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Brown Note Productions and Elation Proteus Weather Wild Summer Conditions

Inkcarceration (photo: Nathan Zucker)

By any measure, summer 2023 in the U.S. has been extreme with intense heat, severe rainfall and unrelenting smoke. So when a number of outdoor festivals and events are on the program, the challenge for any production company is immense. “This is a very current issue,” states Ryan Knutson, President of Brown Note Productions in Colorado. “We’ve seen some really intense changing weather patterns and IP fixtures have become critical in outdoor applications.” Read More »Brown Note Productions and Elation Proteus Weather Wild Summer Conditions

CHAUVET Professional Helps Clifford Michael Spulock Evoke Mood of ‘Newsies’

The deepest purpose of art is “not to convey, but to evoke,” the great novelist Jerzy Kosinski once observed.  Clifford Michael Spulock demonstrated the power of this principle when lighting the Slow Burn Theatre Company’s production of Newsies earlier this summer at the Broward Center.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Helps Clifford Michael Spulock Evoke Mood of ‘Newsies’

CHAUVET Professional Helps LD Systems Create Wonderland Visuals for Visit San Antonio

Everything looks better in colorful light, even something as remarkably beautiful as a world-famous tourist attraction that draws some 34 million visitors a year. LD Systems demonstrated that recently when it transformed the city of San Antonio into a glittering field of brightness and color for the US Travel Association’s IPW 23 Visit San Antonio event.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Helps LD Systems Create Wonderland Visuals for Visit San Antonio

The Many Hats of CHAUVET Professional at Glastonbury

They might not have been as common as flags at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, but CHAUVET Professional fixtures seemed to be everywhere one looked at Worthy Farm during the world-famous event. The company’s products were used to add extra color and excitement to 17 of the festival’s stages. Included in the group were main attractions like the Pyramid, Greenpeace, Flying Bus and new Levels stages, as well as more specialized attractions like the Avalon Stage, nightclub-like Salon Carousel, The Hive Stage, Outside Circus Stage, and the San Remo Stage, an interzone for dreamers, visionaries and other revelers.Read More »The Many Hats of CHAUVET Professional at Glastonbury

Tom Kenny Balances Looks at iHeart Country Music Festival with CHAUVET Professional

How can I balance my lighting with a massive video structure so the two work together in harmony? Virtually all lighting designers have asked themselves this question—and with good reason. Like some giant planetary object that bends spacetime and pulls everything around it into its gravitational orbit, big video walls have a way of changing everything on stage. Figuring out how to work lights with them is the key to creating a harmonious design.Read More »Tom Kenny Balances Looks at iHeart Country Music Festival with CHAUVET Professional

Backstage Production Group Calls on CHAUVET Professional for ITU Conference and NATO Meeting

Massive and majestic, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is the heaviest structure in the world, outweighing even the Pyramids of Giza, and second in terms of area covered only to The Pentagon. The downtown Bucharest building’s impressive presence has provided a dramatic backdrop for a host of major films, including War Dogs. Recently, the 365,000 m2 (3,930,000 sq. ft.) landmark served as the setting for an important international conference when it hosted the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference.Read More »Backstage Production Group Calls on CHAUVET Professional for ITU Conference and NATO Meeting

Pharrell Williams’ ‘Something in the Water’ Shines in the Rain with Harford Sound and CHAUVET Professional

Lil Wayne, Third Eye Blind, Wu-Tang Clan, Nile Rodgers, Babyface Ray, Maren Morris… There were plenty of stars at Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival, but sadly, there was plenty of water too. High winds and rains along the Atlantic coast battered the superstar’s three-day event; a tornado even touched down nearby. Things got so bad, Friday and Saturday’s shows had to be delayed, while Sunday’s was completely canceled.Read More »Pharrell Williams’ ‘Something in the Water’ Shines in the Rain with Harford Sound and CHAUVET Professional

CHAUVET Professional Contributes to Patrick Dierson’s Transformative ‘Love Has No Limits’ Stage

Size matters, doesn’t it? Well, not necessarily, especially when you’re talking about the unlimited, perhaps even infinite, scope of collective imaginations. Proof of this was plain to see in the endlessly engaging lighting and AI looks that transfixed the crowd at Love Has No Limits – 1 Day Houston, which was actually a two-day event, that raised awareness and funds for community organizations in the Texas city.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Contributes to Patrick Dierson’s Transformative ‘Love Has No Limits’ Stage

Yann Windey Uses CHAUVET Professional to Reflect Magic of Working Class Heroes’ Nerdland

Since recent reviews of the Nerdland Festival in Wachtebeke, building on the enthusiasm of nerds of all ages, were universally positive, it was decided a spectacular show at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp would be next. Featuring captivating presentations on scientific wonders, and a captivating visual spectacle, the “Nerdland for Small Nerds” show provided entertainment for young and old alike. A significant contribution to the visual aspect of the show was the vivid and dynamic lighting design by Yann Windey that made use of 68 CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied by Splendit.Read More »Yann Windey Uses CHAUVET Professional to Reflect Magic of Working Class Heroes’ Nerdland