Clay Paky opens a Technical Service Centre in Dubai Clay Paky opens a Technical Service Centre in Dubai

Dubai - Clay Paky has recently opened a Technical Service Centre in Dubai in order to provide all Clay Paky customers in Gulf countries with support and assistance. The office is manned by specialized professional technicians, under the guidance of Gordon Carr, who has recently obtained a certificate from Clay Paky for attending an intensive specialization course in Clay Paky product support.
The technicians can travel through the Gulf Area and provide assistance at the customer's request for Clay Paky products both under and out of warranty.

Clay Paky with the artists of “Afrikaans is Groot

SOUTH AFRICA - Within just six hours of ticket sales opening, the Pretoria leg of ‘Afrikaans is Groot’ was sold out.  Just goes to show how Groot Afrikaans is’! The Cape Town leg followed suite with its three performances selling out by the end of that day.

With the calibre of such artists as Juanita Du Plessis, Theuns Jordaan, Steve Hofmeyr, Bobby van Jaarsveld, Bok van Blerk, Robbie Wessels, Lianie May, Karlien van Jaarsveld, Jay, Riana Nel, Jannie Moolman, Arno Jordaan, Jak de Priester, Corlea Botha, EDEN, Dewald Wasserfall and more, the show promised to be a hit.

Avolites appoints Music & Lights as new Italian distributor

UK/Italy – Avolites has announced that its industry-leading range of lighting and Ai video and multimedia control technologies will be distributed in Italy by Music & Lights.

The deal has been welcomed by both companies.

"We are confident that the appointment Music & Lights as our distributor is our most effective step to ensure our continued growth in the Italian market,” says Avolites Managing Director, Steve Warren. “We are extremely impressed with the potential of Music & Lights and CEO Fabio Sorabella's highly effective team are enthusiastic, dynamic and focused on growth.”

Avolites appoints Improve as its new Dutch Digital Media Reseller

UK / The Netherlands - Lighting and visual control expert Avolites has appointed South Holland-based Improve as its new Digital Media Reseller in The Netherlands.
           
The announcement comes just weeks before Avolites and Improve team up at the Amsterdam tradeshow Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) to exhibit Avolites' range of control consoles and servers and unveil the incredible new features of its new Ai V8 software.

Prolight Poland host 'Awareness of Light' with Avolites

Polish distributor Prolight hosted 'Awareness of Light' this past week, which included presentations from Avolites' Managing Director Steve Warren, and MIRRAD's Bryan Leitch, winner of awards such as UK Lighting Designer of the Year 2009 and Knights of Illumination Lifetime Achievement Award 2012.

Topics discussed during the event included: practical and artistic aspects of lighting design, effective use of budget, fixture choice, "in the round", and integration of lighting and video.

Steve Warren also presented the Avolites product family of lighting control surfaces and media consoles.

Friends new and old join Avolites for first Curry Club of the year!

This week we opened the doors at Avolites HQ to a large group of clients, business partners, and friends, for an evening of fun, food, and familiarisation for Avolites MD Steve Warren’s birthday Curry Club.

Our first Curry Club of 2015 also gave attendees the chance to get a sneak peek at the as yet unreleased Avolites Arena console for the first time, ahead of its Prolight & Sound debut next month.

Leading Southeast Asia Rental Houses Commit to HARMAN’s Martin Professional With Addition of MAC Viper Fixtures

SINGAPORE — HARMAN’s Martin Professional today announced Martin’s MAC Viper family is now widely available throughout Southeast Asia via several of the region’s largest rental houses. Singapore-based companies CSP Production, Trio AV and Highlight Systems as well as Malaysia-based Orange Events have added more than 170 MAC Viper fixtures to their portfolios, putting the latest in intelligent lighting at the fingertips of lighting designers throughout the region.
 

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HARMAN’s Martin Professional Announces Availability of RUSH Gobo Projector 1™

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands — HARMAN’s Martin Professional announces the availability of the RUSH Gobo Projector 1™, part of Martin’s comprehensive offering of new lighting fixtures on display at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2015 February 10-12. The new member of the install-oriented RUSH family will be shipping at the end of February and on display at ISE at HARMAN’s stand #1-F6.

HARMAN’s Martin Professional Introduces RUSH PAR 2 CT Zoom Lighting Fixture With Pre-mixed White Light

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands — Today at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2015, HARMAN’s Martin Professional introduced the RUSH PAR 2 CT Zoom lighting fixture, the latest addition to the RUSH by Martin line for the installation and entertainment markets. The RUSH PAR 2 CT Zoom is a bright single-lens LED PAR can that offers fully pre-mixed white color temperatures for a range of applications.

HARMAN’s Martin Professional Announces RUSH PAR 2 CT Zoom Lighting Fixture Is Now Shipping

LONDON — It’s the band that provides the entertainment during a live concert, but a show’s aesthetics are often as important as the sounds. So when members of the British progressive rock band Lifesigns decided to make a live show DVD, they called on Lighting Designer Chris Curran to make them look as good as they sound, a feat he accomplished with the help of HARMAN’s Martin Professional MAC Quantum Wash light and M6 controller.

HARMAN’s Martin Professional Lighting Fixtures Reinforce Mirror Lounge & Club’s Prestige and High-Profile Status

Bali, INDONESIA — With the opening late last year of The Mirror Lounge & Club, Seminyak, the international vacation hotspot on the west coast of Bali, has become an even more popular tourist destination. With a capacity of 1,000, the club is the latest, and one of the largest, high-profile additions to the Seminyak scene. To accentuate the club’s distinct layout and features, local integration firm Monalisa Tunggal Jaya (MJT) selected a wide array of HARMAN Martin Professional lighting fixtures, which they’ve been installing across Indonesia since 1996.
Owned by Indonesian entertainment organization All In, Mirror caters to an eclectic mix of both local and foreign clubbers who are drawn to its unique layout design. Paneled mirrors are mounted in the corners of the club, which features high ceilings and a rectangular floor plan oriented around the DJ, dispersing the crowd to the sides of the stage.

HARMAN’s Martin Professional VC-Grid and VC-Strip LED Video Family Now Shipping in Additional Pixel Pitches

AARHUS, Denmark — HARMAN’s Martin Professional today announced the VC-Grid and VC-Strip LED Video family is now shipping in 15, 30, and 60 mm pixel pitches. Ideal for architectural installations, stage design, and television set elements, Martin’s VC family ensures design freedom for lighting designers and integrators on any creative LED Video project.

Martin’s VC-Grid is a compact and powerful LED video panel that offers individually controllable pixels in RGB and cool, medium and warm white colors. The VC-Grid can be controlled via DMX or Martin’s awarding-winning P3 protocol that provides high-quality image processing that eliminates the need for DMX pixelmapping, loose power supplies, and cabling. A hybrid power/data cabling systems also allows multiple VC-Grids to be easily daisy-chained for more creative designs.

HARMAN’s Martin Professional Lighting Fixtures Are Crucial Design Elements, Enhance Creative Process for Kylie Minogue’s “Kiss Me Once” Tour

LONDON – Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue recently completed the first leg of her Kiss Me Once tour, which included stops throughout Europe. The second leg of the tour begins in March 2015 with five shows in Kylie’s native Australia. Following the successful tour of Europe, Lighting Designer Rob Sinclair and Lighting Director Louisa Smurthwaite provided insight into the creative processes behind the tour’s extensive lighting design, which prominently featured fixtures from HARMAN’s Martin Professional

HARMAN Martin Professional’s MAC Quantum Profiles Add a Touch of Art Deco to Alfie Boe Shows

BLACKBURN, UK – Tenor Alfie Boe’s career has only gained strong momentum ever since he was famously discovered polishing cars at Blackpool’s TVR Factory at age 17. He recently undertook a major UK tour, where HARMAN Martin Professional’s newest MAC Quantum Profile fixtures proved that they are perfectly at home in live arena-sized productions.

Running from November 29 to December 13, 2014, the 11-show tour stopped at most of the UK’s major arenas. Lite Alternative supplied lighting, with the rig including five Martin Professional MAC Quantum profiles and 15 Mac Vipers.