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XLNT
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Show Distribution and Chainmaster
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Columbus McKinnon
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Rose Brand
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James Thomas
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Harlequin Floors
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LIPA Marks 10 years of Education
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On Monday 30 January - 10 years to the day since LIPA's inauguration - nearly 250 LIPA students and graduates will take part in a gala performance at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall.The performance will also herald the official launch of Liverpool Performs 2006 - a 12-month celebration of Liverpool's outstanding track record in the arts, sport and business - the latest in a series of themed years leading up to European Capital of Culture in 2008.
LIPA itself is one of the city's best known success stories, committed to its aim of providing high-quality teaching to prepare students for sustained careers in the industry, either as performers
Tim Brennan Joins PRG Las Vegas
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"We're delighted that Tim has returned to PRG," says Jere Harris, PRG's chairman and CEO. "With a wealth of industry experience and resources from his days at Cinema Services and Martin Professional, we look forward to having him continue expanding PRG's business in one of our fastest growing geographical markets."
Brennan got an early start in his entertainment career by accompanying his father, Jim Brennan, founder of Cinema Services, to visit clients at television events and theatres. Before moving to Martin Professional where he was director
Robe introduces MediaSpinners
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The units are fully DMX controllable and can be run from any lighting desk, or in stand-alone mode. A 4-digit LED display on the base enables onboard programming. Master/slave operation using a serial cable is another simple control option, running multiple fixtures through one unit.
Variable speed rotation in both directions is possible, and smooth and precise movement is guaranteed with the use of 16-bit DMX. A virtually silent cooling system makes R
Stardraw.com supports Mode Lighting Evolution
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Mode Lighting Ltd is part of the Mode Group of companies dedicated to the design and manufacture of electronic products principally for the lighting industry, including architectural dimming systems, electronic transformers for low voltage lighting, electronic convertors for neon and cold cathode lighting, colour-changing lighting and control systems and LED lighting systems.
Stardraw Control is a software-based application designed expressly to control systems that contain diverse products. It generates stand-alone, customized control programs that can manage and monitor any type of addressable equipment from any manufacturer using any protoco
Summit on Cirque
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It's the sixth Cirque production that Summit has put into the venue, and Alegria was also the first Cirque production which Summit were involved with in the central London venue, back in 1998.
The 2006 project involved the preparation of 104 points of rigging, for which Summit has supplied 40 of their own Lodestar motors in addition to using the house hoists.
Summit also designed a completely new rigging infrastructure, involving the installation of nearly 400m of Summit's James Thomas Supertruss. This was needed for Cirque to produce their daring, highly acrobatic production - normally staged in their own purpose-built big top - into a completely new and different venue. The Albert Hall is a challenging venu
Maltbury Supplies Award Winning Theatre
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In 2003, Maltbury supplied Komedia with an initial package of Metrodeck when the venue underwent a major overhaul. Because of the theatre's schedule, it truly puts Maltbury's popular staging system to the test. The system is regularly moved around to accommodate the widely differing performances taking place: bands such as Supergrass and The Tiger Lillies, theatre productions for all ages, poetry and stand-up. The Metrodeck system has made this task possible.
Komedia's technical manager Chris Williams says: "This is a very ver
PLASA06 website launched
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Halls hoists at seaside centre
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D8++ hoists fulfil the requirements of German safety standard BGV D8+, meaning that once a load has been positioned, no further safety device, such as a load arrestor or secondary safety line is required.
Halls also installed bespoke truss and cable management systems for 96 ways of dimming for the new house LX system in the venue which is owned and managed by Bournemouth Borough Council, operating alongside its sister venues, The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom and The Pier Theatre to provide some of the best technical facilities in the UK.
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J&C Joel goes to Yehudi Menuhin School
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The funding impetus for the £5 million project came with the death of Menuhin, the school's founder and mentor, in 1999. The new venue was finally completed and opened in January. Lead Architect Mark Foley of Burrell Foley Fischer worked closely with the School's acoustician Bob Essert of Sound Space Design and theatre consultants Anne Minors Performance Consultants.
The Menuhin Hall is a chamber music venue and a daily performance and rehearsal space for school use. The students are primarily string and piano players, however they also participate in school choirs, and student rock groups are starting up. Additionally, the Hall is available to hire for other music events and
AMX adds three controllers
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The NI-2100, NI-3100 and NI-4100 offer the same form factor as their predecessors, the NI-2000, NI-3000 and NI-4000, while offering twice as much memory and three times more processing power. These increases mean that system programmers can have more resources available to tackle elaborate control system designs.
The controllers are Duet-compatible out of the box. Duet is a dual-interpreter firmware platform from AMX, combining the power of NetLinx with the capabilities of the Java 2 MicroEdition (J2ME) platform.
"I challenged our engineers and marketing s
Wireless-DMX at Nobel Prize Awards
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The lighting at this event is taken just as seriously as the prestigious guest list. Not only are there strict rules regarding rigging and visibility, the banquet is broadcast live on Swedish National television's SVT1.
Spectra Stage & Event Technologies in Stockholm supplied creative design and production management services, plus all lighting and AV equipment for visual requirements at the banquet. W-DMX transmitters and receivers were used to control the fixtures. Spectra utilised SGM's latest Giotto Synthesis 700 moving lights, Barco R18s for the projectio
Visual Terrain Produces Organ Concert
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Traditionally, Organ Power is staged with both live and videotaped performances.This year, set designer Edward Marks added another challenging element to the staging with raised turntables and serpentine ramps, creating intimacy to the expansive stage.
To meet the logistic lighting challenge of a revolving set, a large part of the solution according to lighting director Jeff Ravitz is careful coordination and flexibility. "Our goal was to create an intimate setting for each performer and at the same t
State Automation: lighting and service
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Bravard, who has been appointed as State's new operations director, will lead the new phase of the company, and aim to "continue developing high quality and technological advanced dimming and network products to service the entertainment market".
In Europe, the company has recently appointed Eclalux, Enttech and bdl Buro fur Daten & Lichttechnik KG, who join its expanding distribution portfolio as representatives in Paris, Greece and Germany respectively. State Automation will be jointly exhibitin
Health & Safety first for Showsec
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Showsec has continued with the investment and expansion of it's training and research department in 2006. The staff development programme will set new standards within the industry, say the company.
The IOSH-accredited Supervising Safety in the Events Industry course has been devised by Showsec's training manager Roy Wise, H
50-Year-old Lodestar Brochure on LTM Website
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Demand far outstripped supply, so there's now a fully printable high resolution PDF of the same brochure available on LTM's website (www.liftturnmove.co.uk) in the 'publications' section.
LTM's John Jones says: "I could hardly believe the interest in the antique brochure, but it seems people genuinely want to learn about the product's history. The fact that it's changed very little in certain ways over time is testament to the true quality and practicality of its design, build and engineering."
He adds the fact that a piece of production industry technology is still in fashion after 50 years is an achievement in itself!
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5 Star supplies HSL with 100 new Cases
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HSL uses 5 Star exclusively to supply its flight cases. Rupert Reynolds, head of HSL rigging says: "The cases are extremely well built and 5 Star always turn them around quickly and efficiently - as they are frequently needed at short notice. They are also great at coming up with ideas of how to case the odder and more idiosyncratic pieces of kit!"
HSL's new hoist cases feature a customized removable and interchangeable inner cradle (a fixed one is found in all standard motor cases) to accommodate the three types of motors that they wanted to house in the trunks. 5 Star designed and built three variations of these special inner cradles to fit a choice of three different motor types.
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ETC adds ArKaos to Networking Partners
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As a result, ArKaos will be showing the latest version of its popular ArKaos product, the ArKaos 3.5 ETC Edition, on the ATF stand L51 at the SIEL 2006 trade show in Paris next week. A software-based visual synthesizer that runs on a normal PC or Mac, ArKaos 3.5 ETC Edition is a tool for lighting designers or visual artists to create and control amazing visual projections. At SIEL the application will be connecting via ETCNet2 with ETC's n
