David DeCarolis and Yichen Zhou employ Fuze MAX moving heads in lighting design for three student-produced plays on annual theatre festival. In partnership with dry-hire rental house Main Light, Elation Professional provided Fuze MAX series moving head luminaires to David Geffen School of Drama at Yale for use on the school’s annual Carlotta Festival, which showcases plays written, directed, acted and designed by students. The Carlotta Festival features three fully produced new plays by graduating playwrights performed in rotating repertory. The plays presented in this year’s festival, which ran May 5–12 at the Iseman Theatre, included littleboy/littleman by Rudi Goblen…
Author: James Robertson
One development starting to impact our industry in a post-COVID-19 world is the growing commitment to training at a grassroots level. In response to this Martin Audio’s complete systems, software and control have been touring selective universities in spring 2023. The idea was the brainchild of Martin Audio Product Support Engineer, Paul Connaughton, who proposed the move shortly after joining the company 18 months ago. “Everyone agreed it was a good idea, especially after the pandemic where we saw a huge drop in numbers with regard to skilled workers, crew and suppliers,” he said. “It is extremely important that we…
Metallica has continued to break new ground with the dynamic, in-the-round production for the global, two-year M72 World Tour that recently kicked off in Europe. Throughout the tour, the band’s sound is immersing the entire audience — at full bandwidth across a broad stereo landscape — through a Meyer Sound system comprising a record 288 PANTHER large-format linear line array loudspeakers. For decades Metallica concerts have been known for technical and artistic innovation, and once again the band and long-time creative director Dan Braun have moved beyond the old paradigms. Two concerts will be presented at every tour stop, with…
ADJ has launched the new Focus Spot 7Z automated luminaire. Offering an impressive output of 20,000 Lumens, this feature-packed moving head spot is capable of producing spot and wash effects. It’s extensive collection of integrated beam-shaping tools include full CMY + CTO color mixing; an animation wheel; motorized zoom, focus and iris; as well as two rotating GOBO wheels, two rotating prisms, and two frost filters. The Focus Spot 7Z is the latest addition to ADJ’s extensive Focus Series of LED-powered moving head fixtures, which all offer carefully curated feature sets, robust build quality, and excellent value for money. Powered…
The HOF team continues to grow and has gained another event technology expert in Lars Noske. Lars will work as Product Manager, and will reinforce HOF‘s product development and product management team. Lars has been working in the event technology industry for many years and is already very familiar with HOF’s portfolio. www.h-of.de/produkte/veranstaltungstechnik/traversen
At InfoComm 2023 HARMAN Professional Solutions will be showcasing products released since InfoComm 2022, including HARMAN Professional product announcements from this year’s Integrated Systems Europe show in Barcelona. With two activations at InfoComm Orlando for HARMAN Professional, Booth #4443 and audio demo room #W222B, featured products will include a wide range of new-to-show solutions, including new additions to the JBL VTX Series, the JBL SRX900, the JBL PRX900, powerful indoor and outdoor lights from Martin, and the next generation of controllers and processors from AMX. Live audio demos will be conducted during the following times: – Tuesday, June 11: 11:00am-12:00pm;…
Funktion-One has partnered with Gearlounge as the loudspeaker manufacturer’s exclusive distributor for Korea. The collaboration represents an important step for both companies as they work together to bring Funktion-One sound to more audiences through a range of applications, while supporting Gearlounge’s objective of re-shaping Korea’s music and audio industry landscape. Since its inception in 2006, Gearlounge has rapidly established itself as an innovator through an unwavering commitment to meeting the technological needs of music makers and their audiences. At the core of the company’s values is the creation of an infrastructure that empowers musicians to access and utilise world class…
Founded in May 2003, Global Motion has become one of the live event production industry’s most respected touring vendors. Since its inception, the company has remained independently owned and run. After surviving the Covid-19 pandemic, the company began its 20th year with two of the world’s biggest tours; Ed Sheeran’s Mathematics, and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres. Supplying Air, Sea and Road Freight Services, Freight Charters, Hand Carry, Storage and ATA Carnets, Global Motion has today worked with some of the biggest names in rock n roll alongside some of the music industry’s most exciting up-and-coming talent. From its offices…
d&b audiotechnik has appointed Christian Orcin to the position of Territory Manager for EMEA. His new responsibilities include overseeing all sales, support and marketing operations in the region and developing new business opportunities. Orcin joined d&b in 2019 as General Manager for Spain and Portugal and has since reinforced the company’s leadership in the Spanish mobile/rental and fixed installation markets, while also taking on the management of d&b’s Italian and French subsidiaries. Orcin will now focus on strengthening the foundations of the EMEA subsidiary and distribution markets whilst driving growth across the broader EMEA territory. “d&b is a great company…
Production Futures is an initiative created to provide opportunities for young people to learn, train, network, and develop real careers in production across every area of the live events, music, touring, festival, theatre, TV, broadcast and film industries. At its most recent On Tour roadshow event in Manchester, which was opened by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, Chief Executive Hannah Eakins announced the expansion of the Production Futures Breakthrough Talent Awards to better reflect the wide range of roles and skill sets required across the production industry. These rely heavily on transferable skills such as computer science, architecture, engineering and…
Brompton Technology, LED video processing company, will be exhibiting its latest solutions at InfoComm in Orlando, Florida, 14-16th June. Located on booth 761 within the Digital Signage Pavilion, Brompton will demo groundbreaking technology including its next-generation Tessera G1 receiver card and its new TrueLight technology. “We’re thrilled to be returning to InfoComm, one of the biggest destinations in the U.S. to showcase innovations for LED processing,” shared Cesar Caceres, Product Lead at Brompton Technology. “This year we are proud to show our new next-generation solutions – the G1 receiver card and TrueLight. We created the G1 as a platform to…
The creatives behind the stage design for Scotty McCreery’s current 31-city North American Damn Strait tour have achieved the balance of creating big, bold, dynamic looks on stage, while still meeting practical considerations by creating an eye-popping show night after night with a rig that fits in a single trailer. Helping them make this happen is a design that cleverly uses rolling carts and upstage downlighting, along with well-placed specials to enlarge looks, along with a potent, yet compact, lighting rig that features 24 CHAUVET Professional Rogue fixtures, owned by the former American Idol winner. “The big thing about this…
Yamaha Corporation has unvieled STAGEPAS 100, its new ultra-compact portable PA system. Delivering high quality sound and the ultimate in portability in a durable, stylish design, STAGEPAS 100 can instantly transform any space into an intimate concert venue. STAGEPAS 100 expands Yamaha’s new family of compact portable PAs, joining the STAGEPAS 200, which was launched earlier this year. The mission for Yamaha designers was to help performers turn almost any location into a small live stage. To achieve this, they had to strike the perfect balance between high end sound and ultimate portability. By incorporating technologies from Yamaha’s state-of-the-art professional…
Sam Smith recently embarked on a 75-date tour across four continents in support of their latest chart-topping album, Gloria. Joining Smith on the seven-month-long Gloria The Tour is veteran front-of-house engineer Jim Ebdon behind a Solid State Logic Live L650 mixing console with THE BUS+ compressor and Fusion analogue multi-processor in his outboard rack. Ebdon, who started his career over 30 years ago as a studio engineer in the U.K. and whose extensive résumé includes tours with, among many others, Maroon 5, Matchbox Twenty, Aerosmith, The Weeknd and, most recently, Justin Bieber, is no stranger to working on SSL Live…
DirectOut, a leading provider of audio solutions, is pleased to announce the introduction of the MILAN.IO module for their popular PRODIGY Series of converters and processors. This new module, which supports up to 128 audio channels at 1FS, marks DirectOut’s entry into the AVB/MILAN* community after joining the AVNU Alliance. The MILAN.IO module features two redundant gigabit network interfaces with RJ45 or SFP options, managed via an internal AVB switch. With a sample rate range from 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz, it offers exceptional flexibility. Additionally, the module supports an optional HD SRC technology, enabling state-of-the-art sample rate conversion and…
Working for TBI Media via Production Box, IPS were onsite in Liverpool providing a series of structures for a National Lottery hosted event that kicked off the 67th Eurovision Song Contest. The event took place in front of St George’s Hall with a live audience of 25,000 people. The Big Eurovision Welcome was recorded for TV, and broadcast as part of the main contest show content. High profile performers included Frankie Goes to Hollywood who re-united for their first public appearance in 36 years, as well as Lightning Seeds, Atomic Kitten, the Real Thing, Jamie Webster, Eurovision legend Conchita Wurst…
Renowned American metalcore band The Ghost Inside has concluded their highly anticipated European tour, marking their first bus tour in the region since a tragic accident they faced back in 2015. Spanning over a month, the tour revolved around the Impericon Festivals, with an exhilarating week of shows in the United Kingdom followed by a series of sold-out performances in Germany alongside acts including Bury Tomorrow, Thy Art Is Murder, Sondaschule, and Future Palace. Front of House engineer Bryan Greenberg chose to work with an Allen & Heath dLive system to ensure The Ghost Inside’s electrifying performances would captivate audiences…
Riedel Communications has appointed Marion Dimayuga to the position of General Manager of the company’s Southeast Asia (SEA) region. Reporting to Guillaume Mauffrey, sales director Asia-Pacific, Dimayuga will primarily oversee the sales and profit of the Singapore sales unit, including support of key accounts, contract negotiations, and business generation for current channels and new clients in related segments. Additionally, he will determine and monitor the division’s key performance indicators, implement subgoals based on corporate planning by executing specific and detailed measures, and work closely with other divisions and sales units to put findings from the relevant markets and competitive analysis…
