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..the WOW team took the bold step of moving away from the familiar pointed shape of the set to the strong architectural shape of a prism.

Bay Dreams, once New Zealand’s largest music festival, will not go ahead in 2025 announced Tauranga-based promoters Mitch Lowe and Toby Burrows. The festival, originally slated for Tauranga and Queenstown, faced challenges due to rising costs, difficulties securing international headliners, shifting festival-goer expectations, and a drop in ticket sales amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Bay…

“We wanted the set to look theatrically beautiful whilst ensuring we still did the end justice with a punchy rock ‘n roll style lighting rig.”

“A lot of people use them just as annotation tools; just big screens to put documents up on. I want to show people that you can take them much further in terms of applications and capacity.”

“The combination of nature, music and technology was projected onto four giant panels which line the walls of the room. Audiences were able to get up close, sit on cushions and lean on and touch the artwork to take it all in.”

The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) took out the award for Best Use of Digital – International category at the prestigious Museums + Heritage Awards in London

ENTECH opened in Auckland yesterday, runs tomorrow Thurs 8 at Shed 6, Wellington, and concludes Tues 13 at Te Pae, Christchurch

“The show utilised 160 Uvify IFO drones, with control software ‘Drone Show Software’ by SPH Engineering. Timecode was used to synchronise the audio and drone display.”

The trucks are packed, the show floor is sold out of exhibitor space, and ENTECH NZ rolls into Auckland next Tuesday 6 August!