Robe’s brand new ESPRITES moving lights – a powerful, refined 650W luminaire with transferrable white LED engine – made their US live TV debut on the 2019 CMT Artists of the Year event, staged at the impressive Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The ESPRITES plus other extra lights on the show – which also included Robe BMFL WashBeams and Spiider LED wash beams – were delivered by Morris Light & Sound. They were used together with fixtures from the venue’s house rig. CMT Artists of the Year is broadcast live on CMT and gives the network and the close-knit…
Author: James Robertson
Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) celebrated the opening of ETC Dubai – The Studio with a launch event at the new premises in Dubai Media City. The new site, which consists of a black box space for product demonstrations and an area for console training sessions, welcomed industry professionals from across the globe to the inaugural event. Attendees met with product specialists from ETC and High End Systems and received demonstrations of the newest innovations including High End Systems’ new automated fixtures SolaWash 1000 and TurboRay. The latest member of the Sola Series, the SolaWash 1000 features a full framing system and…
Harvard Business School opened a state-of-the-art multipurpose auditorium at its Klarman Hall campus in Allston, Massachusetts. With an emphasis on sustainability and technological innovation, this 61.8-foot-wide curved display serves the many uses of the auditorium in innovative ways. Klarman Hall, designed by William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. and made possible by a gift from Beth and Seth Klarman (MBA 1982), seats up to 1000 people across three tiers, providing an inspiring space for large scale events. An innovative floor plan allows it to be set up for smaller-scale events as well. The focal point of the auditorium is a 116…
Clear-Com US Sales Team have appointed two new Regional Sales Managers (RSM) in North America. William Elliott takes over responsibility for the Southeast Region and Caribbean, while Vic Lombardi will handle the newly established North Central Region covering Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Pat Hamp, formerly RSM for the Southeast Region, has been promoted to a Sales Training Role focused on training Partners. William Elliott has been promoted within Clear-Com from his previous role as Clear-Com’s Military, Aerospace and Government (MAG) Sales Manager. Prior to joining Clear-Com in 2016 he spent seven…
QSC have announced the promotions of Anna Csontos and Markus Winklez effective October 1,2019. Csontos, who joined the company in 2011, has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Chief Market Officer and Chief of Staff, adding to her current executive sales leadership responsibility for QSC’s business and product portfolio in the Americas. Markus Winkler, who joined QSC in 2017, has been promoted to Senior Vice President, EMEA & APAC, expanding his executive sales leadership responsibilities to include QSC’s business and product portfolio for all of EMEA and APAC. The timing of these leadership changes were in part triggered by Gene…
One Third club destination in a former locomotive depot, another of the NOA’s Arc Group’s premium entertainment ventures and is third in the chain. The 2,500 capacity dance venue, specialising in Hard style, has been equipped with Martin Audio’s award-winning MLA Multicellular Loudspeaker Array. With the One Third identity built on quality and reflecting a ‘gold standard’ in clubbing, Live Legends was asked onboard, to bring their extensive skills, knowledge and visions from the world of live events. After sampling several competitive sound systems, it was decided that MLA would be “the perfect weapon” for this application and that Martin…
Singapore-based start-up Generation AV, the representatives for Martin Audio in the APAC countries, have announced the arrival of Sanak Pandit, who has joined the team as Applications Engineer. Trained and certified in most of the industry-leading advanced networking platforms, in recent years Sanak has led many training courses from the basics of audio through to system design, measurement and optimisation for many rental companies and engineers in India. Generation AV founder David McKinney said: “I am very excited to have Sanak in the team; he has the technical abilities to support all the brands in Generation AV and I believe…
The Adam Hall Group organised the second edition of its Event.Tech Days following the success of the premiere in 2018. The global event technology provider invited national and international rental and touring companies and event-tech engineers to the Adam Hall Experience Center at the company’s headquarters in Neu-Anspach, near Frankfurt. Besides presentations of the latest innovations in the Adam Hall Group brand portfolios — LD Systems, Cameo, Gravity, Palmer, and Defender — visitors were treated to a comprehensive Event.Tech program, which included keynote speeches from renowned speakers, a fascinating live show displaying pro audio and lighting technology solutions, expert lectures…
PROLIGHTS have announced the appointment of the company PLUSMUSIC AG as the new distributor for Switzerland. PLUSMUSIC AG has an excellent reputation in Switzerland as an experienced provider of professional AVL technologies for rental, production and system integration industries and it will address its total focus and offer for the professional lighting on PROLIGHTS and its brands. PLUSMUSIC take over in the Swiss market which historically has been served directly from the PROLIGHTS Italian HQ for years, inheriting a network of loyal users, who will benefit from the distributor local sales and demo stock, and qualified technical support team. Paolo Albani,…
Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London has adopted Riedel’s Bolero wireless intercom to ensure reliable and flexible communications across the 10,000-square-meter building and the adjacent Lilian Baylis Studio. Located on London’s iconic Rosebery Avenue, the theatre is renowned as one of the world’s leading dance venues, staging contemporary dance and ballet performances in its 1,560-seat main auditorium. The theatre also has a unique link to Riedel’s home city of Wuppertal through an ongoing residency with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, a partnership that spans more than 35 years. As well providing a stage for visiting companies, the Sadler’s Wells Theatre is…
