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The Barber of Seville lights up New Zealand
OPERA The Barber of Seville lights up New Zealand by Jenny Barrett. “From Betty Crocker to Rocky Horror, with a dash of Meatloaf and McEnroe, a splash of Split Enz and a quiff of Elvis” (Michael Hooper, Theatre Review) wouldn’t be the description that you would expect for a 200 year old…
Read MoreLSC Lighting Systems LED-CV4 Driver launch
With a 40-year history of designing high-powered dimming systems for traditional film, TV, theatre and touring markets, LSC Lighting Systems also continues to develop its range of LED control technologies with the release of the new LED-CV4 DINrail mount driver. The LED-CV4 is a 4-channel LED driver with a high-powered 5A per channel output and…
Read MoreLuminex Lumisplit 2.10
ROAD TEST Luminex Lumisplit 2.10 by Reuben Morrison. Reuben Morrison is the Director of Lux De Lux (www.luxdelux.co.nz), a provider of lighting control infrastructure and lighting console operation for movie studios in Wellington, New Zealand, specialising in large feature films. Since its first job supplying Avatar in 2007, Lux De Lux has…
Read MoreBuilding Automation and Control
CONTROL Building Automation and Control by John O’Brien. Show control. AV control. Command and control. Control flow. Controlled burn. There are many aspects to the word ‘control’ and these are just some that I’ve been involved with. However, I’d like to concentrate on the niche that became my forte after showtime –…
Read MoreIntegration Control – Don’t Make Me Think
CX JULY THEME: CONTROL Integration Control – Don’t Make Me Think by Simon Byrne. Some of you would have read my piece about the incomprehensible state of house light controls in last month’s edition of CX. I see a lot of the same problems in the installed control systems as part of installations. That…
Read MoreItalian powerhouse emerges – New phase for dBTechnologies
Pic: NAS’s Shane Bailey and Stage & Audio’s Tim Buchholz at the dBTechnologies launch by Julius Grafton dBTechnologies have been around for decades but over the last five years have really hit their stride. Recently they were joined with EAW, RCF, and DPA, and say these brands will remain independent businesses that share technology. With…
Read MoreOver 350 Acme Fixtures & New Astera Wireless Tubes – Elite Event Technology Gears Up!
Elite Event Technology (EET) – a major rental production specialist based in Canberra and operating nationwide – have recently invested in more Acme Lighting fixtures and introduced Astera Wireless technology into their high profile productions. With over three decades of Audio Visual expertise, Darren Russell, MD of EET, doesn’t compromise, when it comes to technology…
Read MoreRoad Test: Allen & Heath CDM32 + C1500
ROAD TEST Allen & Heath CDM32 and C1500 by Daniel Lee Munns. Daniel Lee Munns is a Sydney-based freelance sound engineer, backline tech and tour manager. His career has included church production as a teenager, house and touring audio in his 20s, and venue production management in his 30s. I took the…
Read MoreLSC Lighting Systems making a DIN about DMX
LSC’s significant growth into the global installation market has provided the opportunity to develop a new range of professional DMX DINrail devices to better serve and protect the installer from cheap and inferior data distribution products that can cause significant on-site problems. The new MDR-DIN data distribution range is a new 4-way DINrail-mount version of…
Read MorePost Malone
ROADSKILLS Post Malone by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable. Post Malone is lauded as being the voice of a generation. Ask anyone over 40 years of age if they know him and you’d probably get a negative. They wouldn’t know that last year’s album Beerbongs & Bentleys swiftly became one of…
Read MoreBowie Does Brecht – Lighting ‘Lazarus’
THEATRE Bowie Does Brecht Lighting ‘Lazarus’ by Jason Allen. Photo Credit: Jeff Busby. One of David Bowie’s final creative projects, the musical ‘Lazarus’ came to Melbourne’s Playhouse in May for its first Australian production. Multi-award winning lighting designer Paul Jackson worked with The Production Company and director Michael Kantor to bring the enigmatic…
Read MoreScene Change Sydney invests in VuePix Infiled ER2
Scene Change – Australia’s most awarded AV hire and production company – has recently expanded on its AV rental inventory in Sydney, investing in yet more 160 ER Series panels. This is the third major investment into VuePix Infiled technology from Scene Change. The initial purchase of 90x ER3.9 panels was for their Melbourne branch, followed by an additional 90x…
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