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The Ayrton team has just announced the terrible news – brutal and irrevocable – that Valère has died. Silence... incredulity... an icy chill spread through our veins. First the questions – unanswered – then the memories flow, a stream of images. His voice, his smile... those will be forever with us. Valère was a deep well of kindness and intelligence.

Le 15 février, Justin Bieber lançait la deuxième année de sa tournée avec un concert à guichets fermés, à l’aréna Estadio BBVA Bancomer à Monterrey, au Mexique. Valorisant le jeu de la star, le kit lumière de Corey Fitzgerald accueillait 88 Wash Maverick MK2 Chauvet Professional, fournis par la Société Serpro Producciones de Monterrey.

Kicking off with twenty dates in America at the start their Sorceress world tour, Swedish band Opeth brought their show to Europe. Magnus Boyd’s lighting and visual design featured 40 Ayrton DreamPanel-Twin fixtures rented from French company, S-Group.

Amadeus, based in France, one of the premiere manufacturers of high-end sound reinforcement systems and custom studio speakers, has announced the install of a massive speaker system, featuring the newly-released PMX 12 D self-powered active speakers, within a new multi-disciplinary institution, the Arts & Creative Technology Center (ACT), in Gwangju, South Korea.

An established manufacturer of AOIP solutions for the broadcast market is seeking, through the recruitment agency Interfacio, an experienced channel sales person with a good knowledge of broadcast systems to manage and develop their international distribution channel sales.

Award-winning Irish singer-songwriter Gavin James has played one of the biggest shows of his young life, at the 3 Arena in Dublin. It was also one of the biggest indoor shows of the year for Irish rental company SOUND DESIGN, using its new NEXO STM Series modular line array systems for the first time on an arena-sized live music event.

L-Acoustics announces the launch of Syva, a new format, high power speaker system which features six medium-frequency and three high-frequency speakers in a sleek J-shaped progressive curvature format. The groundbreaking transducer arrangement called segment source* produces an H/V 140° x 26° (+5/-21°) directivity pattern that is optimized for exceptional surface coverage and 35 meters of throw.

Powersoft’s mission to strengthen the company further in 2017 has begun in the most dynamic fashion, by announcing the appointment of the highly experienced Klas Dalbjörn as Product Manager. The former Lab Gruppen and Lake Product Research Manager will add considerable strength and gravitas to the development team, headed by co-founder and R&D director, Claudio Lastrucci. His role will extend across the entire product portfolio.

A musical masterpiece returned to the stage at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. The moving scenery designed by Cristiano Colombi dynamically creates the various different settings. All of them recall the Upper West Side of New York, where the story is set, and Claypaky's light beams shine out.

NEXO has posted new 2017 dates for its popular ETC training seminar programme. Dates have been set for six different seminars exclusively in France, taught in French or English. As a reminder, all Nexo seminars are free of charge and courses take place over 2 days.

This year, DiGiCo celebrates 15 years of manufacturing exceptional digital mixing consoles. It has enjoyed phenomenal success, with the D5 Live establishing both the company and the concept of digital mixing. The SD Series followed, delivering a powerful new way of working, with the flagship SD7 becoming the market leader. In 2015, it launched the affordable S Series with a new, modern workflow. In 2016, it introduced Stealth Core 2 software, which multiplied the power of the SD range of consoles exponentially. Now, at the very beginning of 2017, it has unveiled Project Vulcan, the new SD12.

Few bands are more immediately recognizable—visually and sonically—than The Cure, whose enduring career is now entering its fourth decade. London-based Britannia Row Productions has been with singer/guitarist Robert Smith and his mates for most of that time, since 1979, providing global touring support for the post-punk group, which is currently out on the road with an L-Acoustics K1/K2 system.

NEXO has a new face in the Far East, as Michel Brouard steps into the new role of Business Development Manager for East Asia.

Eighth Day Sound, an early and influential member of Adamson Systems Engineering’s global network, has further expanded its inventory with a substantial investment in Adamson E-Series and S-Series products for their Australian base in Sydney.

The Zurich Openair Festival, which has existed since 2010, attracted more than 60,000 visitors this year to the festival grounds on the outskirts of Zurich. Leo Herrmann was responsible for the lighting design of the ‘Dance Circus stage with his design company Lumenlabor. The lighting designer had 20 X4 Bars in use.