MDG Haze the Clear Winner for Transmission Festival 2019 Live by Thomas Richard - January 23, 2020 © Petr Klapper Transmission is Europe's, and possibly the world's, most spectacular trance music festival with a legion of loyal fans who return year on year. As usual, the 2019 event was enhanced by haze from MDG generators which showcased the spectacular lighting and laser shows that accompanied the artists. Transmission is
Robe Dreams Big at Puy du Fou España Live by Thomas Richard - January 21, 2020 Award-winning independent French theme park, Puy du Fou, unveiled its first venture in Toledo Spain with an epic night-time immersive spectacular “El Sueño de Toledo” (The Dream of Toledo), creatively directed by Nicolas de Villiers and the team from Puy de Fou with lighting designed by Koert Vermeulen from Belgian
Yamaha RIVAGE PM7 Is The Progressive Solution For Haken Live by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 Photo credit: Stephen Schmidt Far from being an ‘uncool relic from the 1970s’, nowadays progressive rock has a sizeable following and is becoming more popular. There are a number of artists following the likes of Muse and Dream Theater into the mainstream, none more so than Haken - a multinational six-piece
Ukrainian popstar turns to Quantum for Russian stadium gig Live by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 Ukrainian popstar, LOBODA, recently visited Moscow’s new US$1.5 billion VTB Arena stadium as part of her latest European tour, upgrading to DiGiCo’s premium SD7 Quantum console to create studio quality sound for the 100 channel orchestra-based production. Known by the stage name LOBODA, Svitlana Serhiivna Loboda first came into public view
Yamaha Mixing Systems Chosen For Rock In Rio 2019 Live by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 Every year Rock In Rio attracts the cream of the world’s international rock acts, performing alongside artists from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The 2019 event saw the festival held over seven days at Rio de Janeiro’s Barra Olympic Park, attracting an audience of 100,000 each day. Yamaha digital mixing
KVANT AND PR LIGHTING ENSURE BRATISLAVA’S NEW YEAR OPENS IN STYLE Live by Thomas Richard - January 15, 2020 Bratislava’s new year celebrations, held in the heart of the Slovakian capital at the Rázusovo nábrežie (the banks of the River Danube) were brought to life by a spectacular lightshow masterminded by Kvant Show Production. The laser specialists, who are also PR Lighting’s distributor for Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia, have
‘Spider’ weaves his magic with Ayrton in Poland Live by Thomas Richard - January 14, 2020 When production, lighting and multimedia designer, Pawel ‘Spider’ Pajak, and PERCEPTO [LAB] – the team responsible for creative visual production – were approached by production company, East Eventz, to design and deliver creative solutions for a one-off concert, they chose Ayrton MagicPanel-FX and Khamsin-S fixtures to provide contemporary, densely-coloured and
‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Opens with disguise Powering Scenic Video Projections Live by Thomas Richard - January 14, 2020 The Tony Award-winning Best Musical ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ opened in London at the Noel Coward Theatre with video projection comprising the shows entire stage scenery. Supplied by Stage Sound Services, three disguise vx 4 and four gx 1 servers powered projections for the show, highlighting the huge impact of social media
Ayrton’s Huracán-X fixtures create a club vibe for HiJinx Festival Live by Thomas Richard - January 10, 2020 The HiJinx Festival of Electronic Dance Music marked its second year with a return to Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center where production designer, Cort Lawrence, ramped up the excitement with Ayrton Huracán-X fixtures providing dynamic graphics and colourful effects. HiJinx drew crowds of approximately 25,000 on December 27 and 28, 2019 with
Point Source Microphones Capture the Sounds of Cirque du Soleil Live by Thomas Richard - January 10, 2020 Cirque de Soleil’s latest production, R.U.N, which opened November 14 at the Luxor in Las Vegas, continues to flip theatre expectations with a little help from Point Source Audio microphones. A live-action graphic novel out to thrill, R.U.N delivers “back-alley fistfights, bike jumps, car chases, high falls, and body burns,” the