Master Tour launched its online official venue tech pack as part of its staged release of Master Tour Venue. This critical record will provide touring production teams online access to the latest verified information for all venue-related production details.Read More »Master Tour Launches Industry-First Standardized Tech Packs for Venues
Lighting Designer Joel Reiff has tapped 28 Ayrton Domino Profiles as his “workhorse” fixture for Counting Crows’ 56-date summer tour across the country, which he programmed on a grandMA3 console. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures and MA lighting products in North America. The band, with guests Dashboard Confessional, kicked off their “Banshee Season Tour” in June in Omaha and will wrap with a show at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on September 25. Upstaging provided the Dominos and grandMA3 consoles for the tour.Read More »Ayrton Dominos and grandMA3 Hit the Road with Counting Crows’ Summer ‘Banshee Season Tour’
Obsidian Control Systems invites lighting control professionals to Stand D50 September 3-5 at the 2023 PLASA show at Olympia in West London. Sample a host of new innovations including the modular NX1 lighting console and latest ONYX software, as well as the world’s first IP65 data distribution range and other NETRON data distribution devices. Read More »Modular NX1™, New NETRON Devices Highlight PLASA Offerings for Obsidian Control Systems
Sometimes, less is indeed more. Tyler Veneziano has no problem with that theory. The talented designer is a huge fan of the CHAUVET Professional Rogue R1 FX-B with its five individually controlled RGBW moving heads. He particularly likes the fixture’s infinite pan and tilt. But when lighting multi-platinum rockers Breaking Benjamin on their North American tour earlier this summer, Veneziano stopped himself from using this feature at points during the band’s 90-minute, 17-song set. “I love the infinite pan and tilt, but I didn’t want to over-use it and become predictable,” he explained. “My plan was to save theses looks for key moments to maximize their impact.”Read More »Tyler Veneziano Mixes Subtlety and Color for Breaking Benjamin with CHAUVET Professional
The Feest in Het Park festival (AKA ‘Party In The Park’) is an annual weekend-long celebration hosted in the Reeshofpark, a large public park situated in the suburbs of the Netherlands city of Tilburg. Across two separate stages, more than 70 ADJ fixtures were supplied for this year’s festival by Ultrasound Productions, which utilized both moving heads and static washes to illuminate the performance spaces with vibrant colors and fill the sky above the park with impressive aerial effects.Read More »ADJ Lighting Gets the Party Started at Feest in Het Park Festival
In April, KBS (the Korean Broadcasting System), the national broadcaster of South Korea, has successfully launched its next-generation XR Studio. KBS’s trusted partner, Ark Ventures, chose ROE Visual and Brompton Technology to cater for KBS’s high standards. KBS has been a reliable and trend-setting public media since its establishment in 1927. Seeing the growing XR impact in the global broadcasting industry, KBS decided to create its own and pioneer the way in South Korea. Therefore, found Ark Ventures, Korea’s leading XR and Virtual Production consultant, as their trusted partner.
Read More »ROE Visual Selected for KBS’s 1st XR Studio
With offices in Chicago, Nashville and Las Vegas, full-service provider OSA International carries a vast inventory of cutting-edge show production solutions. One of the most recent acquisitions from its Las Vegas HQ has been the first tranche of 100 FUSION X-PAR 12Z, affectionately known as the ‘Oom-Par’ in recognition of its German manufacture. Powered by a 120W RGBL light source and Fresnel optic, other than its sheer power and color palette the IP65 rated product has a remarkable 8.5° to 55° wide zoom.Read More »OSA Invests Heavily in GLP FUSION X-PAR 12Z
Can anything be all things to all people? Probably not, but that hasn’t stopped Monheim am Rhine from trying. Situated between Cologne and Düsseldorf in Germany, this community of under 50,000 bills itself as the “town for everyone,” and backs up the claim by offering a combination of natural beauty and urban sophistication, ancient ruins, and a thriving modern art scene.Read More »Guido Schütz and Patrick Hirt get Versatile with CHAUVET Professional at Monheim City Festival
Indie folk rock band DISPATCH is back touring with a lighting package from Bandit Lites. Comprised of Chadwick Stokes and Brad Corrigan, the Boston-based band were ready to release an album and tour when the COVID-19 pandemic happened. The band utilized the time to retool and deconstruct songs and released their eighth studio album Break Our Fall in August of 2022. They kicked off their summer tour with performances alongside the National Symphony orchestra, requiring lighting designer David Singleton of Datum Creative to engineer a design that could adapt to the special shows and additional festivals.
Things never got “routine” for the Beartooth production crew this summer. The Loudwire and Metal Hammer award winners’ 37-city tour has included a wildly mixed bag of shows, as they’ve moved from headlining their own appearances, to supporting bands like Breaking Benjamin and Disturbed, with a healthy sprinkling of festivals thrown in. “It was just kind of all over the place on this run,” said the band’s Lighting Designer Dan Michie. “This made it critical to have a floor package that was not only very versatile, but could also be set up and torn down fast.”Read More »Dan Michie Reflects Many Moods on Beartooth Tour with Compact CHAUVET Professional Floor Package
Throw away your stereotypical stuffy ideas about opera. The Santa Fe Opera is no ordinary opera company, and the company’s home, the open-air Crosby Theatre, is no ordinary opera house. The opera’s new production of Orfeo, directed by Yuval Sharon with music by Claudio Monteverdi and a world premiere orchestration by Nico Muhly, is an innovative reimagining of one of the oldest known operatic works. The artistic choices around this production, which include using effects-processing on individual voices as well as mixing them spatially into the specially built multichannel surround system, required that the key characters wear wireless mic systems. For this, the opera uses Lectrosonics SSM belt pack transmitters and channels of Venue2 receivers.Read More »The Santa Fe Opera Re-Imagines ‘Orfeo’ Opera Production with Lectrosonics Wireless
Just years from debuting, Morgan Wallen dominates the country music charts with a pair of albums that remain in the Billboard Top 10. His 2023 release, One Thing at a Time, topped the chart for an impressive 15 weeks. Wallen’s current One Night at a Time stadium tour reflects his meteoric rise with an expanded production design by Zac Coren that includes Elation Proteus™ luminaires.Read More »Zac Coren Lights Morgan Wallen ‘One Night at a Time’ Stadium Tour with Elation Proteus™