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The IoCore is an expansion module in the CueCore product family of solid-state lighting controllers. It offers interfacing to digital and analogue inputs and digital outputs and supports various protocols like DMX, RS-232, OSC, UDP and Art-Net.

The IoCore features eight inputs that can be individually configured as digital or analogue input. Set as digital input, it allows for an easy connection with for example physical switches and sensors. When set to analogue, it supports 0-10V and 1-10V inputs; ideal for connecting to household dimmers.

Theeight outputs on the IoCore are relay-switched and can handle 3 Amp. The digital outputs can be used to switched various other devices like A/V equipment, blinds or heavy-duty relays.

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14 March 2016

The Martin Evolution Gallery, a permanent installation, retraces Martin's history in the entertainment technology industry from its roots in the '80s as a fledgling producer of fog machines and disco effects to the leading company it is today.

The historical timeline is set against a background of major world and Martin events and showcases the company's record of technological advancement and product launch frequency through the years, an evolutionary journey that continues to develop.

Besides a fascinating look at technology's unrelenting march over the past 25 years, the timeline offers the visitor a chance to examine t

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14 March 2016

After the spectacular success of their first tour Dos pájaros de un tiro (Two Birds with One Stone), Serrat and Sabina have launched a follow up tour Dos pájaros contraatacan (Two Birds Strike Back) that is playing to audiences across Spain and South America this summer and fall.

Oscar Gallardo is one of Spain's top lighting designers, having lit Serrat and Sabina shows for years, as well as other artists like David Bisbal, Luz Casal, Presuntos Implicados, Rosana and many more.

Oscar, along with Juan Gomez Cornejo, Tano Astiaso and Nicolás Fischtel, is one of the forerunners of the Asociación Española de Autores de Iluminación (Spanish Association of Lighting Autho

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LitePad Loop is just over nine inches in diameter with a four and half inch centre hole. The light engine within the Loop is Rosco LitePad which is well known for its flattering, indirect light output.

LitePad fixtures are widely used in film and video production because of this quality. Its innovative mounting assembly makes the LitePad Loop easy to install onto any camera - including film, video, and DSLR units.

LitePad Loop is comprised by two main parts - the Loop itself and the mounting assembly. The Loop has a plastic housing which allows for our most durable and lightweight LitePad

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In charge of the project and installation were companies Electromontage and Inéo while lighting design was by Lionel Bessière of the Toulouse-based company Quartiers Lumières.

The Tripix 300s are attractively-designed IP66 LED bars based on tri-color LEDs for a better mix of colors under the lens. This produces a wide range of shades, in particular bright whites, subtle pastels, and vibrant saturated colors, with no chromatic decomposition.

The Exterior 410 houses very powerful pre-mixed LEDs and is used for lighting designs requiring perf

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14 March 2016

Lighting designer Terry Lewsey specified a total of 12 LEDHead 324W moving head wash luminaries and 30x LEDHead SBar battens to be included in the lighting systems across eight stages.

The 324s have 108x 3W RGBW leds and were used for general stage washes and movement.

All of the lighting production and effects for the festival were supplied by Light Design Ltd, based in Rainham, Essex. They have had both of the units featured above in their rental stock for over a year and have recently increased their stock levels due to high demand in the festival and corporate markets.

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The Czech house took over the entire Business Design Centre building in Islington.

Czech National TV's Olympic broadcast studio is located there, and the Pavilion features massive screens so the public can enjoy all the best of the Olympic action, together with food, beer, wine and digestives, chess, streetball, art, Czech Team merchandising and a host of other cultural offerings including a stage for live bands, DJs and other entertainment, with sociability high on the agenda.

AV Media's Project Manager Filip Klein explains that when they won the contract to co-ordinate all the technicals for the Cze

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14 March 2016

One of the venues, The Forum, featured a stage filled with 48 Chauvet Professional MVP 18 modular video panels, 14 Chauvet Professional Q-Spot 260-LED and six Chauvet Professional Q-Wash 260-LED moving heads, and eight Chauvet DJ Intimidator Scan LED 300 scanners.

Found throughout the other four (of the eight) stages were a selection of Chauvet fixtures, specified by Stage Electrics and JPS Sound and Light.

(Jim Evans)

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ZEP is a new LED profile spotlight featuring a powerful new 150W white LED engine that offers high light output yet low power consumption. Available in warm white (3200K) and cool white (6000K) versions, ZEP is based on Juliat's long-established 600SX range, uses the familiar SX double condenser optics system and is available in three zoom ranges - 643SX 28/54?, 644SX 16/35? and 641SX 11/26?.

TIBO is an innovative, compact, lightweight versatile profile spotlight, featuring an entirely new compact design that mates either an LED or tungsten lightsource to a unique optical design that offers two zoom ranges in one single fixture. In LED form, Tibo uses a 75W white LED array

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14 March 2016

Local event management company, BeamOn, is using the popular XS1200 Spot on the celebrity TV show, Tharinge Rey 2012, broadcast by Maldives TV station, DhiTV.

Recorded in a local theatre, the series runs once a week (over four weeks), with all shows pre-recorded two days in advance.

Working in conjunction with the TV station, BeamOn designed the lighting rig, specifying six of the high power XS1200s among the lighting effects, chosen for their colour temperature filters and colour saturation; the lighting is controlled from an Avolites Pearl Tiger console.

Everyone has been delighted with the lighting dynamics, reports BeamOn's Abdulla Shareef (Allo), and he expects these will feature again on future DhiTV shows in t

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Durban based rental company, Hirezone Audio Visual, provided the full technical at The Wavehouse including lighting, sound, av, staging and screens. The Robins came out to play, and while most of the fixtures were rigged on the Prolyte Ground Support and on two Prolyte bars above the stage, some were also placed on the stage for beam work. Philips Selecon Profiles were utilised for flood lighting and LED parcans added colour.

"The Parlotones were excellent," commented Richard Gild from Hirezone. "I have a new found respect for them and on stage they rock." Gild adds the entire show r

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This year the event was lit by Nicholas Michaletos from l technical solutions provider, Sound Stylists, who supplied lighting equipment and crew for the show.

Robe moving lights were at the core of the rig for the event, which was broadcast live on SABC channels 1, 2 and 3 as well as SuperSport.

Michaletos worked closely with set and production designer Wayne Sproule from Pendragon Dezign, with whom he's worked very successfully on previous projects including the Sports Awards of Gauteng at the end of 2011 for the same client - producers Warren Bowles Corporate Communications (WBCC).

They were very keen to keep this visual continuity with the PSL Awards, and so asked both back in the same roles.

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Described as "one of the great treats of the summer" by the Sunday Times, the show opened at London's Hampstead Theatre before transferring to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End. It is adapted from Colin Welland's original screenplay by writer Mike Bartlett, features Vangelis' original music from the film, is directed by Edward Hall with designs by Miriam Buether and has lighting by Olivier- and Tony Award-winning lighting designer Rick Fisher.

To supply the lighting for the show, Rick Fisher turned to his regular collaborator White Light, which supplies his award-winning design for Billy Elliot in London and has regularly supplied the touring rigs for his designs for both

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"This all-star mix of live and pre-recorded music was a major crowd-pleaser," declared David Rooney of the Hollywood Reporter, saying the event would be "regarded as a wonderfully chaotic treasure trove by some and a hot mess by others". The New Zealand Herald described the event at the Olympic Stadium in east London as "a pop culture smorgasbord that had touches of brilliance, beauty and bewilderment".

Olympic Effect - West End box of

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"It was time to replace our old tungsten cyc lights and moving towards an LED future was the best option," commented Padaric Meredith-Keller, senior theatre technician. "Not only will we save energy but also hours of labour time spent replacing gels and bubbles that would regularly die."

The department already owns several Chroma-Q products all of which have performed flawlessly. "We've been happy with our Chroma-Q products as they have a great light quality plus

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14 March 2016

The ilumo has been in full production since the New Year and was designed from a 'wish list' of features that leading industry specialists required in an LED fixture.

In addition to motorised zoom with a narrow 8-degree beam angle, the ilumo has been designed to be ultra quiet in operation with smooth dimming and anti-flicker LED control; so important for TV studio and theatre applications.

The Crossfade Engine allows users to transition between different colours of the fixture's inbuilt colour palettes without outputting the intermediate colours in the list during the fade.

Colour Match allows the user to exactly define the primary RGB colours that are mixed when using the fixture in colour calibrated modes. This feature solves one of the most common problems wi

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All involved in lighting for amateur theatre groups and schools are invited, with the day scheduled to allow them to attend - unless, of course, they are working on a show.

Those who can make it will be able to take part in lighting masterclasses led by White Light's in-house designers, play hands-on with a range of equipment and special effects including snow, UV, projection and bubbles, see a demonstration of explosive pyrotechnics from pyro specialists Le Maitre, and get training in controlling show lighting from the experts at Electronic Theatre Controls.

Alongside this, White Light will host a small selection of manufacturers showing off their latest useful lighting products, with White Light sta

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14 March 2016

Jack is a high-power, compact, lightweight moving head that features a wide excursion motorized zoom allowing any application from long-throw projections to large wall washing. Beam opening is: 1° - 2,5° 'Beam' projection; 2,5° - 37° 'Spot' projection; 38° - 46° 'Wash' projection.

Jack generates a high luminosity and extremely uniform projection using only a 189 W lamp; power consumption is just 230 W.

Jack is an appropriate moving head for rental companies - who want a quick and easy to install unit - thanks to its compactness and light weight (only 11,9 Kg).

Nick NRG 1201 LED wash features 8°- 50° motorized zoom with a high-efficiency optical system - enabling it to be used as a very wide wash or a PC beam.

It is equipped

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They were asked to come up with a visual concept for the show by presenter Johan Stemmet, having worked with him on several series' of the popular music quiz Noot vir Noot for SABC.

Musiek Trivia features two contestants at close quarters in the studio facing each other off - Weakest Link style - and is fully focussed on the subject music trivia, encompassing specific eras from the 1950s to the present.

Blond Productions' Christiaan Ballot and Peter Rieck combined creative forces to produce a streamlined set and lighting design that involved maximising the small studio area with scenic LED set elements and clever lighting.

Very prominent are six 'totems' vert

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It is the second year that CSE has supplied lighting equipment for SGP, and a crew of 15 was once again chiefed by John Rickets. Battling with seriously wet weather on the set up and the resulting large volumes of mud, restricted access around the site made it an even more demanding task to ensure that all was rigged-and-ready for the sold-out festival to open on time.

The Great Stage was a G3 structure from G-Stages similar in shape to Glastonbury's Pyramid.

CSE supplied three sub-hung trusses which were populated with 12 Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1500s, 12 Robe LEDWash 1200s, eight Showtec Sunstrips, six CP Sharpies

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14 March 2016

Building on the strength of Prism's existing product range, all include the company's proprietary TrueSource control algorithms which monitor and correct the light output to ensure consistent colour and level from fixture to fixture and over time.

The RevEAL Studio.3 Fresnel is the third member of Prism's Studio LED family, which has already proven popular with television studios and other venues around the world. Designed to behave just like the tools lighting practitioners are already familiar with, the Studio.3 Fresnel is just like a traditional Fresnel, with a wide variable beam angle (10-90?) and the ability to shape the beam using barndoors. The fixture produces 9700 lumens of light, tunable from 2700-8000K - givin

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The A8 uses 37 RGBW multi-chip LEDs capable of creating both deeply saturated and restrained pastel colours in a beam that can be zoomed from 4? to 48?. The LEDs can also be individually controlled for dramatic beam effects. The A8 is easy to set-up, offering both three-pin and five-pin DMX systems for fuss-free integration into any wired lighting system, plus a built-in wireless DMX receiver.

The larger A12 fixture will be shown in new Tunable White form, using a combination of warm white and cool white LEDs to create a high-output white light fixture

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14 March 2016

SLMC was first held in 2001 and then again in 2004 and 2007. After a long break, it is finally returning. Sponsors for the event include Artscape, CamQuip, Declan Randall Lighting Design, DWR Distribution, Electrosonic, ETC, LEE Filters, The Market Theatre, Philips Selecon, Prosound and Gearhouse Splitebeam.

The course is aimed at anyone who is interested in stage lighting and theatre, from technicians and designers, to stage managers, event crew, directors, choreographers and students.

Participants need not have any previous

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Dunn will focus on two of the Chauvet sub-brands, Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc.

He started his career as a DJ before working in light production for theatre, corporate functions and trade shows. He also worked for Martin US and his family-owned business in Colorado.

"It's a great opportunity for John to focus Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc products in this growing facet of the marketplace," said Albert Chauvet, CEO for Chauvet, "and build upon what he's already accomplished in his two years with Chauvet."

(Jim Evans)