Learn more about Music Matters Productions, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary in business this year. From a middle school music education business, MMP has grown by leaps and bounds from small stages in the Atlanta, GA area to supporting festivals, productions, and tours across the U.S.
PLSN catches up with Lighting Director and Programmer Amy Melia who is building her career on a solid foundation with education and hard work. She is busy pursuing her ‘Plan A’ and setting her sights on a long career in lighting.
Debi Moen has the inside scoop on all the where, what and who hitting the road for an incredibly busy touring season.
Chris Lose looks at Green Riders for tours and how everyone has a part to play in going green on the bus, onstage and at the FOH.
Atlanta’s House of Music Productions, an event production services company offering lighting, staging, A/V production, broadcast streaming and product rentals to a wide array of markets, has expanded its rental inventory of Claypaky fixtures and become a Claypaky partner for resale, installation and design projects in the southeastern US.Read More »Atlanta’s House of Music Productions Increases Claypaky Rental Inventory and Becomes a Claypaky Partner
Las Vegas- and Los Angeles-based full production and rental specialist, 3G Productions LLC, has invested in a substantial amount of Kinesys automation kit, adding to its already robust inventory. The purchase comprises 500kg and 1,000kg Kinesys Elevation Liftket motors with Elevation drives, Vector control console, multiple PD-ES Array Power Distros, and all necessary Libra Cell digital load cells, Libra Pro controllers, and networking switches. Read More »3G Productions Invests in Kinesys
GLP (German Light Products) can reflect with complete satisfaction on the recent Prolight + Sound Show in Frankfurt. Both the quality and quantity of visitors – as was the case last year – were impressive, and despite prophecies of doom, it was particularly gratifying to note that 51% of visitors were international.Read More »GLP’s X5 Family Focus at Prolight + Sound Results in Resounding Success
KlingNet3 is a new highly flexible, cloud-compatible, lighting and visual control protocol for the future developed by InMusic Brand’s ArKaos for the entertainment industry. It takes flexibility, user-friendliness, feedback, and ultimate control to next-gen levels. KlingNet3 (patent pending) enables control of ALL parameters of a lighting fixture – and so much more – and is a viable alternative to DMX.Read More »ArKaos Launches KlingNet3
Laserworld announces the release of the Laserworld CS-24.000RGB FX, which is a 22W show laser light system with an additional integrated effects grating wheel. The CS-24.000RGB FX is an analog modulated laser and thus can create hundreds of different color shades, including white. It is capable of doing basic graphics due to the fast scanners, but it’s main field of application are large nightclubs, smaller festivals, or small concerts.Read More »Laserworld Releases CS-24.000RGB 22W FX Laser
With the objective of minimizing labor management chaos and streamlining managers’ tasks, the STARS Labor app significantly reduces the time and effort required for managing labor. Powered by Synchronus, STARS is a web-based system supported by the secure infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
disguise has announced integration with ZeroSpace’s SpoutBridge, a tool that bridges the Spout technology with disguise RenderStream to facilitate production for xR and live events. The ZeroSpace engineering team, a next-generation media production facility and research lab in downtown Brooklyn, NY, worked with disguise to open up access to ZeroSpace’s Spout technology within the disguise user community. Spout is integrated into most commercial VJ software and is available as a free plug-in for OBS Studio, the free, open-source cross-platform screencasting and streaming app. This allows sharing of the same GPU video texture with content render engines for uncompressed, zero-latency frame streaming.Read More »disguise and ZeroSpace Develop New Spout Integration
The annual Parnelli Awards ceremony is the one night a year we shine the spotlight on those who spend their careers away from it, toiling backstage. And the evening wouldn’t be possible without our forward-thinking, industry-supporting sponsors. Here’s a brief introduction to who they are and what they do for our industry.