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UK / Sweden - Global Design Solutions (GDS) has partnered with LumenRadio to bring CRMX wireless DMX to their LiteWare product line. The LiteWare UL and HO products have featured integrated wireless DMX from W-DMX and ShowDMX in the past, and are now available for immediate shipment with integrated CRMX technology, offering GDS customer advanced wireless DMX functionality.

"The reliability and frame integrity of LumenRadio's CRMX technology enabled us to enhance and expand upon features such as wireless firmware upgrades and wireless LED color calibration. These are important parts of the user experience and overall product performance. They require absolute flawless data transfers; which we found were one of the many performance areas where CRMX really excels", sayss GDS design engineer Adam Cooper.

"We saw an increased demand in the market for the level of fea

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USA - LD Lee Gipson is using High End Systems' 18 Showgun 2.5s supplied by Light Source Inc. of Milford, MI on Santana's current tour. "I always try to make sure I have them in my rig," he said. For Santana's current tour.

Rick O'Neill of Light Source Inc. said the company has supplied various items of equipment over the years for Santana, but for this tour they are providing the complete system with 150 automated luminaires.

Gipson is in his ninth year as the LD for Carlos Santana, a gig that was supposed to be a two-week temporary job to help someone else in that position. Santana keeps him busy at least six or seven months of the year on tours, not including other special appearances. Santana is currently touring throughout North America, ending in October in Mexico.

Showgun 2.5s also appeared in Carlos Santana's rig while in his two-year residency at The Joint

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World - Maná is a pop rock band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, whose career has spanned more than three decades. They have earned - amongst others - three Grammy Awards, five Latin Grammy Awards and five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America. Accompanying their current Drama e Luz world tour that started this year is a grandMA2 system, comprising one grandMA2 full-size console, one grandMA2 light and two MA NPU (Network Processing Unit).

Lighting designer Luis Pastor says of the grandMA2, "After working for six years with the grandMA 'series 1', I can say for sure that grandMA2 has an improved graphical user interface. The flexibility of the user configurable views and layouts, as well as the bitmap effects and all the improvements in programming and operation are really great. After six months of hard touring I can say it is a very safe and reliable system - we'

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Australia - Lighting designer Andy Mutton from Lightning Lighting in Melbourne, Australia has specified 14 Robe Robin 300 LEDWash moving lights for a new lighting installation at the Beresford Hotel nightspot in Surrey Hills, Sydney, New South Wales.

This is the first club/live music installation for these new fixtures and it's in the Beresford's 600 capacity Upstairs venue, which has just been refurbished by new owners, Merivale.

Mutton was asked to deliver a full lighting technical package - which also features eight Robe Robin 300E Spots - all supplied by Robe's Australian distributor ULA - three Giga strobe and a Road Hog console for control.

The lighting has to cover the stage, dancefloors and seating areas for a variety of shows and events, from rock bands to DJ sets to corporate events. It needed to be able to create atmosphere, mood and excitement whatever the occasi

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USA - Parasol Advanced Systems of Vancouver will be showcasing its new KLR System (Kinetic Light Ring) during LDI 2011in Orlando. The system will be demonstrated with 12 Clay Paky Sharpys.

The KLR system is an alternate means of moving the source point of a number of automated lighting fixtures along a pre-defined, circular path. The KLR system is based on a patent application filed by Parasol earlier this year.

Parasol's various systems can be scaled for all types of applications, ranging from small clubs (lights under 80 lbs.) all the way to large outdoor systems capable of handling payloads of over 400 lbs per Para Cart.

Parasol debuted its L Series system at the recent world premiere of the Pirates of the Caribbean 4 movie, and then again during the season finale of American Idol.

Parasol CEO Hermann Fruhm says, "SSRQ (Safe, Smooth, Reliable and Quie

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USA - SeaChanger is expanding its product line with three new luminaires all using a highly efficient 575W HMI lamp. The new 24,000 lumen SeaChanger HMI will be on display in SeaChanger's booth at LDI 2011 in Orlando this month. The SeaChanger HMI fixtures join the current SeaChanger range that employs tungsten and plasma light sources. The SeaChanger HMI is available in Profile, Wash, and Exterior-rated models.

Like other SeaChanger units, the SeaChanger HMI luminaire utilizes ETC Source Four Ellipsoidal components, making it compatible with all the standard accessories such as ETC Source Four lens tubes, gobo holders and gobos, top hats and iris kits.

Also debuting at LDI is SeaChanger's new, faster colour transition technology. This feature will be incorporated in all SeaChanger products, allowing colour changes in only 0.5 seconds. Now designers can flash through colour ch

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USA - Haven is an intimate restaurant in the South Beach district of Miami, Florida, featuring an Anolis LED lighting scheme created by lighting designer David Chesal and Mike Boles, the venue's independent owner who wanted "Something different".

The 1237 Lincoln Road location is a contemporary food lounge fusing a mix of modern design, international cuisine and creative cocktails in South Beach's busiest business district.

Chesal and Boles have collaborated before on producing differently themed environments, and both are big fans of the Anolis LED brand, "I needed a real quality and very reliable LED system to compliment the style and elegance of the Haven marque," explains Boles.

The design involves the installation of lighting absolutely everywhere in the venue - down-lighting the bar, dining area, strafing the walls, illuminating the tables, running

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Finland - The charity concert Elämä Lapselle (Life of a Child) in the Hartwall-Areena, Helsinki, raises funds to help Finnish children in need. It has been staged annually since 1995 and has since been aired on MTV3. For this year's event, lighting and visual designer Mikko Linnavuori and lighting designer Eero Helle used two grandMA2 light, a grandMA full-size, a grandMA light and three MA NSP (Network Signal Processor).

"grandMA and grandMA2 are the only usable solutions when you need full tracking backup and a multi-user control platform", commented Eero Helle. "This is very important for us when we are working on live TV shows. The reliability of the MA network is so good that all of the lighting team were completely confident."

"One main reason for choosing a grandMA2 console is the excellent GUI for the framing shutters" said white light o

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South Africa - "When I first looked at The Durban Playhouse Company tender we'd won, I had to wonder if we would complete it," says Dan Riley, head of sales for Philips Distributor in South Africa, DWR. "It was a major job and the client had put in clauses stating that the theatre could not close and that shows must go on as normal. A tall order given DWR had been commissioned to change all the dimmers in the building! However I'm delighted to be able to say that the DWR boys pulled it off, on time and on budget."

DWR's Bruce Riley headed up an installation team that included JC Du Plessis, Gedeon Mpofu and Michael van Dyk. "The installation comprised: 11 x Philips Strand EC 21 96 way dimmer racks with full reporting capabilities, explains Riley. "Six have been installed in the Opera Theatre (originally they were MCM Dimmers), four in the Drama Thea

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France - LumenRadio and Philips Electronics lit up the Black Eyed Peas during a three-day event at the Stade de France as part of the group's The Beginning tour. The 80,000 capacity stadium was filled to capacity all three nights.

Fergie and the rest of the Peas wore costumes developed to showcase Philips latest LED and OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology and incorporating LumenRadio's CRMX wireless technology. The costumes were designed by Philips Lighting's chief design officer, Rogier Van der Heide in cooperation with B. Åkerlund, the Black Eyed Peas Los Angeles based lead costume designer & stylist, who has frequently working with music acts ranging from Lady Gaga to the Rolling Stones.

Rogier Van der Heide, and his design team in collaboration with the BEP production team developed the technical concepts and facilitated the practical integration of the

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Australia - The Australian Institute of Music has grown into a major player in education and training for the Australian music industry, performing arts and entertainment management fields. Recently this industry institution purchased two ETC Element consoles - one for the Pilgrim Theatre Sydney, for their Dramatic Arts programme, replacing the Jands 48 channel ESP, and one for their multipurpose 220 seat auditorium in Foveaux Street replacing a Theatrelight Scenemaster 24.

The ETC Element control console is designed expressly for modest rigs and maximum hands-on fader control. It is based on ETC's Eos control operating system but with a simplified feature set in an all in one package.

Jands conducted a training day for the students, with Rod McKinnon at the helm, and students were amazed at how quickly they could learn to operate the ETC Element console.

"The training

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USA - Acuity Brands is introducing the newest Pathway Connectivity DMX-over-Ethernet product, the Pathport Quattro. This product provides real-time, interoperability solutions between sophisticated lighting control systems. A compact, four-port node, the Pathport Quattro product runs on Power-over-Ethernet, making it suitable for truss, desktop or wall mount installation, as well as 19" rack mounting. Recently acquired by the company, Pathway designs and manufactures electronics that enable lighting control systems to communicate with intelligent lighting fixtures and power devices, even when those products utilize different communications protocols.

Like other members of the Pathway Pathport family, the Quattro supports all standard DMX-over-Ethernet protocols, including E1.31 streaming ACN, Strand Shownet, Art-Net and Pathport Protocol. It also provides an E1.20 Remote De

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USA - Italian lighting manufacturer LDR will celebrate the sale of its 1000th Canto followspot in the US market next week at the annual LDI tradeshow.

LDR introduced the Canto followspot to the US market thorough Ballantyne Strong in 2006. Five years on, and 1000 units later, the Canto followspot has set a new standard in the medium-throw followspot professional market, says the company.

"A special thanks goes to Paul Rabinovitz and John Luhrs from Ballantyne Strong and to all of the Strong team that has contributed to reaching this milestone " says LDR's co-founder Fabiano Besio. "With all the positive feedback from the US market, we are inspired to continue with further improvements to the existing models and to study new ideas for us to provide to our valuable customers new solution for their future lighting challenges."

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Albania - Ermal Gashi, owner of Diesel Hall in Tirana, was looking for a cost effective but high-quality wall-grazing fixture to dress up his popular bar-lounge. The fixture would need to include a colour mixing system and be able to project effectively up to three metres.

Kliton Gjika, sales manager at Prosound, Martin Professional's distributor in Albania, suggested the Martin Easypix linear strip light to fulfill the task.

Twelve Easypix wallwashers were installed to light the venue's interior façade in a variety of shades. The illumination, which complements naturally the surrounding architecture and interior, has created a more luxurious environment and lifted the venue visually.

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UK - Nick Gray of London- based creative lighting practice Renegade designed lighting for the main British Fashion Council (BFC) space in Somerset House and other rooms, along with numerous off-site shows in one of his busiest Fashion Weeks to date.

The off-site shows included Mulberry, Julien Macdonald, Temperley, Emilio de la Morena, Hardy Amies, Rocksander and others, all staged in an assortment of venues from Claridges Hotel to the British Museum atrium - engaging Gray and his team in a relentless week of activity - utilising four main lighting rental supplies - Neg Earth, Panalux, Shok London and White Light and over 50 crew.

Gray brought his own style and creative edge to the proceedings, together with his very individual approach of treating each space as a special environment into which the lighting and production should blend and harmonise.

For the BFC Tent at Somer

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UK - Up For Hire, the live interactive show about unemployment and job seeking, hosted by Richard Bacon and Tina Daheley, aired on BBC3, invites Industry experts to share their knowledge and each episode a celebrity guests comes in to share their stories too. Alongside this, Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills will also be running an Up For Hire theme in the breakfast show.

Roger Williams designed the lighting supported by Richard Martin Lighting (RML). Alpha Beam 300's are the main focus of the show. The rig is completed with Robe Robin 600 LED Wash's and a small LED package provided by EasilyLED.

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Ireland - Production Services Ireland (PSI) energised its Northern and Southern Irish facilities in a massive operation to provide lighting, rigging and technical services for the 2011 Arthur Guinness Day celebrations.

This featured multiple events worldwide and in Ireland, incorporating major live stages in Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Limerick - plus a myriad of organically flowing pub-based live music gigs and celebrations in all those towns and throughout the entire country.

The main venue for the whole event was the Guinness Hop Store at the St James's Gate Brewery, where PSI supplied a new eight-legged Litec ground support and trussing system that was purchased for this event. They also supplied all lighting, trussing and over 60 points of rigging.

The performance line up of the Stereophonics, Paolo Nutini, The Saturdays, Yasmin and more was recorded and the highlights br

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USA - Following the popularity of ETC's iRFR application for Apple's iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, ETC has developed a similar application for Android devices - the aRFR. The aRFR offers the same functionality as the iRFR and at the same price.

The app allows users to turn any mobile device into a touchscreen-based remote controller for Eos- and Congo-family control desks, Eos and Ion Remote Processor Units (RPUs) and the Congo Light Server.

Any user can download the programme without factory hardware. Security controls provided in the app prevent unauthorised access to lighting control systems.

Like the iRFR, there are two versions of the aRFR: one that supports Light Relief (UK) and one that supports Behind the Scenes (US and Canada/The ESTA Foundation). Both organisations provide aid for entertainment-technology workers faced with difficulties like medical emergencies. All

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Germany - Lighting designer Stephan Aue of Ambion GmbH is one of the first LDs worldwide to use Martin Professional's new MAC Aura wash light and placed 42 of the award-winning fixtures on the German rock band Guano Apes' current European tour.

"The Auras came into the design pretty late," says Aue, who handled lighting, stage and set design for the tour. "In late summer, Markus Klüsener of Martin Germany approached me about seeing a new product before its official release at PLASA and as I was more than ready to see something new, I said yes. He showed me the Aura and I fell in love with its features right away."

The MAC Aura is the first compact LED moving head wash light with zoom that uses two independent colour systems to produce new 'eye-candy' effects plus functions as a highly capable single-lens wash with fully pre-mixed colour. It was launched at

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USA - At LDI this month, Robert Juliat will be showing the 85W Aledin 330LF LED Wash fresnel, a complement to the company's award-winning Aledin 630SX LED Profile Framing Spot. "The popularity of the Aledin wash has grown quickly as good reports spread about TV studios, exhibition halls and theaters taking advantage of its many qualities," says Robert Juliat's Fred Lindauer.

"Customer feedback finds the Aledin wash to be a very powerful LED product which produces an even beam over a spread range of 17 - 96 degrees (field angle), and since it uses a true Fresnel lens, the beam can be efficiently masked with traditional barn doors. The dimming is very smooth with no 'stepping,' its strobe feature is useful for concert lighting and the choice of 3500K or 5800K color temperatures lend itself well to exhibition work. The result is a very versatile fixture that's provin

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Korea - Recently built, the Blue Square theatre in Seoul relies on a MA Lighting system that combines grandMA2 and grandMA series 1 consoles.

Kim Hong Sik, CEO of Hansam System Co, MA Lighting's exclusive distributor in the Republic of Korea, commented, "MA products are known as the most reliable and popular among lighting designers in Korea so it was an obvious choice to vote for grandMA.

" Furthermore we wanted a future-proof lighting control solution with plenty of headroom for upgradability to incorporate powerful new features and functionality. Also the grandMA2's ability to seamlessly integrate video sources of all types into the visual equation, and making these straightforward to program, were a reason to install these consoles."

Altogether one grandMA2 light, one grandMA2 ultra-light, one grandMA full-size and one grandMA light were installed in the b

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USA - In just the few weeks since PLASA, CAST has prepared two new demonstrations to be seen for the first time during LDI this monbth. Visitors will witness the 3D Cue Paths available in BlackTrax 3D, as well as a Beta version of wysiwyg R28.

BlackTrax 3D is a fully operational, fully integrated, fully realtime tracking system. Using a new proprietary LED-IR Beacon, which is worn or otherwise attached to an object or person, BlackTrax 3D uses special static motion capture cameras to accurately pinpoint and track the movements of the tagged object or person (or multiple objects or people) anywhere in the defined 3D space and then instantly stream dynamic positional data at over 150 frames per second to external devices like lighting, automation, media servers, and for the first time in the world, spatial audio.

CAST will demonstrate BlackTrax and its proprietary 3D Cue Paths f

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Australia - John Farnham is celebrating 25 years of his all-time bestselling Australian album, Whispering Jack, with another return tour. This time he performs an opening unplugged set of familiar hits, followed by a full serve of the 1980s album that really changed it all.

When lighting designer Chris Newman began planning the tour he wandered down to PRG's Melbourne warehouse to check out their latest gear and he came across the Vari*Lite VLX LED wash luminaire.

"I knew PRG had lots of new fixtures but I didn't want to go down the LED track as I didn't think they were a great light source," admitted Newman. "They're a good point source but I've never been that happy with the colour you get from LED fixtures. However, when I saw that they were a Vari*Lite fixture I thought that if anyone was going to get it right it would be them.

"They're a fairl

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UK - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light helped garage-punk outfit The Horrors with their acclaimed concert at London's Roundhouse Wednesday 12 October.

The company supplied lighting designer Ed Warren from Next Level Lights with a compact but diverse selection of equipment, including six of the powerful, punchy JB A7Zoom LED fixtures, six of the bright Martin MACIII Spotlights, five Martin Atomic strobes and four 5kW Fresnels.

Warren used the fixtures to help create an all-encompassing environment for the show, with reviewers describing 'vibrant green lights washing the crowd' and the 'quintet prowling behind a vibrating wall of light and gas'.

"I've used White Light's rental equipment for quite a few Horrors' shows recently, and you can always be sure of a high quality of service, great communication with their staff and lights that allwork. Smashing."

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  4. DMX wireless Solution for Singapore's Sentosa
  5. Tiger Touch on Lira tour
  6. City Theatrical at LDI 2011
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