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APG, the French manufacturer of high end professional loudspeakers and inventor of the modular line array, is pleased to announce that it has hired two new engineers, thus reinforcing its core business. The announcement is in line with the objectives set by the company when it joined forces with Active Audio in April 2016.

The lighting Designer Steven Douglas found a new way to show The Killers’ logo of a ‘K’ by using 68 MagicDot-R. Being able to mount the MagicDots closer together because they are so small and do not move outside of the radius of the head itself, the concept is a workable design.

“Les Feluettes” (“Lilies”) made its world premiere at the Opera de Montreal recently playing to full houses during its four-night run. Lighting designer Martin Labrecque utilized seven Clay Paky Scenius Spots for the new production.

Lighting for the tour has been designed by Cory FitzGerald with the rig including Robe Pointes plus two BMFL Spots which are being utilized as rear follow spots. It’s Cory’s first work for Bieber. he wanted to make the lighting as flexible as possible to create “a wide diversity of looks and help transform the space.

When the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo came to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2016, production supplier, MJF Lighting, decided the scale of the production warranted new followspots and invested in four Robert Juliat Merlin 2500W HMI followspots specifically for the spectacular show.

After several years of growth Adamson is pleased to announce an expansion of its management team at their global headquarters in Port Perry, Canada. Benoit Cabot is promoted to Director of R&D while Marc Weber joins in a director capacity to launch a new Product and Brand management division. They join Director James Oliver to continue the strengthening of a young leadership team that has been instrumental in the increased visibility of the brand.

ETC has appointed Enrico Nobile as European rigging sales manager, a new position devised by the company to fuel the growth and development of its rigging division in Europe. Nobile will be based out of ETC’s Rome office, with much of his time spent in the sales territories of ETC GmbH and ETC Ltd, working in collaboration with distributors, dealers and integrators.

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.

London 11:00 AM. I'm about to discover The Encounter and get a look behind the scenes at this unique opus in one of the most iconic theaters in the British capital, the Barbican. The press is unanimous: it is as disconcerting as it is captivating, and the 600 headphones that act as the sound system are the proof of that. We have an appointment with Gareth Fry and Peter Malkin, the two sound designers of this work, and with the ASD – Association of Sound Designers.

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.