenfull. The next available session is on 21-22 February, with another inMarch.

To book, send an email to the address below, including acontact number, or telephone +44 (0)20 8896 1000. The courses, which cost £100per person and include lunch, will be held at ETC's in-house training anddemo facility, The Playhouse at Gypsy Corner in west Lond

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USA - Tomcat USA has teamed up with Cirque du Soleil once again to provide equipment for Delirium. The show is a live music concert that features remixes of existing Cirque music and reinterpretations of performances from other Cirque productions. Not a traditional Cirque show that plays over multiple weeks in a city at a time under their trademark Big Top tent, this is a multimedia / theatrical production designed to perform in arenas for one or two nights then moving to the next location.

For its part, Tomcat delivered two new curved bridges to be used as replacements for the bridges originally created for the show. These new pieces were specifically designed to be smaller and lighter. With the pre-existing bridges weighing in at approximately 1,200 lbs a piece, the goal of the new design was to cut the size by 25% and weight by 50%.

To achieve this Tomcat designed a

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UK - Stage Electrics is supplying a large lighting package to The Sound of Music, playing in the West End. The rig includes Martin MAC TW1 Tungsten wash fixtures, MAC 700 Washes and MAC 700 Profiles. The show premiered at the London Palladium on Wednesday 15 November, with Stage Electrics also supplying the lighting to the after-show party.

Working alongside production electrician Fraser Hall and production manager Matt Towell, Stage Electrics supplied a total of 17 tons of equipment; the equipment was delivered to the Palladium in just three weeks from point of order. The Martin fixtures are complimented by 19 Vari*Lite VL1000AS.

The lead for this new production of the Rogers and Hammerstein show, one of the world's most loved musicals, was decided via the reality television show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? with Andrew Lloyd Webber as the ultimate jud

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Sweden - Lab.gruppen has announced the ending of its distribution agreement with Sennheiser UK. Sennheiser has distributed Lab.gruppen products in the UK for over two years and the relationship has been rewarding and fruitful, says the company. "I would like to thank Sennheiser UK for the hard work they have done in developing the Lab.gruppen brand in what is undoubtedly one of the most competitive markets in Europe," says Claus Behrens, European sales manager, Lab.gruppen, "But with our ever expanding and more diversified portfolio of products we feel the need to get more directly involved with the UK market and are therefore working on a distribution solution that will allow this approach."

The company expects to make an announcement about its new distribution plans in the very near future. In the meantime Sennheiser UK will continue to supply Lab.gruppen

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UK - In November 2004 Dirty Dancing transferred to the stage in Sydney Australia. The London production - the latest in what is to be a worldwide roll out - opened at the Aldwych Theatre in October 2006, and is slated as being the fastest selling theatre show in the West End, with future sales already grossing an incredible £30 million.

Responsibility for the audio design was put in the hands of Bobby Aitken, who has made his first foray into the XTA DP4 Series processors for speaker control, plus some tried-and-trusted Dynamic EQ for tricky vocal parts.

The front of house loudspeaker system is predominantly d&b with a centre cluster of dVDosc and EM Acoustics' new small size base cabinets in the corners of the auditorium. Crossovers and system management is from six XTA DP448s with XTA SiDDs across some of the vocals. "The actors all wear mics up in their ha

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UK - XL Video Uk supplied screens, cameras and PPU for two separate events at the recent Russian Winter Festival, staged in London's Trafalgar Square.

The Festival was organised by Eventica - a Russian-EU relations event management team - for the GLA. XL was working for production company Out Of The Blue for the first, a London v Moscow ice chess match, who in turn were brought onboard by PR company Freud Communications.

XL supplied one of their Barco B10 mobile trailer-mounted screens for the ice chess which took place live via a two-way satellite link between London and Pushkin Square in Moscow. The screen measured 10 square metres and was located right next to the action taking place on a giant chess board made from Steeldeck.

Team London was led by UK Grandmaster Nigel Short, the strongest British chess player of the 20th century, helped by author Peter Ackroyd and 8-yea

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UK - The huge educational technology show BETT, the world's leading educational information & communications technologies (ICT) event, attracted 600 educational suppliers and over 28,000 visitors to Olympia for four days of innovation and inspiration.

Organised by EMAP, this year's event saw a significant trend towards live demonstrations and presentations on stands, according to Lauren Steadman, manager of PSL Exhibitions, the approved supplier of all audio-visual services for the event. "In the field of business-to-business (B2B) exhibitions, this is one of the busiest shows on our calendar. However, this year, we saw a significant rise in the number of sound systems and plasma screens we were providing for live events on the stands."

In addition to providing full AV facilities for more than 50 exhibitors, including Adobe, LEGO and Tomi, PSL serviced the four prese

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Elba - When high-tech giant Motorola decided to host a special event to cement relationships with several hundred VIP clients, the firm's European division regaled its guests with a fete at the Villa San Martino on the island of Elba, off the coast of Italy, best known as Napoleon's 'summer residence' during his exile from France nearly 200 years ago. In addition to stunning views and sumptuous Italian cuisine, Motorola's favoured few also enjoyed live entertainment from Diana Ross, who was heard through a system of Meyer Sound's M'elodie compact curvilinear array loudspeakers.

Sound reinforcement design for the event was entrusted to Chris Marsh, Ross's FOH engineer and a close associate of Wiltshire, England-based sound hire company Major Tom Ltd. "The brief called for a compact and lightweight full-range system," Marsh says. "The producers wanted a big, excitin

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UK - London's first festival of light, 'Switched On London', will be switched on at the Pool of London tomorrow night at 6pm and will continue until 16 February in conjunction with The ARC Show (Business Design Centre, London, 12-13 February).

Members of the lighting design and architecture community from all over the world are being invited to attend the festival to examine the relationship between light, architecture and the city consisting of temporary lighting installations and a series of light related events with an overall concept theme of 'theatre'.

The Pool of London is a natural amphitheatre within the city, encompassing the River Thames, bordered by Tower Bridge and London Bridge and including many famous landmarks. A number of iconic landmarks in the area including The Tower of London, Tower Bridge, HMS Belfast and City Hall will be temporarily and spectacularly li

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Italy - Rome-based rental company Brokershow is the latest Italian hire company to invest in Robe Show Lighting's new DigitalSpot 5000 DT.

Massimo D'Aiello (one of the three brothers who own the company) explained that they have invested heavily in Robe moving lights over the last three years, and now have over 60 Robe products including ColorSpot 1200 ATs, ColorSpot and Wash 575 ATs and ColorMix 575 ATs. They like the brand because the fixtures are reliable and hard wearing - essential features for a busy rental company.

When the DigitalSpot was launched, they were keen to get the new fixtures into their hire stock, and went ahead with the purchase of two units. "It was a hugely versatile, new and exciting product and we knew we would have work for them immediately - so we didn't think twice about it," says D'Aiello.

Brokershow was founded five years ago. They sup

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UK - March once again brings the RSAMD (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) Graduate Exhibition and Trade Show (21-22 March, 10.00am - 5.00pm). For two days, final year students of the Technical and Production Arts Course will be exhibiting a broad range of work from their three years of study in the Chandler Studio Theatre.

At the same time, the Academy's main theatre, the New Athenaeum, will become an exhibition space for the Technical and Production Arts Programme's sponsors and suppliers, enabling them to demonstrate and discuss their most recent equipment and products with prospective clients and visitors to the Academy. Companies such as Black Light, Stage Technologies, ETC, MA Lighting, Green Hippo, Selecon, Martin Professional and White Light will be taking part.Alongside this, a range of seminars will also be taking place over the two days, lead by Bernie Davies

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UK - The sound design for the London production of Dirty Dancing includes a DiGiCo digital mixing console. But the new D5T12 that sits at front of house brings a little extra to the power of the D5T platform.

The show was first staged in Australia two years ago, with a further production in Germany last year. The film was named one of the most popular of all time and London's Aldwych Theatre is seeing a replication of that popularity for the stage show, a fact that is being born out by an estimated £30 million of forward sales.

The team that is now in place is second to none, and claims amongst its credits a sound design by Bobby Aitken, at whose behest the D5T12 exists - the new console is hybrid of the D5T digital theatre mixing system, but with an additional four faders, taking the number to 12, rather than the standard eight and providing more DCA control with

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Hong Kong - The Canon Corporation has recently installed the latest Laservision LED technology at its prominent Kowloon skyscraper base, called Oterprise Square, so that the building can participate in Hong Kong's record-breaking Symphony of Light Show.

"Artificial light accounts for almost one-fifth of the world's electricity consumption - substantially more than the output of all the nuclear power stations in the world. Within 25 years, the global demand for artificial light is projected to be almost twice today's level as the developing world moves towards western living standards," say Laservision.

The company says that a shift in global climate trends and an international focus on sustainable energy has seen high-rise buildings around the world favouring energy efficient lighting design as a means of retrofitting structures for modern times.

Many governments a

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The Netherlands - At the recent ISE Show in Amsterdam, the Dutch professional video distribution specialists Pixlvision, part of the Ampco / Flashlight Group, were appointed as distributors for Holland by two of the world's leading names in video technology - Altinex and Christie. In the case of Altinex the distributorship is exclusive. Pixlvision is headed by video industry specialists Hans Denekamp (sales manager) and Robert Kaarsmaker (account manager).

The company was appointed by Christie, the leading provider of visual solutions for business, entertainment and industry, as a distributor for the Netherlands from 1 February. It will handle the complete range of Christie's business products and solutions and provide full technical support to the Dutch marketplace.

Christie manufactures purpose-built systems for professional use. Over the last 30 years the company's systems

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