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LD Eric Price Leans on All-Purpose Proteus Lucius™ for ‘Sad Summer’ Headliners Taking Back Sunday

LD Eric Price’s work for Taking Back Sunday during the ‘Sad Summer Festival’. Photo by @dobrockk

Lighting Designer Eric Price turned to Elation’s Proteus Lucius™ as the feature light of an all-purpose floor package for rock band Taking Back Sunday as they headlined the travelling Sad Summer Festival in the U.S. in July. Reminiscent of the legendary Warped Tour, the fourth incarnation of Sad Summer Festival ran coast to coast and featured a strong lineup of pop punk’s finest bands.Read More »LD Eric Price Leans on All-Purpose Proteus Lucius™ for ‘Sad Summer’ Headliners Taking Back Sunday

ESTA Proposed Standards News

ESTA TSP: 12 Draft Standards in Public Review

ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) announces a dozen draft standards in public review; 11 in development, one to be withdrawn. Twelve public review action items came out of the recent July Technical Standards Program working group meetings held in Westlake, TX, where over 160 attendees across 10 discrete working groups came together to keep the development process moving forward. These public reviews will all run for 45 days, ending on Sept. 26, 2023.

Vari-Lite VL1600 Profiles Bring Rock Energy and Theatrical Drama to Musical ‘Aida’

VL1600 Profiles from Vari-Lite, originators of the modern moving head light fixture and the Signify entertainment lighting brand, brought a blend of rock and roll energy and theatrical dramatics for Herrick Goldman’s design for the Stages St. Louis production of the musical Aida. When the team at STAGES had to replace some older fixtures at the last minute, Production Manager Josh Aune approached Logic Systems. “We used the Vari-Lites because of a recommendation from our local rental company,” explained Aune. “Their owner, Chip Self, has been our go to person for years and knew what our needs where.”Read More »Vari-Lite VL1600 Profiles Bring Rock Energy and Theatrical Drama to Musical ‘Aida’

Jordi Vandekerkhof Creates Harmonious Looks for Happy Belgium with CHAUVET Professional

There were over 230 CHAUVET Professional fixtures at the Happy Belgium concert in the Cinquantenaire Arcade, but it’s doubtful that any of the 60,000 people who were there to celebrate the National Day of Belgium on July 21st, noticed many of them. Lighting Designer Jordi Vandekerkhof of the More To Show design studio would have it no other way.Read More »Jordi Vandekerkhof Creates Harmonious Looks for Happy Belgium with CHAUVET Professional

Brompton Technology Wins Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology

Brompton Technology has been recognized by the Television Academy with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology. The Emmy was awarded for its Tessera SX40 LED video processor, which has played a crucial role in the widespread adoption of LED screens for virtual production and elevated the storytelling process through its impact on how television programs are created.

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Robe T1 Profiles Enjoy the Silence at Bijloke Music Centre’s Concert Hall

The striking and unique concert hall venue, which is part of the Music Centre de Bijloke in Ghent, Belgium, was once a 13th century civic hospital and now offers a vibrant and interesting blend of music often embracing additional performance and visual art forms like theatre and film. During the pandemic, The concert Hall, which retains its original wooden curved frame roof and exterior walls, was completely renovated. New lighting was installed as part of this upgrade, including 13 Robe T1 Profiles, which were specified by the Music Centre’s Technical Manager, Natan Rosseel and his team.Read More »Robe T1 Profiles Enjoy the Silence at Bijloke Music Centre’s Concert Hall

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Chooses Ayrton Perseo as the Workhorse of its Sustainable Lighting Rig

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London has become the first open air theater in the UK to install Ayrton Perseo fixtures as part of its plan to update to a more sustainable and environmentally-responsible lighting rig. Perseo Profiles have been supplied to this unique venue by White Light for the full summer season. White Light worked in close collaboration with the teams at Regent’s Park and Ambersphere, Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for the UK, to understand the aims, and facilitate the provision of the correct LED fixtures, to meet all the Theatre’s requirements.

Rob Koenig Lights Metallica M72 World Tour with Proteus

Proteus Excalibur match energy and power on legendary metal band’s highly anticipated 2023/24 outing

One of the hottest tours of the summer—or any summer—is Metallica. Metals greatest band launched their M72 World Tour April 27 in Amsterdam with Rob Koenig again at the helm as Lighting Designer, an outing that has the thrash rockers playing a unique two-night, no-repeat schedule in cities across Europe and North America. Koenig crafts unique lighting looks using 600+ automated lights, a rig that includes Proteus Excalibur™ sky beams from Elation Professional. Lighting supply is by Premier Global Production.Read More »Rob Koenig Lights Metallica M72 World Tour with Proteus

Marillion Convention in Berlin

Marillion, performing at the Tempodrom Berlin. Photo by Alison Toon

UK-based Rock band Marillion has built up a formidable and near cult-like following over a career spanning five decades that has spawned 20 studio albums plus a string of top 40 hits since their formation in 1979. For the last 21 years, they have staged biennial 2 and 3-day summer convention events for fans, which include special live performances plus additional Marillion world activities. Lighting Designer Yenz Nyholm’s specification for the 2023 Marillion ‘convention tour’ included nearly 100 Robe moving lights – 31 Robe ESPRITES, 22 LEDBeam 150s, 16 MegaPointes and 30 Spiider LED wash beams.Read More »Marillion Convention in Berlin

Winter Solstice for Astera

SOLSTICE: Reflections on Winter Light is a multimedia and meditative art experience celebrating the shortest, darkest day of the year, created by MASARY Studios from Boston, and presented at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, MA. It started as a small two-day installation idea in 2020 during the pandemic and has grown rapidly and organically to become a hugely popular and accessible 10-day annual public art festival. Visitors engage with the magic and ephemeral beauty of lighting and sound and its relation to the algorithms, mystery, and energies at work in the greater universe.Read More »Winter Solstice for Astera

Australian Women’s World Cup Fest Lit by dplr with CHAUVET Professional from Showtools International

FIFA Women’s World Cup Fan Festival, is a vibrant celebration of all things football, and much more, the festival features giant live streams for watching FIFA Women’s World Cup games, a variety of fun football-related activities, a cornucopia of street food, and live performances by popular Australian artists like Jessica Mauboy, Jack River, Mia Wray, and JACOTÉNE. Enhancing the festive atmosphere and providing unforgettable visuals at the event has been a bold and colorful lighting setup by dplr that was anchored by 108 CHAUVET Professional fixtures from Showtools International.