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14 March 2016

32 Degrees co-owner Barry Gutin wanted to stay a jump ahead of the city's fierce competition, so he commissioned Scott Kemly of Powerhouse Sound (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) to give the lounge a lighting makeover.

Having done the original installation, Kemly had ideas on not only how to update the room, but how to do so with minimal structural modification and expense. Previously, there had been a huge sphere in the centre of the ceiling, lit by purple neon. S

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Williams joins Dialight Lumidrives with over 22 years' experience in the lighting industry. He joins having previously worked in product sales for DW Windsor, Philips and Concord.

George joins as design engineer having worked in CAD design for Creda/Hotpoint and most recently as design and development engineer for Victor Manufacturing.

Gordon Routledge, managing director at Dialight Lumidrives says: "Both appointments reflect our continued investment in the Solid State Lighting market. We are strengthening continually our sales and design departments to help maintain our current levels of growth."

(Jim Evans)

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This unique cultural event featured over 300 performances from artists such as Kunal Ganjawalla, Shreya Goswal, Shaan to Udit Naraya, just to name a few. Each day saw a crowd averaging 10,000 spectators with an audience culminating at 15 000 on the closing day of the festival. The sound system consisted of 10 V-DOSC per side and eight ARCS.

The National newspaper The Hindu reported: "Both sound and lighting systems were top notch and they brought a tremendous contribution to the general atmosphere of the festival and definitely enhanced the listening pleasure of the audience."

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

Fx Road Lights has been handling G-LEC products and technology for four years, during which time the company has been involved in many big events and projects, including custom signage for Casino Lisboa, which opened last year. Based in Lisbon, the joint venture, G-LEC Portugal LDA, will strengthen G-LEC's in the Iberian Peninsula marke, says the company.

Lars Wolf, managing director of G-LEC Europe comments, "Setting up the joint venture makes it possible for us to provide more support to Fx Road Lights and increases our options in the area. We have worked with Leocádia Maria Baioa da Silva for many years and now look forward to even more success in Portugal."

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All models of the X-Band 300 II feature built in power supplies for direct AC power input from 100-260v. This allows the user to run power and data direct to each unit without the need of an external power or data driver plus; you can link up to 20 units from one power/data source on 120v power and 40 units from a 220v power. Acclaim also offers a junction box (CC-JB1) as an option for customers, which provides a Neutrik Power-Con input connector and 3-pin Neutrik DMX input connector. The CC-JB1 combines those two into one multi-core cable/connector trun to link to multiple units.

The X-Band 300 II is ava

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The organisations involved include the Arts Council London, the Theatres Trust, the Independent Theatre Council, Equity and a number of key players from the industry who have all agreed to work with the Mayor to produce a Climate Change Action Plan for London Theatre.

Climate change is a key priority for the Mayor and this announcement builds on his Climate Change Action Plan launched in February this year. The Plan states that London can achieve the 60% reduction in carbon emissions that th

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Speaking at London's Wembley Arena after she had finished focussing the lights, Westerberg explained: "I got the desk in January, and within the hour, I had everything programmed in and was up and running. The same was true when Damien was playing at festivals over the summer - because I had my own desk, we could get going so quickly."

In addition to nine 19º and eight 36º Source Four profile spotlights, the Arena rig included battens, floodlights, snow machines, foggers and some 40MAC moving lights.

(Jim Evans)

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For Marr, an enthusiastic exponent of video and lighting 'convergence', the MiTrix added a new edge and depth to the show as well as providing surfaces for his custom created video clips. These were all sorted on and played back through two layers of the Catalyst.

The account was handled for XL by Jo Beirne and Phil Mercer who comment, "Stevie always comes up with new and refreshing ideas, and it's been great to see Maximo Park's video design evolve. He knows what he wants and is great to work with on all levels."

The MiTrix are arranged in seven rectangular columns of variou

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14 March 2016

Juhani Vitikka, Soundata CEO and partner for Soundata says, "We are excited about representing High End Systems products in Finland, as the country is known for a unique variety of entertainment - perfect for High End's unique products."

Soundata showed off the new product line at Audiovisual 2007 in Helsinki. The international trade fair is the most important professional event of the year in the Nordic region for professionals, designers and decision-makers in the audiovisual and corporate event markets. Soundata's booth demonstrated Road Hog and Wholehog 3, as well as Showgun and DL.2.

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Madrix 2.1 improves all features from the older versions that make working with LED installations a one-click affair, the company says. Madrix supports DMX512 and ArtNet interfaces and includes an installation CD-ROM, a software protection dongle and an English user guide.

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

Being a charity tour, budget was tight, but naturally Megginson wanted to provide as good a light show as possible, and approached HSL's Mike Oates to see what they could offer in terms of a package.

He was looking for the most versatile and interesting combination of lighting fixtures that could be fitted into some very tight spaces. "HSL came up with blindingly good deal" states Megginson, who chose four of the new i-Pix BB Washlight LED fixtures, two strobes, a fogger and a WholeHog II console as his 'tour essentials' which would be combined with hous

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The most interesting part of the rig, however, were the 'Prince'O'graphs' - 28 custom manufactured PRG pantographs, each with a MAC 2000 on the end, which could be lowered and raised at varying speeds creating endless different looks. The control of the pantographs was via a Kinesys Elevationhoist control system, programmed by Stuart Hale.

Lighting designer and director Garry 'Sport' Waldie explains: "Prince didn't want any overhead lighting, which made things interesting for us - a lot was pushed to the outside and hidden behind the PA and video. He likes a lot of different l

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14 March 2016

Karlsson's' role at Martin will be to strengthen the technical and marketing foundation for products within Martin Visual Solutions, a business unit of the company created earlier this year to expand business opportunities and capitalise on the growing popularity of LED video screens. Martin recently introduced its LC Series of LED video screens, a semi-transparent, modular system of lightweight LED panels.

"Creative video and visualization is the new frontier and challenge for the lighting market, in the same way that automated ligh

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Paul Mardon, Pulsar Managing Director commented: "We are extremely pleased to enter into this new arrangement with our long time friends at Group One. It is sure to be a highly successful venture."

Jack Kelly, Group One pPresident added: "This exciting move will allow Group One to focus our skills in the rapid growth of Pulsar's presence and support package here in the USA."

Andy Graves, Pulsar's head of sales and marketing said: "Pulsar manufactures an extremely wide range of products that are ideal for the USA markets. In particular our LED ChromaRange provides a huge opportunity for growth."

The agreement also makes way for Pulsar's Jerry Colmenero to take on the role of US sales manager for Pulsar product

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Now set to become an annual event, the first Light Relief Day took place on 24 April 2007, when lighting designers were asked to donate a day's royalties from their current shows. Organised by lighting designer Rick Fisher, the day is in honour of the late Tony Gottelier, who played such a big part in setting up the charity.

Light Relief exists to help lighting designers and technicians during times of hardship and Chris Luscombe was a recent beneficiary. He says: "Working on Starlight Express in Edinburgh, I dislocated my ankle walking down some steps and faced the prospect of being unable to work for several months. However, the trustees at

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DBN was already a keen user of Chroma-Q's Color Block modular LED fixture, which has proven ideal for lighting its diverse range of client events and is still providing a good return on investment three yearslater, says the company.

DBN lighting director Stephen Page commented: "The Color Split produces the closest light output to that of an asymmetric cyc flood, of any LED product we've seen so far and offers significantly more even colour transmission in this application than conventional LED products.

"Its modular nature makes it flexible enough to be used in a huge variety of applications and, as large stockholders of Color Blocks, we are confident in the consistency and reliability of the product and in thesupport from A.C.

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Fulvio Cotogni, ETC's manager for southern region, says: "The seminar had an excellent turn out and the Eos received a warm reception. The delegates were keen to see what the Eos does and how, and its award winning reputation proved to be well founded."

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Keynote speakers included Richard Bleasdale, Mike Redmer, Scott Chmielewski, Antoinette Wijffels and Fons Hogenes, who covered everything from case studies to the basics of art and design. Breakout sessions included workshops on configuration, content creation and programming, with 'students' actually running the range of Hog consoles and creating unique content. Live entertainment was brought in to accompany the content showing on the variety of projection surfaces in the venue.

Digital Lighting University

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Top auto brands Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and Smart plied their latest designs in the landmark Festhalle on a spectacular booth lit by TLD Planungsgruppe and incorporating over 450 Martin MAC luminaires. Lighting and set design was by TLD's Richard Profe. TLD, in cooperation with architects Kauffmann, Theilig & Partner, Freie Architekten BDA, and the communication agency Atelier Markgraph, created a highly unique presentation platform.

The Festhalle was spatially transformed into a lamella construction and integrated all three levels of the

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14 March 2016

The Monacor portfolio encompasses a vast range of entertainment technology, from in-car audio to CCTV, lighting, a stage line, consumer hi-fi, professional sound reinforcement and equipment for the MI and DJ markets.

Said Damon Crisp, who had joined DJ equipment giants Numark after 10 years handling pro sales for Lamba plc: "Having set up Numark UK, and latterly operated as sales director across the whole Numark Alesis group, I was ready for a new challenge.

"Monacor is a vast and highly ambitious company whose present MD in the UK has been forced to retire through ill health. I had been talking to the company since the early part of this year, and with nearly 5000 product

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FBP Group, owned by Frank Heinrich and Bob Athey, were contracted to produce a first-class A/V design and turned to lighting designer Matthew Paupst to design the lighting scheme. "TAO Las Vegas came to FBP Group to produce a world-class outdoor nightclub that was stylish and able to be used for its dual purpose," comments Matthew Paupst. "The main goal was to create an environment that would not be visually obtrusive during the day and at night would morph into a nightclub, entertaining a few thousand people each weekend."

Paupst reports, "I chose the MAC 250 Entours because of their size, light output, and reliability. Wh

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14 March 2016

Introduced following considerable customer feedback, LinkLED X offers the ability to control a line of LEDs extending over a considerable distance. It brings new benefits including multichip technology which enables colour mixing at source. It is now ideally suited to interior and exterior feature lighting as an option exists to supply LinkLED as IP67-rated, says the company.

.LinkLED X expands the flexibility and performance of the original LinkLED system. It is more compact, quicker and easier to install than previously, and is designed for OEMs who require a simple plug and play solution.

Benefits include less fringing, it is suitable for direct view applications, strips of six or 12 modules can be supplied preass

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14 March 2016

The Expo is jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and the local governments of six central Chinese provinces, attracting 30,000 business people, including some 10,000 foreign guests from 100 countries and regions. It features business seminars and investment fairs and also includes exhibitions of tourism, animation and automobiles. For its colourful opening ceremony four grandMA full-size, ten MA NSPs (Network Signal Processor) and a grandMA video media server were used.

300 square frames, which were altogether 43m in height and 100m in width, were built on a stage in the Henan Playground. Each square was illuminated by a m

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Republic Polytechnic was established in 2002 and is the fifth and currently the newest post-secondary educational institution in Singapore. It relocated to the new Woodlands campus in the north of the island in 2006, a site designed to serve up to 15,000 students and the local community.

TRCC offers three performance spaces - a 1000 seat theatre/concert hall, a 400 capacity studio and a 120 seat Lab (Black Box).

The first thing that Tony Kam addressed when he came onboard was the need for a dynamic lighting system and control that could be used in any or all of the spaces - either as a stand alone system