Ayrton has appointed Pro-AVL as its new, exclusive distributor for Vietnam. Founded in 2011 by Le Manh Thang, Pro-AVL is the exclusive distributor for many leading brands of sound and lighting in the Vietnamese market. This well-established company also consults, designs, supplies and installs goods, and provides after-sales service for their customers across leading theatres, television companies, event centres and entertainment complexes, and rental and event companies. Ayrton products are well known and well respected by Pro-AVL which was part of the reason behind the new agreement. “For a long time, Ayrton has been a well-known quality brand used by…
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LANG has invested in Brompton Technology Tessera LED video processors which complement LANG’s stock of VENUS and JUPITER LED panels for high-quality and high resolution applications. “Our goal with VENUS and JUPITER has always been to set a benchmark in the LED market,” explains Manuel Müller, Director Rental at LANG. “With this in mind, two of the things next to resolution that were most important to us were usability and brightness, with Brompton’s leading Tessera LED processors serving a perfect match for those key requirements.” Thanks to Brompton’s revolutionary Dynamic Calibration technology, the LANG team, together with Absen, were able…
The Voice is the world’s most successful casting and music show. In Thailand, too, the format is enjoying enduring popularity. For the eighth season of The Voice of Thailand, the show’s lighting designers used Cameo spotlights for the first time. More than 180 moving lights, spotlights and LED bars were used in the studio and live shows in Bangkok. The lighting solutions were supplied by Cameo’s Thai distributor, L&E Lighting & Equipment PCL. “Cameo is a relative newcomer to the Thai event technology market,” explained Arocha Kittivittayakul, Product Manager at L&E. “We are therefore all the more pleased that those…
Solotech announces its move to a new and improved space in Las Vegas, Nevada, to support its continued growth. Whether it’s for gambling, a wedding, a celebration, taking in a show, or going on a desert adventure, one thing is sure: Las Vegas knows how to make an impression… and so does Solotech! That’s why it was a natural choice to move into a state-of-the-art, 80,000-square-feet facility in this iconic city. From this strategic location, the company will be able to efficiently serve the entire West Coast, including the dynamic cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Jason Rauhoff, Operations…
Summer festivals are always full of surprises for anyone working in production, and not all of them have to do with unpredictable weather. Set to light Rolling Loud’s high-profile Snipes Stage where Money Man, Big30, Sleazyworld Go, and Curren$y (who helped start the hip-hop bash back in 2015) would be performing, Abbas Ritscher expected to have spot lights for front lights but that was not an option. Undeterred, Ritscher and his team at The Design Oasis, grabbed 12 extra CHAUVET Professional Maverick Storm 1 Wash fixtures from their inventory and hung them “as far down the stage as we could,”…
ADJ has announced the immediate availability in Europe of the new Encore FR Pro WW, which is designed to be used for key, fill or back lighting duties in all kinds of theatrical applications. This LED-powered Fresnel fixture features a potent 200-watt warm white light engine and a host of professional features, including a high CRI, motorized zoom, 4-leaf rotating barn doors, manual dimmer and zoom rotary dials, as well as full DMX control. Designed for a wide variety of theatrical applications, the Encore FR Pro WW is a versatile wash lighting fixture with a soft-edged beam that is ideal…
It’s been a busy year for lighting and production designer Chris Lisle and his company CLLD. The production design firm recently wrapped up work on Lollapalooza, their sixth major event back to back, and turned to an Elation rig, including Proteus series IP65 luminaires, to light the festival’s popular Perry’s Stage. “Weather is one of the biggest factors we face on a festival and if I can predominately get IP65 fixtures in a rig I have a better guarantee that they’ll be working day after day,” Lisle stated. But, he adds, it’s not all about the IP rating. “I also…
The Montréal International Jazz Festival roared back to life in 2022, reinforcing its distinction as the largest jazz festival in the world. With 350 concerts scheduled over 10 days — two-thirds of them free — the festival once again drew audiences numbering in the hundreds of thousands to downtown Montréal, where AVL supplier Solotech had equipped eight indoor and outdoor stages — including the Scène TD main stage — with Meyer Sound reinforcement systems. The exotic blend of performances by global acts earned rave press reviews, in particular for the closing act, The Roots, at Scène TD. “The Roots demonstrated…
More than 3,000 different acts, both local and global, representing a wide range of music genres, performed at 14 different city squares at Gentse Feesten for over 10 days during July 2022. Helping Ghent glitter throughout the festival while also supporting the artists on stage was an impressive collection of CHAUVET Professional fixtures and video panels, including the new Color STRIKE M. At the main stage on Sint-Baafsplein, the Euro P.A. team put together a power-packed rig that featured eight Color STRIKE M fixtures and eight STRIKE 1 blinders, as well as 24 Maverick MK2 Wash and 16 Maverick MK2…
Riedel Communications is restructuring its EMEA sales and system consulting team architecture to support their ongoing growth in the EMEA region. While sales will be reorganised in six larger regional units, system consulting will form a dedicated EMEA unit led by experienced systems engineer Ilona Valent. “Building on our strong development of recent years, we want to sharpen our focus on the specific requirements for each country and region. So now is the right time to transfer our experienced EMEA sales and system consulting team into a new strategic structure with corresponding responsibilities,” said Jens Miedek, Executive Director Global Sales at…
British musical prodigy Jacob Collier’s eagerly awaited Djesse world tour kicked off in April 2022, giving fans the opportunity to see the acclaimed singer-songwriter perform live for the first time since 2019. On the tour, which visits Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia throughout 2022, Collier is accompanied by a six-piece band of world-class musicians, and, with interactive lighting, extensive improvisation, and audience involvement, no two shows are the same. “Gone are the days of being able to come in and use a house desk, this gig has too many moving parts,” explains Ben Bloomberg, Production Director and Show/Music Systems…
On 5 June 2022, the NRJ Music Tour kicked off in Belgium. On the stage, the INFiLED AR series screens were presenting dynamic visuals to match the music, bringing an ultimate audio-visual feast to the audience. NRJ Music Tour is the largest and most anticipated free music event in Belgium. This year, it was held at the WEX event space in Marche-en-Famenne, gathering together pop musicians and bands from all over Europe and attracting 6,000 fans. Before the event, Audio+, an audiovisual specialist from Belgium, contacted INFiLED to discuss display solutions capable of presenting the stage effects required by the…
Long-standing Martin Audio rental partner, SWG Events, has upgraded its pro audio inventory with the acquisition of 24 of the large format Wavefront Precision WPL enclosures. These form part of a Martin Audio package, along with 12 SXH218 subs and 24 XE500 floor monitors. Powering the WPL in 2-box resolution are Martin Audio iKON iK42 process-controlled, multi-channel amplifiers, part of an order for 17 iK42’s, which will also be assigned to the XE500. Stated SWG Events’ Head of Audio, Simon Purse, “Everything came along at the right time, with me joining the company [from Martin Audio]. This coincided with SWG…
The main stage of Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival featured a house lighting rig that comprised an impressive assortment of fixtures, amongst which were Martin Professional’s all-LED MAC Ultra Wash, MAC Ultra Performance and MAC Aura PXL. Set within the city’s Glasgow Green on 6th-10th July, TRNSMT had a line-up including Paolo Nutini, Lewis Capaldi, The Strokes, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Wolf Alice and Sam Fender. Adlib supplied the house lighting rig, further complemented by the headliners’ touring lighting packages. The house lighting design was by Adlib’s Andy Green and in-house project management was by Mike Blundell. A total of 24 Martin…
Absen’s versatile, high-performance Polaris series of rental LED displays supplies visual flair for the recent NWG Innovation Festival, which returned to Newcastle Racecourse (UK) earlier this month after a two-year hiatus. Organised by Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), the 2022 NWG Innovation Festival featured live music, comedy, tech demos and wellbeing events, as well as design sprints, hacks, workshops and activities aimed at solving difficult problems around topics such as climate change, cyber-security and water scarcity. The theme for this year’s festival, which took place from 12 to 15 July, was ‘Untapped Potential’ and focused on bringing together untapped talent from…
Void Acoustics embraced the energy of their first major presence at Glastonbury on the 50th Anniversary edition of the world-famous festival. Glastonbury’s long-awaited return to this year’s summer calendar saw the addition of two new stages in the iconic, and ever-popular Silver Hayes area of the festival. One of these new stages was the Lonely Hearts Club – an exciting, and visually arresting addition to this club-goers paradise. It was from the art deco styled Lonely Hearts Club stage that Void Acoustics made an impressive visual and sonic impact in this part of Glastonbury throughout the long festival weekend. NSL…
Like some ancient deity of the underworld, Quintillian Speakers are shrouded in mystery. Even readers engrossed in the Vaxis 2 story, from which they sprang, know little about this ancient race of beings, other than that they are made of energy, and can turn up anywhere even at this summer’s Coheed and Cambria tour across North America. The band’s frontman Claudio Sanchez conjured up these enigmatic entities as part of The Amory Wars, an ongoing series of science fiction comic books and novels he created. His imaginative vision is brought to life on the group’s current tour, not just through…
Former TAG Director Trevor Johnson has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of travel management company Equinox Travel – a specialist in travel for music and entertainment. Having held various senior positions at The Appointment Group (TAG) and ET Travel Ltd, Johnson is a transformational leadership expert with 30 years’ experience in travel management for clients in live touring, film and TV production, corporate, bespoke leisure, and more. Most recently, he was TAG’s Managing Director for the UK Touring and Film & Media divisions, after establishing steady regional growth in the North West as MD for the company’s Manchester operation. Trevor…
