ROE Visual announces the appointment of Sam Swerts as the new Business Development Manager for Belgium and France. With a distinguished career in the lighting and sound industry spanning over two decades, Swerts brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the ROE Visuals team.Read More »ROE Visual Welcomes Sam Swerts as Business Development Manager
Brompton Technology, the industry leader in LED video processing for virtual production and live events, will be demonstrating its latest solutions, including its new TrueLight® technology, at this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles. Brompton will have a presence in the Z by HP booth (West Hall, Booth 215), where its Tessera SX40 LED video processors will be powering a virtual production volume demo alongside partners including NVIDIA, Fuse Technical Group, ROE Visual, and the Entertainment Technology Center at USC (ETC@USC).Read More »Brompton Technology to Showcase Virtual Production Innovation at SIGGRAPH 2023
On July 4, the Sphere came to life with a captivating display of dynamic, animated content on the venue’s exterior – the Exosphere – transforming the Las Vegas skyline. As part of a special show to celebrate the Fourth of July, for the first time ever, Sphere’s 580,000 square foot fully-programmable LED exterior – the largest LED screen on earth – was completely illuminated. The show started with a welcome – “Hello World” – and was followed by fireworks and stars and stripes animations, before transitioning through a wide array of visual content, from vibrant underwater scenes to performances to vividly-textured lunar surfaces, putting on full display the versatility of this unparalleled canvas. Here’s some video of the Exosphere in operation:
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
4Wall Entertainment was proud to work alongside Production Designer Chris Lisle to provide a lighting and video rental package for The Other Stage at the 2023 Bonnaroo Music Festival. The four-day music festival, situated on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN, hosts roughly 85,000 music fans and features performances by some of the biggest names in music.Read More »Production Designer Chris Lisle Utilizes 4Wall for Bonnaroo’s The Other Stage
Myst is a colorful, full-throttle cabaret-style musical megamix encapsulating some of Mexico’s rich and vibrant musical culture and history as it rips through two hours – split into two acts – of fun-fueled exhilarating live performance, staged at the Foro Totalplay in Mexico City. At the center of the show’s lighting since it has been at this venue are 60 Robe Spikies and 30 Spiider LED wash beam moving lights. These were specified by Lighting Designer Juan Ignacio Adriano who is also the technical director of música esencial at Foro Totalplay.Read More »Robe Spikies and Spiiders Shine Through the Myst
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.
Sunlight! Everyone loves it. Even life itself depends on it. But anyone trying to generate lighting excitement on an outdoor stage during daylight hours would rather it go away. Most often, festival LDs can take solace knowing that eventually the sun will go down, freeing them to create eye-popping looks in the dark. The team at Events United had no such luxury. They had to create sizzling looks for one of hip-hop’s most dynamic artists on a small stage for a show that took place entirely during daylight hours.Read More »Events United Shines for Flo Rida Marathon Monday Show with CHAUVET Professional
Visitors to ADJ Lighting’s booth at Prolight + Sound 2023 can expect to see first-hand the reliable and versatile ADJ products that have been lighting up festival stages, concerts, nightclubs, and theaters across Europe and around the world. Highlights will include the IP65-rated range of Hydro Series luminaires, the Encore Series of theatrical fixtures, the Vision Series of LED video panels, as well as brand new products that will make their official debut at the show. The exhibition will see the official launch of the Focus Spot 7Z LED-powered moving head spot luminaire as well as the Focus Flex L19 automated LED wash fixture.Read More »ADJ Lighting Prepares To Launch New Moving Heads At Prolight + Sound 2023