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The four artists being supported are: April Towers (Nottingham - to support European and UK dates in May, June and July), False Advertising (Manchester - to support upcoming UK dates in April and May), Flight Brigade (London - to support tours and festivals across the UK) and John Joseph Brill (Liverpool - to help with upcoming UK dates)'

PRS for Music Foundation, Wigwam Acoustics and Musicians' Union have teamed up for this second edition of Flash Funding to pool resources and knowledge, and give these four artists access to bespoke monitoring packages (such as in-ear monitoring, microphones, control systems) worth up to

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The role of Pioneer DJ trade distributors across Europe is to focus on the installation, hire and production market places for its DJ range and new XPRS active PA speaker range. Leisuretec are also authorised to supply smaller specialist retailers who meet Pioneer DJ's criteria but do not qualify for a direct account through being unable to meet its minimum turnover requirement.

Additionally, their large stockholding means they can comfortably maintain supply to all sectors when demand spikes. In stocking a variety of complementary p

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"This is a flagship system for us," explains owner Chris Anderson. "The new Anna PA won't replace our KF740 arrays, instead it will give us the opportunity to build a new client base and get work that we haven't won before."

Anderson checked out EAW's Anya system - the first Adaptive System - when it first debuted. "I was so impressed with the technology," he adds. "I was hoping they were going to come out with something more compact, a PA that would fit in with the services we provide. When I saw Anna at AES, it all fell into place."

Anna provides Adaptive Performance for a wide range of applications that require exceptional sound quality, high output and precise coverage. In addition, Anna can adapt coverage to any venue geometry

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The production, in support of her 2015 album Art Angels, used a versatile floor lighting and console package from PRG XL Video in Germany as they played venues across continental Europe before shows in Manchester, Dublin, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Nottingham and Glasgow. For the sell-out extravaganza at London's Brixton Academy, lighting designer Sarah Landau called on PRG XL Video's UK senior account manager Roy Hunt to help add a little additional razzmatazz to an already impressive light show with an overhead lighting rig.

Roy said, "Sarah's artistic and creative reputation is exceptional and the opportunity of working with her on any project is exciting, especially something like this."

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Roy Ofer, founder and CEO of Sama-Sama, had the vision to create a fun and loose way to reach out to the visitors inner artist and connect them with their own creativity to the core of this new experience. Skip Sherman, chief creative officer of Sama-Sama describes it as "the evolution of entertainment. This journey takes you from your passive seat and lets you jump into the story."

The park hosts 10 different attractions called sections. Each one invites the visitor to try different aspects of creativity through music, rhythm, movement sound and lights

Cochavi&Klein light architects worked closely with artistic director Amir Schorr, designer Keith Greco and v

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On 3 April 3, 2016, 40 SyncroMITE Beams were used alongside the reveal stage at WrestleMania 32, where the WWE set a new attendance record of 102,000 fans packed into AT&T Stadium. The SyncroMITE's were part of a larger Syncrolite package that included MX4's, SXL's and XL's, which combined was also the largest number of automated Syncrolite fixtures ever used in a single event.

TJ Benton served as crew chief for Syncrolite and worked alongside Jason Robinson, the WWE production manager and Jason Shaw, the senior manager of lighting, to pull off this bigger than life production.

Later that same week, SyncroMITE Beams were inc

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A lighting designer with Nashville-based Pulse Lighting, Justin Casey has been working with the band since last July. Moe. tours year-round; their winter tour recently concluded in Manhattan. "The band celebrated its 25th anniversary year in 2015, and the winter tour wrapped in New York City on St. Patrick's Day," says Casey. "I'll be redesigning the winter rig for Moe.'s summer festival tour." Main Light Industries supplied the lights and consoles for the winter tour.

Casey chose 12 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and four Stormy CC RGBW LED Strobes for the rig. The B-EYEs were the "workhorses of the rig" delivering the primary lighting for the band as well as "eye candy in their pixel-mapping mode," he explains. "I liked having full control of the lights to create my own very colour

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Playing a total of seven shows spread across New York's Terminal 5, LA's Hollywood Palladium and the San Francisco Armory, EPIC 4.0 was the fourth incarnation of Prydz's assault on the senses.

The behind the scenes team is comprised of Mark Calvert of RES as production director, Liam Tomaszewski as creative director and VJ, Ross Chapple as lighting designer, Ian Gotts as tour production manager, Dave Green as Ai programmer, PRG, PRG Nocturne USA and Lightware USA.

The core element of the ambitious show was another magical-looking hologram, which seemed to float centre stage in front of Prydz as he performs.

"The visual effect for t

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Kilmurry specified the award-winning Clay Paky fixtures from Adlib Audio, employing them for fast-paced punchy beam looks, spot work, atmospheric washes and seamless colour changing.

"The Mythos are incredibly versatile," continues Kilmurry. "They have a huge zoom range meaning they can perform as a spot or wash, which is pretty incredible for one moving light. And on top of all that they are extremely bright."

The Mythos units were flown in the rig, with seven positioned on Kilmurry's upstage/back truss, one on the centre truss and six on the mid stage truss. From here he used the fixtures to complement Hozier's raw sound with aerial looks that swun

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Nearly a decade later, the venue's technical manager Rob Burrows was becoming increasingly aware that technology had moved on considerably, with capacities and processing power greatly increased. After a six-month process during which they reviewed options, they decided to replace both desks with Soundcraft's new generation Vi7000, supplied by Soundcraft Vi select dealer, SSE Audio Group.

"We had done very well with the Vi6's but they were showing their age," noted Burrows. "We had the original first generation desks and they had gigged extremely ha

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Since its inception, the PRG Alliance has grown in both size and reputation, and now offers technology, services and support to event producers in a total of 25 countries.

There are now 15 member companies which make-up the PRG Alliance. The newest addition is DB Schenker - the first member supplying services other than audiovisual. DB Schenker supports the Alliance members with specialized logistics for events with a large worldwide presence and multi-modal transportation requirements.

The PRG Alliance Summit is already a key date on the calendar for members, allowi

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They have illuminated the 151m high Paragon Tower (dominated by the Hotel Presidente Intercontinental Santa Fe) with LED colour washes from one of their principal suppliers, PR Lighting.

"The client wanted to enhance the building itself on a permanent basis," explained Hermes lighting specialist, Ricardo R Segura de la Cruz.

Hermes had been approached by locally-based audio and technology company Subsuelo, who were also involved in the project and Ricardo himself was tasked with coming up with the lighting design. "I was asked to cover the whole building fa

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A two-year project representing an investment of $375m, the 20,000-seat Arena will host over 100 events a year including sports ranging from UFC, boxing, hockey and basketball to concerts and awards shows. A special concert featuring Nicki Minaj with special guest Ariana Grande followed the opening night with an upcoming schedule of shows that includes the Guns N' Roses reunion tour, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel and more.

The MLA system, supplied by the Arena's preferred audio provider and MLA partner 3G Productions, was used

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Lighting and effects are provided by a combination of Robe MiniMes and miniPointe fixtures.

These were specified by G?nter Boisits, operations and financial manager for owners The Nava Group headed by Giorgio Nava, a local celebrity chef and nightlife entrepreneur who also owns five restaurants in the area.

The Nava Group's previously successful club venture, Rhodes House, was legendary on the club

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The $750 Honor Award was given to KelseyLiz Habla and Charles Canfield, undergraduate architecture students from University at Buffalo for their adaptive-reuse project in which they proposed to renovate the historic Cyclorama Building in Buffalo, which currently houses an accounting firm, into a new indoor

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For the doctors and other medical specialists from around the world who attended the convention, images of Fenway Park, Faneuil Hall and the like provided a welcome respite between lectures on weigh

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Since the club's restoration and reopening in 2004, transforming it from the Camden Palace into KOKO, some of the music world's biggest names have performed in the space, including Madonna, Amy Winehouse and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The venue continues to attract a diverse mix of emerging musicians and global superstars.

KOKO's head of lighting, Hannu Finnila, has been using Avolites consoles for more than 15 years and is now using the new Arena console on a nightly basis.

"The Arena console is the best desk for what we need to do at KOKO, because we have different bands in every night, meaning I have to do a lot of busking," he says. "As every gig is different, the Arena is already making my life much

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The museum, which opened in 1973, houses the world's largest collection of the painter's works. The new 800sq.m glass building between the original museum and the temporary exhibition wing accommodates the cloakroom, shops and a central atrium. The 650sq,m of glass with which the building is constructed means that it is flooded with light during the day; so Ampco Flashlight was asked to design a lighting system which would not only be easy to operate with touchscreen panels, but would also respond to external light levels.

The tender also called for the system to interf

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The Institute certainly raised the bar at ISCEx2016 once again. "It was unquestionably our most successful exhibition yet," said Ros Wigmore, manager, secretariat at the ISCE. "Of our 28 exhibitors, four were first timers - Leisuretec Distribution, Monacor (UK) Ltd, Nexo SA and Yamaha Commercial Audio. And away from the exhibition, I am delighted to say that all the seminars were packed throughout."

Monacor (UK)'s UK field sales manager, Leighton Castle, said, ''The event provided us with a great opportunity to network with industry peers and to reach out to those who may not have been overly familiar with the Monacor brand and service. We very much look forward to ISCEx2017, and to many years exh

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The show featured a complete new set, lighting and visuals design by Kyle Kegan of Voyage Productions and utilized Robe BMFL Spots, BMFL WashBeams and ColorStrobes - amongst other lights. All the Robes were newly purchased by Rainbow Production Services (RPS).

"Those strobes are simply mind-blowing," declares Kyle, using them for the first time after receiving a demo and swapping the originally specified product for the new ColorStrobes.

Major Lazer's new stage set includes eight three-sided Periactoi-style 13ft high towers which are about 7ft wide (six were used at Coachella). The first facade is a scenic speaker cabin

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Just as he did for the London production, Doyle turned to Tony Award-winning sound designer Gregory Clarke to create a clean, powerful sound design that would accurately reflect the extraordinary passion of Alice Walker's tale of black female oppression and emancipation in the American south.

"I deployed EM boxes on the original London version of the show in 2013 and they performed spectacularly well," explains Clarke. "I specifi

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On 1 May 2016 Vanguardia is launching MeTrao's distribution, through which audio professionals and event organisers across the UK will be able to benefit from the product's technical wizardry.

Offering a new way of measuring sound and vibration, MeTrao was devised by Dutch entertainment technology experts Event Acoustics, based in Utrecht. The intelligent sound management product allows event organisers and sound engineers to meet noise control regulations with ease - while maximising the quality of audio output at the highest possible levels. Vanguardia has done a deal with the product's main European distributor, Ampco Flashlight Sales, to secure UK rights.

MeTrao was launched in The Netherlands in 2012, where it has sold over 200

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"We very quickly came across Powersoft and immediately liked the fact that we share the same philosophy - namely, uncompromising quality and remarkable standards. Powersoft products are the most advanced solutions in the field of audio amplification production and are an essential component in any signal chain."

Po?u?a said their decision was based on decades of experience in renting and selling solutions in the audio field. "It has taught us to recognise quality and so Powersoft was our logical choice. As a brand it offers exactly what w

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Silvio Cibien, sales manager for ELC Lighting commented, "We are delighted to welcome Venuetech on board as exclusive and indeed the very first distributors of our product range in the Middle East. Venuetech's regional experience and knowledge of the industry is second to none and the company's reputation is held in high esteem by those working the AV industry. While our kit has been installed is some high profile projects in the region, this is the first time that local customers will be able to buy directly from a local distributor, which gives them the added benefit of product support on their doorstep, should they need it."

Elie Khairallah, technical director of Venuetech said, " Within the context of its continuous strategic development, Venu