Hayden Borgars has covered a broad spectrum of shows during his career as a lighting designer, including a wide range of music genres, corporate, dance and theatre. Most recently he joined forces with American rap artist, Hoodie Allen (real name Steven Markowitz) for a British and European tour, at venues ranging from the 700-capacity Garage Glasgow to 2,000 Shepherds Bush Empire. Travelling with him throughout was an inventory of 18 VDO Sceptron 10, four MacEncore Performance Colds and two AURA XB, which combined as the cutting-edge Martin Professional lighting package, supplied by rental company, Siyan. The tour was set up…
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Technic Consult of Austria has been a satisfied customer of Elation products for years, products like the industry staple Platinum Beam 5R and FS 15R Followspot, but the company says now the time was right to upgrade. The event technology providers recently welcomed to their inventory brand new Elation Artiste Picasso LED moving heads and multi-functional Paladin effects. Technic Consult has been active in event technology for over 25 years. Located in southern Austria, near Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, the full-service provider manages lighting, sound, video and staging for live events of all kinds, including theatre, handling everything from planning to…
West London lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment has expanded its fleet of vehicles with a brand new artic and trailer, a Volvo FH460 Globetrotter Euro 6 tractor unit, complete with a 45′ Schmitz Cargobull low-ride Tri-axle Ferroplast, Express semi-trailer. This vehicle, chosen for its efficiency and dynamics, is an investment made for the convenience of trucking equipment to tours and festivals across the UK and Europe. It will also offer clients an additional element of cost-effectivity as Colour Sound can offer independent trucking services for large one-offs. The truck will be especially busy during the upcoming festival…
Lynx Technik, provider of modular interfaces for broadcast and professional AV signal processing applications, announced today that Varun Patel has joined the management team as Product Manager for the entire range of Lynx solutions including the award-winning greenMachine software-based signal processing platform, yellobrik throw-down interfaces, and Series 5000 (with APPolo software) rack and card-based solutions. In his role, Patel will be responsible for managing the product management strategies and roadmap for the company, helping to assess customer & market needs and deliver the exceptional quality solutions that Lynx Technik is known worldwide for. Varun will also work closely with customers, partners…
Richard Ashcroft’s lighting has been designed by Jonny Gaskell since 1996 and the heydays of The Verve – an impressively long and fertile client relationship also making Gaskell the longest-serving crew member – and he is still driving some of the onstage aesthetics 23 years later. Ashcroft’s fourth solo album and top 10 hit Natural Rebel dropped at the end of last year and he was back on the road recently in the UK with lighting and video once again supplied by Colour Sound Experiment. At the start of each touring project, Ashcroft will present Jonny with a series of…
Adlib is supplying full technical production – sound, lighting, video and rigging with over 100 points – to the ongoing 2019 arena tour by Brendan O’Carroll and his Mrs. Brown’s Boys phenomenon. Presenting its first ever musical tour, Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Musical!” the show has just finished the first of three one-month segments, each covering four major cities where they play for a week. Hassane es Siahi is the FOH engineer, the Adlib systems engineer is Alan Harrison, Steph Fleming is the monitor engineer and Shona Steadman is looking after mics and RF. Lighting has been designed by Mike Summerfield.…
In this newest video release on A4i.tv, Area Four Industries Technical Director Dipl-Ing. Norbert Tripp discusses the history of the Beaufort scale and how it works. He dives into the differences between wind speed, wind force and wind pressure, and how this scale is used to measure them. By the end of the video, you’ll have a far better understanding of the Beaufort scale and why it’s important for helping ensure the safety of your truss structures. www.a4i.tv
Robe North America has announced the appointment of Charlie Hulme as Business Development Manager. He will specifically be focusing on advancing systems sales and the coordination of installation projects. Robe North America co-CEO Lorienn Cochenour stated: “As Business Development Manager, Charlie will be a perfect partner with Tal Janowitz in managing the Robe Anolis architainment brand and representatives, and he will also liaise with our Robe regional sales managers on permanent installation projects.” Hulme is based in Austin, Texas and will be travelling extensively in his new role. Hulme has been involved in entertainment lighting for around 30 years, including…
For InfoComm 2019 in Orlando, Meyer Sound has expanded its booth and demo room footprints to showcase multiple new products, most notably the Ultra-X40 point source loudspeaker, and to immerse visitors in a captivating preview of Spacemap Live, a prototype spatial sound mixing tool. The focal point at the floor booth will be an expansive display dedicated to the Ultra-X40, a groundbreaking new product making its USA trade show debut at InfoComm. A comprehensive, hands-on display area will present the versatile new self-powered loudspeaker in a wide variety of portable and installed configurations, from flown clusters to pole mounts, to…
Bob Schacherl, co-CEO of Robe North America, has announced that he will be stepping down from his post on 30 June 2019. “After nearly six fabulous years working with one of the most innovative and inspiring moving light manufacturers, which has included amassing a sales ‘dream team’ covering all regions, helping to take the brand to the very top of the entertainment lighting industry … it is time to spend more time with my family and in developing several ongoing projects” he stated. Schacherl joined Robe at the end of 2013, just prior to the launch of the BMFL range of…
Well over a thousand delegates from the private rental sector gathered in London’s ExCel on the 2nd of April to attend the Annual ARLA Propertymark Conference and exhibition. The event is the largest and most attended event in the lettings calendar and returned to London’s ExCeL in April this year and Protec European Events were trusted by their client Westrade Group Ltd to provide a full event technical service package. Moderated by BBC News presenter Julian Worricker, the conference focussed on the importance of legislation, and how to keep abreast of industry issues. Topics high on the agenda this year…
Meyer Sound returned to Durham, North Carolina for its second year as the Official Sound Partner of Moogfest, the landmark festival that brings together the most visionary and creative minds in music, art, and technology. This year’s expanded presence included providing multichannel systems for concerts, workshops, and technology demos at the festival’s anchor performance spaces, including the Durham Armory, the 21c Museum Hotel, and Fletcher Hall at The Carolina Theatre, as well as two installations at the Durham Fruit and Produce Company. Many of the events in these venues showcased Meyer Sound’s Spacemap, which provides spatial mixing for any loudspeaker…
The Vulcan Shockmount Chassis is another ingenious new technically enhanced 19-inch rack mount product launched by global flight case hardware specialists Penn Elcom … that gives affordable military grade (ANSI accredited to MIL STD 810G) protection against impact, shock and vibration. This is ideal for the secure housing and transportation of a diversity of sound, lighting, AV and IT equipment. A basic Vulcan rack can be assembled in just 6 minutes and due to the incredibly pragmatic design, the units are available in a super easy-to-assemble flat-pack format! This saves vital storage space for customers and re-sellers wanting to keep…
Pop artist Billie Eilish’s sold-out global tour dates feature flyable Allen & Heath dLive rigs at both FOH and monitor positions. Drew Thornton, FOH engineer, and Salim Akram, monitor engineer, use compact, 12-fader C1500’s to mix over 50 inputs from an array of live instruments and backing tracks. Their innovative rig is fed by a quartet of DX168 stage boxes connecting to a DM0 MixRack via EtherCon connections. Thornton designed the dLive system to travel with the band. “Throwing down your stage box and pushing out everything patched and line-checked in ten minutes is amazing,” he said. “We plug it…
Spanish lighting designer Eduardo Valverde of Pixelmap Studios utilised the dynamic multi-functionality of Robe’s MegaPointe moving lights together with Robe LEDWash 800s and other fixtures to help create some amazing vibes and atmosphere for Popland a musical journey staged at the WiZink Center in Madrid. The show was a diverse electronic and symphonic fusion illustrating some of the most iconic pop, rock and dance music ‘moments’ from the last fifty years, presented by one of Spain’s most influential mix-masters, DJ Nano, in conjunction with Catalan experimental theatre company La Fura dels Baus and the Darevitam! Orchestra conducted by Bruno Axel.…
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) is the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world, drawing more than two million people each year. An especially large draw is the 20 consecutive evenings of rodeo and concerts held at Houston’s NRG Stadium. HLSR recently unveiled a new star-shaped concert stage and backdrop truss structure for the shows that supports LED video and hundreds of intelligent lights, among them Elation Protron Eclypse™, Elation Paladin™, and Elation Fuze Wash Z350™ fixtures. Production company LD Systems, www.ldsystems.com, has been working on HLSR since 1985 and for the 2019 version (February 25 to…
TPi’s annual event for burgeoning talent in the industry sets its sights on Fly By Nite Rehearsal Studios’ Redditch headquarters. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpimay19_digitallr/96 www.productionfutures.co.uk
Maestra Group has made some major sound, lighting and video equipment investments recently in the London office, including white sound and lighting kit, which will ensure all its clients have the most flexible and dynamic solutions available for their shows and events. The ‘white stuff’ is proving especially popular for car launches and other automotive events, fashion shows, corporates, industrials and expo stands as well as for art exhibitions, parties and architainment applications, where white equipment is often better suited to blend into the environment than traditional black. The kit includes a substantial purchase of 30 custom coated white Robe…
