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One of the industry’s brightest lights dimmed on Thursday, when Fulvio Cotogni, ETC’s regional manager for Southern Europe and the Middle East, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. A funeral for Cotogni was held on Saturday, where friends and family had the opportunity to share memories of him.

UK LED manufacturer CORE Lighting expands its range of wireless LED technology with the StripPoint battery powered LED batten: a IP 65 fixture which emits 4000 lm whilst drawing only 75W of power.

South America’s biggest sporting event, the Copa América international football tournament, has kicked off with a spectacular opening ceremony in host country Chile. The event saw stunning firework displays and musical performances, with an array of Clay Paky Mythos delivering spectacular wash and aerial effects to the proceedings.

Having received an enthusiastic reception from the European market at ProLight+Sound in April, Yamaha’s new flagship RIVAGE PM10 digital mixing console has enjoyed more of the limelight thanks to his trade show debut at the ABTT Theatre Show 2015.

We waited a long time because, much like a Japanese brand with a love for tuning forks, Avid took their time to create this new live mixing console, the Venue S6L. Powerful, flexible and open to the outside world, Venue S6L combines PC core technology for the control, mixing and internal processing with an HDX-standard DSP for plug-ins. The best of both worlds in a very nice product.

On May 18, 2015, Bastian Villeflose was finally able to recover the proprietary rights to his Elidy fixture, the first LED array capable of projecting images in mid-air. The manufacture of Elidy has resumed, this time by the company Ereimul Lighting which now also provides service for all Chromlech products. It took six months to get everything in order and rebuild a stock of Elidy. The adventure in Brittany continues, with more projects on their way. Yesss!

Currently out on her North American “Endless Summer” tour, along with opener Courtney Love, Lana Del Rey is wowing fans in sheds each night on a K1 main loudspeaker system, with K2outfill arrays flown as needed in wider venues.

Here, Stéphane Migné controls a matrix of 144 MagicDot fixtures and it is a sea of effect possibilities – with power or finesse – that washes over our astonished eyes. This demo is incredible!

The NEXO family is mourning the loss of one of its sons, the talented young loudspeaker designer Matthias Larrieu, who lost his life in a car accident in June. He was just 30 years old. In his six years at NEXO, Matthias left a truly impressive mark.

After years of searching, Antwerp’s Café d’Anvers, has found a sound system worthy of the club’s reputation as an iconic house music venue. For 26 years, owner Pim de Rhoodes struggled to find a system that could deliver a deep bass on the dancefloor yet enable customers to talk comfortably at the bar – and, importantly, not upset the venue’s neighbours.

With its source composed of seven base colors of LED and its profiling module, Robin DL7S aims for perfection in colors, pastels, saturated colors and whites, with a nominal CRI of >90, regardless of the white balance. An 18-bit dimmer allows extremely fine control at low levels – it is between 0 and 10% that makes all the difference.

Ayrton doubles up its imagination to create unique effects fixtures: CosmoPix-R, a moving-yoke globe with 12 punchy beams, MagicDot-R, a small, mono-source fixture, the motorized video panel DreamPanel Shift, its counterpart DreamPanel Twin, with a video face and a lighting face, and the NandoSpot-SC, which marks the entry of the French manufacturer into the next generation of LED spot fixtures.

JB Lighting presents the Licon 2X lighting console. Developed primarily for live applications, it can control 128 DMX universes. It is based on a concept of simplicity, for intuitive and fast programming, thanks to its straightforward and comprehensible interface using an integrated trackball and two 12.1", high-resolution touch-screens with motorized tilting up to 90°.

Following a convincing recent demo in Paris, Meyer Sound has confirmed three new orders for the LEOPARD™ linear sound reinforcement system, including two French rental system purchases and an installation going to a nightclub in Marseille. The patent-pending LEOPARD line array loudspeaker and its accompanying 900-LFC low-frequency control element are the newest, smallest, most versatile members of Meyer Sound's flagship LEO® Family.

The newly available CosmoPix-R, a small motorized globe that emits 12 punchy beams, is implemented here in a show designed by the French lighting designer Stéphane Migné and programmed by Arnaud Pierrel, which demonstrates some novel effect ideas for structuring a performance space.