USA - To light indie pop band Foster the People, lighting designer Zach Matusow used his theatrical story telling background, his time spent under the watchful eye of Martha Stewart, his chops cut from lighting bands for Live Nation, and ...
Tags: lighting, Professional fixtures, backdrop
USA - The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd built their first sanctuary in downtown Reno in 1951. Over the years the church's congregation has grown steadily, straining the limits of their small facility. Now, after more than 60 years ...
Tags: audio and video systems, line array systems, amplified instruments
South Africa - Fan Base is a hi-energy new TV game show series being recorded in South Africa for SABC 1, where the public get to compete with a variety of celebrities by engaging in assorted games. The show is being recorded in ...
Tags: Robe moving lights, lighting design, LED flood, moving lights
Solar Lights the Way to the Rechargeable Revolution An entirely new market category of LED products fueled by compact, highly efficient, rechargeable batteries is "paving the way" for new forms of pedestrian-scale lighting – and ...
Tags: Solar Light, LED, lead acid battery, Lithium battery
Germany - Berlin's enchanting Theater des Westens is currently playing host to a stage musical production of Polanski's Tanz de Vampire (Dance of the Vampires) with libretto by Dr Michael Kunze and music composed by the legendary Jim ...
Tags: tracking system, sound effects, music systems, vocal system
South Africa - With a reputation of putting on superb musicals for the past 35 years, the Ligbron Academy of Technology for high school students in Ermelo outdid themselves with the production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For a ...
Tags: JSF Productions, Disney musical, lighting and sound, lighting fixtures
Germany - Aquanario, Europe's biggest mobile water show, celebrated its official premiere on 17 August in Berlin, Germany. For 10 nights, no less than 45.000 visitors saw an impressive show with water, lasers, fire, lights, pyrotechnics and ...
Tags: the lighting control system, mobile water show, LED lights, Video Beamer
Finland - Let's Dance Finland is the spin-off of the highly popular British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide. Currently the format has been licensed to over 42 territories. As a result, the series ...
Tags: lighting and set design, control system, stage smoke, media servers
USA - Thirty years on and Def Leppard is still one of the most important bands in rock music. Over 100m albums sold, a catalogue of rock anthems and a reputation for spectacular live shows attest to that. The band has always had a loyal ...
Tags: Professional lighting system, colour washes, the backlight illumination
Author(s): Allyson Schmutter Author(s): Monique O'Grady Are you still using the inefficient light bulbs Thomas Edison invented over a century ago? A new video series can answer your lighting questions so you don't get left in the dark. ...
Tags: inefficient light bulbs, energy-saving lighting, CFLs, LEDs
UK - With Leona Lewis set to perform at one of London's top private members clubs, Annabel's, Steve White from Patchwork London, the club's audio provider, needed a loudspeaker system that would provided a high quality sound, without ...
Some most famous bridges in London are to retain the Olympic architectural lighting scheme following a detailed evaluation of costs. Brand experience company Innovision originally commissioned lighting designer Paul Cook and a handful ...
Tags: LED Lighting, London Bridge, Olympic architectural lighting scheme
France - France's natural history museum has renovated its lighting system to include SeaChanger's Light Emitting Plasma (LEP) Colour Engines, citing the product's incredible colour palette and high-energy efficiency. The Grande Galerie ...
Tags: lighting system, lighting of France's museum, light sources
Serbia - The success of Yamaha's CL seriehas seen the company invited to provide a series of interactive training seminars in many European countries. The latest was at Belgrade-based Light and Sound Design (LSD).s digital mixing consoles ...
Tags: digital mixing consoles, Commercial Audio, Light and Sound Design
UK - Liverpool-based technical solution specialist Adlib's audio division is supplying an L-Acoustics K1 sound systemand delays for the UK and European leg of Radiohead's current world tour. They are also supplying two of their top ...
Tags: sound system, sonic audience experience, audio contractor