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14 March 2016

Truss structures can be very complex; Eurotruss offers both ideas and solutions as part of their comprehensive service. The appointment of many new preferred partners across the globe shows Eurotruss are an innovative company, committed to growth in the market place.

"This move brings us ever closer to our customer, meaning we can be far more responsive to their needs by offering them, both locally stocked goods and expertise," said Martin Kuyper, CEO and founder of Eurotruss.

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14 March 2016

Community was founded in 1968 by Bruce Howze and designs and manufactures high-performance indoor and outdoor loudspeakers that provide reliable, long-term service, often for applications in extreme and challenging environments. Its products can be found in the world's leading sports venues, auditoria, theme parks, worship facilities and convention centres, with recent installations including Commonwealth Stadium in Canada, Arena Lublin in Poland, St. Paul Union Depot in Minnesota, USA and World Cup venues in Brazil.

Audioprof Group International is the holding company established to develop and build strong audio companies with a focus on specific niches in the audio

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14 March 2016

The stand design was inspired by the magnificent decorated marble and painted stucco of the Palacio Nacional (National Palace) in Mexico City, the seat of the federal executive which is located on the city's main square, El Zócalo. Much of the current Palacio's building materials are from the original palace that belonged to Moctezuma II during the Aztec Empire.

To replicate this as practically and effectively as possible at the ExCeL Centre, Robe collaborated closely with drapes specialists J&C

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14 March 2016

Artichoke produce Lumiere Durham, which will once again transform the historic city with an ambitious programme of light installations from international artists from 12-15 November. Artichoke who have a reputation for bold, groundbreaking outdoor arts events was founded in 2005 with the mission to invade public spaces with extraordinary and ambitious art.

Light art installation specialist Nayan Kulkarni is currently working on innovative new artworks as part of Hull 2017, drawing on his experience with some of the most ambitious light works in the UK. Nayan Kulkarni's site

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14 March 2016

Based in Barcelona, Lexon is headed up by Eva Thullen, who says, "Audient has been a highly respected brand in the pro audio field for over 18 years, and we at Lexon Distribucion S.A. are proud to be the distributor for the newer additions to their portfolio, the iD range of USB interfaces and ASP rack mounted devices. We have known the people at Audient for a long time and we are confident that we have an exceptional business opportunity with the brand."

Audient's owner Simon Blackwood adds, "Lexon has built up an exceptional distribution portfolio of complimentary brands and as such is ideally placed to connect us to music creators in Spain - we

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14 March 2016

More than 40 years since they started out in Los Angeles, the band continues a creative partnership that is one of the most influential and enduring in music.

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have all been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice each and are also in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, honored both for CSN as a group and as individual solo artists.

For the 2000+ capacity theatre, Dublin-based EQ Events deployed a system comprising nine Outline GTO C-12, three Outline Butterfly modules (as down-fills) and just three Outline DBS 18-2 subwoofers per side.

FOH engineer Ke

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14 March 2016

Lord Lloyd-Webber and the Real Useful Group granted the Musiktheaterstudio in Bad Leonfelden, run by the Anton Bruckner Private University, permission to put on a series of performances. For this assignment, the lighting designer, programmer and operator Ingo Kelp, used Clay Paky A.leda Wash K10s, Clay Paky Alpha Profile 700s and Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s, along with other lights

Ingo Kelp explained his choice of equipment, "Some brands, like Clay Paky, are a must in theatres, not only for their excellent performance, but also for their brightnes

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14 March 2016

This year the festival turned up the juice even more with a new Make Noise DJ stage that featured EDM stars like Erol Alkan and Grammy-winner Tom Findlay (Groove Armada), along with a dazzling array of 28 pixel-mapped Nexus 4x4 LED panels from Chauvet Professional.

When festival supplier London Speaker Hire approached John Rogers to design a lighting concept for the Make Noise stage, Rogers decided that the direction of the design should take on an obvious club persona. "Wi

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14 March 2016

"Our Air frame gives clients access to top-notch technology in a fantastic form factor," said Keith Harrison, head of LED for VER. "With a breakthrough in weight reduction, our Air 9mm has become one of the most popular rental products in our inventory, which is the largest and most diverse in the world."

Jeremy Hochman, leader of VER's

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In such a complex installation, "we knew that Symetrix SymNet Radius DSPs would be reliable and flexible - in short, one less thing for us to worry about." These are the thoughts of Steve Haas, president and principal consultant of Milford, CT-based SH Acoustics, which was recently enlisted by NYC-based exhibition design firm Thinc Design to perfect the demanding audio installation for the USA Pavilion at Expo Milano.

The first world's fair since 2012, Expo Milano is taking place in Italy from May until 31 October 2015. Centred around the theme of Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, the event is aimed at stimulating discussion about sustainable developments among the 140-plus participating nations. For its

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14 March 2016

Each week, Overlake Christian Church (OCC) is filled with a variety of events as well as Christian services. The 5,000-seat sanctuary has been in operation for close to 20 years with an average weekly attendance of 3,500.

The modular Nexo STM system replaces equipment that was installed in the church when it originally opened. The system design and installation was performed by Morgan Sound (Lynnwood, WA) following a comprehensive study of the acoustical space and available rigging points.

The worship at OCC is contemporary, with a typical setup consisting of seven to eight musicians and four or five additional vocalists. Because th

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14 March 2016

Adlib provided a large and innovatively designed 'racks-and-stacks' audio package for the recent UK leg of the current world tour. Adlib has a long history with New York based Firehouse Productions, providing stacks and racks in UK & Europe on world tours supported by them. One such tour was Radiohead in 2012 with FOH engineer Jim Warren who now works with Florence. Narci Martinez (RHCP & Josh Groban production manager) is at the helm, pulling this fantastic production together, as the tour's production manager.

Marco (Marc Olivier Germain) i

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Elevation Worship is a contemporary Christian worship band from Elevation Church in Charlotte. The band has four other albums to its credit; the last two were also recorded live. Special Event Services (SES) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina provided turnkey sound, lighting and video support services for the live show. Elevation Church lighting director/programmer Andy Bentley designed and specified the fixtures for Time Warner Cable Arena.

"We treated the recording session and 26-camera HD video shoot like any other arena show," says Michael Brammer, director of touring operations at SES. "We provided sup

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14 March 2016

Elevation Worship is a contemporary Christian worship band from Elevation Church in Charlotte. The band has four other albums to its credit; the last two were also recorded live. Special Event Services (SES) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina provided turnkey sound, lighting and video support services for the live show. Elevation Church lighting director/programmer Andy Bentley designed and specified the fixtures for Time Warner Cable Arena.

"We treated the recording session and 26-camera HD video shoot like any other arena show," says Michael Brammer, director of touring operations at SES. "We provided sup

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14 March 2016

Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) is located in Yio Chu Kang next to Yio Chu Kang MRT Station, Singapore. More than 15,000 students attend, on a campus of 30 hectares.

The Polytechnic approached Singapore-based Total Solution - a leading distributor of premium professional Light, Sound and Rigging products in Asia - to upgrade its existing lighting consoles for the course. Total Solution's Executive Director Tevin Heng demoed the Quartz console to the institution.

"NYP felt they needed to upgrade to a higher scale and more user friendly lighting console, and had always heard about Avolites' popularity in our region and therefore invited us to demo the Quartz," says Heng. "They were immediately i

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14 March 2016

Wigwam initially purchased two Qu-Pacs but soon purchased a further four. Installed in several new rack shout systems, the Qu-Pacs manage communications between FOH and monitor position on the main stages of many of the season's top festivals, including the Isle of Wight and the Big Church day.

Qu-Pac is a faderless mixer with built-in touchscreen, front panel soft keys, and iPad remote control. The fully customisable Qu-Control screen can be set up with 'widgets' for channel levels, mutes and assignment switches, and the 15 soft keys allow further customisation.

Wigwam set up combinations of Qu-control touch widgets and soft keys on their Qu-Pac units to handle audio routing, mu

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14 March 2016

RGBLink manufactures full colour LED display controllers, mapping system solutions, broadcasting devices, conference and video wall controllers, and much more. The products are suited to a wide variety of applications ranging from entertainment, broadcast and control rooms, through to conference spaces and digital signage. This industry reach impressed Stuart Holmes, managing director at PSCo when he first met up with RGBLink at PLASA 2014:

"Amongst all the great technology on

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14 March 2016

Performing Organum - a contemporary organ work composed by Wolfgang Mitterer especially for the occasion - the event was broadcast live via satellite to the Karlsruhe State Academy of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung, HfG). At the academy, the live video feeds from the organists playing and the music itself were set to a technically and artistically challenging sound and image installation, with the help of two Lawo V pro8 video processor units and a Lawo mc 36 audio mixing console.

Rastatt-based Audio Broadcast Services (ABS) supplied the Lawo video and audio equipment for the event, and worked wi

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14 March 2016

Presented by First National Bank and the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, EPH Productions supplied the full technical for a private show (which had a full dress rehearsal) attended by senior citizens from nearby old age homes, and for a gala evening for invited FNB guests.

Working on this production for the fourth year, EPH Productions had their ducks in a row to supply the glittering event. Control was on a grandMA and the range of lighting fixtures included of 12 Clay Paky Sharpy, 12 Robe Pointes, 12 Robin 100 LEDBeam,

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14 March 2016

Situated near Schipol airport, Studios Aalsmeer is probably best known as the place where Joop van den Ende and John de Mol merged their respective companies in 1994 - Endemol going on to become one of the most recognisable global brands in television production.

Endemol moved to new premises in 2010, since when the studio and office complex at Aalsmeer has become a home to media businesses, a dance studio, local radio station, cinema, game studios, restaurants and companies related to Schipho

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14 March 2016

Proel on the Road is described as a hands on day of all things MI & Pro Audio aimed at retailers, installers, hire & event companies.

Sales director Danny Clarke commented, "We wanted to try a new way of getting our products in front of customers both old and new. This event will feature new products from Proel along with mini displays of our distributed lines such as Axiom, Sagitter, EAW, CORT & Randall all plugged in and ready to try out.

We will also have hourly demonstrations of the Axiom Vertical Array systems as well as the UK launch and demos of the new Redline Professional Active cabinets from EAW."

Registration for this event can be found at www.proel.co.uk. Trade customers who register and attend this event will

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14 March 2016

Rental Stages of Hollywood, FL which specializes in a wide range of staging, lighting, sound, and supporting equipment for concerts and special events, was contracted to provide logistical support for the Day Off

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14 March 2016

Following the massive success of her Platinum Tour, the singer-songwriter worked with longtime lighting designer Chris Lisle to create a show that highlighted what she does best: Bring great music to her fans. "We kept it pretty straight forward with three trusses - downstage, midstage, and upstage, along with some floor lights," said Lisle.

"There are mainly four types of lights: Robe BMFL used for their amazing optics, gobos, and intensity, Clay Paky B-Eyes for general colour wash and then some fun effects, Robe Robin 600 for front light and Robe Pointes us

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The theatre, that produces over 1000 works a year across eight dynamic performance spaces, is the national theatre for spoken drama and was founded in 1788 and has occupied the current, majestic art nouveau building designed by architect Fredrik Lilljekvist on the waterfront at Nybroplan since 1908.

The theatre has many claims to fame including legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman who was its creative and managing director 1963 - 66 and directed numerous ground-breaking productions there. The Big Hall has a capacity of 720 and the Small Stage of 340, with both constantly busy producing and receiving shows along with the other stages.

The Small Stage (Lilla scenen) has recently purchas