COPENHAGEN — Creative director Per Zachariassen and lighting designer Kasper Lange included 350 of SGM’s SixPack blinders in a 110 by 13 meter (WxH) back wall configuration for the distinctive look of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals and finals staged here May 6, 8 and 10.
LUCERNE, Switzerland — Auviso provided SGM’s P-5 wash lights as part of a refurbishment for the Swiss Museum of Transport Planetarium here. The gear was sourced through local SGM distributor ASL. The Planetarium dome is now solely lit by P-5 fixtures. Auviso’s project manager, Patrik Peier, credited the gear for being both brighter and more energy efficient than the fixtures they replaced.
FRANKFURT, Germany – At this year’s Prolight+Sound Show, Hans Günter Dünkel from Motion in Fürth, Germany received a special award to commemorate the purchase of their 1000th SGM P-5 wash light. Pictured here, from left, are Thorsten Sattler (SGM Deutschland), Hans Günter Dünkel (Motion Light) and Michael Herweg (SGM Deutschland).
COPENHAGEN – SGM took the opportunity to showcase its new LED and wash lights at a technical exhibition at the the Danish Opera House in Copenhagen recently. The event featured the company’s 850W, IP65-rated RGBY LED G-Spot moving head and P-5 wash light fixtures.
KOLDING, Denmark — Jacob Elsig, project manager from Get Visual, worked with his LD, Christian Vigsø, to support the lighting needs for the inaugural Light Festival that took place in Kolding, Denmark from Dec. 12-14, 2013. They used SGM fixtures for the Spanish Steps, The Train Station Square’s installation named The Spider and the Hotel Saksildhus (pictured here) with SGM lighting fixtures.
RIO de JANEIRO, Brazil — LD Valmor Neves from Zuluz Iluminicao worked with gear provided by Companhia da Luz on designs to enhance the visibility of Rock in Rio corporate sponsors Oi Telefonia, Correios and Coca-Cola with color-changing SGM P-5 wash light fixtures at Rock in Rio, held here in September.
BERLIN – President Barack Obama recently visited Berlin for the first time since his election. The highlight of his 25-hour stay was his speech before an invited audience of 5,000 people at the Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The technical planning and equipment necessary to transmit his speech to the world media was undertaken by event production company, Poolgroup on behalf of the German Foreign Office and the Federal Press Office.
BASEL, Switzerland – Within five months of taking on the distribution of SGM in Switzerland, the long-serving ASL Electronic has already introduced another stalwart company, Winkler Multi Media Events, who have made a major investment in the Danish company’s LED portfolio.
DORTMUND, Germany – Some 23,000 dance fans partied all night long to the sounds of more than 54 internationally renowned DJs at this year’s Mayday extravaganza in Dortmund, including top names such as Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox and Sven Väth. Production company schoko pro installed more than 360 tons of audio visual equipment for the party, designing a 4-fingered truss-claw and a monster mirrorball as the major centerpiece from the ceiling. A special trick was the ability to move and tilt the claw above the audience’s heads, to create changing lighting effects.
MALMO, Sweden – SGM equipped Malmö Arena’s main stage with 52 X-5 white LED strobes and 82 SixPack LED blinders for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC 2013). Although SGM fixtures were also used throughout the EuroVillage, it was in the main action of the contest itself that the fixtures worked their magic for LD Fredrik Jönsson.
AABYHOEJ, Denmark – The introduction of SGM’s X-5 LED strobes inspired award winning production designer, LeRoy Bennett, to specify 470 pieces for Beyoncé’s The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. Bennett also had the X-5s in mind for the next tour by metal band Rammstein.