News Archive - July 2015

Registration and Hotel Bookings Open Early for the 2016 NAMM Show

Badge registration and hotel bookings are now open for NAMM members planning to attend the 2016 NAMM Show. This year's earlier opening offers NAMM members time to prepare for their trip to Anaheim, January 21 - 24, 2016. ...

PreSonus Hardware and Software Compatible with Windows 10

PreSonus has confirmed that all of its current software and hardware products with the latest firmware are compatible with Windows 10, including 64-bit and 32-bit versions. This includes Studio One 3, Notion 5, StudioLive AI mixers, ...

Matt Earnest, Thomas Fo, Deanna Francl, James Grady, Richard Hebert, Chris Russell to speak at TEA SATE 2015

The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) announces six sessions and speakers for TEA's SATE 2015 conference, Sept 17 - 18 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. More speakers and program information will be released ...

Clear-Com's New Agent-IC Mobile App Ships in Time for IBC 2015

Clear-Com, a manufacturer of wired, wireless, and IP communication solution, announces that the company is now shipping Agent-IC, a new mobile app that enables users of Eclipse-HX (EHX) Matrix intercom systems to remote access from ...

Schertler Group Rolls Out New Business Model for North America

Following a very successful six-month run in Europe, the Schertler Group of companies (Schertler SA, SR Technology, and Velvet Strings) rolls out a new business model in North America. From August, customers can try and buy product ...

PR Lighting Set to Take Full Advantage of PALM Expo 2015

PR Lighting will again present a dynamic display at the 24th annual PALM Expo in Beijing August 19 - 22.
A number of new effects -- some of which are being previewed for the first time -- will dominate the China ...

Grundorf Corporation Adds Goldsmith Sales and Marketing as Manufacturers Rep

Grundorf Corporation, a manufacturer of equipment for musicians and audio professionals and parent company of loudspeaker manufacturer Grund Audio Design, announces the addition of Maple Valley, Washington-based Goldsmith ...

Fall Out Boy Tour Falls into Place with DiGiCo

One of the hottest tours out this year is The Boys of Zummer Tour that pairs rockers Fall Out Boy with rapper Wiz Khalifa, an alchemy that's been drawing raves for a genres cross-pollination that Billboard called "a night of ...

NYC Central Park Christian Music Concert Chooses K-array

NY CityFest, a region-wide initiative focused on helping churches saturate their neighborhoods with the good news of Jesus Christ through regional gatherings and evangelistic outreaches, teamed up with Luis Palau and dozens of other ...

The Philips Strand Lighting NEO is the Perfect Choice for Pompton Lakes

In a lakeside New Jersey community, Pompton Lakes High School prides itself in providing opportunities to meet the needs of a diverse student population. With an award-winning fine arts program, the high school recently underwent a ...

San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre Relies on Lectrosonics for A Little Night Music

Hailed as "one of the great musicals of the latter part of the 20th century" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music recently wrapped after an extended run at the American ...

Meyer Sound is System of Choice for 2015 Tony Awards' Best Musical and Best Play

The 2015 Tony Award winners for Best Musical and Best Play, Fun Home and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, both rely on Meyer Sound systems to carry their stories to audiences. The aural experience for ...

Engineer Jon Garber Uses Waves MultiRack and DiGiGrid MGO to Run Waves Plugins on Tour with The Band Perry

Live front-of-house engineer Jon Garber (The Band Perry, Rascal Flatts, Brad Paisley, Brian McComas, Julie Roberts) uses DiGiGrid MGO and Waves MultiRack to run Waves plugins on tour with The Band Perry. ...

New York's Latest Irish Sports Bar Scores with Symetrix

Bounding off the success of its midtown location, upscale gastro-pub and sports bar Stout opened a second location in Manhattan's financial district. Dubbed Stout FiDi, the new establishment operates out of a 6,000-sq.-ft. space and ...

Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash to Give Opening Keynote Speech at AES139 Convention in New York City

The AES announces that Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, will give the opening keynote speech at this year's 139th AES International Convention in New York City. Known for his groundbreaking work in ...

LynTec Names Dan Nguyen as New VP of Engineering

LynTec, a manufacturer of customized electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems, announces that Dan Nguyen will serve as the company's new vice president of engineering. Nguyen was ...

The Villalobos Brothers Celebrate the Richness of Mexican Folk Music with DPA Microphones

Finding a microphone to amplify an acoustic instrument, such as a violin or guitar, is never easy. But, when The Villalobos Brothers, one of today's hottest contemporary Mexican ensembles, headed out on tour, they knew that was just what ...

Chroma-Q Color Force LED Battens Provide Premium Performance for Full Circle Lighting Atlanta's Clients

Chroma-Q Color Force premium performance LED battens have been added to the inventory of Atlanta-based Full Circle Lighting & Productions, to meet high demand from the company's many discerning lighting designer, rental, and ...

Waves Set to Stream Third Episode of Everything Audio, "The New Business of Music," on Friday, July 31

Waves Audio, a provider of digital signal processing software and hardware solutions, announces that its third episode of web program Everything Audio will stream on it's website, waves.com, on July 31, 2015. With new ...

Okulus Backs GLP X4 for New Zac Brown Band Tour

British creative lighting company, Okulus, has been appointed show and production designers for Zac Brown Band's Jekyll + Hyde 2015 North American stadium tour.
They were offered the role after James Scott had worked ...

Brothers Gow Adds Rogue R1 Spots from Chauvet to Its Well-Traveled Rig

The 15-passenger van that Brothers Gow rolls with has logged a lot of miles of late, as the much-in-demand jam band has been playing to packed houses from San Diego to Seattle on its current Bring The Heat tour in support of its ...

West Park Celebrates Anniversary with Martin Audio

Drummer Boy Sound Productions, a division of Design South Florida, recently supported the West Park, Florida's 10th anniversary celebration concert with a Martin Audio W8LM loudspeaker system. ...

The National Geographic Channel Uses PixelFLEX to Create Futuristic Environments

Working with production company Variable and design studio Meptik, the lightweight, flexible PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain was selected for an application beyond traditional video use in a commercial for the National ...

Southeast Christian Church Simplifies RF Coordination with Radio Active Designs Wireless Intercoms

Louisville, Kentucky-based Southeast Christian Church, one of the largest mega-churches in the country, recently installed a new wireless intercom system from Radio Active Designs (RAD).
The new UV-1G base station and five RAD ...

Avolites Consoles and Servers Light Up Glastonbury

Avolites' lighting and video control solutions provided an integral part of this year's Glastonbury Festival, with representation on sites including the Pyramid Stage, Other Stage, John Peel Stage, Silver Hayes, and the mighty ...

Clay Paky Strobe is "Storming" Success on Snowbombing

One of the latest additions to the Clay Paky product line, the Stormy CC strobe, proved a huge hit with the lighting designers as it made its debut on Austria's high-altitude music festival Snowbombing this April. ...

Theatre in Review: Antigona (Noche Flamenca/West Park Presbyterian Church)

Spanish dance meets Greek tragedy in Antigona, a flamenco retelling of the Antigone story. This is not the tightly focused ethical debate of Sophocles's drama or Jean Anouilh's modern adaptation; instead, in Martin ...

Legendary Sound Engineer Mike Wolf Joins Staff of Sound Advantage Inc.

Mike Wolf, a veteran sound engineer who helped Clair Brothers build a worldwide reputation among bands from Bon Jovi to Elton John, and staged events for popes and presidents, has joined the staff of Sound Advantage, an audio ...

OCA Micro Unveiled; Bosch and d&b audiotechnik Launch New OCA-Enabled Product

At the recent InfoComm 2015 exhibition in Orlando, the OCA Alliance exhibited its "OCA MicroDemo," a "demonstration product" to prove that OCA -- a common remote control and monitoring language for digital audio networks -- ...

Stagelight AG Switzerland is the First to Experience the Magic of Merlin from Robert Juliat

Stagelight AG of Switzerland has been celebrating the receipt of the very first Robert Juliat Merlin followspots to roll off the production line. Merlin is Robert Juliat's new 2,500W HMI sturdy followspot designed ...

AV Stumpfl Brings Multimedia Control and Screens to Rental & Staging Roadshow

Just one day to go until the Rental & Staging Roadshow on Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at Metropolitan Pavilion, in New York City. AV Stumpfl will be exhibiting and showing the entire range of high-performance multimedia and ...

Aviom Ships the D400 and D400-Dante A-Net Distributors

Aviom announces that its new D400 and D400-Dante A-Net Distributors are now shipping in the US and worldwide. The D400 and D400-Dante A-Net Distributors are designed to distribute power and digital audio data to an Aviom personal ...

New Pro Audio Sales Manager Appointed at beyerdynamic Inc.

beyerdynamic Inc. announces the hire of Parker Bradley as the new pro audio sales manager. He will handle all pro audio sales in the United States while based in Austin, Texas. Bradley will report to Alan Feckanin, ...

Eiki International Promotes Steve Rubery to National Sales Manager

Eiki International, Inc. a provider of projection technology for over 40 years, announces the promotion of Steve Rubery to the position of national sales manager. Possessing 11 years of experience with Eiki in his former ...

WorldStage Hires Braden Gillum as Lead Draftsperson

WorldStage recently hired Braden Gillum as lead draftsperson. Gillum will be located at WorldStage's New Jersey facility and will be responsible for most of the engineering documentation the company produces to support its ...

60,000 Get the Message in Naples with Outline

During one of his recent pastoral visits nearer to "home," globetrotting Pope Francis celebrated mass before a congregation of approximately 60,000 in Naples' Piazza del Plebiscito. The event was also followed by crowds on nine mega ...

Søren Storm to Head Up Asia and Pacific Sales for GLP

GLP announces the appointment of lighting industry veteran, Søren Storm, as the company's new sales director for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.
Storm, who has worked in the industry for the last 18 years, both for Martin ...

Robe Rocks 2015 CMT Awards with Over 250 Fixtures

Tom Kenny is used to designing amazing, eye-catching light shows for high profile TV events and loves a good challenge, so he reports making the 2015 Country Music Television (CMT Music) Awards in Bridgestone Arena, Nashville ...

Clay Paky Illuminates the FC Barcelona Celebrations

Clay Paky's latest Mythos and A.leda BEYE K20 units, supplied by the rental company Arcoiris, gave color and light to Spain's FC Barcelona's celebrations for their second soccer title this year. ...

Theatre in Review: Three Days to See (Transport Group)

Jack Cummings III, the author, needs to have a few sharp words with Jack Cummings III, the director. Cummings, the possessor of a fine theatrical imagination, has done excellent work with many playwrights but, just now, he is ...

PLASA's Members' Choice Product Awards at LDI2015

Nominations are now being accepted for PLASA's Members' Choice Product Awards held during LDI2015. These awards, voted on by all PLASA members attending the LDI2015 show, recognize outstanding new entertainment technology ...

A.C.T Lighting Opens New, Larger Distribution Facility in Burbank

A.C.T Lighting, Inc., an importer and distributor of lighting products, has moved to a new larger, full-service facility at 2313 N. Valley Street, Burbank, California. The 17,000-sq.-ft. distribution warehouse opens July 27. ...

Mega-Lite Introduces the Drama FS-LED 700

The Drama FS-LED 700 by Mega-Lite is a powerful follow spot LED fixture with a single source 350W LED, producing outputs comparable to a 700W lamp or brighter. Faders and buttons are located directly on the back of the fixture to ...

Loud Welcomes Larry Pendergrass as New SVP of Engineering

Loud Technologies announces the appointment of Larry Pendergrass to the position of senior vice president of engineering of the music gear group.
Pendergrass brings more than 30 years of experience in the high tech ...

German Distributor Mega Audio Becomes SSL Live Partner

Solid State Logic, a manufacturer of advanced technology for creative audio professionals, announces that Mega Audio , the noted German pro audio distributor, has added the SSL Live range of consoles as their new distribution ...

GLP impression X4 Stars on Eurovision's Big Stage

Some 140 GLP impression X4 series fixtures were out in force at this year's Eurovision Song Contest (ESC 2015) which took place at the 16,000 capacity Wiener Stadthalle in Austria.
Experienced TV lighting director (an ...

d3 Enhances Creative Staging of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at London's Royal Opera House

When the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden recently staged Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, software and media servers from d3 Technologies played a key role in the complex video mapping required for the new ...

The Show Goes On as GDS ArcSystem Takes a Bow at The Brindley

The Brindley is a theatre and arts center located in Runcorn, Cheshire UK, on the banks of the River Mersey and is the main center for arts and entertainment for the borough of Halton which covers the twin towns of Runcorn and Widnes. It ...

Elation Cuepix Panels "X"ceptional on Fito & Fitipaldis

Over a 25-year musical career, Fito Cabrales has played to fans across the Spanish-speaking world and now his popular rock band Fito & Fitipaldis is out on the road again in support of their latest album Huyendo conmigo de mi. ...

Triple Bill of DiGiCo Desks Perform at Ordway Center's New Concert Hall

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota inaugurated its new Concert Hall in March 2015 with a month-long grand opening celebration, Rock the Ordway, which featured an eclectic selection of music. Built at a cost of ...

A Haven for Robe

Robe MiniMe and LEDBeam 100 fixtures are proving a perfect choice to help bring the atmosphere alive at Haven in South Beach, Miami, a trendy eatery, lounge, and nightclub known for its eye-catching video wall, cool music, onyx bar, ...

Herbert Grönemeyer Gets Some Wigenuis

Engineering and automation specialist WIcreations designed and built the six moving video pods which are the major structural element of the current German rock star, Herbert Grönemeyer tour, which features another innovative and ...

Theatre in Review: Summer Shorts Series A (59E59)

The focus is on the ladies in the first entry in this valuable summer festival of one-acts. Two of the three offerings feature very tricky male-female encounters and in both cases the woman drives the agenda. The third is an elegant, and ...

Early Registration Pricing Ends July 31 for AES139 International Convention in New York City

"If it's about audio, it's at AES," and the deadline for early registration is rapidly approaching for the biggest audio event of the year -- the 139th AES International Convention in New York City, this October 29 - November 1, at ...

Mega-Lite Unveils the Robo Baby Q70

Mega Lite's new Robo Baby Q70 is a compact automated fixture housing seven 8W LEDs. Inspired from the Baby Color Q70, the Robo Baby Q70 adds movement to its list of capabilities. This moving head wash fixture has 25-degree lenses ...

Heidi Bowers Becomes ETC Southwest Regional Sales Manager

ETC's Heidi Bowers has just been named the company's new regional sales manager for the southwestern United States. In this new role, she'll oversee sales in the region and work closely with ETC representatives and dealers to ...

Elite Multimedia Invests in Robe

Nashville-based rental and production specialist Elite Multimedia has made its first Robe purchase. Twenty CycFX 8 fixtures are going out on country star Luke Bryan's new tour as specified by lighting designer Justin ...

Christie Lites Reports Strong Chicago Office

At the mid-year mark, Christie Lites reports a busy and successful 2015 for its new Chicago rental office, which officially opened in January. The full-service, 50,000-sq.-ft. warehouse, in the suburb of Woodridge, Illinois, marks ...

Barco Brings Laser Projection Technology Beyond Cinema to Rental and Staging

Visualization technology provider Barco will be represented at the NewBay Media Rental Staging Roadshow by Bill Beck "The Laser Guy," who will discuss the role of laser-illuminated projection for large entertainment ...

Morris Light & Sound Outfits CMA Music Festival Stages

The CMA Music Festival in Nashville has become the city's premier tourism event and a critical artist development tool for the country music industry. Held over four days in mid-June, Morris Light & Sound of Nashville, supplied ...

Harman Martin Professional's Lighting Fixtures Streamline the 2015 FIRST Championship Events and Concert

The 2015 FIRST Championship pitted 900 international youth teams against each other in an exciting, weekend-long event at the end of April. Using robots they had designed, built and programmed themselves, each team competed in a series of ...

Avolites ART2000 Dimmers Control 792 Par Can Rig for Kanye West at Glastonbury

American rapper Kanye West's headline gig at this year's Glastonbury Festival has gone viral due to the 792-strong par can rig controlled by 16 Avolites ART2000 48 way 16A dimmers and two Avolites Power Cubes. ...

SGM's X-5s and P-5s Add Vibrancy to Melodifestivalen (SE)

Melodifestivalen is Sweden's national contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest, where their winner candidate is found. For the stage setup, lighting designer, Fredrik Jönsson implemented both SGM X-5 strobes and P-5 ...

Kinetic Lighting Brightens LA's Independence Day Party with Chauvet Professional Next NXT-1

If Los Angeles had a town square it would be Grand Park, 12 beautifully manicured acres in the middle of America's second largest city, where Angelenos gather to celebrate festivals and special occasions. Not surprisingly, thousands of ...

Acoutech Adds to Winning Formula at Billboard Latin Music Awards with Harman JBL and Crown

For the 14th consecutive year, Acoutech of Miami provided a sound reinforcement system featuring Harman's Soundcraft Vi3000 digital consoles, JBL VerTec line arrays, and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers for the Bill ...

TMB "Pro" Products Enhance Glastonbury Headliner Show

Florence + the Machine's "infectious enthusiasm" at Glastonbury 2015 was enhanced by an elegant stage set with powerful, tasty lighting by lighting designer Rob Sinclair. To complement Florence's dramatic and eccentric music (how ...

Theatre in Review: Amazing Grace (Nederlander Theatre)

The action of Amazing Grace includes slave auctions, abductions, espionage, whippings, murders, various betrayals, an ocean-going battle, an underwater rescue, and a storm at sea. The question is: How can all of it be so dull ...

Pointman Lifting Products Announce Summer Road Trip

The newest name in the lifting world is hitting the road this summer, stopping at numerous locations around the US to give people a chance to get their hands on the full line of electric chain hoists and learn more about what they have to ...

AV Stumpfl Announces Wings Engine Raw

Pushing the limits of what can be achieved in video playback, Austria's AV Stumpfl introduces the world's first triple-stream 4K uncompressed media server, Wings Engine Raw.
"With Wings Engine Raw, we've delivered on user ...

Harman Martin Professional's JEM ZR Series of Fog Machines Now Shipping

Harman's Martin Professional announces that its series of JEM ZR fog machines are now shipping.
JEM ZR is a family of powerful fog machines designed to deliver superior and uninterrupted performance in demanding professional ...

Rose Brand and IATSE Local One Pair Up Again for Annual Rigging and Products Seminar

The Fourth Annual Rigging and Products Seminar was well received by attendees who gave positive reviews at the end of the day-long training seminar.
Born from the relationship between Rose Brand and IATSE Local One, the ...

Robe BMFLs and Pointes Camp It Up for Summer

Lighting designer Preston Hoffman created a dynamic and flexible production lighting design for the 2015 Summer Camp Festival staged at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois. His stage, the Moonshine Stage, was based primarily ...

Vivid Festival in Sydney with Clay Paky Lights

Vivid Sydney is the largest festival of light, music, and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere and this year, Pyrmont's harborside has been transformed into a buzzing multi-sensory, engaging zone where attendees control the entertainment. ...

Chauvet Professional Nexus Aw 7x7 Creates LED Guitar Cabinets on Chase Rice Tour

Lighting designers often like to talk about how they capture music in light, but Chris Lisle has taken this concept a step further on the Chase Rice tour. The well-known Nashville lighting designer, who has created standout work for ...

iLive Manages FOH for Classic Quadrophenia at the Royal Albert Hall

Allen & Heath's modular iLive digital mixing system was employed to manage front-of-house for the recent production of Pete Townshend's Classic Quadrophenia, taking place at the Royal Albert Hall in London. ...

WorldStage Supplies Innovative Video Projection System for Broadway Comedy An Act of God

It's An Act of God when The Almighty revamps the Ten Commandments, and WorldStage helps set the celestial scene for the new Broadway comedy starring Jim Parsons at Studio 54 through August 2. ...

DPA Microphones Teaches How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying

Downers Grove North High School (DGN), home to an active theatre-focused student body that hosts various events throughout the academic year, recently kicked off its springtime musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Scott Pearlman Chooses Waves MultiRack and Waves Plugins on the Stone Temple Pilots Tour

Live front-of-house engineer Scott Pearlman (Stone Temple Pilots, Steve Vai, The Cult, Black Label Society) uses Waves MultiRack SoundGrid and Waves plugins on the Stone Temple Pilots tour.
On his earliest work with Waves ...

Stars Dance with BlackTrax, Thanks to Prolight

The very first deployment of BlackTrax real-time motion tracking solution in Poland was achieved with Dancing with the Stars by specialist events supplier Prolight Sp. z o. o. The prime time celebrity ballroom dance ...

Theatre in Review: The New York Story (Cherry Lane Theatre)

Colin Quinn grumpily and often hilariously pays tribute to a vanishing Gotham in The New York Story. Drawing on The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America, which was published last month, ...

PLASA London Reveals Additional Seminars

PLASA London announces a number of exclusive and exciting additions to its 2015 seminar sessions, including two new audio panel sessions chaired by industry journalist Phil Ward, three sessions from audio production power ...

AV Stumpfl FHD Media Player Now Shipping

Instant playback of all current video and audio formats has never been easier thanks to the AV Stumpfl solid-state FHD Player. Now shipping, the compact and rugged FHD Player can be synchronized via Ethernet, externally controlled ...

Alex Safyre Joins the Lex Products North East Sales Team

Lex Products announces that Alex Safyre will be the new northeast territory team inside sales representative. Safyre comes to Lex Products with over 20 years of experience in technical sales and most recently was at VBrick ...

Columbus McKinnon Expands Parts Star Program to Include the CM Hurricane 360

Ordering replacement parts for a CM Hurricane 360, CM Bandit, and other Columbus McKinnon products is now faster, easier, and more economical than ever through the Parts Star program. Launched earlier this year by Columbus McKinnon ...

Audiosure and Chauvet Professional Dazzle Visitors at Mediatech Africa 2015

By any measure, the Mediatech Africa 2015 Advanced Technology trade show was an outstanding success for Audiosure. The South African company drew large appreciative crowds to see its extensive collection of audio and AV ...

GoVision, Dave Campbell's Texas Football Launch Partnership

Several of the world's largest LED screens may currently be found in professional sports venues across the state of Texas. But thanks to a new partnership announced yesterday, high school stadiums throughout the state can now boast the ...

Audix Advertising Wins American Marketing Association Award

Audix and their agency of record, Pivot Group, announce that the company is the recipient of an American Marketing Association (AMA) MAX advertising award. Presented in June by the Portland, Oregon chapter of the AMA, ...

Shure Associate Jay Snyder Named Credit Executive of the Year

Shure director of global credit services, Jay Snyder, has been named the Robert M. Healy Credit Executive of the Year by the National Association of Credit Management (NACM). The award was presented to Snyder by Robe ...

Elation Lighting Again Used to Decorate Multiple Stages at Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas

Hundreds of Elation lighting fixtures were used again this year on Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, North America's largest dance music festival, with the latest incarnation of the electronic rave taking place June 19 - 21 at the ...

RG Jones and Martin Audio MLA Impress Front-of-House Engineers at Glastonbury

For the second year running, RG Jones Sound Engineering deployed Martin Audio's Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) system on Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage, which proved to be a tangible success with front-of-house ...

The Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 Spot Flies High as a SWAT Helicopter Searchlight

On a film shoot, the lighting effects seen are often created out of elements that are not necessarily what the viewer believes them to be. Different tricks can be used to disguise the lighting instruments without any hint of what is ...

Sweden Rock Festival Puts Meyer Sound LEO on Main Stage

For the 2015 Sweden Rock Festival, production manager Pelle Åberg selected a Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system for the main stage to support headliners such as Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, Def ...

Roland Professional A/V Division Offers Support for Dalai Lama 80th Birthday Celebration

On July 4, 2015, a diverse mix of celebrities, admirers, and close friends of His Holiness the Dalai Lama gathered at Rancho Los Lomas in Silverado, California, at a private event to celebrate the exiled religious leader's 80th birthday. ...

Toby Keith Rocks with Midas PRO X

The Midas PRO X digital mixing console is working its magic on country superstar Toby Keith's Good Times & Pickup Lines North American tour. Keith's longtime front-of-house engineer, Dirk Durham has made the switch to ...

Theatre in Review: Threesome (Portland Center Stage and A Contemporary Theatre) (59E59)

In a kind of bizarre, Gregor Mendel-style experiment, Threesome grafts a coarse sex comedy onto an overwrought melodrama about women in the Muslim world. Act I is set in a bedroom where Leila and Rashid, who are lovers, are ...

PLASA London Announces Annual Rigging Conference Line Up

With an eye firmly set on the issues that concern the entertainment technology industry, PLASA is once again hosting the PLASA Rigging Conference alongside its PLASA London event.
Now in its sixth year, this unique ...

Live Sound Expo and Project Studio Expo Take Center Stage at Upcoming 139th AES International Convention

"If it's about audio, it's at AES," and this year's 139th AES International Convention is set to offer up a number of exclusive presentations and events, October 29 - November 1, 2015, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. ...

Grand Stage to Relocate Operations and Host "Grand-est Garage Sale Ever"

Grand Stage announces that after almost 50 years on Lake Street, they are moving into two new locations to better serve their customers. Beginning late this summer, their main operations, including rentals, fabrication, and sewing ...

Matthew Burstein Named Senior Associate of Available Light

Matthew Burstein, a 30-year lighting veteran with extensive experience in theatrical, entertainment, event, and architectural lighting and controls, has been named a senior associate at Available Light. ...

ADJ Launches the Vizi Beam 5RX

Capable of creating stunningly sharp beams in an array of shapes and colors, thanks to its motorized focus, tight beam angle, and glass lens, the ADJ Vizi Beam 5RX builds on the success of its predecessor to offer powerful, fast ...

Portable Control Takes Flight with ETC Eos and Cobalt Programming Wings

ETCnomad users value the portability of their lighting systems, but sometimes the fast-paced production world calls for more than virtual keyboards and X-key controls. Luckily, ETC has a solution waiting in the wings. Enter the new ...

TourPro Makes Debut with Tim McGraw's Shotgun Rider Tour 2015

SHS Global announces that TourPro Lighting will be joining the gear lineup for Tim McGraw's Shotgun Rider tour 2015.
SHS Global provided Nashville's own Premier Global with 40 of the TourPro LED Pars RGBAW ...

Robe Enjoys Mediatech 2015

Robe was right at the center of the buzz at the 2015 Mediatech Africa expo in Johannesburg last week, taking their own stand space for the first time alongside that of distributor DWR, one of South Africa's lighting ...

Nemetschek Vectorworks Employees Volunteer at Renewal & Remembrance Event at Arlington National Cemetery

Global design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., a member of the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), participated in yesterday's Renewal & Remembrance event at Arlington National Cemetery. This ...

New, Responsive Website for Stardraw.com

Stardraw.com announces that the company's new website is now live.
Delivering a brand new look and feel, the new website is almost entirely programmatic. Fully responsive and with dynamic content, the site is optimized for mobile ...

White Light Supports The Mentalists

Last evening, The Mentalists opened at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. Written by Richard Bean, the award-winning writer of the international smash-hit One Man, Two Guvnors, the play stars The Office co ...

Masque Sound Packs Its Stilettos and Heads North for Canadian Premier of Tony-Award-Winning Kinky Boots

When the six-time Tony Award-winning smash hit Kinky Boots recently made its Canadian premiere at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre, Masque Sound, a theatrical sound reinforcement, installation, and design company, danced its ...

Le Mark's David Cartwright Passes Away

It is with the greatest of sadness that Le Mark announces the death of a respected colleague and friend saying: "Not only is this sad news within the company, but also the UK entertainment industry. David Cartwright passed ...

Brilliant Stages Take That Live Tour 2015

The current Take That Live 2015 tour, promoting the band's seventh studio album, III, is the sixth major tour for which Brilliant Stages has constructed custom staging for the eternal boy band since the company first ...

XL Video Creates Live Mapped Projection for Shangri-La Heaven at Glastonbury 2015

Following a successful event at last year's festival, XL Video, working with technical producer, Nick Diacre, has once again produced a significant achievement in 180-degree live mapping for Shangri-La's Heaven Stage at the ...

Robe BMFLs for Vasco Rossi Stadium Tour

Italian superstar Vasco Rossi is currently engaged in his summer Live Kom 15 stadium tour which is completely sold out, and will see the legendary singer play to nearly one million fans, with another stunning lighting and show ...

Avolites Titan Works Like a Dream for Students' Shakespeare Theatrical Production

Technical theatre student Bradley Allen has used an Avolites Titan Mobile armed with the new Titan V9 operating system to light a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the UK's Colchester Institute.

Chroma-Q Color Force Brightens Ambitious Michigan High School Theater Production

Chroma-Q Color Force 12 multi-purpose LED fixtures were recently specified by lighting sales and production company, E2i Design for an ambitious show at Michigan's Brighton High School.
The school's musical theater troupe ...

Robert Juliat Lancelot and Aramis Party in the Netherlands

Robert Juliat's Aramis and Lancelot long-throw models have been out in full force in the Netherlands for two of the country's most exuberant parties.
Lighting designer Martin Beekhuizen used no less than 16 Robert Juliat ...

Showline Delivers Powerful LED Strobing on Romania's Biggest Festival

Showline SL NITRO 510C strobes have made their debut on the third edition of Electric Castle, Romania's biggest music festival, becoming the first LED strobes to be used on the event in its short history. ...

Russian Music Academy Chooses Renkus-Heinz IC Squared

One of the world's oldest and most prestigious music institutions, Moscow, Russia's Gnessen Academy of Music was formed in 1946. Its roots run even deeper, with the original Gnessen Institute founded in February of 1895. The school counts ...

Amphithéâtre Cogeco Opens in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec with Luminex Backbone for AV, Lighting, and Control

It would be hard to find a better place to enjoy an array of cultural activities -- from exclusive performances by Cirque du Soleil to concerts by ZZ Top and leading international blues artists -- than Amphithéâtre Cogeco in Trois ...

University Christian Church Selects WorxAudio

As a nondenominational Christian church, University Christian Church (www.universitychristianchurch.com) offers its congregation a variety of ministries, including Bible school, home fellowship, and children's' and junior and senior high ...

Theatre in Review: Shows for Days (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre)

To play a force of nature, you get a force of nature: In Shows for Days, Patti LuPone, who has excelled at impersonating divas named Evita, Reno, Norma, and Maria -- not to mention a certain furiously determined stage ...

Theatre in Review: Mrs. Smith's Broadway Cat-Tacular (47th Street Theatre)

Like so many theatre people, David Hanbury moonlights. He has a perfectly respectable career as an actor, appearing in Goldoni, Molière, and Shakespeare at the Guthrie, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Trinity Rep. But then there ...

Nominate a "Rising Star" for Theatrical Design Award

USITT is seeking nominations for the 2016 Rising Star Award sponsored by LDI/Live Design. The award honors early career professionals in lighting, sound, scenic, or projection design for outstanding work in one or more ...

NSCA Announces Leadership Changes for 2015 and 2016

The NSCA board of directors has elected a new officer to its executive committee, who assumed his role on July 1, 2015.
Dave Ferlino, regional operations manager at Whitlock, joins the NSCA board of directors ...

Sennheiser Completes Fiscal Year 2014 with Record Sales

The Sennheiser Group presented its annual results for fiscal year 2014 on July 8: compared to the previous year, total sales at the audio specialist rose by 44.3 million euros to 634.8 million euros, representing an increase of ...

WYSIWYG Announces the Availability of R35

Available now, the company says WYSIWYG R35 lighting design software from CAST Software, is more desirable than ever. Increases to the software's performance includes:
• Pulling focus in LIVE mode via DMX is introduced to ensure ...

Chauvet Professional's Rogue RH1 Hybrid a Hit at Bandit

When Albert and Berenice Chauvet gave Bandit chair Michael T. Strickland a personal demo of their newest brainchild, the Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrid early in 2015, little did anyone know it would ...

MonitorMix App for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Enhances Capabilities of Yamaha TF Digital Mixing Consoles

Yamaha announces the availability of the MonitorMix app designed to enhance the capabilities of the company's new TF Series digital mixing consoles.
Available as a free download in the App Store, the MonitorMix app offers ...

Bose RoomMatch Loudspeakers Installed in Las Vegas for Classic Rock Revue "Raiding the Rock Vault"

A RoomMatch loudspeaker system from Bose Professional has been permanently installed in the Tropicana Theater inside The New Tropicana Las Vegas, the home of the noted musical revue Raiding The Rock Vault, which features a ...

Rat Sound Fine-Tuned Music Experience at Coachella with Dante

Rat Sound, a sound reinforcement specialist for the concert touring industry, integrated a Dante audio network from Audinate at this spring's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and consequent Stagecoach Festival. ...

4Wall New York Takes Flight with Mannes School of Music

4Wall New York recently provided equipment to the Mannes School of Music for the New York premiere of Flight, an operatic drama based on the true-life story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived inside the ...

White Light Takes the Stage at Glastonbury Festival

Taking place annually in the last weekend of June, the Glastonbury Festival is one of the biggest music festivals in the world. This year, renowned dance group Michael Clark Company took to the stage and performed over two days at the ...

Australia's Telstra Futureproofs Sydney Headquarters with Lightware 25G Routers

Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia's largest telecom and media company, has installed two Lightware 25G Hybrid routers at its corporate headquarters in Sydney. Lightware USA is the US distributor of products from Lightware ...

ATK Audiotek Keeps Powersoft at the Core of its Audio Systems

Audio manufacturer Powersoft announced that Valencia, California-based ATK Audiotek, a provider of audio production services, has acquired 48 Powersoft K10 DSP+AESOP amplifiers, increasing its arsenal of Powersoft's top class ...

Prague Quadrennial Reports a Threefold Increase More than Attendance in 2011

The Prague Quadrennial, the largest international festival of theatre and performance design in the world, held every four years in the Czech capital, reported the total attendance of its main locations at 180,000 entries during its ...

"Architectural Lighting Design Workshops" Video Now Posted on Nuckolls Fund Website

A comprehensive video summary of highlights from "Architectural Lighting Design Workshops," developed and presented by lighting designer and educator professor Cindy Limauro, has been posted to the website of The Nuckolls Fund ...

AKG by Harman Partners with burn Residency DJ Competition for Next Generation of Electronic Music Artists

In continued support of electronic music artists and their millions of fans around the globe, AKG by Harman has joined forces with burn Residency to offer the next generation of top DJs the very best in headphone fidelity and ...

Neutrik Introduces New USB 3.0 Feedthrough Adapters

Neutrik USA, the supplier of robust and reliable professional connectivity solutions for audio, video, and data, builds upon the success of its USB 2.0 products with the introduction of its new USB 3.0 Feedthrough Adapters. Using a ...

Nico Efthymiadis and Shure Celebrate 45-Year Partnership

This year, the N. Efthymiadis Company is celebrating its 45th year as distributor for Shure Incorporated in Greece. Owner Nico Efthymiadis accepted a special commemorative certificate from Shure president and CEO San ...

Heather Church Joins Wagner Media Las Vegas

Wagner Media has added industry sales veteran Heather Church to the company to lead rental sales in Las Vegas. Church will focus exclusively on the Las Vegas entertainment markets for wholesale rentals of video products. She ...

St. Paul's Girls' School in London Installs UK's First Meyer Sound CAL Column Array System

In the Great Hall of St. Paul's Girls' School in London, two new Meyer Sound CAL 64 column array loudspeakers provide vibrant and life-like reproduction for speech, live music performances, and video soundtracks. Custom-colored to ...

d3 Technologies' Creative Software Helps Projection Map Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes for FILUX 2015

Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes showcased a new kind of fine art when its façade served as the backdrop for "Fragments," a seven-minute 3D projection mapping staged for FILUX 2015, the Festival Internacional de las Luces. Laszlo ...

Robert Juliat Follows Take That on the Live 2015 Tour

Top international pop artists, Take That, are currently promoting their seventh studio album, III, on their Live 2015 tour with seven Robert Juliat followspots playing major roles in highlighting the artists and the ...

Capital Sound Successfully Deploys Martin Audio MLA Again for BST Hyde Park

For the third consecutive year, Capital Sound's MLA PA system from Martin Audio was on duty at the 10-day Barclaycard British Summer Time Festival in Hyde Park -- to meet both the onsite and offsite requirements of promoters < ...

Gerriets Designs Unique Curtain System at Pérez Art Museum Miami

An innovative curtain system created by Gerriets transforms Pérez Art Museum Miami's grand staircase into sound-absorbent and light-blocking auditoriums -- and redefines "state-of-the-art" for acoustical curtain systems. Thanks to ...

New Beginnings DFW Church Converts a Cineplex into a Contemporary Worship Center with Danley

In response to tremendous growth, New Beginnings DFW Church in Bedford, Texas purchased a former ten-screen Cineplex and converted it to a stunning sanctuary for contemporary worship. Its high-energy services, complete with a full band and ...

Theatre in Review: Scenes from an Execution (Potomac Theatre Project)

Even if Scenes from an Execution was a far less interesting production it would now be mandatory viewing, given the fact that Jan Maxwell -- one of the finest actresses now working on the New York stage -- has recently ...

PLASA Announces the Suspension of Focus Events in North America for 2016

Following the completion of the 2015 cycle of PLASA Focus events in Orlando and Kansas City, a full review was undertaken to ascertain the progress and success of the PLASA events produced in the North American market over the last ...

Tickets for the Behind the Scenes Happy Hour, Hosted by PLASA, Now on Sale

The Behind the Scenes Happy Hour, hosted by PLASA, are now on sale to the public. The biggest pre-LDI party of the year will take place on Thursday, October 22, from 6:00 - 8:00pm at the Westgate Las Vegas. Tickets are $60 ...

AES Announces Sponsors for 59th International Conference, on Sound Reinforcement Engineering and Technology

The AES 59th International Conference, with an emphasis on sound reinforcement engineering and technology, will take place July 15 - 17, 2015, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. This is the first AES International Conference ...

Pro Sound Effects Releases New York City Ambisonics Library

Pro Sound Effects, the Next Level sound effects library, announces its newest library -- NYC Ambisonics -- is available now for pre-order. When previewed in April at NAB 2015, the press dubbed it "the future of sound effects ...

CAD Ships New CADLive High Performance Mics

CAD Audio is shipping the second series of CADLive vocal and instrument microphones as part of an ongoing expansion of the company's popular mic line.
Ideal for miking electric guitar amps and cabinets, drums, brass, and strings, ...

Bandit Lites Promotes Steve Powell and Mark Steinwachs

The company says Bandit Lites always strives for unparalleled service, and with the recent promotions of Steve Powell to rentals manager and Mark Steinwachs to general manager, Bandit clients "will continue to receive ...

Evolve Media Group First to Order Analog Way's New VIO 4K

Analog Way, a designer and manufacturer of high-end presentation switchers and image converters, announces that Evolve Media Group has officially become the first American company to purchase the new VIO 4K (Ref.V701). ...

Audio-Technica Honors Online Marketing with Samurai Award

Audio-Technica, a manufacturer of wired and wireless microphones, headphones, and accessory products for over 50 years, has recognized Wadsworth, Ohio-based Online Marketing with its Samurai Award for the 2014/2015 fiscal ...

Community Welcomes Meyer Marketing as Florida Sales Representative

Meyer Marketing is an award-winning independent sales representative firm based in Wellington, Florida. Celebrating its 30th year in business in 2015, the firm prides itself on serving both the integrators and consultants in its ...

The Grateful Dead Bids Fare Thee Well at Levi's Stadium with Meyer Sound LEO

Fifty years after forming their band at a Palo Alto, California, music store, the surviving founders of the Grateful Dead kicked off their end-of-an-era Fare Thee Well mini-tour at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California with a ...

Chauvet Professional Lights 27 Heads of State at Seventh Summit of the Americas

There is no room for error when you're responsible for lighting a conference that involves 27 heads of state and five foreign ministers; includes dignitaries from the United Nations and Organization of American States; and is covered by ...

Shania Twain Sets Out to Rock This Country on Farewell Tour Featuring Clay Paky and grandMA

Her farewell tour is called Rock This Country, and country icon Shania Twain is doing just that as she bids good-bye to her fans from coast to coast. More than 300 Clay Paky lighting fixtures and two MA Lighting ...

Theatre in Review: Awake and Sing! (NAATCO/The Public Theater)

It's time once again for a visit with the Berger family, the embattled Bronx clan caught in the stark, soul-killing vise of the Great Depression; this particular get-together is a little bit different, however, as the family of first- and ...

USITT Unveils Redesigned Website: usitt.org

Visitors to www.usitt.org will find a new, improved USITT website, the company says, redesigned for easier access to USITT's resources, programs, and growing backstage community. ...

Prolight + Sound Announces Details of 2016 Show

With around nine months still to go, numerous key players from all segments of the event industry have already signed up for the next edition of Prolight + Sound at Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre from April 5 - 8, 2016. They ...

Knight of Illumination Awards 2015 Main Sponsors Announced

The Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) 2015 announces the main sponsors of this year's prestigious event.
The Awards, which celebrates the creative talents of international lighting and digital content designers working in the ...

Mega-Lite Launches the Outshine T100

Mega-Lite releases the Outshine T100, a custom US made, outdoor rated color-changing LED fixture. The Outshine T100 is equipped with a 100W RGB single-source point LED, creating a smooth and powerful wash, the company says. ...

Radio Active Designs Presents Range of Accessories for UV-1G Wireless Intercom System

Radio Active Designs announces a range of new accessories for the recently introduced UV-1G wireless intercom system. The intercom system is equipped with a range of proprietary technologies, including belt packs (RAD packs) that ...

Community's Exclusive BalancePoint Flyware for I SERIES Loudspeakers

I SERIES is an innovative family of high-performance, arrayable loudspeakers with matching-height subwoofers. By combining I SERIES with Community's exclusive BalancePoint Flyware, system designers can implement complex solutions ...

BroadWeigh Appoints Paradigm Rigging as Technical Partner for Wireless Load Monitoring Technology

UK instrumentation specialist Mantracourt Electronics> announces the appointment of Paradigm Rigging as technical partner for the supply of its BroadWeigh wireless load monitoring equipment to the Canadian and US ...

Burst Appoints Steven Fitzgerald VP Sales

Burst, a full service, professional sound and lighting company based in Detroit, has named Steven Fitzgerald to the newly created position of vice president of sales. The announcement was made by Scott Ciungan, owner ...

EIKI International Debuts 8,000 ANSI Lumen EIP-UHS100 DLP Projector

Eiki International, Inc. announces the new EIP-UHS100 single chip DLP projector with 8,000 ANSI Lumen brightness and a 2400:1 contrast ratio. Featuring a native WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution that is compatible with inputs up to ...

Ayrton MagicDot-R Makes its US Debut at Rock in Rio

Ayrton MagicDot-R, one of the latest products from French LED lighting manufacturer, Ayrton, made its US debut with Bruno Mars at Rock In Rio Las Vegas in May. Lighting designer Cory FitzGerald of Seven Design Works< ...

W-DMX at the Valdivia Boat Parade in Chile

W-DMX by Wireless Solution Sweden AB recently set sail with W-DMX distributor Iluminacion Profesional VALOOK SA. based in Santiago, Chile. The Valdivia boat parade takes place annually in the south of Chile to celebrate the ...

Theatre in Review: Significant Other (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)

Talk about being up-to-the-minute: Even as the Supreme Court was preparing to hand down its landmark decision about marriage equality, Roundabout opened Significant Other, a play that, in its own oddball way, is a kind of theatrical ...

Theatre in Review: Judith: A Parting from the Body/Vinegar Tom (Potomac Theatre Project)

Potomac Theatre Project kicks off its season with a two-part meditation on women, history, and power, by the company's two favorite playwrights. This is not a double bill calculated to make new fans of Howard Barker or Caryl ...

Barbizon Lighting Welcomes Nicholas Cohen as General Manager for Barbizon Florida

The Barbizon Lighting Company welcomes Nicholas Cohen as the new general manager responsible for the daily management and leadership for the company's Florida operations.
From his early days working as a recording engineer ...

ADJ Goes Back to the Future with the Startec Series

Celebrating 30 years by returning to its roots, ADJ has brought its Startec Series of budget-conscious party fixtures back to life; releasing three new effects that offer a modern twist on some old classics. Ideal for bands, party ...

Tree of Life Installation Blooms with d3 at Universal Exposition in Milan

A timeless design motif combines with 21st century technology in the Tree of Life at the Universal Exposition 2015 in Milan, May 1 to October 31. The interactive installation -- a linear tree-like structure of wood and steel that climbs ...

Bette Midler Doesn't Need Divine Intervention to Sound Great with L-Acoustics

On her first tour since 1994, Bette Midler is still keeping it larger than life. The Divine Intervention tour, which began May 8 at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood and finishes up July 19 at the O2 Arena in London, UK, brings 14 ...

Colour Sound Experiments at Glastonbury 2015

West London-based lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and visuals equipment to some of the coolest, dynamic 2015 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts ... including ...

Kansas Star Upgrades Arena Audio with Community

As part of the Kansas Star Casino, and located just south of Wichita, the Kansas Star Arena is a multipurpose auditorium that hosts conventions, concerts, rodeos, MMA fights and other events.
The 3,400-seat arena, which opened in 2013, ...

Martin Audio MLA Controls Sound at Gottwood Festival

Gottwood Electronic and Music Festival -- an intimate boutique event set in an idyllic Welsh forest on the isle of Anglesey -- has been running since 2010. It prides itself on presenting a DJ line up of "rising stars and established ...

Stockholm Stadsteater Purchases BMFL Blades

Stockholm's Stadsteater, a prestigious venue in the Swedish capital, has confirmed an order for 12 BMFL Blades ... which will be added to a growing inventory of Robe moving lights in the house. ...

JDI Productions Calls on Chauvet Professional for Air Supply Show

Countless people who came of age in the '80s dated, fell in love, and got married to the accompaniment of the sweet, angelically vocalized melodies of Air Supply. Australia's most famous musical duo became synonymous with the era's soft ...

Redeemer Church Leans on Ashly

Twenty years after its founding by a handful of dedicated families, Redeemer Church celebrated the completion of a brand new 16,000-plus square-foot sanctuary, fellowship hall, and classroom complex in its hometown of Riverview, Florida, a ...

Radio Active Designs on Site for Freightliner Truck Launch at Hoover Dam

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) recently debuted their new Freightliner Inspiration Truck at a spectacular event at Hoover Dam attended by several hundred international news media, trucking industry analysts, and officials. ...

FBT Used in Savannah's Newest Hotspot

They say seeing is believing, but Brad Gibson of Capital A Productions will say that they're all wrong; to him, it's all about hearing. Just last month, the president and CEO of Capital A Productions says they ...

PR Lighting Supports One of the Largest Stadium Tours in Germany

German electro-pop band, Glasperlenspiel, recently completed one of the biggest stadium tours in Germany.
Forming part of the lighting design by Lukas Goldberg and Michael Holstein for these venues were six powerful Beam ...

FSR's DV-MFMV-74 DV PRO Scaling Switcher Wins InfoComm 2015 Best of Show from SVC

FSR has announced that its DV-MFMV-74 DV PRO Scaling Switcher, launched at InfoComm 2015 last June in Orlando, Florida, has received a Best of Show Award from Sound & Video Contractor. ...

LD Manny Newman and Chauvet DJ Light Up Electron at Brooklyn Bowl

There are few really hot nightspots that pull together so many diverse elements as New York's Brooklyn Bowl. After all, how many structures combine some edgy urban architectural elements with a real-live bowling alley? Or serve up a ...

Elation Lights DJ Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance 700 in Mumbai, India

Dutch trance music DJ and producer Armin van Buuren's radio show A State of Trance (ASOT) has been going strong since 2001 and its 700th episode on June 6th was celebrated in style with a huge live show in Mumbai, India, lit by El ...

Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 Series Takes Spain by Storm on EES Roadshow

The latest additions to the Philips Vari-Lite product line, the VL4000 Spot and VL4000 BeamWash, have been demonstrated in four of Spain's major cities as part of exclusive Philips Vari-Lite distributor for Spain Entertainment ...

d&b audiotechnik Announces Hans-Peter Nüdling as New Chief Sales Officer

d&b audiotechnik is enhancing its senior management team by appointing Hans-Peter Nüdling as chief sales officer. Effective July 20, 2015, Nüdling will be responsible for global sales and services, bringing over 25 years of ...

iLive Installed in New Outdoor Theatre in China

Allen & Heath's iLive digital system has been installed as the front-of-house mixer in the central theatre at the New Yuanming Palace of Zhuhai. A reproduction of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, which was destroyed in 1860, the ...

Illinois State University Upgrades Braden Auditorium with EAW KF740 Line Arrays