NORTHAMPTON, U.K. — Stage Right, a production company here, has been using EMTO’s new LED screens for recently staged productions including Jack & The Beanstalk (at the 1,000-seat Deco Theatre) and a touring production of Rent, pictured here.
NASHVILLE — LD Ryan Burton found that a highly portable Jands Vista S1 was still powerful enough to meet his needs while touring with Ben Rector on the artist’s 34-date autumn tour of the U.S. to promote his latest album, The Walking in Between. Jands’ North American distributor, A.C. Lighting Inc., worked with Special Events Systems to supply the Jands Vista S1 for this tour.
ASPEN, CO — Rental and production house Alchemy Concert Systems, based here, recently purchased Elation Professional EPV9 IP LED panels and put them to work on two events at Aspen Mountain ski resort -the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club’s 2013 Audi Ajax Cup in late December and a corporate event in early February. The panels are IP65-rated for outdoor use.
LOS ANGELES — Electrosonic noted that March 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding. To help mark the milestone, the company is publishing Electrosonic – 50 Years on the Audio-Visual Front Line, written by co-founder Robert Simpson.
TUSTIN — The theme at Volkswagen’s press event at the 2013 LA Auto Show was “Think Blue,” and it was all that blue on stage and on screen that posed a challenge for WorldStage in creating a live augmented reality experience for the automaker.
ARGYLE, TX — GoVision LP, based here, has acquired the assets of InnoVision Media Group, an LED rental company founded in Los Angeles by Darren Moffett in 2005. GoVision will operate out of InnoVision’s former location and also hired Moffett as vice president.
XL Video is excited to announce the creation of a new ‘Centre of Excellence’ for Media Servers and Control Systems. The team, whose expertise will be available to clients of XL Video worldwide, will be led by Christian Dickens, Media Server and Control Systems Manager at XL Video UK.
Raising the stakes of EDM visuals, Eric Prydz’s EPIC 2.0 tour features an enormous set incorporating LED screens rather than projection surfaces, lasers, holograms, smoke machines and other visual effects. Influenced by Immersive’s creative director John Munro’s passion for brutalist and minimalist architecture, the set situated Prydz in a giant structure that overlapped the audience, made from LED screens onto which visual content was displayed. Munro drew from a visual concept, The Manmade In Nature in parallel with How Nature Influences the Manmade, to create the sublimely striking, dark images that accompanied the show.
NEW CASTLE, DE – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs provided high resolution LED video screens, two Barco 18K projectors, and monitors for the 2014 BET Honors. The seventh annual event, held February 8 at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC, celebrated the achievements of African Americans in music, literature, entertainment, media, service and education. The show premieres around the world on BET’s international network Feb. 28.
PARK CITY, UT – Artist Doug Aitken marked the U.S. premiere of his installation The Source (evolving) at New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah with AV support from WorldStage, which provided design consultation, equipment and programming.