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  Amateur Meterology Must Become A Thing Of The Past, Safety Experts Warn Live Event Producers
A dramatic shift in weather that's producing an unprecedented surge in pop-up thunderstorms, superstorms, and tornadoes is challenging live event producers to completely re-think their approach to real-time weather forecasting. Fortunately ...
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Kinesys Has Busy and Successful First Prolight + Sound Exhibition
UK automation specialist Kinesys reports a busy and successful first Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.
The manufacturer -- which enjoyed substantial growth in 2013 -- launched two important new products at the show, which ...
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Robe For Rose Bruford Concert Lighting Project
Robe teamed up with lighting designer / director Dave "Bickie" Lee to make the latest moving light technology available for "The Concert Lighting Project," a practical module being taken by students on the lighting design ...
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Adamson Systems Adds Atmosphere To The Chapel's Green Campus
The Chapel, located in Akron, Ohio, added another campus to its rapidly expanding church in 2003. Since then, the Green Campus, located in Green, Ohio, has become a staple of the community.
The original sanctuary sound reinforcement ...
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Solotech Selects Shure Axient and PSM 1000 Systems for Timberlake Tour
Justin Timberlake has again selected Montreal's Solotech as the audio provider for his 20/20 Experience world tour. To ensure the tour's success, the sound company has in turn designated Shure as its primary wireless ...
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Austin's High End Systems Hog 4 Controls Olympic Opening Ceremonies
The elaborate three-hour opening ceremony that unveiled the 2014 Winter Olympics Games in Sochi, Russia was a breathtaking marriage of art, history, patriotism, and technology. The opening ceremony's 18 chapters necessitated the use of ...
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The Clay Paky Sharpy Earns Its Strypes
Rock-and-roll's young sensation, The Strypes, performed to London's packed our Shepherds Bush Empire alongside the punchy sweep of the Clay Paky Sharpy.
The gig, which was to be the first professionally lit show of the band's ...
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Clay Paky Spotlights Illuminate Doltone House
Clay Paky distributor for Australia, Show Technology, has supplied 14 Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300s to luxury venue Doltone House in Sydney's Hyde Park.
Situated on level three of the Tattersalls Club, the Doltone House venue ...
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Robe For Brazilian Summer Festival Main Stage
Almost 100 Robe moving lights were utilized by rental company Luzbel Iluminação for the Main Stage of the 16th Festival de Verão (Summer Festival) in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, Brazil.
The event pulled in more than 120,000 ...
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USITT to Launch Spark Innovation Symposium in September 2014
The United States Institute for Theatre Technology used its 2014 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Fort Worth to launch a new annual event to spark innovations in entertainment technology. The first Spark entertainment innovation ...
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Major Donation to USITT Spurs Research
USITT's ability to fund cutting-edge research took a huge step forward on March 26 when Novella Smith and Robert Gerlach made a $20,000 donation to the Edward Kook Fund.
The gifts, announced at USITT's Annual Meeting in ...
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Harman's Martin Professional M6 Lighting Console Wins Inaugural PIPA Award for Best Lighting Controller
Underscoring Harman Martin Professional's position as a leading provider of dynamic lighting solutions for entertainment production, the Martin M6 lighting console was awarded the first ever Prolight + Sound International Press ...
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ARC-Productions First Belgian Company To Back MLA Platform
Belgian pro audio and lighting specialists ARC-Productions have confirmed the purchase of 16-enclosure Martin Audio MLA Compact and Mini PA rigs, the first company in that country to do so.
Based near Ghent in Flanders, ...
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AT&T Stadium to Be Transformed into NCAA Men's Final Four 2014 Basketball Arena
Minneapolis staging manufacturer Staging Concepts will partner with The Colonnade Group, an entertainment and sports production company, to transform AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas into a fully functioning basketball arena ...
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PixelFLEX LED Curtain Reaches New Heights Thanks to Custom Hardware on Casting Crowns' Thrive Tour
When a music artist has big ideas for a tour, it's up to the guys behind the scenes to bring that vision to life. Casting Crowns' production manager, Carter Hassebroek, and lighting designer Chris Lighthall worked with Pete ...
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TNDV Captures Creative Energy of Amnesty International Show at Barclays Center
TNDV has had a busy mobile production schedule through the first quarter of 2014, with Amnesty International's Bring Human Rights Home Concert last month standing out as its most unique project. The event, which took place at ...
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Robe for Rudimental
Lighting designer Jonny Gaskell chose Robe moving lights to be right at the center of his design for the latest UK leg of BRIT Award-winning band Rudimental's ongoing tour.
Gaskell has been working with the band since 2013. ...
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Robe Gets Its Rizzle Kicks On Tour
Speed was at the essence of the all-Robe moving light rig specified by lighting designer Paul "Smiffy" Smith for the latest UK tour by lively hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, with gear supplied by High Wycombe based rental company
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A Brief Encounter with ETC
Late 2013 saw Kneehigh Theatre's production of Noel Cowards Brief Encounter tour the country for three months. Production for the tour was provided by the Adelaide-based Novatech Creative Event Technology, who worked closely ...
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Brazil's EPTV Outfits OB Van with Grass Valley Solutions for Coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Brazil's Empresa Paulista de Televisão (EPTV), part of the commercial network TV Globo, replaced its SD OB van with a brand-new HD OB van equipped with a scalable Grass Valley live production solution for HD coverage of major ...
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