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Photos from the 12th Annual Touring Career Workshop

Photos from the 12th Annual Touring Career Workshop

Four hundred members of the live music touring industry attended the 12th Annual Touring Career Workshop Tuesday evening (11/14) at Soundcheck Annex in Nashville. Established to provide support, education, resources, and networking opportunities to the men and women who make live music events possible, this year’s event featured breakout sessions on topics including mental health self-care, financial planning, health insurance options, event safety, job hunting and more.Read More »Photos from the 12th Annual Touring Career Workshop

Royal Danish Opera Invests in Robe FORTES

Royal Danish Opera’s Chief LX Sune Schou on the left with Martin Braad from Light Partner

The Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen has invested in 80 new Robe FORTE luminaires in a package featuring 32 FORTE Profiles, 34 FORTE Fresnels, 4 FORTE FollowSpots and 10 iFORTE (IP65 rated) moving lights, as part of a technical upgrade to ensure that this high- profile venue can offer its productions and creative teams the most appropriate and sustainable technologies to create and craft their art.Read More »Royal Danish Opera Invests in Robe FORTES

CHAUVET Professional Channels Intensity on Nothing More’s Spirits Tour

Seeing Nothing More live is “an experience that is hard to put into words,” one music critic wrote after going to the St. Petersburg show on the Grammy nominated band’s recently concluded Spirits Tour. That’s true, but terms like in your face, riveting, adrenaline-pumping, and emotionally transformative, do come pretty close to capturing the onslaught of sensations that rush through the heart and brain at one of this uber-talented quartet’s multi-faceted concerts.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Channels Intensity on Nothing More’s Spirits Tour

Ayrton Launches IP65 Rivale Profile

Ayrton announces the official launch of its new IP65 rated Rivale Profile, the next in its Classical IP65 3 Series, and the first ultra-equipped luminaire in Ayrton’s brand new ‘ULTIMATE’ series. All ULTIMATE models are perfectly homothetic, sharing common features and delivering previously unimaginable weight-to-output ratios. Here’s a preview video of the Ayrton Rivale Profile:

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PTP Live Grows Its Ayrton Lighting Inventory with Argo 6 FX Fixtures

Nashville-based PTP Live has invested in 60 Ayrton Argo 6 FX lights for its live production work for music, festival and corporate clients and to bolster its rental inventory of lighting and video equipment. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures in North America. The new Argo 6 FX lights expand PTP Live’s roster of Ayrton fixtures, which already includes Khamsin S and MagicPanel 602 units.Read More »PTP Live Grows Its Ayrton Lighting Inventory with Argo 6 FX Fixtures

Dreaming Up Fresh (and Distinct) Nightmares for Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie

If you are looking for an example in how a single lighting and video setup can be used by two different designers to create distinct visual narratives, the North American ‘Freaks on Parade’ tour with Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper could serve as a case in point. “It’s always really cool to see how designers use the same rig in different ways,” said Damian Rogers, Lighting & Video Designer, Programmer & Director for Rob Zombie. An expansion in LED video gear and content also played a key role, not just for Zombie, who “makes great videos and provides tons of cool content for our show,” Rogers says, but also for Cooper, who took the LED video content plunge for the first time with this trek.

Bandit Lites Nominated for Pollstar Awards Concert Visuals Company of the Year

Shinedown. Photo by SP Media

Bandit Lites is finishing 2023 with yet another nomination for Concert Visuals Company of the Year at the 35th Annual Pollstar Awards where the industry gathers to honor the top tours, venues, live music executives, agencies, production companies, and more in over 40 categories.Read More »Bandit Lites Nominated for Pollstar Awards Concert Visuals Company of the Year

Products to Consider, November 2023

disguise: gx 3 Media Server, Harlequin Floors’ Liberty® Switch, SHOWVEN’s uFlamer® Gasboom, the mSculpt 20 LED Profile from Techni-Lux and more product news from AOTO, Cameo, LPS-Lasersysteme, PixMob, and X-Laser

PixMob Moving Visual Transmitter

Many know the name of Montreal based PixMob for their LED wristbands that are deployed for concert tours and large-scale events like the Super Bowl Halftime show. The company has now added a new product to their line which will add yet another layer to the visual pixel mapped art landscape.

Environmental Lights

Here’s a look at three recent scenic and hospitality lighting projects realized with products from Environmental Lights.