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  Outline to Launch New Loudspeaker System at Prolight + Sound
The new Outline GTO, to be launched at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, is a classic line-source loudspeaker product which adds a further dimension to the capabilities of contemporary systems by providing far-field SPL and ...
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LDR to Launch Oscura, New Dimming Shutter, at Prolight + Sound
Following the success of the Xpress color scroller, the Italian lighting manufacturer LDR will introduce the Oscura 19 a new lighting accessory at the forthcoming Prolight + Sound.
Oscura 19 is a DMX512- and RDM ...
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Proel at Prolight + Sound 2011
At this year's Prolight + Sound Show in Frankfurt, Proel Group (Stand H40 in Hall 8.0) will launch several new product lines along with its traditional brands.
First, the company will (re)launch C-Audio, the ...
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ETC Eos Stars at Olivier Awards
The ETC Eos lighting control system stood out at this year's Olivier Awards in London. It was the console used on three of the four shows nominated for best lighting design, including the winner, The White Guard, ...
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Coolux Pandoras Box at New World Center, Miami
The New World Center, the New World Symphony's music academy in Miami Florida, designed by Frank Gehry, features coolux Pandoras Box server technology.
One of the most important aims of this epic ...
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Sennheiser Supports the Scorpions Three-Year Farewell Worldwide Tour
It was 1965 when the Scorpions, young hard rock hopefuls from Hannover, Germany, launched their career. After 45 years in the limelight, 17 albums with worldwide sales in excess of 100 million, and thousands of shows, the ...
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Riedel Acrobat at SXSW
To enable wireless communications at the SXSW music and film festival, the Austin based rental and service provider Omega Broadcast Group chose an Acrobat wireless intercom system from Riedel Communications, one ...
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Entec on The Australian Pink Floyd Show
West London-based lighting and sound rental house Entec is supplying lighting, rigging and part of the visuals package, including a new -- and first in the UK -- Green Hippo Grasshopper HD media server -- to the current ...
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Elation on Professional Bull Riders Tour
While most of his colleagues go about their daily occupation in theatres and concert halls, lighting professional Nelson Meeks works in an environment that's much more "earthy." "My world is dirt," he says. ...
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Clay Paky at the 2011 Sanremo Music Festival
Clay Paky was a leading player in the 2011 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, which has been the biggest music event on Italian television now for over 60 years.
A total of 100 latest-generation Clay Paky moving heads, ...
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Jeff Ravitz Designs Duran Duran Live Webcast
Jeff Ravitz and Intensity Advisors are providing lighting design for their fourth installment in the American Express series, Unstaged. Featuring Duran Duran, the concert played live to the web on ...
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Mariners Church Adopts Shure Wireless
Led by senior pastor Kenton Beshore, Southern California's Mariners Church is a multi-campus house of worship. Its main campus, located in the community of Irvine, houses a 3,400-seat capacity main sanctuary that features a ...
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Robert Juliat to Exhibit Green Fixtures at Prolight + Sound 2011
For the first time the stand (D74, Hall 11.0) will be lit with a predominance of Robert Juliat's low-energy products, including the award-winning Aledin 630 LED Profile spot, which offers a choice of warm or cool LED light sources ...
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Martin Professional at Prolight + Sound 2011l
At the Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, April 6-9 (Hall 9.0, Stand A93) Martin Professional will offer an up-close look at a broad portfolio of lighting and visual effects products that are engineered for the eye. ...
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CAST Software at Prolight + Sound
CAST Software will offer three new products and what it says is an innovative product demonstration at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany, 6-9 April, in Hall 9.0 Stand D70.
The PLASA Innovation Award-winning ...
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Pixled at Prolight + Sound 2011
The European LED brand Pixled will show its new F-6 high resolution LED display - which, the company says, now offers top level processing by Mitsubishi Electric, in addition to the standard proprietary options -- at the 2011 P ...
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Robe at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt 2011
Robe will launch five new products at the 2011 Prolight + Sound.
The ROBIN MMX Spot is the new generation of 1200W Spot fixtures and the first in a new series of Robe moving lights designed to be energy-efficient and ...
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Theatre in Review: Ghetto Klown (Lyceum Theatre)
In 1998, when I saw Freak, I remarked to my companion, "John Leguizamo is a very funny man -- and I hope his parents are dead." I wasn't being malicious; Freak, the first of Leguizamo's one-man rants to hit Broadway, ...
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Scenex Lighting Adds Full Range of IP55 Flexible LED Strips
Expanding its product offering, GLP Inc.'s scenic division, Scenex Lighting, has launched a full range of flexible LED tapes that can easily be incorporated into set pieces or architectural elements, temporarily or ...
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More Customers Getting Connected with Liberty AV through Social Networking Sites
With a regular stream of visitors to its Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter pages already absorbing the latest in AV industry news and trends, taking advantage of exclusive deals, discovering career opportunities, and more, Liberty AV
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grandMA2 Accepts Invitation to the SAG Awards
grandMA got up close and personal with the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards when programmer Willy McLachlan tapped a grandMA2 system to control lighting designed by Jeffrey Engel. The awards ...
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Stage Technologies at Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth Australia
New home of the Black Swan and Perth Theatre companies, and located inside the $100 million State Theatre Centre, the Heath Ledger Theatre, in Perth, Australia, is a 575-seat, multi-purpose venue for music, ...
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Gateway Church Opts for Riedel MediorNet and Artist Systems
The Gateway Church, in Southlake, Texas, changed its former AV distribution and communications system for a fiber-based network installation. The fully integrated solution consists of a MediorNet fiber network backbone and an ...
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Harman's Soundcraft Vi1 Console at Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, Washington
Upgrading its audio infrastructure to deliver a more immersive experience to its partners, the not-for-profit Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham, Washington, recently installed a Harman Soundcraft Vi1 digital console after a ...
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Vista Spyder X20 at DaVita National Meeting and Siemens CSG National Leadership and Sales Conference
Freelance Technical Services selected the Vista Spyder X20-1608 to manage video processing for Capa Productions, producing the DaVita Inc. national meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, and for Elite ...
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Melissa Britton, Monitor Engineer Gives Thumbs Up to NEXO Wedge
Since it began delivering in late December, the new NEXO 45 N-12 12" line monitor is receiving rave reviews, the company reports. Engineer Melissa Britton had the opportunity to use the new line monitors for Earl Klugh< ...
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Meyer Sound MILO at Orlando's Amway Center
The sound system at Florida's Amway Center, home of the basketball team the Orlando Magi, is anchored by 66 Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers - a system that largely duplicates recent touring rigs for such ...
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LumenRadio's CRMX at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
LumenRadio's CRMX technology has been chosen as the preferred brand for wireless lighting controls at the Marina Sands Bay resort in Singapore. The project was developed by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and has been ...
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Aviom Personal Mixers at Perimeter Church Campus
When you're as busy as the tech department at Perimeter Church, in Johns Creek, Georgia, managing nine auditoriums, an average of six weekend services, and more than 2,300 events each year, certain logistics need to be as reliable ...
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W-DMX Brings Generation 4 to Prolight + Sound
Wireless Solution Sweden AB will demonstrate the new W-DMX G4 line, which is now shipping, during Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany, April 6-9 in Hall 11.0, Stand C81.
Unlike any cable, the company says the ...
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DiGiCo Announces New Dante Interface at Prolight+Sound 2011
DiGiCo announces the adoption of Audinate's Dante digital networking solution and the launch of two new Dante implemented products at this year's Prolight+Sound.
"The first, an eight channel I/O module for ...
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Electrosonic Names Todd Miller Vice President of Control Rooms
Todd Miller has been named vice president of control rooms at Electrosonic. Miller will take charge of the control room business worldwide; he previously headed the company's service business in North America. ...
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Meyer Sound Launches Acheron Designer, Smallest Member of EXP CinemaLine
Meyer Sound has expanded its EXP cinema line with the introduction of the compact Acheron Designer screen channel loudspeaker. Developed in close consultation with leading film sound designers and post-production ...
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Applications Now Available for ETC's LDI 2011 Student Sponsorship
Now is your chance to apply for ETC's famed LDI Student Sponsorship: Graduate students and senior undergrads studying lighting design, theatre technology, or a related field are eligible to win one of the open spots to attend the ...
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Theatre in Review: Arcadia (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
Tom Stoppard must be the most respected and least loved of modern playwrights. Consider the notices for David Leveaux's revival of Arcadia, which got the most lukewarm set of positive notices in many a season, ...
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LumenRadio's CRMX at France's Pont du Gard
LumenRadio's CRMX RDM wireless lighting control system played a crucial role in the lighting refurbishment of UNESCO world heritage site Pont du Gard, in southern France The installation represents the most comprehensive ...
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The Week in Review
Retooling Spider-Man: The new creative team has gone to work on the endlessly previewing Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, making significant changes to the troubled show. According to reports in The New York ...
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Roscolux #359 Benefits Behind the Scenes
Rosco Laboratories and The ESTA Foundation have announced the presentation by Mark Engel, president of Rosco, of a check for the third annual royalty payment to Behind the Scenes from sales of the color ...
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Multiform to Launch MultiSpot GII at Prolight + Sound
Multiform Lighting will exhibit at Pro Light + Sound in Frankfurt, April 6-9 on Stand D39 in Hall 11, the stand of the company's German distributor World-Media Showtechnik GmbH. The stand will be manned by Jurgen ...
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DiCon Lighting Partners with Main Light Industries to Distribute FL5100B
DiCon Lighting is partnering with Main Light Industries as a key distributor for FiberLamp's flagship product, the FL5100B. Main Light Industries manufactures and rents a wide range of fiber optic-based products to ...
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Allen & Heath Launches Xone In-Ear Headphones
Allen & Heath has unveiled the latest offering from its range of Xone headphones, the XD-20 in-ear monitors. Complementing Xone XD-53 and XD-40 professional DJ headphones, the XD-20s provide a set of quality, lightweight ...
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dBTechnologies Adds Professional Audio Range at Frankfurt
Loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies is set to launch a number of new products at this year's ProLight + Sound exhibition, augmenting its wide range of rental and installation equipment. Visitors to the Italian ...
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Theatre in Review: Three Men on a Horse (The Actors Company Theatre/Theatre Row)
God love James Murtagh. He barges on stage late in the action of Three Men on a Horse and wakes up a sleeping production with a pure jolt of comic adrenaline. He plays Mr. Carver, an irascible, superannuated greeting ...
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New Appointments to Drive Middle East Growth for projectiondesign
The projection manufacturer projectiondesign's existing local team of Middle East regional director Ingar Sundholm and Tim Wood, regional manager, has been joined by two newly appointed field application engineers ...
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Lightware Offers CPU2 Card Upgrades for Modular Matrix Family of Products
Lightware U.S.A., the US distributor for Budapest-based Lightware Visual Engineering, has announced the availability of new CPU2 card upgrades for Lightware's modular matrix family (16x16, 32x32, 64x64 and 80x80). ...
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Elation on The Who's Tommy at Orange County's Segerstrom Center for the Arts
After racking up rave reviews in Summer 2010, the Chance Theatre production of The Who's Tommy was invited to play at Orange County's larger Segerstrom Center for the Arts this February. (Chance Theatre is based in ...
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Electrosonic at National Museum of the American Indian
Visitors to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Lower Manhattan are discovering the beauty of Native American artifacts and the stories behind those stunning objects in the new permanent exhibition, Infinity of ...
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David Flad Lights Historic Belasco Theatre with Gear from 4Wall LA
David Flad, of Q1 Designs, recently teamed with 4Wall Los Angeles to light the interior of downtown LA's historic Belasco Theatre. The lighting design and implementation was one of the final stages of the ...
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Renegade Designs Lighting for BAFTAS Aftershow
The lighting and visual design firm Renegade once again lit the star-studded 2011 Orange BAFTA (British Academy of Film and TV Arts) Awards gala dinner and after-show party at London's Grosvenor House Hotel. ...
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Unusual Rigging & Engineering Fits at Abu Dhabi's Laureus Awards Ceremony
The annual Laureus World Sports Awards provide a high-profile focus as stars of the sporting world come together to salute the finest sports performances of the year. And on hand to help make sure this year's show, at Emirates ...
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Pete's Big TVs Embellishes MTV Woodie Awards
The MTV Woodie Awards moved their annual indie rock, hip-hop show this year from New York City to Austin, Texas in the midst of the South By Southwest Music Festival. Pete's Big TVs/Performance Video was there to help ...
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XL Events at ExCel Centre, London
XL Events supplied video and visual production-- including camera and PPU system, projection, playback, and crew -- for The Big Bang, a 2,500-seat live performance space run in the ICC at London's ExCel Centre ...
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Ilari Anttila Appointed Electrosonic's Service Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Ilari Anttila has been named service director, EMEA for Electrosonic. Formerly head of the Nordic region managing Electrosonic's operations in Finland and Sweden, Anttila will now be based in London. ...
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Rose Brand's How Did YOU Do It? Second Blog Contest Winner
Rose Brand announces Gary Duffey as the second winner of their How Did YOU Do It? Blog Contest. The contest asks Rose Brand customers to submit a picture of a project or production they have worked on and describe how they ...
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Lectrosonics Celebrates 40th Anniversary
The year 2011 marks Lectrosonics' 40th anniversary. Founded in March of 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the company's first product was the Voice Projector series of portable PA systems and lecterns. In 1975, the company's first ...
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projectiondesign Sponsors Noches Electricas
Norway's projectiondesign is the official technology partner for the upcoming Noches Electricas or Electric Nights exhibit. The exhibit launched March 17 at LABoral, Centre of Art and Industrial Creation in Gijón, ...
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AES 131st Convention Exhibitor Forms Available Online
Exhibitor applications for the 131st AES Convention have been posted on line at the AES website. The convention will be held at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, October 20-23. The AES has served the ...
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Theatre in Review: Double Falsehood (Classic Stage Company)
The difficult thing about Double Falsehood is that the play is nowhere near as interesting as its rather squirrelly provenance. To wit: William Shakespeare wrote a number of plays in collaboration with John ...
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Digital Projection Makes Year-long Commitment to InfoComm's Education Opportunities
Digital Projection International (DPI) has taken on key sponsorship roles, as well as an exclusive display product sponsor position, for InfoComm's numerous education programs throughout 2011. With continuing education ...
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Harman JBL EON515XT Test Drive Sweepstakes Announced
Harman's JBL Professional brand it is launching its EON515XT Test Drive Sweepstakes at participating JBL retailers. The promotion began March 15 and runs through June 30 with a grand prize of a complete sound system ...
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Signed Items from Dave Matthews, Coldplay and Others to be Auctioned at Audiology Benefit
One-of-a-kind signed guitars and other unique music memorabilia from Dave Matthews, Coldplay, and other artists will be available for bidding during Auction 4 Audiology, a benefit fundraiser of the American Academy of ...
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Audio-Technica Mics: 14th Consecutive Year at The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
For the 14th year in a row, a broad range of Audio-Technica microphones was selected to outfit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. A-T supplied over 50 mics to capture the audio for the 26th annual induction ...
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Robe Installed at Minsk Arena, Belarus
Robe moving lights and DigitalSpots have been installed at the new Minsk Arena in the Belarus capital of Minsk. It is part of a complex of buildings that includes the flagship 15,000-seat ice hockey arena, one of the ...
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VAI and Big Show Construction on Marco Brambilla's Evolution (Multiplex) at Art Basel Miami
When Big Show Construction Management needed AV support for an Art Basel Miami event showcasing former Hollywood director turned visual artist Marco Brambilla, it turned to Video Applications Inc.'s (VAI) ...
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Christ the Redeemer Monument in Rio de Janeiro Bathed in LEDs
On the 80th anniversary of the Monumento Cristo Redentor, the world-famous statue of Christ on Mount Corcovado, OSRAM is providing the structure with an advanced lighting system. Henceforth, 300 LED projectors will be ...
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L-Acoustics KUDO at Thunder Valley Casino Resort
Thunder Valley Casino Resort, located 30 miles east of Sacramento, has now wrapped up an ambitious schedule of renovations with the addition of a spa, outdoor pool, and 17-story luxury hotel, which houses the resort's new 10,000-sq ...
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Yamaha StageMix for Viper Alley
Yamaha Stagemix software for the M7CL iPad app was recently installed into Chicago concert venue Viper Alley. Located in Lincolnshire, Illinois, the venue is the brainchild of Scott Greenberg, creator of the Wit, ...
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Coemar on RAI1's Gigi D'Alessio Broadcast
Coemar's Infinity ACL S and Infinity Wash XL, shot from close up, illuminated show on RAI1, the Italian television network, starring the popular singer Gigi D'Alessio. The lighting was designed by Riccardo Bocchini< ...
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Traxon Technologies Introduces High Resolution Media Systems
The newest addition to Traxon and e:cue's innovative product portfolio, High Resolution Media Systems provide crisp, clear imaging and exceptional color reproduction for scalable communication messaging in both interior ...
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Vista Spyder X20 on E! News Set
When E! News, the nightly entertainment newsmagazine on E! Entertainment Television, hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Guiliana Rancic, expanded to one hour and introduced a new set design, the network selected a V ...
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Sound Works Productions Purchases NEXO System
Sound Works Productions, Inc., of Frankfort, Illinois, recently purchased a NEXO GEO S12 line array system, RS18s and NXAmp 4x4s its rental inventory. The system is comprised of 14 GEO S 1210s, two S1230s, eight RS18 ray ...
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Theatre in Review: Kin (Playwrights Horizons)
Kin focuses on the long-term romantic relationship of a couple named Anna and Sean -- but, except for a brief and minor encounter at the halfway point, we never see them together until nearly the end of Bathsheba Doran's ...
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BSS Audio's Soundweb London at Computer History Museum
In January 2011, the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California, completed a two-year, $19-million renovation that included a total upgrade of its audio system. System designer Bowen Technovation turned to BSS ...
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Gearhouse Supplies AV Technology to Design Indaba Exhibition
Gearhouse South Africa's Cape Town branch supplied specialist LED and AV display technology to four different installations at the Design Indaba 2011 exhibition, which was staged at the Cape Town international Convention ...
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Thames Audio Uses Shure Wireless for Lord Mayor's Show
Installing live sound for large outdoor events can often present a number of logistical hurdles -- especially when the event is London's Lord Mayor's Show. The celebrations include a 6,000-strong procession of marching bands, ...
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San Antonio's Lila Cockrell Theatre Adds Robert Juliat Cyrano Followspots
As part of a $17-million renovation, San Antonio's Lila Cockrell Theatre (LCT) has augmented its lighting inventory with three Robert Juliat Cyrano HMI 2500W hot-restrike followspots purchased from dealer Texas Scenic
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Wagner College's Seahawks Retake the Field with Community R-Series
Founded in Rochester in 1883, Wagner College moved to its current location in 1918. Since then, the original 38-acre campus has grown to 105 acres overlooking New York Harbor and the surrounding city. ...
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JBL CBT Series Loudspeakers at St. James Cathedral
When the time came for St. James Cathedral to upgrade its sound reinforcement system, John Teer, of Teer Engineering, had a specific design objective: the loudspeakers had to blend into the church's interior, but ...
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Behind the Scenes Announces By Design Day 2011
By Design Day, the joint fundraising day for Behind the Scenes in the US and Canada and Light Relief in the UK, is now in its third year and once again the organizers are hoping for a bigger response than ever before ...
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USITT Rolls Out Secondary School Rigging Safety Initiative
A program to provide free or reduced-cost rigging inspections for secondary schools has been initiated by USITT. The program will kick off April 1 when applications will be available online. It was announced by Joe Aldridge ...
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GLP's Impression Spot One Offers LED Advancements
GLP reports that its impression spot one fixture represents a breakthrough in LED technology for today's entertainment lighting market. While soft edge washlight fixtures such as the original impression from GLP have been around ...
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iPad App Announced for Yamaha LS9 Digital Console
In conjunction with an international launch at the Music Messe Expo, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of the iPad app StageMix for the Yamaha LS9 digital audio console. The new software ...
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Clear-Com Adds Richard Palmer as Regional Sales Manager
Clear-Com has appointed Richard Palmer regional sales manager, Southern Europe and Africa. In this role, Palmer will be charged with strengthening Clear-Com's market presence in Southern Europe and Africa by developing and ...
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Turbosound Partners with Audinate and Lab.gruppen in new Flashline Array
Turbosound has released the Dante-enabled 20000DP amplifier to power its new Flashline Line Array system.
Based on the Lab.gruppen PLM platform, and featuring dedicated presets specifically designed by Turbosound's live ...
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PRG Presents the PRG LEA Stage in the Festhalle at Prolight + Sound
At this year's Prolight + Sound trade show, April 6th - 9th, the Production Resource Group (PRG) exhibition will encompass the entire main hall of the Frankfurt fairground, Festhalle. The 32,000+ sq. ft. venue will also be ...
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Clearwing Productions Adds Kerry Miller to Staff
Clearwing Productions has added Kerry Miller as design/build manager in the company's Milwaukee. Prior to joining Clearwing, Miller was service manager at Select Sound Service, also in Milwaukee, overseeing ...
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Alcorn McBride Marks 25th Anniversary
Alcorn McBride, Inc., the manufacturer of show control, audio, and video equipment for the theme-park industry, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the company has launched an improved website) with easier ...
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Danley Sound Labs Adds New Amplifier and DSP Lines
Danley Sound Labs has announced its new amplifier and DSP products.
The Danley DSLA amplifier is available in four output power configurations, the DSLA 1.7K, 3.3K, 4.5K, and 6.5K. The DSLA 6.5K delivers 6,500W to a four-ohm ...
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Aphex Sponsors HOW-TO Church Sound Workshops
Aphex has announced sponsorship of a series of HOW-TO Church Sound workshops presented by Fits and Starts Productions, LLC.
This workshop series has toured cities and churches across America nationally for ...
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Visual Productions launches CueCore Solid-State Control at Prolight + Sound
The CueCore will be launched at Visual Productions' booth, Hall 11.0 A69 during Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt, Germany in April.
The CueCore is a stand-alone lighting controller. The device is completely solid-state, with ...
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PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011 Grows with New Features
There have been record-breaking visitor preregistrations for PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011, taking place at The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 19-20.
PLASA Events attributes the increase in ...
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Behind the Scenes Raffle Winners at USITT Conference
The Long Reach Long Riders and The ESTA Foundation have announced the results of their joint raffle to benefit the Behind the Scenes program at the 2011 USITT conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sales of ...
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ETC Licenses Patented Technology to Philips
Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc. has licensed patented technology to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. This license covers ETC technology described by US Patent 6,932,491 (and foreign counterparts) utilized by Philips ...
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InfoComm to Expand Global Tradeshow Offerings
InfoComm is bringing more audiovisual tradeshows to its worldwide audience. InfoComm Middle East & Africa (IFMEA) will take place October 9-13, 2011 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. ...
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The Week in Review
Betting on Celine: Can Celine Dion Save Las Vegas? That's the questions posed in The Daily Beast posted last week. The article, by Tony Dokoupil and Ramin Setoodeh, notes that the recession-starved city is ...
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Theatre in Review: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre)
When they work at all, jukebox musicals function less as works of narrative and more as parties. Usually outfitted with the feeblest of librettos, they prefer to coast on their playlists of golden oldies, which tend to be enough to get ...
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Theatre in Review: Hello Again (Transport Group)
Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde has been adapted endlessly, on stage and in film, but surely there is no more haunting version of it than Hello Again. Schnitzler conceived a sexual roundelay of interlinked lovers as a ...
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Prism Projection Unveils New RevEAL Profile at Prolight + Sound
Prism Projection will debut the RevEAL Profile, the latest addition to its multi-award winning RevEAL collection, during Prolight + Sound 2011, held at Messe Frankfurt, April 6-9 in Hall 11.0 Stand D71, as part of the L ...
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Renkus-Heinz Introduces CTS Accredited RU Audio Training
Renkus-Heinz is launching two InfoComm CTS accredited RU training programs for audio technicians in the fields of intelligibility and digital beam steering. The senior course instructor is well-known pro audio developer, ...
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Audio-Technica U.S. Responds to Earthquake and Tsunami In Japan
Audio-Technica U.S. extends its deepest condolences to those affected by the 2011 Tohoku Pacific Coast earthquake. Audio-Technica Japan facilities have not been damaged by the disaster, and all employees are accounted for and safe ...
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Martin MAC 401 Dual CT Zoom Versatile White Light Source
The Martin Professional MAC 401 Dual CT Zoom is a versatile white light source wash luminaire with fast zoom. It is also available as a module that easily fits onto either side of Martin's dual-sided MAC 401 Dual RGB Zoom fixture, ...
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Chauvet Sponsors IDMA, Winter Music Conference
Fifteen Chauvet proudly took the stage during the 26th annual International Dance Music Awards, held Thursday, March 10 at in Miami Beach. The event, hosted by Daniel Glass, owner of Glassnote Entertainment Group
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Keith Prestidge Joins Harman's Studer Team to Head up Sales in Asia Pacific Region
Keith Prestidge joined Harman Studer's team this week as sales director, Asia Pacific reporting to Adrian Curtis and with a brief to grow the expanding region in broadcast and performance installations for Studer ...
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Paul Giansante Joins Danley Sound Labs as National Sales Manager
Danley Sound Labs has appointed industry veteran Paul Giansante to the position of national sales manager. Giansante has worked as a freelance audio systems engineer in the Midwest, providing engineering, design, ...
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Symetrix Launches The Jupiter App Finder
Inspired by the "apps" paradigm of smart phones, the Jupiter series of digital signal processors is designed to morph to meet the needs of almost any sound processing application. Over sixty apps are available at Symetrix.co, ...
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Theatre in Review: Spy Garbo (Affinity Company Theatre/3-Legged Dog)
Joan Pujol Garcia is surely the most fascinating historical figure that you've never heard of. Operating under the code name Garbo during World War II, the Spanish spy seduced his masters with a fantastic array of manufactured data, ...
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Allen & Heath and Audinate Stage Online Dante Training Session
To coincide with the release of Allen & Heath's M-Dante option module for the iLive digital mixing system, Audinate and Allen & Heath are staging interactive online seminars to provide information and technical understanding ...
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Draft Dust Effect Standard Available for Public Review
BSR E1.40 - 201x, Recommendations for the Planning of Theatrical Dust Effects, is available for public review through May 2. The review is over when the "Review End Date" of May 3 starts.
The draft dust effect standard is ...
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Pulsar Introduces ChromaStrip25 TriColour LED
Pulsar, developer and manufacturer LED lighting and lighting control solutions for professional entertainment and architecture installations introduces its latest innovation, the ChromaStrip25 TriColour LED lighting solution. ...
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Artistic Licence Engineering Presents Rail-Pipe HC
Artistic Licence Engineering has upgraded its Rail-Pipe technology to present Rail-Pipe HC, a six channel, high current, constant voltage controller for passive LED fixtures.
Redesigned in response to customers' ...
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Outline Strengthens International Sales Team
Outline s.r.l., the European manufacturers of loudspeaker systems and associated products for professional audio, announces the appointment of Chris Hinds as director of sales for EMEA.
Hinds is a well-known personality ...
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DiGiCo's SD8 Named Best Large Format Console Live Sound International Readers
The readers of ProSoundWeb and Live Sound International magazine have chosen DiGiCo's SD8 console as its favorite large-format console in the second annual Readers Choice Product Awards. In last year's competition ...
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Aphex at Miami's New World Symphony
One of the most celebrated architectural achievements in Miami's history is also one of its best sounding. New World Center, designed by Frank Gehry, is home to Miami's New World Symphony, the orchestra founded and ...
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Duran Audio AXYS on Broadway's Elf
Duran Audio's AXYS Scope loudspeakers recently made their Broadway debut on Elf the Musical, which played a holiday engagement at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre during the Christmas season. ...
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GoVision LEDs Pump Up Courtside Effects During Conference Tournament Week
LED screens provided by GoVision are playing key roles during this year's Conference Tournament Week, featuring college basketball action around the country.
GoVision installed 3' by 60' LED scoring tables comprised of
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Proel Axiom at the La Notte della Taranta Festival
More than 100,000 people crowded the square of Melpignano, Italy, for the closing concert of the latest edition of Notte della Taranta Festival, which comprised 13 concerts held in as many towns. ...
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Zac Brown Band Tours with VENUE
Veteran live engineer, Eric Roderick, mans the front-of-house position on the Zac Brown Band, relying on an Avid VENUE D-Show system to handle up to 96 inputs from the stage. "I've been using the [D-Show] for three ...
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L-ACOUSTICS K1/KARA System Installed at Graha Bethany Nginden Church, Indonesia
L-ACOUSTICS' distributor in South East Asia, Sennheiser Electronic Asia, together with Indonesian partner Tri Tunggal Abadi have installed the first L-Acoustics K1 system into a church in the region. The K1/KARA WST ...
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Aviom A-16II at Crosspoint Church
Since its commencement in 2008, Crosspoint Church, based in Morehead, Kentucky, and its worship band knew that, as a portable church, it would require an audio system that not only provided good sound reinforcement but also one ...
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Danley Helps Belle Aire Baptist Church Clear The Air
Belle Aire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee had a problem. Despite the fact that its facility was only a decade old, the sound system for its 1,600-seat sanctuary had progressed from bad to worse. Although its blended ...
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American DJ Reaches Settlement with Wal-Mart and DBL in American Audio Trademark Infringement Lawsuit
The American DJ Group has reached a settlement with Wal-Mart Stores and DBL Distributing, a division of Ingram Micro, in a trademark infringement lawsuit regarding its American Audio brand. The suit alleged ...
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I. Weiss Launches Viawinch
I. Weiss introduces a new item in its Via-Line of motorized rigging products -- the Viawinch, a versatile midway solution between a manual hand crank and a high-end hoist that may provide more features than you really need. ...
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CAST Software Releases Vivien2011
CAST Software Ltd., of Toronto, Canada, the maker of award-winning wysiwyg, BlackBox, and BlackTrax, has announced the latest release of Vivien -- the event planning software tool for event and meeting professionals. ...
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Draper Unveils FocalPoint; Smaller, Single-Tube Version of StageScreen
Draper, Inc. is introducing another modular projection screen, The FocalPoint. With sizes to meet typical screen inventories, FocalPoint is designed ...
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TOMCAT at Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
TOMCAT USA was an executive producer of the 2011 Region 6 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), which took place recently in Amarillo, Texas. Hundreds of students came from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, ...
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Checkers Releases Powerback Rubber Duct Protectors with Added Traction
For increased traction, Powerback rubber duct cable protectors, from Checkers Industrial Safety Products, are now available with optional Velcro strips for use on carpet. These non-metallic, flexible rubber protectors are ...
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DiModica Sales to Represent WorxAudio Technologies in Florida and Puerto Rico
WorxAudio Technologies has selected DiModica Sales, headed by Chuck DiModica, to represent the company's sales efforts in Florida and Puerto Rico.
Headquartered in Plantation, Florida, DiModica Sales is an ...
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Dr. Larry Meixner Named President and CEO of Sharp Laboratories of America
Sharp Laboratories of America (SLA) announces that Dr. D. Laurence Meixner has been named president and chief executive officer. Situated in Camas, Washington and founded in 1995, SLA is Sharp's US research and ...
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Liberty AV Releases Installer's Choice PTN Racks
With a static test load rating of 12,250lbs., Liberty AV's Installer's Choice PTN rack enclosures have a capacity that is virtually unrivaled within the marketplace, the company says. Designed for applications with high volumes ...
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Gearhouse SA Joins the African Bureau of Conventions
Gearhouse South Africa announces its membership of the African Bureau of Conventions (ABC), a recently established South African, and African Convention Bureau, whose primary aim is to bid and secure new conferences and ...
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Chauvet Launches WELL, New LED Luminaire
Chauvet, a leading manufacturer of LED lighting, announces a new Wireless Event LED Luminaire, called WELL for short. WELL is specifically designed to uplight walls and foliage at a corporate event, nestle it in the bottom of a ...
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Robe Road Show in South Africa
The Robe ROBIN Road Show in South Africa consisted of three events staged in Johannesburg (at the University of Johannesburg Theatre), Cape Town (the Baxter Theatre), and Durban (The Natal Playhouse Company< ...
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Clay Paky Sharpy on BBC's Blue Peter
The BBC series Blue Peter - the world's longest-running children's show -- has welcomed the arrival of new co-host Barney Harwood. Lee Allen, the show's lighting director, upgraded the show's look with 12 Clay ...
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Video Applications Inc. at The Trevor Project's Annual Trevor LIVE Event
For the third year in a row, Video Applications Inc. (VAI) has supported Trevor LIVE, the signature annual event of The Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis intervention and suicide ...
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Meyer Sound JM-1P Loudspeaker System at Berlin Nightclub
Berlin's Berghain dance club has wrapped up its first year of operation with a Meyer Sound system in its exclusive Panorama Bar. In placing Berghain first in its 2009 listing of the world's "Top 100 Clubs," DJ Mag< ...
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Midas PRO6 on Jason Derulo UK Tour
Rising US R&B star Jason Derulo has completed a string of UK dates as part of his debut world tour, accompanied by a Midas PRO6 at front of house.
"I wish I'd tried the PRO6 sooner," says front-of-house engineer Greg ...
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LumenRadio CRMX on Boulevard der Stars in Berlin
LumenRadio's CRMX wireless system recently helped Berlin's Boulevard der Stars to put on a permanent and spectacular shine. The 31,148'-long installation on Potsdamer Straße encourages visitors to engage with the stars and ...
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Jack Morton Worldwide Expands to Singapore
Jack Morton Worldwide, the global brand experience company, opened an office in Singapore, effective March 14, led by Charles Robinson, who formerly led the production team for Jack Morton's Hong Kong office. Robinson will ...
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Colin Lemmings Appointed Electrosonic's Vice President of Corporate Solutions
Electrosonic has announced that Colin Lemmings has been named vice president of corporate solutions, based in London. The appointment makes Lemmings head of the corporate solutions business worldwide, one of the three ...
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Nemetschek Vectorworks Supports ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes Program
Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. extends congratulations to Chris Riebold, the grand prize winner of the Behind the Scenes raffle at this year's United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) conference. ...
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Draper Announces New Screens for Large Venues
(Large venues require large solutions, and Draper, Inc., has added several products designed to meet projection needs for large venues or auditoriums ...
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Void Acoustics to Launch Three New Product Ranges at ProLight + Sound
This year's ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt show (April 6-9) will see the launch of three new innovative product ranges for Void (Hall 8, Stand A56), these being indigo, Node, and V2 digital processors. ...
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Cloud Introduces the VTX Series of Multi Channel Amplifiers
Cloud Electronics, the UK-based manufacturer of high-quality commercial audio systems, has announced the introduction of the VTX Series of high-power multi-channel amplifiers. The range features three power level variants: ...
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VLX Units Prove Virtually Maintenance-free on American Idiot
When American Idiot first loaded-in to the historic St. James Theatre in February 2010, little did head electrician Eric Abbott know that it would be the last time he would see his primary automated wash fixtures for ...
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ETC Rigging Raises the Bar on Safety at Montana Middle School
The rigging system in Helena Middle School's 1,065-seat theatre, in Helena, Montana, was in need of major repair to ensure safety. It had rope rigging equipment with original wood blocks that dated back to the 1930s, five ...
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Clay Paky Inaugurates Ferrari World at Abu Dhabi
Clay Paky was official lighting equipment supplier to MMS srl for the inauguration of Ferrari World, also known as the Ferrari Experience, the first Ferrari theme park in the world, built on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. ...
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EAW KF740 Loudspeakers Are the Centerpiece for L.A.'s Supperclub
The latest addition to the international Supperclub group of dining and entertainment establishments recently opened in Hollywood, California. The venue features a flown, custom, five-way EAW line array system that covers ...
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Symetrix Jupiter at Edina, Minnesota's Pinstripes Venue
Pinstripes delivers to its patrons Italian-American fare, bowling, bocce courts, and banquet and party space for up to 600 guests. Until recently, only suburban Chicago enjoyed Pinstripes in its two locations, but a third location ...
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Renkus-Heinz Busy at ISE
Renkus-Heinz, in conjunction with TM Audio, its distributor for The Netherlands, celebrated a busy ISE 2011 show with a VIP boat trip around the city's famous canals, accompanied by 50 leading audio consultants, ...
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SANYO projectors at Ambler Theatre 2011 Oscar Party
SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO), a subsidiary of SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., contributed to the glitz and glamour of the Ambler Theatre 2011 Oscar Party in Ambler, Pennsylvania with projectors that ...
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DBN Delivers in Dublin at RDS
Manchester, UK, based DBN Lighting designed and supplied the lighting scheme plus all associated trussing and rigging equipment and crew rig for a gala dinner accommodating 900 people at Dublin's RDS. ...
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EAW Offers Contractors and System Integrators KF200NT Loudspeaker Module
EAW now offers its KF200NT loudspeaker module. KF200NT is one of EAW's three recently unveiled comprehensively integrated NT models in its award-winning KF Series. It is a scalable solution for corporate A/V, performing arts ...
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coolux Releases Widget Designer 3.0
coolux GmbH, creator of the Pandoras Box product family, announces the official release of Widget Designer Version 3.0.
The freeware Widget Designer STD allows the creation of custom user-interfaces. ...
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W-DMX Available OEM Installed in Antari Fog Machines
Wireless Solution Sweden AB has made an OEM partner agreement with Antari, the manufacturer of fog machines, making W-DMX available in selected W-Series of W-515 and W-530. W-DMX is also available in the X310 Pro Series as ...
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FUNA International Supplier of the Year Award from Meyer Werft Shipyard
FUNA International was honored by the international shipbuilder, Meyer Werft GmbH, at its fifth annual Best Supplier of the Year Awards. With the award, Meyer Werft recognized FUNA for outstanding electrical engineering work ...
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MEA Mobile Releases iPhone-based Lighting Controller
MEA Mobile announces that the latest version of its lighting product iGloLEDset, is now available. iGloLEDset is the first-ever available, real-time, iPhone based, controller for color lights. Users control a 16' - 49' strip of ...
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The Week in Review
Disaster in Japan: As the news continues to come in of death, destruction, and nuclear leaks following the record-breaking earthquake in Japan last week, questions are being raised about the country's $5 trillion economy, the ...
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Draper Screens Go Modular
Before Draper introduced StageScreen, the company asked several rental and staging dealers to visit the company's Spiceland, Indiana facilities to have a look. One of those early witnesses to the development of the StageScreen was < ...
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Liberty AV leads Launches Installer's Choice Razor Series
Including fixed, tilting, and articulating mounts designed to support flat panel displays of all sizes and description, the Installer's Choice Razor Series is in stock and now shipping from Liberty AV Solutions. ...
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WiSE Holds First Monthly Get-Together
Valentines evening 2011 saw 24 members of the UK-based organization WiSE (Women in Stage Entertainment), two grandMA consoles and some Martin Professional TW1s get together at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, ...
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Harman Plays Host to Fifth AVnu Alliance AVB Plugfest for Audio Video Interoperability and Performance
The AVnu Alliance recently hosted an AVB plugfest at Harman Professional's signal processing group in Salt Lake City. The AVnu Alliance is the industry forum dedicated to the advancement of professional-quality audio video ...
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Electro-Voice in Salvation Army Churches
"I sell intelligibility," says Dave Armstrong, of Sound Planning, a Ft Lauderdale-based sound design and installation contractor serving primarily churches and synagogues. "In most churches, even those with contemporary ...
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Anolis at The City Club, Czech Republic
The City Club in Rožnov is one of the most popular night destinations in Moravia, Czech Republic. It features a coffee bar, small casino, and restaurant as well as an action packed dance floor by architect/interior designer Kare ...
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Stageline Stages on Antonov Cargo Plane
Weighing a total of 120,00lbs, three Stageline mobile stages left from Montreal to Abuja, Nigeria, flying over the Atlantic Ocean. After a 13.5 hour flight in an Antonov 124, one of the largest cargo planes ever made, the ...
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Christ Covenant Church Offers Praise for New DiGiCo SD8 System
When the tech staff of Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church in Matthews, North Carolina was searching for the best digital console to replace an aging and inadequate mid-level analog desk, the worship facility's missive was to ...
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Riedel VoIP Intercom Products First to Adopt EBU Tech 3347 Standard
Riedel Communications announces that all of its intercom-over-IP products are fully compatible to the just-released EBU Tech 3347 standard. This makes Riedel the first manufacturer providing VoIP intercom products compliant to the ...
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Christie Launches TVC-500 Video Wall Controller, R{MSP-D180U Projection Light Engine
Christie has released two high-performing solutions developed to meet the ROI-driven demands of the commercial video wall systems marketplace. The TVC-500 video wall controller introduces a broad spectrum of capabilities for ...
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Capacity Expansion at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will be significantly stepping up its production output by converting its two chip manufacturing facilities to 6" wafers while expanding production at both plants. A new production building is currently ...
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Allen & Heath Shows Latest Products at Pro Light + Sound
Allen & Heath (Hall 8.0, Stand C22), will be showcasing its latest innovations for the DJ, studio, and digital live markets at the forthcoming Pro Light + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.
The company will be exhibiting the ...
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Soundcraft Studer Customer Experience Center Celebrates First Birthday
Since its grand opening in March 2010 by Harman chairman, president and CEO Dinesh Paliwal and Blake Augsburger, executive vice-president and president of Harman Professional division, the new Customer Experience ...
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Unusual Rigging & Engineering Rigs International Conference
When asked to organize an international conference in Dubai for 2,200 delegates, the production company Instinctif took the decision to keep the format tight by running the event over two days. The main conference room was set in ...
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grandMA Joins Prince's Welcome 2 America
The grandMA console mingled with music royalty when lighting designer Demfis Fyssicopulos selected it to control, lighting and video components in Prince's Welcome 2 America engagement in the New York ...
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Piling on the Pressure (Wave) in Southwark with DiGiCo's SD9
It is not easy for a young audio company to compete in London's Theatreland, but Andrew Johnson and his company, Pressure Wave Audio, are making their marks. Johnson's latest project is the sound design and audio equipment ...
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Ingleside Baptist Expands with Dual Midas PRO3 Systems
Ingleside Baptist Church, in Macon, Georgia, is a large, fan-shaped worship space with stadium seating that accommodates 1,650 people. In an effort to attract more worshippers to its services, the church decided that time had come ...
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Aviom Personal Mixers at First Nazareth Baptist Church
As First Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina placed the final building blocks on an addition to its sanctuary, it became apparent the structure would present several complex audio challenges. Thus the church turned ...
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Theatre in Review: Cactus Flower (Westside Arts Theatre)
Do you remember sex comedy? If so, you're showing your age. Between, say, The Moon is Blue, in 1951, and Last of the Red Hot Lovers, in 1970, no season went by without half a dozen or more such examples of this now-defunct ...
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Meyer Sound Spotlights D-Mitri Digital Audio Platform at USITT
D-Mitri, an award-winning digital audio platform incorporating advanced show control features, will be the principal focus at Meyer Sound's booth exhibit (Booth #940) at the USITT Conference and Stage Expo in Charlotte, ...
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A.C.T Lighting Exhibits Wireless Solution's W-DMX G4 At USITT Stage Expo 2011
A.C.T Lighting will be exhibiting Wireless Solution's W-DMX G4 in Booth #230 at the USITT Stage Expo 2011, March 10-12 at the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina. Wireless Solution Sweden AB is the ...
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InfoComm 2011 Keynote to Be Delivered by HP's Rob Scott
Rob Scott, vice president and general manager, HP Visual Collaboration, will deliver a keynote address at InfoComm 2011, the world's biggest audiovisual trade show. InfoComm 2011 will showcase integrated display, ...
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Elation Launches Platinum Spot 15R Pro
Elation is introducing the highest-output unit yet in its Platinum Series. Designed for larger venues and productions, the new CMY color-mixing Platinum Spot 15R Pro moving head offers brightness comparable to 700W and even 1 ...
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David Krall Joins Audinate's Board of Directors
David Krall has joined Audinate's board of directors. He formerly served as president and CEO of Avid Technology, and most recently served as president and COO of Roku.
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Theatre in Review: Peter and the Starcatcher (New York Theatre Workshop)
"Are we quite done with the hugging and the learning?" This question is posed near the end of Peter and the Starcatcher; it's meant as a gag line, but it goes right to the heart of the identity crisis plaguing the new ...
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KK audio labs Appoints New Middle Atlantic and Metro New York Representative
KK audio labs, the Southern California-based studio monitor and live sound systems manufacturer, has appointed a new factory representative firm for the Middle Atlantic and Metro New York regions of the United States. Shaeer Media ...
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IPS Supplies Martin Pro's MAC 101s for European Premiere of Justin Bieber's Never Say Never
Impact Production Services (IPS) recently supplied, installed, and operated a lighting package that included Martin Professional MAC 101 LED moving heads for the European premiere of the Justin Bieber film Never ...
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American Audio's VMS4 Digital Work Station Goes on Tour
You can experience of American Audio's ground-breaking VMS4 Digital Work Station in the hands of a world-competition-winning master. DMC USA champion DJ Etronik will take the VMS4 on an exclusive road tour in Miami ...
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Pete's Big TVs Projects Spider-Man on The Late Show
The Broadway cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark presented a nationwide peek of the show recently on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman. Pete's Big TVs/Performance Video helped project a visual backdrop ...
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Chris Conte Named Vice President of Entertainment at Electrosonic
Electrosonic has promoted Chris Conte to vice president of entertainment, a position from which he will manage the company's entertainment business worldwide, including the museum, theme park, visitor center, and retail ...
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Kinetic Lighting Relocates to Glendale, CA
Kinetic Lighting Inc. is relocating its headquarters from North Hollywood to Glendale, California. To accommodate its rapid growth, the company is moving into a facility that is nearly 40 percent larger than its previous building. ...
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Time Square Lighting Launches BD2-2 and BD203 Units
The BD202 and BD203, new from Times Square Lighting, are theatrical-style units that deliver the lighting equivalence of a conventional 75W halogen MR16 lamp with a 70% power savings and up to ten times the lamp life. These ...
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Rob Lewis Joins Studer to Lead Expansion of US Sales Operation
Studer has appointed Rob Lewis as sales director for the United States. He will be based on Harman's Northridge campus and joins Adrian Curtis' international Studer sales and customer service team. ...
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Rose Brand's How Did YOU Do It? First Blog Contest Winner
Rose Brand announced David Ayers as the first winner of their How Did YOU Do It? blog contest. The contest asks Rose Brand customers to submit a picture of a project or production they have worked on and describe how they ...
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Theatre in Review: Good People (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
David Lindsay-Abaire has turned out to be one of the theatre's most intriguing multiple personalities. Establishing himself as the author of quirky comedies such as Fuddy Meers and Wonder of the World, he then threw ...
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Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Lines Up 2011 Classes
Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas has been touring the country, attending regional events, such as Texas Educational Theatre Association and Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 1, to spread the ...
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Liberty AV Launches Installer's Choice ETN Series Racks
With vented side panels and a heavy duty caster base listed among standard items offered with every Installer's Choice ETN Series rack listed within the Liberty AV catalog, the product group can be tailor-made to the unique ...
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IMERSA's Dan Neafus to Speak at Fulldome UK 2011 and Cyprus Domefestival
Two upcoming events in Europe will showcase digital dome ("fulldome") cinema production and technology: Fulldome UK 2011 (March 12-13 at Thinktank Science Museum, Birmingham) and Cyprus Domefestival (March 18-21 at ...
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LumenRadio Signs Rolight as CRMX Distributor for the Netherlands
LumenRadio has appointed Rolight as the exclusive representative for its CRMX products in the Netherlands. Rolight is one of the country's largest distributors with a lineup of prestigious brands such as MA Lighting, ...
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Thailand added to list of Prolyft Technical Service Points
Staff from the Prolyte Group, based in Holland and Malaysia teamed up early January, 2011 to install Bangkok-based Dynamic Source as a Prolyft technical service point for Thailand.
The two-day training and installation ...
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Serapid Stage Lifts Installed in the Walgreen Drama Center at the University of Michigan
SERAPID, Inc recently installed a stage lift system in the Arthur Miller Theatre, which resides within in the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center at the University of Michigan -Ann Arbor, Michigan. A three ...
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Lehigh to Launch Rendition II at USITT
Lehigh, celebrating its 50th year in the lighting industry, will introduce Rendition II at USITT. This console includes both hardware and software upgrades to the original Rendition console series. Hardware features include ...
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W-DMX at Super Bowl XLV
Wireless Solution Sweden AB played part in one of the most widely watched televised sporting events in the world -- Super Bowl XLV. The company's technology was used to light the exterior entrances of the new Cowboys ...
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TiMax Soundhub on Canada's Cirque Eloize
India's biggest society wedding event of the yea - held for over 2,000 guests in Delhi -- used a TiMax SoundHub-S for surround sound enhancement to Canada's Cirque Eloize acrobatic show, plus synchronized animated audio and ...
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ADLIB on Tour with Comedian Russell Howard
Liverpool, UK based ADLIB continues its work with comedy acts from around the world, supplying lighting and sound equipment and crew to the current Russell Howard Right Here Right Now UK arena tour - following on ...
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Yonsei Central Baptist Church First in Asia to Install L-ACOUSTICS K1
South Korea's Yonsei Central Baptist Church, distinguished as the first L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC church installation in Asia, has now also become the first to install a K1 WST line source system. ...
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J.R. Clancy Showcases Rigging Projects at USITT
The very latest in rigging technology -- from award-winning innovations for a grand opera house to the safest choices for schools -- will be showcased in videos at J. R. Clancy's booth (#730) at the USITT conference in ...
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Artistic Licence Engineering Releases New Spring Products
Artistic Licence Engineering is releasing three new products: DMX-Buffer, Rail-Contact and Rail-Sequence.
DMX-Buffer is an inline DMX and RDM line booster / buffer with a choice of Ethercon or ...
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Stagestep Debuts Super Timestep
Super Timestep flooring, from Stagestep, is billed as offering the flexibility of a Marley-type floor combined with the enhanced durability and wear of Stagestep's traditional Timestep. This multi-purpose studio and tour flooring ...
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SSAV Adds Kristen Salameh
Kristen Salameh has joined the Jacksonville, Florida-based Sight and Sound Productions family of companies, as project coordinator. Her post began in January 2011.
Salameh's brief involves working closely with Sight and ...
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Norwest Productions Expands with L-Acoustics and Lab.gruppen
Norwest Productions, Australia's largest audio service provider, has purchased a 48 L-Acoustics dV-DOSC modular line source array cabinets and 16 SB218 subwoofers which will be put into immediate service, along with their existing ...
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Boston Pops Holiday Season features Lighting from 4Wall NY
In December, 4Wall New York provided lighting equipment to the Boston Pops. Over a period of 19 days in December, the historic symphony orchestra fit in 39 concerts, presenting a huge challenge for Pamela Smith, the ...
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Cincinnati's School for Creative & Performing Arts Installs Robert Juliat Topaze Followspots
The School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in Cincinnati, Ohio has installed four Robert Juliat Topaze followspots in Corbett Hall, its 750-seat auditorium. SCPA offers a comprehensive arts education, with ...
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OSRAM and A&O Technology at the World Alpine Skiing Championships
With the World Skiing Championships, which ran from the February 7-20 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, A&O Technology added another project to its portfolio. Together with Osram, the company filled the night sky ...
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Chroma-Q Color on Welsh Opera's Die Fledermaus
Chroma-Q Color Force LED battens have been specified by UK lighting designer Howard Harrison for the current Welsh National Opera production of Die Fledermaus, which is touring the UK after an initial run at ...
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Video Applications Inks Four-Year GSA Contract
Video Applications, Inc. (VAI), a WorldStage company, has secured the General Service Administration's coveted advertising and integrated marketing solutions (AIMS 541) contract. As a preferred vendor of high ...
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Hippotizer at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards
This year's prime-time Academy Awards®-- featuring a production design by Steve Bass-- combined a look of vintage scenery and film clips with futuristic time travel, all accomplished by technical sleight of hand. In the ...
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Reed Rigging Joins XLNT CyberHoist's North America Network
XLNT Advanced Technologies announces an addition to its North America XLNT CyberHoist rental network. Chicago based Reed Rigging, the largest show rigging company in the Midwest, has taken delivery of its first rental ...
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Cooper Controls Launches Remote Android App
Cooper Controls announces the launch of an Android version of its ZerOS Remote application.
The new app adds to the company's existing suite of Apple iPhone, iPod, iPad and Windows Mobile applications. ...
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TOMCAT Holds 18th Annual Truss, Hoist, and Rigging Workshops
TOMCAT reports that its 18th annual truss, hoist, and rigging workshops were a great learning experience for more than 60 students who came from across North America to receive training on truss, chain hoists, rigging, fall ...
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Bandit Lites Adds Video Curtains to Inventory
Bandit Lites has added the Clay Paky Mirage LED curtain to the inventory. Mirage is an innovative semi-transparent LED display with video technology, which may be used indoors or outdoors. It is a see-through display, with ...
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WorxAudio Technologies at Ministry of Technology Expo
WorxAudio Technologies, a manufacturer of loudspeaker systems for the pro touring and install markets, will participate in the upcoming Ministry of Technology Expo, to be held March 25-26 at Faith Assembly of God in ...
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Avlex Corporation Releases New Wideband Wireless Microphone Systems
Avlex Corporation introduces MIPRO ACT-7 Series wideband wireless microphone systems. Consisting of the MIPRO ACT-717a single channel, ACT-727a dual channel, and ACT-747a quad channel UHF receivers, the ACT-7Ta wideband UHF body ...
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Liberty AV Solutions Launches Installer's Choice BTN Racks
Offered in four different heights and depths -- all featuring a black, textured powder coat finish -- Installer's Choice BTN Series rack enclosures, from Liberty AV Solutions, are built with open sides to provide quick and easy ...
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Katy Templeman-Holmes Joins Studer
Katy Templeman-Holmes has joined Soundcraft Studer as product manager responsible for the Studer OnAir product line and radio broadcast market, plus brand development in the USA and joins the Harman Mixer Group's ...
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Shure Chooses BC Electronic Sales For Central US
Shure Incorporated has selected BC Electronic Sales, of Shawnee, Kansas, to represent its products in the central United States. The company will be responsible for sales of Shure's complete line of professional ...
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J Sound Services Specifies Yamaha and EtherSound for Ovation-Produced Event
J Sound Services, of Nashville, recently designed a complete audio system for event planner Ovation, hired by the National Wild Turkey Federation for a corporate event featuring a concert by Trace Atkins, The ...
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Entec at Stationers Hall, London
West London based sound and lighting specialist Entec reports that its sound department has completed a specialist d&b audiotechnik sound installation at one of London's most significant historical landmarks, Stationers ...
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APB Console Steers at Navy Pier
The Navy Pier Ballroom in Chicago, home to corporate events, trade shows, and large, high-profile meetings, has purchased an APB-Dynasonics Spectra T console to handle sound mixing duties. The board is configured with 48 ...
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The Compass Church Selects K-array Loudspeakers
The Compass Church -- a 3,000-member, multi-site church located in the Chicago suburbs -- selected K-array KR200S loudspeakers to reinforce the live sound of its worship services. The speakers are used in the church's new ...
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Beloved L.A. Chapel Gets an Audio Makeover with Iconyx
Completed in 1955, Loyola Marymount University's Sacred Heart Chapel has been a part of the Los Angeles coastline for more than a half century. It's a majestic space, a basilica-style church spanning some 26,000 sq. ft. and ...
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Creative Stage Lighting Now Avolites Exclusive United States Distributor
Creative Stage Lighting and Avolites have reached a distribution agreement. Creative Stage Lighting has been appointed the exclusive wholesale distributor of Avolites products in the United States and within Canada on a non ...
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Main Light Introduces the LED-Powered LightStar Fiber Optic Illuminator
Main Light Industries introduces the LED-powered LightStar fiber optic illuminator, part of DiCon Lighting's FiberLamp product line. LightStar uses a LED light engine comprised of red, green, blue, and white LEDs for a broad ...
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F35 WQXGA Projector Now Shipping from projectiondesign
The world's first 2,560 x 1,600 WQXGA resolution DLP projector is now available from projectiondesign.
"projectiondesign is known to be first with introducing the industry's most innovative products, and our F35 wqxga ...
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APB Hires Oppenheimer
APB-DynaSonics has appointed Eric Oppenheimer as US sales manager for its brand of professional audio mixing consoles. Oppenheimer, who will report to company vice president Chuck Augustowski, will oversee the APB ...
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New Avid VENUE IO16 Option Card Enhances Live Sound Mixing and Routing Flexibility
Avid has announced the general availability of its new VENUE IO16 option card for the VENUE SC48. This optional analog and digital I/O expansion card enhances workflow flexibility and mixing options by enabling customers to ...
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Lighware USA's New Website Goes Live
Lightware U.S.A. has unveiled its expanded new website at www.LightwareUSA.com. Completely redesigned from the ground up, the streamlined website is easy to read and navigate; many new features provide users with more in-depth ...
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Audinate and Red Rocks Audio Announce Collaboration
Audinate and Red Rocks Audio SL have entered into an agreement to incorporate Dante technology as the default digital networking solution for all Red Rocks Audio future products and designs. The first of these ...
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GoVision Screens Brave the Elements at 2011 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic
GoVision braved the elements at the 2011 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic, held February 20 at Calgary's McMahon Stadium, with bone-chilling temperatures in the single digits.
GoVision was hired by BaAM ...
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EAW Loudspeakers at White House's Motown Black History Month Celebration
On February 24, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama marked Black History Month at the White House with a celebration of Motown music. The event took place in the East Room at the White ...
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New Four-Star Yafour Hotel Comes Alive With SGM
Owned by Hamsho Group International, the four star Yafour Hotel and Resort, located in the nature reserve region of Yafour, outside Damascus, Syria, offers ring a large number of upmarket family facilities and corporate ...
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Meyer Sound D-Mitri on the Soldier of Orange
Soldier of Orange, a new Dutch musical, marks, literally, a revolution in musical theatre. The entire audience of over 1,100 --seated on a turntable 108' across -- revolves laterally during the performance, making more than 30 ...
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Scharff Weisberg Supplies Big Apple Circus's New Multipurpose Entrance Tent
For the Big Apple Circus's recent production, Dance Off, Scharff Weisberg provided lighting, audio and video equipment for a new, multipurpose entrance tent in Lincoln Center Plaza's Damrosch Park. ...
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L-ACOUSTICS at Chicago Auto Show
Since its debut in 1901, the Chicago Auto Show has grown into North America's largest automobile exhibition. As to be expected, many of the major car manufacturers were present at McCormick Place this February to show off their ...
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Jands Vista Byron at Sydney Festival Swing Event
For four nights only, the Sydney Festival transformed Sydney, Australia's town hall into swing-dancing heaven, featuring a huge dance floor, a floor show, and sizzling swing music played by thee all-girl Sirens Big Band. ...
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Expanded Seminar Program Unveiled for PLASA Focus
Visitors to PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011, which takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday April 19-20 at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, UK, are invited to take part in an expanded series of seminars presented by some of the ...
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Green Hippo Develops HippoDoctor
Green Hippo's Hippotizer software Version 3.0.14 and above includes several new components to assist with technical support and troubleshooting of Hippotizer media servers. HippoDoctor is a component that identifies and reports ...
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Doug Mekanik Joins A.C.T Lighting in Tech Support
A.C.T Lighting has expanded its team with the addition of Doug Mekanik as a technical support specialist. In his new role, Mekanik will support the entire range of A.C.T Lighting products, including MA Lighting, Clay ...
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Jason Perry Joins Altman Rentals as Rental Sales Agent
Altman Rentals has added Jason Perry as a rental sales agent to its staff. "We are very happy to have Jason join our team," says Randy Altman, owner of Altman Rentals. "His focus will be working with our growing ...
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Top Event Industry Executives to Speak at Event Live Expo 2011 in Los Angeles
Event Live Expo, located at the Los Angeles Convention Center April 12-14 reports that it will feature some of the live event industry's most influential executives as conference speakers. ...
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Theatre in Review: Timon of Athens (The Public Theater)
Sometimes I think Shakespeare's problem plays aren't so problematic after all. Take Measure for Measure: For decades, if not centuries, it was dismissed as a tangle of ill-fitting plot developments -- until the culture wars of the ...
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Avolites Gets Set for Prolight + Sound 2011
Exhibiting its growing range of stage lighting control products, Avolites will introduce the Sapphire Touch control console and previews Titan V5 at Prolight + Sound, April 7-9 in Frankfurt. Also in place will be the ...
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Lift Turn Move and COW Lifting Technology (COW) Join Forces at Prolight + Sound 2011
Lift Turn Move Ltd (LTM) will once exhibit with its German partners COW Lifting Technology (COW) at Prolight + Sound in April.
COW Lifting Technology will show the C-Force range of electric chain hoists, winches and ...
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CAD Audio Sponsors SynAudCon
As part of a continuing effort to educate its customers, CAD Audio will become a sponsor for SynAudCon (Synergistic Audio Concepts), hose mission is "to establish a baseline of audio and acoustic understanding for audio ...
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Sennheiser and Neumann at the Grammy Awards
"Music's Biggest Night" was a big one also for users of Sennheiser microphones and personal monitors, who went into the 53rd annual Grammy Awards presentation at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 13 ...
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Adamson's New Cyprus Installation Hosts Adamson and Lab.gruppen Training Seminar
Prosonic Audio Lights Ld, based in Nicosia, Cyprus, has installed a new Adamson system in a newly built club, where the company recently held a two-day workshop dedicated to existing and new customers, with an opportunity to ...
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Robe on Portuguese Idolos
Lighting designer Mário Bastos used a moving light rig comprising 50 Robe ROBIN 600 moving lights for the latest series of Idolos (Pop Idol) in Portugal.
Bastos was both lighting designer and director of ...
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HSL on BBC TV's Don't Scare the Hare
Blackburn, UK-based lighting rental company HSL has supplied equipment to the first BBC TV show to be produced at the new Media City complex and studios in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester. ...
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PLASA Announces Agreement to Support Educational Stream at ENTECH 2011
Organizers of ENTECH, the Australian trade show, have confirmed an agreement with PLASA. ENTECH 2011, which takes place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre on July 19-21, will now include a new stream in ...
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Scenex Lighting Launches LED Base4 Truss Toner
The LED Base 4 from Scenex Lighting, a new line from German Lighting Products, uses twelve 3W tri-color RGB LED's, with a 10-degree beam angle in a fixture which has been designed specifically to internally light truss ...
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Clear-Com to Launch HME DX210 Wireless Intercom System at Prolight + Sound 2011
Clear-Com will launch the HME DX210 to the European live performance market at Prolight + Sound 2011 (Stand 8.0 L71). Clear-Com will demonstrate the HME DX210, along with HME DX100, HME DX121, and HME DX300ES. With ...
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Morpheus Lights Appoints Keith Bennett as National Sales Consultant
Morpheus Lights has added Keith Bennett as national sales consultant. In his new role, Bennett will be responsible for the sale of Morpheus' proprietary products, as well as energy-efficient arc lamp modules and ballasts ...
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Audio Industry Leaders Gather for the Fourth Annual Grammy Week Gala at The Village Recording Studios, LA
On Wednesday, February 9, The Recording Academy Producers and Engineers Wing kicked off Grammy week with its 10th anniversary celebration event titled "Shaken Rattled & Rolled," honoring legendary producer T Bone Burnett< ...
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Texas Scenic Company Installs Inline Rigging at James Madison University
Texas Scenic Company (TSC) has completed a stage equipment installation at the Forbes Center for Performing Arts at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
For this new 183,000-sq.-ft. center, Theat ...
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Home of the Värmland Opera gears up for Ring Cycle with Stage Technologies
Sweden's 120-year-old Karlstad Theatre is home to the Värmland Opera, which was founded in 1975. The company produces high-quality operatic, musical, and orchestral performances, as well as school productions as part of a ...
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Gand Concert Sound Gives NEXO NX4x4 Amp the Go-ahead
Gand Concert Sound (GCS), and sister division Gand Sound Installations, of Glenview, Illinois, have completed rigorous real-world testing on the new NEXO NX4x4 amp. Results have proven the product to be as good as ...
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Pete's Big TVs/Performance Video Supplies Production to Elvis Presley in Concert
All eyes turned to the stage as the familiar "theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey" heralded The King. Elvis was indeed in the building -- but on video.
For two days in February, Elvis Presley came alive. Pete's ...
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Soundcraft Vi1 Digital Mixing Console Chosen by Norway's Rainbow Events AS
Rainbow Events AS, a Norwegian production company that coordinates concert tours for major national and international artists, recently added a Soundcraft Vi1 digital mixing console to its inventory. With capabilities to ...
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Clay Paky at the Youth Olympic Games, Singapore
The fun began in August 2010 at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore. The event brought together young Olympic hopefuls aged 14 to 18 years old from 204 countries competing in 26 events. ...
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JBL VerTec 4886 a Success at Australia's Equitana 2010
Equitana, held in Australia, is the most anticipated annual equine event of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting over 50,000 visitors per event. It is three days of everything equine, featuring horses, Olympic ...
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Danley Speakers and Subs Reinvent Grace Fellowship Church
For years, the congregants of Grace Fellowship Church in Florence, Kentucky endured the shortcomings of a sound reinforcement system. Finally, they consulted 30-year veteran house of worship systems designer Curt Taipale, ...
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