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In Germany, in the North Rhine Westfalia region, Sound Linear has completed two very different sound reinforcement installations using Nexo’s GEO M6 compact line array system. One indoor, one outdoor – one a house of worship, the other a volkstheater; the projects showcase the quality of the M6 for SPL coverage and speech intelligibility.

SGM has announced the appointment of David Keighley as new executive vice president of SGM, effective 1 July. Keighley has an impressive track record in the lighting industry both as a lighting designer, tour manager and production manager and as executive vice president and chief of operations of Syncrolite, managing director and CEO of PRG Europe and managing director of Light and Sound Design.

For this year’s Eurovision Song Contest finals in Sweden’s capital city of Stockholm, a major lighting scheme was in the works. The venue for the ESC finals, the Ericsson Globe Arena, is the world’s largest hemispherical building. It’s dome has a diameter of 110 m/360 feet, and to light the dome only, 200 P-5 LED fixtures from SGM were installed.

On Saturday 2nd July, L-ISA live was deployed by Soundhouse at Berlin Waldbühne for Disney in Concert, a show featuring the most famous Disney film melodies performed by the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. L-ISA live is the latest technology from L-Acoustics founder Christian Heil, a breakthrough in sound reinforcement technology that offers an immersive experience of ultra-realistic localizations and provides a true connection between the seen and the heard, ultimately suppressing the sense of loudspeakers and delivering natural sound.

Lighting designer and consultant, Denis Hutchinson, was loaned six Robert Juliat Dalis 300W LED Cyclights by DWR Distribution to ‘test drive’ on the musical Sophiatown which played at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg and at the State Theatre in Pretoria.

Developed specifically to answer the demands of today’s massive live music, television and entertainment environments, the new Ayrton MagicDot™-XT is an amplified version of the MagicDot™-R much more powerful punch that suits long throw applications. Optimised for use in large venues, MagicDot™-XT is equipped with Ayrton’s new proprietary 126 mm diameter collimator that distinguishes the ‘XT’ product line.

Ayrton’s MagicDot™-R has been awarded the Live Design™ Product of the Year 2016 in the Effects Category at the 9th annual Live Design Awards ceremony. This marks the second year running that Ayrton’s product designers were so honoured, having won Product of the Year 2015 for MagicBlade™-R. A member of Ayrton’s Radical product line, the patented MagicDot™-R is the first professional moving head LED luminaire with a single optical collimator.

ETC has announced its Unison Mosaic® Show Controller X (MSCX) has a new-and-improved version. It is now smaller, housed in a one-unit, 19-inch rack-mount enclosure. The updated Show Controller X is offered with capacities from 5,120 channels (10 universes) up to 50,000 channels of DMX-over-Ethernet. It is compatible with all existing and new Mosaic control systems that utilise Mosaic Designer 2 software.

Award-winning, critically-acclaimed and highly successful performance art company Blue Man Group has recently started incorporating Robe moving lights into their show at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Blue Man Group is a heady mega-mix of music, technology, art and excitement which immerses and delights audiences by wrapping them in its infectious beats and vibes. Lighting plays a crucial role with a dynamic and energetic maelstrom of color, movement and emotion.

Bal en Blanc, Canada’s oldest EMD festival and one of the first in the world, featured an exclusive attraction by 45DEGREES, Cirque du Soleil’s events and special projects company. Five Cirque acts performing during the Sultan+Shepard set were lit by an array of Clay Paky fixtures provided by 4U2C.

Thierry Philippe joins Adam Hall Group as the New Sales Representative of brands LD Systems®, Cameo®, Gravity®, Defender®, Palmer®, Adam Hall® Hardware and Adam Hall® Stage Equipment & Cables overseeing the areas of Paris and Northern France.

L-Acoustics announces the launch of the Kiva II, a new ultra-compact modular line source, adding 6 dB of max SPL versus its predecessor, maximized amplifier density with 16 ohm impedance and a new rugged enclosure material. Despite its ultra-compact format, the Kiva II features the L-Acoustics Wavefront Sculpture Technology™ (WST), giving it a long throw capability and allowing even SPL from the front to the back of the audience.

The most watched event of the year, Super Bowl 50 starts not at kickoff, but about a week prior with a media circus that must be seen to be believed. Alcons Audio, best known for their high frequency Pro Ribbon technology, provided the loudspeakers and amplifiers for the large media spaces within the media center in downtown San Francisco.

Robe BMFL Spot moving lights created a huge impact for the arena section of Simple Minds’ “Big Music" tour for which lighting designer Stephen Pollard expanded and scaled up the stage set and lighting rig he used in theatre venues last year.

Single-channel, 500 series preamps herald new development focus for Swiss manufacturer. Schertler expands into the pro audio market with the release of its new YELLOW MIC500 microphone preamplifiers – single channel, full Class A, 500 series preamps that are specially designed for user installation in commercially available Lunchbox racks.