UK - At LuxLive 2012, Artistic Licence Engineering (Stand JO2) will present sunDial, a range of modular lighting controllers that provide a complete solution to the demands of 21st century smart illumination. Marrying high-tech control with the cutting edge in commercial lighting, sunDial will be driving Lumiblade, Philips' exciting new OLED product.

The landscape of lighting is evolving towards a greener future, but the introduction of more eco-friendly sources such as LED is just part of the story. Only by using and controlling fixtures in a more intelligent manner can we harness the full potential of the smart approach to lighting.

Artistic Licence Engineering's sunDial range provides the technology to make this happen, says the company. "Our 'source agnosticism' ensures that sunDial dimmers provide the best performance, whatever the load. Naturally we have built in DM

USA - At this year's LDI, Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands will unveil its MSD Platinum 2R lamp system, billed as the most compact, intense and efficient reflector lamp system available yet, providing new possibilities for fixture designs in the DJ/Club segment.

To energize the crowd, the club scene requires powerful light from compact moving-heads that rotate fast and create an uplifting ambiance. With a miniature arc size of only 0.9, the new Philips MSD Platinum 2R lamp system is by far the most compact reflector lamp system available yet. Moreover, the lamp features a high precision reflector and innovative burner filling, resulting in a bright and efficient light beam. The light output of a 132W MSD Platinum 2R lamp is comparable with a MSD lamp of 300W, allowing to realize more than 50% energy savings.

Moreover, says the company,these benefits can be enjoyed

USA - LDI presents the next opportunity for trade show visitors to experience the Madrix product range of LED lighting control solutions. Two particular products will be presented to the North American audience for the first time: Plexus Remote and Madrix 2.14a.

Plexus Remote is a smart App to gain full control over Madrix Plexus, a DMX512 interface and Art-Net node with unparalleled live or stand-alone possibilities thanks to the Madrix software bundled with it.

Madrix 2.14a is another free update for the unique software suite. The new version contains many improvements for Madrix and Madrix Plexus alike. The highlights are CITP v1.1 and the Madr8ixTime Code Sender.

USA - At LDI 2012, CAST will feature a cutting edge demo of the multi-award-winning BlackTrax V1.

BlackTrax V1 has been the big buzz this year, first winning a prestigious Game Changer Award at NAB 2012, and then nabbing the only Gold Innovation Award at PLASA 2012. CAST has prepared "a groundbreaking demonstration of this revolutionary technology just for LDI".

Using BlackTrax as the foundation, the Experience Design Company Moodbox from Switzerland and CAST Software's own Jim Hutchison have created a mixed media Rig giving intuitive control over every aspect of a cutting edge show.

Using the Coolux Widget Designer Software, a tool to network different data input streams, the position data is sent to a Coolux media server which generates particles in real-time; Imagine a scene from the movie Tron - wherever a person with a BTBeacon moves, a colored trail of partic

Rolling On - The Rolling Stones have announced four concerts in London and New York at the end of the year. The band will play London's O2 Arena on 25 and 29 November and at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey on 13 and 15 December.

Reports of a possible tour to mark The Stones's 50th anniversary had been circulating for a number of years. Making the announcement in a video on YouTube, the band said, "You must have guessed this was coming."

"Surely you didn't think we weren't going to do this? Soon we will be back on stage playing for you in two cities that know how to rock and roll." Mick Jagger suggested there could be some special guests at the shows, saying there would be "maybe a few friends joining us".

The Rolling Stones' last world tour, A Bigger Bang, played to 4.5m people in 32 countries over two years before it finished

World - ETC has released a brand new set of training tutorials to its YouTube channel, updating and expanding the range of topics previously covered.

The 25 new Congo tutorials cover a range of topics from an introduction to the latest operating system, v6.3, to basic operation of the desks. They can be found at http://tinyurl.com/8hnvpqj

Sarah Clausen, Congo product manager, says, "These new tutorials, which were filmed in our video studio in Middleton, allow us to capture the screens and the movements of an operator's hands on the console. This makes it very clear what's being done by the operator, where the console keys are, and what's happening on the screens all at once. The new format greatly improves the viewer's understanding of what's being explained in the video."

The ETC Video Library was set up three years ago, and offers helpful instructional videos on

UK - Black Light reports that it has completed the last of nine installation projects for North Lanarkshire's local authority.

The overall project, which has lasted for much of 2012, saw Black Light working with some of the biggest names in the construction business - Graham Construction, Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty - to install stage lighting, sound, audio visual and recording studio equipment in five of the region's high schools and four of its primaries.

This large-scale, multi-location project demonstrates Black Light's expertise in the education sector and its ability to offer a high quality, specification-compliant proposal at the right price.

"Black Light did an extremely professional installation," said Derek Johnston, head of music and drama at Coltness High School, which was the first of the nine schools Black Light worked at. "The entire syste

USA - City Theatrical has confirmed a new partnership with Electronic Theatre Controls in which ETC will distribute City Theatrical's full line of SHoW DMX Neo wireless DMX control products, allowing ETC's customers around the world easy access to wireless DMX for entertainment and architectural lighting applications.

ETC is recognized around the world as the leader in entertainment lighting and control products. City Theatrical specializes in unique lighting accessories and has developed and marketed hundreds of accessories related to ETC products over the last 20 years, and the two companies have enjoyed a close working relationship during that time.

ETC's customers will find SHoW DMX Neo wireless DMX systems useful in a wide range of lighting applications such as schools, civic auditoriums, houses of worship, cruise ships, museums, exterior architectural applications, and a

Japan - Robert Juliat's Japanese distributor, Theater Engineering, has recently supplied Robert Juliat followspots and LED profiles to Tokyo's Zepp DiverCity and Osaka's Zepp Namba concert halls. The equipment was supplied to lighting and sound equipment specialists, Sogo Butai Co Ltd who carried out the installations.

Zepp concert halls are a group of dynamic, busy venues which are spread across all areas of Japan and play host to many international tours and Japanese musicians. They offer a broad programme of music and tours, designed to appeal to all ages, with upcoming dates including Paul Weller, The Offspring, Slayer and Brahman.

The Zepp venues are also popular locations for corporate events and conventions.

The 2700-seat Zepp DiverCity in Tokyo is the largest of the Zepp venues and the largest live house in Tokyo while the slightly smaller Zepp Namba in Osaka caters

The Netherlands - Adding a further attraction to the growing list of educational and networking events co-located with ISE 2013, Integrated Systems Europe has announced the launch of the MegaPixel Summit. To be held at the Amsterdam RAI over Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 January 2013, the Summit will be produced by market research, publishing and consulting firm Insight Media.

"Over the past couple of years, we have seen a substantial increase in the number of ISE exhibitors offering display solutions that are above full HD resolution," comments Mike Blackman, managing director, Integrated Systems Events. "The potential of these technologies is enormous, but these are complex systems and many industry professionals are enduring a steep learning-curve while implementing them.

"By hosting the MegaPixel Summit at ISE 2013, we hope to create a forum in which the cha

UK - Television, live events and show production rental specialist, ELP have invested in 48 Chroma-Q Studio Force D 12 and Studio Force V 12 white LED lighting fixtures for their rental stock.

Based in Cambridgeshire, ELP offer a vast hire stock of the latest lighting technologies and provide a premium single source service for production managers, lighting designers and TV lighting directors.

The Chroma-Q fixtures - 18 Studio Force V 12, 3000 - 6100°K CCT variable white and 30 of the Studio Force D 12, 6100°K CCT daylight white - were purchased by ELP's rental manager, John Singer.

This was ELP's first Chroma-Q purchase and John comments that when they saw the products demonstrated, they were "Immediately impressed" by the fixtures' brightness, clean white colour rendition, compact size and build quality.

Chroma-Q were initially brought to the attention

USA - A complement of Clay Paky Stage Zoom 1200 and Alpha Spot HPE 700 fixtures were selected for the CD and DVD recording of Christian singer Israel Houghton's latest album, Jesus at the Center which hits stores 14 August. The multi Grammy Award-winning Houghton, whose cross-cultural style of Christian music fuses elements from gospel, jazz and rock, performed at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, where the singer is also a worship leader.

Matt Moreland of Wave Productions was lighting designer and director for the project, which reflected the diversity of Houghton's musical style. "The look of the show was sometimes very rock 'n roll, sometimes dramatic and moody, sometimes very high energy. It really ran the gamut as did the music from Latin to rap to a more traditional gospel sound."

Moreland chose 10 Stage Zoom 1200 moving heads and six Alpha Spot

Norway - Rental company d'light has recently purchased a stable of new Martin Professional gear that includes the award-winning fixtures the MAC Viper Profile, MAC Aura and MAC 350 Entour with the popular MAC 101 also included in the purchase.

In late August, d'light completed technical production of a student festival on the University of Agder campus in Kristiansand. The event, a celebration to mark the beginning of the school year, featured live entertainment with lighting design by Ronnie Tungland who incorporated the newly purchased MAC 350 Entours and 101 LED wash lights along with Martin MAC III Profiles.

Using an 8 x 10 ground support, the MAC 350 Entours were mounted on the back wall on four arm trusses. d'light chose to stock the LED profile because their 8000 lumens of brightness allow them to punch through without looking weak compared to bigger fixtures like MAC I

UK - Entec Sound and Light provided lighting and audio systems for the two music stages - Musion and Marshall - at the Best of Britannia (BOB), a new high-profile brand statement event concept exclusively for new and established British designers and manufacturers.

Showcasing the most innovative, creative original and funky elements on offer in multiple sectors from handbags to marmalade vodka, the first three day BOB event took place at The Farmiloe Building on London's Clerkenwell Road. The former warehouse is a fine example of Victorian architecture, completed in 1868 by Browne & Robinson.

Entec's equally fine crew was project managed by Adam Stevenson.

Entec was asked on-board by production manager Charlie Canavan, with whom they have worked on several previous live music projects. The turnaround was exceptionally tight - even by production industry standards - so Entec

Belgium - Along with the glitz, big hair, outrageous flares and dizzyingly high platform heels 12,000 disco divas stepped out to the 2012 Studio 54 Sportpaleis event in Antwerp, Belgium to strut their best dancefloor moves and grooves to the sounds of the1970s.

The equally flamboyant lighting design for the event - in its 11th glorious year - by Peter Vervloesem - featured all Robe moving lights, which together with other lighting fixtures and equipment and trussing - were supplied by Total-E (Total Event Support) from Paal-Beringen.

Vervloesem also designed the set. His starting point for the show was to create a fabulous, sizzling, mega-kitsch environment full of colour, movement and lusciousness to help emulate the parting spirit of the era and produce a great atmosphere.

No celebration of the seventies would be complete without that classic component of stage déco

UK - South London-based technical production specialist Presentational Rentals (PR) supplied all technical elements for the recent London launch of rock legends' Led Zeppelin's Celebration Day movie - featuring their one-off 2007 reunion concert at London's O2 Arena.

PR supplied lighting, audio and staging for the high profile press event staged in the Ballroom of the Northumberland Hotel, just off Trafalgar Square. It was attended by the three surviving members of the band and the world's media.

PR's Ian Coull designed the set and lighting scheme after taking a brief from the client.

It featured an eye-catching three tiered stage with seven metre high backdrop covered in the album / DVD cover artwork, featuring a large Zeppelin airship hovering above a London cityscape pastiche in a bright orange and red sky.

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and Paul Jones sat below this a

Spain - Renowned DJ and electronic music experimentalist Richie Hawtin's first solo residency on Ibiza saw his successful ENTER. concept take over Thursday nights at the award-winning 7000 capacity Space venue in Playa d'en Bossa, and run for a super-hot 12 week season.

Integral to the whole ENTER. phenomena - four rooms fusing the principals of music, sake, technology and experience all curated by Hawtin - was a visual and lighting design by Matthias 'Lumpy' Vollrath from biglooks.net, who has worked with the artist (aka Plastikman) since 2008 in cooperation with Rebeca Sanchez from LEDsControl.

Lumpy included four Robe MMX Spots in the lighting rig which were used specifically to throw patterns and effects onto two prominent dance podiums flanking the stage in the main area. They were the main focus on the side of the stage and a substitute for any video projection.

This r

The stakes are always high when a band of Coldplay's stature hits the road and creating something visually new and exciting is a constant challenge, but it is one that production designer Paul Normandale is more than equal to. With the band's 2012 tour taking in both arenas and stadiums, Normandale has once again chosen an array of Martin Professional fixtures, including the new 1000 W MAC Viper Profile, to add to his lighting arsenal, which enables him to create a fresh, dynamic look and feel that is a real crowd pleaser.

Normandalehas been working with Coldplay for the past five years, first on the Viva La Vida tour and now on that promoting Mylo Xyloto. Lighting vendor for the European leg is Lite Alternative, while Upstaging handles the North American leg. On the arena tour, the Martin inventory included 46 MAC 101, 32 MAC 700 Profile and 13 MAC 2000 XB Wash. For the

USA -The Wildcats' Basketball season kicked off with a sensational start as Kentucky's Big Blue Madness united the past and present in one phenomenal light show provided by Bandit Lites.

The scrimmage took place on 12 October 2012 and marked the start of the University of Kentucky's basketball season. Tickets for Big Blue Madness sold out in 35 minutes, and crowds poured into the 23,500 seat Rupp Arena hours before the 7:30 p.m. show.

In an unparalleled opening, the packed arena watched as the entire basketball court itself transformed into a 94 feet by 50 feet screen.

Aaron Swetland of Bandit designed the lighting programme which highlighted a projection of the University of Kentucky logo exploding into light particles while banners expounding the university's eight championships filled the court. Sport commentaries reverberated to the crowd's deafening screams as they watc

USA - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light will be introducing American lighting practitioners to some of the latest LED lighting fixtures at this year's LDI show, which takes place in Las Vegas later this week.

White Light's team will be showing products from Core Lighting, i-Pix and Galaxia on booth #248; each product family uses LEDs in different ways to provide lighting solutions optimised for particular applications.

Core Lighting's specialty is battery-powered, wirelessly controlled LED lighting fixtures designed for instant illumination anywhere - events, parties and any other type of show where lighting fixtures need to be distributed over a wide area, and unsightly power and data cabling must be kept to an absolute minimum. On show will the Point30 and Point20 fixtures, both RGB-W battery-powered and wirelessly controlled. Also on display will be the high-out

UK - Less than a month after its release, WYSIWYG R29, the new, upgraded version of CAST Software's industry standard pre-visualisation suite, is already being used to stunning effect on high-profile shows around the world. Among them is the BBC Radio One Teen Awards, which took place at Wembley Arena this month, featuring a visual design by award-winning LD Tim Routledge.

Broadcast live on BBC Red Button, with highlights shown the following evening on BBC Three, the Radio One Teen Awards included a live music bill that read like a who's who of up-to-the-minute pop music. Headliners One Direction were supported by the likes of Little Mix, Ne-Yo, Conor Maynard and Taylor Swift, drawing a crowd of 10,000 screaming teenage fans.

Routledge, who has used WYSIWYG extensively in recent months, having been lead lighting programmer for the opening and closing ceremonies o

UK - Michael Grandage CBE, will open this year's TheatreCraft event by giving a welcome speech at 9am on Friday 30 November 2012, at the Royal Opera House.

TheatreCraft, which is now in its seventh year, is the essential free event for anyone aged 17 to 25 looking for a non-performance career in theatre. Participants can explore topics including producing, stage management, wig-making, lighting, marketing, theatre journalism, sound, directing, costume design, playwriting and designing.

The event on Friday 30 November at the Royal Opera House will welcome more than 1,000 young people from across the UK and runs from 9am - 3.30pm. Participants will have the chance to take part in a choice of over 60 workshops delivered by skilled theatre professionals from, meet more than 40 exhibitors in the bustling marketplace and visit the 'Ask the Experts' zone which offers one-to-one advic

USA - LSC Lighting Systems booth at LDI this year will see the production launch of the new Clarity LX600 lighting and media control consoles. This will be the first USA showing of the production ready LX600 model.

Recently, both the LX300 and LX600 were used as the main consoles to run the media servers and studio lighting for the International Broadcast Centre at Olympic park for London 2012 and were hailed as a major success by Channel 4 TV.

Also on the booth will be the highly successful Clarity software and VX-Wings, the MDR DMX512 Splitter range with optional RDM and the NEXUS product family that offers bi-directional Ethernet /DMX512 conversion.

(Jim Evans)

Belarus - Jennifer Lopez's dynamic Dance Again World Tour came alive in Minsk with the help of a super-bright rig of Clay Paky luminaires.

Lighting designer Sean Burke's vision was for a fast-paced lighting show to match Lopez's dance-inspired music and passionate choreography - and it was met by Belarus'-based Ilya Piatrouski of FE Belimlight whose inventory of Clay Paky fixtures stepped up to the challenge.

"Arriving in Minsk, all luminaires needed to be sourced locally, so we were relying on local supplier Belimlight to come up with the goods," explains Burke. "The system was to comprise of Clay Paky units in the majority. Given the quantity of fixtures required for the performance we had a mixture of different types of Alpha profile and spot fixtures. Having not used them many times I was looking forward to seeing what they could do."

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