The Bird’s Nest Summer Concert was held at the Beijing National Stadium last month, the first major event at the venue since the 2008 Summer Olympics. The visual spectacular featured performers from China, Taiwan and Spain and a massive stage set including six 80 ft. columns wrapped in low-res LEDs, plus 19 large LED screens. more

HSL designed and built two special stage sets including DJ booths - complete with inbuilt digital and conventional lighting - for DJs Steve Angello (from the Swedish House Mafia) and Eric Prydz, who played the main stage at the 2009 Global Gathering event on Saturday the 25th July.

HSL was approached by Duncan Holmes from BPM Special Effects just 10 days before the event staged at Long more

UK Catalyst distributor SNP Productions has supplied 3 top spec Catalyst v4 PRO media servers in custom SNP designed Catalyst system flightcases to the Mariinsky Theatre from St Petersburg for their acclaimed production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

The company - under the artistic direction of Valery Gergiev - performs all four operas in Das ring des Nibelungen on consecutive evenings at the Royal Opera House in more

Specialist UK LED manufacturer i-Pix launches a new version of its phenomenally successful BB7 LED luminaire - with wider angles than the original 10 degree BB7 Beam Light fixture developed last year.

The new BB7 optics offer a 10 (spot), a 20 degree and a 35 degree (flood) angle - in one fixture. i-Pix has once again listened to the requests of more

GLENVIEW, Ill.⎯Gand Concert Sound of Glenview, Illinois recently provided a NEXO GEO T, GEO S, CD18 subs, PS15, PS10 and PS 8 monitors for the Evangelical Lutheran Youth of America Gathering held at the Superdome in New Orleans, LA. The event ran from July 22 thru 26, in addition to a five-day load in and set up, and was attended by 38,000 teenagers more

Rapper Jay-Z began a 5-city summer tour with Ciara accompanied by grandMA. Lighting designer Patrick Dierson and Justin Collie of Performance Environment Design Group selected a pair of grandMA consoles, one controlling lighting and one controlling the show’s video. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of grandMA in North America.

Since the logistics of the tour required Dierson to cover large areas more

Alachua, Florida––Sabine Inc. has named Thorvin Electronics Inc. as exclusive Canadian distributor for their professional audio, microphone and wireless systems products effective August 1, 2009.

Thorvin Electronics will be handling all sales, marketing, service and support for Canada with Sabine products being displayed at the PAL Show, August 23-24, at the International Centre in Toronto, Booth 4816.

“We have been following the Sabine products for more

BROOKINGS, S.D. — July 28, 2009 — Roughly a year after lighting up the 2008 All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., Daktronics and Upstage Video, a leading provider of large-scale portable video screens, have announced that they will return for the festival’s 2009 encore with a set of towering PST-12HD modular video displays that will bring live video to the main more

Lightronics has released a new full-line Product Selection Guide. The 24-page full-color catalog includes images of every product along with product comparison charts. The comparison charts provide product specs, technical details and available options for easy product selection. Also included is a variety of new products; Wireless XC Series Portable Dimmers, RA Series Rack Mount Dimmers, more

Middletown, CT – July 2009… Nothing hinders a play, a musical, or other activities faster than audio feedback, insufficient levels, and similar sound system challenges. Until recently, these were the overbearing concerns that made students, faculty, and administrators cringe when it was time for one of Mercy High School’s various functions. After determining they’d had enough, school officials decided to rectify the situation. more