Tupac Martir brings holographic, immersive art to life for James Lavelle’s Beyond The Road at the Saatchi Gallery. The Saatchi Gallery is hosting Beyond The Road, a fully immersive exhibition and independent project developed by Punchdrunk creatives Colin Nightingale (creative producer) and Stephen Dobbie (sound designer and creative director). Presented by Beyond Projects in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, Beyond The Road merges the worlds of visual arts, music and film, and offers visitors a chance to leave behind their modern day lives and lose themselves in a multi-sensory world led by sound. Collaborating with world-renowned and award-winning contemporary artists,…
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Tamworth headquartered TechPro, provider of lighting, video and sound services for the live events industry has promoted Henry Pratt to the role of Project Co-Ordinator, to help meet growing demand for the firm’s specialist services. Committed to helping develop the careers of all its people, TechPro recognised the former Returns Technician had both the attitude and enthusiasm to be successful in a more senior position, with greater responsibility. Senior Project Manager Adam Taylor commented: “In his new role, Henry will primarily support our Project Managers with all aspects of the department’s work, ensuring flawless delivery of live events for our…
Andreas Modschiedler named new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Adam Hall Group as of June 1, 2019. In the newly created management position, the 46-year-old will strengthen the executive board and be responsible for IT and Research & Development (R&D). The step sees the event technology solutions manufacturer, the Adam Hall Group, dovetail its customer-driven R&D activities with a more intensive digitalization strategy. Since stepping into the role of Head of IT & Digital in December 2016, Andreas Modschiedler has led the IT department and stewarded the progressive digitalization of in-house business processes. In his new role as CTO,…
In a landmark move, Kinesys has joined the TAIT group of companies. The combination yields unmatched capabilities in automation and show control and creates exciting opportunities for existing and future customers of both companies. Since 1978, TAIT (formerly known as TAIT Towers) has been a global provider of creative, engineering, and automation services to the live entertainment industry. At the core of TAIT’s technology offering is TAIT Navigator, a proprietary automation and show control platform capable of controlling machinery, lighting, audio, pyro, fountains, and other special effects yielding unparalleled ability to create dynamic live environments. Similarly, for 16 years Kinesys’…
Calgary, Alberta based PK Sound supplied the massive 225,000-watt rig to help music producer and DJ Jeff Abel, aka Excision create an immersive, multi-sensory musical experience at even the largest venues on his latest U.S tour, including Chicago’s Navy Pier and the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia where PK Sound’s Trinity Advanced Robotic Line Arrays played a vital role in making both shows a success, marking yet another high point in a long line of Excision tours powered by PK Sound. PK Sound’s partnership with the artist grew out of a friendship between PK Sound CEO Jeremy Bridge — then frequently…
Tappit, the global cashless payment solution, has announced a partnership with the multi-award-winning grass-roots music festival, Leopallooza. The partnership will see Tappit’s cashless solutions rolled out to the festival’s 5,000 attendees and signifies the continued growth and success of Tappit’s UK base. Now in its 13th year, Leopallooza will offer festivalgoers a cashless experience with spending tied to their personal RFID wristband. Attendees using Tappit’s cashless technology will benefit from an enhanced payment experience, including faster queues and seamless, secure transactions. Tappit will also be empowering the festival’s organisers with access to valuable data on attendee behaviours, providing actionable insights…
Avolites is on a mission to share its story and galvanise both the AvoLife community and the industry as a whole to join its war against the counterfeiters. They have also started to spearhead an alliance between major lighting console and media server manufacturers to enbolden its campaign. “We have a unique opportunity to join forces with our genuine rivals to form a united front against forgers who are reverse engineering our products and stealing our IP,” said Avolites’ Sales Director, Koy Neminathan. “We relish competition from other innovative, authentic manufacturers, as this drives forward new features and products -…
Portman Lights has introduced a new range of LED Lights. Portman Lights have manufactured unique, high-quality professional stage lighting based around the halogen lamp. The P1 Retro, P2 Hexaline and the P3 PIX3L luminaires have been used on many concerts, festivals and TV & Film productions showcasing its Portman design and warm glow. Premiered at this year’s Prolight+Sound exhibition was Portman’s first all-LED fixture, the P1 Mini LED. The P1 Mini LED keeps the unique Portman design but adds two light sources: A white 1800K LED emulating the warm glow of halogen and an RGBW LED source for the ultimate…
Lighting for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest included nearly 300 strategically placed Robe moving lights, a mix of Robe BMFL WashBeams, BMFL Spots and MegaPointes, which were specifically requested by this year’s lighting designers, Ronen Najar and Dakar Azulay, both accomplished and respected practitioners working prolifically in Israel and internationally. They put together a joint pitch to creatively light the high-profile production organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and hosted by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation and broadcast via Israel’s KAN network. Once selected from some stiff competition, Najar and Azulay worked closely with Eurovision head of production Ola…
Christie is pleased to announce that Christie Mystique, its powerful automated camera-based alignment tool, is now compatible with Christie HS Series 1DLP laser projectors. Ideal for projection mapping installations and projection onto complex screen shapes and surfaces, Christie Mystique allows users to create spectacular experiences by removing the painstaking work and expense of manual image alignment and ongoing calibration of multi-projector arrays. Christie HS Series projectors are compact, quiet and offer true-to-life visuals thanks to Christie BoldColor Technology. In combining award-winning Mystique software with high-performance HS Series, Christie offers customers a robust and cost-effective solution to manage multi-projector systems, ensuring…
As David Summers sees it, his role when working as a lighting designer is to: “create visuals that emulate the vibe of the band.” Given this philosophy, it wasn’t surprising that when the Colorado Springs-based LD got a call to light Grammy-nominated Fever 333 on their current North American tour, the word “intensity” immediately blasted its way to the top of his head. “I believe that the lighting you create for a band should reflect what they’re putting out, and for my money Fever 333 is about as intense as it gets right now,” said Summers. “With their in-your-face sound…
The hotly-anticipated Eurovision 2019 spectacular landed in Tel Aviv in May with a bold ‘Dare to Dream’ tagline and world-class staging, upon which 26 countries battled to be crowned the winner. Video returned to the core of the show, powered by a chorus of disguise vx 4 and 4x4pro servers. The 64th edition of the much-loved song contest, held at Expo Tel Aviv, featured a 250 sq.m. high-resolution LED, diamond-shaped stage, backed by a 36 by 12m high-resolution LED wall made up of 12 individual screens, all supplied by PRG. More than 16,998,976 pixels lit up the stage, making it…
This April, Competitive gaming platform FACEIT partnered with the PUBG Corporation to host the first global event of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ 2019 Esports season. The multi-stage tournament held at London’s ExCel saw 24 teams battle for the championship. Bluman Associates were commissioned to provide full video display solution and management. The FACEIT platform is home to 12 million registered users, hosting 34 million monthly games with up to 90,000 gamers playing at any one time. The summit included teams from North America, Europe, Korea, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Streamed to registered internet and television viewers, the tournament started…
Projection mapping specialist Motion Mapping assisted Help for Heroes with a recent campaign raising awareness for mental health support by using Epson projectors. Help for Heroes is the leading charity for the British Armed Forces community. Their belief is that those who put their lives on the line for us, deserve a second chance at life, and they provide lifetime support for the armed forces community and their families. In December 2018, the charity commissioned a study to look at how long it takes veterans to reach out for mental health support. The results suggest that on average, they take…
On 9 May Björk opened her Cornucopia season at New York’s newest cultural centre The Shed, utilizing a full 360-degree d&b Soundscape system powered by the d&b En-Scene object-based mixing and En-Space room emulation software. As an integral part of the performance design. Cornucopia is Björk’s most elaborate stage production to date incorporating stunning visuals, intricate stage movements and a fully integrated immersive sound design, made possible by the d&b Soundscape. Beginning the sound design conception in a studio in Iceland the production has progressed through production rehearsals in the Backstage Centre, London, to The Shed in New York City.…
Taiwanese singer and film star, Jay Chou, has amassed millions of fans across the globe, starred in Hollywood blockbusters, broken records for the most expensive live production in Australia and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. He recently entrusted Britannia Row Productions to deliver the biggest PA rig that Britain’s largest indoor venue, London’s 02 Arena, has ever seen. For the final three concerts of Chou’s 120-date The Invincible 2 World Tour, The Asian King of Pop, as he’s known to the Western media, played two nights in London before deploying the Britannia Row rig for a final show at…
ADJ was called upon by Lighting Designer Eric Wilson for the Children’s Winter Games. Established in 1968 and sponsored by the Olympic Committee, the longstanding International Children’s Games branched out in 1994 with the launch of the Children’s Winter Games. This year the competition was held in Lake Placid, New York, giving young athletes from across the globe the chance to compete at the highest level in a wide range of winter sports. But while the Games are all about exceptional sporting achievement and fostering the exchange of ideas between athletes from different countries and cultures, it’s also about putting…
