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14 March 2016

PLASA Events are attributing the increase in visitor registrations to a host of new features at the show, including an extended exhibitor list of 120 companies including 21 first-timers, a seminar programme that is twice the size of previous years, case study presentations from the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North, special interest seminars presented by some of the industry's leading bodies and new opportunities to book seats on 45-minute product demonstration seminars. Private meetings are also available for the first time, with the availability of three private conference rooms at PLASA Focus, with slots still available.

The 21 new exhibitors come from across the spectrum of audio,

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Renegade's Nick Gray once again created a collection of different lighting designs to compliment and emphasise the individuality of each show.

It was the fourth consecutive season for Gray lighting the BFC Tent, constructed in the grounds of Somerset House, one of London's most historically significant landmarks. The design was based on a single central truss, flanked by two off centre trusses and a flown, raked front-of-house grid.

For strong cross lighting onto the back wall/entrance, and for producing dramatic silhouette effects he positioned 12 Svobodas -

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DBpixelhouse was set up by DB Systems in 2009, to supply design agencies, exhibitors and event organisers with content, including software, animation, graphics and videos, which can be shown on a variety of display systems, from touch screens, LCD video walls, plasma screens, through to Apple iPads and laptops.

Alastair Reece, head of DBpixelhouse, said, "This is an exciting time for the business. We're taking on more and more work and have also have recently expanded our team so we needed a larger office that would cater to our demands in the short to medium term. It's also a much more creative space, so we look forward to yet more fresh, innovative ideas soon.

"DBpixelhouse is an importa

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The Sydney Catholic Vocational College is a multipurpose training facility catering for students who wish to learn skills ranging from hospitality, video recording, audio recording and production for live theatre.

The installation includes the CableNet system 18.7m x 12.7m and Jands JLX PRO Lighting Bars each equipped with DMX, house light and dimmable outlets

Over 1000m of Jands wool drape was used for this project including movable drapes surrounding the 'Multipurpose space' on two levels, a cyclorama and green screens in the Green Screen Room.

(Jim Evans)

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Not only has the slot for the show gone back to its original air time of every week day at 3pm, it is also now has a new home as it is filmed at The London Studios.

The lighting rig features the Clay Paky range - including Alpha Spot and Wash 300 and Alpha Spot 575 HPE, along with Pixel Par 90's and LED Parcans.

(Jim Evans)

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Since its incorporation in 2004, Gekko has gained a reputation for designing and manufacturing innovative, robust and durable LED products with all their advantages of reduced power consumption, long life and minimal weight.

The product range includes the kelvin TILE true white colour tunable light, the karesslite high quality soft light source for studio or location use and the kezia colour tunable, quality, hard single source LED spot lamps for studio or location use.

Gekko Technology's business development manager, Ian Muir, commented, "AC-ET has a great reputation in the industry, and Gekko Technology are really pleased to be working with them. Their market knowled

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Traxon Technologies supplied the LED fixtures for the installation as well as a signature control system from e:cue lighting control, consisting of a Lighting Control Engine (LCE) and two Butler XTs. When combined, these technologies allow for each fixture in the installation to be individually aimed and adjusted so that the color and light intensity brilliantly illuminates the art deco statue of Christ prec

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The EC-10 is a high performance, true 10 mm pixel pitch LED display panel that teams with Martin's EC-20 to form a fully compatible EC family of LED displays that can be mixed and matched for ultimate design creativity. The EC-10 is 100% compatible with the EC-20 in terms of brightness, colour, setup, curving, control and processing, even accessories, allowing for seamless, mixed resolution visuals in one system, says the company.

The MAC 101 moving head comes with "a low price tag for revolutionary stage, dance floor and decorative lighting designs". The MAC 101 is available in three white light versions that expand its use to applications where high quality, pure white light is needed. The new variants incorporate cold and/or warm LEDs instead

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The resort features 2,561 hotel rooms, a 120,000 m2 convention centre, a luxury shopping mall, seven 'celebrity chef' gourmet restaurants, two Broadway style theatres, two floating pavilions, an art & science museum, an indoor ice skating rink and a casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines. This is crowned by 2.5 acres of SkyPark complete with gardens and a gargantuan swimming pool stretching across the top of the three 55 story hotel towers.

LumenRadio and Total Solution, exclusive distributor for Singapore, have received significant repeat orders fo

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Not only do the lighting products used on the PBR tour have to be tough enough to withstand flying soil and debris, they have a wide range of other demands placed on them too, says Meeks. The lighting must be "studio-friendly" enough to provide illumination for the sport's weekly televised events, as well as for photo and video shoots. Additionally, it must be able to light up live musical performances and guest artists that are part of the entertainment at PBR shows.

So when he expanded his rig for the 2011 tour, Meeks wanted lighting products that were both tough and versatile and opted for Elation Professional.

The PBR had used Elation light fixtures in th

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The band's lighting designer is Phil White and Entec has been involved with supplying the band since 2004.

Says Entec's Noreen O'Riordan, "We are very pleased with the evolving seven-year relationship we've had with the band and crew on this show. Every night each department delivers a high quality, faultless performance with a consistency that is very hard to beat - no wonder they have stolen the hearts of Pink Floyd fans worldwide.

The lighting rig design is based on Pink Floyd's seminal 1994 Pulse tour and the visuals element of the show utilizes both 3D and 2D projections, featuring a completely new set o

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A total of 100 Clay Paky moving heads, including Alpha Profile 1500s, Alpha Profile 1200s, Alpha Beam 700s and Alpha Beam 300s, were installed around the whole theatre stage, to set off the artists' performances, together with the imposing LED wall.

The scenery, once again designed by architect Gaetano Castelli, had a futuristic appearance. The classic staircase was replaced by a long spiral ramp that looked almost like the course of a video game. It conveyed the message that "tradition and modernity merge at Sanremo and set trends".

Work on the set and fittings started back in November and entailed the services of specialised scenery technicians and riggers. The result was one of the largest s

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The show had a new bright and 'bubbly' set and LD Chris Kempton (along with his technical team) was back for another year to design the lights. Bill Peachment assisted as moving light operator.

The lighting rig, consisting of over 200 lights, spilled over TC1, with the various stages and catwalk used by hosts including Fearne Cotton, Graham Norton, Davina McCall and Dermot O'Leary. Specification included Nova Flowers, VL1000TS, VL3000 Wash, VL2400 Wash, MAC 700, Chroma Banks, 8 Lights, 2 Lights, Alpha Wash 1200, Alpha Wash 700 and Stage Bar 54, plus Clay Paky Sharpys.

(Jim Evans)

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Their facilities include a fully equipped 492 seat proscenium arch theatre and a 200 seat performing arts space. For many years the lighting department had been using an old Strand 520 console and recently it was retired from service.

"It was getting a bit long in the tooth especially when it came to moving lights," said Jayson Bowles, technical coordinator at the centre. "Out of the current crop of consoles on the market we found that the ETC Ion 1500 covered our needs. It's similar in operation to the Strand console so our guys picked it up fairly quickly and of course, the moving light side of things is a huge improvement over the old Strand! We looked at the current Strand off

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Major UK rental companies making recent investments in the Impression Zoom include Lite Alternative, GLS and Fentura Productions, all of which have been supplied through AC-ET.

Blackburn based Lite purchased their first GLP 120 RZ Zooms 14 months ago when seeking a dynamic new style of moving light fixture. These went straight out on tour with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, specified by LD Matt Arthur. Since then, they have been utilised on numerous tours and events. Sixteen fixtures are currently out on the Chemical Brothers' new world tour.

Southampton based GLS is run by Ian Turner and now has over 30 GLP Impressions - all the 120

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These were among several other Robe moving lights in a rig that was specified by Talib Alsouri from end clients, the Abu Dhabi Association for Culture & Heritage (ADACH), who is also the technical manager for the Al Raha Theatre. The Robes were incorporated into a lighting design by Sono AB from V Design.

Prince of Poets - this was the fourth series - has become a phenomenon in the Arab world. It is produced by Pyramedia and aims to promote and enhance classical Arabic poetry, reviving its positive role as a medium of expression, discovering young talent and offering them the chance to develop and grow.

For last year's Prince of Poets event, Sonu worked as the programmer and operato

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The new G4 is able to repair corrupted data and vouches for maximum security by running on dual band and creating a backup duplicate of the signal. This new standard is transparent and works with several protocols, creating extreme flexibility and reliability without the need for additional controllers or software.

The product line includes Adaptive Frequency Hopping technology that scans the spectrum automatically to avoid interference from Wi-fi, Intercom and other radio products, W-DMX invisi-wire and data-safe technologies, and support for RDM (Remote Device Management) so W-DMX units and lighting fixtures connected through W-DMX can be configured remotely with no fuss or cables.

W-DMX G4 supports the 5.8GHz band as standa

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Alistair Kilbee, managing director at Gearhouse Splitbeam reports, "The Lighting rig came from White Light in the UK , and they have a very good reputation and have worked with Showtime Management before on other productions. Bringing equipment in for a production is always tricky, but it is all about back-up at the end of the day. As Splitbeam is handling the technical management of the production, it makes things a bit easier and through our relationship with DWR we keep all the equipment working.

"White Light have been very professional and have supplied a number of spare units and also have sent parts as and when needed. With a lighti

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The new RobinMMX Spot is the first in a new generation of 1200 Series fixtures offering a neater, smaller, lighter and brighter more energy efficient package; the Robin 300 LEDWash is the smaller version of the best-selling 600 LEDWash; the Robin 600 PureWhite is a warm, cold and smart white light version of the successful 600 LEDWash RGBW specifically for studio environments, and the DigitalSpo

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To complement the Aledin Profile, Robert Juliat will be launching the Aledin 330 LED Wash, the new, variable beam angle, LED washlight.

Aledin 330 Wash offers a choice of two colour temperatures (3500K or 5800K), a flicker-free, integrated, dimmable electronic ballast, a beam angle range from 20° - 98° and a 200mm Fresnel lens for maximum light output. Together with the Aledin Profile, the Aledin Wash provides the perfect low energy, high quality lighting solution.

Robert Juliat's LED capabilities are also extended to its followspot range: the Aledin LED followspot is an adaptation of the 575W MSD Buxi

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It was Burke's first solo headline tour, for which the lighting design was created by Phil Wiffin. Together with special video content made by Helena Spencer, choreography by Sisco Gomez and Burke's highly energetic performance, the show was a slick cocktail of entertainment encompassing a variety of styles and genres from urban to pop.

HSL's project manager Mike Oates says, "It was good to be working with Production North again. The show looked great, and Production North produced a brilliant result with real diversity and value which was flexible and adaptable to fit into the range of venues on the itinerary."

Dominic Crookes was out on the road operating the show, working with HSL tech

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"We are entering a difficult period for the arts," said committee head and Tory MP John Whittingdale. "They can't be excluded from the general need to find spending reductions and that does mean there'll have to be cuts."

Wednesday is funding judgment day, when 1,300 organisations across England will find out - in an email between 7.30 and 9.30 in the morning - how much money they will get - if any - from the Arts Council. Almost half of a

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The freezing Finnish winters presented lead designer Arto Heiskanen with many practical challenges, but also with a white canvass of snow that he painted with colour using custom designed RGB LED fixtures to augment the monochrome utility lights. These fixtures, together with LumenRadio's CRMX units, were integrated into a large number of lighting poles and bollards spread along the streets and intersections located on the perim¬eter of the city to give visitors a warm welcome and a pleasant good-bye to remember.

"Inspiration

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The brainchild of Ginger Boy Productions' Earl Carpenter - who himself appeared on the West End stage for many years in the cast of Les Misérables - the concept of their tours is to bring stars from the popular West End and Broadway musicals - such as Phantom of the Opera - to local stages around the country.

Carpenter himself , as well as appearing in the show , has a long relationship with Christchurch-based Complete Production Solutions (CPS Group), and they in turn have been working with PR Lighting products for the past decade (building many of the of the Chinese manufacturer's PLASA Show stands).

To complement in house generic lighting systems CPS supplied six PR Lighting XL1200's, four Sunstrip Active effects and lighting control in the form of an