Events

Digidesign appoints Orbital & Marquee

Details: 14 March 2016

Digidesign chose the ABTT Show to announce the appointment of two exhibitors - Orbital and Marquee Audio - as joint exclusive UK distributors for its Venue live mixing platform.

Designed for live sound reinforcement and broadcast applications, the Venue is a modular live sound mixing and production environment comprising the D-Show mixing console, front-of-house mix engine, Stage Rack I/O unit with recallable, remote-controlled preamps, and a multi-channel digital snake.

As a modular base system, it is infinitely configurable, say the company, supporting up to 96 mic inputs and 27 busses. The powerful mix engine provides EQ and dynamic processing on every input channel along with assignable graphic EQ's and full support for Pro Tools plug-ins.

Digidesign's European live sound sales manager Mike Case said: "Both Marquee and Orbital possess as much digital technology experience

Summit Steel

Details: 14 March 2016

Summit Steel was at ABTT for the first time, intending to raise its profile within the theatre industry. In addition to its range of truss, hoists, ground supports and rigging hardware, Summit highlighted its Kinesys Vari-speed System which provides accurate, highly controllable movement combined with high capacity lifting. Further features include its Vector control software for the Elevation 1+ controller which allows variable speed running and full positional control.

Lift-Turn-Move (LTM)

Details: 14 March 2016

LTM showed the Equipchaine electromechanical chain-lifting device, specifically designed for theatrical applications. Installed in over 130 theatres and multi-purpose spaces, it fits easily into existing structures. This, say LTM, allows service spaces and backstage areas to be freed up from large lifting machinery. Also on show, for more demanding applications, was Ibex's Programmable Hoist Controller Plus, with enhanced control panel and integrated Ethernet port. Up to 10 controllers can be linked together, enabling control of up to 240 hoists; PCs can also be connected for status display and remote control functions.

Martin Professional

Details: 14 March 2016

Among the major product previews was the brand new MAC 700 from Martin Professional. Ideally suited to the theatre market, its features include an animation wheel, CMY colour mixing and a 'Quiet Mode' option - all in thesame-sized package as the MAC 550. Boasting a 700W double-ended lamp and new glass reflector technology, the unit is aimed at filling the gap between the 575W MAC 550 and the 1200W MAC 2000 Profile - although it has more features than either. A switchable power supply which allows for tool-free selection of voltage settings. Also shown was the new MAC 250 Wash, as well as the new Patrick Woodroffe Gobo Collection for the MAC 2000 Profile.

ISE 2006 'boosted by InfoComm success'

Details: 14 March 2016

Europe - The record number of exhibitor bookings and added space secured for the Integrated Systems Europe 2006 exhibition demonstrates that the market is buoyant and confident, say the organizers - a claim they say is confirmed by the record results achieved at InfoComm 2005 - the largest annual conference and exhibition for audio-visual buyers and sellers, held in Las Vegas in June. The event grew 15% over 2004, attracting over 26,000 AV professionals including a strong increase in the number of AV and IT managers.

Mike Blackman, ISE 2006 managing director explains: "The success of InfoComm 2005 demonstrates that the market is growing stronger by the year as more professionals and installers look to exhibitions as the key medium to source new products and see the latest innovations in technology."

Blackman also had this to say about the latest progress on ISE 2006:

The Tides of Time

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Based since 1990 in the seaside town of Scarborough, and celebrating its 50th anniversary, the National Student Drama Festival chose 'The Tides of Time' as the theme for this year's event, to coincide with 2005 being the Year of the Sea.

Amid the intense activity of the Festival week - the preparation and in some cases creation of six venues,16 productions running concurrently, the logistics of deploying a 75-strong team of student technicians, and the inevitable socializing - lies a fundamental emphasis on education. The event aims are to harness the enthusiasm of so much young talent and develop them into the technical and performance professionals of the future.

With participants from all over the country, the organizers confront a wide range of skill levels. Safety aspects are covered by a series of training forums on subjects including manual handling and rigging, bu

Kave Theatre Services

Details: 14 March 2016

Kave Theatre Services showed numerous products, including SFX sound playback software, RentalPoint rental management package, and examples of its own wide range of flat kits. The company also introduced its new webshop, the latest addition to its website.

HSL Group

Details: 14 March 2016

The HSL Group was another first timer: currently supplying lighting to some major UK theatre tours including Blood Brothers, Joseph & His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar, HSL is also servicing other major events including Holland Park Opera Festival plus providing equipment to TV studios across the UK. HSL has now streamlined into three divisions: HSL Rental, HSL Rigging and HSL Sales and Distributions.

ETC

Details: 14 March 2016

ETC has always had a busy, but not large, stand at ABTT and this year Mark White decided the company needed a bigger area to demonstrate its wares - which meant a move into one of the show's quieter halls. The main attraction was ETC's Congo lighting control console; we are told that field project manager Jeremy Roberts was so busy doing demonstrations that he hardly had a break during the entire two days. ETC reported that visitors to the stand were delighted with a glass of Pimm's No.1, mixed by ETC project manager Iain Quinn.

City Theatrical

Details: 14 March 2016

City Theatrical showed examples of its range of accessories for Color Kinetics' LED-based lighting fixtures, including its ColorBlaze, ColorBlast, ColorBurst and ColorCast units. City Theatrical's additions are designed to offer consultants and designers greater choice in control and dispersion of the fixtures. The latest addition is the PDS-750-TR touring power supply, a rugged unit which provides power and DMX control capability for Color Kinetics luminaires (12 ColorBlast 12 or 24 ColorBlast 6 luminaires, for example). The PDS-750-TR is provided with various standard mounting options.

White Light

Details: 14 March 2016

White Light made two announcements - firstly its appointment as a Prolyte distributor and secondly as exclusive Arri Theatre Lighting distributor in the UK. Products on show included the Arri Studio Theatre 1k and 2k fresnels, while moving lights included the new tungsten Alpha Wash Halo washlight from Clay Paky. Also highlighted were followspots from Robert Juliat, DMX distribution products from ELC, colour scrollers from Rainbow and smoke and haze machines from Look Solutions.

Strong early signs for PALME 2006

Details: 14 March 2016

UAE - Following a successful event in April this year, IIR, organizer of the PALME exhibition in Dubai, reports another surge in growth for the show, with PALME 2006 now looking set to occupy three full halls of the Dubai International Exhibition Centre (DIEC) with many of the 2005 participants having already confirmed their attendance. Still with over eight months to go before the doors open, IIR reports that PALME 2006 is now 65% sold.

The main objective of PALME, say IIR, is to allow for manufacturers, suppliers and installers to meet face to face with buyers and specifiers from a wide range of industries who have a need for professional sound, light, music, audio-visual and systems integration equipment and solutions.

PALME 2006 is scheduled to take place in Dubai from 23-25 April 2006.

(Lee Baldock)

Unsustainable product design - how to avoid it

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - On Tuesday, 29 November 2005 at The IEE, Savoy Place, London, UK the IEE Engineering for a Sustainable Future Professional Network will present the seminar Beyond WEEE: Unsustainable Product Design, and how to avoid it.

The EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive begins to roll out across the member states of the European Union from August 2005. This directive requires the collection and recycling of WEEE, and passes the responsibility for this back onto the producers. Manufacturers and designers of EEE now have a vested interest in sustainable product design, as by employing suitable design techniques, companies have a chance to minimize these costs, maybe even reducing overall product cost.

The event has two threads running through it. The "Practical" thread will seek to explore the state of the art in Sustainable Product Design an

DJ magazine's T-Scan Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - DJ Magazine is again running its annual T-Scan Technology Awards alongside the PLASA Show this year, and is inviting readers to download a .pdf form for voting purposes (www.djmag.com/djtech007.php). Following the success of last year's format, they are offering another split reader/judge vote this year, with two sets of 10 different categories.

Alongside a public vote for gear that a bedroom or mobile DJ might use most, the magazine's panel of industry professionals, musicians and DJs will decide what club install equipment ranks highest. The public will vote on: 1. Dual CD Player; 2. MP3 Controller; 3. Entry-level Mixer; 4. Effects Mixer; 5. Lighting Product; 6. DJ Effects; 7. Sampler/Workstation; 8. Studio Software; 9. Best DJ/Producer Schooll; 10. Retailer Of The Year.

The judges will vote on: 1. Innovative New Product; 2. Turntable; 3. New Single CD Player; 4. DJ Car

PSL Exhibitions picks up contracts

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - PSL Exhibitions has been confirmed as the official Audio-Visual/IT contractor for a number of high-profile UK exhibitions, including the prestigious Toy Fair at the start of 2006 and three shows for organizers IIR. Two brand-new events have appointed PSL as exclusive supplier of all AV and IT services. Games Market Europe, staged by Tandem Events at the BDC, is aimed at the video and computer games industry: Careers in Retail is a new EMAP careers showcase, which will be held at Olympia.

PSL also renews its contracts to supply services to A Place in the Sun, the UK's largest overseas property and travel exhibition, and Reed Exhibitions' World Travel Market event. PSL has also secured contracts with high-technology showcases which depend heavily on AV presentation; these include the Smartphone Show, organized by Symbian; IPEX, the world's largest expo for the print industry

Global Infusion's Summer Cocktail

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - While celebrating its 21st birthday, the Global Infusion Group has been working flat out this summer on a multitude of events including Live 8, the G8 Summit at Gleneagles and The International Festival of the Sea, as well as touring with Coldplay in both Europe and the US.

The corporate catering division, Chevalier Event Design, worked with innocent to provide a picnic and BBQ for 1,500 at this year's Fruitstock Festival in London's Regents Park, while Stratfield Saye House in Reading was the location for 2000 Microsoft employees to enjoy their After Hours summer party. The division also catered for 1000 artists and VIP's at the Download Festival in Castle Donington.

In addition to providing the production catering at the G8 Summit, sister company Eat to the Beat provided crew and media catering at Live 8 in Hyde Park. Other festivals catered for included Glastonb

Hawthorn @ Home

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Hawthorn are holding the next in their series of 'Hawthorn @ Home' events on Friday 2 September 2005.

Generic Lighting gives attendees the opportunity to find out more, discuss with product representatives and have a hands on comparison of lantern ranges from Selecon, ETC, Strand and others, plus an opportunity to visit the warehouse and offices and meet the team. There will be special lantern offers exclusively available on the day.

Their next event on October 7th 2005 entitled Flash, Bang and Feedbackwill feature a demonstration of Pyrotechnics by Le Maitre and Radio Mics by Sennheiser, Sony and Trantec.

(Jim Evans)

Earls Court, London - home of the PLASA Show.

All set for PLASA 2005 . . .

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - With London confirmed as the host city for the 2012 Olympics and the linked £100billion regeneration of the capital already underway, the PLASA Show (11-14 September, Earls Court, London) could not be happening at a better time, or in a better place, say the show's owners, the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA). With over 300 companies rolling out over 1,000 new products and services, PLASA 2005 is going to play a key role in delivering solutions to many of the infrastructure and live event challenges associated with major projects.

In fact, the companies exhibiting at PLASA 2005 have the expertise to make anything possible. Live8, for instance, showcased many of the developments that have seen the entertainment and installation technology sectors grow into a global industry worth an annual £10bn (£1bn to the UK economy alone). From nightclubs to shoppin

Nominations roll in for PLASA Innovation Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Exhibitors at the forthcoming PLASA Show (11-14 September) have been quick to take the opportunity to nominate their products for this year's PLASA Awards for Innovation, with over 40 nominated product already successfully entered. All successfully nominated product will be prominently displayed on the Innovation Gallery (sponsored by Lighting&Sound International magazine) during the show, providing a major draw for PLASA visitors.

In order to successfully gain admission to the PLASA Awards judging process, each nomination must prove to the chairman of the judging panel that it has some claim to be called 'innovative': it must offer a new opportunity, create a new of thinking or working, or in some way advance technical practice. This year, the PLASA Awards will also see the re-introduction of the Award for Environmental Impact - a discretionary award with which the judges

ICIA/Infocomm joins Entech 2006

Details: 14 March 2016

Australia / USA - The International Communications Industries Association Inc (ICIA/InfoComm), the premier trade association for the audiovisual industry worldwide, is pleased to announce its participation at Entech 2006 (Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre February 13 - 15 2006).

ICIA/InfoComm will offer a one-day program consisting of four 90-minute seminars featuring AV design, display, signal management and presentation support for end users. The seminars are being presented by InfoComm Academy's instructors at Entech. A breakfast meeting of the newly created ICIA Australia and New Zealand Member Council will precede the seminars. In addition, ICIA will host a booth on the exhibition floor.

"ICIA is delighted to participate at Entech next year," said Terry Friesenborg, CTS, senior vice-president for international development of ICIA. "Demand has dramatical

Bandit on Top for Fashion Show

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Bandit Lites supplied lighting production and crew for LD Jonny Gaskell's spectacular visual design at the Top Shop Fashion Show and Awards. The two-day event was staged at Syon House in West London, and each day saw 1500 of the popular retailer's design teams and store managers as guests.

The project was managed for Bandit by Lester Cobrin who has worked with Gaskell several times in the past. Gaskell and his partner Nick Gray of Renegade Lighting were asked onboard by event producers 9PR, who are regular clients.

Lester Cobrin comments, "Jonny is one of the most talented and enthusiastic LD's I've had the pleasure of working with. He has tremendous vision and the end product is always refreshing and innovative."

Gaskell had to light the show and catwalk area in a 150ft long marquee, featuring a central stage area with four runways coming off it at right angl

10 reasons to visit the PLASA Show

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - With little more than two weeks to go until PLASA 2005 opens its doors, here are 10 reasons why you can't afford to miss out on this year's Show - taking place between Sunday 11 and Wednesday 14 September at Earls Court, London:

1. You'll see lots of new ideas - over 1,000 new products will be launched, and the best of these will be featured in the Innovation Gallery.
2. You'll see all the major international brands and manufacturers from around the globe.
3. You'll find more new companies exhibiting this year than ever before.
4. You'll hear about numerous new industry initiatives.
5. You'll find out what others are spending their money on and why.
6. You'll get to talk to lots of different people, many of them potential customers.
7. You'll take back knowledge to your workplace.
8. All the major industry trade associations will be there to offe

Shure Distribution at PLASA

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Shure Distribution UK will be showing products from Shure, QSC Audio, Phonic and Sound Devices at PLASA 2005. Shure will present the UHF-R Wireless Systems which features networked automatic set-up to minimize set-up time and effort, 75MHz bandwidth for reliable, trouble-free operation, integrated Wireless Workbench Software for advanced, real-time network control and Audio Reference Companding technology for exceptional audio quality.

Shure's new premium KSM9 vocal condenser wireless capsule will also make its official UK debut. Available exclusively with the UHF-R systems, the KSM9 capsule will be offered in champagne and black finishes by the end of the year. Shure UHF-R/KSM9 seminars will take place during the show from Monday to Tuesday at midday and 3pm.

From Phonic the show visitor will witness the latest and most powerful additions to the XP Series of amplifiers,

Feel the Vibe at PLASA 2005

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - DJs keen to see all the latest DJ technologies should head to this year's PLASA Show, which runs for four full-on days at Earls Court 1 in London, from 11-14 September. Both show floors will be packed with the hottest DJ gear - everything from the smartest decks to top-of-the-range mixers.

Denon, Numark, Pioneer, Stanton and Vestax will be just some of the big-name brands at the Show, and a key part of the 300-strong line up of exhibitors showcasing current trends in lighting, sound, AV and multimedia technologies.

DJ Sunday, sponsored by iDJ magazine, will get the show off to a flying start with numerous events, giveaways and on-stand demos by leading DJs. In the DJ Lounge (at the back of the hall), visitors can watch the winners of iDJ Magazine's monthly Raw Talent competition and there will also be an opportunity to take the first steps into music production with a Tal

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