TiMax at the heart of two immersive collaborations for Glastonbury Festival Live by Thomas Richard - August 1, 2019 TiMax-and-BEAM-at-Glastonbury. Image by © Mark Hadden The unique immersive audio capabilities of TiMax SoundHub were in evidence at this year’s Glastonbury Festival where two experiential spaces were driven by the pioneering spatial audio engine. As a centrepiece for the Greenpeace field, artist Wolfgang Buttress created a new permanent sculptural feature to highlight the
VL2600 Profile provides essential answers for Jack the Ripper musical Live by Thomas Richard - August 1, 2019 In lighting Musical Theatre’s Jack the Ripper musical (watch) at Copenhagen’s intimate Folketeatret (People’s Theater), lighting designer Mikkel Bedsted faced some major lighting challenges. He found his solutions in the new VL2600 Profile, the versatile, feature-rich LED stage luminaire from Vari-Lite. Bedsted’s main challenge was the venue’s limited weight loading. With
Capital And MLA Kew The Music At World Famous Botanic Gardens Live by Thomas Richard - August 1, 2019 The beautiful surroundings of the Royal Botanic Gardens in south-west London (better known as Kew Gardens) provided the location for the facility’s annual six-day music festival, imaginatively titled Kew The Music. Now a consolidated part of London’s summer festival tapestry, and with the world’s biggest Victorian glasshouse as the imposing backdrop,
Creative Technology Acquires Ion Solutions News by Thomas Richard - August 1, 2019 Dave Crump, President and CEO of CT Europe & Middle East & John Roche, CEO of Ion Solutions Creative Technology Group (CT), a Live Events Company of NEP Group and worldwide specialist in audio visual equipment and bespoke staging solutions, has acquired Ion Solutions, a leading provider of professional audio visual
City of Melle celebrates the 850-year anniversary with VIO Live by Thomas Richard - July 30, 2019 If an anniversary is already announced as "extraordinary", you can, of course, expect something special. This is exactly what the city of Melle in Lower Saxony, German,y has recently achieved. A unique festive programme, which was set up on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the city under the
EPIC ‘HOLOSPHERE’ Created for Eric Prydz Live by Thomas Richard - July 30, 2019 The highly anticipated Eric Prydz EPIC 6.0 HOLOSPHERE debuted at Belgium’s Tomorrowland Festival last weekend, with Eric performing inside a giant video-mapped, 3D transparent LED sphere. The production was the latest in Prydz’s EPIC (Eric Prydz In Concert) series of jaw dropping visual spectaculars, realised by dream team, long term collaborators
Summerfest 2019 is Hotter Than Ever Thanks to Clearwing and DiGiCo Live by Thomas Richard - July 30, 2019 A DiGiCo SD7 FOH console in action at Summerfest 2019 for Jennifer Lopez’s performance at American Family Insurance Amphitheater There’s a good reason that Wisconsin’s Summerfest is colloquially known as the “Big Gig.” For 11 days in late June and early July each year, somewhere between 700,000 and a million people
GLP KNVs Burst onto Sweden’s Largest EDM Festival Live by Thomas Richard - July 27, 2019 Summerburst is the biggest EDM festival in Sweden. The inaugural event was held in Stockholm back in 2011, and by the following year had also opened its doors in Gothenburg. Since then it has remained a two-city festival, both with a capacity of around 25,000. Daniel Hellsten has worked closely with
L-Acoustics Caps Off BottleRock’s Main Stage Live by Thomas Richard - July 27, 2019 Home to some of North America’s finest vineyards, California’s Napa Valley has long been celebrated for its picturesque views, amazing cuisine and, of course, spectacular wine offerings. But music enthusiasts might argue that the best attraction is Napa Valley Expo’s annual BottleRock music festival, which marked its 7th anniversary this
Elation Paladin at high altitude Live by Thomas Richard - July 27, 2019 The harmonizing elements of light and water came magically together at Toce Falls by Lake Maggiore in the Alps of northern Italy (Cascata del Toce) during an evocative light and music show designed by Pierre Gèlil. For a special event held June 28th and 29th, the designer turned to colour-changing Elation