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Award-winning lighting designer Bruno Poet felt privileged and inspired when offered to work in Verona Arena with the spectacular live show Intimissimi On Ice. At the same, this was his first opportunity to deploy SGM’s LED luminaires in his creative design.

Audio-Technica supplied more than 150 vocal and instrument microphones for the 49th Annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, presented on November 4, 2015 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Broadcast live in 5.1-channel surround sound on the ABC Television Network in the USA, the awards show featured an extensive selection of Audio-Technica wired microphones, plus Artist Elite 5000 Series UHF Wireless Systems with AEW-T6100a and AEW-T5400a handheld microphone/transmitters.

Among the first live concerts to be staged in Paris after the November 13 terror attacks were three amazing and emotionally charged shows at the AccorHotels Arena by French singer, musician, superstar – and legendary showman - Johnny Hallyday. The design features 36 x Robe BMFL Spot moving lights on the rig which are integral to the show.

Ayrton reissues the VersaPix, launched in 2012, this time in the RS version, with ultra-tight beams of 3.5° and a record on-axis intensity of 200 cd/lm. The configuration of this fixture, with five LED sources splayed out in a 90°, fan-shaped array, allows for heretofore-unseen designs, whether they are used used together or separately – spheres, saucers and other original 3D effects. Designed by Stéphane Migné with 30 fixtures programmed by Arnaud Pierrel, this demo is, once again, mesmerizing.

Opera Garnier has renovated its dimmer cabinets with ADB EURODIM TwinTech. Garnier’s previous dimmers were also ADB and functioned with perfect reliability for 20 years ! The refurbishment work was carried out by Masselin company who adapted the existing wiring system based on a design by the ADB project design team. The result is a tremendous achievement !

For the adaptation quite faithful to the film, the lighting designer Valerio Tiberi asked almost exclusively for Clay Paky moving lights which he uses along with the conventional theatre lighting: 26 Alpha Profile 1500s, 6 Alpha Wash 1500s and 14 Alpha Wash Halo 1200s.

It is with profound dismay, mingled with anger, disgust, sadness, and an almost unreal feeling of horror that we are living through the events of November the 13th.This particularly affects those of us in show business, and even a little more those who know the team at the Bataclan well.

A popular destination for shopping and evening entertainment, Bangkok’s Siam Square has seen the opening of a state-of-the-art theatre on the seventh floor of its newest mall, the Siam Square One Building. An L-Acoustics Kiva audio system ensures audiences in its 1044-seat main venue enjoy high quality sound in every seat.

Equally versatile in both portable and installed system configurations, and with its four channels delivering up to 5,000 W, neatly packed into 1 RU weighing just over 7kg / 16lb, Martin Audio’s new MA5.0Q is a flexible, cost-effective solution for small to medium sound systems.

To maintain SGM as leader of intelligent LED light, further investments were needed. After a period of disagreement between shareholders about the future capital structure, the board of directors had no other option than to apply for a proceeding aiming to restructure the company. On November 9th at 18:00, SGM was completely re-established with its new shareholder and capital.

Lighting and set designer Mikki Kunttu has used an array of Clay Paky Mythos and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures to create a truly stunning lighting design for a production of symphonic poem Kullervo at the Finnish National Opera.

With a lovely 200 mm Fresnel output lens, the color system and the 1700 W lamp of the BMFL Spot that make the difference, the new Robe BMFL Wash is admittedly not the the most energy efficient, but certainly the most powerful wash on the market. Robe also presented the Square, a motorized LED matrix packed with effects.

Just in time for AES 2015, MADI specialists DirectOut, have brought out MADI.MONI, a highly ergonomic MADI tester and mobile MADI monitoring tool. MADI.MONI has been specifically designed for MADI testing and monitoring in the field and has the smallest footprint of any mobile MADI monitor on the market.

Capitalizing on the original Atomic™ 3000 DMX’s 15 years of success, this new version features identical functionality and behaviour with the added benefits of LED technology. It offers the same extreme brightness as its iconic predecessor, but with substantially lower peak power consumption.

We knew something big was waiting for us at Amadeus. And indeed there was. The talented, creative and innovative folks at the company went overboard to indulge the Philharmonie de Paris with the perfect monitoring system, with a contribution by Jean Nouvel as a bonu s: the Philharmonia